jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> And yet: it's only used in a very small fraction of the apps out there.

Qt is estimated to account for ~10-15% of all c++ development, which is a very fair amount for any one single framework. You just don't see it because most of the time it blends in perfectly. Do you think about Qt when you're using your LG TV ? (LG WebOS is Qt). Or OneDrive Desktop ?
After visiting Vietnam for three weeks, and seeing 5 serious road accidents including a dead body, I don't believe the official statistics.
The question I have isn't about programming then. It's who is you patron in this company?

Also the reason the front end guys don't want you around is they know or some of them know their code is a steaming pile.
This is not truly a 0% loan.

Because of the fees, you will pay a minimum of 0,74%.

Also because these mortgage instruments are traded at a price less than 100, you have to take out a loan larger than the amount of money that will be payed out. For example, to loan $100 you might have to take out a loan where you start out owing $105, which further increases the actual interest.
Can you say 'housing inflation'?

All this does is introduce more monetary demand for housing, increases prices, and stretches out credit putting further distance between those with no homes, and those with the biggest.

Housing may be one of the largest drivers in personal wealth in our era - the more you can afford for a down payment and payments, the greater your financial leverage over those with less leverage.

And of course, renters are left in the lurch with higher prices.

A smarter plan might be to limit the term lengths of mortgages to 15 years, and to frankly increase (and stabilize) interest rates on homes. If interventions are what you want to do ...

FYI money will come out of regular consumption and get plowed into real-estate, which is mostly a non productive asset.
The wind/wave people have (re)discovered that the ocean is very good at destroying things.

I suspect the amount of energy stored is also disappointingly small, and that you need a buoy the size of a submarine to make a difference.
You could always resize your window to a comfortable width...
I'm having a hard time understanding the justification for returning to the office. My only answer is "power play" and to justify existing capital investments in office space. If Salesforce, a 49,000 employee company can go remote-first, most other companies can as well.
Federation pretty much guarantees the opposite. There would likely be many servers running many different versions whereby you’d have no way of knowing which are trusted or not. It, by design, distributes trust. This means there are more parties to trust.

Anyway, Signal is designed to handle all the private bits at the client side with e2ee so you have to put as little trust in the server as possible.
> If you're the only person who knows something, you become a liability.

Sorry, this is just wrong. You are a liability if someone thinks about you that way. Fortunately, not that many people are like that. In Contrary, if you are the only one to know something then you are regarded very highly and almost untouchable.
That is absolutely false: https://threema.ch/en/
>corporate organized blacklisting, which has been illegal for years.

Does that mean Uber and Lyft sharing lists of drivers that have been banned from their platforms is illegal?
The upside to driving is much, much higher.
Anybody that is sending you hates etc, well yeah it shouldn’t be a surprise on this website. I hope you don’t get any death threats. But let me tell you amongst all the haters, you are not alone. In the words of the Misfits… “Walk among us” (Little punk humor)

I kind of feel like being a web dev/programmer is like being a waiter in Hollywood. I can program, it pays really well right now and in high demand, but it not my career choice. But I’m always looking for my passion.

In 2013, I used to work at a small business that did videos for jobs. Instead of a job description, they made a job video. (I know crazy) I was the only developer, IT, sysadmin. I reported to the owners, who were nontech. After about 6 months I cleaned up all the crappy code (from professional developers of course). Reduced the insanity from the account managers and streamlined some processes. After that, there were days I didn’t get an email from anybody for weeks at a time. Because I took the time to do it right and reduce human friction. I respond to “emergencies” and kept the system up and running. After I had proven my knowledge and ability to keep the system running etc. I essentially became untouchable, it also helped that no one else knew what I did.

After that, I didn’t do much, work on side projects, exercised in the middle of the day, etc. I left in 2015 and my code was still in place in 2018.

In 2020, I finally threw in the web dev towel! (Working with Drupal and Drupal developers finally killed it)

Now I write Stock/Options/Futures for a family office / hedgefund, which is my true passion.

That’s similar to doing nothing as well.
The jargon file's "tape" reference is likely to mean paper-tape than magnetic 9-track, so the term possibly goes back further to card-punch days. (I first heard the term in 1985 at my first job during high school: a PC consulting shop.)

I'd hazard a guess that the term was lifted from Navy or other such source far predating movement of electronic bits.

Anyone?
Government.

Simply put, the most amazing duplicator of work effort ever seen. Our local transit authorities have their own police forces as well, to add onto city, county, and state, forces.

don't even get started with assistance programs.

