skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you can 3d print a rubber tire shape someday. You might be able to engineer a shape that might be hard to make otherwise and solve some of the issues not having air.
Quite different. To achieve the effects of "Incremental" you would need lazy evaluation coupled with a caching layer, so that successive calls to pure functions with same arguments are not re-computed. This optimization technique is in a sense similar to Common Subexpression Elimination.
> When do parents think that kids should have at least very basic feature phones these days?

I'd say when they start going out on their own. Letting first graders wander around town unsupervised is unfortunately a good way to get the police to arrest you, and if they're supervised they don't need a phone.
This is an interesting idea, but something about having various "behaviours" baked into the logic concerns me. I'm certain that Theo has thought about this and understands the implications better than I do though.

For example, if your process has TAME_GETPW opening /var/run/ypbind.lock enables TAME_INET. The reasoning behind this makes sense, but now it means that yp always has to open that file before it can do its thing. The behaviour of yp always opening that file before accessing the network is now required by the kernel.

The saving grace is that OpenBSD (and the other BSDs) are developed as a unified system, so if yp ever changes to no longer use that file, that change will only come as part of a version upgrade that includes the kernel, etc.
If anyone knows a service like this for getting custom Dockerfiles, please share. I run multiple containers on my home network and often have minor complaints about the Dockerfiles without the time to fix them up e.g. "it should have a bootstrap.sh that supports these additional 5 variables"
I dunno, my first programming job was for a consultancy that billed me out at $125/hour to do small jobs. Somewhere in the $80-$150 range? Maybe more, since their examples highlight jobs that take as little as half an hour.

I think you're assuming that the people completing the tasks are receiving the full $50/hour, which would mean no managers, no salespeople, no accounts receivable staff, and no office.
No problem, anything I can do to help you make your decision.
>And yet, it's not that strange; laptop should be used on the lap, hence the name, right?

Maybe that's the origin of the name, but there are, well, desks, kitchen tables, folding trays on airplanes and tons of other things besides.

Who really uses their laptop "on the lap"? Is that a comfortable position to read or type in the first place?
The fact that advertising is so pernicious is in fact a large part of the problem. I'd argue precisely the opposite: that using a corrupt system to fight against itself is precisely what you want to do. There's a long history of that, with numerous corporate philanthropies (the Carnegie Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc.) following this path.following this path.following this path.following this path.

None of your arguments address the failures of advertising noted in the essay.

As for the market for information goods, that is indeed a challenge. The fact that there's a market failure there still doesn't excuse advertising.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf...
So how well does this work under secondary users? AFAIK /data/data always points to the primary user's data directory, so this wouldn't quite work...
This is a very good point. I definitely see the value in it, and making it simple to use means that programs are more likely to actually use it.
Because any company which rewards people with extra money for deferring 100% of their comp for six months is elitist. The vast majority of their staff can't afford that and are therefore paid less for being poorer.
Drones visit California wildfire, angering firefighters
I am not against legislation but also not optimistic about politicians being able to make a proper law.

You are correct, 'new Image' in javascript would be out. And the question is, if that really hurts. Do you want to dynamically create an image in javascript and let the decision-making happen inside the browser of an end user? Or can the 'new Image' functionality of javascript be considered bloat because the decision to put an image somewhere on the page can be made perfectly well on the web server?

And we can go on, should it be possible to do a POST from javascript code, or should a browser only allow/do a POST when a user presses a button?
I guess this is supposed to link to this:
https://blog.wizardry.io/wizardry/2014/11/22/javascript-asyn...
You're going a bit far there in protest of an analogy.

Even someone who supports slavery would likely be against kidnapping and mistreatment.

But why are you suddenly talking about corporate data use? Advertising happens with or without that data.

There's no real opting out of ads.
Tour de France: Estimating the Probability of Doping as a Function of Power
I've just been playing with some examples for PureData and Supercollider (which you could probably run from a CLI, I was using their IDEs though):

These are two I've tried out:

http://sccode.org/1-e -- Rain and thunder (for supercollider)

http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/tutorials/html/tutorial_rain.htm... -- for PureData

The rain does sound somewhat whitenoise-y though, I wonder if there are any simulations of rain, that take into account the actual physics of droplets hitting a surface.
Wikipedia links to that as a hoax in Stroustrup's entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup.
> Those who are rich can afford to take more risk, and they are taking more risk by putting more in.

No, that's not how ESPP works. There is zero risk that they'll make less money than someone who takes it all as salary instead. It's a guaranteed significant increase in income.

> Unlimited stock contribution being a bonus for already rich employees: Really? Really?! I say this as someone who came in with a negative net worth and no cash flow.

