skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any special requirements -- such as location, high memory, io performance, or storage capacity?

At https://mnx.io (my company) we offer various options with reliability, and performance at our foundation.
> Doesn't look as though anyone is going to buy Twitter which is embarrassing for them

It will be bought eventually. Everyone is just waiting for the price to come down, which is inevitable.
Maybe, but does location of choice count as part of that minimum level?
Tax amnesties just encourage future tax evasion, since everyone will always be waiting for another amnesty. They create a moral hazard by causing disrespect for the rule of law.
Then you pay rent to the server farm to keep your ancestors alive in perpetuity. Generations of them, all criticizing you from the ungrave, soon they'll have voting rights .. soon, you'll be them.

That's why we at Forever Now are offering insurance against the untimely death of a descendent. Who will be around to make sure your process isn't niced? You'll be as free and fast after life as you where in life, that's our guarantee.
It's important to recognize that the problem isn't that shelter is expensive, but that land is expensive.

And to reframe the question, do all people have a right not to be excluded from land (without a commensurate payment)? I believe the answer is a resounding yes.

Note: I'm a Georgist. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Are you more interested in punishing people, or repatriating money from tax havens and using it to solve national problems, including poverty?
FogCreek uses their own in-house programming language? Is there more of a story there?
>Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person?

Because AI means whatever people imagine it to mean, and the media loves to take full advantage. Even "machine learning" can mean that to the lay person. The closest thing that would probably evoke an accurate reaction in a lay person would be "When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using statistics."
I think -> is newer, but it's in ISO Prolog, which came out in 1995. So it's rather likely that the OP learned Prolog at a time when -> existed but teaching resources had not caught up. Not sure if that's the case even now.
First off, I don't believe there's anything even remotely wrong with being a nerd. Quite the opposite. I do hang around in channels focussing on a diverse range of topics, from various freenode foss-channels to torrent trackers to radical politics and also, yes, shadier communities.

I just believe that even the most benign, non-techy use of IRC poses demands that are incompatible with the vast majority of users today. But that's a strength to me. IRC is filled to the brim with some of the smartest, most creative, exciting people I could think of.
I really like his indentation. I'm gonna use it. Most of it has been my style for a long time.
Is there some other way to read "blacks sold other blacks as slaves"? How could that statement, even if it were true, possibly be relevant to this conversation?

How many "confederate" flags do you own?
It’s a statement of cool detachment and a brilliant
way of blowing up explosives.

I've never heard anyone give a satisfying explanation of why the F-91W is any better at blowing explosives than any other cheap digital watch with an alarm. Surely all you have to do is take the signal from the beeper, amplify, and connect to your trigger circuit - which you could do with any watch with an alarm.

Is there some reason the watch is "a brilliant way of blowing up explosives" compared to any other watch on the market? Or has the journalist just made that up?
I live in the countryside in Ohio. We have a well and a water softener. But my kitchen sink has a second faucet that goes directly to the well, bypassing the softener - I always drink from that one because it tastes better.

I fill up my Nalgene before I leave and only buy bottled water on rare occasions.

I used to live in San Mateo, they had pretty good tap water to.
Suddenly it's my job to bring everyone else up to speed on what happened in their off hours? I have a job to do. Slack and Rocket.Chat (and matrix and ...) both solve that problem and a lot of others without the legacy bullshit that IRC slops down the road. I'm sick of spending time working around what is an outdated and inadequate protocol because of momentum in my office.
True story... I've seen a lot of small places that are so desperate because noone wants to work for an insurance company or some other industry that needs software but isn't a "software industry"
This is one of those pathetic propaganda stories from The War Against Terror that people will regurgitate for years to come. See also how 'al-qaeda' stored messages as 'drafts' on Yahoo mail so that they could outsmart the CIA. These sorts of stories are popular with 'educated' people that think they read the news and form their own opinions about fundamental-islamic-extremalism rather than just admit to being brainwashed by the defence-sector owned mainstream media.
It's a wonderful name, indeed. "Let's riot!", I totally approve.
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I use Saitek Cessna pedals, Cessna yoke (comes with 3-level throttle), and Saitek Cessna trim wheel and don't have any complaints. Before I went all-in, I used a PS3 controller but don't recommend that (It's fine if you're just fooling around I guess).

Saitek/MadCatz had some financial problems (made some wrong bets on farm simulators or something) and some of their equipment is currently hard to get ahold of. The good (?) news is logitech recently bought them up so perhaps they'll turn on the manufacturing line again.
https://blog.fogcreek.com/the-origin-of-wasabi/

https://blog.fogcreek.com/killing-off-wasabi-part-1/
A minetest developer just recently published a sphere-shaped planet version of minetest:

https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=15643

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztAg643gJBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joFWr3JzBOI

That's just the thing I love about these smaller voxel games - they may not have a huge userbase, but there is innovation happening.
True. At the same time, I believe he can do more good for the world as a private individual than as the President of the USA
No. Column scrambling doesn't affect row ordering and row scrambling doesn't affect column ordering. They are literally orthogonal. You can't tell, from a scrambled matrix, whether the rows or the columns were scrambled first.

Here's a more explicit breakdown:

(0,0) (1,0) (2,0)
(0,1) (1,1) (2,1)
(0,2) (1,2) (2,2)

Column scrambling: swap 1&2:

(0,0) (2,0) (1,0)
(0,1) (2,1) (1,1)
(0,2) (2,2) (1,2)

Now row scrambling: swap 0&1:

(0,1) (2,1) (1,1)
(0,0) (2,0) (1,0)
(0,2) (2,2) (1,2)

Notice how the x coordinates still all match along the vertical, and y coordinates still all match
along the horizontal.

Let's try it in the other order, row first:

(0,1) (1,1) (2,1)
(0,0) (1,0) (2,0)
(0,2) (1,2) (2,2)

And columns:

(0,1) (2,1) (1,1)
(0,0) (2,0) (1,0)
(0,2) (2,2) (1,2)

It's the same result irrespective of the order.
That's only the case if everything else remains the same. A tax amnesty coupled with significantly harsher penalties for future evasion would probably work pretty well.
What if it were a part of an organisation like, say, Mozilla?
Encoding. Needs a standard for encoding. "We are all UTF-8 here" As a parody of a bad design: this table is UTF-8 except for that column which is UTF-16 LE and that column of names is CJK and the street addresses column which is 7bit ASCII.

If you embed encoding into a design where the data changes like putting png files into a column named icon_gif, you are deserving of physical punishment. A better design is column binary_blob_28 should really have a sister column named binary_blob_28_mimetype. And don't get cute and use silly names for mimetype, if IANA's never heard of it you probably shouldn't be using it as a name.

Oh and while you're all unicoding for a good time, standardize that everything you write is run thru a normalizer as appropriate, or at least "you tried".

Another fun area not covered (or I missed it) is nothing is more hilarious than a timestamp without associated timezone. So is 1846 a good Central time to eat dinner, or a good UTC time to eat lunch in the midwest USA, or ... some DB support a surprising amount of TZ conversion although TZ always turns into a surprising amount of pain. "We're storing every time as UTC" isn't the worst idea ever.

Where possible ALWAYS use "id" as the name of the table primary identifier and its always a bigint... why burn infinite limited brain cell cycles trying to figure out the prikey of an arbitrary table "hmm well table employee uses MD5(social_security_or_equiv) which is a 16 byte char as its primary key but table source_code uses git hashes now is it the full 40 bytes or is 7 byte prefix good enough (usually is...). If you have to look up every foreign key or even worse, guess, or worse yet, guess and get it wrong, thats the last time your prikey won't be a bigint named id. Oh and as a corollary all your foreign keys will always be named "something_id" type bigint where "something" is the exact table name, not just close.

For the largest subset of equipment you'll interconnect with, figure out the best hardware supported hash and use it for non-security (de-duplication, for example) purposes. That may very well be md5, or maybe the lower 4 to 6 bytes of md5, or whatever.

Speaking of security the guide didn't go into it, so unless you're conferred with someone who knows the problem domain plus a little about security, assume your DB will downloaded next week and published on wikileaks ... don't do something stupid with sensitive data. If theres no reason to store sensitive data, then don't store it at all to begin with!
Being disenchanted with reality and turning to fantasy is a normal human response, but it's far from enlightened.
Allowing people to organize themselves is "helping them overthrow legitimate governments"???

What, do you think twitter should start censoring everything that governments disagree with?

An open, non-profit twitter would probably allow people to do even MORE things like "overthrowing governments".
Who's drinking demineralized water though? All of the bottled water commonly available for sale is not demineralized, at least to my knowledge.
Good lord dude, I don't know how you got from me stating a problem to me being a bully, an oppressor, and an attacker of the disabled. I also said that imageboards play an important social role, which is a long, long way from saying I want them eliminated.

I have offered an alternative wiki farm, and specifically a wiki about tropes in media. The last time we had to deal with a developmentally disabled person on there, we ended up calling his parents to ask for help. You know, so we could treat him like a real human being and not just a ban evader.
That's a fair point. Maybe we should lobby VPS providers to have simple installers for it, like DO's one-click apps.
I don't know the answer, but I'd like to follow it up with the questions "And to what extent should location preference be accommodated? Does one have a right to continue to live where one was born? To live in the city of one's choice? Or is the right (if it exists) just to a safe place somewhere?"
Wasn't this the core of Stanislav Lem's Solaris?

Albeit reconstructing the personality of a loved one from someone else's memories.
It's one of two numbers on an ISDN BRI that does dial-up shell access for sdf.org.
What I don't get: why is a bottle of Coca-Cola better than a bottle of water?

And, well... what else are you supposed to do if you aren't going to be near a faucet for a while?
I'm confused, do you mean the Dot-com bubble turn of the century or something that happened around the turn of the 19th/20th century?
The biggest issue with this is that some developers tend to get 2-3 offers in a small period. It's totally normal for a developer to start and leave within 3-4 days because a better offer came along so these companies want enough time to see if their new hires are going to duck out before telling you you're not a match (just in case you are a match but the guy who just got hired in your place quit because the new place offer 5k more)
Ask HN: What is a small business I can start with minimal risk?
By minimal risk I mean

1. not spending much money upfront

2. not needing much experience, specialty

3. is relatively in high demand
Speaking as a ukrainian, Twitter had little to do with the war in Ukraine.
Honestly, they both look fine, but they do impart different meanings. "Staff" implies a set of employees dedicated to something like a company or project whereas "employees" could refer to multiple employees in any context.

If you're walking on to a new project, these subtleties make all the difference in understanding what's going on without having to rely on documentation.
Also not being able to see or search chat history was a deal breaker for IRC. It's like the days before answering machines...
IMO the best way would be to do microtransactions and go whale hunting. For example, you could charge a quarter for every character past the current word limit and a dollar per character after 200 and kill two birds with one stone.
Interestingly enough, that isn’t true. The operations of row-shuffling and column-shuffling commute, so you can do them in either order.

You can try it yourself, if you’ve cloned the repo. Here are the commands to reconstruct first by columns and then by rows:

git checkout double-shuffling
make images/double_shuffled/blue-hour-paris.png bin/compute_scores
mkdir tmp

bin/compute_scores --cols images/double_shuffled/blue-hour-paris.png > tmp/cols.tsp
bin/lkh.sh tmp/cols.tsp tmp/cols.tour
bin/reconstruct_image.py --cols tmp/cols.tour images/double_shuffled/blue-hour-paris.png > tmp/cols-unshuffled.png

bin/compute_scores --rows tmp/cols-unshuffled.png > tmp/rows.tsp
bin/lkh.sh tmp/rows.tsp tmp/rows.tour
bin/reconstruct_image.py --rows tmp/rows.tour tmp/cols-unshuffled.png > tmp/reverse-unshuffled.png
Yep, I agree with your argument. I can't see how this model Casio is any better than the equivalent Timex, Armitron, etc. Is the beeper signal approach you suggest viable?
If you are concerned about people paying their "fair share" at all then you are playing by the wrong set of rules.

Governments funding themselves by income tax is a 100 year old phenomenon. That particular form of passive revenue generation isn't an absolute. Governments subsidized roads and schools before then, whether it was from property taxes, nationalized industries, bond programs, outright expropriation or any other form of revenue generation.

Compliance with passive taxation literally requires indoctrination, and there are people that reach a place in society where they can opt out of it.

This isn't a "stance" I subscribe to, it is a reality I can perceive. It would be disingenuous for me to say I don't understand what is going on, or hand waive it away as saying these people neglect their "civic duty".
That's interesting... my present watch is a super cheap Timex that doesn't even have a date function. The best reviews on Amazon were from soldiers. One of them said that he already has every possible electronic doo-dad strapped to his body, and all he needs from a watch is being able to tell the time.

For my use, I guessed that the date function (on a mechanical watch) is what eats the battery, and indeed, this watch has a very long battery life.
There are relatively few keywords in SQL, and I think it makes them distinct from user named parts of the query.
First, it's depressing to introduce someone on Monday and get them out the door by Friday.

Second, people don't want to be known as "the lemon picker" within the company.
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Yep, CLBlast. My old kernels are from the pre-CLBlast era. Now they are deprecated.
Private decentralized ban lists would be a good solution to this. If you don't like people who say things that you believe are terrible, you can subscribe to a ban list.

If you don't care about people saying offensive things, you just don't subscribe to any ban lists. Or maybe only subscribe to spam ban lists.
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dog walking is popular nowadays. A lot of people aren't getting married and so they have dogs instead of kids.

Also you could easily drive for uber or lyft.
Twitter's needs are several orders of magnitude greater than that, and those kind of problems have a habit of being exponential.

It's not even the same kind of problem, they've got to tailor their response to every user.

Finally, their investors simply cannot accept 'a nice little business'. They need Twitter to deliver serious ROI.
"where Socrates postulates an ideal world of which our own reality is but a shadow" I think he means Plato.
Isn't this Ray Kurzweill's brain uploading? You make a computer that can accurately simulate a person and then, according to Kurzweil, the person is no longer dead and completely equivalent to the previously alive human being.

I don't buy it of course, but isn't that the theory?
The same public "government largesse" that Gates credits with the microchip and internet is what Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google et al have constantly worked to erode with closed-source, walled-garden ecosystems. They all would have been unable to build their empires on top of the very ecosystem that today they try to cultivate.
Technically it will be possible at some point but there's also the legal/ethical considerations. Robin Williams went out of his way to make sure his likeness couldn't be used after his death ( https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/31/robin-williams-... )

We might be able to bring back great actors from the dead, but would they want it? Would that matter? Probably a lot of their estates would jump at the chance for extra money.
Yep I'm a fan of Spolsky in general, but the idea he supported that you must be extremely skeptical, cannot trust anyone to be a good developer, and that a bad hire can destroy a company has done untold damage to the industry.

Though I'm a much better dev now than when I started in the 90's I had my choice of jobs back then. Now it is horrible death march for the privilege of slinging HTTP APIs, about the easiest thing a developer will ever face professionally.

It's the reason why developer interviews are such a shit show, and
a factor in the "engineer shortage." People who can't code with a gun to their head (ala swordfish) are excluded.
Not to mention those that don't "fit", such as minorities, women, and elders.
But there WOULD be consequences. The consequences is that you would end up on a lot of people's ban lists.