Government could be so much less expensive and oppressive with consolidation of duplicate work. Less oppressive because the myriad of over lapping services obfuscates the real impact.
Finally, there is a neural networked way of learning neural network! Thanks..
Amtrak is defacto a government agency, calling it a corporation is a bit of rhetorical overkill. And since Amtrak is responsible for all long distance train travel in this country, and its infrastructure, why not have its own police force?
Among all of those, I've never used Prolog, and only had one summer project's experience in Erlang, and a tiny bit of coursework in Smalltalk. But I'm pretty sure that other than Prolog, I can figure out what's going in a program in any of those languages.

Mind, at the time I graduated undergrad, I had no real idea about Smalltalk. But that was 4 years ago.
I wonder if he thinks about reusable hair buds in his sleep.
Good old memories. Circa 2006-2008 Azerbaijan. College students used to attend competitions, mostly ACM like questions, solved on paper. Only finals were solved using computers. Most of us used Delphi later on, but dumped quickly. Need to check what's happening in Delphi scene.
Fascinating how classic research from the 40s has been turned on its head completely.

Would be interesting to see parent's response.
Thank you, sir ;)
So why is the store brand not in the prime spot rather than the bottom shelf. Is the major brand paying for placement?
Pixel perfect is stupid imo, I have a few website /web apps that just use TailwindCSS / TailwindUI classes, they look decent, users love it and they make me money, thats all I care lol
Do you mean AP is the choice of losing consistency given a partition?
For anyone not familiar... Here's a quick rundown of my understanding of the situation. Craig Wright has been claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the person/people that wrote the original Bitcoin whitepaper. To my knowledge he hasn't done anything to definitively prove his claim and has come up with a number of explanations as to why he can't prove it. One explanation he's offered is that he put the private keys to his hoard of BTC in a trust and that the trust didn't give him access until a certain date. Multiple dates he's said have come and gone with no significant developments.

He's been spending most of his time promoting BSV (Bitcoin Satoshi Vision) which is a hard fork of BCH (Bitcoin Cash) which is a hard fork of original Bitcoin (BTC). The main purpose of BSV is to support fast, cheap microtransactions. Essentially, pay someone $0.00001 for reading their web content or watching their video instead of watching an ad. He's also been filing a ton of patents and sending threatening letters to people demanding they take down "his" Bitcoin whitepaper from their website.

One reason all this matters is BSV may be extremely undervalued if he is really Satoshi ($204 per coin vs BTC $49,767).
Fewer guns on whom?
Less crime by whom?
Hope I'm not the only one that clicks on the link mainly because I'm curious to know how they "conducted" such a study. From what stated in the article, is it safe to assume that this has happened only once, ever?
What? Opposite of intended effect for who? Platform owners or users? Most of us, users, want to get less but more relevant information.
> I don't think I'd call Linux, Mac and Windows "All Major Operating Systems".

In my eyes this pretty much covers it: they even have both DEB and RPM distro support, as well as AppImage and Flatpak packaging formats (they could also consider snaps, but those might not be strictly necessary, considering that there are .deb packages available).

What else would you like to add to the list of major operating systems?

Genuinely curious, i might expand it to include some of the BSD varieties, like FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but they never really embraced OCI images much, Docker not being a first class citizen, nor Podman, given that they already have the historical jails mechanism which is what you should use on those OSes in most cases.

One might also consider Android/iOS a "major" operating system, but those are almost never the targets for software like this, or things related to servers. Actually that's a shame, considering that an old phone with a custom Android ROM and root might make for a really cost-effective alternative to a Raspberry Pi, but alas, we're not quite there yet as an industry.

Any other suggestions? Agreed about ARM support, but that's an architecture question, rather than an OS one.
Sometimes, but that was primarily because the job was very dull and didn't actually require much work. I would some days do absolutely nothing and it wouldn't matter at all (and I stopped feeling guilty before too long because I was being paid so little). When I was working from the office I would usually be motivated by people being around and fill those gaps of boredom with extra work, but when working remotely I realized how pointless that busywork was.

I got a new job around 6 months ago, and now I feel more productive than ever because it's interesting and fulfilling.
You can't say that for anyone else. No one can say that for anyone else.

And, repeating, unsolicited communication is different from search results.

But in fact yes I do wish I could trust that my spam folder was actually complete. I find false positives in there all the time. But my point was that even if it's incomplete, you still have a spam folder that you can choose whether to look at or not. The fact that some stuff is filtered by other parties before reaching my client or server is irrelevant.
Two potential elements:

- WFH means normally working alone in physical terms, normally we have aside a physical local social life, during covid scenario that part was much cut and as a result people WFH are also lone people (well, except for family members);

- WFH in the classic sense, with a properly organized work is a thing, people normally working in an office that have been forced to work at home arranging a place with craptops (and perhaps no external monitor(s), real keyboard, good desk etc) forced to use crappy VDIs and overloaded + badly used communications is another totally different beast.