Yes, really. Wealthier Netflix employees are paid more than you because they can afford to defer 100% of their comp for six months.
"Money doesn't talk, it swears." - Bob Dylan

Scale effects are far too often ignored. The scale effects of highly concentrated corporate ad purchases are tremendous.
I used to replace a lot of run flats on BMWs and they are all of that. Plus because the sidewall is so thick they're a huge pain in the ass to get on the rim so chances of rim damage is much higher when you put these on. Even with helper arms on the machine they're still difficult.
The thick side wall makes for a bad ride in my opinion. The difference is pretty significant.
Yes, but are they poorer than if they worked at a different company doing a similar job?

I probably would not work for this kind of company, but I don't see it as 'wrong' just not the kind of company _I_ would work for.
> soft music & get mother's to form an emotional bond with the product.

What if it turns out that people have a finite amount of 'emotional bond chemicals' available each day, and by isolating that feeling and associating it to a product instead of to the baby, well, let's suggest for some people the newly constructed relationship between people and objects is (mother's emotion -> object, object -> baby's emotions, baby's emotions -> object, object -> mother's emotions) , and it doesn't work as synergistically efficient as you might expect? What if you don't even know how to measure stuff like that?

What if there is a measurable loss that isn't obvious? What if it's linked to the most random of things, so it isn't even predictably rational in how it affects the system it operates within? The problem with advertising and emotional manipulation is that the information only flows one way. And a constant stream of increasing revenue doesn't mean people are happy, it just means they are buying stuff.
The way I discovered SF was down was when I was trying to install some Slackbuilds and kept getting MD5 mismatches on the source downloads. I noticed I was getting the same MD5 for several different packages, so I tried to manually grab a package and that's when I hit SF's error page (which sbopkg was happily downloading and trying to pass off as somesourcepkg.tar.gz).

I found myself in the odd position of hoping SF would come back up so I could finish what I was doing, when I'd normally welcome the news that they had shut down.
"To test this link, Hubbard started playing a little game. Whenever the clinic would send him someone with the kind of chronic problems associated with thallium, or any other complaints that were hard to pin down, Hubbard would scribble kale on a little note-card and turn it face-down on his desk. After a short work-up, he’d ask the patient to list his or her favorite vegetables. Over and over, people would mention the crucifers, especially kale. Hubbard would nod, say he expected as much, then show them the note-card on his desk to prove it."

Compelling.

What are the odds things would turn out any different with the rest of the population of Marin?
I'd be interested to know how well layers of 3d printing holds up to that much rotational mass, lateral forces, and vibration at freeway speeds. I have my doubts at this point of its feasibility.
Bill Cosby Deposition Reveals Calculated Pursuit of Young Women
Another way to think about it is that India is investing in an industry that creates profitable inter-industry linkages. By creating a space program you are creating high paying jobs for educated workers who educate their children and eventually move to other high skilled positions taking their human capital with them. The space program also creates a circus of supporting businesses and industries, which are also "high value added" endeavors. So while being able to produce a spacecraft might not have a direct impact on the well being of the millions of Indians, you now have workers with in demand skills who can use those skills in other jobs, you have the ability to produce high precision machinery that can be used in other high value added applications. (See the 19th century cheese industry in Denmark if you are interested in a historical example.) You are brining money into the economy, which in turn goes back into things like schools and business investments.

Look up Rasumssen and Hirschman for academic literature on this subject.
Right, I apologize, I had assumed you're familiar with the Netflix option program and just inappropriately using the term ESPP. We have a rather straightforward option program in which you purchase an immediately vesting option for 40% of the current market price, strike price is equal to the current market price. If the stock doesn't increase 40% (used to be 20%) then you don't just break even, that money is gone. There is risk.

I wasn't asking really in terms of wether or not it was true, I'm asking really as in you somehow think this is some negative point against the company. I'm just not sure I understand how providing an opportunity to employees is a negative?

The wealthier Netflix employees who accept more risk than me are paid more than me, because they're in a position to accept more risk.
A 3D printer could be used to create the mold for the rubber perhaps.
But I can't think of any situation where an employee makes less money because the policy is available to them than if the policy weren't available to them. (Absent of course a decline in value of stock they bought under the ESPP and then held for the decline, but that's a risk inherent to investing, not a policy problem.)

At worst it seems to be a policy that's beneficial to all, and some people choose to/are able to take more advantage of it. Doesn't meet my bar for toxic.
I don't use Java, but I found this fascinating. Very interesting article.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9874503
I just added a comment to the original article:
To help those who suffer from Alzheimer, I suggest to read an article by Dr Bredesen. In a small study his team has greatly improved the conditions of Alzheimer patients (e.g "not being able to work" to "back to work") with 9 out of 10 patients. The results are so impressive, that the same team is now doing a new study with 35 patients. Read his article here: http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v6/n9/full/100690.html
Wouldn't run-flat tires then already be banned?
The comment in question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA
For sharing a filesystem between servers without managing your own high-availability cluster, you could try our ObjectiveFS [1].

[1] https://objectivefs.com
Advertising isn't just about business, if it were ìt'd be a lot more effective and less obnoxious. It's also about power. Being able to control what people see and listen to is powerful. Being able to inject your brand into the public consciousness is powerful. Many brands are familiar to us, and form a part of the culture background, because of advertising, regardless of if we use them.

This makes companies and advertisers feel good, because it's a demonstration of power, and of status.
Are they actually open like that? Because with construction equipment I'd get worried about stones and stuff get stuck in there...
> you would see way less adverts.

Cable is a special situation. They get paid by our tax dollars both directly and with tax breaks, they sell content to us and they also sell advert space to companies. Advertising isn't really a question of "morality"

I would allege that logic, morality, and competitive business tactics all align with the sentiment that ISPs should be immediately decoupled from cable companies and we should allow market entrants to compete there. Cable companies are ruthless tax collectors and deeply entrenched in political circles. It is hard to disrupt this as well, but success in winning a free internet is something I think is truly worth fighting for.
You're also going to need connectivity, of course. We were doing an apples to apples comparison in a vacuum, I thought.
Doesn't Haskell already do this? What is the advantage of OCaml + Incremental over Haskell?
My wife is convinced it will take at least two more generations to domesticate me...
I would argue the easily-exploitable 911 infrastructure is the larger problem. Concerns about police militarization aside, I don't fault their low threshold for response. If I report a violent crime in progress I don't want the 911 operator saying "That's a pretty bold claim, sir. Is there anyone else I could speak to?".
As someone who just lost a week worth of productivity dealing with Docker, I cannot agree more
That's a cool video, but I've seen enough CG-salesy examples from vaporware projects--with similar animation and admittedly high-quality concept videos--to feel skeptical.

Given how well similar tires seem to work for the military, and potentially low-cost replacement road-contact parts, I'd support it. However, my worry is... what if the manufacturer and or distributor went out of business? Will I have to replace all my tires just because one got a little shredded up from some debris? (I assume mixing tires which might have different sizes / radiuses is a bad idea)
Kip is allowed to use a computer in prison? Or was he recently released?
For some reason I didn't expect Linus to use gmail
This part of this thread reminds me of Linux circa 1997.
would work well with [1]

[1] https://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/demo012_3.html
You can easily do a lost-wax process with a 3D printer.

(Although getting the precision may be difficult.)
But the people with a warped view of spam ruin it for everyone else.
Most things aren't going to stick for most people. I certainly only retain some small portion of every book I read. But I do retain some. There is value in exposure to ideas, I think, even if those ideas don't always take root.

Now, I think we've got a really idealized vision of Greece; Idealized by a whole chain of different powers who translated their work, so some of this could be complete bullshit, but from what we read, it sure sounds like they saw rhetoric and logic as the practical skills one needed to be a pundit, a talking head, a leader, or even a participating member of a democracy. So... if we were to give the modern equivalent, we'd teach people about modern rhetoric more than historical rhetoric. History does have a place, sure, but it's not a big one. (I... really, really enjoy history, but I think it has less value that advocates clam to understanding the future. )

There were hippies who talked a lot about how important the connotations of a particular word are. gah. I'm forgetting the author. But I read all my parent's stuff when I was a kid, and it made a real impression on me. For a long time, i would translate everything I heard into the same thing, only using words with negative connotations, with the idea of inoculating myself against such a thing, and because for whatever reason, the negative connotation felt more honest to me than the positive. Less manipulative.

But that's the sort of thing, I think, that people need to think about if they don't want to be sheep.
Hey. Author here.

Thanks for the feedback. I completely agree that culture fit and giving candidates a chance to learn about the company/position are hugely important to any interview. I could write entire posts about each of those.

I guess I should have been clearer in my description that I was writing strictly about the technical portion of an interview.

That said, my experience has been that it's much more difficult to effectively evaluate a candidate's technical ability based on take-home tests or the like. A phone screen would probably work well too, but since that requires a fair amount of my time, I usually prefer to just meet in person.

Hiring is such an important part of any company, and even more so at a super early-stage startup like the one I work at. So I always try to err on the side of false positives instead of false negatives. I'd rather invite more candidates to interview and maybe have some of them end up being under-qualified than to miss out on a great candidate because I'm making too many assumptions before meeting them.

That said, this stuff isn't an exact science, and I'm certainly not claiming to have discovered the One True Way™. I just wrote about my experience, and the things I tend to look for.

EDIT

It's also worth mentioning that here in Boston, there's a huge shortage of intermediate/senior JS devs. So most of the time, I'm really looking for a junior level person who seems likely to progress quickly. In a market where I was able to get more senior level people in the door, I think my strategy would probably shift pretty significantly.
Yeah, that was my first guess, that the creators aren't in the US, and $50/hr is a good rate for a lot of developers that live in areas with a lower cost of living, etc.
> Even someone who supports slavery would likely be against kidnapping and mistreatment.

I mean, they didn't just show up one day. But yeah, I just met hyperbole with hyperbole.

> But why are you suddenly talking about corporate data use? Advertising happens with or without that data.

I think you can opt out of a lot of ads. I don't watch television often and as stated have a large amount of blocking software installed. I don't read magazines and have limited exposure to billboards as I live in a rural areas.

Data is the scary bit and it was mentioned in the article. Selling user data is morally ambiguous. Gun to my head, I come down on the side that it is probably wrong. Seeing an ad briefly while you steal a taylor swift song off youtube is different than the permanence of someone owning a silo of your personal intimate data.

Also, this data is used to create a profile of you which (outside of the 1984 scenario) is used to sell you adverts. This is pretty shitty. Once again, I try to maintain my own privacy on the internet and try to safeguard my data as much as possible and while I think it is a shitty practice, I think people should be responsible for themselves.
The sound of rain is very familiar to us living west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest. When it rains more days than not in a given season, for many locals the sound of rain is often not exactly "soothing".

As a qualified "rain sound critic", to my ears the generated rainfall didn't sound convincingly natural. Real rain is somewhat less "white" (lets call it "gray"), with a steadier, if muffled "thud" as drops hit land.

Of course there are many variables, like wind speed, rate of rain accumulation, soil conditions, urban vs. rural location among others, that alter rain's sound qualities. Accounting for these factors would probably be quite difficult. Too bad the website didn't provide more info about the sound generation algorithms, I think HN readers would appreciate that.

As far as applications of generated sounds go, I think it's a very individual matter. In respect to tinnitus, a condition I've had for a long time, it's not a problem only when things are quiet.

In my case the internally generated high-pitched squeal is constant, loud enough to interfere with normal conversation. Adding external noise doesn't decrease or "mask" the tinnitus, just makes it harder to distinguish sounds in the environment.

One more thing, having known hundreds of adults with ADHD, mileage varies considerably re: benefit or decrement of background sounds on concentration. Offhand I don't know of studies documenting effects, but it would be an interesting study to conduct. My guess is most would do better in a quiet, but not too quiet environment. The issue is precisely what is "quiet" or "too quiet" for these individuals.
I'm certain there are more recent statistics but Google's "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population"[1] (2007) is a good start:

"In addition to presenting failure statistics,
we analyze the correlation between failures and several
parameters generally believed to impact longevity."

There is also a more recent open source dataset from Backblaze[2] that includes:

"Every day, the software that runs the Backblaze data center takes a snapshot of the state of every drive in the data center, including the drive’s serial number, model number, and all of its SMART data"

which forms the basis of an article correlating SMART data with drive failures at Backblaze[3].

[1]: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[2]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

[3]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
Phone Data Can Show Signs of Depression
>As you might expect, without written rules or hierarchy, the scene is dominated by social forces

Isn't that how hierarchical corporations work anyway? If you aren't part of an in-group or friendly enough with a particular department then your coworkers become an impediment to getting things done.
That's covered in the cost estimates. A petabyte takes up about a half rack these days, and renting a half rack from a colo is about $350/mo.
So, do I have it right that this is effectively a way of a program being able to declare to the operating system "I shouldn't ever do <x>"?

Because, if so, that makes a whole lot of sense. (Adding security "for free" generally does).

This could conflict with on-the-fly upgrades, though. If it turns out that some later version of your program does in fact require <x>, then you'll have to kill and restart the process as opposed to upgrading on-the-fly. Perhaps not the end of the world, but worth noting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets

dumb then dumb now
Would love to see a bicycle tire with this. Way too many glass pieces on bike lanes :-(
Normal tires are terrible to recycle. You have to grind them up, sift out all the metal pieces, and then you have some poor quality recycled rubber to use for something.
What does $foo expand to for St. Louis?