skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you missed the main point of lack of data in addition to possible quality issues. Certainly I would assume we collect many more air temperature readings now then we did in the 1800’s even into the 1900’s. I can’t imagine there are nearly as much temperature data from 100 years ago compared to how much data is being collected in the last 30. You didn’t answer the real question, of course a thermometer works the same, but does the collection methods work the same? Did we have satellite data 100 years ago? Obviously not. We are collecting a much wider variety of data from a variety of sensors and it has built up especially in the last 50 years. I haven’t seen the data I’m only asking the question. What does the data look like, I’d love to compare just a slice from one city. Someone post the data from that data set that compares 100 years ago reading to ones collected in 20 year intervals. My guess is that there is progressively more and more data as you move forward. If I’m wrong show me the data.
Non businesses? Uber provides uncountable value to people’s daily lives. The fact that they are not profitable and have leaked VC money for a decade is another topic altogether
Easy. Invent a resilient plastic that the microbes don't like to chew. And start counting the money untill that plastic becomes the problem.
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Not only gps, but just being able to find nearby hotels and check vacancy and prices. When I was a kid, we would pull in at multiple hotels and someone would have to go in and ask for prices and if they had vacancy. My mom would usually go and ask for the price because my dad felt like they gave her better prices. In fact, a few times they did - as he sent her in after he asked.

So not only convenience and leveling the information playing field, but pricing fairness. I'm sure quite a few minorities would have some testimonials about the benefits of getting quoted the same price as everyone else.
My experience as well; I had to become really intimate with aws over the years because I noticed more and more that consultants we hire (we don’t need fulltime) for aws or other cloud setups, pull wool over your eyes by throwing out terms (you generally wouldn’t know outside these setups), saying the word ‘security’ a lot and showing extremely complex deployment charts which look great but contain many things you didn’t know you needed and probably do not need. I cannot count the times I found 1000-10000$/month of unneeded stuff at clients in these setups. First it was just ec2 (‘in the beginning’) which was more expensive than our vps/baremetal setups, but that price jumped up for only marginally more complex setups and so I decided to learn it all and see what was happening. Almost never justified in my experience.
For me, often the amount of time I've hung on to the item becomes the reason I keep it longer, rather than the item itself. "Oh wow I've had this trinket since the 5th grade. It's not really significant to me anymore, but it feels a little sad to get rid of it now."
You devil! I'm pretty sure I remember running into a file that looked like that and a quick poke around showed it wasn't anything valid.

Funny how these things work since I'm pretty sure I remember running into it around 2008 (i'm a few years younger).

I think i just deleted it though since I was suspicious of most strange files back then; I was the nerd who didn't have friends so i used to troll forums for anything i could get my hands on.
Any examples of 1 and 3 combinations that come to mind?
With regards to books, this is such a weird take - high quality, well curated books had (and have) such a density of good information, that a stack of paper had all the information you could possibly look on a given for in a concise, reliable manner.

For example, when I tried picking up electronics as a curious high-schooler, I managed to pick up a clearance sale copy of The Art of Electronics - it had all the information I could possibly look for (and I'm pretty sure once could make a career in Electrical Engineering using nothing but that book as a source even today). I'm pretty sure I'd be hard-pressed to find such an accurate and comprehensive reference on that topic anywhere on the internet.
I know of an AWS customer that achieved a similar outcome for their entire stack after the ops team was directed by finance to use only spot instances.
Docusign is up 80% over last 5 years. The covid surge of docusign never really made much sense.
> Dave Cutler, designer of the kernels for Windows NT/XP(...) and (Open)VMS

> I don’t want to produce any code that has bugs – none

Really though? I'm not sure I buy a word of that.
Unreasonable effectiveness of HN posts with Unreasonable effectiveness in title
That’s why it’s not a great example. But if I’m searching for a fiat, it wouldn’t make sense to target a Renault ad against me because they don’t sell those here.
Actually building such a computer is provably impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem

I highly recommend this talk on the subject:
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
Physical things fail or have failure done to them. You make a big claim.
I think the author—rightly in my case—assumed they have an audience who already knew the context based on the title, and the tweet which prompted it, pictured a bit further. Not all of us spend a lot of time on Twitter, it’s okay to feel the intro lacked context.

It’s also okay to wade into something unfamiliar and patiently find out if you’ll get something out of it. Probably 90% of the best things I’ve read from a HN link have been completely context-bare for me when I clicked through to read.

You probably spent more time writing this than it would have taken to read far enough to gain the context you were lacking. Not that you’re obligated of course. But maybe it’d be more productive for you and everyone if you quickly dismiss by moving on to the next thing.
Contrarian advice: This is the best time to take on student loans. We are entering a structural shift in how our global economy fueled by a credit bubble post 08.

