jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Go made the (pragmatic) decision to go with concurrent garbage collection. This meant they could use very familiar solutions to problems that Rust was struggling with at the time. It also meant that they failed at their initial goal to attract C++ programmers. That doesn't make Go a failure as a language, but I sometimes get the sense that people don't realize just how much Go relies on the GC, or how much of Rust's changing design revolved around its changing relationship with GC. As one example, without GC, Go would likely have had to abandon green threads for performance reasons (the switch away from segmented stacks relies entirely on being able to trace pointers).
They've stated in the past that they're focusing on iOS then Android first but that the system could be used on other platforms like Windows/Mac/Linux.
No, Sam Altman's post was submitted by another user as well.
There is a way on buy an digital copy (no US citizen here) of this book (new edition)? Don't find any in Google/Amazon.
yes it is compatible, not sure if it will work with react native though.
go outside and play
I wrote the broker, differ, and CRDT library myself. For production I would have recommended Kafka and Automerge.
It’s not even about lying, you can think you’ve done amazing things and just not be in sync with what the interviewer’s expectations. “Led a project” can mean anything from actually being critical to the project’s success to pushing some papers around so other people could do the work.
Sounds bullshit. Coincidentally I've noticed them shadow banning my searches from a VPN with fake error messages. Go figure.
My property here is accessed at roughly market value. Partially because my state has the following law in the constitution

> Indiana property tax caps limit the amount of property taxes to 1% of property values for homesteads (owner-occupied), 2% for other residential property and farmland, and 3% for all other property

Previous places I have lived without this law, things worked differently.
> Make a clone of Twitter [...] 6 months of engineering work for 5 good engineers.

Sure.
Real programmers leave for more pay before somebody asked about backups.
that’s the entire point. this scheme would not be possible without some sort of technology to distribute value to users in an automated fashion. it would take a significant amount of capital to take over twitter if you wanted to implement such a scheme and deliver payouts in fiat. it would never work. this is about a hostile take over of a company in a short period of time with a relatively small capital investment.
Does twitter hold the copyright to tweets on its platform? I would assume the writers of the individual tweets do but I know nothing about this kind of stuff.
They also listed the Pinephone, which had no facility to do most of those things. It's either Apple or Android, and both of these are making it harder and harder over time to run your own software stack.
Thanks for the packrati link did not know. Yes was thinking of Greplin, but in your case: a Greplin "Library" only for content I read or found interesting, excluding what was written by me (without my comments, post I wrote etc).
Regarding: "words still mean something in the context of language implementation"

Since nobody mentioned it before, the primary advantages of interpreters in the field of pldi are:

- ease of implementation

- portability

This has very important implications to the field of interpreter optimizations, too, since most of them are relatively easy to implement and portable. The ease of implementation advantage when compared to an optimizing native code compiler is usually very big, the same holds true for JIT compilers as well. Portability again is a nice thing to have for optimizations--particularly when compared to the portability of JITs, which need a dedicated native code generating backend for every supported architecture.
Yes, poorly defined question. I guess electrical engineering and CS has a lot more math and then your specialization matters obv.
I am a huge proponent of vaccines and I have had more vaccines than the average person will ever have, but this doesn't make sense.

Why only under 30s?

Many people, in fact the overwhelming majority of all age categories who already had COVID know that their risk of COVID is actually 0% since their body has already proven to deal with this virus without an issue. These people are past the point of danger and risk. To those people taking a vaccine which has side effects like blood clots just doesn’t make any sense, regardless how old they are.

I can understand that a 70 year old who hasn't had COVID yet will have a higher benefit to risk ratio with the vaccine, but to "COVID survivors" that benefit-risk-ratio is negative.

Besides that it also doesn’t make sense to wave all responsibilities of vaccine producers and then forcing an emergency approved vaccine with blood clot potential on a healthy population through vaccine passports.

I am increasingly more disappointed with out government.
I'm always interested in the suckless projects. I like emacs and vim, too, but it's interesting to see projects made which can just grab the fork, a sharp knife, and a good pan and make do instead of necessarily including the kitchen sink, if I may get the analogies out.

Also, no tests? Phew!
Water does not meaningfully Change the acidity of your gastric mucosal lining. Even antacids only do so temporarily.
It seems like there is a need for some facility in browsers to let pages delegate limited privileges to 3rd party scripts (maybe only able to read/write in a certain div or something?), so that users can still be confident that their connection is secure.

There is most definately such a need and here is one attempt to address it:

http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/

It's a subset of JavaScript that can be sandboxed within other JavaScript, implemented as a lexical sanitizer. It's a huge hack, but I can't think of a better way to do this with existing technology.

What we really need is a replacement for JavaScript.
Are you sure about that? I didn't study the issue at all, just read one or two items, but what I understood was that it closed a severability "loophole" that sounded like a very thin reed to depend on.

