jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No offense to app devs, but I don't think they represent "the best and the brightest". Those types are working at Google on voice recognition, self-driving cars. Or they're working on Cisco working on scaling the internet. No offense to Marco, who's probably a better programmer than I, but he always came across to me as a really good product and design guy. Someone who has a knack for UX but can also program. I think working on these "problems" is a good place for him.

What gets me is when Facebook starts hiring the best engineers away from Google and Microsoft to go work on Deals and Messages. That Lars Rasmussen built Maps (one of Google's 2 killer apps) and the awe-inspiring, but before it's time Wave, and now is doing who knows what trivial (though I'm sure technically hard) thing at Facebook is a real shame.
If you can avoid it then yes. If you need to save cash then go for it. Most of the founders I know live together because they need to save as much money as possible. Once they start making a little bit more money they get their own place.

You don't want things like dirty dishes to hurt the business.
Clickable: http://garagesale.diotalevi.com
From this review ( http://www.cnet.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-t420/ ):

"Thick and bulky, with a keyboard studded with enough auxiliary buttons to look like a space shuttle control panel, the T420 is as old-school as a laptop can be."

I mean, it's all a matter of trade-offs, as the parent says. Personally I have been using my Macbook mostly as a desktop replacement, so in hindsight I would probably trade the small form factor for better cooling and more sustained performance, for people using a laptop more "dynamically" (carrying it around daily), I can see mobility to come first.

EDIT: Have you ever owned an ultrabook or a netbook ? I went from a T61p to a Macbook Air the the increase in mobility was significant. I used it on bed, on the couch, on the train, with no discomfort at all even after hours on end, unlike the bulkier laptops I owned before.
> trespassing in a very important federal facility

She was part of an armed mob trying in the process of breaking into the speakers lobby that posed an imminent threat to members of Congress, whom members of the mob had moments before loudly expressed concern were trying to leave.

“Trespassing” wasn't at all the issue.
You don’t need a passport to travel from Berlin to Paris either, doesn’t make it a domestic flight.
Don't people realise that the winds will change, and the censorship machine will be working against their cause next?
So the government should be able to force your business to do something against your will? That doesn't sound like free market of which USA, and particularly conservatives, are so proud of.
I give it 6 months to a year until Chrome implements a "harmful content" page you'll have to click through to get to these sites.
Social media companies are protected by Section 230 while newspapers and magazines aren't. If social media companies are going to act like newspapers and magazines then they shouldn't be shielded from liability for their content.
I don't need an app to think for myself
Google one company but the different parts have different roles. With Google Play, they're the publisher. Google doesn't need to block websites because they have nothing to do with them.
It is always subjective, the entity in power get to decide the rule, in this case google is the entity in power. Its not enough to have rule that says 'illegal content not allowed', in the case of play store it has to be 'illegal content (according to google) not allowed'
Those places have to actually exist, though.

And ridicule doesn't work, clearly. Vanity may work for less-devoted people, but when you live in a deeply red state and are surrounded by Trumpers, there's no way you're going to speak up IRL, or break through the power of numbers in that social sphere.
The link points to their homepage, though the site might behave differently on mobile.
That's because in many respects Emacs isn't so much an editor as an operating environment. You can do pretty much anything from/in Emacs if you're so inclined. If you know Emacs' lisp well enough you don't ever need to leave. Heck, Emacs can even make Coffee (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CoffeeMode).

To view Emacs as an editor, while technically accurate is not necessarily a fair comparison because it does so much more.
GOTOs are not harmful.

They're just the BASIC equivalent of jumps in assembler. GOSUBS are just calls. If they're really so bad, why are their assembler equivalents used in almost every program in every architecture?
I'm so so so tired of people complaining about what is and what isn't HN relevant. Yes maybe the topic is not technology but isn't this something that effects us (Americans mostly) regardless of whether or not it's HN news?

I welcome the news because how else would I have the time to find all these articles on my own? I wouldn't, so I actually appreciate that someone posted it here.

If you really don't have interest in the article then just don't click it, move along. It seems like you're putting in more effort complaining than it would take to just skip to the next HN news article.
That's why I said controlled sensory deprivation. It's a spectrum. Just because it doesn't involve ketamine and float tanks doesn't mean they aren't trying to destroy his brain. First of all there are no indications that he is or has ever been suicidal, so that explanation is laughable. And how exactly is preventing him from doing any exercise supposed to keep him from committing suicide anyway?

