jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Care to expand?

Certainly. It's not access to free OSes that's the problem - it's that both the major one and most of the minor ones are derivatives of either UNIX or the POSIX specification. (Haiku is the only semi-popular one which attempts to do something different.) There's little chance of stepping outside that box in any major way.

For example, a slowly-moving research project of mine is to build a fully functional OS that uses capabilities, per-application sandboxing, a generic object store instead of a filesystem, a built-in intra- and inter-computer RPC mechanism, standardised configuration (from the network admin level downwards), and a powerful Smalltalk-based GUI for managing all of this, on the idea that today's information workers need better ability to manage and script their system, including building new applications out of existing ones. The Linux ecosystem doesn't provide a meaningful, standardised interface for doing so for many office-y applications or complex formats.

While you could theoretically layer all this on top of POSIX (and in fact, that's the first implementation of my system), you are at the same time throwing away 99% of POSIX, and you are highly expected to maintain compatibility with apps for the system you're building on top of - which likely don't fit in with your system's design, and doesn't encourage the creation of applications for, or modification of existing applications to fit, your new system design.

This sort of greenfield R&D is what's been missing. Even universities are primarily stuck getting POSIX running on various kernel architectures, avoiding the topic of OS design entirely. You could point towards Android as a counter-example, but that's not a desktop OS - its primary competitors were proprietary OSes made by the smartphone vendors, and it's still not really capable of being used as a primary OS.
This just in, kissing = gay sex. Also, tjmaxal is defending apple and homophobia up and down this thread.
eventually, maybe; but right now there just isn't very much price pressure in the VPS industry.

Personally, I won't touch any hardware until I can get it from more than one vendor (usually, until you get to that point it's too expensive. Their may not be much price pressure in the industry as a whole, but in my niche, there certainly is.)
Why not do a saas product that includes consulting integration?
The first key idea is that the successful entrepreneur is one who executes transactions where she has a different model of value than the other party. This is why it pays to wonder about the things "you can't say" and pay attention to the fringes.

I think that the predator mindset is also key. If one is running scared with the herd and if one's hope is based on a vague notion or an outside chance, then one is the opposite of a predator. (The dot-com and Web 2.0 booms were full of groups with this mindset.) If one has an insight that others do not and prepared to execute on it, then one is like a predator stalking prey.

How does one study and internalize such a mindset? Is there a safe way to practice it?
>Defenders of short-selling claim it helps quickly respon to fundamentals in the market place.

And we might get sane Price to Earnings ratios.
What you're talking about is called hypothesis testing. Basically, you can figure out exactly how unlikely a given event is under a certain set of assumptions (in this case, how unlikely it would be for a fair coin to show heads 10 times in a row). If it is sufficiently unlikely, where you and people reading your work decide what "sufficiently unlikely" means, you can claim that your initial assumptions were incorrect.

I've been away from statistics for too long to go into specifics, but you can mathematically determine how large a sample size you need to be X percent confident that something weird is happening. I'd suggest reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis_test for more info.
Have you been lurking outside my bedroom window?

I always swear that this is the last time. I hope today can be a turning point.
Hi HN, today I’m sharing an AMA we did yesterday with Pia Poppenreiter. She’s the former CEO of Ohlala [1], a paid dating app. Although she can’t reveal much from her new venture, she answered questions about the sex tech industry among others.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12106072
Before we all get into a rage, is there any real evidence that they objected to semi-nude homosexual kissing and not just to semi-nude kissing in general? That would still be kind of silly but it loses some of the rage-inducing homophobia...
Where exactly have you been? It's definitely illegal to cross the street outside designated pedestrian crossings (where available) where I live - and you will get fined if you're impeding traffic by doing so and are seen by the police.

Now, I don't know all the national laws here in Europe, but this page would support the idea that other countries might have very similar laws: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowle...

>(c) In order to cross the carriageway elsewhere than at a pedestrian crossing signposted as such or indicated by markings on the carriageway, pedestrians shall not step on to the carriageway without first making sure that they can do so without impeding vehicular traffic.

>(d) Once they have started to cross a carriageway, pedestrians shall not take an unnecessarily long route, and shall not linger or stop on the carriageway unnecessarily.
If two equally capable entities are competing, the one who puts in more time will almost always win. The Chinese may be lacking the (social and physical) infrastructure that the Europeans have a head start on for productivity, but they are catching up or have already caught up.

