jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That is a very simplistic take, and I never once said anything about the 1st Amendment.

Free Speech is a natural right of human's which is protected from government infringement by the 1st amendment, but the 1st amendment does not grant or bestow this right upon us, we have simply by being alive

This is also called the Lockean understanding of Rights.

You have also conflated Free Speech and the Right os Association, another natural right everyone has. The right of association is what gives twitter the ethical foundation to ban or refuse to publish the words of anyone they choose

Which I 100% support, however the fly in the ointment is the fact that congress has given special legal liability protections to Twitter where by they will not be held liable if they choose to associate with the public at large as a platform. IMO granting these liabilities shields to twitter, twitter should also have to accept they will welcome all legal protected speech. They would also be free to choose to reject that liability shield and retain their right of association.
For me, it’s the dilution of networks. WhatsApp has a purpose and it’s different from FB. Now I have my bike mechanic friending me on FB because I’m a contact on WA. I don’t want some smoosh of all my connections.
that's so humbling. real cool. I should work there !
The Chinese are pushing on a Gen 4.5ish fighter and the Russian Su-30 variants are nothing to sneeze at. The Eurofighter is a step up over the F-16 but doesn't totally eclipse it.

However, the irony is that the F-35 probably won't be able to turn or accelerate with aircraft like the Su-30 or Eurofighter so in a dogfight it would be outclassed.
I live abroad and peers I have access to are working class people. There simply isn't much to talk about, just get pissed drunk/drugged.

I've recently started disconnecting them I found network of smart people to which I can enjoy conversing with.
I have worked at companies where this happened some one wanted to get promoted to a first level manager) so to tick the required experince boxes they burned 10 man years and £1,000,000 to re impliment an existing perl system in Oracle as orace was teh prfered solution in our company.
OP here, my whole question wouldn't fit in 2000 characters so here is the rest:

1. I could charge them more by the hour. My champion at the company thinks they would balk if I told them $250/hr. - even though I would be saving them that much in the first year.

2. Since I intend to have the product finished by the time I negotiate, I could give them a fixed price with very low risk to me – say $25K-35K.

3. I could demo a working version when I talk to them. Having something that demonstrably works from Day One should be worth a premium over “I think I can get this done in time.” right? The risk is that part of my Secret Sauce would be revealed by the demo.

4. What is a good way to point out how much I’d be saving them? I imagine I can use that to set/justify my price somehow but I’m a little fuzzy on the approach.

5. Licensing the software to them (including source) on a yearly basis – say $15k a year. I would have to trust them as this is embedded software and they would have the source. This is the Big Question. I've never done something like this before. I probably won’t be licensing this to anyone else. Can I charge more for an “exclusive” license?

6. The counter person at a junk yard once told me “How much have you got?” when I asked the price of a part that I needed for my car. Is there a less obvious way of asking this of a client? :-)

Thanks in advance.
Oh you can now. But at what point will that stop? The concept of owning software is going away. In 5 years, you won't be able to buy Office or Photoshop. Just rent.

Same for movies and music. Yes, you've always been able to rent them. But in the future, you won't be able to own them forever.
Or maybe me, the author, just wanted to share a little piece of himself, and a practice he finds helpful, and it resonated with a few others out there. Not everything has to be something more than that.
> 6. It removes comments from where they should be, on the destination site.

This is very good in my opinion because it gives us more freedom, because the post's author can't discriminate against possible negative comments. In other words: this is neutral ground.

> someone who can’t tell the difference between being a freedom fighter and being a douche to a guy who makes $12 an hour trying to stop planes from getting blown up.

I don't think the TSA's moves are as effective as they are annoying.

> 2. Votes on comments are used to express agreement or disagreement rather than value

I don't think there is an easy solution for this one anywhere else.
Yeah, you didn't get my point. I said general use, which video and audio editing isn't.

