jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
just a collection of things I've found useful/interesting while reading online about productivity.
Do you really think giving everyone $3,600 per year would be worth having no military whatsoever?
to browse pornhub
Just disable Javascript. If people did this en masse, even for one day, the adtech companies would start to panic. Castles made of sand.
Well, it's happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25128251
I am all for import tariffs, especially when those taxes prevent wasteful international shipping.

However, to respond to your snarky tone, does Germany have a monopoly on the world auto industry and use that to abuse the rights of citizens while squashing all competition? If so, absolutely, tax the hell out of them! My ‘99 VW Jetta was a piece of junk and I sold it at a major loss after a year.
That is still my daily driver with my 2019 Mac Pro. Great piece of kit.
Just to be clear, if Microsoft publishes a package with a version number higher than that in the Raspberry Pi OS default repos, does it mean it will get installed? Or is the repository configured in a way that it is only used for VS Code packages?
How common is that case?

I'm probably on the opposite extreme (never have watched a movie or tv show on my iphone nor any youtube video longer than about 3 minutes), but I'd be shocked if long video watching was a common case.
I don't think Apple is going to get into the same situation they got into in the 90's. I was just replying to his argument, that growth of the overall market makes up for loss of percentage, with a counterexample. I personally think you have to consider a lot of other factors.
Most often BSODs are caused by third party device drivers.
The real question for me is, where did they get my home address? I don't care so much about the cost for them of mailing the CDs, but what annoyed me more was how they got my name and address.

Call them the first spammers of the digital age if you will.
Till that 15 to 17 percent changes (and it doesn't look like it will any time soon), that won't happen.
Thank God for the spirit of innovation and the never say die attitude.
Anybody know an emacs equivalent?
Aramco is an... odd example. A company based in a country where women are treated as second-class citizens and aren't even permitted driver's licenses[1] isn't going to have any sort of mandate to employ them, public eye or not.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
Should I assume you never open postal mail addressed to your wife?

A password does not in and of itself mean "don't look" because all online services require one anyway, so it doesn't work as a special "don't look" request. And especially when they share computers.
Where did you read that? The linked story states that they were married at the time and that she filed for divorce in response to his snooping.
Most of the top comments here are people expressing their preferences regarding screen sizes. Some are very happy with the larger screens, some are disappointed in them.

To me, this suggests that there is not a "winner" for what the "best" screen size is. It seems that this is a personal matter and many users have different preferences for their own reasons. It is clear that for some number of people bigger is not better.

What confuses me is the fact that Apple did not find it worthwhile to continue providing a smaller form factor. They (quite correctly) identified the demand for larger screens, but have they failed to observe the demand for the smaller ones? Or are the people who prefer smaller displays enough of a minority that they are worth ignoring in favor of simplifying the product line?
For those with too little time, the basic premise is that helmet laws appear to suppress cycling significantly, increase the risk of cycling and cause premature deaths through lack of exercise

TL;DR
"The following trends were observed following the introduction of New Zealand’s helmet law:

Cycling usage reduced by 51%.
Cyclist’s injury risk per hour increased by 20–32%.
Estimated to have contributed to 53 premature deaths per year (due to reluctance to cycle and hence people not exercising).
Thousands of fines are issued annually for not wearing a helmet.
May contribute to discrimination in accident compensation and the legal processes.
Could have contributed to environmental pollution and environmental harm (due to use of vehicles in place of cycles).
Possibly diminishes civil liberties and human rights (by imposing a requirement to wear a helmet when several reports raise serious doubts whether they improve safety overall)."
> the question reduces to something like "is society entitled to the brain cycles of particularly smart people?".

No, it doesn't. A conclusion that something is a drag on society is not necessarily (and frequently not) an argument for banning it. The implication only exists in a pure form if one assumes a "government knows best" sort of politics. Label it what you like, I'm not going to pick fights.

I am a bit worried about this line of reasoning, though -- basically saying it isn't a line of thought that can lead to good policy, so it probably shouldn't be investigated or argued.
This is the tongue-in-cheek point that the post you're replying to is making. :)
While the headline is a bit over the top, I agree with the general sentiment. The idea that the government will infiltrate these groups, but limit themselves to just influencing the discourse in positive, truthful ways, without creating dossiers on the parties involved seems fantasy to me.
Law of averages, there are lots of incompetent people. Our social structures (and humans themselves) are atrocious selectors for competence.

We also notice/remember/celebrate (and attribute to competence rather than happenstance) the people at right place, right time and people at wrong place, wrong time. While ignoring the vast numbers of actually mildly competent and mildly incompetent people in the middle of the bell curve.
Correct. But the quicker you stop working with legacy code, the quicker the cutoff can be.

