jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Another Musk inspired project is the hyperloop

He just took the 100 year old vac train concept and repackaged it. Back in his original pitch he constantly said and laughed how easy it is. Once the years went by he slowly backed off from every promise and ultimately reduced his involvement to 0.

> of course the Boring tunnels for electric cars.

He promised to make tunnel boring cheaper, yet his only tunnel costs exactly as much as every other tunnel. He constantly advertises 150mph travel when the tunnel isn't even long enough to reach that speed. Have you seen the tunnel? It's so tiny you can't even open your doors if you get stuck in there. If even a single car fire starts in that tunnel everyone in the tunnel will die.
This is a really nice UI wrapper around the @stablelib/tss (https://www.stablelib.com/modules/_tss_tss_.html) library if you fancy building your own.
That's exactly what everyone should do. Instead of letting them get away with it, we should block it all unconditionally and by default, forcing them to find another solution that's acceptable. Linux distributions in particular are in the perfect position to patch this out and improve user experience for all their users.
It's unfortunate, but it's understandable that "regular" people want to minimize risks by e.g. avoiding the unknown. What I mean is that you can't really blame the typical citizen who sees something unknown, reads the news and is concerned about his/her property.

Non-western immigrants in Sweden have a bad reputation, simply because integration has been handled poorly by the government (and their immigration policies have arguably been way too open), and that people come with all kinds of backgrounds, war torn countries etc.

It's a chicken and egg situation, I think the best thing Sweden can do at this point is to partly shut the doors on immigration and focus on integrating the population currently living in ghetto like suburbs.
Same. The conditions I cultivated at my home office are unbeatable in many ways, very expensive standing desks and chairs included. Not to mention a world-class quality display that makes most other displays seem like toys.

I invested in my home office and it's perfect for me. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
> These bugs are not fun for anybody, dev or unhappy user alike.

Then fix them.
This looks like an online-only version of Joplin, interesting. Personally I ended up with Joplin to achieve and exceed feature parity with Evernote for my own use case...
Yes, when visiting friends and not knowing the provenance of their eggs until asking after putting eggs in my mouth.
Drill,

The thing is that ARM licenses its core, while Intel doesnt. ARM allows many many silicon vendors to do their own thing. Make their own server CPUs etc. Something they had never been able to do before.

I have no doubt that Intel will get competitive over time on the power front, if they are not already there yet. But people need to know that ARM is getting competitive on the performance front too. So that many silicon vendors, not just Intel, can come out with servers, and SOCs for other types of applications which is pure x86 right now.
Rent a VPS in some democratic country. Run your postfix, dovecot, SOGo or RoundCube, for chat use ejabberd or other XMPP server, use owncloud or other similar piece of software. Or there are preconfigured GNU/Linux distributions which give you these features out of the box (but I usually configure these packages myself).

Ad TLD: there are many national TLDs, grab any, but choose carefully the company where you register it (someone outside USA).
The missions are already funded on the basis that they will store and share the data.

But you're arguing for inter-agency billing as the correct way to weight scientific experiments? That isn't rational.
Heh, this is the kind of article that will be humbling to the author to re-read later in his career.
I wonder how much was publicly known about this technology in 1990 or so. This is a case where I’d be quite impressed if it was based on anything real. I’m probably more often disappointed by the oft-abused deus-ex-machina (quantum, AI, wormholes, hacking, etc), but sometimes it’s really well done and way ahead of the zeitgeist’s tech imagination.
I'm aware of Thalys, though Aachen/Cologne isn't exactly a long journey.
I've only had it happen to one of the maybe 7 or 8 adapters I've had over the years because I'm super careful to keep them from fraying.

But I screwed up an ruined the one I keep in my work bag. I threw some money at these guys that offer a neat solution: http://www.getjuiceboxx.com/ when they launched a kickstarter. It'll finally be delivered this week. Really looking forward to it.
And no matter how long your commitment is to maintain that ideal (corporate or personal) relationship, there will be times that drastic changes have to be made. But we all try; and keep on trying...
I was contacted via LinkedIn by the CTO at my current job. I'm friends with one of the other developers here who is well thought of. I wouldn't have ever come across this job otherwise. I'm horrible about doing research about companies I want to work for.

I did a few things before starting though like checking page load efficiency and seeing if implementing css spriting would help load time. I mostly did that so I'd have more information about how the site worked before I started.
If you're into one-liners, CoffeeScript is your friend :)

foo = (n) -> (-> i) for i in [0..n]
It's not scary, and by looking at your comment history it's pretty obvious you have an agenda against Bitcoin, and you are trying to promote your PoS (a flawed concept) altcoins, probably just because you can't stand that someone else invested in Bitcoin before you. Apparently 1,000% gains per year is not enough for some people.
Wait, what, just right?

