jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Programming as a topic is a iceberg. Pick some flavor, find some tutorials, accomplish some small things and it's easy to think the rest of the industry is just that process * 10 every day.

In reality, it's that process * 1000 plus the addition of a few other processes those tutorials can't expose because they're only needed at the intersection of 50+ different applications. Plus an entirely unaccounted for process in the form of creative problem solving that makes up 90% of the work.

I've had a number of executives plop down at my desk, proudly proclaiming to be a python dev only to see their eyes glaze over and every other word fly above their heads only a few commands into the interpreter.
Really? It made a lot of difference to mine. If I didn't have a mild skeletal problem I'd probably be in the air force right now, rather than a software engineer.
There are no unstated motives nor background motives—we've been stating them in the foreground for years! Unfortunately, communication on the internet is largely stateless, so no matter how many times you explain something, the bulk of the audience will not have heard it and/or will make up some other explanation.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713701 and my other posts in this thread for plenty of explanation.
How can someone make an informed decision with so many unknowns? Also, what would it take for the product to be pulled? Is there a clearly established rate of side effects?

The death rate for my age group where I'm located based on government data is 1.1 deaths per 1k cases, with less than 1000 deaths total. This seems statistically insignificant to me, I would wager half or more of these cases had a different leading cause of death.

Compared to 2018's flu death rate, based on CDC's wildly inflated 'assumed cases' number, the death rate of covid is 10x that of the flu, based on the reported cases of covid. Considering covid cases are likely extremely under reported as the vast majority of cases are asymptomatic, they're probably about the same.

At this point, there's not enough data to convince me it's safer than getting the wild virus.
See also ZDNet article about this:

Critical Zoom vulnerability triggers remote code execution without user input

https://www.zdnet.com/article/critical-zoom-vulnerability-tr...
> So we don't exclude them to make a point, that's also true for Mac and PC laptops.

The 2016-2019 mbp have been ripped on by everyone, Mac fan or not. I'm not sure if they will go down as the worst Macs of all time, but it might the longest stretch of bad Macs in the history of the Mac.

With the M1 that time appears to be over - finally.
Do you have a suggestion on top of your critic?

What would be the proper way to enact constructive change on behaviors?
That absolute statement is absolutely false. Say, I have a chicken that can be feed from left-over bread or wheat. I can store the wheat basically indefinitely, so there is no spoilage. Also, I cannot use wheat directly, so it is unusable calories for me. But I cannot store bread for very long, so there is spoilage. Now, using the chicken, I can convert the spoiled bread into eggs and meat, useful calories for me.

Say 10% of the calories produced for me at a human go to waste. And I can convert them at 25% efficiency to usable calories via a chicken. Then I have just increased the yield of usable calories by 2.5%. In consequence, I need to buy less and thus emissions can be reduced.
Fantastic writeup: technical details, context and framing, all in clear, informal, plain-English prose. It's profoundly effective, and vanishingly rare. As for Fly's solution per se: like many great ideas it seems simple bordering on obvious, in retrospect. I'm impressed and more interested than ever in bringing fly.io into my wheelhouse.

Final thoughts:

CLI-first: flyctl reminds me of `vercel` (fka Zeit `now`), which is a big compliment

> "VM build-and-boot process on a second deployment is faster than the logging that we do"
... ie, well-suited for lambdas / serverless functions at CDN edge -- which is of extreme relevance and interest to me and everyone else working on minimizing latency with modern webapp architecture... exciting times!
I'd probably go with just 'r' and 'w', or 'src' and 'dst'
Sometimes the artistic process is just as important as the final product.
There is a close relationship between operative and official. As you probably recall, GHW Bush was head of CIA at one point.
It's not the time spent that matters, it's the quality of the time spent. Intensity matters. A 30 minute intense workout is better than a leisurely 2 hour workout.

There's no real formula. When I started strength training, I knew nothing. I was lean and weighed about 155 pounds. That was about 9 years ago. In about two years I put on 20 pounds so that I was about 175. Over the course of two or so years, I put on about another 10 pounds so that I was usually around 185. Around then I switched my focus to compound lifts like deadlifts and clean & press. I shot up to 195 pounds. Last summer I lifted four days a week and shot up to 205 pounds. Now I walk around closer to 200 because I don't do much strength training. It's mostly grappling and conditioning - things that keep me in shape but they don't add any muscle mass.

A good goal when you start is to do strength training three days a week. That's enough to make progress, but you won't feel like you're always doing it.

I agree completely with the author of this article: focus on compound lifts like squat, deadlift, cleans, overhead press, clean and press. You'll need to invest time to learn how to do these lifts. Doing them properly (that is, in such a way that avoids injury and allows you to add weight) is a skill, and like any skill, you need practice to get good at it.

