skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that most of these are small utilities.

I've learned more about posix and the GNU API reading the source code to busybox utilities (which is super easy because they're so somall) than just about anywhere else.
> the "we" cannot be one of the nations that did this before

Why not? The US is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in a war, and we even nuked space in 1962, more or less just to see what happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime . I don't see why that disqualifies either me, or the US government, from criticizing these things.
In order to understand the issues you might have with an application you need to have a decent understanding of its runtime environment. From the hardware on up. The JVM adds a huge new runtime that you need to understand how it works and its possible failure points in order to be able to effectively develop software and diagnose issues. So, IMO, it goes against the basic precept of software engineering. That of taking a problem and breaking it down and simplifying it in order to develop a well understood, maintainable systems. You don't simplify something by adding complexity.
> but give it a few hundred years...

A few hundred years is how long things stay on those orbits.
Native image lazy-loading for the web
There are already many people on Twitch live-coding for fun and profit.
> Esformes made off with at least $37 million for himself from 1998 to 2016, according to prosecutors, using the money to finance a lavish lifestyle of fancy cars and a $360,000 watch.

18 years this went on?? This is what surprised me the most.
Procrastination has destroyed my life.

Three years ago I finally achieved my dream of working from home. I was writing my thesis and believed I could finish my masters in 8 months. I decided to fully focus on it and, afterwards, I would create my long dreamed own software company.

It worked really well for some weeks. I was much more focused than I used to be working in regular offices, with bosses. But soon I started getting distracted with amateur radio, social media, couch and TV and so on.

Then I couldn't concentrate on anything anymore. After almost a year I had finished only half of my thesis. I started to feel desperate because I hadn't even started my company, and my savings were being burned day after day. This contributed to further drops in my productivity and concentration.

I finished my masters 14 months past what I initially imagined. And I eventually had almost no energy left to work on my products. I sporadically had some boosts in productivity and managed to get something done. But I wasn't able to commit to plans anymore. I was always getting stuck. And my money going away.

My life-worth savings are basically depleted now, I have no wife anymore and I feel pretty bad and alone.

Coincidentally, yesterday I started to work on a co-working space. That new atmosphere helped me significantly and I hope it keeps this way for some time at least.

Good to know about Focusmate and alikes. I will definitely try them if my productivity drops again.
> Dna samples should sort of be viewed as banking information.

Actually, because your DNA is yours for life it should be kept far MORE secure than your banking information. You can always change your bank account!

To your other points, this is already being attempted in some countries. Imagine getting a bad "social credit" score because you were born with DNA unfavorable to your government.
Nah, FDIC receives $0 in appropriations from the Federal Government - it's funded by premiums that the banks pay and from earnings on US treasury deposits.
Government could use 5th amendment clause protecting against expropriation. It just establishes that the government has to give compensation to assume control of property, when no charges have been filed against the person or the person's property.

With DNA being part of a human being, it wouldn't make sense for the government to circumvent that amendment with civil forfeiture as it does with non-human property.
> They decomposed the monolith into services and decomposed the organization into two pizza teams. Teams are autonomous, independent, and have ownership. Teams own a service end-to-end.

1 team running 1 or very few services is the right granularity.

Not the 200-engineers monolith neither the 10-microservices-per-employee mess.
That’s accurate. Metric expansion only dominates loosely bound structures on a scale beyond individual galalxies. The yardstick, solar system, and Milky Way are all on scales too small, and are too strongly bound, for metric expansion to have an impact. Galaxy clusters and the space between galaxies however, are impacted.
How I wish these cheap 4G SoC kits could be sourced easily like the ESP8266 or the Raspberry Pi.
I’m referring to the AppleTV Netflix app specifically.
Myself, I was increasingly certain I had an undiagnosed condition for years. My symptoms grew worse and it became apparent that they exceeded the bounds of normality. Doctors brushed off my questions with responses I knew weren’t true. Finally I was diagnosed with celiac disease, which explained why I was so tired after meals (I had thought it was a type ii or iv food allergy, which tests can’t easily detect unlike the type i (anaphylactic). It can make you tired 4-36 hours after ingesting a food). So as of 3-4 years ago I was saying I definitely had some undiagnosed food allergy or problem with eating.
You don't understand. Interviewing at Google is not about recruiting outside talent. It's about making the inside talent feel special when we blow off another qualified candidate.... I was one of those special-feeling interviewers with 32 onsites and zero hires (I recommended 10 by the way). I finally quit that shitshow and left Google.
As someone who has reviewed, debugged and fixed ton of issues in embedded code before, I strongly have to disagree. There are tons of memory issues that can also happen without dynamic allocations. Invalidated pointers to the stack are a prime example. Multithreading issues (on an RTOS) another one.
And forgetting to release resources (e.g. a RTOS mutex lock) is yet another one.
The Nightmare of Human Organ Harvesting in China
Whenever I point out to people there are 4 types of Yoga, and if you believe in the physical type (which has proven scientific benefits) then maybe consider the other types too as those hindu sages might have been onto something. I often get blank faces.

