jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had COVID-19 and lost almost all smell senses (no symptoms of a stuffy nose or mucus). I could still taste sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami. But I could not tell you where those tastes came from. It was difficult to cook in that time, and food was very bland and meaningless. Lasted for about a week.

I could smell laundry detergent very faintly so I know I had not completely lost the sense. I also felt a pain in the back of my nose/top of head as if I had water go up it, so I assume something was irritating that part of my nose.
A dry cough has started to take place only after the fever stopped and I noticed my breathing is a bit harder than before the virus took over.
Draw Something is a decent game too (lots of ads though) and can be played remote or turn based.
yes as i read it, it reminded me of a launcher we had on our 486/Windows 3.11 machine. can't remember its name - quick something - but it was much simpler, no windows, just full screen categories. more like a modern webapp design, just 3d
Depends. Image-based runtime languages such as Smalltalk and various Lisps will, crudely put, pause at the site of the error and give you options to fix it and continue. That already covers 99% of the OP's issues with gdb.

edit: Implied is that image-based runtimes by definition produce reproducible snapshots of the error, with the full power of the Lisp or Smalltalk introspection tools. Edit-continue is the icing.
This article also supports why the Go language has been so widely adopted and successful, despite its young age. The language can be rather limiting and somewhat disappointing for an individual developer, but offers great benefits to the agility of a team.
"what would you have done instead?"

Maybe teach or try to make it as an artist... or try to get in to making movies. I have so many other interests apart from computers. Trying to pursue any of them professionally might have lead to something, and, honestly, maybe I would have burnt out on whatever it was or just failed, but at least I wouldn't have kept banging my head against something I hate and dread over and over and over again.

"Also, at what age cut-off would you consider it being easier than being labelled "old" ?"

I'm not exactly sure I understand what you're asking there. Could you rephrase your question?
You seem to be implying that the default is to wear a tie and use Java. When I decide what clothes to put on in the morning, I don't even think about whether I want to wear a tie. I would only think about wearing a tie under exceptional circumstances. Similarly, when I start a new project, the thought of using Java has only entered my mind once: when an applet seemed like the only solution to the problem.

I think we see a lot of Ruby and Python in startups lately because they're a good blend of productive and well-known.
By all measurements the community of Mojolicious seems a lot bigger.
Just because you rip another project off with 3 people doesn't make it any better... just shows your lack of actual vision and focus.
Well, if you rationalize your beliefs, and folks poke holes in those rationalizations, then it isn't wanting "to take me down a peg for my beliefs", its debate. And when you are wrong in debate, its not quite fair to wrap yourself in religion and claim foul.
Timetric mines a variety of government and NGO data sources for economic data, including real time updates. I guess they would know who is collecting social data, if they aren't doing it themselves.
Thats why i used the word "butchered" before.
China's struggle for a free and better web is more of a political issue than a technological issue. I praise the good intent of people at Mozilla, but fear the task is much more complex than it seems to be.
I changed Emacs for Sublime and now VScode - my main reason to change IIRC was that my fingers/wrist hurt from using chords so much :(
I've been using Emacs' lsp-mode (https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode) for professional Python development for months now and it's been a great experience. It requires a little more work than I'd like to get it working with virtual environments (making sure the LSP server process is running in your venv, mainly), but I would argue that's a problem with the Python ecosystem, not lsp-mode itself.

And for statically typed languages (I've tried Rust and Go) the lsp-mode experience is flawless and works out of the box.
And, I would add, in an entirely keyboard-driven way. I appreciate, as an Emacs user, how much I can get done without using the mouse.
> both driving for cheaper goods and higher wages

This actually works -- cheaper goods for developed countries and higher wages for China. On the balance this is a win economically. Environmentally it is the opposite -- better for developed countries and worse for manufacturing ones.
How much revenue is Aliyun? And what about the second in Chinese? (Tencent?)