Even relatively mild sensory deprivation can cause fairly severe depression, as I make the case for here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948637

And what they are doing to him is way more extreme than what most people with depression are accidentally doing to themselves.
"He is prevented from exercising in his cell. If he attempts to do push-ups, sit-ups, or any other form of exercise he will be forced to stop"

I think this would be the worst for me, along with the checks every 5 minutes.
Just FYI. This tweet triggered my question

"YCombinator companies are so amazing to work for that they can't be bothered to tell you who they are in a job posting."

https://twitter.com/#!/kneath/status/16366870550548480
That 12 fps number is absolutely arbitrary. There is no threshold that changes between 11 and 12. This topic always seems to attract so many myths.

Even the difference between 110 and 120 fps is clearly visible for most. And while sensitivity may vary: I doubt that anyone could not be able to instantly see the difference between 30 and 60. How was this tested? Sure that the frames were being delivered?
To add to the copyright conversation, assuming the work is covered under U.S. law [1] then wouldn't it be covered under the Copyright of 1909 law [2]? This law only granted copyright for 60 years, which means copyright would have expired no later than 2005.

[1] Because the photographer was a U.S. soldier. If he took some of those photos in other countries there may be other laws in effect.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1909
Or:-

"That's a great question! I think the best way to answer it is..."

(This answer continues for two hours without actually answering the question posed.)
Could London invent an equivalent of a ADR?
I've seen exactly that argument used for why Purism and Pine phones should not be able to run Android apps. But I'm sorry, as much as I would like to migrate to one of those, it's simply not going to happen if it means ending up with a phone that cannot run various important apps.

Yes, supporting apps for a competing platform gives some developers a convenient excuse to not develop for your platform specifically. But you still get the benefit of their work for the other platform. And not supporting those apps gives users a solid reason to not use your platform at all.
Labor share of GDP went from 64% in 1950 to 58% today. That means wages grew slightly slower than GDP per capita, that’s certainly not enough to mean wages grew sub-exponentially.

For wages to grow linearly, labor share of GDP would have to fall exponentially towards zero.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/estimating-the-us-...
I haven't really thought about it much, Netflix engineering hype seems to have died down? Or maybe I'm just oblivious. They seem more regular than they used to be? All their open source was hyped up, I even got stuck using some of it because of people following fads.

And yeah agree Twitter always seems to be missing from engineering hype. I guess their open source and engineering out in the open is a shell of what is was.

Tesla pays low, software isn't the main focus. Salesforce is a b2b company, that i don't think most people actually like? Do they pay like other companies or have unusual or interesting software engineering problems?
Cloudflare is still up 10% for the month.
On the same day they acquired Timer Technologies [0]

[0] https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/d...
"Banning" language features that are only "banned" when a linter is placed as a roadblock between the developer and the versioning system have to be the dumbest thing us developers have inflicted upon.

How is this preventing me from recreating my own shit `random()` when it's entirely too late in the evening, deadlines are looming and the garbage office politics preclude me from disabling this asinine thing?

I used to regularly trip on this damned reified rituals where we're only supposed to use a single type of quotes, or maybe using short vars like `i,j,k` on for loops and other garbage "rules" that might have sounded great when originally put in place but are horrible on a day-to-day basis.

There's also the behavioral cost, I've noticed more and more people simply don't the code in code reviews anymore.
Most feedback I get these days is stuff like "that's not supposed to be snake_case" or "a single space should be put between methods", and sometimes a glaring logic bug will crop up after 3 or 4 people who "approved" the review will gladly and openly admit _they_ _did_ _not_ _read_ _the_ _code_, and I think this is related to us overstressing the importance of all this tiny "form" misshaps and disregarding the "function" bits because it's harder to write a roadblock that checks for them.
But Belgium is not a country.
Only someone who knows nothing about the rest of the world would say this.
People like it, that's supply and demand in effect.
Replace word “fucking” with any other activity and you’ll see how taboo it is. Hint, try “laughing”, “hugging”, “playing”
Also ethylene glycol poisoning (antifreeze).
I like this. Have you considered releasing the source so people can run it on their own servers?
I was only in high school in 1998, but at least old enough to be aware of things like the stock market. It doesn't feel anything like the Internet 1.0 bubble. For one thing, the companies today have actual revenues and profits. People are not blindly throwing money at every .com IPO that comes out.
> Is it that hard to alt+tab?

incidentally, alt+tab is broken on MacOs. It cycles between programs, not windows - so if you have mutiple terminal windows open, you're screwed. You can use the alternative alt+` to cycle between windows of the same app, but that doesn't go to the least recently used window, but cycles through them in order - which is also useless when having many terminals open. Then you can pay like 15$ to get a tool like witch (just to get basic OS functionality), but that tool is slow and broken.

So on a Mac it can be pretty hard to alt+tab.
He is literally entitled, because he owns the land.
Have you called the recruiter? Remember that they don't get paid unless you get placed.
I think this is a larger problem with Emacs. Duplicating a line is something that should be easy to do out of the box.

