skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This immediately comes into my mind when I see the charts.

It is also interesting to see that only one Node process can barely serve 10k connections.

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After I check the source at [0]. They use a simple http module to serve the requests while they use `http.ListenAndServe` which spawns go routines, hence more CPU utilization.

[0] https://gitlab.com/stressgrid/dummies
I think the non-blockable ads is a big one. In my browser Facebook has no ads, the app on my phone is full of them.
I read through that whole discussion the other day and thought this was the best comment:

Is a browser something fundamentally under the user's control, or is it something fundamentally under the corporate entity's control?

Asked in a poignant way, is Chrome my agent, or is it really just an agent of Google?

By directing my browser to someone's website, am I necessarily giving up all permission to a (well-placed) cabal to take over my computer and do with it as they collectively wish? After all, detecting of ad blockers or objectionable behaviors done via extensions remains perfectly feasible: if you don't want to show me your content under my configured extension regime, you aren't forced to.
A Letter to Steven Pinker and Bill Gates about Global Poverty
I live a couple hours drive from where this scat was collected; the local wildlife centre here has a box full of plastic "usually considered disposable items" that came out of an albatross stomach on display. It's absolutely gross, you can start being concerned now please.
The Blind Watchmaker, also by Dawkins, is the book that really undermined the necessity of a Creator to explain the complexity of life.
It's actually a great example of a user-unfriendly UI. Most people still don't know what it means. PC does not stand for Personal Computer.

The error message comprises three parts. "PC" is an abbreviation for "paper cassette", the tray which holds blank paper for the printer to use. These two-character codes are a legacy feature carried over from the first LaserJet printers, which could only use a two-character display for all printer status and error messages. "Load", in this context, is an instruction to refill the paper tray. "Letter" is the standard paper size (8.5 × 11 in.) used in the United States and Canada. Thus, the error is instructing the user to refill the paper tray with letter-sized paper. Variants are "PC LOAD LEGAL", meaning that the printer needs more legal size (8.5 × 14 in.) paper, and "MP LOAD [paper size]" meaning the printer needs paper in the "MP" (multi-purpose) tray, and "[paper size]" is the name of the size of paper specified for the print job.
I don’t know about you but I certainly couldn’t get almost anything I needed, living in bum fuck nowhere, the same day I ordered it in 2001.

If we define online commerce as its 2019 current incarnation, I’d argue that in 2001 it wasn’t a thing.
True story. I know a company that did a major layoff in by showing office space. As the movie progressed, HR walked around and tapped people on the shoulder. If you were still there for the end of the movie, you were still there...
Nassim is really a great thinker. His latest book "Skin in the game" probably is underestimated by the public. It's relevant to quite a lot of current events happening that have a huge impact on modern society.
I was thinking 10 or 20 active servers, looks like they have a bit more than that now.

You can see that most of the servers are deployed in pairs, the minimum to have any redundancy, so they are nowhere near capacity.

Another blog post stated that the servers rarely go above a few percents of usage, they are very powerful, often close to the highest specs available.

I will stand by my statement. It should be largely possible for reddit to serve 2 orders of magnitude more traffic than stack overflow with 1 order of magnitude its hardware. We're talking a couple of racks times ten.
Why don’t you apply to YC with the idea?
That was supposed to take place generations in the future.
Canada pays the same benefits as unemployment insurance would for maternity leave.
Notice there are no open plan offices in the movie.
Yeah it would be amazing if people could understand that there are big trade-offs with every socialistic policy.

U.S. GDP per capita [1] (2018): $65,060
Germany GDP per capita [1] (2018): $49,690

The U.S. earns 22% more per capita than Germany.

Imagine if the U.S. implemented policies such that our economy slowed to Germany's per capita rate. At our current GDP of $20.66 trillion, it would wipe over $4 trillion from our GDP. Seeing as the U.S. is the biggest marketplace in the world (in terms of dollars), it would have trickle down effects that would dramatically depress the world economy.

[1]: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPDPC@WEO/USA/DEU/...
I don’t know. Is it?
The idea of "Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts" reminds me of this TED Talk:

"If you ever struggle to make decisions, here's a talk for you. Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths shows how we can apply the logic of computers to untangle tricky human problems, sharing three practical strategies for making better decisions -- on everything from finding a home to choosing which restaurant to go to tonight."

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_griffiths_3_ways_to_make_bette...
Hey it was found by a co-worker. Here's the original article we published: https://niwa.co.nz/news/they-were-defrosting-leopard-seal-po...