It is going to be much much worse than 2008 and 2000, combined.

They are not going to be able to collect student loans for a very long time.
I think your math is wrong. You wouldn't see two record highs every year with a normal distribution. The record high for each day would be set once, and would be an extreme outlier. Think about something like IQ. If you grab a group of people you wouldn't expect to find a genius every time, or even most of the time. Most of the time you'd expect to find someone near 100. Unless IQs had been steadily rising.

With a normal distribution you wouldn't expect even one record to be set every year. The expected case would be zero records in a year.
Because now for ex. everithing needs at least one or two klicks more. You wanna save a file in office. Now they try to force you to use Onedrive. If you wanna save it local, extra mouseclick. Windows menu, the animations are so slow .. I often clicked already a second time and the menu close right again, after it showed slowly up. Don't even start with Browser based apps ..
I am utterly in awe every time there's a breakthrough in durable random access memory, where someone (often the author) is so very excited about how this will mean we will never have to power off our computers again. Flip a switch and it's instantly on!

Have you lost your ever-loving mind? Of course you're going to reboot. Bit rot improvements have only ever been incremental. To a first order approximation we've expanded from a day or two to a couple of weeks/months for general purpose computers (I argue that servers are not GP, and so their spectacular uptimes don't translate).

In thirty years, that's barely more than an order of magnitude improvement. You're gonna need a couple more orders than that before taking away the reboot option sounds anything like sanity. If you can keep a machine from shitting the bed for 2-3 times longer than the expected life of the hardware, then we can talk, but I'm not making any promises. Until then I'm gonna reboot this thing sometimes even if it's just placebo.
Any items that have memories attached, I take a photo of, then throw them out. The photo will give the same memories, but not take up the space.
I only know what I've read.

"XNU was a hybrid kernel derived from version 2.5 of the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University, which incorporated the bulk of the 4.3BSD kernel modified to run atop Mach primitives..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
2001? I was at IBM in 2009 when they were doing layoffs, and we weren’t the only. Friends who graduated a semester later than I did had offers rescinded in 2008.
Find a company that thinks it's doing well, tell them you can start in three weeks, and then pray for failure?
Would highly recommend Kenshi, it is very different from Morrowind, very weird, and very janky, but completely unique in its setting and gameplay. I am eagerly awaiting the sequel, which is in development.
Politics aimed at making a specific type of energy unprofitable by taxing it to death is not. It's activism.

Sweden cannot depend on solar alone, we have plenty of hydro in the northern parts of the country and wind doesn't work during winter. Wind also kills birds and insects, en masse.

People have an irrational fear towards nuclear. Fact is, very few people have died because of nuclear energy. If you compare deaths vs produced watts, nuclear is the single safest energy source by several orders of magnitudes.

Also, I don't know if that's a typo or a misunderstanding but we are not talking about nuclear weapons, i.e. nukes we are talking about thermonuclear energy production. These are two different things altogether.
Am I the only person who saw this post and figured that it was the source code for a Sybian machine and rolled my eyes, thinking, "How sophisticated could it be, really?"
Before HN, I didn’t know so many things are unreasonably effective.
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>I don't really care about how a group feels about me when that group's defining characteristic is the determination to control other people's lives and bodies.

We should get rid of laws against theft, murder, rape, etc while we are at it. If you don't support that then I don't really care about your opinion since you just want to control other people's lives and bodies.

>It is very clearly a movement centered on controlling women,

It is not clear. Maybe you could actually try to understand the other side? If prolifers genuinely believe a fetus is a human than it is not as simple as just controlling women.

>because the pro-life movement has aggressively worked to reduce access to birth control, and undermine or limit effective sex education.

Some have. Some haven't. You really like to paint with a broad brush. Let me do the same. The pro abortion crowd believes you should be allowed to "abort" a baby after it has been born. I can find a couple prochoicers who believe that so that means every prochoicer believes that right?

>A person who wishes to stop abortions should have as their primary goal the reduction in unwanted pregnancies, after all that is the safest and least controlling approach to reducing abortions. However all the evidence shows that pro-choice legislators and activists are the people who actively work to reduce the rates of unwanted pregnancies.

Banning abortions can be effective at lowering abortions as well.

>Pro-life means working to ensure that women have less bodily autonomy than a corpse.

At least it gives rights to her baby.

>It means that forcing rape victims to give birth

Some prolife people support rape exceptions. You really have no clue about the nuances held by a large number of prolifers.

>even if they are children for whom birth is potentially lethal (because they're "too young" to make such complex choices). Or just to needlessly kill women.