Apple's "attitude" is called meeting market demands and eliminating the cruft from their product lines. They're here to make money not do you (or me) favors.
How do you propose to differentiate between multiple implementations of the same concept otherwise? It is nice that there is a "nokogiri" and "hpricot," unlike the PostgreSQL gems, which are called "postgres", "pg", and "postgres-ruby". The one you actually want to use is "pg" though.

Should "rack" be called standard-http-server-api-with-support-for-middleware, and then "unicorn" be called pre-forking-web-server-using-standard-http-server-api-with-support-for-middleware?
Indeed, humans like to "compartmentalize"; the problem is that by definition you have to compartmentalize to define concepts. Without that, everybody would be talking horribly vaguely.
While not originally started as part of this startup sprint I just rolled out my first Windows Phone 7 application "To Do Today" http://compiledexperience.com/windows-phone-7/to-do

Very much a minimum viable product with extra features in the pipeline.
I hate every single new OS X release, because that means I have to struggle with wifi issues all over again.
Update: Bitstamp CEO finally commented: https://twitter.com/nejc_kodric/status/552033583486230529
These days I go to bed around midnight, give or take half an hour. I get up anywhere from 5:00-6:30. If I can get to bed around 10:00, I wake up at 4:00 or 4:30.

I can't remember exactly what happened when I first stopped using the alarm, but I remember a couple patterns:

- I used to set an alarm for 6:00, and snooze until 7:30 or so. Getting up when I first woke up meant I often got up around 6:30 or 6:45 - later than I set my alarm for, but much earlier than I usually got out of bed.

- I stopped "just staying up late". I used to get tired around midnight, then stay up until 1:00 or 1:30, not getting much done. I knew I needed sleep, so I started going go bed when I was tired.

Overall, it made me pay attention to the sleep my body needed, and stop pretending the alarm clock would just get me up.
I've seen this stated a few times previously, but never seen any evidence to back it up. I'm pretty sure that'd be against the law in most countries; if a product's defective consumer laws (almost) everywhere mandate it be replaced

As for someone changing their mind, do you really think that's Apple's motivation behind offering engraving?. I'd guess less than 1% of iPods are sold engraved, and of these the unwanted rate would be in single digits, probably again close to 1%, so (with those assumptions) we're looking at about 1 in 10,000 units.

Instead, I'd put forward that Apple offer engraving for some other reason, and the anti-return policy is simply a byproduct of that, not the driving force; an engraved iPod can't be restocked and would be cost prohibitive to refurbish
They care what other entrepreneurs, investors, customers, etc. think.

When most people say "I don't care what other people think", it's not really true. It just indicates a mismatch with the audience under discussion.
If engraved items are less likely to be stolen, does that mean criminals first check for engravings before taking an item?
Because it makes giving one as a gift even cooler.

I gave my sister her first iPod as a graduation gift when she got her masters in social work after surviving her first bout with breast cancer. Being able to put this quotation on the back of her gift meant a lot:

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
I don't think the attitude is so much pro-piracy as anti-regulation and pro-getting-stuff-done. Hackers tend to be naturally averse to the two traditional means of combating piracy: government regulation and DRM. Government regulation requires bureaucracy, which hackers hate. DRM creates obstacles to getting stuff done, which hackers also hate.

I agree that piracy is probably a big enough problem to make the aforementioned potential solutions a lesser evil. But I doubt there's any way the hacker community will accept that.
The 0.8 branch has been far superior for me than 0.7. Definitely give it a go as you may be pleasantly surprised.
Fair, but the implication seemed to be that China was somehow not expecting ownership over the corporations in which it invests (since there was an implied contrast with VC investment where said ownership is expected).

That is: it goes a fair bit beyond merely keeping companies in a given geography.
Why do you want to make it open source? Open source isn't a marketing strategy, it's a social agreement based on the idea that people benefit from source code they can use, inspect and modify collectively. This comes with lots of freedom, responsibilities and challenges over many years.

