jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A level is a rank. Not a specialty.
On the off chance you or someone else knows:

How do I close old savings accounts in Capital One 360?

I used to have my savings split between several buckets, and now I just keep it all in one savings account, but I have four savings accounts with $0 in them because near as I can tell you aren't allowed to close them.
Well there's a very obvious reason for that: we want to learn from the best. Why would you pick someone which is only good, or anything else but the best, most creative, most inspiring? Surely having an ensemble of good performers is nice, but the 'genius' by consensus is who anyone would wish to learn foremost.

I do have a specific opinion on what it means to learn form someone. People often overreach and obsess with details from the lives of those, when in reality learning from Einstein is as simple as reading what he wrote and the way he described his theories. This goes for many other geniuses -- they are geniuses in their fields, and we shouldn't expect everything they did to be right.
Liking the Go, not liking the .gitignore.
It really isn't anything like what you describe, BgSpnners. You're deeply mistaken. That's as far as I care to pursue it.
Actually policing the movement and coming up with a coherent manifesto would be a good start. There's a lot more they'd have to do, but they've consistently refused to even consider trying it.
Sorry about that, will remove them in the next update for sure :)
JS would probably have been a better language for a few reasons:

- braces denote function bodies, even if you don't code it's pretty obvious.

- no strange difference between lambda and def, a function is a function
Imperative coding may be useful to for implementing the API, but that does not mean it is necessary to expose an imperative API to developers. For example, in the browser, W3C and the browser vendors could have exposed a React-like API, implemented via an imperative internal C++ API, but instead they just gave us the DOM. I'm not saying that to complain, just to illustrate that how an API is implemented doesn't have to dictate the API you expose.

> It's funny that one of React's core ideas is to ditch the now old functional/declarative paradigm that is template languages and allows you to use imperative JavaScript to directly build up a virtual DOM.

Its agnostic about how you build up the virtual DOM, but it is common to it in a functional way, for example:

this.props.searchResults.map(this.renderSearchResult)
"But generating is fairly easy and testing pretty hard."

This is the reason he thinks computers won't be creatives. But testing theories in science or math can be automated(in most cases). So technological creativity is possible ,and that what's the singularity talks about(although the testing can be quite lengthy and expensive ,which might really slow the singularity maybe to the point of no singularity at all).

And as for artistic creativity - that depends on if we can build some model on how humans evaluate art in general. Who knows, maybe we can build a good model of that. We've certainly improved from say 100-200 years ago where most artists we're considered geniuses, to today ,where a large percent of commercial art is at least is generated or least guided by knowledge on how to create good stories, etc.
Because most of people can only do that. So saving small amounts of money to build up some buffer.

When you have a buffer only then you can start buying assets.

Until web brokers started I did not even know how to buy stocks. I think most people still don't know how to buy stocks unless they are from really well-off family.

My parents were also not "financially literate" so I had to figure out all kind of stuff on my own.

Downside was for example that I got supper shitty "investment product" so I did not loos much money but if I knew better I would put my money in a better place.

Fortunately I did not get outright scammed but for a lot of people that have to learn as they go it is a real risk so "just saving" and losing some value to inflation might be best option for many.
I kind of think NetBSD doesn't so much 'strive' to support many platforms as try to pursue simplicity of implementation and so be easy to port. Linux supports a lot of platforms, but porting Linux is a much more heroic effort.

The NetBSD codebase is nice for studying operating system concepts.
I believe this is Privileged Access Management (PAM) product.
Yup, native vs. Python would explain a lot on the Pi, but I've also seen this on my big Threadripper machine here and on my Hetzner server in Virginia.

I'd assumed it was just something intrinsic.

On the other hand: speedtest's own thing uses multiple parallel connections. So if you have low amounts of loss that prevent one TCP connection from going super fast, it'll do better on speedtest than speedtest-cli.

Thanks for the help/info. Something to spend more time understanding at some point in the future.

edit: Just noticed that the Hetzner server in VA geolocates wrong and chooses servers in Kansas.
Reaching business users is very difficult: they are generally older and not active on social networks with the exception of linked in. However, few people are "active" on LI except marketers and job seekers. I run a service in the corporate/legal that relies on invites from existing users to get new users. We decided LI integration was not a good use of time. When I have posted content in LI groups I notice very low click through, regardless of the nature of the content.
In sum, everything you already have in Python.
Talk starts at about 15min in.
Just read them in the reverse order and you'll feel that they are getting better with every book.

Scoring a big hit like that when you're young sure sucks, everybody will be disappointed in your forever after.
This has really started bothering me lately. I'm actively blocking any site that promises I won't believe what happens next, or any similarly clickbaity headline. I've also unfollowed almost everything that isn't an actual human being that I know. I have to say my facebook experience has improved tremendously.
Yes please. First name @ last name .com
I appreciate that you think I have that kind of power.