Modern day yoga, hot yoga, goat yoga, christian yoga, are all commercialised forms of what was supposed to be a free entity for ones well being and progress in this life.
> Capitalism itself isn't the problem it's our refusal to change market forces to force companies and individuals to pay for the disposal of the stuff when we no longer have a use for it.

The absence of government intervention in to “change market forces” beyond it's intervention to establish the basic property model that characterizes capitalism is the central feature of capitalism as an economic system. It's true that modern “capitalist” states all intervene in this way to a significant extent, but that's because capitalism in its pure form was abandoned, almost universally, in the early-to-mid-20th century in favor of mixed economies in developed countries. But the philosophy of capitalism is still a potent force, and resists further intervention and motivates rollbacks of existing interventions.
HIPAA is miles away from protecting DNA. GDPR, however, does cover genetic data.
I realize intimately how hard it is to get by in SF and other big cities, so I won’t criticize the renters here, but I have no such hesitation about criticizing the founding team and investors. Turning apartments into tenements could never have turned out well. How does this business scale outside of the core nimby tech cities? And even in those cities, the decentralization of the market is both good and hard to take down. One hopes those responsible are compelled to do so, but one also fears it will just be the renters left twisting.
If the actually observed output were lower than the expected output then those expectations require adjustments. And germany is about as large as california. It also includes offshore wind, which california does not even have.

Maybe your weather is more stable and does not generalize well.
So that the legal advice subreddit is still full of people who want legal advice instead of just people who want to give negative PR to terrible businesses.
Three Men Who Don’t Own a Smartphone
There's certainly a market for the old 'safety' razors as well as straight razors. The 'safety' razors of course require blades, but they still generate less waste than modern cartridge razors. Straight razors require maintenance (keep them dry; strop; sharpen very occasionally), but generate even less waste, and last well (I have one from the late 1700s).
Have you got any stats to back that claim up?

When I tried to get internet here in Spain a few years ago, I asked Vodafone how much it cost. 40 Euros per month (then add on tax). I asked how much it was for a bundle with internet a phone and a mobile contract. Same price.

I do see younger people with a lot of lat generation iPhones probably as handed downs from people on contracts.
Happened to me. I paid rent for a couple of months to a lady that I thought owned the appartement. Then one day someone knocked on the door, asked who I was, why I was living in his appartement, and why his tenant stopped paying rent.

In retrospect, it was eye opening how gullible everyone involved was (myself included), and how little the police did about it.

For every appartement I've since rented I checked the official register to make sure my future landlord actually owns the place...
This fellow spent 15+ years in the military, he is out of money, and the country that he served will assist the bankers but not him. He now has not only money reasons to work for a foreign government, he has ideological reasons, too. You can't entrust him with anything confidential.

You'd think that the government implemented the mortgage assistance because they couldn't afford to lose too many career military personnel.
Servo is nowhere near production-ready and there's no reason to assume that it will be anytime soon.

Just consider that Mozilla is pretty much working full-pelt on Gecko and merely keeping up with Google. They (as well as Google) are far away from implementing all currently specified web-standards, of which more get specified all the time.

So, in order to get Servo to the level of current browser engines, they would have to have an even higher developmemt velocity, while not really being able to stop developing Gecko in the meantime either.

Maybe if the majority of components someday are shared between Gecko and Servo, they might do the final step and switch out the core completely, but even that is still far away.

Servo is specifically a research project. To explore what could be done, if one were to do things right. That they were able to isolate and share components, that even came as a surprise to Mozilla.
My experience in California has been that the landlord didn't try to keep the deposit even when the rental contract arguably allowed them to.
There’s little motivation for law enforcement to search for white collar crime, and little support for prosecuting it.

Look at the indictments produced by the Mueller investigation. Politics aside, some of those people were doing real shady shit for years, and they would have gotten away with it cleanly had they not gotten entangled with the campaign.
Parabon Nanolabs and similar groups use genealogy websites to find distant relatives to crime scene collected DNA. Then they work backwards in to find potential suspects using family trees. This is how they caught the Golden State Killer.

Maybe someone had a family member get murdered in a certain area, and now they are paying a private group to collect as many samples as they can to submit to the website. This would allow the killer of their family member to potentially be found. This doesn’t sound completely absurd to me.
> I said it makes the defense tonally aware.