This probably applies less to big conglomerates who exist and will continue existing regardless of what happens (honestly most of their employees can just not show up and they will be fine), but more to technical innovation.
6%Apr, and a few hundred thousand.. 20% might have been possible briefly in the 1970s
He might not have been completely upside down, although I’m not sure if there’s a difference.
5 days ago the data center my dedicated servers are in caught fire, and I was able to restore everything from back up to DO in 30 minutes. I would be so screwed if there is no capacity from on demand hosting providers.
That's the price of a moderately sized public high school in the US...without considering the land.

For example Pinole Valley High School https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/04/14/west-contra-costa-sc...

Google says Contra Costa County has nine high schools.
Not sure how this relates to what I said, maybe you misread it.
The referenced talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dar8P3r7GYA
> think of your problem purely in terms of the world you want to end up in as a result

Great framing!

Isn't this the difference between imperative and declarative statements/code/systems?
I would've missed it too if not for this interaction!
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It's more than just a nuisance though. It comes off as arrogance to their users and a big brother feel to it. Not sure crowd sourcing would be any better, because it would involve people "ganging up" on each other and would be inflammatory. Fact-checking involves somebody's own search for truth. There's an independence to searching things out, feeling along for sources you trust. Trust isn't gained by a simple textbox warning.
This works fine until a point in life at which communicating with others and answering to others, meaning you are available for them, whatever the app, is more important than anything else.

Not meaning to not boycott such apps with those you can, just giving another pov from elsewhere in life. Most of my phones are rooted and without google for years, but sometimes...

Life is short, human communication is deep and fragile. Tools do change, renew and improve, while as living humans we get older ;)
It's interesting how regular people rush to buy cryptocurrencies when the valuation is at all-time-high. Then, in a month everybody will freak out that they can't buy a Lambo yet, even worse, they lost around 50% (based on past peaks).

Of course, I can't predict the future, so maybe it's the first time a peak will never end? :)
That's how I learned as well. I started using Ubuntu Linux on my laptop and was forced to use the command line to install programs.
We have lots of policies with adverse incentives and terrible outcomes. We routinely spend more money in the US on homeless services than it would cost to provide homes for free because homeless individuals wind up a lot sicker, etc.

It's not sufficient to show that this makes more money for the owner. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. If it costs the rest of the world too much, no, it isn't the highest and best use by any stretch of the imagination.

Edit:

See for example this hospital decided to just house a few people to lower its expenses:

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/homeless-patients-get-n...

Please note that I am not actually for "housing first models" or free housing. I'm for market-based housing that makes sense. It's just a nutshell description of the problem space to note that just giving people housing can be cheaper than leaving them to fend for themselves.
Then why do doctors wear them in hospitals?
Anecdotal evidence doesn't match the actual polling.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcar...
I’m talking more along the lines of “hr user logs in, now you need to SET ROLE for the request and make absolutely sure RESET ROLE is called when the connection goes back to the pool”. A lot of frameworks make this harder than it needs to be.
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kudos to everyone involved!
In Marty: since you attach a Store to a React via a Mixin that looks for a singleton, can you have a dynamic number of stores when you have a dynamic number of React components of the same type?
Wow, this thing is beautiful. I love the cost to have it built: $190USD. I'm fairly certain it would cost me 3 times that to build it myself here in Michigan.

Is it solid wood or veneer? Also, anything you would do differently?
I see, I have never been to NYC. Usually I as a guy meet local women depending the local male/female ratio. For example in Zurich most of the male foreigners I know invite women from their own country to live with them, or have long distance relationships.

But actually the foreigner gay scene there is quite big there, it's easy to find single gay guys at parties (I have been there with a gay friend).
> Some businesses cannot be profitable and therefore will not exist at certain minimum wages, though.

It's also worth noting that some businesses probably can't be profitable without chattel slavery, though it's hard to find examples since the practice has been illegal for so long.

> The US minimum wage is a big part of why manufacturing jobs have moved out of the US, for instance.

No. I'd say the bigger part of the reason was free trade agreements with countries with substantially lower wages, which encouraged job movement for little more than wage arbitrage reasons, minimum wage or no. The average income per capita in Bangladesh is apparently $600/year [1]. Americans would starve and die of exposure on those wages.