I protest with every iframe they add. We have a page that starts with 6 and gets up to 20. It wouldn’t be so bad if they loaded basic html, but they use a WYSIWYG editor which generates tons of SVGs and JavaScript, so it really maims our product.
I noticed at Microsoft that the tallest people always got promoted. It never made any sense to me - we weren’t playing basketball.
Linear algebra is the most practically consequential one - and suffice it to say, it’s not a coincidence that BLAS, LINPACK, and LAPACK were all written in one-based languages. Matrix indexing is one-based, and beyond the issue of translating notation from equations, IIRC there is even a slight performance difference in some cases.

I believe what it really comes down to is that, just as zero-based really is more natural for offsets (zero offset means the first position, great for pointers), one based really is more natural for counting [and _sets_] (when your index is n that means you have counted n elements up until now).
How are you planning on allocating those bitcoin distributions?

Do you have the context for the Finney quote? Apparently from a set of released emails:

https://news.bitcoin.com/researcher-publishes-never-before-s...

The larger context, from a 1992 Cypherpunks email:

"Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."

https://web.archive.org/web/20140326104029/http://www.forbes...

Argument by unsupported assertion is ... relatively weak.
I wrote a couple apps like that. I'm not sure I recommend it, but those apps still work like clockwork, years later.
1.) You misspelled your own URL, goof

2.) I truly enjoyed that, especially how it's interlinked with your other satire to create this dumb little alternate universe. Thanks for the laugh, you're funny, keep it up.
>"This is basic direct marketing in a B2B context. It's all pretty tame."

Well maybe it is ok from that perspective. However my personal reaction as a customer to such sales approach would simple be something in line of GFY to that salesperson.
Michael Dell, Bill Gates
Personally, I would not report them or call them out publicly. I wouldn't see it as my responsibility, and as far as the competitive aspect goes, I don't necessarily think that it would be advantageous in the long-run. Calling them out strikes me as a chance for some short-term gain in a way that I would personally find distasteful, if not unethical.

I agree with the sentiment of "reach our to your competitor privately, inform them of the problem, and suggest they fix it". They may be your competitor, but they probably aren't Satan incarnate, and they'll probably be grateful, and building that relationship may actually be beneficial down the road.

Look at the history with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk before they merged their respective companies. They were competitors, yes. But if either had chosen to make things personal and go into full on attack mode, they might never have merged, we would not have gotten Paypal, and Peter and Elon probably wouldn't be billionaires now. To be fair, you can argue whether or not it's a Good Thing that we have Paypal, but from their subjective perspective, it was better that they were on good enough terms to have the merger conversation.
FWIW, I did a more direct translation[1] of the Nim code into C++. The current C++ code does things like memcpy a std::bitset on every recursive call. I also wanted the code to be doing the exact same thing as Nim is (vector with 1 byte per bool, globals for data, and I left everything as int when I would normally use other types).

The result is that C++ now just barely outperforms Nim: 1074ms for C++ vs 1165ms for Nim.

[1] http://ideone.com/q838cJ
Says the Golang dude. Pot. Kettle. Black.
This Snowden interview looked very familiar; I was sure I'd seen it before. It turns out that it's indeed an old interview - the article is dated January 31, 2014. And it was on the HN front page when it was released:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7165266

By the way, the video seems to have been blocked on YouTube by ARD, the German network that aired it, due to copyright issues. For example, at this link[1], you can see the message:

"This video contains content from ARD, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."

This doesn't seem to point to some kind of conspiracy to censor the interview.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHOpFi34M8
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels inadequate after watching his coding session streams.
Seriously. 4 years is old if it is something that has made the rounds a few times.
The way you're using delicious is how Google wants you to use Reader. I realized this when a bunch of upper classman always talking about sharing articles and links on Reader.
Think of it as a message from the writer to the user.
Don't do that. HN is not the place for memes.

reddit isn't either, but we lost that battle a while ago.
it seems like "columns" would be analogous to multiple "sum(CASE WHEN 'val' ELSE 0) as col" SQL idioms.
Actually the way DNT works is also its best attribute. I see more as an attempt that almost worked. It did sensibilize people and companies. Theres a want to not be tracked thats greater than it used to be.
Its not just a technical issue.
Would be so useful for no many new use-cases...
having to whitelist and blacklist things which need to do cooked terminal IO is not a good situation.
The exercise has very little to do with experience or knowledge. Think of it as a sort of personality test. It isn't, but it helps to think of it that way.
Finally got a hold of someone. Disregard!
-It's a little about two undergrads (we've graduated) but way below two full time engineers

-When incorporating, don't you have to form a board?
> When was the last time you stepped on a scale?
> I think a 6 foot man who is under 125 pounds is underweight.