Even automotive manufacturers have to supply parts for cars they manufactured for X number of years after the final production. I hope new 2014 cars don't include parts from the 1940's era for "compatability" reasons.
I feel you can get 80% of the way there just by banning the major cloud/dedicated server hosts (ie AWS, Rackspace, Linode)
the whole OS, which was available of dynamic modification and extension by the programmer,

Sounds like a nightmare, writing code for an OS where every chucklehead with a keyboard has modified it just because they can.

Rather sounds like the curse of the gifted[1] writ large. Sure it was cooler and had neat features but couldn't reliably deliver over the long term.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219872
I think they have mostly equal features, but I don't use Dropbox extensively so I can't say exactly. I actually am a nonpaying user for Box as well.

I have the ability to edit/create documents in Microsoft Office or Google Drive formats right in my Box account. I don't use any killer apps though. But it works well enough for nearly every use case I've had in the time I've used it, with the exception that file upload size limit is small. Might be around 100 megabytes max.

There's also versioning for files, if you need that kind of feature.
What's wrong with json-rpc?
... and how much does the price increase in month 25?
That's neat, but there aren't that many situations where I have access to a monitor and keyboard, but am missing a computer.
Seems to me the replies made to the "fake" problems are very telling about what is a problem.

For example, Go is praised for being a simple language that everyone can learn quickly, yet when someone shows what they picked up "that isn't how you do it."

I get that it is one thing to get something done, and another to learn an idiomatic approach. But when the sort package is hailed as the example for both why Go doesn't need generics and Go does need generics, I think it is safe to say that even the language creators don't know how to use Go.
Same here. Ordered one and will wear it with pride.
Because he says a lot of true things.

Read the article, wanting to hate it, found it to be a pleasant surprise. I didn’t love the style at first, but eventually I was able to look beyond that.
A lot of AWS stuff can't be transferred between regions. There's no way to move an EBS snapshot from east to west coast except to copy the thing across the public internet. Once it's over there on the west coast, to "fire that up" they have to launch app servers, database servers, cache servers, etc. whose configurations they had to keep mirrored from their normal region. They need to get all those backups onto EBS disks without using the same snapshot features they probably automated in their main region, attach them to the right instances... For a team with a single sysadmin, it's not as simple as you make it sound.
Are you distributing .jar files to clients?

Also you could email the project and politely ask them to consider releasing it under LGPL or EPL.
Humor isn't typically upvoted on HN. Keep it on reddit, please.
For several months last year, I was involved in a long distance relationship, and phone calls constituted a very large proportion of my interaction with my BF. Unfortunately, at the time I was both living in SF, and an AT&T customer. The constant dropped calls drove me crazy -- as you pointed out, several dropped calls in a very short window of time was quite common. The nature of a conversation changes when you're always afraid you're about to cut off. You get paranoid every time you hear a pause in someone's speech. And sometimes you get the the point where after the umpteenth redial, neither of you says anything, because you know you won't be able to talk long enough to finish a thought. Eventually I switched to T-Mobile, and moved across the country to live with my BF again. Now, with this looming acquisition, I'm faced with the prospect of becoming a reacquired AT&T customer, and again being dependent on a company whose service was so crappy as to have literally brought me to tears more than once. Yes, AT&T's infrastructure is already stretched thin -- but I wish their approach to increasing network capacity didn't involve dragging me back in.
You should check out the Iowa Electronics Markets. http://tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/index.cfm

They do something similar but in more of a traditional market format.
I'm sorry but have you ever worked in a large enterprise IT organization?

The JOB of the manager is to stay abreast of the issues his team are working on and provide REGULAR updates as to progress. Even if that means "We are still working on problem X, expected resolution is Y"

I managed IT for an entire division in Lockheed. You think that a company continually against the onslaught of Chinese hackers employs "smart managers that refrain from indulging ... to receive status updates"

WTF are you thinking?

The err in logic on your part is that, sure, it may not be best to provide minute by minute to your customers - but be it known, you MUST provide accurate and regular status internally when you have one of the HIGHEST VISIBLE SERVICES of the freaking Internet.

So, that would tell us that there was likely either internal chaos, a group with no idea what the root cause was OR a failure of the externally facing IT communications channels -- but to say that it is good management to stay effectively out of the loop is false.

Now, Ill give you some credit in your statement: You did say "constantly interrupt" -- but if your interactions with your team are such that your inclusion in situational awareness is equivalent to an interruption, then there is something much more wrong with the structure of your team/organisation/ability to manage.
I've had some similar ideas myself, consider me interested. I've written some (very little) code to search projects among the big open source hosts (SF, Google, Github etc). Also have a nice domain for it.
i agree.