And if it's a situation where you really need to make the user define a keyboard shortcut, don't make them do C-c followed by the actual shortcut, let them define single keystroke shortcuts to do what they want. Multiple keystroke shortcuts are so damn annoying.
Hey - I'm "Mr. Ballenegger." (Coincidentally, that reporter found me through an HN comment where I explained how secondaries worked.)

Derivatives like this are typically structured as a sale of the economic interest, not a loan. In this scenario, if the company sells or IPOs, the terms call for me to liquidate my position as soon as possible and transfer the proceeds to the buyer. If the sale is not a positive outcome for the investor, I have no liability.

I think this could probably have been worded much better in the article.
I expect both those reasons still hold up. Ethics-driven unemployment sounds great until you start getting hungry.
books actually contain very few ideas. But these few ideas are chosen to be interesting to a general reader, to be understandable by a layman - take almost any religious books - it is the same collection of short stories for a layman, which illustrate one simple idea at a time, so the formula was a thousands years old. =) Some of them were poetry in original language.

btw, famous books by Dale Carnegie are brilliant adoption of that style.

bbtw, in many cases of such writers (compilators) the first book is the best one. The Tipping Point (and, of course, How To Find Friends) is really enjoying one.
After changing my background image to plain white, I'm stuck with white text on a white background. Ugh.

One of the things I always appreciated about Google was its minimalism. Sigh.
I assume this hooks into back-end brokerages? Which ones?
In the UK at least you often are not allowed to take a bike during rush hour on the busy train lines.
1) Convert to USDC or another token and spend using https://stellarterm.com or lobstr wallet and send to your bank account

2) Convert to BTC and spend

3) Buy a gift card directly with the xlm

4) Send to someone's bank account in Brazil, Nigeria, Europe, Argentina. Normally using stellarterm or lobstr or solar wallet.

5) Setup AchorUSD wallet, convert to USD and get 10% interest
It's accessible by apps via API and they can use it to track users (as long as they pinky swear that they'll listen to the Opt-out switch as well).

Apples analogue is IDFA for which noyb also already filed a complaint - https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaints-against-apples-trac...
I think it's proof that security (and privacy) doesn't matter. So it is very relevant. (As if telegram as competitor isn't enough proof.)

The entirety of the signal "stack" depends on the SGX enclave. The fact that no one, in all time, has bothered to notice that the running code is different than the published code, is telling.

There's actually a newer SGX exploit, and related mitigation, that came to light at about the same time when they released their discovery protocol. Those mitigations were never backported to the base signal functionality. That no one audited and complained about this says quite a lot.

I've not looked at this code dump but perhaps the newer fixes finally made their way in. Or have been there all along.
Based on the things I hear here, any FANNG will meet your needs. Most of the Google engineers here seam to brag about only working 8 hours a week.
iOS and Android native dev environment
And what about stop smartphone messenging ?
> We needed a John Hancock 5 years ago that was willing to draw a line on violent speech

You mean like 'no justice no peace' or just speech that doesn't align with your political ideology? (To be clear, I'm all in favor of defunding police and the government at large)
You kind of have a point, but "Customer Management Tools" sounds like it could be absolutely anything. If that's the alternative I'd rather have a fun memorable name.
> Vanilla `<img>` will ship the same image to every device, regardless of viewport size.

You can have responsive images with vanilla <img>[0]. You can even lazy load images with just `loading="lazy"` attribute[1]. I'm pretty sure I can optimize more things.

I'm mostly agree with this blog post. Plain HTML+CSS is really good for simple webpages, like landing page or portfolio that requires less update. But for a blog with pagination? I don't think so. Imagine updating each page in plain HTML. SSG can help my life easier.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimed...

[1] https://web.dev/browser-level-image-lazy-loading/
I got a replacement BofA debit card a few months ago, and this is exactly how they did it — only the last two digits are different.

This may be only in Washington and Idaho though, as there are several different legacy BofA backends as a result of M&A bullshit.
This is always one of my motivations for learning a new language.

In my field of business (development / .NET), there is no way C# is going away as the language of choice, so learning new languages will very rarely allow me to use those fully in the line of duty.

However, learning different languages, addressing problems differently, allowing different kind of constructs with different levels of flexibility often reveals other solutions to problems and allows you think about things outside your normal day-to-day language's constraints.

Often the result of learning new languages is that I see concepts and constructs which are neat and useful and which I like to the point that I will backport it to C# if it can be done in a non-intrusive and not too cludgy way.

I expect this to yield true for many other programmers as well.
There is certainly a rise in the complexity of languages plus most software applications now require multiple languages/technologies to accomplish given functionality. In order for programming to be easier, this needs to be simplified, but (if anything) the trend is for technologies to become more complex.