First we laughed at China, downplayed it, now we ignore them again? (And if not China, why not look more at Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, there seem to be ways to keep the load for the health system reasonable enough .. but what I also miss too much is how we go forward, not just flatten the curve, but also rump up hospitals, and masks for everyone, and what else it takes to get into some reasonable state as before).

Just translating http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a089a4d9 from someone who claims to be China insider via his wife:

The reason why China thinks it can lower its shutdown is because they believe they control it now well enough. What is not clear to us in the West is how draconian but efficient they did the lockdown and quarantine:

- Immediate true and complete lockdown of whole China. They do not agree what we understand as lockdown in Italy and other European countries.

- In Shandong (80.000.000 inhabitants) they started tracking by licenses plates, train tickets and mobile phones all 70.000 persons that were in Wuhan and sent them to quarantine. That is like if Germany would have sent anyone who was in Italy on vacation into quarantine start of February.

- Every known infected case had 5 people working on it that via big data, tracking and interviews identified every contact person and put these into quarantine.

- As there was an infection case in a block, the whole house (30 flats) came for 14 days into quarantine into a hotel, they disinfected the whole house, and everyone else in the block (500 flats) were fever checked daily by security.

- Patrols in Wuhan arrested everyone breaking quarantine.

- Fever checking at every checkpoint.

But there was not only force, they are getting daily SMS to their chinese SIM:

- current state of epdemics

- state of food stocks of the province and there is no reason to hamster

- inform that all health costs due to corona will be paid

- how many face masks are produced each day

- that any price gouging is strictly forbidden, with a hotline you can call to report violations

- and general tips for behaviour

They partly paid people also a month wage if they went into hospital for testing/reporting their corona.
What we don't understand in Europe is that Chinese government looked at Wuhan for few weeks and then decided that the cheapest way out of this will be this dramatic complete lockdown.
Everyone travelling into China btw must go into 2 weeks quarantine. Thus they feel safe from a second big outbreak wave.

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Let's see if that works (keep in mind everyone there is wearing masks, while not perfect, they likely have a huge impact on reproduction coefficient on large scale).

I believe we should have learned much earlier when everyone was reporting that they e.g. build a hospital ultra quick, and then sent everything into complete lockdown, that they maybe had known what they have at their hands.

By doing our small steps, and also not having massive testing and good behaviour available like South Korea, I'm afraid, it will just take longer for us and the pain will be much larger. In Italy it already is :(
The UK system has been starved of funding for the last 10 years.
Using primitive types “too much” is a frequent anti-pattern. It has a name: Primitive Obsession (https://wiki.c2.com/?PrimitiveObsession)

I think people do it because it is quite some work to implement proper value types in common languages like JavaScript, Java and C#.

Languages like F# or Kotlin give it to you almost for free.

The rule of thumb is exactly as you observed: if values have different semantics they should have different types.
There is one harsh reality I see in all this: World screwed itself by being over reliant on China. At least Canada did. Big time. Big percentage of things here in Canada is 'Made in China' - yup, you name it -- Masks, gloves, and items such as syringes, etc. heck even plastic cutlery and tooth brushes are made in China.

Now that Chinese economy got shutdown and people in Canada went into panic mode, we have severely decimated supply of essential items such as hand sanitizers, masks, gloves, etc even for the health workers!

I know this pandemic nor future pandemic/wars would change anything because humans are just collateral (and sometimes even treated as adversary) for the mega corporations, but my wish is each Country (or atleast Geographical region) learn to become self sufficient when it comes to making items such as Clothing, medical and sanitary supplies, etc. This may mean that in places like the West where Corporations have to hire local workers at higher cost to produce the same clothing items being produced by $1/hr workers in Bangladesh, but so be it -- in times of emergency, you need local production of items to save you.

No need to put so much reliance on countries like China (manufacturing, assembly, electronics, clothing, plastics), Germany (Manufacturing, machinery), South Korea (Electronics, appliances), India (textile, assembly), Mexico (assembly) and Bangladesh (textile).
The problem is even for hydroxychloroquine the most at risk patients for serious COVID-19 illness (People with Diabetes and Heart issues) are under the well established precautions in using the hydroxychloroquine. To build publics faith in the idea that one medication is going to really come through is haphazard at best.
It would be interesting to study the content creators with the highest patreon revenue and see what kind of content they're creating. Is it Outrage of the Day echo chamber content, how to DIY, storytelling, or something else. That might give us some insight into what a advertising free content creation world would look like.
Spyware (which Zoom is) is also a type of malware.
How can it be called a failure? It achieved it's goal: Serbs were on the brink of defeating Albanians and totally cleansing Kosovo before it started, and ended with Yugoslav defeat and Kosovar independence (and somewhat indirectly, Yugoslavia's final dissolution a year later). Without Americans ever needing to put any boots on the ground, only by air power.

