skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conditioned to what?

By embracing the fact that startups are purely about money I keep things simple and true. When the motivation is all about numbers there’s less potential for confusion and wasted time.
Yep. Only reason they’re looking for an English TLD is because they expect more tourists from English speaking areas than from the local regional populations, otherwise they’d prefer .amazônias/.

Also for the region/biome it’s usually referred to as “The Amazon”
Who ever owns .wedding owns the business vertical for weddings? This just doesn't add up. There might be good reasons to split Amazon up, but this isn't one of them.
Google is not a search engine. It is a memory upgrade, and anybody who tries to write software with a standard human memory is obsolete.
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I seriously doubt that the "rich and retired" category is quantitatively all that significant. I think they're in sales and middle management.
This is not a new idea, but doing so will make fpgas harder to fab
> I am not a fan of the idea that the only driving motivation for establishing a small tech company is to make the VC's happy.

I'm not either. But arguing over words is a pointless waste of energy.

Around here (and in most places in tech), startups are understood to be a form of entrepreneurship which aims to create innovative companies with the aim of being large tech companies, almost always fueled by VC money.

It's not by any means the only kind of company one can start (mine isn't that!), and I think it's a bad thing that many people don't realize there are other forms of entrepreneurship (in most contexts, an entrepreneur can be someone who decided to franchise a McDonald's!).

But it doesn't really matter that the word startup is used to mean something different. It's just a word.
I think your attitude is abhorrent.

Cheating matters. The purpose of going to college, or recording track times is for measurement and comparison. Allowing cheaters isn't just cheating yourself, it devalues the meaning of the measurement. It is inherently selfish and shows a lack of ethics that is detrimental to society as a whole.

It absolutely is not "only short changing yourself", as it also has very real, direct effects when a cheater displaces an honest hard-worker for a job or college acceptance.
So your example depends on the incoming packet already being addressed to a device behind the home router, which in a home network is in a private range. Thus, your example depends on the ISP's network delivering a packet to the customer despite that packet having an IP address that doesn't match the IP address the customer leased. Do you agree, and if so, do you know that this has ever happened in a residential setting?

Or do you mean an adversary who is or who compromises the ISP, possibly by tapping into the coax/fiber/etc in the last mile or by pwning the related nodes?
Actually it would make P2P communication much simpler.

WebRTC or any other video conferencing software wouldn't need a STUN server if all the clients were able to talk directly to each-other.
You Wouldn’t Download a Nuclear Reactor, but Could You?
Doctors don't seem to know that, though. I have never seen one google anything and I have caught their mistakes by checking myself.
There’s a name for this: “Broken windows theory”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
If they did that, then yes, I think the countries would have a proper grievance against the company.
>Punitive and clear response to stop this behavior, across borders.

Good luck punishing "fake data" from China/Russia.
Which begs the question why we're not going straight to stackexchange. I'm doing the same btw, just using DDG instead.
Quoting "Art of the Deal" and extolling Trump's virtues as a dealmaker didn't really sway me. Regretting this purchase.
First, there are few developers with multiple decades of experience (almost none outside of the tech hubs), while there is a bazillion people entering the market every year. Don't expect to find a lot because they are simply few and outnumbered.

You can usually find more in big corporations (cushy work life balance, healthcare and pension), in more traditional industries (defense, finance) and working as contractors or consultants (less corporate bullshit and HR barriers).

Last but not least. A non negligible amount of older workers are semi-retired. If you've worked 1980-2010 in NYC/LDN/SF you could have been doing quite well and acquired 2 homes at a fraction of what they are worth now.
This is what is called a CPLD. It never attracted much interest.
> Controlled volcano eruption, generate the effects of nuclear winter without the radiation and contamination.

There you have it: a blockbuster holywood catastrophe plot.
If you're in to that sort of thing sing Amazing Grace to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song (or vice versa).
However, this is not about nuclear proliferation, of course. Otherwise the US would impose tough sanctions on Israel and even threaten them with military strikes, because there is strong evidence that Israel has a secret nuclear weapons program. No more apologies!

We all know what the truth is. In reality the tough stance against Iran is and always has been all about access to oil, influencing the strategic balance in favour of the axis US-Saudi Arabia-Israel, and limiting Russian influence in the region. Everybody knows this and that's why nobody in his or her right mind buys the current sick Bolton nonsense.
Already been done, IIRC. Algotronix had a similar nearest-neighbor architecture FPGA in the form of the CAL1024 back in 1989†.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.152... (See p. 16)

https://www.algotronix.com/company/Photo%20Album.html

That architecture never really was particularly successful. I vaguely seem to recall that the issue was that not having long routing lines mean that huge swaths of the grid had to be wasted to do routing of signals.

† As an aside, Xilinx acquired Algotronix and evolved their design into the XC6200, which was notable for being one of the earliest run-time reconfigurable FPGAs
Insightful comment.

> Would the biodiversity of ideas actually reduce? [...] the tool doesn't work according to our modern technocratic expectations.

One failure mode immediately comes to my mind: some fields of researches would progress rapidly, but after a while the entire human civilization may stuck (like a broken hill climbing algorithm) at a local optimum forever and wastes a lot of time.
Note that other countries and their citizens don't typically give a hoot about the internal affairs if it looks as though countries go back on their word and signatures. Internal ratification is simply used as a way to sign treaties with 'fingers crossed'.
Every Google search you do is a lost opportunity for an unexpected conversation. Imagine never meeting a wife because you did a Google search instead.
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
~ Albert Einstein
> Thinking about it, can you name a single place where America has been "nation building" in the last 70 years that got something resembling the US Constitution? I can't.

No, but they do get US-style copyright and patent laws - the US isn't shy about exporting those. See e.g. Iraq order 81, which banned re-planting of licensed seeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Orders
That's a better analogy.

Still, colleges are usually much more eclectic than companies. Even MIT, usually known for STEM, has one kick ass humanities department.
I’m guessing it was meant to be more rhetorical than anything. It seems this was akin to a denial of service of sorts, so I think if US wanted to cause serious damage they would have.
> Hold the platforms accountable the same way copyright has, its worked wonders.

It has?! Citation needed.
I mostly dabble in assembly language for fun, but it can be very useful to know how it works when you're patching binaries, or reverse engineering protection/encryption systems. Some of the binary reverser-challenges are great for that.

Otherwise the only things I've done recently have been writing a simple "compiler" for maths, converting "3 4 + 5 *" into floating-point assembly, or generating code for a toy-language.
I think you effectively described every American city. Even Dallas, the example of a well-run city provided, had a pension bubble that almost burst into insolvency in 2017.

==https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2017/the-85th/issue/pens...
Thanks, I guess it's a bit early for me to jump to conclusions. I'll just have to wait and see what you guys come up with :-)
I'll copy one of my recent comments with some minor changes:

I still sometimes program in Classic VB, (aka VB6). Each year it is more difficult to install the IDE, but the runtime is still installed by default.

It is incredible easy to build a nice one screen application with not very a very complicated background logic. Normal people like a nice graphical interface with a few buttons, and with Classic VB you can create them very easily and iterate and customize the form.

My last big problem was that it doesn't have a build in sort function, so you can use a n^2 sort or write a good sorting function by hand :( . When the logic start to be not so easy, there begin to apear problems.

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About the article: I agree with most of it.

> Also on the big side: There was no more edit-and-continue feature.

I still miss that when I program in other languages. It kills so many (all!) optimizations possibilities, but it's extremely handy.

> VB.Fred and the .NET Solution

I call it VB# or VB#.Net instead of VB.Fred.
Judging all of Chicago based on Hyde Park is like judging DC based on Anacostia, or San Francisco based on the Tenderloin. Every large city has certain neighborhoods with high crime, unfortunately. One of Chicago’s just happens to host a world class university. It’s just a very narrow and unflattering view of an entire metropolitan area. Everyone I know who lives in Chicago laughs at all the national press proclaiming it a war zone, it just doesn’t match up with the lives experience of so many people. Now, I think that points to a larger issue of inequality and socioeconomic segregation, but nonetheless it just isn’t reality that all of Chicago is a wasteland.
> Once cattle—raised on grass without synthetic fertilizer—are accurately assessed

Except this does not cover the vast majority of cattle consumed. And it doesn't cover the effect of forested land being cleared for cattle production.
I can be both. I arrested myself typing out a “let me google that for you” reply on a small social network years ago. I realized doing that stops a conversation dead in its tracks. And sometimes people just want to have a conversation.
>What is the use of having money, if it does not gives you advantages ?

such a weird thought. i can think of many reasons: to have fun (i.e. fritter away), to spread advantage to other, to use to build something (that won't necessarily confer advantage later).
Ask HN: Testing Only in Production?
I work at a international company and we have around 1000 developers. During all the time I worked I never encountered any QA people, they exist - but I hear them only when an incident occurs.

I write unit & integration tests, but we always test in production. Sometimes using feature toggles, sometimes not.