AZs - according to Amazon, "are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones."

that did not really seem to work.

if you're deployed in one zone and shit hit's the fan: "your fault". if you assume amazon does as advertised and live in several AZ and these go down apparently more or less at the same time: 'amazons fault'...

i read that amazon plans to post a 'postmortem' on this... i'd be really eager to know how AZs are actually designed/sperated. not to be able to point fingers (maybe just a little bit), but to just _know_ where i am deploying stuff to...
"What lines in the sand are drawn in each country?"

The line is drawn officially at the point they can use legalese verbiage to avoid any problems. So that line was supposed to be, at least for the NSA and CIA, "Never spy on American's without a warrant." (according to William Binney, Thomas Drake, et al) The real line though, is whatever they can get away with. The USUK (five eyes) was setup in 1947, and has been used as a giant loophole of sharing ever since.

The real issue though, the one everyone likes to ignore, is the origins of the US and British intelligence world in the first place, as a covert arm for banker elites in Wall Street and in The City (London). These are entities and groups of entities who have very little allegiance to a single nation (British aristocratic royalists as the rare exception) and use nation against nation as if they were simply pieces on what Zbigniew Brzezinski calls the "Grand Chessboard'.

I am continually awaiting the day that everyone realizes the NSA/CIA/DIA/DoD...etc violations of privacy are simply a small part of a larger issue, namely, that the supranational corporate elite realized that technology has finally gotten to the point where if they make a power play now, they or their grandchildren can be "gods" among the proletariat masses. Our entire American government system of checks and balances is utterly corrupt, including all three branches and the fourth estate.

I used to be part of their action arm (USMC combat vet), and it took many years of study since I got out to come to these conclusions. What really frustrates me though, is that, just like the NSA issues before Snowden, no one is going to realize or admit these things until they stare them in the face. The irony is that the main reason people won't is because of the much larger than realized mass propaganda efforts (including the efforts described in this latest documentation) which keep a large enough of percentage of the populous distracted, apathetic, afraid, or even complicit enough to render any real opposition power null and void.

The main issue I have been debating for the past few years is: "Should we be going underground subversive now, or should we make one last stand?" Either way, I fear freedom will be a long lost memory until the days that people can travel in space freely, if we don't destroy the planet and the species by then.

As cliched as it is, the rabbit hole is not only deeper than most realize, but it's actually really uncomfortable to explore. (especially when you have a hand in the game, like many on HN)
Anonymously! Don't make yourself a target!
I think the problem is companies hire for say a web developer II position and assume after hiring they can stick to COLA (inflation) raises. Except, after three years truthfully they are now a web developer III which is a promotion and 10 to 15% increase. Since they have only been doing COLA raises (2 to 3%) it catches them and there budget by surprise. Just give 5% every year and don't worry about the cognitive dissonance you'd (the mangers) face. (I think managers have cd because they have rationalize why all of a sudden someone should be compensated 10% more when nothing much changed between yesterday and today. They need to see, think, and spread out the increase over a large period of time. Knowledge of existin outg systems doesn't happen in a day. Pay them more as they learn and know more.)
Most people don't pay any cost. They just add a few letters to their webserver config and everything gets faster. There's no further complexity required (other than TLS.)

I don't see how SPDY prevents someone coming up with p2p caching. Although a serious use case would be a good start.
It'd be cool if you accepted pull requests for individual remote jobs in addition to remote job boards and remote friendly companies.
For the software types here yeah, it is.

But THIS is black magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umfvm8I9_oU
This is easily the most important article currently on the front page. At times its poignancy reminded me of some of the talks by Maciej Ceglowski, aka the guy who runs Pinboard, but this talk is a bit more direct and a bit less funny.

The world of coveillance or sousveillance sounds attractive, but I think that a quick look at the state of computing for the average person, and their ability to organize photos, run their own email server, or any number of tasks that would be somewhat analogous to the ability for citizens to have some form of meaningful technological power against large corporations and the government, should dispel this notion pretty quickly.

The frog is being slowly boiled right now, and I honestly don't have any answers about what to do. All I can think is just to do what I can to use free software, support organizations like the EFF and Mozilla, and work to make sure that my life isn't completely captured by giant companies like Google and Apple, as I also try to remain politically engaged at home.

Maybe that's all any of us can do.
You'd have to separate out the components in HTTP2 to make sense of the various advantages offered. As long as the cookie abomination persists the header compression makes sense, but if you were to really come up with an improved HTTP then you would get rid of cookies entirely and make HTTP a stateful protocol, since that's what we seem to be headed for anyway, or at a minimum get that session stuff under control.