Also keep in mind that getting stronger and adding muscle mass is an adaptation. You're putting your body under some stress, and your body adapts to the stress by getting stronger. If you keep using the same stress, your body doesn't need to adapt anymore. You need to continually change what you do (more weight, or more reps, different exercises, less rest, etc.) to continue to see improvements.
Thank you. The idea is loosely based on a system we heard about that Second Life uses.
Slippy does support back/forward nav, but it indeed builds all slides at once. Which allows for the overview feature also (press TAB). I didn't test it with 200-slides decks honestly, so maybe that would cause performance issues in that case. But so far in Chrome it has proven to be very smooth.
Sadly, the code YOU wrote is suboptimal. It doesn't check for bad pointers, has no comments, doesn't take memory corruption into consideration, and assumes the replacement character is not '\0'.

You would get a C- if I graded your test.

Now you'll argue that it's just a test, but the fact is your best work should not come only when under unexpected scrutiny, as it does with impromptu tests, it should be a mental process that is not bypassed for any reason.

In this case you've thought about it for weeks and still botched it.

Kudos for trying. We'll call you if we are interested.
Perhaps, in addition to the artistic aspect of it, he wanted to educate people about what actually happens to video when it is sent to youtube. This is much more relatable than saying, "I wrote this shell script..." Also, having the log of all 1000 versions on youtube is interesting as well.

The other thing about art is that time is usually not a large motivating factor...
> If we really lacked morality, why didn't we just take over the World after WWII, or force the countries we helped out into terrible economic deals like China is doing in Africa.

We didn't do both of those? That's news to me, because I thought that's what the Cold War was about. We just learned from Europe's colonial failures and allowed the countries to remain nominally politically autonomous while being economically bound to the US. The only thing that stopped us was the USSR, and it really only delayed the eventual US takeover by about 40 years.

> The Marshall plan was charitable.

It absolutely was not. It was designed to prevent nationalism from taking hold by making economic conditions in the defeated nations tolerable to the populace and to make those countries economically dependent on the US. It also led to former global powers Germany and Japan becoming proxy states of the US -- they are still occupied by US forces today. But it wasn't about charity by any means, it was a response to the lesson we learned from WWI that if you leave the losers destitute, resentment and nationalism follow.
Unions were busted by outsourcing environmentally damaging manufacturing to China.
Can someone make a safe auto detect device location X known password to make connection seamless? Either request permission to connect to a new network, or automatically connect to the best available?
I keep hearing this idea from a variety of sources recently, and the idea is so absurd I don't even understand how it came to be. How, exactly, do you expect the government to tally the amount of wealth to be taxed for each person in the country? The amount of bureaucracy and auditing and enforcement it would require would dwarf the insurance industry, and waste taxpayer dollars to the extent that it couldn't actually be profitable for the government.
Posted 20 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640351
Exactly. Why would a city change something that would make them bring in less profit?
I've worked with lots of binary formats, and they are equally "human-readable" (and far less unambiguous in a lot of cases) once you get used to it. As a coworker once said, "everything is human-readable if you have a hex editor."

It seems your format is yet another attempt at reinventing ASN.1.
The "Teacher Effects" paper is demonstrating that the value add to student achievment is likely noise and not representative of the teachers doing a better job.

The "Parachutes" paper is demonstrating that parachutes make no difference when used out of a stationary grounded plane.

I think the point is that both papers are demonstrating that the numbers alone don't tell the full story.
I've used StoryWorth. It's a great service and definitely not a social network. Your family members respond to questions via email with stories and the service stores them. Then they're safely stored. Great for older family members who don't really understand anything besides email.
> I'm not aware there being other DB with something like flashback.

Postgresql had it long before Oracle, but it was dropped as being too much of a hassle to maintain somewhere in the 7->8 transition IIRC.
This is such a great point and so frequently skimmed over in k8s discussions. We as tech folks tend to focus on the front page blog posts about 1000s of nodes and all of the orchestration that goes into complicated top 1% high-traffic/high-complexity use-case setups. In reality there are a lot of profitable businesses out there happily running a simple cluster set up with a single-digit number of deployments chugging along on it with zero down-time.

Really when looking at tools in the k8s ecosystem, it's better to approach it as you would importing a new library into your application. Most decent devs wouldn't blindly import a new lib so that they can copy/paste a single line of code they found online for a business critical function, and k8s tools should be no different. We must think about what value does a given tool bring, and is it worth the cost of learning/maintenance? Sometimes the answer is a resounding "yes", but too often the question isn't even asked.
No developer should tie themselves to Facebook. I sympathize with the existing developers, but no new developer should be insane enough to rely on Facebook.
> Bitcoin has no inherent value, it is a string of characters.

>So is any digital "good". If you value things that way, nothing on the computer is valuable.