Umm, I don't know? A couple of weeks ago? I guess I am underweight by the BMI measure, but I've been like that all my life and my BMI now is higher than ever so I don't really worry about it.

> Also, your legs aren't "big" if you weight less than 125 pounds.

That's true, I meant relative to other muscles. All exercise I do do is primarily legs, so it may be better to focus on the rest as my legs get exercised during running & cycling. The upper body is also more important visually ;)

> It doesn't work that way.

I understand, but it's good to have a ballpark figure to see if something is going to be effective or not. For example if I do 30 push ups, is that going to help or is it better to add an extra weight at that point?

Edit: I just filled my backpack with as many books as possible (that's probably about 30-40 pounds) and I can do 28 push ups, but then I'm completely weak for a few minutes. So would you suggest doing this exercise, or get a better weight?

Thanks for the links!
I think they saw the warning signs. [0]

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/03/burr-unloaded-stock...
In line with rest of the human history, the criteria will be set by the ones holding the most power in that region. In this age, it would be the Barcelona government. And if it is like other western governments, it will be a tussle between moneyed interests and populist sentiments.
Sure, but having process error kernels isn't at all appropriate for many applications. E.g. you don't start a process for every http request (or actor request) your server handles (even starting a thread for everyone is considered to much overhead).

But not only is the overhead of "starting"/entering a error kernel a problem you also normally do share _immutable_ state (e.g. configs, lookup tables), as well as some _minor_ amount of mutable but well known to be panic safe state (e.g. simple performance counters and some caches). Which is now much harder to get right.

E.g. in a cache you want it potentially to be shared across error-kernels and re-use it after a kernel crashed but only if the panic didn't come from the cache. So the cache needs to be handled in it's own error-kernel which makes it important to make the intercommunication fast.

Sure you _can_ do all this with processes (by using both IPC and mmap together), but it's much harder to get right. Often this leads to either serve performance limitations or braking of the kernels surface (by using mmap in a bad way). It also tend to lead to code which is very dependent on the features of a specific operating system. Problems with managing startup/shutdown (no systemd isn't a solution ), moving resources between kernels etc.

So all in all processes make thinks more complex, less portable with very little to no benefits for many use cases. (Sandboxing of very large error-kernels like done in browsers is one point where it makes sense).
Thanks for supplying the formal name. It escaped my mind this morning :)
How can you not take “no flights from X country” seriously?
at this point I'm desperate for good docs / resources -- link to anything you particularly like

spent hours figuring out how to debug-print a value from a pure function and still haven't gotten there
seeing as how the pandemic started and spread disastrously in one of the most authoritarian and highly surveilled states on the planet, it's hard to see these measures as anything other than attempt to further whittle away at the bill of rights while everyone is looking in the other direction.
are we willing to give up habeas corpus and any semblance of a private life indefinitely if this turns into a seasonal illness?
Am I missing something or the paper is not linked? Or are my ad-blockers blocking something on the page.

Also, how are the virtualized tabs tracked?
I had considered Numba in the past but it just seemed not worth the overhead. A few talks from this year show that they have really expanded the library, to the point where much of the scientific python stack use it instead of Cython. It can target things like ARM devices and is more flexible in the types it can take (dicts!)
For reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR8E70GTO8c
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oXedk2tGfk
I can think of a couple mitigations against this future:

- Disable JavaScript

- Render SPAs off-site (or in some sandbox with a different network interface) and return the static HTML and CSS

Good enough to read news articles
Yes, but not a significant number of the ones living in SF. The parent comment was suggesting to "move 100 employees out of SF", which is clearly not happening. There are 70 locations around the world that these people could theoretically work and they have chosen SF. I'm sure pretty much every person working at each of those 70 locations was hired to work at that location. I'm am a bit appalled by the shittiness of the viewpoint expressed by the original comment, that the solution to lots of people wanting to live and work in high-demand areas is to force them out by moving their jobs somewhere they don't want to live. There are a lot of great reasons to want to live in a global hub city and work at a centralized office instead of working at a satellite office in Amarillo or Sioux Falls.
in the methodology section, the said they only focussed on tweets concerning national-level politics.

they don’t mention if they attempted to filter out bots or non-americansposing as Americans
As I understand it, ad companies and the people who sell their websites to ad companies have some base level of distrust of one another, which has kept them from integrating like this. Ad companies want to serve the code to be sure that no click fraud is occurring, and people who run websites don't want to completely hand over their domain. But it's easy to see them forging this alliance if ad delivery depended on it.
> "In many ways it is natural for them to be unhappy about this..."