So now we get this terrible mix, a binary protocol that pretends to be stateful but really isn't, carries over all that's wrong from the past and replaces it with a bunch of fixes that don't seem to address the root causes of the problems.

As for mobile users wanting the full experience, sure, that's why we want better mobile networks, and preferably un-metered ones. (Which is already happening, no limit contracts are making a come-back.)

Anyway, I'm sure that HTTP2 will be implemented because Google has found a way to ram its competitive advantage down our collective throats and we'll have to live with it but I don't think the minor advantages gained here are worth the retooling required. Think of it as a missed chance, if we're going to retool then let's do it well and not in a half-assed and fast-tracked manner like this.

Feel free to disagree.
> You think Amazon, one of the largest companies in the world, will engage in any anti-union campaign without consulting their lawyers on what's right and what's not?

This is staggeringly naive about both how large companies & the legal system operate.
Same observation here. Things are bifurcating into 1. a (mostly younger) underclass whose savings will never catch up with prices to the point where they can own real estate / stocks without help from parents, and 2. a (mostly older) capital class who own multiple, sometimes dozens of properties, robust 401(k)s and pensions, and use those assets as leverage to buy more and more assets. The middle class "family without help owning a single home they live comfortably in" is vanishing.
Is that good? I see people driving 70 in a 25, driving on the wrong side of the road and forcing other drivers off, and passing in the parking lane or bike lane, and swerving towards pedestrians and spitting on people. What I’ve never seen is a traffic stop on a city street. Ever. On highways sure, but never ever on city streets. There can be street racers driver 40 mph over the speed limit 4 abreast at 2 am, and the best you can do is make a video to post on Twitter. I have simply never seen traffic enforcement. And it’s bad. Multiple friends have been hit by cars walking, one severely. That’s the only one where the car even stopped.
Cool idea, it it works. important thing is re-balancing should not be a taxable event.
You don't need those things to get Bitcoin. You need those things to stay out of trouble with your government. If your government and financial system is broken it's even easier for you to get Bitcoin because no one is demanding you jump through their tacked-on hoops.

What Bitcoin gives you in this case is that you and I can be in two different broken countries with adversarial governments, but you can I can still transact from around the world without the blessing of our broken governments or their broken banks.
Journalism was rarely feigning objectiveness: during the 1920s through the 1970s, some of the strongest voices in favor of labor were journalists. "Neutrality" is largely a construct, or meme, that has been pushed by Rupert Murdoch since he founded his "news" network. Naturally, his own properties are nowhere near objective, despite some people claiming WSJ magically escapes bias.

Everything is naturally biased, the only distinction is whether an entity is open about their bias. This goes for anything: whether it was the New York Times and FOX hawking for nearly every war during the 2000s, or it was Newsweek favoring MLK Jr. and Life describing his speeches with phrases like "demagogic slander" during the 1960s, everyone's naturally got an opinion. This doesn't stop applying when writing about a subject.
Which says a lot considering it has twice the RAM and 66% more CPU power... (though it has nearly 4 times the surface)
Or suck on a boiled sweet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality

http://www.simulation-argument.com/

http://urgrue.org/lib/mysterious-flow.html
"The jargon is an ever-changing spew of new names created by marketing people for the same old shit."

The same could be said for the hacker side of things where people re-invent the same things and give it new names.

There's also a lot of hacker jargon like: Kanban, Agile, Lean, Functional Programming, Iterate, Ideate, Hack (which means basically everything within the context it is said), etc.
I don't know why people always say that. How many full-stack web frameworks are there that use idiomatic F#? Haskell has at least three that were mature three years ago and still under active development. In general the .NET open-source ecosystem is weak; enterprise just waits for Microsoft to reveal the One True Way or spends thousands per seat on clunky tool-kits. That same enterprise will use hundreds of open-source Java libraries. Maybe its changed in the last few years and certainly there is enough there to work with, but I don't think it can rival Python or the JVM and I don't think F# has any edge over Haskell at all when it comes to libraries and community. You get a large, solid core to start with which is more coherent than the de facto Haskell standards but as soon as you start looking for nice idiomatic test frameworks, distributed application frameworks, embedded databases, FRP libraries or many other examples Haskell really leaves it far behind.
Because if you use C libraries you will inherit their problems (and also their interface is rarely idiomatic in the new language). Usually if you want to use a different language it's because you think that language has advantages over C. E.g. a large part of the point of using OCaml is to avoid the safety problems of C, but that only applies if your libraries aren't written in C. See https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls#why-a-new-tls-implement...

(Almost all languages do offer some "FFI" to call C. But in languages that don't naturally fit, there will often be significant overhead to e.g. aligning memory management so that the same memory doesn't get freed twice, as might happen when a garbage-collected language called a C library)