jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" - a talk given at the Computer History Museum. It starts with talk about radar and electronic warfare in WWII. "Every WWII movie you have ever seen that included airplanes on bombing missions is wrong". That soon becomes the genesis of universities in the war effort (research), east vs west coast, and Stanford with Fred Terman who is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley (along with William Shockley). He encouraged students to set up companies, sometimes investing in them too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo Hour long video

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman
Not sure if it's widely known how they were caught... but it was when they outsourced their translation of documents and a translator read documents and blew the whistle.

Which is why the top translation firms now offer... security!
Well, one of the oldest known systems was already very good. Alas, the Babylonian numeral system didn't completely make it down to us unfortunately.
I don't think the industry theoretically needs to use lots of water... It's just a very cheap way to remove soluble contamination.

If water prices were higher, they would use less.
Another exception is probably classic dutch fast food restaurants. Almost everything is either fried or grilled straight from the freezer.
I've not seen an enterprise environment where "ordinary" sysadmins also have access to the log hosts. Must be extremely rare setup in a healthy environment.
Likewise selldom to see "logging staff" to actually login to a shell. Logs naturally aggregates to some kind of a service with visualizations, alerting and filtering capabilities.

In those special cases an "extraordinary" sysadmin gets onboard a log host, it is not through the ordinary access ways, such as SSH from where the other sysadmins play around.
From the article and his papers it seems he never changed his opinion, but that he was being misrepresented 180 degrees, and that you, in good faith, believed that was his position.

I also don't see evidence he claimed it is only genetic reasons.

What he hypothesised (supported by current scientific understanding according to [1]) was that both autism and parenting behaviours have a common cause (genetics) making it a prime example for correlation does not imply causation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism
I think because it would defeat the portability of a timestamp because Asia/Tokyo isn't constant and you cannot lookup the offset without relying on external database that takes in ("2021-02-26 18:38:00", "Asia/Tokyo") as a parameter. Offset in zoneinfo changes depending on day of a year, and sometimes even hour of a day, and the database of timezone is constantly updated (latest zoneinfo is version 2021a).

So while having 2021-02-26 18:38:00 Asia/Tokyo as a timestamp would more accurately represent the time, it would create another set of issues, namely requiring a database to look it up, and requiring to keep those database in sync in all systems in the world. Having both may be redundant because in that case you can't still trust the offset.

There are alternative systems such as TAI64[1] based on TAI[2] that are meant to accurately represent the moment in time without being subjected to leap second (only account them on conversion to UTC). The main issue is TAI64 is not really human readable (e.g. @4000000037c219bf2ef02e94) and would still require database of leap seconds to accurately convert back to UTC.

[1]: http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Can anyone explain why was that a problem, from technical point of view? They already had paths starting with "driveletter:", not like unix with just "/". Why would it be a problem for parser to distinguish between filepaths and arguments switch?
There's always going to be ambiguity.

rmdir /f /usr

Is that force-deleting the /usr directory, or the /usr and /f directories?
Maybe a pause of all rent activities combined with financing only vital industries could work. The costs would be limited to a few select industries, and while huge it would be nothing compared to gouvernement trying to maintain the whole economy afloat.
> Yes, because there are health and safety regulations in place!

Exactly my point: ex post.

The restaurants do not have to declare the recipes they will use or the list of ingredients. They are free to buy from any supplier.

Yet for some mysterious reasons, healthcare needs ex-ante regulations. Read https://thedispatch.com/p/timeline-the-regulationsand-regula... ; do you honestly believe the regulations/FDA/CDC are not at fault here?
Fixed! Thanks for the hint!
"It seems pretty obvious that medicine as a business is not the right setup to tackle a pandemic" . . Hospitals have already put a virtual "lock" on the supply chain of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to make sure they get the bulk of it and you have to come to them to get the drugs . . they are sharpening their teeth and their billing offices are humming.
I bought my chloroquine before all the independent pharmacies got raided, with medicare and suppl. insurance it cost me 70 cents for the entire prescription - - what do you think hospitals will be billing for that same 'script ? From what billing gouging examples that are posted on the 'net likely $700.00

"I find it deeply worrying that people started to buy guns" . . . Look at history, what do you expect when you have 20% or more of the lowest tier of the working population laid off for months or more (60 million people) . . . crime will definitely increase and there won't be adequate police to control it. It could get real bad - - real fast. Only liberal Dems want to take away all our guns and then risk our families to be raped, robbed and plundered . . . buying guns and ammo and 99% a defensive, preparatory, and protective reaction - - not offensive. It is completely within the rights of Americans to protect their families and their property from criminals.
A key reason why this time might be different: A call for helicopter money even among some fiscal conservatives.