Lots of funny tweets about it too: https://mobile.twitter.com/niwa_nz/status/109261054140158771...

Finally, hijacking the thread, but we also have a Python Open Source tool if you are into weather forecast, workflow, schedulers, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19081972
This doesn't sound like a very good example. Fn inherits FnMut inherits FnOnce, so a library should just ask for the freest one it can support. Usually that just falls out of the meaning of the function. For example, a callback should only be called once, so you ask for an FnOnce, or maybe some function will be called in parallel, so you ask for an Fn. And with Rc, RefCell, Arc, etc. a dynamic approach is also pretty well-supported.
What Does “Pay for Use” Micro-Blogging Look Like?
Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work
It may be putting it a bit strongly, but biblical references and allusions permeate the Western canon and Western culture pretty thoroughly. For the last 500 years it was the only book that nearly everyone had read. Before that it was for over a thousand years the only book everyone knew at least some of.

Few books have ever had such penetration of a culture. The Koran, the Analects, the Pali Canon are perhaps the only meaningful comparisons.
Now he can almost afford to rent a 3 bedroom house in Los Altos Hills or Atherton... (Just kidding, there are no 3 bedroom houses for rent in either place.)
Most leave laws don't apply to a company as small as three people. So this is just a hypothetical situation that is so absurd that it would never happen.
> Besides, you can ban credit card number of abusers. It's easy to create an email, it's harder to get a new credit card.

Several CC issuers offer virtual card numbers for online purchases you can generate many #s with one card easily
It provides opportunties for others to grow as well. Getting a temp role as cfo can open doors.
Tim O'Reilly on the fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s growth strategy
cf. Stallman's essay / short story from 1997: The Right to Read [1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Ask HN: What is the minimum yearly income to live in your twenties?
I'm a graduate student, and was running some calculations to see what kind of income I need to not worry about basic quality of life, and it came down to around 30k:

12k for rent
3k for food
5k for health insurance
1k for clothes
3k for transport(no car)
6 or so as a rainy day savings/frugal liesure
It does seem like one could make a plausible case that Office Space has had the biggest impact on real world life of any movie of all time. Just skimming down the list, it doesn't look like there's anything on the AFI or BFI top 100 even comes close. Maybe 12 angry men has had a real influence on juries in some unseen way, or maybe The Social Network has also had a big influence on what careers people choose, but there's nothing that immediately seems super obvious as surpassing it.
Just need to click "Next" when there is an email prompt, still available but an hard to avoid dark pattern
Free AppleCare would be awesome, but in the case of the iPhone Upgrade Program, it’s rolled into the monthly payments.
I wouldn't say that makes games orthogonal to real world problems. That's what makes them good stepping stones. Risk free "cheap" testing makes for fast research.

I totally agree about the ability to just skirt sample complexity. It's a tough one, made tougher by how early stage this work really is. We want bots to be able to match human ability and match human learning. Though they're put together, they're have very separate concerns.

For matching human ability, we're just beginning to learn techniques to get bots able to master hard tasks (e.g. incomplete information games, atari games, picking objects up). Those bots mostly learn waaaaaay slower than people. But never mastering is worse than slowly mastering, so it's early days.

On the other hand, you have people working on efficient learning. This is the question you're getting at with compute scaling arbitrarily-ish. It's more impressive if it can master a game after only playing it a small number of times. People are definitely working on this too, but for even simpler tasks. There's a lot of work right now in contextual bandits on learning fast, and that's a kind of baby-RL task. Even there, simulation tasks are super important because you really need a counterfactual to say whether you're doing well compared to alternatives.
Recently switched back to Firefox after a ~4 year stint with Chrome. Was previously almost exclusively Firefox but eventually surrendered to the tide, not to mention FF wasn't in great shape at the time. Have been super happy switching back. FF + TreeStyleTabs (reunited with it finally) + AutoTabDiscard + Multi-Account Containers has made me a very happy camper.
If the term toxic masculinity is sexist, then masculinity, itself, is equally sexist.
Doing more with less number of people is the definition of progress. A business is not a jobs welfare scheme.
Forgive my ignorance, I may not understand what the problem is, but I was under the impression there are numerous browsers, chrome, firefox, brave, etc

Why does the world need another one?
> The CEO’s compensation is set by the board of directors using public consultants and comparable.