Is it? Anyone with a reasonable understanding of the process of life knows how fragile a given (personal) status quo really is. Factor in the indirect costs to everyone for any single "failure" and only naivete can explain your assumption.

Note: I'm not saying your naive. I speaking of those who would fall under your the umbrella of your observation.
How could free domain names possibly work? Good domain names are scarce so of they were free someone could just write a script to register every good domain and then resell them. The yearly renewal fee means people tend to let go of domain names they no longer and never will use.

The blockchain idea could work. There is a coin called namecoin which attempts to do this. I think on end user devices we should still use DNS so you don't have to store a 1tb blockchain on your device but the blockchain could be what the DNS servers source their data from.
Journalism is over. It doesn't matter what journalists do now. It was a by-product of mass media massive ad business which is being quickly taken over by tech companies.
A site that renders with JS disabled would be a very good idea here.

Something's also broken the Internet Archive's ability to save the site right now, see:

https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.stopusingfacebook.c...
Well, we can already use fMRI (maybe EEG as well) or PET scan to read the structure of people's thoughts. And researchers already have done BrainNet, A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08632

Science doesn't stay still. Given these it is no surprise that lay person think that this is possible.
We have to remember that the NFL, after everything is said and done, is a business. They want to make money any way they can. A great way to do that is by having its teams score lots of touchdowns. But not just any touchdowns: passing touchdowns. There's nothing as exciting to watch as a quarterback throwing a hail marry into the end zone and having the receiver diving for it. Those kinds of plays are more likely to happen if the ball is broken in to the quarterback's liking.

The ruling seems weird, but that's probably why the NFL allows its teams to supply their own game balls, instead of providing fresh ones for every game.
Possibly someone trying to expose bad conferences and journals by submitting this paper and see if it gets accepted.
FYI it's "good riddance".
I'm not sure citizenship is required?
It's so weird to keep hearing that prescription doses of these drugs are addictive. I regularly forget to take them until it's too late in the day and if I took them I would have trouble sleeping... :/
A couple of years ago(2014) I made my first Python website and really enjoyed, however when it was time to put it onlin I quickly discovered that setting up hosting and configuring it was as large a task in getting to know pip, env, unicorn, apache2 and a plethora of other software to host it, is this still the case? Becaue this is what keeps me of hosting websites with python.
Another recent Postgres-complaint post from one of the best engineers I've worked with: https://blog.nelhage.com/post/some-opinionated-sql-takes/

Quoting his conclusion:

> As for Postgres, I have enormous respect for it and its engineering and capabilities, but, for me, it’s just too damn operationally scary. In my experience it’s much worse than MySQL for operational footguns and performance cliffs, where using it slightly wrong can utterly tank your performance or availability. … Postgres is a fine choice, especially if you already have expertise using it on your team, but I’ve personally been burned too many times.

He wrote that shortly after chasing down a gnarly bug caused by an obscure Django/Postgres crossover: https://buttondown.email/nelhage/archive/22ab771c-25b4-4cd9-...

Personally, I'd still opt for Postgres every time – the featureset is incredible, and while it may have scary footguns, it's better to have footguns than bugs – at least you can do something about them.

Still, I absolutely wish the official Postgres docs did a better job outlining How Things Can Go Wrong, both in general and on the docs page for each given feature.
This is precisely it. Mark is saying that privacy isn't the norm. Similar to how being a billionaire isn't the norm.

However when you have enough money you can afford such privileges.
You can still upgrade the RAM in the 27”...for now
- Start with your personal site, then deploy some personal things and APIs in the Amazon AWS and use them in your site and keep evolving this.

- Do it simple and consistently and you will be fine, you don't need to stand out too much to find a job paying 1k dollars/month. Good luck!
> Add to that the “you’re not paying you’re fair share attitude” which I’m definitely getting... there are days I feel like I should move our company to Florida or Texas. I can’t see myself living in a city that isn’t happy to have me.

Hidden within this comment (in my reading) is the implicit assumption that you are paying your fair share. How exactly are you calculating this?
I agree. The Kindle is broken is this regard for me. It can't sync my notes or progress from books I didn't buy on Amazon.

I have The Cloud. All I want is a system that lets me read and sync all eBooks (and PDFs too please!) on all readers. Does anything like this exist?
Does Dropbox ask for that? On my phone, I don't have to give DropBox access to my contact list to use it.

I think one of the challenges is that a lot of what an app maker wants to do is not known yet but they want to mine the user data to identify patterns that might help them decide on what features to build next or provide insight on how they should improve their app. Given this, they err on the side of asking for more data vs. less. On a mobile device, this definitely feels much more invasive given that our phones are basically "tied at the hip" when compared to classic web tracking techniques.