That's a bad analogy because other digital goods contain information that is useful in its own right, without any agreement on that usefulness being necessary. My music and pictures of my dog are useful to me in a way that transcends their usefulness to other people.

To put it another way: people "love" their bitcoin like they "love" their health insurance: only because they are being held hostage by its value.
Following along with a tutorial would be a big use case.
>To me, that entire industry seems geared towards grabbing fresh faced grads who are loaded up on dreams of making games, putting them in infinite crunch, and discarding them later when they are burned out.

This is the way it's "always been" for game development. When I was in college 15 years ago, it was the same environment. It turned me off from pursuing a career in game development (among other factors). I'm sure more senior people than me have similar anecdotes.
[Getting this in early - I'm not an American.]

> healthcare .. which we mostly agree about

Reading this brought to mind a Reagan speech. Found it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUKC9E04Sck), complete with propaganda slides. The final example he gives goes right to it.

Social democracy is the mainstream worldview at the moment in educated debate. Even the US moves in that direction. A social democrat will look at opposition to public healthcare with disbelief, "can anyone really be so mean?" Or disbelieve it altogether as you do.

Well-funded public healthcare is central to the socal democrat worldview. It's easy to argue towards at the moment, because it aligns with the momentum of public policy.

For freedom-centric people, it's uncomfortable. The person opposing it will often be inarticulate, to the point of appearing to be crazy. Their task is hard: they are not merely opposing one policy, but the whole momentum of worldview that's driving it. That's hard to do well. But beneath the rambling, there's probably a legitimate philosophical position that's not understood properly even by the speaker.
Am I the only one who wants them to be brought back so I can have a Wooly Mammoth steak?

mmmm....Mammoth Steak
> one example returns json array, what about JSON venerability?

Side point: I don't have a reference for this, but from what I understand the JSON array vulnerability has long since been closed in all sane browsers.
However, Sphinx & Read the Docs is not just for Python :)

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2014/feb/11/sphinx-isnt-just-fo...
> ISTR that in the futuristic dystopia depicted in V for Vendetta, there are government spy cameras everywhere, including in people's bedrooms.

and some people will still insist that 1984 was about USSR...
Wanted to research some numbers to back up your statements.

http://www.hsh-nordbank.com/media/en/pdf/kundenbereiche/schi... says that crew costs for a Post-Panamax I are US$3,712/day. Total operational costs are US$8,754/day . This excludes fuel.

Slow-steaming for the same vessel is about 60 tons per day. http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch8en/conc8en/fuel_co...

http://www.bunkerworld.com/prices/ lists prices of around US$600/ton => $36,000 of fuel per day.

Assuming the New Panamax toll is similar to the 2011 toll of $72/TEU listed at https://www.pancanal.com/eng/op/tolls.html gives about $400,000 for a crossing. This corresponds to 10 days of sailing. Note that there's another day for transit.

To double check, the Panama Canal saves about 13,000 km of travel. Slow steaming is about 35 km/hour, or about 15 days of sailing. Thus, for the cost of 11 days of sailing one can save 14 days, making the Panama Canal fee entirely reasonable.
I've seen lawsuits for less.

Keep in mind that King purchased an app created before this guy's was released and responded using his own complaint against him. It would seem that gives some credence to the guy's original complaint.
Ugh. We're a very small company, and we don't exactly have tons of money to spend on a lawyer at this point.
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Thats the spirit! :D
Heh, so WhatsApp is the real SnapChat? The one that actually deletes your messages once read?
i read this and I want a new car so I can hack the acceleration sounds from Elite: Dangerous into my car. That games sounds design is incredible, here is a quick clip featuring some space acceleration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqIVbT6v5j0
Sounds like you got scammed. How could he just change the amount for the ride? Isn't there a meter that's visible to both of you that shows what's due? If he insists that you have to pay more than what the meter says, tell him to get bent.
How about living in a van or RV? Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers.
Is this really presenting a fair picture? Really, if I had two candidates who were identical and the only differentiating factor I had was that one liked Candy Crush and the other one played Age of Empires, I don't think I'd take it to a coinflip. I like Age of Empires more than I like Candy Crush.

I suppose this is the same type of insidious discrimination that happens because, for instance, people feel like a woman wouldn't be a good "culture" fit in a predominantly male dev team. My preference is however to work with people that have similar interests to me, but it is a preference very low on my list of co-worker traits. How low would it have to be before I'd answer I'm not at least "somewhat" biased based on the Candy Crush/AoE schism? I'm not sure, but honestly if two identical twins walked into my office with identical everything and one wore an ugly sweater I'd hire the one without. Unless the ugly sweater was really funny.

I'm not sure if the wording of the question here could be better, or I'm just discriminatory.
I voted you up but I must disagree.

