skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, sorry everyone for the delay in answering, but timezones weren't nice to me.

I really like minimalist pages, but I would be lying if I said the complete oposite (like https://lw1.at) wasn't also fun to program.

The whole text-generation is language-independent [1]. I just split the source up in words (well technically NLTK-tokens) and merge them together after generating the text.

Therefore it even kind of works for Japanese [2] or Arabic. It's just a bit ugly as a lot of questions on non-English sites are in English and the chains end up as a mix.

[1] https://github.com/Findus23/se-simulator/blob/master/markov.... and https://github.com/Findus23/se-simulator/blob/master/text_ge...

[2] https://se-simulator.lw1.at/s/japanese.stackexchange.com
And yet, the only constant is change.
I had considered it for embedding on an ARM micro for C code to be able to download and run test scripts.

Abandoned because it seemed like a dead project with no official or community support.

It’s suprisingly difficult to get a Turing complete scripting language for micros that doesn’t take up 75k rom.

I’ll take another look, but for the most part I don’t know who has the time to gamble on unknowns like this for anything but hobby.
The build quality of my late 2013 MacBook Pro is a lot better than that of my early 2018 MacBook Pro with touch bar. When I picked it up in cantilever with one hand it felt less flexy. The latter has seams that don’t line up and such around the touch bar, and the fingerprint scanner seems to have seams from manufacture around the edge. Keyboard scrapes every now and then and the bottom of the laptop picks up dirt from the work area and makes an awful sound when you slide it around (with the old under-profile, I didn’t notice this).

Nethertheless, the new machine feels a LOT lighter and, as such, I forgive the engineering team who had their focus elsewhere.

I just wish they’d redesign the speakers so that you can’t tell when tiny skin flakes fall in the microscopic holes (which you can’t get out .. at all). It’s very obvious when a hole is missing due to the pattern of the holes.
40 is very young. Most of your career is still ahead of you.
Or not be a coward and be interesting, speak up, and not back down. If more of us do that than not then they will at least have a very difficult time in tracking us all.
I think there has been some great feedback here but one really valuable bit of advice has not been mentioned (that I can see).

"Do something you love"

All the people I know who are doing something they love have a much better quality of life than the ones who are just earning a living.

Also, perhaps if we do something we love it can help with the big three - health, relationships & family - because we are more satisfied and every day is something to look forward to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914632

80+ points
I know it's hidden. I searched for Bitbucket explore public repos and found this

https://bitbucket.org/repo/all?name=hackernews
Take a look at customer reviews for that card. I did, and I noped right outta there.
Are you comparing Lambda to non-Lambda, or are you saying that in addition to managing a Lambda function, serverless can also "[keep an] EC2 instance or web server running/patched/updated/etc"?
As of Nethack 3.6.0 Elbereth no longer works on a square that you're not standing on, so it can't be used to guard a stash. Now you need to use a scroll of scare monster for that purpose.
I think all technology products have a certain percentage of devices that will fail prematurely.

I think a lot of people by Apple products because when their device fails they can take it back to a store run by the same people who manufactured and sold it to them to get it serviced.
First, that isn’t Louis Rossman’s voice. That’s either an employee or a paid voice actor.

That's him talking, there's daily live streams of him ranting and repairing that make that obvious. I do know he has a history in audio engineering and has multiple mics he uses for different situations, it seems to me the differences I hear in the videos below come down to capture/processing differences in his live capture and edited setup:

Livestream from this month
https://youtu.be/WZK_rHzdTaA?t=85

"The Truth About Apple's Engineering"
https://youtu.be/AUaJ8pDlxi8
It's definitely a transformative experience. I guess it's the kind of thing that people get out of hallucinogens: for a little while you get to step outside of the context whose cues shape how you behave and think.

Which I'm worried may make no sense, so let me be more specific. One way to explain it: at work, you're work you. At home, you're family you. In each context, you've developed a set of behaviors and mental habits. What happens if you put those all down? Who are you now?