Yeah, I know that's what you said. I'm saying you're wrong. Specifically, this bit:

> you're not gonna lose a dime

You will lose a dime. You will lose it in extra taxes or in reduced purchasing power of the insurance settlement you receive. And so will your friends and neighbors and strangers you have never heard of. And that's just the loss you will suffer from this one robbery. You will also lose a dime from the next robbery that the robbers get away with because people bought into this argument, and the next one and the next, until your cumulative losses will be large enough for you to feel the pain and decide to do something about it. And by the time we get to that point, it won't be just you feeling the pain, it will be everyone.
Interesting to see another Fabrice project, and great to see compression performance on par with the best available, but unfortunately it still falls short of what's necessary to win this prize:

http://prize.hutter1.net/index.htm

(I've computed that 14,826,395 bytes is required to become the next winner. CMIX comes close, but its huge memory consumption disqualifies it.)
IMHO the experienced future is likely to continue seeing improvements for a good many years without battery technology changes, for the smaller consumer devices. Vehicles aren't going to get hugely more efficient without something massively disruptive like an efficient levitation technology but for a lot of electronics now, things like backlit screens present a bottleneck, and these can be tackled at multiple layers:

* Changing the types of device(screenless device, external display with its own battery, wireless peripherals)

* Improving average-case device environment(further standardization of charging methods, external displays as part of furnishings)

* Miniaturization and efficiency improvements of the internal hardware and software("battery with a phone attached" becomes increasingly true year over year and I have been living with an all-day battery phone for several years now)

Although energy density is a critical enabler, and we could definitely benefit from some jet-fuel-grade density in our alternate energy sources, the larger-scale stuff is also just a lot harder to tackle in a short time frame because it's more infrastructure-dependent. Rethinking our cities is a necessary step, one way or another.
I don't normally comment, but as a (formerly) heavy Reddit user I feel compelled to chime in: I absolutely loathe the new redesign. Infinite scrolling: ye Gods, why? It makes my fairly beefy laptop grind to a halt. Plenty of very eloquent posters before me have stated in great detail just why they hate it, so I won't bore everybody by repeating everything.

I used to love the very simplicity of old Reddit; by making it more Facebook-like, they infantilised a great site, and the moment they take away the ability to visit "old Reddit" my usage will drop right down. But I suppose this infantilisation is just right for the social media generation. Sigh.

Some commenters have mentioned the great Digg redesign fiasco; here's a link from August 2010 that talks about it. The internet was a very different place in 2010.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/pda/2010/aug/31/digg-...
It's a startup, so they probably have 20 developers and 5 business majors who are "C-levels", each getting 6 digit salaries...

As someone asked somewhere, "Why does Twitter need hundreds of developers? It's basically a CRUD interface."
It doesn't have to be Malaysia. They are being designed by people who will never use the product.
The commenters have been getting worse as Reddit has grown completely independent of the new design.
Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines, but it seemed too outrageous. The various interpretations of QM are so-far indistinguishable because they're based on the same (or equivalent) mathematics, and so make the same predictions.

This one, though. I mean, the fundamental observation is that red shift increases with distance. The accepted model has red shift caused by motion away from us, and so we conclude that recessional velocity increases with distance. That is, the Universe is expanding.

This new model has blue shift caused by increasing mass. And so we are blue-shifted relative to distant stuff, which we see only in the past. So it looks red-shifted to us. And distance is proportional to time delay, so stuff that's farther away is more red-shifted.

Bu I don't see how the temporal rate of mass increase could be related to -- or rather, another reflection of -- the expansion of the Universe. But then, IANAP, so hey.
Caucher Birkar – From Asylum Seeker to Fields Medal Winner at Cambridge
Very cool (and how could I miss it?)
Ask HN: How Many Pages in a Project?
I've been experimenting lately with building my web apps in a single page.

To show additional pages, modal forms or the URL determines what is shown on the page. For me, it keeps things even more organized and simple. I notice with the one-page method, I'm more likely to complete my projects when I start them and I release them faster too.

Actually, it's technically two pages: an index file which is the landing page, and then one more additional page to manage the rest of the website.

Has anyone else adopted this method?
Care to elaborate? Other than type safety I fail to see how TypeScript would improve the structure.
One of the most interesting parts for me was the time taken - 601 hours for about 50k loc. That could be a starting point estimate for other projects.
the main objection I can think of is environmental. if the costs of building & shipping & disposing of the product are properly internalised into the cost of the product, then I think your attitude is fine. But I bet the costs won't be properly internalised, at least in the case of consumer electronics, someone else will pay the costs to dispose of the thing (i.e. it won't be disposed of correctly in a way that minimises harm, as doing that would cost more than not), and pay the cost in terms of externalities like pollution involved in the contruction
The buyers of these cars only keep them for three years. That's their design life.

