skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debuggers are practically useless for me, they aren't complex enough to meet my minimum use-case. If I use a debugger--approximately two hours wasted if I'm completely unaware where the problem is. If I instead try to spend ten minutes logically explaining the program, usually I fix the problem and also gain a deeper understanding of the mechanics of the program. The program is usually multi-threaded, real-time.

A debugger gives you the state of the entire program, and one point in time. A log allows you to focus, which gives you the state you actually care about, at all the points in time where you care about it.

The time-evolution of the state of the program is practically the only thing I'm interested in.

I find that code that has been written mainly with debuggers is often full of tons of errors, often simple negations which have been worked around an even number of times. Then you're stuck with the debugger, and there's no way to reason about the program. The result is low quality.
I think both practically, theoretically and ethically the only response to electronic voting is to kill it with fire
Making an investment asset out of a requirement to survive is capitalist insanity. The housing market crashes every 10-20 years, while most mortgages are 30 years, this means that many people stand to lose their entire "investment", but oh wait, its their home, not their fucking Robinhood account.

Saying that things are going well, therefore we are making good decisions is a terrible argument.
> So, the mother of all party crashers took a dump in the We IPO punch bowl. The crasher? Math.

I laughed out loud when I read this.
I don't know about the compost toilet, but I climbed up and down a loft bed during college for years, it didn't bother me in the slightest.

Of course, that was decades ago...
Is great that a random made up number justifies your argument.
Could it be that prop 47 passed right around the time IoT became mainstream & DIY surveillance systems became affordable? Perhaps those crimes are just reported more frequently now because people are likely to have solid evidence to provide police.

I never would have reported a stolen package to police before I had a camera system.
I’d actually rephrase the question as, “is there any system that can’t be gamed?” i.e. a system immune to corruption? Impervious to bad faith intentions? I suspect the answer is no.

EDITED to fix a spelling mistake.
The "users" are the ad exchanges that are buying ad space on imgur. They probably have contracts and SLAs about how slowly ads are allowed to be loaded. In a pinch, ads will always be loaded first. Happens on every site.
Hello HN!

I find myself spending time on Hacker News mostly in Show HN section, because I'm really curious what people around the world are making.

But I was wonder what were the best project were made for entire history of Show HN.

So I aggregated all Show HN posts, group them by most popular posts of a day, week, month, year (starting from 2008) by upvotes. Also it has search my popular tags or words.

And last but not least I found articles from most successful companies like Stripe, Dropbox, DuckDuckGo and Quora that started on Show HN including their old website using Way Back Machine.

Let me know what you think, I'd love feedback
I thought the Hydrogen Sonata was probably Banks’s weakest Culture novel.

“Sometimes civilizations decide to Sublime! Other folks take their stuff. One ship takes it upon itself to help a younger race not get boxed out of the spoils, fails, and gets depressed. The end”

Most of his other Culture books had more stuff going combined with characters I cared about.
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Add Sweden as well, same story here. The national bank (Riksbanken) can not increase interest rates because it would have disastrous consequences for the large majority of over-extended loan takers. The low interest rates in their turn lead to the value of the Swedish currency plummeting. No matter what they do, a 'correction' is unavoidable - either the Swedish crown goes to junk status or the number of foreclosures and bankruptcies will skyrocket, followed by the collapse of the housing market, followed by the collapse of those banks which have to write down all those loans with real-estate backing.
Why is it bad when farmers in the Midwest vote their conscience, against their supposed self interest, but it’s good for rich programmers to vote against their self interest? The Trump tax cuts were good for me—am I obliged to vote for him?
Why does the concept of paying people to borrow money sound eerily familiar.
This is off topic and I hope I come off as constructive and not insensitive. Your comment structure with long sentences and lots of parentheses made it really really hard to hold your rather interesting thoughts in my head.
It might depend on how competitive the general admission process in a particular university is. I wouldn't be surprised, if 70% of the Britain's 100+ universities accepted all Chinese applicants. In the case of University St Andrews, it has plenty of more qualified applicants from North America who pay the same as Chinese and, therefore, can afford not to accept them.
Cabinet paves way for self-driving vehicles on Japan's roads next year
Based on what evidence? A single core Geekbench run?
I don't agree that founders are unique in inventing "important stuff".