One major challenge for you as a developer is monetization. If you don't have a proven strategy for making healthy recurring money after going open source, then you don't have a strategy at all. Accepting donos is not a viable monitization strategy, at least not in the beginning.
This is more like LD_PRELOAD. I’m not sure this is a kernel level feature.
Yeah, of course running random docker compose files and containers from the internet and blissfully exposing your mongodb or whatnot service unsecured to the whole world seems like an easy, non-complicated alternative. Kubernetes has a few shitty defaults, like exposing a service account for all pods by default or allowing to mutate pod image tags, but most of the functionality it provides is a must have when you actually care about your SLA. Rolling updates with health check and configured back-off time? Separate ingress for OAM and live traffic with automatic HTTPS, etc? I could go on.
Is there an authoritative book on kubernetes? Sort of the analogue to "The C++ Programming Language" for C++?
100% agree. I use server-side analytics for vanity metrics like "unique visits," and a contact form for feedback.

People really appreciate not being tracked, or having to agree to cookies.
Mozilla VPN is now available on Mac![1] As of December last year I believe [2]

[1] https://vpn.mozilla.org/
[2] https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-vpn-mac-linux-201939740.htm...
Because market cap is an awful way to measure a cryptocurrency's "value" or "market size" - if I create FooCoin, mine a million FooCoins and then sell you one for $10 then the market cap is $10 million, but clearly only $10 worth of activity has occurred.

The daily volume of BTC is somewhere between $3bn and $25bn depending on how much fake volume is being reported by shady exchanges. And it might be far less because that will include things like transfers between wallets, payments and exchanges from and to fiat currencies and other cryptos.

But even at the high figure there Satoshi's coins are worth twice as much as is traded every day, meaning that selling 10% of their stash would be between 20% to 150% of everything traded in a day and would tank the price drastically. Just a few days ago the price of BTC dropped 23% in one day after a mining pool sold off only 3,633 coins in one go:

https://www.cityam.com/bitcoin-price-crashed-here-is-what-co...

Satoshi has 300 times as many coins as that...
On presentations for projects I tend to add a couple of 'fun' slides. When said projects involve people in the USA, I (almost always) include the XKCD ISO 8601 cartoon:

https://xkcd.com/1179/

It is one of my favourites (the "8601", the "Security", and the "Bobby Tables")
It's just an Android tablet, and it appears to be rootable:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotoncycle/wiki/index/howto/root

Not sure how recent those instructions are.
The thing about Craigslist is now you need to meet folks / exchange ... you're only going to make so many of those transactions.
I don't think anyone is actually saying "If you’re a girl and you like to play video games, maybe you were just born
in the wrong body.”

Like, i saw a meme on reddit with a person saying "People keep telling me to just be a butch lesbian instead of transitioning to a man :("

Presumably a butch lesbian can do anything a man can do except walking around without a shirt, so I don't think that's the issue.
We have been using Laravel for over 8 years. Nothing but praise. It's a framework we could rely on. No painful upgrades and clear documentation. For us it's a pleasure to work with. I also recommend Laracasts from Jeffrey Way.
From a political rather than policy standpoint, its using the bully pulpit to set the agenda for the 2016 election.

Arguably, that's also important from a policy standpoint, since, in addition to being the focus of campaigns, that agenda is likely to impact substantive policy after the elections if the political function is successful.

I also think you underestimate the power the president his on this issue, both the influence his opinions have with his appointees to the FCC, and the fact that Congress probably can't overturn a very of legislation to prevent FCC action on neutrality.
Or upset users reported the app which led to a simple ban without much looking into the app.
To trace contacts of the deceased person. For an elder person, it's likely he/she has interacted with other elders, and it's good to check.

Compared with testing a healthy young person who is asymptomatic, it's better to test the dead one.

Edit: but healthy people with some suspect symptoms should of course remain isolated.
For me it's been pretty clear that governments in many countries have been caught unprepared. Does it really surprise many people that often governments are wont to downplay such situations?