The very possibility of a lawsuit, even if you eventually won due to the strictness imposed on enforcement, is quite enough to quash a lot of startups. Sure, you can win, after N months and M thousand dollars spent not paying full attention to your startup (assuming you don't get TROed in the beginning). I'm also told that being the subject of a lawsuit is incredibility draining.

In California as I understand it your opponent won't even get to first base.

So, let me put it this way: in all the discussions of California's no non-compete regime, if Georgia was so good why did no ever say anything about it, as compared to e.g. Michigan? People have been pushing Atlanta as a potentially good startup area, why not advertise this advantage?
This is what is wrong with the internet.
I guess stackexchange wants to be where people go when they do Google a basic question.
Oh Man! how I hate iceberg lettuce. Why does anyone like it at all ? Cucumber tastes way better.
Agreed again that this is more complex than it needs to be, and the ongoing politicization of this issue does the US no favors. Of course, what it comes down to is that immigrants can't vote, and very few politicians are willing to take the time to explain to other voters how immigration is in the collective interest of all. So 99% of the public debate consists of 'Immigrants steal jobs/benefits from Real Americans™' on one side and 'Think of the children/why is this so complicated' on the other, which doesn't advance anyone's understanding or interests.

Do consult with a lawyer, whatever you do. The rules change constantly (eg the I-9 form, which must be filled out for every employee, is about to be replaced), and an oversight by either an immigrant or someone who employs one can result in all sorts of expensive and awkward problems down the line. Startups are likely too small to be randomly audited, but immigration compliance is a requirement for doing any contractual business with the US government.
Now, wouldn't it be interesting to show up at the airport with a couple of spare dosimeters and give them to the porn crew? It is doubtful that they are all instructed against them, or else they would have already considered radiation risks.
E-2 visas are missing from the list which may be good co-founder visas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b...

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/379/in-lieu-of-an-h-...
"release early and often" might as well be applied to their recorded output too. How many bands today would be able to pull off 2 albums of 14 tracks each per year for 2-3 years, including tours, movies and singles separate from the albums?
How many could do that with great songs being written along the way, seemingly progressing with each song?
I was hoping for some feedback like this. You're right, I think I could solve it by using an ADT and splitting `apply` into two parts: atom-ops and list-ops.

module LispData = struct
(* eventually support more than just strings as ints *)
type t = Atom of string | List of string list
let create v = (v, if is_atom v then `Atom else `List)
let recover (v, t) : t = if t = `Atom then as_atom v else as_list v
end

let rec apply car cdr = match LispData.recover car with
| atom `Atom -> atom_ops atom cdr
| list `List -> list_ops list cdr

This is what I'm thinking, roughly speaking.
Yes, has largely to do with our shift from blue collar jobs I think (we are no longer producing housing/infrastructure/automobiles/etc at the rate we once were). We are seeing this growth in places like China and India where these jobs still dominate.
I am not a crypto expert and don't have a position wrt this particular problem domain but:

"the software industry thrives on failing a lot until a good solution is found"

may be at the heart of the disagreement. It is true that some parts of the software industry are best served by this style of iterative failure based progress, but it is unfair to say that the entirety of software is best developed this way.

There exist whole classes of problems where the failure modes of their solutions are quite simply worse than any potential value those solutions can provide. Those class of problems should NOT be iteratively developed, rather they should be rigorously engineered and formally verified.

I suspect your disagreement stems from whether you think crypto systems exist inside or outside that problem set.
With a 30 day exponential weighted average on that state?
The whole CA system is already a security theatre.
And in a dramatic scenario, rather than "One head, one vote", you'll probably have "One gun, 100 votes" anyway...
I must honestly say:

I'm angry at Comcast about this shit.

However i'm even more angry at the author about it.

He did not even try once to even get a supervisor, when he should have been throwing the book at Comcast by week 2 latest. How is a company supposed to learn and improve if people like this guy let them get away with literally lying to customers without punishment?

Don't blog about it on the internet. Record phone calls, pressure agents to give you their full legal names, push to get supervisors. And get a damn lawyer.
Site wouldn't load, but here's my favorite platform for disposable emails: mytrashmail.com

I've probably been using it for a decade now. Wonderful service.
With freemium, would the question be: How much, in real dollars, is it worth to my premium customers if I added a free tier?
I had a boss that was extremely good to work for, but she didn't have management experience (given the nature of the organization, this would be expected), so she leaned on outsourced HR for advice. Not only did their advice lead to me leaving much less amicably than had been (mutually, I thought) planned, but they also opened themselves up to liability that wouldn't have been there otherwise.