That way you don't have to interact with people you don't want to.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but I will choose to take your words literally because Excel has had an enormous productivity impact on the people who used it, and in many areas changed how business was done by introducing programming and automation (formulas, pivot tables, graphs etc.) to technical business users.

Edit: glad you were not being sarcastic :-) thanks for clarifying
Not just that, I used Linode way back when and now am between a rock and a hard place. I needed 20 extra GB of space and the only viable alternative was to upgrade to a plan twice what I had, at twice the cost, just for those 20 extra GB. Meanwhile, with DO or AWS, all I had to do was add a volume for $2/mo or something.

I can't get away from Linode soon enough.
An amnesty for cash repatriation is what Trump is currently shilling as part of his job creation platform since corps like Apple have billions overseas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/tim-cook-... and are pressured by shareholders to not return it to the US where it will be taxed. Tim Cook will have to pay out 70 billion lump sum to the feds on that overseas pile of money.

Obama was also working on an amnesty for years and it never happened for whatever reasons. Of course this would work once then build up again overseas as they would just wait for another amnesty as explained by other posters.
the problem is that by other metrics twitter is doing pretty well. There are very important people who will engage you in conversation (such as here) and ask you to DM them on twitter. That's insane.
Does it still work if you've got WeeChat customised or does it need to be vanilla? I'd like to keep using it from a shell while on a decent machine, but would absolutely not mind the option to connect from mobile clients.
I was referring to cloud-style hosting. I suspect many services are over-engineered by an order of magnitude in order to be cloudy.
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In addition to spam/abuse and the difficulty of setting up a server, another area of centralization that hasn't yet been solved is payments. If we want a truly decentralized web, we need a way for computers to posses and spend money without human intervention. This compounds the difficult of spam/abuse and server setup, but is still a huge factor in why the web is the way it is today.
if it's not a troll comment, i should emphasize I mean a real business, not gigs
Ecommerce. Can easily start with $500 or less, spend a little time reading and buy stuff in demand.

http://www.frugalhack.me/2016/09/28/how-to-sell-on-amazon/ is long but will bring you up to speed quickly.

Everything else is execution.
> How does your dynamic language tell its user an operation is invalid, based on argument type?

It doesn't! That's exactly the point. If something is invalid, then it can't happen. At all.
Yes, my source for the claim is the author of the claim. And I cited it to point out that Leah Rowe doesn't claim that just being trans was the issue, but that it was the fact that the employee spoke up against the bullying.
My family owns a water company in Lake Tahoe, I've been wanting to bottle it for years, but there is a law that won't allow us to do so.

I live in alameda, and I drink the tap water - I love it. I have kleen canteen I keep with me almost always with water in it, and I try to avoid bottled water as much as possible mostly because I don't like the plastic waste
Yep. And, frankly, even within large or large-ish profitable companies, it's not uncommon to hear people making complaints along the lines of "What on earth do all the people in $XYZ_GROUP even do?" Now, I have no doubt that there are indeed inefficiencies within many companies and those inefficiencies tend to increase with scale. But there probably aren't 4x the number of people in finance, for example, that there need to be.
They sacreficed progress for their own pockets and now are asking us to not do the same.
Peter Jones, Michael Horden, Richard Burton, Richard Vernon, James Mason, Terry Thomas...

and Kenneth Williams too

All voices I would love to hear, and talk with.

We don't have their larynx's to scan, to physically model, but surely there should be enough recording of their voice to model them, for s speech synthesiser?

I recollect someone saying if they had more recording of Stephen Hawking's voice they would have been able to use it in his speech synthesiser.

Which raises another question, who owns a voice?
Related: Horrible PDF experiments (play breakout in a PDF document)

https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments
The concepts are not that far removed from the Windows NT concepts for service management, where services can be automatic start, manual start, and disabled. These are, respectively, "enabled", "disabled", and "masked" in the systemd world.

There are some differences in the details, of course. But a "disabled" service can be manually started.