I do hope Aliyun starts offering in the US soon- would benefit competition.
France too IIRC.
you can be firm and forward without being a jerk.

Jerk: this looks like shit, do it again.

Not Jerk: almost there. let's do another iteration.
I have one of these drives. Apparently a model that the known procedure doesn't work on. I'll never buy a shitty Seagate product again.
Spotify / movie soundtracks mostly.
I usually try to take advice on "learning more" from people who demonstrate a good understanding of a subject, or who seem well informed, people I want to be or think like. I'm not really interested in learning how to declare broad swathes of the political spectrum racist or in presenting the style of argument that you are here.
It Depends. If your target customer are large Business or Enterprise, then it is a great filter.
They already do, the video actually shows that. The video is arguing that they should have to do it the way social media "influencers" have to, either while the product is on screen, or clearly up font at the beginning (the way TV ratings are shown)
"free-will-iferous". (New fav word :)
The US was over 1 million/day during the last days of the Trump administration. I imagine now we are well beyond that level.
I've never been to Vienna so I can't speak to it but my experience in traveling around the world is that many cities have incredible central cities but also have sprawling medium to high density suburbs that everyone turns a blind eye to. The low density automobile focused suburbs of North America might not exist around those cities but the denser suburbs still have poor livability, especially compared to the central cities they surround.
I've been hearing for almost a decade how Bitcoin was going to change the world and help humanity and yet...nothing. Other than some speculators and early adopters getting rich.

I've yet to hear of anything "world-changing" BTC could do that isn't already done better by traditional systems.
close. Lucky Goldstar
As nollidge says: they will be predisposed to give positive advice (also because you've just given them something and because these people are already interested in chatting, which usually doesn't last long when they are negative about you(r idea)).

However, aren't there intermediate paths that are acceptable, even though they contain white lies? You can tell them it's the idea of a friend who's asked you to invest. You're thinking about it, but want feedback from others, because you have all kinds of worries. That way, you're not getting into the conversation under false pretenses and you're just setting up the story to neutralize their predisposition towards the idea.
"I mean that semantically, not morally."

Then you're being uselessly pedantic, and failing at it - there's no slaughter involved in making quite a lot of kosher food.

"exemptions based on belief are a loophole that should be closed"

Then expand the freedoms of all people to make exemptions on peaceful religious activity superfluous. Otherwise, when dealing with governments that carefully parse and rank claims of rights (particularly when it comes to "weird" minority groups), exemptions can serve to protect particular freedoms for the people who most care for them.
It's just a Christmas theme. Chill.

Wonder how colours can be 'offensive' to people.
Am I the only one seeing an F having sexual intercourse with a bent over person, who is performing oral sex on the d ahead?
Personally I like to take my eyes away from a screen every now and then. Books FTW.
Also it's important to use a good ticketing system, and allocate small units of work... i.e. each ticket should take less than a day to complete. To start with, anyway.
> Spend $15 for a CD or spend the same for three months access to an enormous catalog of music?

I'm picky about my music, so I don't buy new CDs that often, but when I do, it's usually for an artist I really like. When I have the opportunity, it's at a show for that artist, which hopefully means that they're getting a larger chunk of that $15 than it would if I buy it elsewhere.

Music and books are, of the media you listed, the ones where you could conceivably have a dinner party with all of the creative folks involved.
Nice work.

Maybe you would get more people to sign up if you told us why you need write access to our twitter accounts.
For your consideration: I've just added the chapter on how to integrate request handlers into the router:

http://nodebeginner.org/#routing-to-real-request-handlers
It certainly makes you wonder about how this civilization is going to be viewed in the future. How are we going to leave traces of our civilization for future civilizations to find and decode? I suspect that the riddles of Egyptian hieroglyphics are going to be pale in comparison to decoding DVD information, for example. Moreover, how pissed off are they going to be to go through all the work hacking our digital formats only to find "disposable content," as you so eloquently put?
Same here. I had a SSD for a week. It was absolutely underwhelming on my already lean and light Archlinux system. I returned it.
In all fairness, you're restricted as to how much you can do that PHP as well:

The best you can do is modify the class definition in the code itself, and declare a __call() or __get()/__set() functions that park themselves in front of method calls and variable accesses. You can't go re-opening classes or directly adding methods or variables.