Huffy bikes were only ridden for 50 cumulative miles over their lifetime and were designed for just that.
Police try to get citizens to incriminate themselves all the time: “Do you know why I pulled you over?” Posing as a drug buyer. And so forth. At the end of the day, it falls upon citizens to know their rights and the law. Ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.

I’m not saying whether I agree or disagree, just stating my understanding of how it works.

And yes, the imbalance of power is ridiculous.

Aside, if the Motel 6 employees had asked the ICE agents: “is it legal for me to give this to you without a warrant?” and the ICE agents had answered in the affirmative, then Motel 6 may have had an entrapment defense[1], but I’m not certain and IANAL.

1. http://www.uscivilliberties.org/themes/3750-entrapment-by-es...
He's like 1000000x programmer if you consider the kinds of projects he successfully completes. An "average" programmer never does anything anywhere near as impactful as ffmpeg throughout the entirety of their career. And he has multiple of those under his belt.
That's different from what you said. You said that capitalism is an a opinion about what should be rather than a description of what is.

> Capitalism is the opinion that capital owners should have total and singular control of business.
Yes, eerily similar to the situation in Fort McMurray and other oil towns in Western Canada.
Thanks for the clarifications -- this is an interesting perspective.

For the last few years I think I've managed to land in the worst of both worlds with SystemVerilog. It manages to combine essentially no type system and no type checking (everything is implicitly just a bunch of bits) with abysmal compile times, so you get neither safety nor a quick turnaround.

All of this makes me really long for both a good type system, and a better edit-test cycle. Which is more valuable? You're probably right. There's nothing more frustrating than waiting 15 minutes to discover a missing comma...
Do you have a source for this? I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything. I did find the company saying they’d use the extra money to develop new drugs, which wouldn’t make much sense if the change actually brought in less money.
Personally I'm very excited about News+. When News launched I was hoping it would become something like News+ eventually. I think this could be what saves good journalism, I like to get news from a spread of publications especially with different biases and the existing subscription contracts would make this impossibly expensive.
If there's somebody to point the finger at for consumerism and short lived products is the consumers themselves, nobody cares for a product repairability or durability or quality they just want flashy stuff and the latest gadget and of course at the lowest price.
Yeah, that was a typo: I meant shared. Sorry!
Digression but when the system is so intentionally opaque (and IMO this isn’t a bad thing) it’s difficult to even say the people that weren’t bribed into Penn “earned it”.

The difference between a Penn reject and a Berkeley accept or vice versa isn’t likely to be terribly big if at all notable.
There is quite a bit of R&D going into negating the need for Cobalt in Li batteries. I would not expect Cobalt to be needed in ~3-5 years (for Li batteries).
...as a conduit to barf ads at you. I wish I could have gotten my TV without ask the parts that forced me to install a PiHole just to not get ads overlaid onto my menus. Any good parts of webOS are now just incidental.
I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a horrid redesign and everything else that’s happened over there.
If you need a place to work among other people in quiet without having to pay, try the local library or university. Could help you save some money.
Where are the organs coming from? China claims it has the “largest voluntary organ donation system in Asia” and stopped using prisoners in 2015. But the country has no tradition of voluntary organ donation.
Yeah battery storage is a arbitrage business. Buy cheap sell high. Buy midnight wind from North Texas at three cents a kwh and resell it on a cloudy humid afternoon in Phoenix for thirty.

Currently fossil fuel and nuclear power is really cheap late at night. In the future it'll be less predictable but there is absolutely a business there.
I don't doubt it in the short term, but I fear these are the sorts of articles that give people one more reason to want to stick their employees in open offices.

The usual excuses presented to employees are handwavey things like "collaboration" and "teamwork", but the excuses presented to other managers can also involve things like "employees are more likely to feel self-conscious from visibility, and less likely to slack off". Even that's just scrounging for some excuse other than cutting corners to save money.
I've stopped using "cheap" or "expensive" to describe mechanical things. I like the expression "designed to narrower tolerances", it conveys that something can be more expensive but also less durable.

As someone who constantly buys the cheapest version of something possible, I am now rarely surprised when it turns out to be the "best" actual version of it.
> Make the tenants whole through at least April, if not April and May.

Are you saying that organizations that just happen to be in the same general business should be covering for the fraud of unrelated companies? Should Stanford be paying back the students of Belford University?