Before this, such as in the 2008 crisis, much of the liquidity injection didn’t flow down the bottom part of economic hierarchy. Thus, they haven’t had much increased spending power. So, no inflation of common items. The prices of trophy and other assets preferred by the wealthy did rise up greatly in the past decade.

If the helicopter money plan actually happens in substantial quantity, then inflation of everyday items might occur this time.
My theory is that there is NO direct correlation between drugs like cannabis or LSD and creativity.

I know some talented people, experiences when I was young was watching friends "stoned"/"high" but talking utter crap! The next day after the trip (without fail) these already smart people "think" they have said or done something profound, but they never did!

Days later, their own creative genius is pushed on a search to find out what they said or did that was so profound/creative. Sometimes they do something amazing, but most of the time they don't!

When I was 20 at university (I'm in my 30s now) a friend of mine took cannabis and LSD for the first time. It was not something I did, not because of any moral high ground, but because it also kinda scared me. During the nightout he started to act really strange, bad trip everyone assumed. That weekend (the day after) his mum called asking us all what he had taken, he had been sectioned under the mental health act. It turned out his family had a history of mental health problems. He was sectioned for almost 2 years and never finished Uni.
Can somebody explain the intel processor freedom thing. They say this is the first intel processor that doesn't rely on a signed bios.
My wife is Manager of Budget and Reimbursement at a hospital, meaning that she budgets income and expenses (duh) as well as securing reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid (which together make up the 800-lb gorilla that dictates how the medical system works), and other governmental programs. So she's got probably a better understanding of this than anyone. This is a weekly topic of conversation in my home.

There's a lot that could be done to make hospitals more efficient. My wife's is very management top-heavy, with as many VPs as a bank. And each of these VPs has their own secretary (who has secretaries anymore?).

On the other hand, much of the waste is either directly required by the governmental agencies, or the unintended consequences of those regulations.

It's well known that Medicare/Medicaid pay below the actual cost. Other big insurance companies get good rates, but normally not that good. Somebody has to make up for the shortfall, and obviously it's not going to be the big buyers that have negotiating power. The cost controls by Medicare cause prices to rise for the rest of us. If the government program gets larger due to individual payers joining on, there won't be even that pressure release, and governmental prices will have to rise.

Beyond that, it's been observed that we get far too many tests, more than are medically necessary. In many cases these are caused by Medicare regulation. For example, it was found that many patients get urinary tract infections at the hospital, so Medicare says they won't cover those costs unless the hospital can show that the patient had the UTI prior to admission. So it's not hard to guess what happens now. Everybody gets a test for UTI upon admission, since the cost of that testing is lower than the potential lost revenue from Medicare refusing to pay for treating the pre-existing UTIs.

Expanding the government's influence over healthcare isn't going to solve any problems, and it will exacerbate many of them.

Providing some separate body offering a "public option" is not a compromise that will satisfy both sides. It still contains the ingredients necessary to cause the "crowding out" of private insurance. This is what those opposed to the public option are afraid of, and Mr. Tevis's proposal does nothing (so far as the article mentions) to address that.
>It doesn't because memory is shared, clock is shared.

You're arguing your point using the definition that I argue is insufficient. We're running around in circles.

>Some of the tougher challenges in DS don't reside in this situation.

Yes, and others still do. We can definitely agree on the fact that it's an easier variant of DS.
Life experience of seeing guest languages come and go, during the last 30 years, and never succeeding in the goal to replace platform languages.

On the contrary, platform languages slowly acquire the relevant features of the shiny languages, which eventually either fade away or find a niche for survival.

Kotlin will be relevant as long as Android exists, that is all.
Alt source:

https://twitter.com/ballenaschile/status/1356703048270249985
This is a great question! In short, there is a network effect with our platform. Each sample we sequence contributes to a database of novel bacteria, viruses, and fungi that we can use to discover new microbes.
We know it looks cluttered that's why we sourced feedback from HN, We figured to be different from all those sites...limiting posts to 3 words or less would be fun. Thanks for feedback, learning a lot.
Is there a target audience for Facebook hardware products? I guess HN crowd isn't but I'd want to know what part of the population could be. Curious.
I am working on a (to be, hopefully) open source support ticket system based on Laravel and Bootstrap (So easily themeable). The primary feature is that it works with, not against other ticketing systems. For example I can 'push' a ticket to github or bitbucket. I also want to try and integrate email, so that sending an email to a support mailbox will automatically create a ticket. It would be nice to also have an API for web sites to use, so support tickets will also be created on errors on the production servers.