The "bad cop" analogy is spot-on. I've used that exact analogy—my boss (unwittingly) played "good cop", while the HR consultants played "bad cop".
Interesting idea. I would just use something like DWM, a lightweight tiling window manager. You still get the simplicity but with a bit more flexibility. Most people will probably quickly hit a deal breaker with just using Emacs as a WM.
well, heart disease is the number one cause of death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf#Non-German_military
a higher probability of making it rich by being an early employee than by founding your own startup

There are an order of magnitude more early employees than there are founders, so it makes sense...for every founder made rich, there are 10x as many early employees made rich.
This comment only shows that you don't understand Amdahl's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law)

If it takes 10s for your Python code to serve a request, it doesn't matter if the framework takes 1s or 0.1s to parse http headers and call you. The 0.1s framework is 10x faster than 1s framework but it only makes <10% difference on metric that you really care about.

The only way to actually make a 10x difference on "time to serve a request" metric is to switch to a more performant language, like C# or Java or Go.

(and I'm using seconds for illustration purposes only, in real life the timing would be in milli-seconds, but the same logic apply)
The hotel industry is pretty fragmented. Most hotel chains are franchises run mainly by independent franchisees. The quality of hotels varies wildly depending on location, even within the same brand/chain. There isn't as much oversight or centralized management as one might think. The hotel industry is also big on low wages, high employee turnover and pushing people in and out of the door as quickly as possible. Proper implementation of wifi is an afterthought. The experience is usually better in 4-star or higher hotels, but those come at a premium.
Not really. You're renting a space from them, and they can dictate what you're allowed to do in that space. I would say the hotel has the right to ask guests to not use these devices in their rooms, but they should not be actively jamming public frequencies or sending malicious packets to these devices.
I wonder if this will impact the mantra "don't hire MBAs"...
Course: Preliminary Spacecraft Design (for BS in Aerospace Engineering)

Group: 8 (I was Project Manager)

Year: 2013

Thesis Topic: Prevention and mitigation of Kessler Syndrome effects in low earth orbit.

We were tasked with designing a "full stack" space mission complete with a constrained budget, launch vehicle, launch locations, and a mission time line from launch to end of mission.

We designed a "space debris removal as a service" satellite system that would deorbit debris from the Iridium 33 satellite collision. It would launch from Vandenburg's Space Launch Complex 4-East which would effectively inject the spacecraft into a polar orbit. Communications would be handled by McMurdo and Svalbard stations.

The craft would rendezvous with the debris, attach itself and deorbit. Initially we were going to use the atmosphere to burn up the debris but we did not have access to the materials that the Iridium satellite was made of so we were unsure if the debris Would completely disintegrate upon reentry so we decided to deorbit it into a graveyard orbit safely away from future spacelanes.

We got some flak from the defense panel stating our attachment methods wouldn't work so well in space but overall we received good reviews. I received an A for the project.
Panasonic's Let's Note series.

It made Alan Kay part with Mac. The downside is their price, otherwise they are superior to Apple's Mac Books.
I'd love to link up discuss goals, and ideas. I'll be sending you an email shortly.
> I like to think that the tech companies coming to Oakland also share a sentiment of contributing to social causes bigger than themselves.

I'm pretty skeptical. It's telling, too, that there was no mention of the big companies with their names on towers.
And I'm sure Russia only wishes to be as big as it was back when it was the USSR.

Historically, yes, Crimea and Ukraine were all under strong Russian influence. But expanding to its historical size is an expansion from the current norm nonetheless.

Same with China. Do remember that Japan and Korea were historically claimed by China. Its unlikely that the US will let China expand to its historical size... and gobble up Japan and Korea while its at it.
It is almost certain that the old appetites are still there. The big changes are probably that democracies tend to be less expansionist (democracies don't like needless wars, voters die) and that all the countries that aren't the US basically imploded in World War II.

Most of history isn't a great guide for what happens next because of technology changes. Up until "recently" wars were won by logistics, numbers and training. In the modern age, logistics requires a very complicated industrial system capable of producing, eg, nuclear weapons and satellites. So far, only the US has pulled this off and only the EU has come close to (maybe they have managed as well, I don't know).

Life may get more tense when a new challenger to the US emerges. Maybe China.
I'm inclined to go against the grain and say that the alcohol-and-energy-drink combo causing heart attacks is more urban legend and "the dangers of sugar+caffeine", i.e. soda, than anything particular to energy drinks. Red Bull, and other energy drinks, are essentially an extra-caffeinated soda with taurine and B-vitamins. Still less caffeine than a cup of coffee at that.