This may be true, but the Lake Wobegon effect is strong here, few companies want to hire a below-average CEO, and few companies want to offer a below-average CEO compensation package, so they just spiral up and up and up.
> The term toxic masculinity is itself sexist

No, it's not.
Agreed; the others are nice and all, but nothing beats the Time Masheen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3dhSnEtdWw
Somehow, I just assumed that it was completely standard to quickly crush the brain with pliers. If not doing that, maybe you'd chop off the head. This keeps the fish from lashing about with sharp spines that might get you with poison or pierce a raft.
Patreon is about to eat itself
Anyone know the background here?
This previous thread has some pretty good discussion and critiquing of Idiocracy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18488520
> "Instead of personality-stripping cubicles, organisations would go on to favour open-air office plans..."

Absolutely nothing fundamental has changed. I feel like if "Office Space" were being re-made today, open floor plans would be one of the horrors that it would lampoon.

Not so much the open floor plans themselves, mind you. But rather the surreal absurdism of which they're just an example. Twenty years ago, we understood that "Hawaiian Shirt Day" was superficially supposed to be a morale booster, but was actually a morale sink in practice. Today, open floor plans were initially pitched as "collaboration" aids, but most people have to come to realize that they're really about cost savings, and are counter-productive to actually getting focused work done.

Most white collar humor comes from shining a cynical spotlight on the disconnect between what business leaders say, and what business workers actually experience. And the Kafkaesque situation of most people feeling this way, yet us not being able to openly say so in the workplace itself.

The superficial examples may change, but that underlying theme is still central to white collar office work. Perhaps it always will be.
Same. Almost every time I see a can the phrase 'best shim stock in the world' jumps into my brain!
You should be able to download a toolchain from here for your version of Ubuntu and have it work: https://swift.org/download/
Is an outcome not the other side of the decision-making coin? I understand that the outcome should not carry all the weight, but it surely often carries a lot of the weight of a particular decision. That is, how does one get good at making decisions? By seeing positive results flow from them.
I don't think this is embarrassing at all. After the initial purge, I couldn't believe how much it changed my purchasing habits. I now have a very simple rubric that prevents me from buying things I don't need. Tidying Up reads as a sort of mild self-help manual but it conceals a powerful anti-consumerist undertow (speaking as an American, anyway)
I’m aware of that but did you notice where I mentioned iOS and linked to https://caniuse.com/#feat=hevc at the bottom? That was why I mentioned the lack of a common option beyond MPEG-4 — iOS has H.265 support in hardware so if you want a newer codec that’s your only option for a fairly large group of people, especially in the United States, and it’s where battery life matters a great deal.

https://www.scientiamobile.com/growing-support-of-hevc-or-h-... has it at 80% of iOS and 60% of Android, which is a LOT better than 0% for AV1, and might even allow only doing 2 formats if enough of the devices with WebM also support HEVC.
You say rigid, I say professional.
Where Big Leaps Happen
Crypto CEO Dies Holding Passwords That Can Unlock Millions in Customer Coins
On the list of "cool things also happen to employ Z3", definitely check out MS Dafny programming language: https://github.com/Microsoft/dafny
wtf. downvoted?
Performance wise?
It’s because the IRS has a $1 million limit on executive pay for tax deduction purposes. So all this stuff just helps get around that.
I think it can be morally wrong for a wolf to eat a chicken. I don't expect good morals from a wolf, so I'm not surprised if a wolf eats a chicken, but normally the wolf doesn't own the chicken. The chicken belongs to somebody else. Granted, it is rather difficult for a wolf to purchase chicken, but theft is still wrong.
im sorry i love these threads and all the people contributing but this book is overrated. Please explain to me what is so great and life changing about this book.
So weird (but welcome) to see the ugly mundane details of the journalism industry on HN. I used to work at a McClatchy paper long ago but I have trouble mustering outrage about its CEO because the excesses of other companies seem far more egregious. The Tribune Company/Tronc (which owned the Chicago Trib, the LAT until recently, and the Baltimore Sun, which caused David Simon to ragequit journalism) was by far the most scandalous IMO [A]. The previous McClatchy CEO (who was there when I was there) made several million a year, despite being the CEO responsible for making the deals that absolutely eviscerated McClatchy with debt [0].

The standard line is that without good pay packages, a news company would have no chance of attracting competent executives to helm the sinking ship. But what was most frustrating to me at the time was the inescapable cynical belief that not only would the CEOs fail to right the ship, but that they had no real skin in the game and would just move on to the next high-paying job once the time was right. The fantasy that a news CEO would sacrifice his salary to save some vital newsroom jobs, or fund a company-saving initiative, and join us in the trenches and fight till the bitter end to save the company or at least go down with the ship was never even a remotely believable fantasy.

