skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> at some level of interpretation everything can be a higher-level runtime.

I don't see how everything can be considered a higher-level runtime. The concept of an execution environment just doesn't map to everything, unless you want to use a definition of it so general as to make it useless. If someone drops a glass and it shatters, would a higher level system describing the mechanics of glass shattering be a runtime? I don't see it.

> Yes, protein-protein interactions are a higher-level runtime emerging from lower-level physical runtimes.

That's pretty different from what I was describing. See my other comment for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16235639

> ... Hacker-news is a higher-level runtime emerging, in part, from protein-protein interactions, emerging from lower-level physical runtimes.

I think we disagree on the meaning of the word 'runtime'. I would not consider Hacker News to be a runtime. I do agree with your main point there, though, if you just replaced 'Hacker News' in your statement with, say, the Java runtime environment, then yes, I think it is a higher-level system, usefully described as a runtime, which has emerged as a consequence of the laws of physics doing what they always do.

> Can we describe the runtime without invoking some notion of purpose nor questioning free will?

My usage of 'runtime' does not involve free will nor purpose.
> They're your children -- you're going to want to call and check to see how things are going.

If you think that's "obvious", then explain why. Because as you put it, it's just false, not everybody does that. Not every kid would stand for it, either.

For one because the competence of a babysitter includes handling emergencies, making the practical use of randomly "checking in" (from some remote location) moot, but what's more, it's randomly checking in -- and not actually trusting the competence of the babysitter and having a cell phone with you so they can call you when there is a problem (you can actually help with). Don't dress up neediness as utility and wisdom, badly.
Even with a binary format, you have a lot of options. gRPC has plans for binary logging, which Stubby has had for a decade or more. Google's Stubby clients and servers also have built-in HTTP handlers that let you do a lot of interactive debugging, like the /debug/requests interface in golang's net/trace package. Unexpectedly, I found that a much better troubleshooting experience than pouring through logs (also because logs don't capture everything).
Which more powerful language do you suggest?

Macro metaprogramming is still needed in C++. Other powerful languages might lack some nice properties of C. Like easy interfacing with other languages, and a wide availability.
Do they just do that for commands that make changes, or do they do it for pure read commands as well? Most of the volume is in reads, especially since so many build systems now read directly from Github.
Skills-based recruiting will change how engineers are hired
Thanks for the quick reply to this - as has been said, that's a huge benefit, and it's great to see. How do you see it working in practice?
I usually prefer hotels, especially when traveling alone.

But I’ve found that Airbnb is great when traveling in a small group — hanging out in a home with communal rooms is awesome.
This was transportation in general in South East Asia; coupled with thee possibility of becoming a non corrupt banking system (reading a bit into it there; but if everyone has a ride sharing account with money put in, and they are viewed as more trustworthy than the banks; why not?)
What do you know, the world isn't black and white! /kinda sarcastic

I find it fascinating that so much rage can cause hoards of people to jump on bandwagons of all kinds. The reality of everything in the universe is far more complex than a headline, and yet we all seem to forget that from time to time.
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> Most important was that it was the language of Unix

More important was it was the only language that really worked on DOS, which ruled the computer biz for 10 years. I would guess 80% of programming was done for DOS, and C was a very good fit for the 640K systems.
Public transportation is not perfect in every part of the world. That's the reason we have Uber/Lyft/Taxis and carpooling apps
Here is the "reference exists" that the blog post alludes to:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/blob/master/internal/se...

I'm not an expert in this abomination, but it looks all the world like invoking "git show-ref --verify".

(Of course a Git ref is usually just a file in .git with a SHA1 in it. They don't care about the SHA1, so really they are launching a Git process for a file exists operation. This used to take them 400ms, but now it's only 100ms!)
I'll put an e-mail address in my profile.
Or, "Things you can do with macros in C, but probably shouldn't."
> It's all fake value they'll be entirely unable to support with business fundamentals

Why is that? Their financials look very solid: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AOSTK&fstype=ii...
People enjoy concerts for different reasons and in different ways. I don’t see why we should deny them the freedom just because you appreciate events different.
>> even before jQuery

If you're getting old then I must be ancient! I remember when all the software documentation had to be printed on this white stuff made out of dead trees.
I would argue that the current western capitalist system is ideological.

An anarchist system controlled by a minority of violent mafia gangs would be simpler and more economically efficient... The reason why the world is not like this is simply because most people are willing to make personal sacrifices to prevent it.

A society made up of people who only act for their own self-interest will inevitably be an anarchist society.

If idealism has held together innefficient systems like capitalism, socialism and organised religion for so long, surely it can hold together other systems like cryptocurrencies.
Create a S3 Bucket and create a AWS Lambda function to support upload.
It's a commitment hash. He wants to be noted as saying something without saying it right now. When he does say it, you can verify that he had the comment ready now by checking the hash. Its for predictions you only want to reveal after they happen.
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While I like that, and is a cool approach, what is really the difference between just storing PII encrypted in the same database and then keeping your keys locked down based on permission levels?

The API proxy would be great if you have a trusted 3rd party in charge of it or something. But abstracting it out to a separate layer doesn't seem necessary since it's all within the same company anyway, and developers will need access anyway
As they grow, they’ll work as a catalyst within the calcium-rich conditions of the concrete to promote precipitation of calcium carbonate crystals. These mineral deposits can fill in the cracks.

Pure calcium carbonate is not as strong as concrete. It sounds like this will just fill in cracks with weaker material, hiding them from inspection, which would be even worse --- the strength of the material is degrading but not visibly.
For the microcontrollers example, the 'C' that the device's compiler uses could be a very loose implementation of a subset of the language. How do you ensure that the code you're compiling to will work for it?
Your hypothetical may be moving on the wrong axis. I think a more appropriate counter example is whether or not positions that no one surrenders any power to attract tyrants. Does a tyrant wish to be a kindergarden teacher?
> No matter who the original author was, what if we always made some effort, no matter how small, to improve the module. What would be the result?

People would stop being willing to review his PRs, because they'd always contain off-topic changes?
Yeah, the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) did pretty much the same thing (back in 1987 or so). I forget the ordering guarantee, it might have been lexicographic by filename. Global initialization in C++ has been a horrible mess, portability-wise, for literally decades.
Proteins are 1-dimensional chains of 'lego-like' molecules that fold into atomically-precise 3D tools. There are ~20 types of legos that have properties that differ along a number of axis like hydrophobicity, charge, reactivity, size, flexibility, etc. And those 20, in combination, seem to be enough to build all of the tools life needs to interact with its environment. Most proteins are assemblies of a few hundred such 'legos' (again, of which there are 20 types).

Those 3D structures then, because they're encoded in the 'tape-like' DNA, can actually themselves be modular, rearranged, and this chunk can be lopped off and plopped onto that chunk, or assembled with this chunk over here. When you string a 'firefly-shine' protein next to a 'in-the-nucleus' protein, the firefly-shine protein will now be physically connected to the 'in-the-nucleus' signal, so you get firefly-shine in the nucleus. Now encode all the things proteins can do: bind to things, enzymatically make things, go places, make structures, sense chemicals, light, force, electricity, other atoms, etc. - and you get little multi-part robots made of those various active 'chunks'.

If you have a protein piece that itself assembles in a hexagonal-like shape, you could imagine assembling a number of them into a soccer ball - just as a virus does to protect its DNA.

Or if there are small Brownian-aware 'ratchets' attached to stiff fiber-like proteins, you can get proteins that move or walk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-uuk4Pr2i8

The microtubule's they're walking over are themselves linear assemblies of proteins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGmz4xVP50M

Similarly, spider silk is protein: https://boltthreads.com/

And leather is protein: http://provenance.bio/

Here are some more animations. The only thing wrong is how empty the space is. In real life, there is no empty space at all - it's jammed pack with other proteins and molecules:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmbpAo9JR4

Bone is a mineral deposit, deposited by proteins within particular cells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast#Osteogenesis

Cell walls or lipid membranes are fats that are generated in the right concentration by proteins, and then allowed to self-assemble, creating well-controlled environmental compartments for sensitive proteins to remain functional.
The explanations they give as to why it won’t succeed are like 12 years old reading anything about bitcoin for the first time. Duh!!
If you pick up FTL on the Humble Store you should be able to play it on their website in a web browser.

edit 01: [screenshots]

1) https://screenshots.firefox.com/YJvULhgFlPJKtpD1/www.humbleb...

2) https://screenshots.firefox.com/UMQMitQ4Rm4viSlv/www.humbleb...

edit 02: To play it in a separate tabs as per the scrots just take the key from the purchase page https://www.humblebundle.com/downloads?key=foobarXXXX and apply it to this url like so https://www.humblebundle.com/play/asmjs/ftl_asm/foobarXXXX

As a bonus this allows you to play it on any computer without logging in.
Privilege Checking the Privilege Checkers
Youngster builds his own electric car from a 1980 Toyota Celica
Form TFA: "I have tried to change that from within"

Uh oh. This will probably narrow down enough so that they can have a pretty good idea of who posted this...
I think you're both right and wrong :)

You're right in that certain buyers are going to be looking for certain elements that might not make much sense from a long-standing building point of view. Architectural shapes and trends change over time.

On the other hand, its also true that a lot of these trends are just bad architectural design. Period.

Sunken lounges of the 70's. Media-rooms and conspicuous consumpition-esque cavernous entrances and questionable elements in macmansions. These are designs that are incredibly difficult to repurpose into anything but their original purpose.

In my country (Aus), there is a now a common suburban design that almost entirely ignores long term elements and lessons of the environment that have been known for at least 100 years: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_(architecture). Now we have a poor relation of the generic american style: dark roofs and colours, no overhangs/shelter/verandahs, directly western facing living areas and frontages, all designed to maximize internal sq meters/price.

Now, i appreciate that my queenslander example is a style built of wood traditionally. But there is another style example of highly valued real-estate with long term potential in the urban centres: victorian terraces and townhouses. Aside from the regrettable wealth signaling effect of owning one, its an architectural form that has lasted the test of time and is arguably constructible via concrete. And one of the reasons it has done so is because that form is the complete opposite of the media room/sunken lounge/mcmansion: almost universally flexible and readjustable. A proper Victorian townhouse in its context can be reclaimed and used as a bar, as a restaurant, as a residence, as an office or a place of business. Though like all succesful architecture, this is only because it works in the context of its environment.
Why would you need every userspace library in memory? - you'd only have the libraries in use by applications in memory.
Really it comes down to whether we can find qualified candidates from the website. I'm looking to increase the diversity in engineering so that it's not all 30ish white guys. My last job I worked with engineers in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. I'd like to recreate some of that experience
That there are dominant players in a field shouldn't preclude someone from trying. Especially if you see a face that could use help. Safety would be a good candidate here.
Is this actually legal?
He might be right, but if he said anything different would he be allowed in Davos at the table with the lords of the world?
Spawning a process, even if its just vfork() followed by exec(), is very very expensive compared to spawning a thread, and even then most apps created threads on startup and then just cache them for the lifetime of the application. Spawning a process 20 times a second honestly isn't terrible, but even hundreds per second can be noticeably slow IIRC.
That last bit is actually relatively straightforward - you send them a response with a link they click on taking them to a permission prompt.
that was my first thought when I read this - I just didn't think anyone much cared about Carbon anymore - but it will be the last gasp of the traditional Macintosh ecosystem.
Going public by taking over a publicly traded company is a legit way to avoid the costs and complexity of an IPO. There are examples in the past, the most famous is probably Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's company.

That said, a proper IPO allows for more scrutiny and it is probably better to read the SEC filings before investing in a company you don't know (and also in one you know). Everyone pretending Crypto is not a bubble should justify this kind of behavior where people are investing based on keyword instead of knowledge...
Heads are going to explode when they discover the arcane rarely-utilized tool known, nay, merely whispered of, only as "transactions".
I guess nothing lasts forever, sadly perhaps.
Ask HN: Do You Consider Remote a Working Perk?
I was contacted about a remote position today. They asked for my expected rate and I told them. They replied, "Can you consider coming down since this is a remote position?"

I really struggled to come up with a response to this. Yes, I'm willing to negotiate on principal, but it has nothing to do with being remote. In fact, I consider remote a reason to pay more money.

My thinking is that it's difficult to find the type of people who has the focus and skills (focus overrides skill, I think) to really do remote work well. The employer is not paying for the office, not giving me free coffee, not paying for the computer I'm using, and (if it's important) no ping pong, and no social interaction with coworkers. In return, I give full-on focused work with no cruft.

I understand that it is a trade off, but I'm never sold on the thought that remote is some exclusive benefit.
My small proposal for further improvement: change the -9 to a -7.

In my experience, -9 is considerably slower than -7 but the gains in compression ratio are negligible. It's almost never a good trade-off.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
i knew it would collapse soon since every comment i post (RIP Bitcoin) ... would give me negative ratings last few months.

-4 points by readhn 38 days ago | parent [-] | on: Bitcoin Climbs as Futures Debut Fails to Incite At...

What goes up must come down. What goes up fast and hard usually falls faster and harder. Market 101.

by readhn 83 days ago | parent [-] | on: Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin rising but ethereum remaini...

Getting my pop corn ready for first at least a 50% hair cut on BTC value.

-4 points by readhn 119 days ago | parent [-] | on: Bitcoin blow as fund drops U.S. exchange applicati...

RIP bitcoin. Current valuation is $4142.99 higher than it should be.. Im thinking we will get there within a couple of years. $1-2 seems about right per 1 BTC.
This is exactly why performers seek to stop video recording in the first place.

Or part of why. There are several motivators:

1) use of the recording that could cost paying attendance in the future (e.g. copyright issues)

2) damage control of statements that they regret later (e.g. Michael Richards' racist rant)

3) Protection of the interests of all the attendees positioned behind and around you. When anybody is recording, view from directly behind is outright obscured, and the experience of everybody behind you, where you are in their field of view at all, is impaired by this lit-up screen facing them. People who are recording are inflicting their choice on all others behind them.
A few popular choices for this: Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap Analytics, KISSmetrics.

Some factors that may push you to one more than the other:

* What are the 3-5 things you’re currently most interested in concluding? Some products will make certain reports/conclusions much easier than others.

* Will your events be generated exclusively from the server (major benefits: not subject to content blocking, can be augmented with other data only the server has), or only from clients(s), or both?

* Do you have one important ID (typically a user ID), or 2 (typically a customer/company ID and a user ID), or many?

* Once you’re able to measure the basics, what do you want to do with it? Some examples: cohort analysis; contextual in-app messaging with a product like Intercom; exporting the data to a BI tool like Tableau
Few people stay that long in a company nowadays.
Apple rejects Puffin Browser on iOS
I disagree, in the sense that western capitalism requires participation even by those who adamantly oppose it. There is no (realistic) way to opt out.
Are there any examples of good web APIs that offer something like a unified log as an abstraction? I'm not looking for systems, but actual companies that have some kind of "streaming" data feed where you can (re)connect to an endpoint and say "give me everything from [logical] timestamp X". Ideally one where you stay connected and get longpoll SSE/WebSockets/MQTT-style streaming responses.

I kind of want the opposite of webhooks.
You can only short when someone else is willing to lend you their share. I checked a few of the blockchain renamed stocks, and couldn't find shares to short.
There is one massive clue pointing to Africa: more genetic diversity there. This doesn't rule out interesting additions from other populations that left earlier than others, went further than we thought, etc; but it is the elephant in the room.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24984772
I suspect I hold a minority opinion - but I think Tesla is woefully overvalued for what it is, and what it sells - yes, it has interesting new technology, but I have doubts about its ability to execute at the scale required to dominate the market as they wish.

Tesla has a market cap of 56 billion dollars - compared to Ford at 45 billion, and GM at 61 billion.

Tesla I believe sold around 100,000 cars in 2017, and 76,000 in 2016, in the US alone Ford and GM sold 2.5 and 3 million respectively in 2016 - to give you scale GM sold 10 million worldwide (again, in 2016).

Scaling manufacturing operations is one of the hardest things to do - so I dont see it to be possible for Tesla to chase after the mass market, or do anywhere near the sales of the other manufacturers.
This was extremely confusing for me. Why not have both driver and rider in Waze Carpool app...? Or is it for future integration?
I agree but sometimes the whole thing is so clown shoes from the ground up it just plain isn't going to work as is. That does happen.
I can't even imagine how much PII is sitting in AWS Redshift from various startups... It's brutally slow if you don't tune the encoding types _extremely carefully_, which no one ever does. One has to wonder, if this is such a big deal, what the access rights from AWS' perspective looks like xD

Imagine the data team convincing the rest of the company that they're doing anything to make their redshift _slower_. Encryption? People want their graphs, damnit!
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Its hit and miss, of 4 people I know of that owned Nexus 5x's at one point or another, two have hit the bootloop issue, one got a free pixel 2 as a replacement, and the other got told to pound sand.
Sorry, you're just incorrect about both the content of Colin's comment and authorial intent. Colin clarifies he is expressing an objection, not a clarification, and that it is in fact the nitpick I guessed it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16236015

Yes, it doesn't denigrate anyone, but that's a really low bar.

I do give authors the benefit of the doubt when something isn't clear. That's why I couched my message in "I think" and asked a question instead of just asserting facts.