(To make matters worse, __call() and friends are also more than a little slow as well.)
I wish I found out about this within 30 days of my file getting corrupted. Strangely enough I posted my issue on the Dropbox forums and a Dropbox admin didn't mention this, he just said it's a problem on Keepass' end.
Send him an email stating - "This is just a friendly reminder that the Invoice sent on XX is overdue."

This is direct, but not hostile. Works wonders.
I can definitely sympathize with the lack of self-discipline as well. It's difficult to discipline yourself when the animus to do so is faltering.

Besides that, I've found myself growing ever more sensitive to lighting, natural or otherwise. The 'fluorescent sunshine' from the overhead fixtures typical to most office environments is a definite demotivator. Likewise, I usually remove those ubiquitous, vinyl miniblinds from any new apartment and replace them with Chinese-style roll-up blinds with opaque fabric to allow in natural light.
Fun game and snappy, delightful animation! Thanks for sharing this.
Easy to expose ssh server too. Use the .ssh/config ProxyCommand at the client. Cloudflare handles the authentication with the default OTP emailed.

They explain towards the end of this tutorial https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/tutorials/s...
Is your vyvanse like $300 a month? I was taking it and it helped with a lot of things but I stopped because it was so expensive. Therapy was expensive too
If you hit a bug with a popular, open-source framework, the odds are great that others have as well and it will get escalated and solved quickly. The same can't be said for closed-source, proprietary frameworks. Also, writing it entirely yourself always leads to re-inventing the wheel over and over again. Furthermore, I have yet to see any proprietary framework that wasn't in some shape or form a poor knockoff of something already existing in the open-source world.
Nice game. I liked the feel of moving the tiles. There is a slight problem when I first enter a new puzzle. The movable tiles are below the screen! [0]
(On Android, standard Chrome browser). It fixes itself if I rotate to landscape and then back to portrait.

So far I like the word list you've used. But I've only tried the easier days :p.

[0]: https://ibb.co/7NvPTnM
> Where do you find your sense of purpose working in the private sector?

I work on improving the treatment of cancer through the application of deep learning. I am employed by a FAANG and work very closely with several leading nonprofit academic medical centres. Our primary driver is real-world patient impact (rather than, say, revenue or just academic publications).

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of downsides to working in this space but lacking a sense of purpose isn't one of them (for me).
> Is there some major problem with mongoDB?

Yes, plenty. It's mostly useless for relational data.

Nowadays that's clear on the documentation and you won't get loud people proclaiming that it's useful there, but there was a time when both of those were false.
Yep. It's classic hack.

If this was for a product, the first thing I would have done, was drop half the tools in the stack for their inefficiency! For example, the GUI shell is using Node Webkit (which I prefer to Electron, but is essentially the same thing). That in itself is quite bad, but it's not the worst approach to building a desktop app, as Microsoft and Slack have already proven.

But the .exe's you mentioned are also quite large.

The code is very transparent though.
I doubt you'd have been the only one to note how clunky this all is!
Yeah! Gimp sucks for precisely the reason that they fall headlong into that trap.
So, you answer is to let all the governments be more evil? Following the same logic, sweatshops should be made legal, so US can compete with China's cheep labor.

Do you really think that less secrecy equals less power? It is not the power I would want my government to have.
No need - lying on a patent application is perjury.

