jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my experience, programmers' competences aren't so broad that we can take the decisions you presented. Repeatable measures are easier when there is a repeatable conventions to deliver work.

IOW, either I'm supervised by someone that should know relative merits, or I'm judged by the final results. In either case, I'm not paid more, because I believe that the real value is more on errors I prevent than in lines I write.
The Scheme community is too fragmented for a meta meta-module system to work. Racket and Chicken both have decent module repositories, at least. (Probably some others do, too.)

No meaningful experience with Clojure, but it probably inherits some library culture from running on the JVM as well.
Swombat's his handle and the site is essentially a blog. It doesn't strike me as odd that his domain is the same as his username.

One might argue that the appropriate audience is HN, given that swombat is active around here and a lot of people recognize his handle.
> The understanding was that the exams are sufficiently hard, that students smart enough to pass do not allow others to freeload...

That sounds like a flawed assumption to me. There are lots of social and economic incentives that might lead someone smart to do others' work.

I tend to agree that working with others on problem sets can be quite beneficial. Many classes I took had the same policy on those. But at some point you have to prove you can do it yourself.
Alternatively you can use tineye on the comp image to find out if other sites are selling it as well.
Enough people have emailed me for the links that connecting the two isn't an issue, but I understand.
Novelty accounts on HN? Really? I guess I've quickly become a pessimist in the last few days of changes around here but the green on what is presumably new accounts highlights the poor quality of new commenters.
wow! this is how usability tests should really be done! :-)
I had a professor who told the class to cheat. He justified it by saying that anyone in the real world today can go online and get help for any problem they have. Another unspoken reason is that he would not cover the material he would test us on, which was not in the book either, so allowing cheating would cut down on student complaints and let him do less work. I complained about it and nothing happened since he was tenured and close to retiring. One might say he already did.
I refuse to believe that there are no tools that can dictionary attack sentences.
I think a lot of it is something of a patreon effect. Alex Jones' followers see themselves as fighters in a culture war and buying his merch as supporting "their side". It isn't like he is the only person selling these supplements, yet he charges way more than normal. So I feel that something else has to be happening here besides people wanting "max force" or whatever. Jones is going to attract people who buy into this alpha male nonsense, but converting that into sales has more going on IMO.
I was speeking with respect to even any single implementation. Anchor/Dock layout, centering, z-sorting, evenly distributing space, relative sizing, these are all thugs that HTML & CSS make fundamentally harder than try need to be.
sort of the opposite of qnip - the sites it covers all have apis already. the idea is that you could take an existing site without an api and create one.
Yeah, so they already tackled that subject: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/10/05/your-race-affec... ;)
Well said, my father was in the RAF in WW2 and he always made it very clear to me that in his opinion it was the bravery and sacrifices of the Soviet people that were mainly responsible for the defeat of the Nazis.

Of course, when I was younger and the Soviet's were the "evil empire" it was difficult for me to believe this. Now, having read a lot of military history, I share his view.
Tesco (the supermarket in question) has some nice features. The online ordering site is linked to your loyalty card profile, and recent purchases either in store or online are made more prominent. Sainsbury's (also a large chain) may do the same with their loyalty programme, but I don't have experience.

Ocado is also worth looking at. Set up by 3 investment bankers, it sources its produce from one of the smaller, premium supermarkets (Waitrose) but has a (rather funky) purpose built distribution centre from which deliveries are made - rather than having a fleet of picker/drivers at retail stores across the country. Of course, this also limits their geographic coverage somewhat.
Possibly related: swimming seems to do the trick reliably for me, although extremely inconvenient, time consuming and expensive if I did it regularly... (lets me fall asleep in 2-3 minutes vs tossing & turning until 2-4am)
The problem here is that the ones that are left, often only work using calling cards, not with coins. Which completely negates its only purpose left - as an emergency 'I locked myself out of my car/house and need to call for help' apparatus.
That article consists of nothing but repeated statements "There is no proof," without any reference to numerous studies showing evidence of the verisimilitude of Intrinsic Motivation.

It's like sticking your fingers in your ear and saying "lalala I can't hear you."
If you've got under a half dozen devices in your network, just go with the ISP provided one. When you start approaching dozens of devices, the ISP ones tend to choke.

And yes, Ubiquiti most definitely isn't for non-technicals (Except for the AmpliFi stuff). It's more prosumer grade stuff. More features than the "gaming wifi" crap but still easier to configure than official Cisco stuff.
Well, it isn't very weird that today's LiSP is better than yesterday's. Clojure also takes purity a bit more seriously, though nowhere near as serious as something like haskell.
Or maybe these people will keep believing the lie, even after they die from COVID, like the Calormen at the end of CS Lewis’ The Last Battle. Everyone else will be in Heaven, and they’ll be all like, “Let me out of the hospital, corona is a lie!”
I had better luck because most of the people I know aren't deeply invested in their apps. I just told everyone to add me on signal and over the years more people have started using it, and suggest signal or a phone call when its time to have a conversation
To the downvoters... tell me where I’m wrong. The reaction to what I’ve said kind of highlights the “two groups living in separate realities” discussion here. There is much pearl clutching today about occupation of a public building, somehow placing the mayhem caused on a level far above months of rioting, looting, and dead bodies.
So LBRY turns publishing into a massive pyramid scheme that wastes an obscene amount of power, then?
They are little tiny 6" tall walls that you can step over. Like micro-walls. Except for the bits where you have no walls at all. Like if you install literally any programming language, HomeBrew, or MacPorts.

The walls in the walled garden only exist in the heads of people who never use a Mac.
I don't know about the US, but mail-in voting should be no different from voting in person (in person verification being the only difference). It must highly traceable in that a registered, actual person can cast only a single vote. Unless tampering happens during vote counting, there is the same keeping of records / audit possibilities.
> When did we switch the emphasis from tracking deaths, to tracking infections?

Never, infections have always been a foucs of tracking because infections lead hospitalizations lead deaths (and hospitalizations have second-order impacts on mortality from other causes when they reach a critical level, even beyond direct COVID deaths.)

If you only focus on deaths, you are weeks behind the curve in reacting.
Computers with email open —Client– is what we saw in tweets, but my understanding is that injecting malware or replacing routers would more relevant. I definitely expect that changing computers can happen with a transition but it’s all too likely that people would overlook connection devices.
Doing it in Venezuela would be more appropriate. He can mirror Guaido
> Do you have a logical or empirical basis for this statement, or is this an axiom for you?

Ignoring the passive-aggressiveness, yes, I have an empirical basis for this statement.

Don't you?

Ever heard of the "broken window" theory?
Ever heard of entropy?
Ever read the history of any cultural aspect, from poetry to jazz, to teaching, to coding?

Everything needs protection --people putting in the effort, care, education, craftsmanship and hard work to keep it alive, to improve it and to resist the tendency to decay and dillution.
I find it hilarious that the webpage itself gets no padlock + doesn't pass its own tests...
Angle brackets suck.
so many middleboxes out there, unfortunately. I've had success with both GRE and LISP tunnels in addition to utilizing MPTCP.
My sense of purpose comes from two places :

A) the ability to innovate through R&D. Perhaps this is egotistical but it brings a lot of purpose to my work.

B) developing people’s careers and offering a fair opportunity for success.

Yes, perhaps these purposes are not quite as altruistic but I am passionate about such a job and great people I work with.
I really don't understand internals ibut I've often downloaded cygwin exe file for commands like grep, tail, etc.. Are you telling me that is no longer required?
What you're describing is an interesting idea and LyX is sort of like that. Mathematica also works pretty similarly, it has different ways of representing and entering equivalent expressions visually (e.g., TraditionalForm or DisplayForm). You can switch modes for a particular cell and the underlying meaning is preserved. There's also a special escape sequence for entering symbols and a lot of symbols have an equivalence with their obvious operators, for instance "x ∈ X" is equivalent to "Element[x, X]".

That said, it's really awful at copy-pasting into other programs my experience. But it does a decent job of exporting explicitly, like for instance with TeXForm.

Also, a slightly different thing you can do in Vim is to use the conceal feature to visually "collapse" LaTeX escapes into their unicode characters. For example, the document says "\lambda", but it will display as λ (unless you position the cursor on the same line, so that you can edit it). I find it helps reduce visual clutter a bit.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4626
If your required to pay say 50$ a month more for private insurance then being a 5h/week Uber driver is far less appealing.
I program code that doesn't get distributed, would you count me as a "proprietary programmer"?
> How are they going to do that? By selling private repos?

Well, yes. Github makes most of their revenue from Github Enterprise ($5,000+ per year) for large organizations.
Yandex Browser, vk.com. There’s Yandex flavour of Android, Alt Linux for desktop. Russia got you covered, comrade, join, they love Trump and hate democrats.
It's easy to say "we tolerate everything except for intolerance" without defining specifics of what is or isn't intolerant. To use the two examples in your comment, if someone claims that opposition to gay marriage is hatred does that mean it was an act of tolerance for Mozilla to fire Brendan Eich for donating in favor of Proposition 8? What about people who claim that opposing affirmative action is an act of intolerance towards underprivileged minorities? What about people who claim that supporting such programs is intolerant towards successful minorities?