Just in the initial planning stages but it would work well in my workflow.
Is that really what typical tech office space looks like these days? I know I'm really lucky to have my own office (pre-pandemic), but that looks absolutely miserable. Acres of half-wall cubicles without an ounce of thought for blocking auditory or visual distractions?
I'm just trying to give examples, not set up a dichotomy. There's certainly a very wide range of ways to be charitable. For example, you could be charitable in this discussion by not lampooning those who disagree you as "tunnel-vision engineer types."

I'd like to hear more specifically how you think people should approach charity. Surely some people actually should travel to Africa? And some should not.

I'm not sure why you're being sarcastic about quitting one's job and traveling to Africa in a conversation about charity. It's not an insane thing to do. The point I was trying to make was that not everybody can do it, and that some people can actually do more good by just being excellent at their current job.
We managed to get standards like that on desktops though. What's specifically different about modern laptops?
There's a bit more nuance to it, in that you're not even allowed to buy at the official rate, and buying something in USD with a credit card gets you slapped with a 65% tax, so it's more like the 140-160 rate actually reflects the current real value of the currency. Having an 'official' rate nowadays is more of a performance to pretend that the already high inflation rate is actually a lot higher, and incredibly it works.
The last success Facebook had seen was with their flagship product - Facebook website, rest they bought it (whatsapp, instagram). You know how it went with apps from facebook labs. I hope you remember how big of a disaster was Facebook phone.

Although, I laud their efforts of keep trying and trying.
So why would I use this given there are languages which

- are much better than Dart,
- run in the browser and
- run on a crossplatform VM which is much better than DartVM?
How do you get your ARS income into BTC though? Surely the government tries to put controls on that too?
Or is there a black market for btc too with a similar high spread?
Genuinely curious
Self-hosted Matomo is a good alternative in PHP land. Being PHP it makes it pretty easy to deploy on a VPS and use it as analytics for all your projects. That also puts you in control of it's performance and impact on your users.

You can also use a server-log only mode which uses zero client-side snippets/pixels to do the tracking work.

https://matomo.org/matomo-on-premise/
Or you could ring
Judging it hypothetically, I would set the lever half-way in an attempt to derail the trolley.
this is a fantastic concept.

also, this look like a realistic way to tackle e-waste (not the apple-esque BS)

I understand that most of the e-waste is in the motherboard and the battery, but still, it's something. It's a huge step in the right directions.
Pretty rude and then you ask them to focus on <2% of market share...

Perhaps there are more urgent tasks for "targeting the general populace to reach profitability".
FWIW... I guess, the paying customer segment might be different. Since he seems to be selling the bundle, he may not be knowing the demographics. I vaguely guess the paying segment might be from the designer ecosystem like Sketch or Figma.
That does not answer the question and it is a very rude comment.
Kind of like getting a beat version of a book? Intriguing.

I'd be interested to hear what authors think about people reading over their shoulder while they write.
Microsoft OneNote.

Documents, screen clippings, random thoughts, notes, audios/videos - whatever, really - all sorted and searchable. And I have not found a better tool when it comes to handwritten to text conversion as well as full text searching of handwritten notes.
...Marco should man up

If it gets under your skin and you are meeting your revenue expectations is there a good reason to invite haters to your party?
You can donate to the project directly if you wish by going to http://store.slackware.com/ and clicking on the donate button (top of left column).

Now, to address your point about encouraging buying the DVD or not, I think you should view that from the marketing point of view. He offers software. There are no licenses involved, and you can download the DVD from many high quality mirrors. Still, he needs money to continue the project. Apart from praising the product, how does he market it and get people to pay for it? I think it's much better and professional to offer a pressed DVD in a jewel case, in exchange for money, than asking for donations or something similar. Even if it's less green.

Disclaimer: after years using Slackware, I got a subscription to the DVD when I got my first full-time job. I also think it's nice to receive the DVD from time to time, and I've used the DVD as a rescue and installation disk occasionally. You don't know when it can be handy to have it.
Interesting that for all the arguments about charging for the iphone/ipad versions, he's not charging for the website service itself (which presumably costs money to run too). Perhaps there's value in 'free' after all?
Exactly, they get a percentage of the sale price as a commission.

1% of a $300,000 house is $3,000.
1% of a $325,000 house is $3,250.

The realtor has $250 to gain from holding your house price as high as possible, increasing the amount of work he has to do. He has $3,000 on the line to sell it at the lower price, with less work.

The rational behaviour is to sell as fast as possible, and damn the price.
If only thrift had some sort of signal/event support :(.
It's also a NoACID solution.
In recent month it feels more and more like a choke-hold from google. I can't help it, and it drives me to alternatives like bing, ff or skype.

It feels like google is preparing a big move in 2011.
It wants more data ... it always does. Gmail does not cut it anymore, and for that reason they push voice to get some numbers for a social grid.
I guess they learned with buzz that your email address-book has little to do with your social space, and people don't email their friends, they post status-updates, twitter something or send two lines via fb. So they buy themselfs into your phone habits.