I happened to go on a 70-mile wilderness hike on the Pacific Crest Trail the week before going to Burning Man 1997. The experiences were wildly different: one was peace and nature and quiet; the other was a beautifully insane party filled with extraordinary art. But both had similar effects on me. I got to step outside myself and be a part of something extraordinary. I couldn't rely on my old ways of interpreting people; I had to see them anew.

I still remember flying back to Chicago on a red eye. I got into Midway airport, which at the time had all the charm of a poorly maintained bus station, and hopped on the L slightly before dawn. It was filled with sleepy commuters, all in that hazy, slightly vulnerable state we're in before we've really woken up. And I was filled with a deep love for humanity, for each one of those beautiful dreamers going about their lives. I could have hugged them.

Of course, those transformations fade. When we come back to old places, we slip back into our old selves. But not entirely. Some of the magic sticks with us.
You are right, that's the problem when trying to get something in the world quickly instead of doing proper documentation.

But I'll write something together today and send you a mail when I'm done.
I like the N64, but for the sake of argument (from a few different directions, and each one debatable whether it made it a "turd"):

- Sony moved over three times as many Playstations, and there were about 2600 PSX games and 400 N64 ones. In contrast to the previous generation, the SNES handily outsold the Genesis, even with somewhat fewer released games.

- The cartridge format caused problems with production price and storage potential, which disk-based systems didn't have

- It was an overly-complex, difficult-to-program machine

- The 4K of texture cache and other weird design choices really hampered the graphics quality.
I highly recommend Mark Brown's video "Nintendo: Putting Play First, https://youtu.be/2u6HTG8LuXQ (and his other essays on Nintendo)
Well there's a group sex tent that is interesting to check out. Your best shot at getting in is being part of good looking couple though. Quite the experience to have sex surrounded by dozens of other beautiful, young couples having sex. Happens elsewhere but the Burn is your best shot.
Telegram outage in Europe
It needs to be rebooted for modern times.
Huh. In San Francisco, USD$30K/year puts you above the 20th percentile, below the 40th percentile for a household - I mean, I guess, sure, that seems poor but it's not uncommon. two people making USD$30K/yr would be getting close to the median.

(median household income in SF is USD$75K/yr. I don't see how you could live in SF on that money without serious rent control or owning your place, but fact is it's the median household income. Come to think of it, I know a fair number of people in that situation; making under $75K/yr and living in a rent-controlled place.)

Interestingly, median household income in london, as far as I can tell, is GBP40.000 which is like USD$55K - which isn't nearly as large a difference as I see in, say, SWE wages.
Apple screwed me. It took seven years to get my 2007 Mac Pro repaired properly. It was a common issue with the Radeon graphics cards being defective. They went down their typical deny for eternity route, law suit, and finally offer to replace the parts well after the units were obsolete.

Apple screwed me. My 2007 Macbook Pro died due to issues with the nVidia graphics chip desoldering itself. Again they went down the deny forever route, another law suit, and finally they quietly posted a recall notice on their web site that I missed the deadline on by a few days.
It might have been 20 years ago, or even 10, but today there are a lot of popular roguelikes which are still challenging but have fewer unavoidable deaths and less reliance on spoilers. Dungeon Crawl is a good example, but there are a lot of roguelikes even gentler than that.
I have to fully agree. The language-processing part is really simple (partly due to the really cool markovify library [1])

You may also like my older project [2] even though it is partly in German. I'm using Markov Chains for the titles and some custom regex-based language processing for the descriptions.

[1] https://github.com/jsvine/markovify/

[2] https://nonsense.lw1.at/
Scientists cut it open and count the spider rings.
Exactly, I tried to keep the themes of the single sites visible.
Unfortunatly the colors from the API are quite ugly and don't represent the sites properly, so I did some manual collecting:

https://github.com/Findus23/se-simulator/blob/master/extra_d...
Apple's hardware is largely a combination of other companies products. So if you want the schematics for your CPU, GPU, RAM, Display etc ask Intel, Nvidia/AMD, SanDisk, LG.

If you want upgradeable hardware then buy the Mac Pro since it was the model designed for that purpose. Otherwise you need to understand that upgradeability comes at the expense of thickness and weight since those clips/sockets take up valuable space. And people that want upgradeability simply aren't Apple's market. Go buy something else instead.
Yes — won once, and died another time on the Plane of Fire. (I meant to zap down, not at myself! Damn. Learned to think before acting. NetHack is not as real-time as it feels when you're in a sticky situation.)
I had many enlightenments from burning man and I hope to have many more; the participants are worthy successors once they pick up the dance, and so I think the event will go on.

One of my favorite memories is an early night at my first burn, there was a man on a stool with a walkie-talkie checking ID to enter the base of The Man.

I didn’t have my ID on me, but I patiently lined up with everyone else, planning on explaining that I only wanted to see the inside with my friends and wasn’t planning on drinking tonight at all.

Before reaching the man on the stool, someone in front of us made a break for it past him. He barked angrily at the guy, grabbing at him and shouting into his handset.

When it came to me, at this point I thought my chances were slim and I would have to sit this attraction out without an ID. I explained my situation to him anyways.

I will never forgot his reply: “I am just fucking with you all” he said, a twinkle in his eye. Indeed, there was only an air of official-ness around his outfit and stool, he had no real authority. We all just accepted a queue for ID checks voluntarily.

I walked past and learned more about society from that one prank than I had from any textbook or class since. And that is just one experience.

I hope to carry that on that tradition. There is a real magic in culture, and I am thankful that Larry stumbled upon it and decided to share. Thank you, and thanks to everyone who keeps it going!
I have worked in a startup which failed, pivoted and now is a billion dollar company.

My main rule of thumb is that if your current problem statement is failing then become bigger, in the sense take up a problem that has even more market demand than the current problem and then add features to your existing solution to solve for the bigger problem. The chances of you landing a customer increases this way.

You have targeted B2B sales-shows think of targeting B2C+B2B shows now. Can your product solve for handling sales shows where consumers go?

Expanding is the key, usually companies contract further and fail, when you expand the chance of getting a customer increases.
Is it “reading their thoughts” if they’re openly communicating them? Would you consider it cheating if someone wrote down their ideas on paper during a game and didn’t stop you from reading the paper?
NetHack's learndb (Rodney) isn't quite as vital as Crawl's, mostly because NetHack is more spoiler-reliant and (as a result) has a much more detailed and accurate wiki, as well as other sources of spoilers.
Democracy isn't about getting the best policy each and every time, its primary value lies in the fact that it creates framework that facilitates the peaceful transition of power and avoids the otherwise frequent wars of succession, purges, coups and whatnot.
The truth about Apple's engineering. [video]
Why stay in LA if it sucks that much there? With no support network you're free. And why not cut expenses significantly? No family to support means you can get a flat mate and learn to cook.

Anyway bud sorry if I sound critical just trying to help but you didn't provide too much info on your skill set and reasons for so little sleep, salary etc.

Good luck would be happy to chat if you'd like.
Highlevel features I can think of

From a seller perspective

- contact management
- emailing and reminders
- text message nudges for customers
- showing analytics of previous events
- managing previous customers
- feedback from previous customers
The opening chapter of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian has a story like that except a bit more intense.

Indeed, when you realize how much of human experience runs on autopilot and you try to consciously evolve past that, you can feel manic and begin to feel like anything is possible.
Here is a nice example, how US is handling nature preservation:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yellowstone-national-park-grizz...
In the era of optical media and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, N64 was still using cartriges. They were expensive and offered little space, so a non-trivial amount of hackery was needed to even squeeze a soundtrack there. In fact, all N64 development was arcane magic due to this.
Not necessarily. The compiler would become larger, but the VM would not. (I'm assuming that the VM can be decoupled from the compiler like Lua for restricted environments).

Statically-typed 'scripting' is a very interesting niche - e.g Lily. Not to underestimate the amount of thinking needed to devise a type system which is sufficiently powerful to be (a) correct (for some value of 'correct') and (b) as expressive as dynamic typing.
Gotcha! I’ll update the copy to make that a bit clearer.
Like a good arms dealer: selling weapons to both sides. :-)
We ensure each instance has ample storage (min 50GB), internet speeds, and hardware specs such that the GPU is the bottleneck! If a user isn’t satisfied with an instance, then there’s no charge whatsoever :)
I heard that Earn was actually making a lot of revenue at the time of acquisition. This guy posted a shot of his Earn inbox:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYy--NiWkAA_E1U.jpg:large

They are kinda spammy looking, but then again that's a lot of paid emails, and you are getting paid to read that spam. You can count $15.50 in that screenshot alone. Multiplied across a userbase somewhere between 100k-1M (based on the quoted numbers of "hundreds of thousands of users") and assuming that most of those emails came within 1-2 months time, that's $90-180 per user x 100k-1M users. On the low end that is $9 million per year in total paid email volume. On the high end it is in the tens of millions per year.

There aren't too many public numbers beyond "hundreds of thousands of users" and "millions in revenue". We have to see what Coinbase does with the Earn.com product and where it is in a year before judging this acquisition.
I haven't actually read the article, just thought you'd be interested in Mariana Mazzucato's discussion of Apple in The Entrepreneurial State "which argues that the United States' economic success is a result of public and state funded investments in innovation and technology, rather than a result of the small state, free market doctrine that often receives credit for the country's strong economy."

I just think it's crazy how much public subsidy went into creating Apple, and yet they're still seeking tax havens like Ireland

socialize the losses, privatize the profits i guess
I'm not sure how this reminds you of the eel, but cool video. Thanks for sharing.

I especially like that the eel recognised her after 3 years.
Carmine: food colouring made from crushed insects
Just read a pretty interesting paper on just this recently - we actually load/unload the drivers for every instance, which in turn also wipes the GPU’s memory. There’s a tool I wrote to test just this, albeit I haven’t uploaded it to GitHub yet. Might do that sometime this weekend.
I was going to comment on "wisdom of the crowd" and "cathedral and bazaar" but then this little thing pretty much invalidates the whole thing.
Time is your most valuable resource - always pay attention where you spend it and with whom.

Optimize for the long haul, never take shortcuts.

Your goal is to keep mind, body and soul in balance - everything else will work itself out and not worth worrying about.

I'm 39 and plan for a life span of at least 130 but try to live every day like I'm going to die tomorrow - context matters and helps bring perspective.

[edited last paragraph for clarity]
> If you care about this, then put the laptop in a tamper-evident bag.

How does this procedure work for multiday evil maid situations? The first day while you're out the maid replaces your collection of plastic disposable tamper-evident bags with faulty ones that open with a particular chemical but otherwise look identical. The second day the maid tampers with your laptop and you don't notice. Do you just have to take the whole box of additional bags with you everyday? That seems prohibitively inconvenient.
As someone who worked as a CTO at what I like to call a "zombie" startup I agree with the poster above me, and it hurts just to recollect the history. You can keep this shit up indefinitely. We're in a weird environment where, with enough endurance, a startup, even one with a miserable high touch sales cycle and poor business model, can live month to month like some sort of crime family looking for the next big score.

If you go this route you'll score a contract or two, and you'll think you're growing. You'll hire on a brilliant employee and then fire them a few months later when the money dries up. Your heart will break. Your workload will increase.

You'll start leaning on contractors because FTEs need consistent revenue, and your shit investors insist on offshore labour because they don't know any better. Contractors suck and their code sucks unless supervised, so you'll decide to do it yourself. Your investors will get unhappy and your partner will find another naive low tier investor to buy them out and start the cycle over. Your share in the company will drop each time you do this.

Your counterpart will spend 1/3rd of their time appeasing the investors and the other 2/3rds attempting to be a top shelf B2B sales exec / account manager which they are not. They will get absolutely abused in the sales cycle and concede to shit they shouldn't. You will continue to burn the candle at both ends like a good technical leader in a crisis and then burn out, believing the entire time that technical superiority alone will win the day.

I'm painting a really bleak picture here, but only because I got out after three years of this when I finally realized the nature of the endless cycle of a cockroach startup. The company I worked for is still going, against all odds. Fuck maybe they go forever. I know people who still work there, and from all accounts it's an endless groundhog day of zero growth and pain.

Don't be that startup, if the business model is in peril this early on don't extend the pain, just pull the ripcord and, above all else, try to learn from the experience.
Sci-hub makes it too easy now!
> How to brute force against quantum computer

> This may or may not be a major flaw with your function F is for the second bytes of randomness, this requires access to the algorithm.

> Okamoto-Tanaka Revisited: Fully Authenticated Diffie-Hellman with Schnorr signatures and KCDSA are two obvious caveats to this question is off-topic...

https://se-simulator.lw1.at/q/how-to-brute-force-against-qua...
> I know a lot of people who own Apple devices and a lot of them had problems. But no own ever said that “Apple screwed” them.

That's the point he makes in this video. People pay $2k+ and still have to pay for repairs of greatly designed and poorly engineered products. Seriously, that's a commonly known practice called rip-off. I simply cannot understand people's minds defending Apple's engineering. It's an incomprehensible cognitive dissonance.

Apple designs great products, sure, why not. But when engineering decisions have to take a seat behind design decisions? The fanboys see just the great product and irrationally defend any criticism on bad engineering. Sorry, that's just silly.
We just launched Vectordash! (http://vectordash.com) Someone mentioned us earlier too - the fundamental idea behind it is that gradient descent should not be expensive and compute costs should never be the limiting factor in deep learning. Our GPU instances cost 5x less than AWS because we want everyone to be able to make progress in deep learning regardless of their budget.
Isn't "no product market fit" and "zero utility" pretty much the same thing for a startup? OK, there are things that have some utility for some people but (almost) nobody is willing to pay for that, but for a startup, that's as good as zero utility, if there's no market, then the thing is worthless.
This is why i am wondering: why are the very early stage investors giving money in bulk vs feeding the startup some amount every week as long as they all agree it makes sense to keep going?
The HN mod should penalize those who says "this is cute" type of shit as much as they penalize heavy trolling. Actually "cute" is much worse than straightforward trolling, it's passive aggressive in the most pathetic way.
PLock is a simple and efficient cross-process lock
Many diabetics are born that way. Shall we ban sugar? Alcoholism is a disease, not a crime.
The current “Tash Can” Mac Pro is not really upgradable. It has proprietary GPU and SSD interfaces and no other PCI slots.

You might be able to purchase a replacement SSD for someone like OWC or upgrade to the higher spec Apple sourced GPU if you bought a low end model but Apple is not expecting you to do this.

You can update the RAM or use external thunderbolt peripherals but that’s a long way from the older “cheese grater” Mac Pro.

If I was to guess I would say that this deliberate removal of upgrade path is actually about design for reliability.

If you remove the upgrades you remove the chance of static damage or use of faulty parts. Also the case is easier to manufacture and more robust because it’s less complex.

I think that’s the real reason the SSD is now soldered in the current MacBook Pro but it’s just a guess.
Probably the best song downloader?
The Apple II was the Woz Apple. Woz basically has to threaten to walk out, and leave the company without a products, to get Jobs to allow the Apple II to have expansion ports.

The Mac etc is what Jobs wanted. A sealed beige box that only did what Jobs envisioned it to do (produce a GUI and look good).

And yet variants of the Apple II kept outselling the Mac all the way until the II was unceremoniously dropped.