[1] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/bangladesh/annual-hous...
macOS's Activity Monitor, and the task manager on Ubuntu (forgot its name, something like System Monitor maybe?) when in “Solaris mode” do sum of core % utilisation without dividing by number of cores. So a single core at 100% shows up as 100%, four cores at 100% shows up as 400%.
Oh yikes! I had just assumed you couldn't have meant a markup/price difference of $65! Thanks for the follow-up!
If Uber had to buy the vehicles, service them and pay full tax and fines it would be nearly as expensive as black cabs.

I take my fair share of Uber rides but I can see the next dot com bust happening now when this unprofitable business model all washes out. See also WeWork.
You can pry excel from my cold dead hands. I try to use LO regularly but it can't even come close to meeting my needs, for example handling very large tables. The only response I get from LO boosters is "You're using it wrong. Teach sql to all of your front line office workers, or don't do what you want to do." meanwhile excel does what I want it do do.
They can always pay to express their displeasure—even better if a cut of the price is shared with the user (but that would introduce other issues).
My previous comment was a mental experiment for something that I found super interesting; it just kind of leaked out without much, um, thinking. It was definitely not my intention to suggest that Ricci's choice did not influence what is in the language today, not least because this is all new to me (the wrong choice of "historically" probably made things worse).

In any case, thank you very much for taking the time to explain, particularly the part about characters with no meanings!

Edit: typo!
...and guided through the Federal landscape by none other than former Senator Chris Dodd. If the MPAA can actually prosecute wholesale piracy in China/India/etc, I'll have to look outside and see if a flying pig might smack into my living room window. From my experience, they prefer to sue grandmothers, families and college students in the US, because fish in a barrel.
> the idea they should always be used is unfortunately prevalent making them anti patterns

Yes, this is often too true - also to include Hadoop, NoSQL, ...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=why%20i%20don%27t%20teach%20so...
Well, time to stop supporting BlackBerry.
I would have like to see position:sticky.
See this comment where they list all the (probably unaware) contributors:

https://www.delvelabs.ca/robbed-gunpoint/#comment-1811325060
There was a similar, much more terrifying, story was in the New Yorker about six months ago.

An Iranian physicist, Sirous Asgari, visited some US universities. On his next entry into the US he was detailed by the FBI as he entered and handed a completely-invented indictment of numerous crimes, and they demanded that he become an informant.

He refused, since the indictment was completely phony. The FBI, furious, ensured he was charged with everything under the sun.

Even though the government lost its case against him (due to clear lies by the FBI), he was then thrown in an ICE jail, through utter Kafkaesque bureaucratic hand-offs. Had to endure near-prison revolts as the inmates tries to keep themselves free of Covid. A judge almost granted him release due to the dangers of getting ill, but then he caught Covid and nearly died, so his petition was rejected. He was finally swapped as part of a prisoner-swap deal with Iran. And yet he seems to be persona-no-grata now in Iran, as the assumption is that he must now be working for the FBI.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/the-man-who-re...
Alright, well if you ever release ngrid I'm sure you won't mind if I post about alternatives right?

Maybe include some links to some competitors, and an invitation to their discords. Also I'll be sure to not mention your project at all in my post. Hope that's ok.
That's exactly right. Today, the focus is on making it possible to use Rust to write pieces of the Android platform itself.

Certainly, there are some _apps_ on Android today that use Rust (shout-out to my Firefox friends!), but that's not something I'm investing in right now.
Yep. WeWork was always a non-tech real estate play with some very bad finance built into it; it was NEVER a tech company in any way shape or form simply because it had a web site!

But that was the lie told - "We will have double-digit tech growth rates and market domination!"

Nope!
The thing is, Bitcoin doesn't have to use a ridiculous amount of energy. You could theoretically run the entire network from a single miner running on a 10 year old Android.

The problem is that the proof-of-work system creates an arms race and everyone starts building massive mining farms in order to get a bigger piece of the block reward pie. Some proponents will claim it's necessary for decentralization, and to a point, it's true, but we definitely don't need the amount of mining power in use today.
Have you considered the medication helped you learn new skills, land a great job, and meet people?