I've witnessed all 3 of these claims asserted in real life. And note that the latter two are directly contradictory. Just saying, "tolerate all except the intolerant" is an answer devoid of actual meaning. Genuine tolerance is refusing to ostracize or expel people even when you feel that their views are intolerant. Because I guarantee you: there are plenty of people out there who would find at least some of your views intolerant. And it also allows people to use allegations of intolerance as a tool to shut down debate.

Effective codes of conduct focus on specific behaviors or actions, not abstract ideas like tolerance.
There's probably a scenario where the Indian courts claim that being able to access it whatsoever within the country means they haven't complied with the order (ie. VPN-based access), but this is probably more because it's easier for Legal to hit 'ban account' than do the work of asking engineers to implement geo-based account bans (this is assuming there aren't already geo-based account bans on Twitter; I can't find any reference to one).
One thing that is a little tangent to what you said:

Maybe the government should create a video hosting service. It should host any legal content. There would be keyword search, and ability to iterate though all videos but that would be the extent of content discovery.

Then other people could use that service as the back end and build content discovery on top of it.

It would reduce the big barrier to making your own video streaming service with your desired content discovery algorithms since the government service would handle storage and streaming.
I don't. And most millenials don't use it unless they are extroverts. But we make a small percentage of their audience.

Take a look at boomer WhatsApp in India. Every single boomer shares stories with images of Gods or daily morning blessings, where they went, what they cooked etc.
Your post history has a lot of defenses of conservative views but you call out that you are a liberal to try to bolster your conservative points. What liberal views do you believe in?
If there's one person you don't have to be pursuing trendiness to criticize, it's Trump.
Mastodon is decentralized because there's no central server or authority in the network. Anyone can run a server. Whoever runs a server, has control over that server, such as deciding what moderation policies to enforce and who to provide a service to.
A little off topic, but 15 years ago maybe I saw a project that taught a player a foreign language by starting a game in their native language and gradually substituting localized strings of the target language. They applied the technique to The Sims and to Grim Fandango. Still seems like a good idea to me.

I think the project have been from Ravi Purushotma: http://langwidge.com/theoretical.html

BBC News article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4182023.stm
Will we ever end the MySpace monopoly?
Completely agree - I see links to frameworks and tools in the article but none to projects and products made with them.
They have tried and succeeded to regulate those as well

Congress can disregard the constitution all they want, and the president can approve all he wants.

Only the Judicial branch can actually punish violations of the constitution.
Of course it is. It's helpful for the people who've already bought into 37Signals' philosophy of doing business. F or them, it's a reminder -- in-the-group signalling -- like a vaccination. If people nod and go, "Yeah! That's so true!" then they are confirming their group identity and commitment to the philosophy they've adopted.

If you're not thinking about these things all the time when you're reading things, you're not getting maximum usefulness out of them.

It's not just what people say, or what people read, but WHY.
> It's basically burnt bean water. Roasted is just a marketing term.

I take offense to this line. Roasting is a very complex thing, you have to adjust the roasting curves to each coffee individually for optimal results, to get the best out of it. There's more coffee than you might think.

Search for Specialty Coffee and the Specialty Coffee Association. You may also watch some of James Hoffmann's videos on youtube. He's the World Barista Champion of 2007 and has his own roasting company. Coffee doesn't have to be bitter or taste burnt, it can be fruity and sweet. There are more tastes to be found in coffee than in wine. In addition to that, the community is not filled with as many snobs as the wine community and there's a lot of science being done on all kinds of things (for example by the Coffee Excellence Center in Switzerland).
Parent is joking with the meme of “ If you don't understand the joke, then the joke's on you.”

;)
> otherwise why they are using a Shanghai-based startup for their voice backend platform?

Is there a term for this form of argument? Like where someone makes a rhetorical question after seeding the answer? Its like creating a false dilemma, where one intentionally removes non-binary choices for their own agenda, but its not quite a false dilemma yet, except after someone responds about how weak this form of argument is by presenting second, third and fourth reasons that were outside of the boundaries of the question but inside the boundaries of reality.
“Far-right” is just a smear, don’t take it seriously. Otherwise it’s true, as I said it’s mostly anti.
I don't think this is true (plaintext part), maybe they are doing some custom encryption for snoopy corporate firewalls.
I think it's valuable, because it may prevent people going all-in van Gogh style. Sometimes it's enough to know there is another experience to your case possible, even if it's only ever a moment of different.
We may not have a Bell Labs, but we have the entire complex of national laboratories which have pivoted from solely developing nuclear weapons towards more basic science.

I work in them .. it's really strange how much of the public is unaware of all the work we do, thousands of PhDs are employed through them currently doing basic science funded by tax payers.
I see, I did not know that.

Last time I used Erlang (pre-Elixir), the `bytes` example would require you to set up a request/response with a blocking `receive`.
I wish there were one of these tools for linux that had nicer effects, like Skitch or Cleanshot. The annotations like arrows and text need a high-contrast border and drop shadow to make them more visible.