So ya, it'd be healthier to stay away from 5 shots of vodka and 5 sodas at once. Nothing too particular about energy drinks that make you overdo caffeine+sugar+alcohol.
In this case, I think people need to realize what they are signing up for. If you deliver pizza it's a given you will start reeking of pizza. Uber is notoriously used for designated driving, and anyone surely knows by adult hood that having diarrhea isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when, and basic probability would tell you eventually will get a customer with diarrhea or someone who is about to throw up their tequila. Luckily Uber has some protections for you in the cleaning fee charged to the offending customer, but with Uber's excellent way around lobbying, that's about all the protections to your vehicle you can ask for with this gig.
Thinking aloud here. How common are actual computer viruses (not just malware / ransomware, etc) these days? Meaning, an unauthorized program running on a computer that attempts to propagate itself to other computers. This was a real problem in the past when a program would be written to exploit shoddy network code, or when we still used removable media more frequently. I think all the modern OS vendors have locked their platforms down to prevent this mode of attack.
I mean, that article is about how the Prenda saga ended with the lawyer disbarred and in prison.

If his strategies had ended up a valid, legal option we would absolutely see trolls expanding into this. John Steele was testing the waters and got eaten by the deep acting as a warning for how not to go about this.

There's some DMCA takedowns and such still, but they aren't quite lucrative enough to show up on patent trolls' radars. Aquila non capit muscas and what have you. A several billion dollar copyright claim like Oracle's passing SCOTUS muster absolutely would have shown up on their radar though.
They most likely wrote "the camera app" for it and could open source that which would allow someone to port it to a newer version of android.
I as an individual add value to society. I generally become profitable by providing other people a better alternative labor/services than competing humans.

Can I also get zero income tax rate? Can I also get the freedom of movement to move to tax havens and hide my existence and income in a web of different identities?
To me, these things are a way to improve process. Making thirty works in thirty days will identify points where there is wasted energy or where unfamiliarity with tooling exists or where insufficient consumables are an impediment.

A person making thirty songs in thirty days will get better at setting up gear. Turning on the recoding device will be normalized. Not keeping enough blue gel pens at hand will become obvious.

And it can all be in addition to time spent on a master work progress.

Or maybe while everything is ready to go, it becomes easy to lay down a take of the master work.

Working little things end to end is a good way of developing a habit of finishing. A perspective that is less precious. A catalog of experience. And questioning absolute links between effort and quality.
Yes but there are alot of profitable applications which dont need to be advertised. You run it in-house and make money on the output, ie. ML farms or mining. You dont take preorders for the hardware at all and just have boutique custom units and nobody knows the architecture, even if you offer some remote rental/SaaS tool.
It follows from this that you think the future of software companies will be reaping even greater profits from massive payroll cuts. I doubt it.
It's incredibly difficult to fund internal platform teams appropriately. Usually one of three failure patterns emerges

1) The team is competent but picks up migration work to arbitrary technologies, and approaches with no clear ROI. These migrations block feature development and never seem to end e.g. teams ceaselessly migrating from GCP to AWS, to kubernetes, to podman from mysql to postgresql etc.

2) The team is operationally heavy and generates arbitrary requirements for everyone else to follow. The toolchain seems to get worse over time, and the number of hoops to jump through to get anything done endlessly grows e.g. Wait 2 weeks and get three business approvals for a server which you aren't allowed to have root access to.

3) The team has big ideas, but the business constantly under invests. The team is called to fight every fire but unable to stop the fires through any meaningful project. The company ends up on a platform thats constantly on fire.

When weighing these execution risks building an internal platform for just about anything looks incredibly expensive. I've only been at 1 company out of 6 which nailed the internal platform tooling requirements. The only reason I can attribute to their success was through quarterly NPS surveys on the developer experience for every major piece of the companies toolchain + hard to meet SLAs for uptime.
Penny stock is a utility token representing governance in a company as well as the privilege of taking its profits — much like crypto governance tokens are.
Was approached by a headhunter for a role in Bratislava for Amazon. They were giving a 'generous' salary of €20k (net) per year (it was a few years ago). The headhunter was desperate and wanted to convince me that "this is a lot of money!!!" (for Bratislava).

My simple counter was that "if I save 20% of my salary per month, I will have 4k in the end of the year. If I take an €60k (net) job in Frankfurt and again I save 20%, I will have 12k". Why would I 'sell myself short' for 8k of savings per year? It only made him angrier because my narrative did not match his sales-pitch. I never got to work for Amazon (or anyone else in Bratislava).

Location matters.

If you want €100k then don't look in Bratislava.

If you want a 'slow calm life' (away from the madness of London/Paris/etc.) go to Bratislava or Ljubljana and be happy with the €40k.

> You can't have it both ways..

No but people love to complain.

PS/Addition: it feels like "bait and switch". It's like hiring me in Bratislava, giving me a small (net) salary and ask me to work from London. I wouldn't accept that. The employee would also feel cheated the other way around. And with that said this is my favorite cities' cost comparison: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp