skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the talk about the launch helps highlight that 95 was worthy of a launch, it was actual innovation and they threw it a party. However, I also agree that the initial focus on it is a bit unbalanced with what I consider the main argument later.
TSPN1: Oppo A3 Specifications, and Features
The Chicago build of Windows 95 was one of the most stable OSes I've ever encountered. I had a machine that ran it 24/7 with zero issues into the early 2000s until the power supply fried.
Thank you! There is no substitute for actual knowledge.
Ha. Can't believe someone mentioned Barcelona. Went to London and a few other European cities and my cheapo-wrist compass made it so easy to navigate.

Then we reached Barcelona, where every damn road is at a 45 degree angle! Argh. It's not trivial -- at least when you've had several sangrias -- to stand at an intersection, facing NE, and then try to figure out whether to turn left or right to go SE. (Yes, yes... In sure someone here will reply as to how simple it all is... But, keep in mind the sangrias...)
I’m sure their engineers (if they still have any - I haven’t seen any innovation from Twitter in a long time) are more than capable of fixing this if management lets them.

Hiring more engineers isn’t going to solve it. Management and product is where the real problem is IMO.
While repetitive, these stories serve as a useful reminder that Twitter management is still just as incompetent as ever, and no one should rely on their service for anything important.
> # There is no 2016 IOCCC contest
> # There is no 2017 IOCCC contest

Anybody know why?
Automatically flag any account making a reply with the same name or same picture. It's incredibly simple yet they don't do it.
On the other hand, this enables one to reliably grade the recycled chips. For example, you could use grade A for low cost servers, grade B for consumer computers, grade C for phones and tablets, etc. Before this, you'd have no indication of how much a chip has been used and maybe would be more reluctant to reuse it.
Ask HN: Developers, what makes a great Technical Project Manager?
I'll be starting a new position as a TPM soon. What are some of the qualities of a great project manager, from a developer's perspective? I've heard varying accounts of a TPM's role, ranging from "totally useless" all the way to "I have tremendous respect for good PMs." I'd of course like to occupy the latter end of that spectrum.

Thanks!
Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode
I think you are confusing it with this bench https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jamacia-pond-bench
That's strange, as that was not my experience not long ago. I'm thinking there was some miscommunication about the rebate with your family.

I received my rebate after I had let my membership lapse without any issue. You can use the rebate even without an active membership. You can even walk up to the customer service counter and get your rebate amount in cash if you want. I ended up getting pizza and took the rest as cash back.
Learning from experience is pretty cool. Learning from other people's experiences is better.
> Since the government at the time did pay off the national debt

There was a brief period in the early half of the 19th Century where it paid off the debt, but the
it ramped up beforen the secession crisis, went sky high during the civil war, and was never paid off after that, so, no, in net budgets weren't balanced in the Revolution to WWI period.

Also, other problem with your scenario is that the US didn't start as a subsistence farming economy (which would have made it near worthless as a set of colonies.)
> Whoever designed how this system is supposed to work (as in, allow the spam to remain) is still an idiot in my view

Why? If you don't know what the goal is, how can you judge the results? Just because you don't care for the result doesn't make the person who designed the system an idiot. It makes you an idiot for continuing to use a system you hate.
And if you sold a book in bitcoin and bought something with it there must have be some value transfer.
> These devices are no longer used for power or punishment, and the term "treadmill" has come to mean an exercise machine for running or walking in place.

Weird, they still feel like industrial age torture devices ^_^
Twitter is depressing now. I mean It is desperate and wholly unsatisfying. - I get the funny stuff from Reddit and my breaking news from the New York Times so other than that it is just like finding a dead baby bird on the side walk. That is the way I feel when I open twitter.com
I agree with you, primarily because this was a decision made by the individual himself. Unlike a monkey shot off into space 40 years ago, this guy presumably understood the risk to the endeavor.

And it's "losses" :)
The trailer for the Netflix Barack Obama movie "Barry" is showing the description and cover art for the HBO tv show "Barry".
not sure, in western Europe I take the bullet train even when the airplane is cheaper, because it's faster and more convenient. But of course the bullet train is generally only slightly more expensive, if we were talking 20x price difference, I might learn patience.

A second aspect of speed versus price, is that in airplane travel a lot of time is spent accessing the airports, going through security, waiting in the departure queue, etc. Offsetting those 3-5h with a faster travel time might prove challenging.
In the UK I think it is common to think about the longest plane trip as flying to Australia, it is after all a trip to the other side of the world.

Concorde did London-Sydney in around 17 hours due to the refueling stops[0].

The new Dreamliner direct route will do London to Perth in about the same time, sub-sonic but no stops[1]. I wonder if mentally that will feel to people like it is equivalent...when in reality there is another 2000 miles (a 4 hour flight) to go. I suppose many people will do a stopover in Perth and travel the next day, a stopover int he same country being that much easier of course.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Records
[1]: https://dreamliner.qantas.com/article/qantas-to-fly-non-stop...
Some reason I don't think free web and google should be in same clause.

They are like any other corporation who steal, spy, sell your privacy data and restrict you to use they silly sandboxes
"Max depth" is kind of a nebulous concept though. There's the "test depth" which is as deep as they're willing to test the submarine. There's the maximum operational depth, which is some lesser depth that keeps a safety margin over the test depth. Then there's the "crush depth", which is the depth at which the submarine will actually fail, and is hopefully substantially deeper than the test depth.
One thing that I think most people don't consider often is that making things more usable isn't always good. Medium and message are interlinked. If everyone in the world switched to mobile, it would change the content of the articles we read and it would change the discussion of those articles. When you make something more usable on a different platform, you're encouraging the biases that the platform compels. In the case of mobile this means encouraging shallower content and briefer discussions, among other things.
Another casualty of betting business on someone else's platform.

USE someone else's platforms for what they're good at - gather leads and connections and steering them to the platform you own.

OWN your data.
I've worked for a number of internet companies (including half of FANG), and to be honest, if they wanted to clean up a lot of this stuff by having one or two data scientists tackling low-hanging fruit it would go a long way.

Typically it doesn't happen because it's more profitable to use data scientists to sell more ads.
It's, uh, a reference to "new car smell" -- the combination of fragrance and volatile outgassing from new plastics that only lasts for a few months after manufacture. Even if you missed the social reference you got the idea: "new hard drive smell" is surely a physically similar effect.
Hey Joshua, thanks so much for the criticism. I do see your point towards epsilon greedy vs. regret minimization. I will add a section about that before presenting UCB1. I also will add more information in the epsilon-greedy strategy section, elaborating on what the epsilon is really for. I'm not 100% sure how to reframe the nonstationary reward situation, because I feel like that adds state dependent on t to the bandit scenario, which then feels more like MDP.
all youtube domains are whitelisted, and there's no way to remove. only add. summary is very relevant still.
I see. Do you (anecdotaly, in your opinion) rule out that people are more concerned about ticks these days, so they are checking more carefully and/or often?
Scientists have never observed so little ice in the Bering Sea in spring
until the power supply fried

Interesting. Re stability, people bitched Windows 95 a lot, but I only encountered serious issues when 98 came out. XP was very stable... but don't get me started on Windows ME.
Embark (YC W16) Is Hiring a Software Engineer. Come Build Autonomous Semi Trucks
Send him the link below if you really want to blow his mind. 100 pages of discussion between pilots, designers, aerodynamicists, FAs, etc.

CliveL was my favorite.

https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.htm...
Exactly — I'm not a cruise ship kind of guy, but for some reason an airship makes the difference. I'd love to fly low over the møøse . . .
It's worth noting that Crown Prosecutors are appointed, not elected as District Attornies are in America. Far less politics, pandering and electioneering which, anecdotally, leads to less vindicative prosecution.
Or the existing system works as designed but your suggestion of a "simple spam flagging system that could be written by one engineer" is not a sufficient solution. (And keep in mind that any anti-spam tools will be definitely abused be trolls and other malicious actors to harass innocent users)
I didn't realize all the pieces of the cloud stack that CNCF was working on and how each piece gives you more flexibility to move between cloud providers. Kubernetes and rkt replace servers and orchestration of course but you also have Open Policy Agent and Spire to replace IAM, Envoy and Jaeger replace X-ray, VPC, Security Groups, Rook replaces S3, etc.

It's kind of interesting because Google and Microsoft have opened a new front against Amazon to counter their strategy of locking you in with services. If software from CNCF is good enough to be used in place of these services on each cloud provider then you can nullify AWS's advantage there and Google can lure you in with ML and Microsoft with their enterprise experience.

But I'm not sure these projects can make progress faster than AWS can release and update their fantastic array of services. Kubernetes being the obvious exception (when is EKS GA?!?!)
Yeah, what does the author think Web designers do all day?
It cannot be achieved through reduced consumption. Humans won't allow it. It's technology or bust.
Ah yes, I didn't want the reader to fuss too much about the idea of a preference, since it's really just an analog of un-normalized pi(modulo the exponentiation part). It doesn't have a strict definition nor is it a formal term. I will un-bold it and italicize it instead. Thank you :)
Residency is not research.

You can disagree that they should be entirely different ethical frameworks, but at the moment they are by Federal law.

And the risks might be the same, but the benefits may not be. And beyond that, it's the researcher's burden to show that, not the IRBs to take their word for it.
US companies are going to be aggressive to make sure India doesn't end up like China to them.
The good news there, is that none of those appear to be deer ticks (lyme carriers). If my amateur eye is correct, those are dog ticks.
Asimov's zeroth Law of Robotics:

> A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Causing data loss from a poorly-trained robot's incorrect call is unacceptable. Fix your bits, Twitter.
No, but it can't hurt.
Flipkart is losing to Amazon.in right now. I think that Softbank is smartly offloading a possible loser to Walmart/Google here at close to peak valuation. Maybe Google/Walmart can turn it around though.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/flipkart.com

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/amazon.in
I see you in multiple places on this thread with comments like these. So here's something to consider, Lyme Disease is actually not at all that prevalent in the South. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html

Where it is prevalent, this is standard good advice, advice that we even taught in the BSA 18 years ago in the NE. Lyme is a really nasty thing to get, and not everyone even realizes they were bit, or is symptomatic at first. My case was when I was 15, worked at a camp, got bit, came out before I could notice, no rash. At some point later that summer came down with flu like symptoms, which went away in a standard flu timeframe.

Two months later I had extreme fatigue, I'm talking couldn't stay awake longer than 6 hours. Luckily a blood test confirmed it, but not before it had spread to my spinal fluid, requiring two hospitalizations, over 30 days of IV antibiotics and additional treatment.

So perhaps what works for you down South doesn't work where this is an issue, and hopefully it won't ever be something you or your neighbors need to worry about the way we do.
The “Warren Buffett Archive” CNBC Website
Really useful, thank you! I had saved this post of John Resig's from 10 years ago (!), which also gives some numbers:

https://johnresig.com/blog/programming-book-profits/

(I'm not sure if my expectation is reasonable, but I would have thought that a book the most popular JS framework author would have sold more / made more in profit.)

I know you said you weren't planning to write another book, but I wonder if in retrospect you would have self-published? I feel like the publisher provides a few things:

1) Editing

2) Marketing

3) Writing tools, typesetting, etc.

It seems like you had to take control of #1 yourself to some extent. As for #2, you got unexpected "sponsorships" income, which is very interesting, but it seems like you also had to take control of it yourself.

I was surprised that between the 2 of you, you would only make about $2 per physical book and $1 per e-book for a $40 book. If you end up having to do work in areas #1 and #2, why have the publisher at all? I would have expected them to give you more of a sales bump.

Here are some other posts I saved:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13876514 How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14334845 Why We Are Self-Publishing the Aviary Cookbook

Anyway, thanks for sharing! I am just trying to think of what the publisher adds. The main thing I think would be marketing / sales / distribution. It's better to make a smaller amount on a larger number of copies than a large amount on a small number of copies. But it doesn't feel like it adds up in general, and in this particular case?

EDIT: also http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2007/10/081247.html
Hard Work, No Pay: What's the Point?

(Not trying to be negative, just sharing sources I found. I have read at least one book by Petzold.)
As a counter point, I've always felt that a main thing holding people back was desire & drive. You not having "it" lead to you cultivating a desire and a drive to acquire.

Self motivation > resources
wow, learned about that flag to sort today, thanks. I've been just doing "du -s | sort -n"
I never said I used the system. I deleted my account in 2013 when they started making the platform worse and worse with every “upgrade”.

I loved Twitter and I wish they get their stuff together and make it enjoyable again, but I’m not expecting anything anymore. They’re most likely going to go down the same way Yahoo did.
A similar thing happened to a much bigger, also innocent, account recently:
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-fan-account-flagged-on-twitter-f...
This CNBC website features recordings of every Berkshire shareholder meeting since 1994 with synchronized transcripts
Surprisingly it's one of the suites WINE ran perfectly last time I used it 5 or so years ago. Talking about MSO 2010, of course, not the newer trash.
Not quite "in competition". If I understand the way TV licenses work (or perhaps worked, in the past) in the UK, you didn't have a choice of paying for the BBC if you had a TV at all.

If that has changed, it might lead to the BBC having to face competition now, when it didn't in the past. That might have an effect on the content, which might be (at least part of) what the article is observing...
Anatomy of an ERC: An exhaustive survey
Someone always brings up this inflation argument in these threads, where does it come from? It does not increase the amount of money in circulation. It's just like other forms of income transfers.
Space is only noise that you can see.
I've never felt itching with any of the ticks that've gotten me. A few big ones I just noticed running my hands over my body. The one that gave me Lyme I never saw at all. Luckily I got a big bullseye rash and with antibiotics never had worse than an afternoon fever for a few days.
RBC CEO: Canada faces “Critical competitiveness challenge”
They do own their data; that doesn’t change anything to the problem of Twitter closing their account. They use it as a communication medium; not a storage one.
From what I understand Walmart's supply chain technology is already pretty competitive: https://www.tradegecko.com/blog/incredibly-successful-supply...
AI bugs are the new plausible deniability. You think this is a mess now? Wait till we get robotic AI weapons everywhere.
If Walmart pays a large amount, it is still advantageous to Amazon but does not look like that was the only ploy.

Amazon may have actually tried hard to prevent Walmart gain a foothold in online retail. Flipkart is reported as the largest or 2nd largest online retailer in India, to prevent that volume going to Walmart Amazon may have tried hard and pushed price in the process.
Learning Curves in Linear and Polynomial Regression
The curves of false-acceptance vs false-rejection rates usually overlap, even in their optimum. I do not envy a billion-user-level website like Twitter having to deal with this. Automation is probably still better than trying to do this manually and failing even more? Who knows, though.
I remember having a fair amount of stability issues with Win95 before the USB patch came out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
The title says Walmart beats Amazon in a battle. Then in the article it says:

"Flipkart’s board ultimately decided a deal with Walmart is more likely to win regulatory approval because Amazon is the No. 2 e-commerce operator in India behind Flipkart and its primary competitor. Amazon is out of the running unless Walmart hits unforeseen trouble."

Doesn't sound like a battle to me.
Interesting. That actually makes a lot of sense. I've done a touch more reading, and I actually only just now realized that the "word count" example doesn't count all of the words in a document, but rather all occurrences of each word. That clears a lot of questions up for me.
This might fly in some niche software product, but for anyone who wants to run a permanent software business this is a recipe for disaster.
A potato peeler would usually not have a folding blade, so this, even if true, doesn't actually contradict the grandparent.
You're exposed to pretty serious security vulnerabilities if you're still using a 10-year-old version of WinRAR to unrar/unzip/uncompress files you get from the internet.
I understand that the big problem with FPGA and big data is that the memory bus ends up being the bottleneck anyway. So you're just left with a slow soft processor and a couple microoptimizations on the processing side. How to overcome that?
> the current SV trend of 'automate it, fuck it, who cares?

I think some of the reason this comes about is that it's deprioritized until it's a major problem, and you're already at a large scale, and then the decision is "require human review, even of what appears to be a fraction of the deletions, and get swamped with thousands or tends of thousands of reviews immediately", or "just delete them".

That's not an excuse for the decision, since obviously they could have taken care to address this problem at least minimally much earlier, and there wouldn't be a deluge of work, but I think we all understand whey they weren't keen to do that (even if it's a crap decision for their users).
It was a big deal. The Stones got paid $3 million for the use of Start Me Up in a win95 commercial. https://www.networkworld.com/article/2220097/data-center/wha...
Whenever I hear about dolphins intelligence I remember this article http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/scientists-dolphin...
and a fact from it that the first time dolphins language was heard by a guy under LSD influence. He was so impressed that wrote a book and this way started a myth that dolphins have a language.
I see. Ouch!
Is it only me or does this website (supposed to help me "Find something to watch tonight") mainly gets me trailers of movies that'll get release in weeks or months?
It would take Googlmart 5+ years to play catch up if not longer.

Google's too disorganized and they don't have any supply chain tech built up. Amazon has years of supply chain infrastructure (both software, physical systems and organization) including supply/demand forecasting models and warehouse operational investment (Kiva systems, etc...).

The only differentiation that Google adds to Walmart is:
- Top-talent engineering resources & brand which attracts talent to work on these problems
- Layers of developer tooling and services that remove the "systems at scale" development curve of startups and smaller companies.

Now if Alibaba teamed up with Walmart... (read: acquired).
If aliens were like our whales, for example, there isn't going to be much communication anyway. No civilization, no technology, no dwellings, clothing, artifacts, or any significant culture. No effective strategy to outsmart predators. Aliens mainly devoted to eating, finding a mate, procreating and fooling around.
A lot of perceived stability issues in Windows 95/98 were actually driver issues. Back then, all drivers ran with full privilege and could bring down the entire OS if they had a hiccup. Crashes due to bugs in the graphics driver, sound driver, etc. were really common.
I could run Lotus Notes and Excel at the same time without either crashing, which had been impossible until I’d upgraded the PC.

Yeah, it crashed, but people forget how horribly unstable 3.11 was.
The danger with low-effort topics like this is that they can take over a site (see e.g. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...). At a guess, there've been several hundred submissions like this to HN over the years, and yet this is an approach to business that established companies and startups alike continue to follow. There's no sign that any of this noise is changing the actual business practices at all, and the problem is common enough that the /r/videos subreddit has had a "YouTube Drama" tag for certain videos for quite a while now.

But, okay. It looks like the general opinion is that it would be inappropriate to flag them.
2 - does it have one? It seems that there is a colossal brain drain, and the quality of the engineers staying in India is tremendously diluted by those that pursued engineering purely as a safe career choice
I do miss winnuke. For a brief period, it was a great way to shutdown spammers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
At the time there was still a large proportion of technically literate "power users" and the OS was built with that in mind. Now your use of your computer feels like it is at Microsoft's pleasure, not yours
The most viable long term solution for long-haul air transport will probably be carbon-neutral liquid fuels. For example, in principle it could eventually become possible to genetically engineer algae which pulls CO2 out of the air and produces kerosene.