jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Farm labourers became unemployed as a result of govt. policy to undermine farm worker political power.

No, in the last 2 centuries we have simple automated the vast majority of farm labor.

>More labour intensive farming would be a good thing. At the moment the US uses 10cals of energy to produce 1cal of food. Pre "get big or get out" it was 1 in 2 out.

This is an entirely meaningless metric.

>Back to manufacturing, it is free trade that has gutted US manufacturing capability.

Yes but my point was that banning automation would be more effective at creating jobs than banning trade. They are economically equivalent. A port is essentially a machine that produces stuff with less (local) labor.
That sounds really interesting - with the net-30 billing, you also have some cool opportunities to choose when to hold USD vs BTC based on the expected climate in the next 30 days
Like the science and tech bits, could do without the progressive politics bit. As a libertarian, I find that I agree with progressives on a few things; but there's an air about most (not all!) self-styled progressives that annoys me.
It is obvious that "refuel times affect daily range." The question is whether slower "refuel" times on long trips are a net negative to ownership of an electric vehicle. Most people would say no.

It’s not exactly 1:1 equivalent because maybe long drive waits are more costly than frequent short gas stop visits and waits when you aren’t on a long road trip

As I said...

> It’s not exactly 1:1 equivalent because maybe long drive waits are more costly than frequent short gas stop visits and waits when you aren’t on a long road trip

Your comments have been quite low quality, I think kind of emblematic of how Hacker News has declined throughout the years. It's very easy to be contrarian if you can pick upon a thread, but as far as I remember HN guidelines discourage that.

I'm sure you have not formally crossed Amy HN guidelines, but it kind of sucks just seeing the current state of discourse (eg you) here compared to what it used to be.

Finally - I’d add that “refuel” times DO NOT affect daily range for an electric vehicle. You refuel at home, while you’re asleep. It’s irrelevant in those circumstances.
One of the goal of microkernels is to get rid of a whole class of security issues. In some cases it may trade performance for that. In some cases you can get better performances, but you have to rewrite your software to take into account the microkernel.

Regarding Cosmopolitan, one issue is that different executables can't talk to each others efficiently because they are in separate unikernels.
If they are running in the same unikernel then you have essentially zero security, unless your unikernel is actually running another kernel!

In other words, unikernels aren't great for consumer devices.
I wanted to just write a page of screaming sounds but I figured that wouldn't go over well here.

"Why am I still struggling with browsers having different SVG implementations 18 years after the initial implementation?" is something I had to ask my self two days ago when the comma in our logo magically shifted to the left only on Firefox.

It looks like the spec here is partially to blame because 800 pages is something that even the most meticulous team of devs would have a hard time implementing without some divergence from other implementations.

I decided to switch to a high quality PNG and call it a day since we had other more important things to be focusing on.
I wouldn't even mind this. There are a lot of services I would pay for to not have ads. But I also actually know people who like having ads tailored to them
I worked with SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and many other DBMSes. Nothing can beat PostgreSQL.

Oracle's SQL Developer is the worst IDE for databases I ever seen. Oracle DB doesn't support "TOP N" or "LIMIT N" notations and many other useful features...

I like SQL Server more than Oracle and Microsoft provides 2 good IDEs for it (SQL Management Studio and Azure Data Studio). But it has some bad limitations - you can't define ON ... CASCADE on more than one path. You also can't create CTEs with inserts/updates.

PostgreSQL doesn't have a good IDE out of the box. I heard that Azure Data Studio now support it, but didn't try it yet, because I already paid for a commercial IDE that supports PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL also doesn't have a good high availability tooling, but all major cloud providers do this for you. Considering that you get it for free, it is a much better choice than Oracle or SQL Server.
Google's ARPU for American users was reported at $256 in 2019 [1]. So for ~$25 a month, you might get them to consider switching business models.

[1] https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...
You measure it of course by how fast it runs when written by a very experienced developer. I don't see how you can argue any other way.
There's existing variable-length binary number formats [1] that already exist. SVG already has so many variable-length things in it that the downsides would probably be insignificant.

I don't know if any of the existing Protobuf-like things have these built in, though. I know some of them have variable integers in them but I don't know about variable floats.

This is kind of what I was getting at in that we have a lot of prior art now. Someone putting variable ints or floats into SVG no longer has to create their own bespoke format, and proceed to fall into the various traps themselves and accidentally write it forever into the spec; there's a lot more of these sorts of pieces that you can pick up off the shelf than there used to be.

[1] https://github.com/regexident/var_float
Generally RAM doesn't burn out, so I don't think that will be the reason.