Brett Miller
http://www.customsoftwarebypreston.com/technologies
I've got an idea. How about if you want a presence on the web, you have this website that you control with whatever data and pictures you want on it? Coders can develop things we'll call content management systems to make it a bit easier for you to put your data on there if you don't want to do it all yourself, and since you'll control it, you can add whatever tools and automation and widgets and the like.
Yes. PowerPoint isn't ideal. But people's lazyness is an even bigger problem.
Furthermore, if they did take advertising it would generate a lot of revenue, enough that the Wikimedia foundation would then spend all its time arguing what to do with it.
Where did you get the 15-30 million number? We believe the number is closer to 9 million.

For the United States, there are 1,336,300 programmers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The United Kingdom has 333,000 "software professionals," according to the Office for National Statistics.

In Canada there are 387,000 people working in IT according to Statistics Canada.

I haven't dug down to other countries but it's unlikely you could get to 15-30 million. Most development tool vendors report that about 40% of their sales are in the US.
>So the question is, why do I feel pain when my brain is in a certain physical state?

Well plainly we don't know yet. But just as plainly, the brain implements the mind.
>Yet fasting is more limited in today’s society than perhaps ever before. Obesity may actually be an expression of Paleolithic fitness that was selected for in those times.

That's pretty much what people say about the keto diet.
This topic always becomes an ideological football in public discussions. Nevertheless...

The article completely misstates the purpose and findings of the paper, which isn't being helped by the authors here. The position taken in the paper is much less extreme. To summarize, they're staking out a position that middle paleolithic foraging groups were primarily carnivorous, but still had some level of dietary plant consumption.

The theoretical contribution is a bit more interesting, and the key line is in the abstract:

> We conclude that it is possible to reach a credible reconstruction of the HTL without relying on a simple analogy with recent hunter‐gatherers' diets.

The context here being that a perennial problem for the carnivorists has been that almost every foraging group we've documented ethnographically is highly omnivorous (see their rebuttel in 3.1). They're trying to get away from this problem by saying "all of that evidence is irrelevant because lower and middle paleolithic foragers were different". This is an understandable position in general, but specifically tying it to carnivorous dietary reconstructions requires running a gauntlet of theoretical objections, which is why the paper is essentially a long list of retorts to objections.

Personally, I don't find the argument convincing. There's a lot of weasel words to escape having to justify positions they really ought to littered throughout. It suggests the argument they're advocating isn't fully developed yet

e.g.:

> If genetic adaptations to USOs consumption were rather recent, it *suggests* that USOs did not previously comprise a large dietary component.

It's not a particularly well-argued paper, but this article is just a terrible summary of what it says.
Just think of all those low quality links placed there for SEO reasons that are about to vanish.
They’re around... they know you know how babby is formed
2/3rds of Ingenuity's stored energy goes towards keeping its batteries and critical components warm each night. Only 1/3rd is available for powered flight. It literally takes more energy for this helicopter to survive the night than it takes to fly on mars.
Outside of service animals (actual service animals not "support animals") I think it should be perfectly fine to reject transporting peoples pets.

I also think it should be fine to have a "no children" policy, we have all kinds of business we do not allow children in, and personally i would like to see more business adopt a no children policy.
They're pretty decent now (apart from legacy) but it feels like 2004 lasted until about 2013 when it came to Japanese websites.
Don't worry, there were studies that showed the exact opposite LMAO: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ancient-humans-vegetarians-pa...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancest...

Don't pay too much attention to these "discoveries" being 100% true
The one I have to use frequently is the restricted ksh environment in IBM's IVM/VIOS server, which is AIX.

I believe it does log a short set of command history to a file, but it'd not available with, say, the up arrow.

In general, though, I don't think any form of history is required by the POSIX shell standard, and tab-completion definitely isn't.
Please don't do this here, and please stop using HN for generic ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If I lean against a table it's not sexual, but when the table grabs my balls it sure as hell is. What I find interesting is that you equate an inanimate object in contact with a sexual organ with a human being fondling your penis, vagina, or breasts.

I honestly care less about the pats, if a dude or dudette wants to touch my balls and buttocks to make sure I'm not packing (pun intended), then go ahead. But to see them extend this same courtesy to grandmothers and little children is disgusting, unnecessary, and irresponsible.
Mostly distance. To manage your portfolio, most of the times you need to do introductions, personal meetings, lunches, etc. That's hard when u have an ocean in between. That being said, each day that goes by there are more US investors setting up shop in EU, which is appreciated :) I wonder though, who runs those shops, Americans or Europeans.
Still qualifies as an example of Bell's Law IYAM