jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
RE "Also you might consider passing it not only into event handlers but all functions called from template": By design, there's no support for calling functions from templates other than via event handlers, or via getters (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...), which are treated just like any other property as far as the template is concerned.
Size should not matter. Just don't step in and bail them when they break under their own weight.

Of course, when companies are large enough, shareholder's interests spin off into the regulator's domain, allowing interesting turn of events in the form of bailouts
Thanks Scotty, your feedback is greatly appreciated! Yes - with nested loops you simply get the datum for whichever block item raised the event, nested or not.
Safari supports proper tail calls per the ES6 spec. If your code relies on the non-elimination of tail calls it will not work in Safari, and thus not be Web compatible.
yep, I literally got married on the 18th and tier 4 was brought in on the 19th. Much of the rest of the country was in tier 3 and the xmas days were rolled back from 5 to 1 with only xmas day itself permitted, only in lower tier areas and with more restrictions.

Little weird to be getting to -1 downvotes for something that's a google away...

London and the SE is where the new highly infectious strain originated from and was more or less entirely locked down. Big chunk of population here too...
It depends on who the intended users of SymPy are. If they are programmers, then conforming to how programmers would think would be useful. If it is targeted at mathematicians, then confirming to how programmers think would just be another unnecessary hurdle to using the library, and would hurt adoption (which is what "win" means here).
Kinda depends on the perspective - if you want to take up road riding as exercise somewhat seriously, it's the price point where the component quality levels off.

Above that price point, component quality goes up in terms of performance, weight, etc, below that price point it requires compromise you notice even when just riding for exercise (lower durability, bad shifts, sluggish ride feel and so on).

In the world of road bikes, I'd propose roughly these categories:

100-400: bad cheapo bikes. Will ride, but no fun and will break and give you headaches soon.

700-1000: Decent bikes, but you have to make some compromises. Fun can be had, will not randomly break because of bad quality components.

1000-1400: Good stuff, not extravagant. Won't have to compromise on much, you can be satisfied with this forever unless you want to be competitive, and even then it'll do fine.

1500-2500: "Premium", lighter weight, carbon stuff, really nice.

2500-4000: Same, but you can have cool carbon aero frames and stuff and lighter components.

5000+: Pro bike worthy.
Disabled by default but it can be enabled at runtime https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.0.0/RubyVM/InstructionSequence.h...
> data hording that apple is doing when you use their services.

This sounds like some weird conspiracy theory.

What other data is Apple hoarding? They have no real profit motive to hoard a bunch of data since they aren't selling it, which is where most data plays come from, and on top of that hoarding data without any reason is super costly even if you are one of the largest companies in the world.

They sell hardware, software, and "cloud". They SELL it so you are paying with your money not your data.
Yea, specifically advocating for the Capitol building riots on Jan 6th
It is only off topic because of the title used by the person posting it. My comment was directly based off the linked article.
> Moreover, they've gotten threats from their ISP that they have to delete certain posts or be shut down. (which seems scary to me)

Have you never heard of the DMCA?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25682785

Wikipedia was threatened for having B709D3A0CD2FEC08EAFCCF540D8A100BB38E5E091D646ADB7B14D021096FFCD on a web page.

ISPs are frequently threatening to disconnect customers who serve files, and sites that are large enough to have their own connectivity have had this for 20 years.

This one for example

https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/11/0153247/microsoft-asks-s...

"Under the provisions of the DMCA, we expect that having been duly notified of this case of blatant copyright violation, Andover will remove the above referenced comments from its servers and forward our complaint to the owner of the referenced comments. "
Some do, others stick around. Like Gab, Parler and others.
In what states is this true? I’m pretty sure it’s not true in any US state the way you have it stated. There is a rebuttable presumption that a husband is the biological father to a child born during wedlock (or a child born within 300 days after divorce, in Oregon, as an example). Disestablishing paternity once you have a DNA test is an easy matter, and DCS (Department of Child Support) will do the disestablishing for you if there is an issue where a mother is seeking child support. Source: I establish/disestablish fathers all the time as part of my job... this is not legal advise.
The Capitol Police were either incompetent or complicit. There are literally no other options. They knew there would be a big protests, numbers put it around 200k~300k (a tiny percentage of which actually went into the capitol building mind you).