And it's a federal court - remember not to drop the soap in the shower!
It's not just boilerplate. However, webkit is not an insignificant part of the browser. It's easily the hardest and most complex part, especially when it comes to dealing with all of the broken web pages.
Tandberg was acquired earlier this year by Cisco, if anyone has any Cisco contacts it might be worth bringing this to their attention as Cisco may not be aware of this as it happened prior to their acquisition.

Cisco HR peeps have been quite active in the UK developer community recruiting for Tandberg recently, I'll forward this to one of them to see if can get some attention.
With HN having a high concentration of people who are in some way interested in YC or its model, I'd think the success of rejected companies would be interesting to more than just the YC principals.
Template Haskell (or a more general pre-processor) can eliminate most of these discussions, too.
AirBnB sold cereal. That is determined and imaginative anyone would fund them.
That would be exactly the kind of thing I dread to know – this is the last item in my cupboard whose ingredients label I studiously avoid reading in order to keep enjoying it. But this is HN, so, let's see:

INGREDIENTS: MADE FROM ROASTED PEANUTS AND SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MOLASSES, FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS (RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN), MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT.

Oh, maybe molasses (and yes probably the salt) is the flavor note I'm hung up on.

Anyway this is such a pure food-industrial-complex product that I am sure the ingredients list amounts to a sort of cover story. FWIW the parent company scores rates just OK on the 'Palm Oil Scorecard' from your linked page: https://palmoilscorecard.panda.org/check-the-scores/manufact...
"I'm not sure what free software buys you versus hosted software with good data export features."

A competitive market when you're looking to see that piece of software extended or adapted.
Another useful trick was taught to me in second grade: draw two dots for the bigger number, and one dot for the smaller one. Then join the dots.
Like many other people, I was skeptical about the need for bitcoins.

The thing that finally made me think BitCoin could potentially have value is internet weed dealers.

Let's say there are three people, A, B,C. A sells weed (or other illegal substances) over the internet. Previously, they'd have to accept a currency that can be easily tracked. Now, they will only accept BitCoin.

B wants to buy weed. B exchanges USD for Bitcoin with C, a bitcoin miner, and then trades BitCoin for Weed with Person A. A then converts his bitcoins back to dollars, either selling them himself, or selling them to C.

Once there is a market for weed denominated in bitcoin, bitcoin has real value, and markets for all kinds of legitimate activity can sprout up.

Of course, this is all a form of money laundering, but at least the value is rooted in something.
The restricted nature only serves to ensure that people don't produce an infinite amount of them, which would destroy any value they have. However, rarity doesn't create value, it only helps to preserve value due to the absence of any single authority that can devalue it. The actual currency value derives from what you can do with it, namely purchase services or products.

Currently, that's where I see a lack. There seems to be more interest in trading the currency than using it for products or services. For a universe equal to $5 million, there's not much to buy. I'm a bit wary of putting my app for sale on the shrooms-and-heroin page, y'know?
Posting another thought here.

I have a suspicion that there's enough people in the SF area (and a couple of the the other "big" markets) that will actively fight against telecommuting, specifically because it will lower wages in those areas.

As someone else posted, yes, I understand the value of a team being in the same room. But that value comes at a premium price, and it's one which may not always be worth paying. However, given the boom/busy/buyout cycle in the bay area (as an example), enough of the same workers can move from company to company as the companies are merged, bought out, or close, that this keeps the talent supply close enough to what is needed to make it harder to embrace telecommuting. You just need a few more people to fill in a few gaps, right? They need to be on site, or they're not a 'team player', or just not serious about their career in tech if they don't want to move to the valley! (have heard this before).

If the majority of companies out in SF set themselves up to embrace telecommuting, that would mean it would be easier to fill that next position with someone from Idaho, Kansas or Utah. That would mean the company could pay a lower wage. Why would the culture of startup workers want to embrace something that will end up driving down their salaries?
I like the concept, but the basic plan has me confused.

I signed up, clicked around a bit, looked at a number of reports and now every stock I click on reports 'You have analyzed 10 stocks, which is the limit for Vuru Basic' ... even stocks I previously clicked on.