Most prolifers support an exception for medical necessities. Also, in some situations the fetus can be removed without killing it first. The baby will likely die, but deliberately killing it isn't great.

>The states that are most aggressively "pro-life" also tend to have the highest maternal mortality rates,

This could be because prolife states tend to be poorer. Of course you think it is because they don't care about woman.

>the lowest child support,

Many prolifers are in support of raising the child support requirements. Unfortunately due to a two party system you don't have an option of prolife and additional protections for poor mothers / kids.

I am not going to even continue since the rest of your tirade is the same. You make no attempt at understanding the other side and always assume the worst. You take stereotypes and assume everyone on the other side are the same.

I was correct in my previous post that you are not arguing in good faith. I hope you have a better day than you are apparently having today.
For some reasons, Hacker News really love posts with the words "unreasonable effectiveness" in the title.

Not sure if it's correlation or causation.
What will happen to the heaps of digital junk stored on flash drives, hard drives, forgotten online accounts? I get overwhelmed thinking about organizing my own electronics files… wonder what my kids will do with it all.
This article makes me sad. Is this all what it remains when someone passes away? A headache, an unpleasant chore? What about memories? Do people have no feelings? Are they so selfish?
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Thanks for the input. This seems like another interesting route. I'll probably keep this in mind while starting with a simple site. Once I get some basics in I may try this approach.
again, as much as i hate the idea of music creation tools being created for the browser, absolutely outstanding
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I remember a story from a couple of years ago about how 747s couldn't have more than like a week of uptime without running into catastrophic problems, and proggit and hn were in disbelief about the poor quality of the code and wondered how often it became an issue in flight. Turns out never, because the computers were restarted regularly for maintenance, and besides that were designed to safely restart in the air just in case anyway
I don’t we see another 30-40% loss, 20% the most. We’re already at a point where you could argue that an overreaction has happened.

But hey, it’s the future, so no one can really say anything about it :) I at least am gonna see through this one.
If you want to know about some internals of SSD, the only book I know is "Inside Solid State Drives (SSDs)" by G. Wong. Its an old book though.
Getting hit by a bike hurts. Getting hit by a car or truck kills.

This is the crucial distinction which one must disregard in order to argue such equivalences.
He did the very best that could be expected in the early '90s.

It was exemplary coding, and very little of its fundamentals have changed. I have some assertion on this from an interview in the late aughts - most of the problems were in layers above the kernel.

That being said, even VMS is not without flaws (we still run it for our manufacturing floor):

https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/06/openvms_vulnerability...

Nobody's perfect.
> This belongs in a museum!

Gotta feel sorry for curators.

Curators wish to save things in museums and are surely the epitome of hoarders, for whom almost anything can be valuable, but however who can’t even accept extremely valuable collections because the museum is already bursting at the seams. And proper curation takes, time, effort and resources.

Imagine turning down the collection of someone and rending a hole in their heart and putting tears in their eyes: decades of a collector’s loving care for their particular interest, for a bunch of stuff the museum just can’t accept.
But notably, not every bowl of petunias. “Oh no, not again.”
at one point I was moving a stack of books and realized I'm essentially moving thinly sheared off logs around. It was quite a visual to imagine me moving stumps of logs around the size of small UHaul boxes. That's essentially what that quantity of books felt like when divvied out into small cardboard boxes to push the load into bite sized chunks.
I want a machine that can:

1) Identify any small parts (no need to try and remember what something is and if it is useful).

2) Sort things into boxes.

3) Give me a matching object (e.g. I want a screw with the right length/diameter/pitch).
Not here in my experience. My gear is is all on UPS. It will all be up, but the second the power goes out, so does Spectrum.
Samsung has an interesting history of investment in Linux projects. They threw a lot of money at the enlightenment window manager a while ago in hopes they'd do something cool with it, for example.
I thank my parents for being open minded enough to be completely fine with 11yo me watching that show!

There's not really anything that edgy about it by todays standards, but at the time it was kind of avant garde and shocking to many.
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Sadly, databaseanswers.org is no longer active and redirects to a gambling site. This site used to be a great repository of various database models.
Aw, this is so cute! This gives me quite a bit of motivation to start!
Metro Exodus is semi open-world, more like "open levels" that you can traverse freely and then never come back to again.

I'm not sure I'd call Far Cry series RPGs. Don't mean that in a bad way (I fuckin love Far Cry), I've always seem them as an FPS with stats (a la No One Lives Forever) in an open world.