Winning a war isn't about killing your enemies... It's about achieving your goals. You can't deny they were fully achieved, solely with air power. To me it sounds like anything but a defeat.
Banning advertising in general actually sounds more feasible than banning poorly-defined "targeted advertising".
If you are an American you were young and had no choice but to serve, and you are either going to defend yourself or die, it is still utterly repellent. But you do it anyway. Blame yourself or your parents or your grandparents for voting for the wrong people.

If you are a from a more peaceful nation congratulate yourself on deciding to be born there.
What would you classify as the right kinds of events, and what as networking events?
But at some point Advanced Chess will be 'dead' in the sense that the best human players no longer help the best software win: the human will pick better moves less than poorer moves, and blow games. It's hard to tell when, but given how large the margin is, and how finely balanced the best chess engines are now (Lipton has some interesting posts on computer chess, most recently https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/the-new-chess-worl... ), I wonder if that moment has already passed?
Getting around "cost plus" thinking is definitely a major point. I think developers, as a group, are generally concerned with the concept of fairness and "cost plus" thinking is a huge part of that. Take, for example, the top comment in this thread[0], which posits the solution to airlines' problem with SkipLagged as pricing a "ticket based on what it costs and a fair margin".

Things rarely work like that in the real world. This is not to knock the concept of "fairness" as being naive or useless, but rather just to point out economic realities: Companies do not necessarily price things in terms of "cost plus", but rather try to optimize. In some cases, they may sell certain items at below cost or near cost in order to attract customers for some other items.

In fact, negotiating for a market rate can be seen in the light of fairness and "cost plus". If you suspect you are underpaid, and research (Glassdoor, etc.) suggests this, then implicitly, your time is less valued than some of your colleagues. I doubt many would say their time "costs" less than others'; thus, would such a suggestion be fair?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813138
How is it sexist when all the evidence shows men are more involved in violent acts than women? Can you please help me understand how this is sexist?
This is why I like to say "Just pay me more, I can take care of my own perks. Promise."

Sure, free food is great and all. But we're not kindergarteners are we? I'm an adult and I like to take care of my own food (and such).

Free beer and pizza is for helping your friend move. Or for giving a talk at a *camp event. It's not for producing hundreds of thousands if not millions in value for your employer.
There is a way - use different calendars for work and home. Preferably with different accounts (work account vs personal account).

You can then blend the 2 calendars either in the mobile app, or by importing one to the other account.

I'm a bit surprised to hear some people would use their work calendar for personal activities, I don't see why you would do that.
As a pretty happy galaxy nexus owner (that I just passed to my teenaged son), I've been pretty disappointed with the price point and apparent lack of commitment to the google phone line. As a consequence I've just bought OnePlus Ones for myself and my family based on their apparent commitment to cyanogen as native-from-the-factory load and a much better price point than the Google 6. It's a bit sad to see Google move away from the Nexus phones as a touchstone for value and 'pure' android, but good to see others (e.g., OnePlus) filling the ecological niche.

It will be interesting to see if OnePlus continues to fill this niche or evolves away from it.
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Experienced (10+ years) developer of software for medical devices and scientific applications, many with an imaging component. Have architected and led teams to deliver on software for systems in both diagnostic and interventional contexts. Comfortable working in an FDA-regulated & ISO 13485 compliant quality system.

I excel at iterating research or early-stage prototypes (e.g. MATLAB developed by researchers) into commercial-grade software ready to impress the right audience (clinicians, investors, etc.). Developing scientific applications involves a high degree of uncertainty and requires an engineer that actively participates in all phases of the SDLC (e.g. requirements gathering, risk analysis, etc.). My ability to communicate has always led to my role as the technical point of contact for researchers, clinicians (surgeons, radiologists, etc.), and senior executives.

One of my current freelance projects is creating a software application to drive the receive/transmit of a novel ultrasound transducer and then scan-convert the signal into an image in real-time. Outside of the medical domain, my development projects have included an automated stock-trading engine (including backtesting suite) and various sports analytics software solutions.

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Because bitcoiners were willing to believe anything which fit their narrative, logic and diligence be damned.
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A note to the circles: It is not so much about circles, but rather "Some points which share the same distance to another point X"

If you follow a manual of how to construct something with compass and straightedge, the job of the circles is often only to intersect with something else, and these points of intersection are of actual interest (as far as I remember).
My understanding is that the “money creation” is descriptive in their view.