Does this mean my account is toast? How does it relate to the 30 listed on the signup page?

I think you need to expand the 'free' offering a bit. Maybe make the data it presents a bit less precise, for example show the Vuru grade as a range, eg. 50-60 rather than a price number to give people more incentive to upgrade. As it was I felt I burnt through the 'free' stuff to quickly to make a decision (and I hate signing up for time limited free trials!)
it's definitely worth checking out the comments on Adams' blog -- the top one is from mathowie and other Metafilter folks weigh in as well

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/planned_chaos/?CmtOrder=Rating...
In the way Google was a copy of Lycos, maybe.
The question is, how much would you LOSE by working for another company? Freedom, your soul, etc. For some of us, working for a company is simply not an option.

I've never understood how so many think it is LESS risky working for large companies. At any moment, of any day, your boss could walk in and say "you're fired". How is this not a huge massive risk? When I work for myself, nobody fires me, if I need to make more money, I go and make it.
> 2. immigrant children in cages

Who built the cages? https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=who%20built%20cages%20for%20children

You’re making https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673162 ’s point.
These people aren't there because they think it's unimportant. They are convinced the election was stolen and nothing you (or he) says would sway their minds. Insulting would only lead to anger.

You have to acknowledge the feelings of the other individual before they'll listen. They see themselves as good, honorable people, so you address them as such. Once you have their attention in an agreeable manner (instead of an antagonistic manner), you can address the issue at hand.

Trump did precisely this. He empathized with them and their cause. After he had an agreeable mood somewhat established, he then appealed to consequences.

If he hadn't asked them to stop, congress' attempt to reconvene would have no doubt been interrupted as well. The fact that didn't happen goes a long way against the claim that it was a call to violence.
That's fine. We've got Gab :)
Nintendo chooses to use old components in their hardware, though. It's not like they don't have the industry contacts to source more powerful stuff if they want. They just want to have a positive profit margin on selling console hardware. They want hardware sales (and sales of first-party "killer app" software enabled by the hardware) — not third-party software license fees — to be their main revenue stream.

Each console or handheld Nintendo puts out follows a formula:

* Choose key components (CPU cores, screens on portables, etc.) that are two-to-five year-old, one-or-more generations-behind tech at design time, such that they're in wide manufacturing and easy to source as parts / cheap to license to build themselves.

* Add in novel in-house-developed IP cores/ASICs, which allow developers to build games that "do" a lot more than the key components would seem to allow.

* Wrap the whole thing in a novel interaction method that makes the console's hardware performance relative to its "console generation" kind of illegible (e.g. the Wiimote, the two screens of the DS, the portability of the Switch, etc.); which de-facto locks in games developed to target the hardware, making them much harder to port away; and which acts as a neato whizz-bang selling point in the form of enabling new "killer apps" (e.g. 3D first-person games with the N64 analog stick; Wii Sports with the Wiimote; Brain Training and other pre-smartphone "apps" with the DS stylus.)

Nintendo are at their best (i.e. most profitable) when they double down on this strategy, releasing a seemingly-new hardware "generation" that's really just the same existing hardware but with new/updated IP cores. The Gameboy Color is just an overclocked Gameboy with a better PPU. The Wii is just an overclocked Gamecube with an ARM coprocessor embedding wi-fi/bluetooth/SD card support. Etc.

The Switch is a departure from this strategy, in that the Tegra X1 wasn't actually all that old at the time of the Switch's release, and so likely bit into Nintendo's profit-margin on the Switch pretty heavily. I'm sure Nintendo would rather have used a slightly-older part. But there just wasn't anything like the Tegra X1 (in terms of GPU power per watt) until the Tegra X1 — no viable competitors, and no previous generation of the chip to lean on. And they were constrained by wanting to port Wii U games to the Switch, which demanded basically the X1's level of power.