I used Flameshot for awhile but its annotations are flat, and Spectacle + Krita was nice but too heavy to just quickly annotate an image. I'm using KSnip now, which applies a shadow to the annotations, but there's no way to configure a nice border.
Actually in the article he is criticising the whitewashing of BRITISH imperialism specifically, not European colonialism in general. Other countries are a lot more aware/self-reflective of their deeds while Britain still hangs on its 'noble' empire where the sun never sets.
It is possible that the millenials have not experienced the level of tobacco smoke that the boomers grew up around. Neither my brother nor I was ever tempted to smoke, and for my part that was largely because I remember riding in a car with anywhere from one to three smokers. It was not pleasant.

As late as the early 1980s, the only social gatherings I could expect to be smoke-free were for a running group I belonged to. Another guy in the group said, Runners' parties are great--an hour after they start you can still see across the room. I can recall another gathering in those days where I was one of two non-smokers, and we stood as close as we could to a cracked window.

As for "What did he expect?", I suppose that happens. But I know how addictive cigarettes can be, having watched my father try to kick the habit for a dozen years or so before he succeeded, and having seen an aunt relapse. I have never seen hassling smokers ever do any good.
Thanks for hearing it out!
Ha just posted a very similar comment. There is a reason kickstarter has created a whole industry of videographers and kickstarter designers.
Who would be buying this info? Are Dutch insurers allowed to procure such information?
Please, replace courier and leave monospaced, I have my own preferences on fonts, and Im sure everybody else does too.

%s/courier,//g
The basic point Graham is making: the US (still) have a dominant position in software, and the only way to keep that position is to open the doors for those that strengthen that position. Grahams piece is a wakeup call: the US may fall!

The author, Larry Salibra, does not imagine what the US stands to lose, he goes on talking about equal rights, citing lawyers. Yet who wants to hire experts in a foreign legal system? Very few. Likewise doctors do not form thriving multinationals worth trillions to the US. And construction workers do not show the differences in value programmers do. All his examples are flawed.

So Larry Salibra is a dangerous fool who thinks Paul Graham can't think straight. He'll gladly walk the US to its doom.
Although I'm not familiar with the _actual_ operating procedures involved, one would hope/expect this not to be available to lone analysts at their own discretion.
Other open source projects plan in public. Bugzilla can restrict viewing security bugs.
You don‘t need cryptocurrencies for that. Many people in this thread have already mentioned SEPA – bulk retail payments have been a solved problem in Europe for years, and instant settlement is currently being rolled out.
Thanks for the catch!! I definitely didn't pay a professional editor for the blog post. Although, even with an editor looking at the book, I already spotted a few unfortunate typos.. ah well, can't win them all.
The "problem" that I have now is that there are few companies that can offer me double my salary, and none in my area. I'm not willing to relocate so my only hope is that FAANG-type companies start to hire remote developers.

I put problem in quotations because it is very hard to complain about being paid too much :(
> it is also beyond question that there is at least some marginal disenfranchisement experienced by certain people purely on the basis of their appearance

Appearance, apart from race, is certainly a significant source of privilege for some and discrimination for others.

But I imagine you meant race, and I don't think that is beyond question. I find it hard to believe that race remains a significant obstacle in a country where university admissions offices give extra points based on race, most major companies preferentially recruit non-whites, and the current President publicly declared that being black was the first criterion for a Vice-Presidential candidate.

However, black people remain far more likely to be born in families and communities with limited financial resources, and that naturally perpetuates racial disparities. They are, on average, more likely to attend poor schools, more likely to encounter violence in their communities, and less likely to receive help from their families. These are fundamentally economic issues that affect people of all races.

Correcting the economic disparities for everyone would also solve many of the racial issues, while not dividing the country into poor people who receive help and other poor people who do not, in the way recent race based policies clearly have.
About to be a parent and the main conclusion I've come to is that being consistently reliable, caring and responsive to any distress the baby has in the first 6-9 months is number one more important thing to keep in mind. Those physical health things are either obvious or hardly matter but making a kid who grows up to experience a lifetime of emotional suffering due to poor attachment styles or mental health problems is extremely common and bad. The world is filled with these walking wounded who can't function well, can't form stable relationships, commit suicide, become drug abusers, etc. Far more common than SIDS or choking to death.
There aren't that many cars that it would get off the road and it's not on mission and outside the realm of their expertise, so no, it's not a good way for them to make money which they shouldn't be doing anyways.

This weather data wouldn't be as useful as you think it would be. You'd be getting data only taken once per day more or less at the same time. You're much better using the airstrip a mile away that has a sensor that takes readings every 10 minutes or whatever.