If they weren't prepared for this: incompetence. But there are videos of people getting selfies with guards, and staying within the velvet ropes when coming in. Something isn't right here and no one is talking about it.
I do not even think it is morbid.

70 million people voted for Trump. Understanding them better is not a bad thing.

Does not mean agreeing with them.

And yes, same.
Putting "safeguards" in place so no one really knows who is in charge can be dangerous.

If the personnel involved hadn't overruled their orders several times during "the Cold War", we would already have had several post-Nagasaki nuclear disasters. These weapons are ongoing dangers to everyone.
I'd venture in the opposite direction as an experiment. Make all posts temporarily anonymous until the thread is closed or less popular. Allow the discussion to exist ONLY according to the merits of the content. Then maybe after a thread is closed or enough time has passed, show the usernames and maybe the points as well.
This appears to also have affected Sony in Japan, as well.

It is interesting how this announcement differs from the Japanese announcement[0]. Japanese people are so paranoid about their identity that this cannot go well for Sony in Japan.

It does not seem like Sony is preparing people for any sort of identity theft in Japan other than calling the card companies. They apologized and remarked at how they are gearing-up to better protect their users when the service reopens.

[0] http://cdn.jp.playstation.com/msg/sp_20110427_psn.html
What a great idea this would have been 3 years ago.
Hehe, that's not actually my point, since you can valorize heads-down work without having to talk about anybody else. :)
Although I'll (perhaps understandably as this is my post / reflection that's been linked) not concede that our idea is bad, I do accept what Paul is saying here. I don't feel there was any duplicity or otherwise at all in the process - it's very open and straight forward.

From my perspective, of course Alex and I would have liked a different outcome, but I don't envy the decision that Paul and the team have to make either.

There's more than one post which has pointed out they don't always get it right. Only time will tell - YC was never a make or break for us.

Our immediate response (after initial disappointment) was "crap, maybe they're right". We've gone back and crunched the numbers and we still think there is a substantial opportunity here, but there's no doubt our forward planning is already being influenced by this outcome. We'll make sure we test these assumptions a lot sooner than we were initially thinking about.

Who wouldn't want the experience that was in that room to listen to you pitch for 10 minutes, and who wouldn't take some of that feedback on board and at least pause for thought?
Android is not an iPhone competitor, it's an operating system. HTC, SonyEricsson, LG, Nokia, etc are competitors.
> Houston is also working hard to ensure that Dropbox feels like a collection of peers, at all levels of the company

But that surely doesn't extend to equity, where the founder holds an order of magnitude or two more than his VP of Engineering, who holds an order of magnitude more than his rank-and-file employee "peers" who built and continue to build the company towards success.
Corollary: fuck parking. It's not as bad in the East Bay, but I've easily spent one minute trolling around in the city searching for parking for every two spent stuck on the 880.
While I don’t disagree with the general thrust of your post, I think the main issue is that a lot of people don’t feel that manned space exploration is the most efficient way to get these returns. Chances are we’ll at least get something out of whatever we do, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth the cost or is the best use of resources. Even with a debacle like Iraq, for instance, the injuries of service members have spurred DARPA to research advanced prosthetics and brain implants.

So we really shouldn’t be asking whether or not anything good comes from a particular action, but rather whether that action is the best way to accomplish what we want. And it just doesn’t seem like manned space exploration is needed for any of the research we need - except perhaps politically.