Unfortunately I haven’t gotten all that deep into the theory, so I can’t go much further on how they view fractional reserve banking.
I had no idea if the magnetic stripe on my (australian) credit card worked until a recent trip to the USA. I’ve had that card for years and I don’t think I’ve ever swiped it before. Australian POS terminals won’t let you use the magnetic strip on a card when chip & pin is available. Even inserting your card seems old fashioned now - PayPass (contactless payment) is by far the most common way to pay in australia.

Each year there seems to be fewer reasons to carry a wallet around. Cash? Killed by covid. Card? Apple Pay. Drivers licence? There’s an app for that. It won’t be long before wallets are entirely useless.
That's a fair point and it was certainly true that this tripped me up when I was learning Perl too. But now I've wrapped my head around the concept, I love it.
Yes. I have this command aliased as 'fu'. Surprisingly easy to remember.
Windmills do not work that way. Goodnight.
This area seems to be a real problem for a lot of people. I suspect, though don't have evidence to back it, that this type of problem extends beyond just paypal - to all merchant accounts and processors.

I've found that there is another problem related to payments too. Fraudulent chargebacks. Small businesses often aren't good at following up on things and end up throwing a lot of money away because some customers habitually do chargebacks for things like "don't recognize charge," etc... and then get their money refunded because the business owner doesn't reply to the request quickly enough (the window to reply is very short).

I don't know if any services address this or not, but I would be interested in helping to solve problems around merchant accounts.

If there were a centralized site that people like WillyDmz could go to then maybe the individual could garner a bigger voice. How cool would it be to see how much money any specific merchant is holding back? Maybe a site like this could get a little more attention.

What do you think? If anyone would be willing to work with me on this, we can make it happen. I'm capable of building out the code for it; would need a designer and a marketing person to help. If anyone interested, let me know.
More like "sudo !!" prepends sudo to the last history entry and executes the result. It may not run as root, depending on the complexity of the shell handiwork you did, and depending on /etc/sudoers.

I really, really, really hope that the author doesn't think "sudo !!" is some special kind of magic, and that he knows "echo !!" works the same way.

Also, there are keyboards with a "Home" key? Most people just press C-a.
There is also the value of Cloudkick's existing customer base.
Yeah, I'd go straight to the 4 year if you can handle that economic hit. Having a successful start-up on your resume should help you get into a top program.
True with rational actors. Massive nation states in the 20th century tended towards a certain degree of rationality by their ponderous nature. Cold war dogma will have to be updated in an era when you can not count on rationality from the actors possessing nuclear weapons, where small sets of individuals or potentially even individuals can control when and where they detonate.

Emphasizing the unsurvivability of a nuclear war encourages terrorists and marginal, rogue nation states and feeds into their ideation of "Once I have a nuke, they'll have to take me seriously!", a dynamic we can already see in the world. If you want to consider the effects of propaganda on world behavior (severed from the question of the truth of the propaganda), a good case can be made that now is the time to understate the dangers of nuclear weapons, that they are in the end just fairly large bombs, etc. Or perhaps just tell the truth, which is that they are dangerous and devastating, yes, but their effects have historically been overstated for the reasons discussed above.

Also, remember, part of what makes these nation states marginal is their lack of solid leadership and control. Iran right now thinks that a nuke is their meal ticket, but based on my reading of their own internal turmoil I would consider it a nontrivial possibility that if a nuke does show up there very significant internecine conflicts would begin and it's impossible to know who would actually end up with it; even if the current leadership retained control of the country the nuke may end up with somebody else. (Actually, the probability of the Iranian nuke actually ending up going off in Iran due to internal conflicts I would consider nontrivial, though certainly low odds relatively speaking.)
Simple - it has many other virtues that outweigh this even if you need it.

I'm writing a lot of production Go code, and I'm very happy about the language. I wouldn't put generics at the top of my wish list but at times I wish I had them. But not enough that I'm willing to use a 3rd party solution, so I guess not that much :)
there's already a discussion on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8837432
Would you recommend it for some one who doesn't know the DOM well?
Any piece (well, except the king) can checkmate with cooperation from the opponent's pieces. The standard sets (queen, rook, two bishops, bishop and knight) are those with which you can force a checkmate against an opponent who just has a king.
I'd like more to see how these editors are handling big files (>1G) and performing substitutions.

I feel editors are taking a step backwards recycling and repackaging the same ideas many previous editors had before plus eye candy.