Diabetics hate the idea taking insulin all their lives. Paraplegics hate the idea of using a wheelchair all their lives. What makes your chronic illness different?
Is there a $100 recording app in the store? Sorry, I didn't know. I do have an inkling how much a pro setup costs, though.
Looking at their jobs page, I'm a bit shocked at how low salaries are in India

https://angel.co/adpushup/jobs/

1,000,000.00 INR = 13,985.88 EUR

and that's the top rate for the senior JS dev position.
Well, I won't share the fun interplay behind the scenes, but I will say there's an update in the review. WakeMate shipped me another wristband to try, the third, plus another new version of the app. This performed no better than the previous ones.
Yet the rate of growth seems to be more or less linear. At least within this time frame.
No. I think memcache is a great non-persistent data store as long as one understands its limitations (but Redis is better ;-)). "Data store" doesn't imply any sort of long-term persistence or stability, merely something that stores data.
Where/when can I get a library for this?
So what do you think is the proper way to validate your ideas before you commit time and effort to building the product?
"emacs is a decent operating system, lacking only a good editor"

viper/vimpulse solves this quite neatly. I find the mix of emacs with viper+vimpulse to be the best of both worlds: The efficiency of vim when doing fine-grained text manipulation and navigation, and the completeness of emacs for integrating my workflow (running shell processes, switching buffers and finding files with the built-in fuzzy matching ido-mode). It's just so much better to have the terminal in a split window, interchangeable with code buffers, than having to alt-tab all the time. Emacs brings vi to the whole workflow, in my experience. All the little things, like selecting and yanking text to and from shell buffers (all with vim keybindings), just make it feel good. Also, the indentation is great, keyboard macros are much better (you can record commands other than simple keystrokes, e.g. searching) and the language modes just seem to understand their subject languages more "deeply" somehow.

vim and emacs + viper/vimpulse are both programming environments that implement vi's modular editing philosophy. It's the vi editing model that I couldn't possibly leave behind me, not vim. I might even be able to survive a modern "IDE" were I able to use well-implemented vi/vim keybindings :)
> With Vim you have to count the number of lines ahead of the operation, which is a real speedbump.

With Vim 7.3, a new option 'relativenumber' was introduced to help with this.

From :h relativenumber

Show the line number relative to the line with the cursor in front of
each line. Relative line numbers help you use the |count| you can
precede some vertical motion commands (e.g. j k + -) with, without
having to calculate it yourself. Especially useful in combination with
other commands (e.g. y d c < > gq gw =).
However, I picked The Netherlands from the list because it was closest to the US and has a higher crime rate than Germany, France, Canada, etc. You can substitute any of those in my argument and it still holds.
I agree but I'm happy with the ambivalence. People who outright dismiss points/karma remind me of people who think money is "evil."

I have just shy of 13k karma and I'll admit that my rise from around 3k->10k was driven entirely by, first, trying to get on the /leaders page, and then into the 10K club ;-) A pointless, egotistic goal but good things came out of it. Firstly, most of my comments and posts weren't frivolous so people appreciated them at some level. Second, spending so effort here made me feel more a part of "the community" and has led to some interesting extracurricular discussions and opportunities.

Not everyone needs numbers, scores, or money as motivators, but some of us find it a handy metric. Being a points scorer doesn't mean the outcome for third parties is necessarily negative and I certainly wouldn't do "anything" just to score a few points, that's for sure - just like not all rich people are evil money grabbers.
But a noscript just tells someone that they are missing out on something. A "hey, disable noscript or enable JS so you can see the page." deal.
A sovereign nation can't and shouldn't sacrifice itself to save another. It's duty is primarily to care for it's own citizens.
I don't see why web apps should be handicapped compared to their native versions. If it was as easy to download, install, and run native apps, we would be having the same exact conversations in regards to security and portability. In fact, we already are having these conversations in regards to sideloading on iOS and Android devices, and it seems like HN agrees that sideloading should be supported by the OS vendor. The user should be allowed to do what they want with their purchased hardware. There should be no walled garden dictated by a few multi-billion dollar corporations.

So how come this gets twisted on its head when it comes to web apps? The user should be allowed to do what they want, right? So why shouldn't I be allowed to use web apps that interact with bluetooth or USB devices? Why should your philosophical arguments on which software on what platform is allowed to do get in the way of my very real productivity and desire to use my computer the way I want to? Why should I _have_ to use native apps if I don't want to? As a web developer, why do I need to learn Qt or GTK or whatever to ship something useful to end users, when I already know HTML and JS and could easily deliver my product if the right native API was exposed?

And for all the arguments about performance: I never see anyone complaining about un-optimized native apps even though we have all used them before. Remember splash screens? Random freezes? Running out of RAM because some random app in the background decided to malloc 80GB for some godforsaken reason? How is that a better experience than a web app running in a sandboxed tab you could easily kill whenever you want?