And I suppose that’s where theoretical best options run up against reality. Theoretically, it might very well be the case that we’d get much more scientific bang for our buck if we didn’t focus on putting people in space or blowing things up (research from defense spending). But manned space flight and military spending (and of course, lots of pork for the locals) might be the only way to get these funds to go towards any research, even if 90% (made-up number) of it gets wasted.
Boy, are you guys ever, OUT OF THE LOOP! APL rocks on.

http://lathwellproductions.ca/wordpress/2010/11/25/thoughts-...
My version of firefox (34.05 on mac) says the tool is corrupted
The idea is that the ads would be served from the original host. Combined with encrypted URIs and the ad resources become indistinguishable from content resources. Thus thwarting blocking. As others have pointed out, yes this evil trick is incompatible with existing ad networks (which use their own domains). But it wasn't my intention to put forward a viable idea. Just an interesting one (namely, ciphering URIs to prevent blocking).
Is the title ironic? A dual-core ARM is indeed nice, but it's pretty far from "incredibly" (yes, yes, emphasis theirs) powerful. Or "nice new super powerful". Or "crazy powerful". All used in the article.
I was just wondering if hair thin, hollow, reflective tubes could be made cheap enough for oceanic data cables. It would obviously be more expensive than regular fiber.
Although I think having a dozen different characters living in my head probably exempts me from inclusion in a study on happiness.

nope, only if they get out of your head.
And were it not for the human rights and false accusation issues, simply arresting EVERYBODY would be perfect!

The privacy issues with backscatter scans are not incidental. Even with software processing they would still very much be present.
The website is still intermittent, but as of now command line access seems to be fully operational.
Seems like an epeen contest, why is this on the front of HN?
Why is apprenticeship so prevalent for that profession, compared to others which seem similar (at least to this outsider)? Is it the amount of hands-on field work? The number of potential students to support a classroom?
As someone who feels the same way, I don't understand how someone who cares about technology can dismiss that point of view so casually. Every single developer I know can at least admit that the NSA's malware is technically impressive.
Just like Sprint's out of business. Just like T-Mobile's out of business. Just like Verizon's out of business. Wait, what?

They all have terrible customer support, and I've had zero complaints about AT&T's coverage while I've had my phone, with the exception of when I was at Lollapalooza a couple of years ago, where I got no signal at all, which added salty irony to all the AT&T sponsorship banners in Grant Park that year.

You can't possibly believe that "American Telephone & Telegraph" would so easily be out of the telephone business without the iPhone. That's an absurd notion.
You probably meant 'all right or 'alright'.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_Law
Excuse me, but as one of the Hacker News Libertarians (tm), I find your analysis quite patronizing.

I believe in free markets because I think they are best for everyone, not because they are a situation I expect to take advantage of. I don't know whether or not I will be wealthy some day. I haven't even decided if the attempt is how I want to spend my life. While a freer market would make it easier if I did try, that is not why I favor it. I favor it because it would make such an attempt easier for anyone who wanted to try. Because I believe it fundamentally just for individuals to own what they create, to profit from their labors however they can, to be able to spend their money freely on anything anyone else is willing to provide at whatever price they find mutually agreeable.

I think it is the fairest way to distribute wealth--those who create it keep whatever they make--and the surest road to prosperity.

Now, you can disagree with me about that opinion. I could well be wrong about whether markets work, or whether they're fair, or whether they make everybody prosperous. Hackers are famously conoisseurs of ideas, and I am no exception. I like new ones.

What I resent is false analysis of my motivations, the prediction that I'll change my opinion if I cannot realize selfish, unlikely dreams. Please give your opponents the benefit of the doubt; we are all decent people trying to make the world a better place for everyone, we just have different ideas on how to do it.

Have the courtesy to address my opinions, and not my person.
First of all, hours in the gym doesn't mean anything.

It's more about diet -- 6ft/sub 125lb is sickly wire thin. You are living a lie if you consider yourself fit or healthy when you are malnourished, underweight and underdeveloped.

Start eating more. As an ectomorph you will have no problem shedding fat so you can pretty much stuff your face with cals every 2 hours.