It's pretty much the same story with the masks, which is a political scandal in France at the moment.
Not if it’s a library that you’re not compiling, like language runtimes or system libraries.

LTO requires that you’re compiling all the code to get the benefits.

I’m also not sure if either gcc or clang’s LTO does layout at the basic block level or at the function level. There is a lot of benefit from doing it at the basic block level. You can literally lay out all the code that runs at application start time so that it is mostly adjacent and fall-through from block to block during execution.

This isn’t something you necessarily do instead of LTO, but rather something you can do in addition to it.
That data is either required to run or provided to them by you directly.
The infection vector via aerosols is really concerning. The virus is detectable for hours, and its median half life as aerosols is 1.1-1.2 HOURS!

Please note: aerosols do not sink to the floor, they just hover like dust in the air.
Previously, aerosols were excluded as an infection vector. According to the article, transmission via aerosols is "plausible".

This means you should not share the same air for HOURS.
The value judgments necessary to even construct the questions this essay tries to answer, kind of make the whole thing self-referential and self-fulfilling. Has "genius" been adequately defined before getting started? Has "great work?"

First we have the concept of an obsessive interest in something. But this apparently isn't "genius" unless the interest is in something that "matters." Matters to whom? The collecting of bus tickets matters to the bus ticket collector. People whose work a great number of people regard as great or genius, are by definition, working on things that a great number of people find important. Is it a voting thing, we need popularity? I thought our interest was disinterested.

Besides which, being obsessed with any single thing sounds suspiciously like the idea of a "calling," which I finally had to reject because I never had one. I had more like 6 things I was interested in. And I've pursued each, in turn, with a varying amounts of effort that in some cases could've been characterized as obsessive, but only for a time. I went deep but not long. And I got surprisingly far in each, in a shorter period of time than most people. In short, I suppose I'm a generalist, or you could uncharitably say, a dilettante. Am I not a "genius?" Have I not done "great work?" You can't answer, because I'm not popular, and you've never heard of me. I just want to point out in particular, that you can't answer "no." Genius and great work are all over the place out there, and they don't need to be acknowledged to be genius.
Same I use hugo for my blog too, hosted on Firebase. I use Gitlab to host and use their CI/CD to publish the site.
Recently there's been a lot of buzz about https://www.11ty.io/ on Twitter (haven't used personally).
Copying create-react-app's static build is my favorite/simple option,

gatsby is a fun option as well if you dont mind working with react, docs are great, they point you to lots of example sites you can reference for help
The real number is that 10% of Twitter users [1] produce 97% of political Tweets.

(I.e. this is "just" one social media site, used by a minority of Americans.)

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-...
I think that app does not make it successfull. App can be awful, because friends that use it with us are the real value of social media. So if you’ll convince most of your friends to use Mastodon, it may be pretty good social media app. You are right that non-technical people may find hard to use these ‘super secure alternatives’, but apparently media buzz about evil Facebook did the job and nowadays it’s not always obvious that someone is on Facebook. I have some friends that decided to use apps that are not really social media apps as substitute to Facebook - and it turns out that reddit or signal may be a great social media place even though it’s not really designed to be one. :-)
278GB is a bit off. The real number is higher than that, but not by too much more, but they definitely messed up on their math somewhere. 1280 horizontal pixels times 720 vertical pixels times 8 bits per pixel color channel times 3 color channels (RGB) times 30 FPS times 60 SPM (sec per min) times 60 MPH (min per hour) divided by 8 bits to convert bits to bytes and finally divided by 1,024 bytes per kilobyte gives 291,600,000KB, exactly 291.6GB.

And now days, that kind of uncompressed video is more than feasible, at least in countries with developed gigabit internet capability, as you'd need just 634mbit of bandwidth to handle an uncompressed 720p stream at 30 FPS. Local storage on even first-gen SATA drives can hit double+ that.

Storage itself? Well, we've got the cloud, right? /s
> These are sold specifically to insurance industry processors for "policy adjustment", usually increasing rates for high-mileage drivers...