Something happens almost daily, incidents are casual, is it normal to skip QA entirely? Developers test that their code works and the functionally happens, but nothing more.
I believe you, still, it's hosted at a Google's domain and it's a company's core competency. I don't think that's excusable.
That’s total nonsense. Having a good memory is still extremely valuable.
Yes, if you overdo the fix, it'll go too far in the other direction. So? That doesn't mean the fix wouldn't work if done right.
You did hit the nail on the head, it is privilege divide largely. There’s a handful of ‘bad’ neighborhoods where nobody goes if you have any option not to. It’s kind of disgusting that that’s the state of things, but outside of those few areas, it’s a beautiful city.
Wrong.

Software is not so complicated that you have to Google search everything every time. If you are not internalizing new knowledge, you are performing poorly.
Snel: a columnar database for fast on-line analytics
Snake Venom Use as a Substitute for Opioids: A Case Report and Review
Quick Phone Tests for Exploratory Testing
Agreed. I often just want the answer but for a lot of people it’s about the interaction, not the solution.
Sure, that all makes sense, but why could it not do the initialization once (when something changes like you describe), save it, and reuse it next time?

EDIT: Ah, sorry, you're saying the enumeration/scanning for changes is what takes most of the time?
I once asked a climate scientist for their opinion on 'climate engineering'.

They weren't in favor of the general concept, never mind the individual schemes.

Mostly, there's no way to do controlled experiments.
To stretch the analogy a bit: it’s like virtual memory. Not as fast as RAM, but there’s an effectively infinite amount of it.
This happened to me when i was playing xbox recently. I'm not sure if it was the game (Division 2) or the TV but it really surprised me.
I would assume this varies based on which government you are talking about.
I imagine he still found a great job somewhere else.
> "An operating system is a living thing," said Carl Shapiro, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley and a co-author of "Information Rules," a book to be published this week by the Harvard Business School Press. "Ongoing investment and upgrades are essential to attract customers. Nice cooperative thoughts are not enough."

Typical economist thinking. Linux will never work.
I have a friend at NIU who's in the CS program and they're still teaching assembly there. I think with web dev and all the new flashy stuff that's readily available on top of all these foundational languages people are much more drawn to the immediacy of JavaScript and Python and other high-level languages.
Remote controlling asteroids? I don't want to come across as too condemning, but my belief is that Californian[1] technoutopianism[2] is one of the more worrying trends in thought right now. It risks obfuscating real and meaningful actions needed to be taken ASAP. At its core it's often unscientific but masks itself as the belief in science, hence circumventing some much needed critique.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism
I've written and am running something exactly like this for my work. (We used to use forward.wf but had to move away from it, a third party blocked it).

Very simple system, just a server+ nginx + letsencrypt. Tiny service to set new people up. We've been running out the last year or so, it took an hour or 2 to write, and hasn't needed more than that maintenance since.
More than just form factor, Garmin has done an incredible job of using GPS technology to make products for enthusiasts, rather than the masses. Cycling computers, running watches, golf range finders, marine, aviation, hunting, etc. If you're a nerd for any of those activities there's a good chance you use a Garmin, not an Apple or Android.
For privacy, you can setup your OS to require a different random IP every time it reconnects to the network. You will always be in the same /64, but with a different IP.
Starve the beast is a republican policy to try and shrink government. Chicago's mayor has been a Democrat since 1931.
Thanks for checking with east Asians and sub-Saharan Africans that they’re not interested in it. I didn’t have time for that this morning.
Do you actually think that the “lack of expectations” from the leftwing has meant that the black community in Chicago has gone into crime? That seems... absurdly racist or pseudoracist in nature. Do white people also fall into crime because of “lack of expectations” as well?

What you describe of black kids dying sounds nothing like “lack of expectations” to me. More like “forsaken communities”.

Not denying any longstanding cultural factors, people go into crime because of a combination of opportunity and motivation (from the studies I remember reading). “Lack of expectations” has never been measured as a problem as far as I know. And your sentiment just sounds like 21st century “white mans burden” all over again.

If poor crime policy is the problem then that’s another thing entirely. But then crime gets reduced by a combination of reducing inequality, increasing opportunities and yes good (sometimes draconian) policing. But you don’t mention that, only that black people in Chicago are criminal somehow because the political class has a “lack of expectations” for them.
Yes, I was thinking of Emacs, too. I'm basically curious why the BIOS etc. couldn't run once, store the result of initialization and then resuse that on every boot until the configuration changes.
They are not "simple netlist descriptions", but they can be used like one. This is what usually one understands when you use the words "RTL" and "Verilog" interchangeably, because when you start with the automagical stuff, you'll find out most P&R tools _cannot_ actually accept those.
One of the things I don't like about webdev (among many) is that I even have to Google in the first place. Manpages are so much more immediate and accessible.