Also, as an ectomorph, you need to get in and out of the gym as fast as possible so you don't burn too many cals. I suggest a beginner 5x5 program. Also, STAY AWAY FROM CARDIO.

Get to 160lb minimum and re-evaluate.
Correct me if I'm wrong but couldn't any number of other caching solutions (such as memcached) be used in this situation?

In other words, are there any features specific to MongoDB that they are actually making use of?
Yeah, there's some other stuff coming for it soon too ... Adobe's started paying a bit of attention to it since the private browsing debacle.

I hope they fuck that stupid web settings manager* off next, that's probably the best thing they can do to make the settings/options easier to understand.

* http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...
From TFA:

I wrote Gitlet to explain how Git works. I didn't write it to be used. It would be unwise to use Gitlet to version control your projects.
Why aren't more people using this for micropayments? Instead of paying an arm and a leg in transaction fees to credit card companies?
Last year alone there were over 200 academic, quasi-academic, research papers, journal articles and theses dedicated to bitcoin. There've been tens of bitcoin conferences and there's loads of discussion on the tech and economics of bitcoin to be found at say the protocol's core developers's IRC channel, mailing list or github discussion pages. Feel free to start there if you want.

But to most people none of that makes much sense if you don't even grasp what bitcoin is and why it matters. Hell I couldn't even be bothered reading about that if it didn't matter. Only once you grasp why it matters can you get into the technology and economics and see if it still adds up. And you generally don't want to start with the question of 'why it matters' from a highly technical research study.

But this op-ed is titled exactly that: 'why bitcoin matters'. I think it's an excellent place to start thinking about bitcoin. I use the word research in an informal sense, hence the word 'basic research'. ('looking into something') Sorry if that was misleading.

Now you can say 'he's biased, he is heavily invested'. Or you can say 'He is heavily invested because he is willing to put his money where his mouth is and make a big bet on this technology and not without good reason'. If it was a short-term bet, your criticism is valid. (I invested in A, I pump A, I dump A, I profit deluding others). But this is a long-term bet, you don't generally make those unless you genuinely believe in its fundamentals. And it's not just an opinion, but a large bet, there is money at stake.

So I'd say the op-ed is very valid, perhaps much more so than someone who isn't invested in the outcome and thus has no risk saying something completely wrong, unlike Marc.
If you add this to your torrc:

ExcludeNodes $0AD3FA884D18F89EEA2D89C019379E0E7FD94417,$3100A70862157E5F9136B6AAEB7571745D4DC055,$49E2C345FDA5E9ADFE13320690BF2C77EA803E6C,$4A0CCD2DDC7995083D73F5D667100C8A5831F16D,$5FABB67A4C229ECACD53F5E02B62C87E5300728D,$62665FD8A07D2E0F6ABDB4A36283A5A8824C0128,$6AF64BD1DF8B92D5194760C2256EBF80F70273DD,$71B7F2406DDAE829979B53963B952E17CD021125,$8522EB98C91496E80EC238E732594D1509158E77,$D67C5F501DAA0EE65AF9422A36385217D8AD3927,$EFE02E652CA2EB6FD96B30DC77EA55ABF7EFC1A5

Then your traffic will never pass through any Tor node that Jacob has publicly admitted to controlling.

To verify this:

Check https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en for the ExcludeNodes directive. There is an ExcludeExitNodes option, if you're willing to tolerate him as a middle-man, and just not exit out his nodes.

Check one of the online directory servers (e.g. http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/) and use the Advanced Query Options to find all the nodes where "Contact" - "Contains" - "appelbaum.net" to find which nodes he administers. Then add the fingerprint of every node you want to avoid to the ExcludeNodes entry.

You should obviously confirm the list above with other sources, because one or all of the following might be true:

1. I may be in cahoots with Jacob, plotting to hack your codez.

2. The directory server I linked to may be a co-conspirator. Fortunately, there are other directory servers you can query.