In general WFH, with a good home, a dedicated room for the working part with anything needed there, a good surrounding area etc is a thing, living in small flat in dense cities, with no good home setup, incertitude about how much such model will remain and how in general so incertitude about mid and long term investments, like leaving the city and flat for a house in a good place with the risk of being forced back, even worst hybrid work with the need of moving gears from home to office and back etc does not help at all.

A good, well cooked steak, is good; a potentially equally good steak, badly cooked, badly cooked can be just a shoe sole. Things pushed rapidly typically have issues, even when potentially they are extraordinary good and life changing for good. That's is. Pushing a good thing sometimes is needed because people tend to be reactionary, just think about the history of potatoes in Europe where at first no one want them fearing they are bad, poisonous etc and only after a massive campaign of military goes through the countryside dropping potatoes around showing how easy they grow, then coming back collecting them and eating them remaining perfectly alive, satisfied and healthy change the game. In the meantime some get seriously ill for having eaten potatoes left exposed at sunlight tough. People need a tool, an incentive but also time to understand it before profiting.
Depends a lot on how you define the "recent history" period and in what locations?

Slavery existed on all continents (except Australia I think?) long before the expansion of Christians started. Antic Mediterranean had slaves. Scandinavia nations had slaves. Mongolian and Chinese empires had slaves. North and South American native civilizations had slaves.

Also the Christian slave traders of 13th - 19th century cooperated heavily with Arabs and natives to run the slave raids for them. At the same time Ottoman Empire also used slaves, as well as kidnapping children to serve as soldiers, just it's far less known in the West as it didn't affect Westerners.
Despite all the hate that furries and furrie-related things get, this was actually a great joke.
> In this post, I’m going to show exactly how hackers instantly harvest information committed to public Github repositories...

A few days ago I published my blog to GitHub, with my MailGun API key in the config file (stupid mistake, I know). In less than 12 hours, spammers had harvested the key AND sent a few thousand emails with my account, using my entire monthly limit.

Thankfully I was using the free MailGun account, which is limited to only 10,000 emails/month, so there was no material damage. Their tech support was awesome in immediately blocking the account and notifying me, and then quickly helping to unblock the account after keys and passwords were changed, and repo made private.

I was exactly wondering how they were able to harvest GitHub content so quickly; it couldn't be web scrapping or a random search. This article explains well how to drink from GitHub's events firehose and the GHTorrent project, so everything makes sense now. Thanks for posting it.

EDIT: This other post[1] describes a similar situation. There are some folks monitoring ALL GitHub commits and getting psswords as they are commited, on the fly.

[1] http://www.devfactor.net/2014/12/30/2375-amazon-mistake/
I think it's almost impossible given human biology to expect excellent architectural/engineering decisions from remote teams. You need the in-the-flesh discussions, whiteboarding, leadership, etc.
See other comment where it's answered.
It’s interesting how this article talks so much about a shortage, but fails to explain what it is or why it has occurred.
That's what I get for not reading the article. But the point stands on correcting genetics for hematopoetic cells. It's possible to fix a small number of cells, then reimplant (often depleting the cells in the person first) and they will replicate.

Easier than trying to fix the cells in a solid organ.
"I note however that the authors seemed to have forgotten about that rule just after writing it down..."

I feel I need to remind you, and a lot of the other commenters here, that this is a top-level summary of all the various arguments. And that it is possible on the Internet to mention arguments without actually advocating for them at the same time. I doubt you could find any individual on the planet that would "agree" with that entire document from top to bottom.
I agree, a quick visit to any Ambien forum shows you the horrors it's users face. http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/ambien/T8MMMFNQIK6VHJOV6
Greenspan is a disgrace. He says he was wrong when he relied upon the market to work.

But the government setting the cost of borrowing money is NOT letting the market work. He doesn't seem to understand what a free market is anymore.

And this bubble would never have developed without the government lending so much money at way below market rates.
I'd say use the exposure to your advantage rather then asking for money (might even turn this opportunity away).

Give the author as much flexibility. Than start developing a premium option in anticipation of the increase in potential users that the book will bring.
"Current employment status, not work history."

This wouldn't be fair to the employer or the employee. How would you really be able to get a grasp of a potential employee's experience/fit for a position if you can't look at their previous jobs (and years of experience)?
yeah, the window coverings are definitely an issue. I wish there were blinds available that would go translucent in the morning. I like it pitch black at night but need the sun in the morning. My first robotic house will handle this. :-)
This is distasteful. Every tech geek on the planet is trying to sound authoritative; I get that. Everyone wants to present themselves as a master of some sort. But self-praise is no praise.

The Hacker's Path? To write such an article, you have to basically call yourself a hacker, and good enough to know _the_ path and to inspire others to follow you. Hubris.

Most of us have mastered a few things, and are trying new things regularly. We're all beginners, we're all masters.
Your definition of good may or may not include "do these higher level abstractions preclude, in theory and practice, well-known and cheap optimizations?"
Completely clean...

Except for DateTime types. Since it uses JavaScriptSerializer under the hood, Json() serializes DateTime values as \/Date(ticks)\/. That, of course, is more the fault of JavaScript lacking a Date literal than Microsoft's serializer. Everyone has to solve that problem some way or another.
What are the "proper" sources?
Because if you 1) have enough RAM and 2) between two boots you use less files from the HDD than the size of the RAM then you'll observe the speed up from the SSD exactly only once between two boots. Every modern OS uses the RAM cache like that -- once you actually start to work, you work from RAM. On another side, those who buy SDD "for speed" are the same who when asked "but SSDs are significantly smaller" answer "I have everything in the cloud." Absurd, isn't it?

Edit: The title of the topic is "why are you not using a SSD yet," I give my exact arguments and get downvoted. Eh, crowd.
Miners are incentivized to use renewable energy because it's cheaper and impacts their profit margins considerably.

Is energy use a concern when you're primarily dealing with solar/hydro power?
They literally cloned the Apple II, I think you’re giving them a little too much credit.
You joke, but searching with “site:reddit.com” is half the battle to getting good results on Google. See also: stackoverflow, HN, various forums, basically any user generated + user voted content.

A user-voted search engine is a good idea, I think.
I doubt you are qualified to form an relevant opinion of a city the size of Frankfurt in 2 days.
> wikilawyerism

here you just made up a word and I dont know what it means, what does it mean to you?
I am not familiar with the Ruby word, but that should not be the case. How do you measure it?
That's not quite what the issue was.

The Short Sellers sold short more shares than existed, but that's allowed.

Essentially they borrowed a share, sold it, then borrowed that same share again, sold again, repeat etc. I believe it was up to 140% the float at one point.

Why that's allowed... I have no idea.
Dutch here! I am not knowledgeable enough on this topic to speak for us as a whole but I do know my level of English has been influenced greatly by this, and I see it now in my little sister (who is 12), too.

It’s being taught English as an 10/11-years old and.. Watching all the Dragonball Z dubbed to English but with Dutch subtitles :)
>All the London traders I know are pro Brexit.

Along with lots of business owners I know. All of them knew exactly what they are signing up for. The OP's message is precisely the problem with the argument from Remain. They didn't answer any question or worries they had with Brexiteers. ( Or they did but it wasn't really what they were looking for ) And the discourse then fell apart.
Actually it comes for free now with the standard ES distribution. https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-no...
Sure, but sometimes it's possible to solve that problem.

When Google kills off a service, it's usually pretty much impossible to solve.
Carjackers, kidnappers, assassins, etc.

Maybe not many in violent places could afford these things, but they're the ones who'd be targeted.
Right, but if you're hauling all day you can stop and fill up in five minutes.
I don't think adverts need the same freedom of speech protections that general users do. Banning factually inaccurate adverts is fine IMO.
Pick a simple game, so your search space is smaller, and you won’t need 10,000 GPUs to get anything done
Do you know where I can find a torrent for this leak?
Why did you choose to live 8mi from your daily obligations? I think walking would obviously be even better.
Despite this beautiful page, and the “new” Microsoft of the Nadella era, I’m not yet convinced that Microsoft actually cares about design.

On the hardware side, their Surface line is beautiful. But the modern Windows UI/UX is...uninspired and sterile. So is Edge, Explorer, and Office suite.

Google and Apple are the leaders in the application design space re. UI/UX, and I just don’t see Microsoft treating it seriously just yet.
Zero chance of that being a primary issue when you're dealing with a directly competing product.

If they allow their trademark to go unprotected from an extremely blatant hit like this, their trademark might as well be worthless. Having a competing product in the market using an intentionally similar name, is a large value debasement for the Postman brand & offering (not to mention the $58m in venture capital that is betting on the value of those things).

Is Postwoman from the Postman company? They're similar products? Are they competing products from the same company? The sound you hear is millions of dollars in venture capital being flushed down the toilet.

No serious company is going to hold back on a legal response just because you staple woman/women/her/she to their existing trademarks and seek to compete head-on with their products or services.
Fine, but regardless of that ... it was still a confidential settlement call protected by attorney client privilege.
It's called XSLT
Well, that's fine if you're running a completely static blog. I keep my stack as slim as possible, but I still need CGI and a DB to maintain a comments section. I also have just a bit of server-side scaffolding to ensure that there's a standard look and feel to the site.
I'm aware of the bull case. However in general, pie-in-the-sky dreams aren't factored into asset prices like that.

For instance, Apple has a market cap of 2.2T a P/E of 40. Tesla has a market cap of 0.8T and a P/E of 1602.

Apple could get into all those markets, so should we value it at, uh, let me run the numbers here... 88 trillion dollars?