I really wanted to like The Outer Worlds, but the writing seemed extremely juvenile; it touches on a lot of heavy themes (LGBTQ romance, corporate power, worker exploitation) extremely hamfistedly and without nuance. I had to put it down as I couldn't stop cringing at the writing...

Now, Outer Wilds on the other hand...
Russia has been rapidly watching its foreign trade wind down…
So you want i3wm on macOS?
This works for me and it's pretty effective!
Was happy to find that the person behind it Sam Lavigne, one of the people behind Stupid Hackathon.
Really a teriffic time period; Semmelweiss suggesting handwashing was just before it in 1847. Kamerlingh-Onnes work on Superconductivity in 1911. Rutherford splitting the atom in 1911. Modern 'safety' bicycle, 1876 and practical pneumatic tyres 1888. Lord Kelvin and the analogue computers predicted tides, 1872. Tsiolkovsky proposes space exploration by rocket in 1898 and liquid propellent in 1903. Just missing 1917, Gillies and the first modern skin grafts / plastic surgery[1]. Darwin and "On the Origin of Species", published 1859.

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_invention... - Pasteurisation, dynamite, barbed wire, ballpoint pens, radio waves, x-rays, polyethylene, incandescent lights, Zeppelins, laminated glass, vacuum cleaners...

[1] https://www.oddee.com/item_98767.aspx
That’s really bad advice unless you’re going into a field where you can’t possibly ever pay it back.

My sister wouldn’t be a pharmacist without student loans and she is about as far from living in pain as someone can get.
I think somehow people have managed to conflate higher productivity with better quality of life. There's no such connection imo. The quality of life of a lot of people might have decreased, and because they mentally have a connection between productivity (of the country) vs their own quality of life, they feel that productivity increasing not leading to their own quality of life increasing, is a bad sign.
I am Canadian. Add our underdog band with the HUGE lightshow, Triumph. Rush managed to break through the American market, but Triumph only got a small taste by comparison. You can even take a sort of course with Lynda.com about what it takes to set up a Rush concert. One of the best Lynda courses I ever took just for fun. A lot of people forget who Triumph was these days. Nobody forgets Rush.

And then there's Max Webster. Kim Mitchell got better known outside of Canada on his own. But MW was really something that defied musical stereotypes (and arguably, the music was better). Closest I can think of for comparison would be Frank Zappa. Needless to say, nobody thinks of Kim Mitchell in those terms once he went solo.

In many ways we're similar to Americans. But it's easy to find areas where we really aren't.

Back to topic, I was absolutely a huge KITH fan. If you haven't seen it, wait 'til you get to the final episode. Hitler F*ing a Donkey was seriously shocking for the time. It would not have been allowed, but they were far from worried about being cancelled. It's the one KITH skit that is banned on YouTube! I've yet to see it again. It's exactly as it sounds. They catch Hitler F*ing a donkey. Also it's connected to the origin story of Chicken Lady. Pretty edgy stuff.
I think these folks are often very different than FAANG crew tbh. That’s why I say - why bother comparing. It’s not the same even remotely.

People I work with at FAANG-etc tend to be top 10 school, upper class upbringing, want to go even higher, etc.

It’s different. It’s what you’d expect from doctors. I think different types of personalities are attracted to SV than to rest of the country. We’ve built the stereotype around the Midwest developer than the SV one though. The SV ones are just so different in background and ambition.
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It's interesting to see how this company somehow had it coming since it launched their card in the UK market last year, with the regulator breathing down their neck. It only got worse in the US with the current financial situation.

I would like to assume their change of heart about the work policy came way too late and their investment on real estate, like for many other companies that didn't acknowledge the changing times, also played a role in this.

The financial strategy is the direct fault of a few in key positions in the org, who won't be affected by this cut at all, rather played a bit of Russian roulette on their employees.

Their CEO is just as detached from reality as many others and the recession is just a scapegoat in this instance.

For what it matters, I wish all the best to every single one that was caught into this mess.
There's definitely an existing product market fit with drugs, but commissions are extremely low for entry level salespeople. Since there's a very low bar to entry, the business isn't defensible though if you are able to build up a consistent client list, you can look for more efficient arbitrage situations. Supply chain logistics can be hit and miss, especially if you're importing internationally. Also, manufacturers have wildly varying levels of quality control and the customers are quite fickle so one bad shipment can tank your customer satisfaction index.

You can avoid some of the supply chain and quality control issues by manufacturing certain products yourself - just like Jobs and Woz in their garage!

Payment terms are tough as well - your suppliers will demand Net-right-this-effin-second, while your customers will often be Net-I-don't-have-it-right-now-will-you-take-a-broken-VCR-instead.
Yep, and good luck using a debugger against race conditions (or any other time sensitive bugs).