3. There is no three. Anybody can put up a node and declare anything. If Jacob, or I, are using Tor nodes nefariously, do you really think we'll put our names on them?

P.S. Don't forget to restart Tor after you change the torrc.
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Not sure if it's specific to my region or if it's because of covid, but they require making a reservation to test drive nowadays.

From what I glean from reviews, it sounds like the Model 3 is actually pretty good from a purely technical handling standpoint, but what people aren't fond of is how it feels doing so.
I don't think it's quite the same.

I'm saying sports, arts and music got to such heights, that an ordinary person can consume nothing but the best 0.1%. This in turn means the demand for the rest has plummeted, and being the guy who can play guitar "okay" doesn't really excite anybody anymore. There's a market at the very high end, and nobody wants to pay a cent for anything below that.

Programming is going the opposite way, if anything. There's lots and lots of programming grunt work that just needs to be done by somebody and doesn't take any particular skill. There's rather less need for wizards able to squeeze every possible bit of functionality into 64K, because at this point resources are cheap.

At this point a programmer can get by with being moderately competent and doing little other than gluing frameworks together. Things like music are the opposite. Mere competence is nowhere near enough.
Is there a sh to powershell conversion tool? When I run a local environment in Google Colab, I find myself having to write !commands for MS and Linux filesystems. It'd be convenient to write once.
You start falsifying history the moment you unpause the game. Equality shouldn't be there at the start of the game, nor the most common outcome, but there is no reason the game engine needs to forbid it.
I think it depends.

If the behavior they were fined for was strategically useful to the company, then they will definitely think “it’s only half a million” and keep doing it unless they think the fine will be much larger next time.

If it was just a fuck-up, then what you're describing will happen.
Certain types of games, like factorio and eve online, are firmly nerd games. We make jokes in grand strategy game circles about how few not "traditional nerds" play these games. I still have not seen proof of a SINGLE woman who plays grand strategy games.

These kinds of games are the most uniquely intellectual outside of puzzle games, programming games, and even more difficult strategy games.
ITT: Everybody saying how awful OP's workplace is. But ~10mins of commuting? That's heaven! If I had to commute to a local company it would take me 90mins in a good day, or rent a place for half the salary such local company would be paying me.

I've been working remotely for 14 years now and I'm never coming back. Ever.
I've been using Google Reader since it was first available.

I don't know how or why, but over the past 6 months I've actually converted from Google Reader to a combination of HN+Twitter.

I think the content is just more relevant and curated this way.
While I very much agree with your sentiment (email marketing is usually a bad thing), this article seems like a small example of "psychological hacking" and I hate to admit how interesting this sort of thing really is.

It frightens me to know that there are people who spend as much time optimizing the performance of their marketing messages as we do on algorithms. The key difference (at least this is what I tell myself) is that while my work improves the actual product, the marketers work does no such thing.
These are all good and all, but does anyone see a reason for the "Likelihood: Very likely" below each prediction? Every single one just says "likely" in different wording.

Is it to make readers more agreeable? Is it to note authority?
Thank you for your feedback. I changed it to:

"Some of the links contained within this site have my referral id (e.g., Amazon), which provides me with a small commission for each sale. Thank you for your support."
Your risk reward equation doesn't account for preferences. There are a lot of folks out there that would be turned off by a 0% chance of a big exit, which is what 250-500K/year is. Every startup offers a tiny chance of fame and fortune that a normal salaried position lacks.
If your goal is doing something practical with the machine, Python is certainly a better choice than BASIC. On the other hand, from an educational standpoint, BASIC shares an important trait with Pascal: It doesn't do much out of the box. In BASIC you have to do some work to extract the minimum element of a list, swap two numbers, maintain a resizable array and any number of other trivial "algorithms" that Python's language features and libraries provide. Is it so hard to see that more sophisticated languages can take away opportunities to learn the fundamentals from scratch and gain an intuitive grasp of algorithm design?
I was told I should put my level of confidence in each one by a friend. I had originally skipped that.