My guess it will be around capacity, though if the LEO ISP market has multiple players all covering the same areas, there is a chance we don't fall into the market segmentation we have now since there will be multiple options.
Maybe the temptation to start the book with the creation of the world and end it with its destruction was too much to resist?
I'll add to the list:

- The inability of younger pears to ask for help or otherwise design reviews before they write the code.

- Super hero programming which most of the time boils down to the above and various forms of pseudo-optimisation that are difficult to read. E.g. messing with inheritance and directions: UpwardEngine --- inherits ---> DownwardEngine, instead of using a BaseEngine, because it's saves one class definition (and improve dispatch performance...)

Another advice I would give to young developpers, is that getting as much as possible bits written helps getting better. The thing is that reading code to refactor and debug given the chance to do it right is more difficult and more rewarding in terms of skills.
This is awesome. If I have a a bunch of DOS programs I want to have auto-startup in browser, what is the easiest way of doing this?
You're still screwed if you need a desktop though.
One of the reasons we stopped using Skype is how slow it became, specially on non high-end phones. On the other hand WhatsApp was always fast. It seems they never optimized for performance.
Seriously. Why doesn't anyone seem to care about this massive security vulnerability?
That's probably the main one, really. DrRacket really isn't a bad IDE -- it's not up to Emacs levels of programmable madness, but its keybindings are clearly inspired by Emacs and it has a lot of Lisp-aware functionality. But, its syntax highlighting engine seems to be very slow and hard to really turn off.

If you are an Emacs fan, you can use it for Racket instead of DrRacket using Geiser and Quack, which might solve a lot of problems. (I've never tried it -- I'm comfortable with Emacs, but I've never loved the way it handles prose rather than code.)
I think the relationship was only a small part of this case. The real issue was whether she was denied promotion, which she claimed was given to her underperforming male colleagues.
That's what I'm asking. How often does it happen? What makes the rules so difficult to understand? Do most juries understand and this is just a poor jury?

Can we look at the rules in this case? Or do we just have to go off NYT reporting and uninformed HN spectator speculation?

You'd assume a centuries old institution (jury trial) would have worked through what seems like a very basic problem: how do you communicate to the jury (which is the ultimate object of the trial) what exactly they are supposed to do?

How can you judge whether a jury is incompetent (or the judge and/or the lawyer(s))?
You do have a point. One thing I am unsure of is whether we can know who referred to it by the incorrect translation first -- the university, or the public.
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Sadly... no.

G has been displaying pdfs as rasterized images. Not at all the same thing.
The cure for limerance is simple: time. Namely, 2 to 3 years.
Google does let you change your name.

Google does not require that your email address is your name.

If you used company_name@gmail.com and try to rebrand yourself Google is suddenly anti-corporate by this logic. If only Google were mainly made up of people that had been employed by companies before this would have never happened.
Prefacing an article with "this is a philosophical discussion" is not an excuse to stumble through nonsense like a drunken sailor staggering home. Similarly if I preface this post with "I don't mean to be rude" only to continue to slander and defame, I've not excused my actions.

Counting is defined by objects, and 13 is the sum of 6 and 7. Indeed it is an empirical fact in as much as it has a physical interpretation.
Of course they're not all bad. This isn't a movie, nobody is truly evil.

But the problem is the industry has fundamentally changed as it's been deregulated from the useful industry of yore that you mention (helping to efficiently allocate capital and provide liquidity, entirely separated from retail banking) into highly leveraged gambling institutions with a small arm that still provides some of those old services.

The guys inside the big investment banks who do the things you're talking about are more or less insignificant to the results of the big banks. The traders look at them the way a programmer at Google probably looks at the cooks in the cafeteria. All of the money is on the bond floor, and that's where the damage has been (and will in the future be) done.
Having worked at Goldman Sachs in FIG investment banking, and having very close friends at virtually every bulge bracket as well as 8 of the 10 largest Private Equity firms, I can attest that this is completely false. If there is one industry that bleeds meritocracy (outside of entrepreneurship, which I think is a clear first), it is finance. You are definitely right about the long hours - you must be intelligent and be willing to work extremely hard, and you must also be willing to put up with a great deal of tedium and grunt work at almost all levels. However, the one thing that you don't have to be is white. Minorities are vastly overrepresented, and while I have not done a hard calculation if you take Asians and Indians as a percentage of total front office workers, I would not be surprised if it were near 30%. Include Jews and it's even higher. I currently work at McKinsey & Co in the Corporate Finance practice in New York, and the office as a whole (of 500 front office consultants) is probably 40% Asian or Indian.