I also think that anything js-adjacent has a real culture problem. Trying to dredge an answer out of a Medium tutorial written in a cloying tone and interspersed with pointless gifs can be such a groan enducing experience. I'm hoping that the community will mature alongside its technology.
Yes. The radio receiver, sound decoder, amplifier and speaker all work on very little charge and can bring you the sound in a fraction of a second after being turned on; the CRT needs to power up magnets and a particle accelerator

Late in the history of CRTs, some units kept the electron gun warmed up whenever the unit was plugged in -- so it was never all the way off. That enabled an "instant on" feature, at the cost of more power usage.
> It’s weirdly circular, but it’s also correct. This is how many things with network effects work. Something is useful because others use it, which makes it more useful, which makes more people use it...

This can work for a little while, but without other factors to maintain the cycle it's just a fad.

> In this case, you could also look up “coordinated Nash Equilibrium”, which can partially explain some of the behavior in bitcoin.

You could also explain how coordinated Nash equilibrium relates to your point, instead of name-dropping complex topics (which you may not even understand). If you actually have a valid point here, you can explain it rather than expecting others to do your research for you.
The individuals have bios in the Wiki page I posted.
I've been playing around with this idea myself. My solution is to isolate the "stack of shit" that is still useful into VMs or separate processors entirely. The USB stack is already implemented on microcontrollers. If you only want mass storage and HID keyboards you can implement your own simple protocol. TCP/IP, again, plop it onto a microcontroller and create some simple file interface for it. The browser, um, well, put it in a VM running linux... or really want I would rather do, put it on a VM in the cloud and make the big computer in the cloud do all of the hard work and just send down a simple description of the page, maybe using a protocol like, well, I don't know, Postscript?
This checklist is actually pretty good. But I usually ask them to put together 30-50 page Business Plan with an Executive Summary. If they don't know how I tell them to look online for examples. In one case I pointed them at a local startup incubator that runs workshops for things like this. All this does is add up to a non-trivial (but not onerous and with little cash outlay) investment of THEIR time. And if this small investment of their time is too much work for them ... well, I guess they weren't that serious to begin with.

So far I'm 5 for 5 when asked for a 50/50 partnership (where I do all the dev work and my partner is the 'idea man') and then never hearing again about the idea after I asked they put together this document - all without having to say 'no'. There has not been bitterness on their part, because next steps are on them.

In the off-chance they will actually do this (and it hasn't happened yet), I will take it seriously and really consider it. But even if I decide not to pursue it, I feel like the exercise isn't a waste of their time as they will be able to use it when looking for funding or other partners.
isn't most of that stuff already implemented for iOS?
386 and W95? Not a good combination. By the time W95 was out on the market P5 was the latest and greatest and a 486 was the low budget one. You might want to reconsider those memories. As for loading times it all boiled down on how many check-up you wanted or not in your BIOS. As a rule I've always did memory check by BIOS only one time when buying/putting together a new PC and after that I've check it off in BIOS, halving the time it need it to boot. It was perfectly easy to have a 3 seconds BIOS time, sometime was even a nuisance to make it that short because you'd had to be fast to press Del (or whatever the BIOS key was) if you wanted to go to BIOS instead.
Carbon sequestration seems like the (political) winner because it's much easier to convince people to spend money on something than it is to take their money for doing something (in a democratic society at least).

Edit: Of course not emitting the carbon is better and more efficient but from a practical "affecting change ASAP" perspective sequestration seems like an easier pill for society to swallow. That should go without saying but I forgot that weekends here are basically Reddit and those kinds of things cannot be considered obvious.
No, the argument is that Amazon is not the only organisation with a rightful interest in the ".book" top level domain and so should not have been granted exclusive control over it.

I guess the second argument is that the arrogance displayed in saying things like "no, there shouldn't be any commons on the internet" (which is what closing such a generic tld does) is evidence that they have grown beyond what is healthy for society.
Just do less of it, there is no way to offset anything.
The benefit is to eliminate the disadvantages and complexity (however opaque) of running NAT.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that all devices be reachable by default. It's entirely reasonable and prudent to have a firewall between my home network and the world, but NAT is not strictly required for this.
No one said it’s not still valuable, but less so on it’s own with the advent of the internet and Google. The same thing can be said with taking notes in school: you’re less effective using human memory alone without the augment of note taking.
Absolutely! But couldn't this be moved from a productivity/time problem to a storage/packaging problem? I.e., do the initialization once and save its state until some major factors change? Storage seems to be quite inexpensive. Emacs does something like this (not saving state after first run but shipping with an initialized state that was generated before, I believe).
With android we can at
least replace few parts, and get a functional unix terminal even without root. If you can degoogle and / or root, android is great.

And BillG didn't deserve it...