I can't believe how often I see chrome ads while surfing the web. It's the only browser that does so, trying to build momentum for something.

Don't get me wrong, I love the fight, and it will help to make the skype(-ui) not look like crap for another 5 years.

I guess what I'm looking for is some innovation, not just another sales channel for something. Cheap is good, but sometimes it's just not enough.
In Python the empty file is also a Quine.
Yeah, funny thing is I'm a jquery snob if you really want to peg me into a neat comfy corner.

C# is the least annoying plumbing code I do, that's the only love I have for it. That and VS2010 is really nice to work in, and it's probably got the least painful jquery support out there right now (though I am VERY open to hearing about an IDE that is better/more excellent for pure jQuery use - sorry no vi, I prefer something with a mouse these days).

HN is chalked full of snobs on all sides; just because I dare to post a comment counter to the norm doesn't make me a snob (well not a c# snob that's for damn sure). It makes me crazy probably (knowing the inevitable results of sharing an alternative viewpoint - esp. one that gasp indirectly praises the Evil Empire).

Plus what's all that karma for if you can't have some fun with it?
It's the vacation you take shortly before the baby arrives. The wife and I took one (though I refuse to call it that). For the record, we probably spent about $250 on the whole trip (including fuel, lodging, food, etc).
One of the most useful things I've gleaned from pg's essays is learning to think like that.

"Will people still be doing X in the same way Y years from now?"

If not, what will make that change possible? What will drive it? How can you help it along? Is that a startup idea?
Interesting. I imagine there's some devil in the details, but taking it on faith, 60% of the students there get no debt. Thanks for the info.
What it sounds like is that your data-flow will be react-app-like (flux).
Not to mention at least in Western Europe OpenStreetMap often has much better maps than any competitor. The routing isn't as good yet but that's getting better quickly.
Do people actually use Door Dash? Seems like Postmates is winning that race by quite a long margin.
Human Nature / selected poems, 2014

https://www.keshuv.com/poetry/
Yes, note the "Facebook Open Source" link at the bottom of the page.
Yes, it says "Facebook Open Source" at the bottom of the site.
Something that bothers me is (seemingly) widespread use of passphraseless ssh keys or, using ssh-agent without a timeout setting (so your keys are always loaded). I have to wonder if part of this is because ssh-agent -t starts the timeout clock for automatically unloading keys from whenever the agent was launched, rather than resetting the clock at each signing operation (which would mimic the familiar sudo behaviour).

This makes using ssh-agent with a reasonable timeout incredibly painful.

So you're left with either reentering your passphrase every 5/10/15mins, or basically never. Using smartcards for humans and TPMs for servers is a step in the right direction, but it seems ssh-agent is still missing this basic functionality - or am I missing something?
Honestly what good comes out of any “industrial scale” chemical? I think people are screwed because this is _one_ chemical; what about all of the synthetic materials in peoples houses these days (the carpet itself)?

We need to go back to basics here instead of trying to over-science things. Bust out that bottle of vinegar and keep things simple in my opinion.
> population over the age of 65 has grown around 33% in the last 10 years

Which strikingly echoes GP's "birth rate went from 19/1000 to 27/1000 between 1935 and 1946".

But 10 years too late ? I'm confused maybe.
Admittedly, I'm no expert on this subject, but this code looks like it could run on an embedded device. I don't see any system calls, and it looks to rely mostly on the standard library. glib.h is used in dtls_transport, but I suspect you can replace the certificate mechanism with something else.
The GBA is such a good little system to program for.
Could be interesting... I may be greatly misunderstanding something like Apple's M1, but I think some of its performance gains are due to offloading tasks from the CPU to dedicated ASICs. That's great when you know what those tasks are going to be, and there's no reason to abandon that for known tasks. But if AMD can put as certain amount of FPGA capacity on chips then it might gain the flexibility to dynamically increase performance by offloading from the CPU to purpose-configured FPGA units in the field already, and gain performance that might be better than running it alongside everything else on the CPU, even it it's not quite at the ASIC level.

I fully recognize that I may be speculating out my *s here, and would welcome further constructive comment even if it's just to say "Um, yeah, that's not how it works".
Not that I'm good at this yet, but I've found one solid way to do it: Read a textbook on it cover to cover. Don't do any of the problems, that'll like 10x the time. But the textbook will have an overview of the entire space and then as you have questions you'll know how to dive into them. It's helped me get into technologies that are wholly and totally different from what I work in and studied.
The Twitter thread states Coca-Cola Co spends ~8.5% of revenue on marketing. (Red Bull is closer to 35%)
Please don't do this here.

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