That said, there are many downsides to finance as well and there are many reasons I am forgoing a $400k+ paycheck in PE to move back to SF to start a company where I am paid $0 and will have to live off of a ramen diet. The fact that I am not straight, white, and anglo-saxon however does not play a factor at all (and in fact there are running jokes at many banks and top tier consultancies that the above description puts you in the minority).
Facebook actually had it perfect back in the day. Unless you're my friend, you see nothing but my name and my profile picture. No crazy controls or rocket science.
I don't see much of a dip in time on site. Note also that Alexa is heavily biased (who exactly installs that toolbar?) and that time on site in Alexa is a blend of time on site for new and old style documents. I know nothing about scribd's metrics besides what I read on the internet, but my guess is they're discussing time on site for exclusively converted docs, which you will not be able to see on Alexa.
I’m largely convinced that the accredited investor rules are there to gatekeep the best / most lucrative investments and limit them to the already rich club. No other explanation makes sense when you also consider that casinos exist.
Is “encouraged” here also optional or is this a euphemism for required?
Something a lot of comments here seem to be missing: lots of people (anecdotally I would say it's most people) prefer an office to working remotely. So companies that don't offer remote work will limit their hiring pool a bit, but remote-only companies will also limit their hiring pool by turning off people who want to go into an office.
The courts will do the investigation for you. Why not have insurance on your end, in case the government seizes the money because it wasn't the criminal's to give to you?
I’d second this as being interesting, and add some anecdata:

There’s a lot of similar discussion in the marijuana community. When I used to grow (legal, medicinal) marijuana, we had a reading group about soil ecology where we discussed how fungi and roots interacted, the fungi-bacteria-animal systems, etc.

A lot of crop management can be done via cultivating “healthy” soil ecosystems.

We were able to cut down on nutrient supplements, eliminate things like growth treatments, and get rid of some infestations by adopting a perspective we were raising soil full of healthy fungi, bacteria, and animals. We also started moving spiders into the plants if we found them elsewhere in the garden.

I think “symbiotic ecology” is a topic we’re just scratching the surface of.
The common cold coronavirus actually kicks COVID-19 out if you get both at around the same time. So not too tinhat-foily of a theory you got there.
>You're not coming across any kind of deep revelation by saying it.

That's subjective. From your perspective it might be obvious. Doesn't mean the same is true for everyone. It's solipsistic to assume otherwise.

>We're doing our best.

Not really. I'd say most people are barely putting in any effort in general and even more so in this case specifically. Maybe you and I are trying our best, but "we" the people aren't trying our best at all.

There are no mass protests, voting participation is low, I don't really see any large scale civil disobedience going on. The message is clearly "it's alright, they're Arabs." Can't really expect anything else with American exceptionalism and individualism.

Also, check this out:

https://imgur.com/a/aBjdHH5

Just a technical issue, right? Nothing going on there.

Second highest score and comment count and it's barely on the first page. There are over 10 submissions that have the same age and a much lower score and comment count that are all near the top of the page.

I just refreshed the page and it's gone from the first page. 900+ votes, 350+ comments. Just gone.

Another empty statement, I assume. Man, I keep saying nothing today.
> Those that only run open source software like myself have no secure way to run Signal short of compiling every release by hand which is impractical.

Particularly because the software is timebombed and stops working after a while (and also blocked on the server side if you bypass the client side timebomb).
The example I heard that really drove this point home for me is that humans almost all have 10 fingers, and the ones who don't are almost entirely due to the environment (frostbite, table saw accidents, etc) so the number of fingers on a human hand is actually a low-heritability trait.
Wow that was so close...

I hope they'll get another chance today.
He spends a lot time calling out predictions by financial analysts. I'm not sure what the point of that is. It's just like, "Ha! iPad was not a failure, in your face for predicting it would do poorly!"
Well, that was a disappointment. At least it didn’t explode :)
What’s hard to understand about Apple’s pages?

> The demos below show how Apple’s Safari web browser supports the capabilities of web standards such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

Gruber’s point is this: if Opera wants some better “HTML5” demos (presumably that work across browsers, and don’t just “use HTML5 as a buzzword”) they can easily make some themselves. Why should Apple be responsible for making sure their Safari promotion showcase works perfectly in every other browser?

As for why they block other browsers: probably some or most of the demos break in some way or another. If a naive user with (say) Firefox visited a page and the layout looked like shit and nothing worked, the user would quite reasonably think that Apple’s site was broken.
>Numerous studies on dolphin language show signs of advanced intelligence, and it is believed that the high-frequency sounds dolphins make underwater are capable of communicating information that is holographic in nature.

Chris Foresman elaborates in the comments: The gist is that scientists are convinced that when one dolphin communicates with another, it is transmitting three-dimensional imagery, as opposed to speaking a "verbal" language as we think of it.