I don't think the election had no issues, and few would claim so. Let's start with: Where the hell is my federal election holiday? And it just goes downhill from there.
Big NOPE. This so called whistleblower is "Martin Tripp". There is a reason why his lawyers dropped him.

More importantly, Plainsite is run by the Tesla short seller, "Aaron Greenspan".
This is a really interesting point I haven't thought of, but haven't we really already reached that point? Terrible diseases that used to wipe out entire civilizations are stopped dead (heh) in their tracks by taking a pill for a few weeks, stopping us from developing an immune system that can respond well.
That is discrimination.
He he. Well, at least the heresies were actual heresies. They were so effective that a whole subthread starting with a guy who asked me to say what I think is good about China, had to be detached because it descended into trolling and China bashing. Surprise, surprised. I think we've identified a pretty good heresy.

The problem is heresies stop people seeing beyond them. So they don't see the useful new ideas, because they are blinded by the "2 minutes hate" the heresy triggers.
Finger pricks aren't that bad. Ive been hospitalized several times with cyclical vomiting. It throws my entire body chemistry way off and often looks like I'm diabetic (I'm not). So, I typically get several finger pricks for blood sugar tests daily when I'm admitted. The finger pricks are nearly painless. I dont typically even notice them. Really only gets bad if they use the same finger repeatedly and bruising starts occuring. Its really not bad at all if you rotate fingers.

The IV is far more painful, of course, it is also a fairly large gauge needle. I still have a track mark from my last hospital stay in my arm due to an intubated IV (a blow out) 3 months ago. It also took about 3 weeks for the swelling in my forearm to go down after that.

I also get weekly allergy shots. Slightly more painful than a finger prick, but far less than a typical vaccination.
After a cataclysm, wouldn't your short sighted descendents have trouble without glasses too? Does that mean you wouldn't date anyone who's shortsighted?

Also you're assuming we develop technology to cure all these genetic problems in the phenotype, without being able to CRISPR them away in the genotype too, which may happen in the nearish future.
Yes, I've done that before several times. If I'm asking the guy to drop me off for something and I know I need a ride later, I will ask for them to name a price and pick me up, and I'll pay in cash or via venmo or whatever. They love it because they keep more of the money, and I love it because they treat you even better.
Is there anything like this for other areas in mathematics such as Number Theory?
This sounds a lot like "These newfangled automobiles are scaring the horses!"

The situation feels like chicken-and-egg to me. If I had the option to use IPv6 at home, I'd be on it 100%... as-is, there's little motivation to move off of v4 internally since I'd have to NAT/tunnel to get to the v6 internet over Fios. That said, most of my link-local intranet traffic is on the fe80:: network, because that's what avahi and mDNS prefer as answers.
You are too paranoid.
CCVs aren't always required for transactions.
More than a little surprising to read an article and find yourself mentioned.
I've always customized my resume for the job I'm applying to - isn't that common?
Considering its complexity, the system is incredibly deterministic. Small perturbations can wreak havoc, and have been fingered for so many disorders.

Just because the etiology of a disorder hasn't yet been determined does not mean it won't be.
Having a "feeling" and then stating such as fact doesn't make sense.
Oops... Correct. GNUStep is LGPL.

I should start writing * GPL as I do with * BSD

As for linking proprietary code do GPL'ed libraries, the license is not explicit. However, according to Larry Rosen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Poin...) linking, even statically, does not make a derived work (that would be subject to being GPL'ed by accident). Also, the GPLv3 has some different wording. I understand the GPLv3 makes it less likely a program linked to a GPL'ed library will be considered derivative.
Yes, it currently does suck.

Thankfully the next version will intelligently incorporate Clang/LLVM which will improve the situation vastly.
Apparently we can get to 20GPa with strained silicon (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1501382). Diamond can theoretically get to 225 GPa (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13378-w). Maybe cubic boron nitride.
Being based on early Mozilla Suite, it is a bit rough around the edges, feels alpha quality, but has a nice feel, and quite elegant.
Yes that is because Apple promises that everything works iff you buy hardware and installation of it from them. I changed a RAM module once and hibernation stopped working, Apple says that is because it's not the identical RAM-module they sell. So their list of supported hardware is pretty small
I removed the background image and made the text blacker. Might take a force refresh to pick up the CSS file change.

Is it good enough or are further tweaks needed? If more, my web design skills are mediocre, so actionable feedback would be appreciated.
nofollow is a bad idea and I wish Google stopped using, Matt. You can't trust people saying "these are not bad guys".

Anyway, shouldn't getsatisfaction reward good customer service? You're just saying it's their problem to filter what's bad, for their your's users.
I wrote a script to translate IP addresses into 4LW and back again.

https://gist.github.com/718549