In reality, most important inventions, are efforts of large groups of people(that may be distributed across organizations), and most of it is work - not coming up with a "great" "vision".

// Everyone wants to be a founder

Well, you know the song "asiti":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ezbFpkGlw

It's on Hebrew, but it basically talks about the Israeli tendency to always say "I did this, I did that"
Chinese scientists develop handheld sonic weapon for crowd control
Isn't the primary tool to fight inflation with an increase in interest rates? And if interest rates are negative doesn't that mean that there is lots of room to adjust them?

It strikes me that the problem is that the tools to fight deflation are inadequate.

How much growth and prosperity has been sacrificed to avoid the threat of inflation that never arose?
The negatives look to be monthly seasonally-unadjusted. I wouldn't read too much in to them. Annual numbers are still in positive territory. Denmark has had negative rates for more than a year.
> You can't do anything with them except read (linearly).

And write on them, scribble in them, underline them, draw in their margins, use colored pens and pencils and highlighters, check the index, flip through them, give them to anyone with your annotations and get them back with theirs, rip pages out of them, sew them back together, rebind them, burn them, store them for thousands of years without electricity or maintenance in no higher technology than a clay jar (assuming acid free paper!), hold them upside down and learn to read them that way, stop doors and weigh down papers on a desk with them, or just admire them on a bookshelf.

But yes, the most obvious thing you can do with them is simply to read them linearly, and this lack of frivolity is by far the best thing about them.
Surely I shouldn’t be discouraged from saying scientific facts?
In my current company I use Postgres JSONB with Hibernate extensively. One of the benefits of the ORM is that json fields can be constrained to a fixed schema. For example, a tag list field can be a SortedSet of strings.

A couple other things I've learned:

* Never re-use complex types in both your API and your schema. These things evolve at different paces and you should never have to worry that a change to your schema will break an API (or vice-versa). The minimal extra typing to have dedicated API types is well worth it.

* Storing untrusted client-submitted JSON in your database is a terrible idea. This is a great attack surface, either by DOSing your system with large blobs or by guessing keys that might have meaning in the future.
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I once regarded Ethereum as the the only successful project out of it. But is it? Did it create anything meaningfully better? Not really. Anyway, yes. And Peter Thiel’s fellowship is great. It’s just that he doesn’t have $30B a year to spare on that
Those viewpoints aren't mutually exclusive. Look at this for a recent example https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614325/open-ai-algorithms... AI showed emergent behaviour.

The universe could be the same, 'God' set it all up and he/she has no idea what's going to happen either.
In the project page https://doityurtself.com faq page the faqs talk a little about climate control. Apparently they don’t do great in extreme heat or cold (lacking great insulation?). Not benchmarking but something:

“
Yurts do not do well in extreme heat. It's best to find a location for a yurt that is in a mild climate and in a place where you can build in some partial shade. During the summer months, you can use fans or potentially an A/C unit if you have the power to run it.
“
I keep wondering why people who seemingly care about their privacy continue to use Google products/services, doing all their online activity while logged in to their Google account.
Thank you! The charts really bothered me and this shows that the article is portraying the trends a little more aggressively than they really are.

I still think having only two data points (one during the Great Recession and one in 2018) reeks of cherry picking. I’d like the author to have provided more historical data to demonstrate the effect.
What you're describing is functional attachment. Emotionally, how would you feel if all of the printed books in the world were to disappear today? Would you miss them?
Then your code, for some people, is not enterprisey enough and of course not maintanable over time..
Name one company that raised its first million with an IPO in the last few decades. Let alone one that did so while producing something like Google
If you favor an idea that a private company should be compelled to provide a service for free, even if you don't share your data, would you also agree to the idea that a private company should be compelled to respect freedom of speech on their platform even if they don't benefit from it?
The word "foundry" refers specifically to a company that manufactures others' chip designs for them, such as TSMC. Intel discontinued it's foundry business AFAIK.

The more general word would be "fab", which is any semiconductor manufacturing facility.
Opportunity is created, not found
Does this compression hit you mention also apply to encoders that use for example CUDA on Nvidia GPUs? With these there definitely are significant differences in encoding speed between different GPUs.
Sure - I use both bash and python for this purpose. Sometimes bash really is the right tool for the job, for example, when you need to use a lot of other complex CLI utilities, or when pipelines of simple commands get the job done in a simpler way.

I'm just explaining why a command line cheat sheet tool is useful to me. I don't need to be convinced that it isn't.
This isn’t free money for personal use, this is money that you legally have to spend developing that far fetched idea.
1. Look into mastery learning if you're really interested in making progress in regards to teaching.
2. Curiosity.
3. Compassion.
4. Ability to make your students use their 'visual cortex' which has a processing capacity that extends much further than what we can process using our auditory channels.
5. Great pay (you need adequate compensation in order to attract the best).
Absolutely. But not all land is created equal, most people want to live near a big jobs market, meaning near a big city. So the price of this land will inevitably go up.that being said, I am sure there is a lot municipalities could do to make housing more affordable.
The calligraphy in that document blows my mind.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

https://dataintensive.net/
There is no base for the claim that it's safer to not let CO2 into the atmosphere. More people die from cold than from heat and then world has gotten 14% greener because of more CO2.

So if anything it's inconclusive and I don't see any scientifically demonstrated consequence of the climate-changing that we don't know how to deal with.
Books spawn a similar hierarchy then electronical devices -- there are colouring books, crossword puzzle books, children's books, comic books, textbooks, academic books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, all kind of booklets -- just to name a very few! There is no way all of them are magically replaced by their electronical counterparts, namely eBooks, tablets, smartphones, notebooks or classical workstations.

Many of the example books are "as alive" as always because they are just cheap -- such as many children's books, puzzles and colouring books. Nothing electronical can be that cheap.

I guess mostly the expensive books, such as in academia, reference manuals or encyclopiedias are replaced more and more by their electronic counterpart. But even there, it's a matter of taste.
SRAM density is a pretty good single meaningful number
Your charts could never get published, they’re just not hyperbolic enough

> a series of genuine, penetrating shifts have been happening at warp speed through the last decade. These shifts are massively altering the two parties’ economic identities.
Poverty is still a problem in America
Is We a big enough part of vision fund to take it down in some way? Even just as an embarrassing loss? His other two predictions sound plausible.
> why did they put these things together like this?

At a glance, it looks to be an act that defines regulations for all matters requiring licensing (weapons, alcohol, taxis, etc.) that are controlled by the devolved administration - I don't see any reason why that wouldn't be in one bill?
The problem with pitching an idea is that person should have exposure to a particular field if the field is already developed. In my opinion the low hanging fruits are mostly taken. To have exposure it falls in the same trap where the person should be given an opportunity which is simply not there. Personally I have the same problem where it is difficult to get opportunity because people already present are simply blocking it.
Yes. Just like that. And Google and Boston Dynamics came out of it. That’s amazing. Now what if the budget could be $30B a year, $1-3MM instead of $100K (which might have been suitable in 1997, certainly not today) and take 2 months instead of a year (or whatever it takes)? :)
That's an impressive list and it's entirely different than what mine would look like.

My list would be entirely focused around quality of life and happiness which would mean significant funding for artistic endeavors. It also might lead to slowing the rate we communicate, living healthier (not necessarily longer) lives, building stable communities which might lead to less long distance movement (which would likely be better for the environment - so on that we agree).
It strikes me that with an absurdly low debt-to-gdp ratio of 34% and negative interest rates maybe the Danish government should invest more money in their economy. Maybe leverage the market to build the enormous amount of green infrastructure they and the world needs, the returns don't need to be that high to pay off.
Yeah, that’s kinda weirdly explained - IIRC MS had OS features that were only available to IE (I don’t remember whether those features were performance-related), while Google has browser features that are only available to Google properties.
Wow, I was just researching go caches like a week ago and read your previous summary of the state of the world. Didn't realize this had been posted. Excellent timing.
Google should not be releasing an implementation before the "very early" spec is finalized. They aren't acting in good faith with behavior like that.
OK - but you're still not getting the point: what created the program / AI?
Entropy as Disorder: History of a Misconception
> I guess you didn't read the test [sic] of the comments then.

>> Yes I did

>>> No. Not that I can find

Not sure where you'd find that. I read your comments, and found them wanting.
I installed it but It didn’t get me data I needed. I am still gonna use parsehub which allows me to easily go up and down in the html tree to get data hidden under layers of divs.
Show HN: I wrote a script to parse (and post) my script
> If I use a debugger--approximately two hours wasted if I'm completely unaware where the problem is. If I instead try to spend ten minutes logically explaining the program, usually I fix the problem and also gain a deeper understanding of the mechanics of the program.

Er.... I’m pretty sure debugger advocates aren’t advocating using debuggers without logical thought. Usually, it’s more about that debugger is a useful tool when one spends three hours logically explaining the problem but can’t figure it out.

If you can find all kinds of bugs in ten minutes, then great! You’re officially an endorsed 10x programmer. :-) I can’t, for some bugs, (reproducing bugs in complex programs is a difficult hurdle for me too) so I use a debugger.

> I find that code that has been written mainly with debuggers is often full of tons of errors, often simple negations which have been worked around an even number of times.

Usually, I find that code that is thoughtfully written and extensively debugged in the debugger is the most robust part of the program, but YYMV.
Nice. The physics are a little off though.
Well, I don’t think it’s a given that a mild potential product or a x100 investment product add anything. I feel like only far fetched products do,

which usually resolve in a x100 ROI, but that’s a random byproduct
Interesting. I’m actually heartily in favor of the “completionist” mindset. I adopted it from playing videogames. With videogames at times I would end up hopping from game to game to game, never really finishing many of them. And in a weird sense it felt less fun and it definitely felt less worthwhile. I couldn’t have more than surface level conversations about the content and I never felt like my opinions were holistic enough of that content either.

Now I only play one game at a time and I really try to finish it unless it straight up is just not fun for me. I’ve slogged through parts of games where I’ve become bored after X number of hours and ultimately been much happier for it as I witnessed everything the game had to offer (especially with regards to story). Final Fantasy XV comes to mind here. The gameplay had become tired after 30 hours or whatever but getting the whole story arc (for all its flaws) was extremely worth it.

I’ve carried this over to books. Unless I’m really not interested I will stick with the slow parts and generally I’ve been happy with the results. The Stand by Stephen King comes to mind here. It’s like 1,200 pages of tiny font and is pretty slow in the middle but has some stupendous moments and is really an epic tale I’m happy to have under my belt. I do have to pair this with a conscious “required” reading time, e.g. an hour before bed so that I’m always hitting a minimum rate so I don’t slow to a snails-pace and read a book a quarter or something.
Can you cite those alleged facts with something based on peer-reviewed research?

https://skepticalscience.com/heading-into-new-little-ice-age...
I think it’s just a habit to turn these two or four versions of using tar into the same amount of one liner shell scripts. Or maybe a longer one with options and usage printing.
The difference with Japan is that while they have a large amount of debt, they also have large amounts of assets. Japan is the world's largest creditor nation : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_p.... If you look at that list, you will find that US is the most indebted country in the world and that many Western countries tend to be very indebted.
> and yet the post-2009 economic expansion is the longest ever, and this is in spite of all the anxieties over tariffs and trade wards and the fed raising rates.

A crisis is not an economic fact that magically happens when some predetermined values for some set of indicators are reached.

A crisis is a mix of two things: 1) a big financial/economic issue that affects an important sector of the economy, 2) widespread panic.

There are already multiple candidates for 1), but what hasn't happened is 2).

Why? That's anybody's guess.

My guess is Trump.

For people to panic, there needs to be sustained media coverage and focus. But now whatever Trump says is more important than anything else for the media.

If you look at the media since Trump became president, the most important issues have been all stuff related to his government, and whenever the media has focused on anything for too long, he's come out with some other thing that the media shifts their attention to.

So we've had lots of small panics, which by now have mostly desensitized the public.

If someone like Trump can continuously interrupt the media, they effectively control it through disruption, and then the media cannot focus for long enough on anything for people to fully panic and cause a full blown crisis.
The crazy ideas you cite as examples came from people with diplomas.
True, most stuff doesn’t work and it’s very slow. But it runs youtube-dl well enough which is something.
That's really only the case when you have regulation limiting supply growth upwards, and/or limited amounts of land you can sprawl outwords. I grew up in chicago and we love to build high rises (chicago engineers were the ones that designed the Burj Khalifa to give you an example of our love for architecture), and we have hundreds of miles of farmland we can sprawl out to forever increasing supply of homes.