This really reminded me of Grenouille, from the novel Perfume, who could think in "scent sentences." He lived his entire life isolated and frustrated with humanity, since he could not have a two way conversation with anyone in his language of scents.

Strange to think that human communication represents only a small portion of what's possible.
Yea, this is indeed quite inane. I think a better strategy for Microsoft would be to partner with the top 100 websites (most internet users are likely to hit one), and have it display a prominent upgrade or gtfo message.
if you care, email Rich, the author, and ask that he remove the apostrophe. no one here needs to be made aware of your nitpicking.
Is there anything in particular you wish to point out? My summary of the image is:

Mar 2008: 10K unique IP's, 100K views.
Jun 2010: 45K unique IP's, 650K views.
Good question. I think that the crux is that if you're enthusiastic about PLs, you have to create your own or be enslaved by another man's. That's my feeling at least. And on the way to creating your own PL, you'll also learn to appreciate the existing PLs and implementations better, and learn to live with them, warts and all.
> Ignore the siren calls of the virtual machines. You have to be the master of your domain. Use C or assembler to implemente your language. The free Unices are your friends. Learne about the internals of your operating system, how it compiles, links, loads, and runs executables, the fruits of your labor. Learn about calling conventions, system calls, and the god-given hierarchy of the memory.

Might want to skip the low level stuff and quickly get to business with high level libraries like the Dynamic Language Runtime.
I really like the recommendations. Already found a bunch of movies I should've stumbled over before but never have.

Some things, in no particular order:

* The SuperMatch UI needs some more love! Just watch someone new to the site use it and you'll see what I mean.

* I think you should remove the footnote "Clerkdogs supports Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7". If you have requirements show a notice only when they aren't met.

* You need to fix the search field not working as expected as soon as possible. Seriously.
Very very nice, and I particularly like the length displays with the categories. I do agree with TorKlingberg though, the arrows should somehow be made more visible to at least newcomers.

Maybe make them visible to start, and fade slowly until you end up with the current behavior? I admit that it's nicer reading without them, so I'd hate to lose that entirely.
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> Where were all these articles during all those price lull periods?

People are motivated to talk and report based on a myriad of things, but lately this perception of "power" has been center stage. If you ask these people I imagine they would tell you that when Bitcoin hits a high it makes those people, and Bitcoin, very powerful while when it's $8 they're just nobodies wasting time in a dark room and coming up with memes like HODL.
Merci de partager votre expérience.

That does sound like a lot of fun. And I'm glad to hear you had such a great time.
On the plus side compared to its main competitor, when you uncheck “Automatically keep my Mac up to date,” it won’t spontaneously reboot your computer and kick off an update while you need to use it.

I had no idea updates got slower in Big Sur, because I hit the install button and go to bed.

It could take 8 hours for all I care.
And with the main goal being decentralization, almost the entire blockchain is controlled by a few groups of miners and hoarders. It’s as or more centralized than ordinary currency
Ironically Buffett started with exactly this over half a century ago-- setting a cumulative hurdle rate of 6%-- meaning he wouldn't take fees unless investors made at least 6%. He beat the Dow (S&P 500 wasn't really a thing during the Buffet Partnerships) every single year.
Normally coworkers are excited to update and get new features.

This time everyone was talking about how much they didn't want to, and how scared they were. Then the bugs and issues were a solid month of sadness, very rough release for Apple when looking from afar.

Are there any big features of the OS that folks are excited about? The bugs will get fixed over time.

Here I am on linux 5.11 with the ion window manager from forever ago, using emacs and firefox like I did with mozilla in the 90s. Happily getting less religious about the set up though.
Sounds like the compiler didn't correctly adhere to calling conventions without an explicit return statement.

Wouldn't that even be a compiler bug allowing no return statements, but then incorrectly handling scope?
I started using them in 1979 (sic), Diebolds used by BayBank, a Boston area consumer oriented bank, and in the early-mid 80s had a couple of failures to dispense altogether. The first time it was right at a bank branch, so they extracted it from the machine. 2nd time was at a random mall location and after hours, and I wondered if asking for one more $20 would kick out the ones already dispensed, which it did.

To this day I count all the bills ^_^.
To be fair, the "30 minutes" assumes that all the prep work is already done and that all you're doing is following the recipe from there.
You're right forbid isn't appropriate.

IMO, no actual mainstream OS gives ability to understand anything, even UNIX based. And I don't believe command lines are a way to understand either, or a very low efficiency one (gotta read a lot, understand complex context, try mistakeful commands).

You need virtual, mockable, undo-able environments to understand. You need ways to decode the data and metaphors used by computers.
Python is under "Technologies", not "Web" though?