I'm not condoning selling this data, but high-mileage drivers are probably more expensive to insure because more miles means more accidents. Auto insurance companies shouldn't be a public policy mechanism to subsidize low-wage workers.
Running Google Analytics no less!
I remember running a program on my Amiga 3000 that replaced calls to the blitter with calls to the CPU. Performance for common operations, like scrolling text, was greatly improved.

Except for faster CPUs, the Amiga barely changed from 1985 to 1993. The AGA machines (1200, 4000) were too little, too late.
I think once the standard is fully implemented across browsers authors will be able to define a font-family and the results should be visually similar in all browsers. I think this is preferable to authors in case they want a specific font family that matches the overall design.

As an example take a look at my doc page for MathUp[1] in firefox (which supports MathML natively). I am able to use Libertinus as my main font family and compliment it beautifully with Libertinus Mono for code samples and Libertinus Math for the math samples.

1: https://runarberg.github.io/mathup/
Heck, I'm just impressed with it for acknowledging the family issue. Not sure why this is such a popular internet topic, but almost none of the treatments I've seen bother considering it.

Any method that starts separating a parent from their 7&9 year olds is a non starter. Even telling a married couple they can't stand in line together for 20 minutes is going to be unpopular and lead to people breaking the system.
I disagree, Excel is the best app ever to come out of Microsoft! :-)

I've done entire engineering courses (200 and 300-level) with nothing but Excel. And there are certainly more powerful applications to do maths in but once you get past the simple interface it real is quite powerful.
Well the question did say "If email is sent to the address you use to login to PayPal, will you see it promptly" I do have a paypal-only email address but it does get routed to my primary account. During waking hours I'll probably see an email sent there within the hour. So I guess that means "yes"

The poll question would have been clearer as a tristate
Or when my startup did a biz dev deal with a big software company, ugh.
Many such examples can be spotted in the table:

[] == 0 == [[]]

[1] == true == [1]

...

There are even two examples with self-equality (x == x && y == y && z == z):

"0" == false == ""

"0" == 0 == ""
Your site still loads fast and doesn't hog my CPU
If someone decided to start intentionally pronouncing my name wrong from now on because they don’t like how it really sounds, I’d certainly feel like they were changing my name.

Likewise for just changing the sound to “coke.” It’s a decision that the real sound sounds bad, with a suggestion to change it to a different sound. Same problem, same solution.

If the maintainers decide to change the sound or the spelling, I’ll call it whatever they want. And I’ll be more comfortable presenting it at work if it doesn’t sound like I’m saying cock.
Agreed, they're extremely mediocre, but worth $9 to me. Seems like they have better analytics available at a "custom" price, which I assume would be quite expensive. For my use case, minimal analytics at a minimal price works fine.
Maybe you should get out of the Ruhrgebiet more often. Pretty much all German cities that implemented Fußgängerzonen (pedestrian only malls) I can think about have thrived, big and small ones. I don't know what time frame you are talking about, but most cities in the Ruhrgebiet have been on a downward spiral since the 80s, so we might be looking more at a case of correlation not causation.
Thanks for your interesting ideas!

My main purpose is to educate.
So I am pleased that you got something out of the article :-)
Thanks for this article, it's really well written and engaging.

But here, I cannot resist:

> You can just compute with floats or doubles as if the type system doesn’t exist.

Except when you can't! I want to plot a stupid array of floats. Yet it takes 10 seconds because it is juggling useless types around. A complex type system may be a nice thing to have, if you really want it, but it is definitely not "free", and it always involves serious compromises that make other things impossible or very cumbersome. I would like an option like --type=float in the interpreter that assumed that all numbers are of that type and ran extremely fast.
If you want to see natural pitch black, just go into a deep enough cave and see for yourself.
What, just like throw the videos up on s3 or something similar?
It's a WIP. Scroll down and you'll see a lot more similar headings. The ellipsis is to indicate that the section is incomplete. Perhaps you can contribute?