Equally frustrating is there is also no possibility that the company could be saved by hardworking diligent faithful employees. The investigative stories of journalistic lore are virtually always loss-leaders. In recent years, winners of the Pulitzer had already left for other industries by the time they got their medals. Roger Ebert’s brand and special site would not have been enough to save the Sun-Times (even if he hadn’t died). Adrian Holovaty created Django while working at the Lawrence Journal World; Django is the backbone for tech companies as big as Instagram, but the LJW switched last year to WordPress [2], having lost the resources to innovate on or maintain its Django backend.

[A] https://splinternews.com/tronc-executives-rewarded-for-incom...

[0] https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/the_aps_weak_coverage_of_...

[1] https://apnews.com/dc312a7e503f4b7bb61a62013fea852d

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/8v0fpb/the_lawrence...
To nitpick: Apple Watch supports Force Touch, not 3D Touch :)
That is indeed a powerful mechanism -- but it still sucks to be a beetle, especially if you're not on a dominant branch of your family tree.

Imagine you had the job of recruiting beetles. You'll die soon, and your offspring (if you have any) probably will, too! What's the upside? Your species will be stronger for your death! That's a pretty tough sell. You're going to get the young and ambitious, and they're going to fight each other as much as they possibly can.

That's not the only way to win, or even the best. Pine trees are genetically successful, too, and they don't go out and murder each other.

I wouldn't complain that there are too many kinds of beetles, but I would complain that there are very few trees. It would be sad if beetles were the highest form of life on the planet.
Hey, why aren't you wearing your Hawaiian shirt, dude?
wat

I'm trying to interpret your stance in the most favorable possible manner, but... dude. If you think hobbyist websites are increasingly burdensome to set up, you haven't been paying any attention at all.
Why don’t these two statements and the resulting effect apply to workers other than the CEO though?
This book was incredible, I did not know this powerful concept of "systems that get stronger through use" existed before reading this book.
Funny story: I had just started working at a SV-based startup with mandatory surfing lessons and a fivefinger-wearing transhumanist CEO when Silicon Valley started.

Watching it was very painful, to say the least. Having to go through it is one thing, having your nose rubbed in it another.
Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard
Parental leave as currently implemented in European countries incentivize having children later in life which is happening resulting in less children overall.
There is absolutely no reason employers should be burdened by parental leave. If we as a society decide we want to support parents let's collect enough taxes and have the government pay. If the support is independent of your job status and salary it will remove twisted incentive to wait till your 30s do have children (which is the case when benefits are based on your current salary).
Sure, but since it's smaller it would be far more "chunky".
This happens because the IRS has a $1 million limit on executive salaries for tax deduction purposes. All these other forms of payments just help get around that.
Only because it was made before open plan offices were really a thing.
How do you handle regular old HTTPS?
You don't need to disprove measures that nobody has proved in the first place. Much as the burden of proof lies with the prosecution the burden of proof lies with those who assert they have the wherewithal to prove the defendants guilt.

This assertion is entirely inline with proper scientific thinking.
I'm a woman, and this raises another point. People get really, really weird about this. Especially if you try to talk about it.

Also, women aren't just a target demographic. We're 50.5% of the population. And that's kinda the point. This isn't just inside baseball --- it's literally half of all humanity!
> I am sure I was not the first to think it was related to Konrad Zuse's Z3.

The Zuse Z3 is literally the only thing I know of which hooks up with the abbreviation "Z3" in the context of computers.
Surprised not to have seen it elsewhere, but I remember telling my mom that we began studying astronomy in grade school (5th or 6th?) and she gave me Cosmos by Carl Sagan. I didn't know there was a TV series for it at the time, where reading it truly blew my mind that there were other galaxies and stellar objects beyond the Milky Way, and how happenstance humanity's origin story began. It also provided a great foundation for understanding what future missions would explore: finding habitibility zones outside of the earth, probes zooming to the edges of our galaxy, radio telescopes designed to listen for signals from far away, and space telescopes expanding our map of the cosmos just to name a few.
Your last line applies to me too.

Isn’t one of the touted strengths of Clojure that if you want to do something your way, you can make a library, and you don’t have to wait for or rely on the core language maintainers to accept it as canon?

So whether or not your proposal makes it into core, you can still put it out there and people can still make use of it if they find it useful. Specter looks like a good example of this.
Executive orders can’t change law or allocate money though. Both of those responsibilities reside with congress.
There was an implicit "in the United States" in that comment, sorry if I didn't make it clear. I'm aware that there are better parental leave policies in other countries.