jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Less predictability = more risk to the robbers, as they have to deal with the driver.

1. It would be harder and less safe to force him to stop the truck - drivers expecting a robbery sometimes don't stop in dangerous situations but attempt ramming the robber or running away at some risk; an automated car would be much more passive since the liabilities for running over a pedestrian are of a much higher priority.

2. For a manned truck to be robbed that way it would generally need to be an armed robbery, and at least in Europe most thieves don't have any easy access to guns;

3. If you get caught, you have a chance to get away from charges - it isn't a crime as such to walk in front of a truck, and the prosecution may fail to prove your connection to whoever actually takes the stuff;

4. This may be done also by young teens/preteens who are almost immune to criminal charges even if they get caught; currently they are limited mostly to shoplifting, but this would be within their abilities.
When I was a kid (well, a less decrepit and slightly less old man) and there was no calc(), we did that sort of thing with padding-left, float, and negative margin-left.
My first comment was about the high cost of housing causing people with high paying jobs to take on roommates. Policy is a substantial factor in that outcome.

I took your comment as a reply to that topic, I guess I still don't understand what your point was in relation to that.

I also think we can take a look at what drives costs for less expensive housing. My small town is basically allergic to larger apartment buildings, I think probably because the people with control don't want them (vs any good reason). One project got cancelled with people talking, with straight faces, about the historic nature of a post war car dealership building. Another got refused because people were afraid of having low cost housing adjacent to a hypothetical business hotel (a business hotel proposed to be in the middle of a bunch of parking lots, it was ridiculous).

The second one there would have been conveniently located for people filling the low income jobs we are talking about!
what dart should add a way to automatically understand json and turn it into an object. that would be nice for those of us who don't like creating models
I don't recommend limiting yourself to networking with only people you know, especially when the company you are interested in applying to is large (in terms of head count). Once you find a company of interest, reach out to people at the company via LinkedIn. Just ask questions about initiatives that they are doing. Ask intelligent questions, ones that show you've done some preliminary research on your own. After a little back and forth, mention that you are interested in applying. Ask what the best way to apply would be. At this point, ideally, they respond with a "let me forward your resume to our in-house people." If they say you can apply online, you can slightly nudge by asking if they think a referral would help the process. Hopefully they bite and offer to refer you. If not, you can try reaching out to someone else. At big companies, people freely hand out referrals since they get money if you get hired but suffer no penalties if you don't.

When I tried this method on LinkedIn for my own entry-level job search, I would probably get responses 10-20% of the time. Just giving you that number so you get a better idea of what success looks like in this situation.
Electricity is routinely subsidized for large companies building new factories such as the GigaFactory Tesla is building in Nevada.

You can also look up "name of area / state" and search for electrical tariffs.
I would think about this deep and hard on a tax day were I living in Seattle.
Banks can fail. Stocks can fail. Currencies can fail. I'm not saying it makes sense on the whole to bury your worth in cash. But there is an amount of paranoia that confuses things.

The interest in my savings account is laughable. It's marginally better than keeping in a mattress.

The mattress doesn't charge bullshit fees. The mattress doesn't arrest you for being the wrong color.
A Thunderbolt flash drive in the form factor of a USB-C YubiKey 5C Nano [0] would be the ultimate solution for me. I trust that some day we'll get there if it's not superseded by some other standard by then.

[0] https://www.yubico.com/us/product/yubikey-5c-nano/
Thank you. I very much appreciate that. Cheers!
Yes, it is. They present another thing and discredit that, in order to discredit the original premise. Its the structure of a strawman. In any case, their public sector work is probably frustrating and they havent achieved nearly the influence that they want, so its probably accurate but if it wasnt, what would we expect them to say?
Totally agree with your point on taking supplements can shorten lifespans, in tablet form other ingredients are not that healthy, some chemicals that can be classed as a vitamin or mineral shouldnt be included and a-once-a-day delivery regime isnt always good for you either although its convenient.

Choline is used in the cell wall membrane, its also used in the connections between neurons and it also helps lower the pressure of the fluid in the alveoli to make the gas exchange better. So brain fog, seen with Covid, pregnancy (baby brain), and old age all sign of needing choline which can be reversed if taking amounts throughout the day. Thats the science I've read, its already there but even negative scientific studies highlight the minimum or maximum range of an amount a chemical for a pathway.

Its massively complex and I dont seen many entities except perhaps some massive drug companies who have developed drugs or practices giving away their knowledge by virtue of product or action.
Maybe add some warning text that it only works for pre-existing text in a PDF, i.e no OCR for PDFs which consist of images.
Michael - I think you might have taken me a bit more literally than is accurate. What I meant is that I know of several holiday homes in my area that sit empty most of the time. Nothing major, just a few houses. A 'lot of inventory' was probably a poor choice of words.

For the record, I looked and there are a few sellers in my area but so far no reviews (or transactions?). The area is south east QLD in Australia. It's a popular 'getaway' location for people in Brisbane and Sydney.
I usually read HN once in the morning, once at lunch, and maybe before falling asleep. I find it doesn't really change enough for me to read it "all day". But I never leave the first page ;p
£2.5 Million a year for four years isn't that bad for what is mostly a £10 billion IT programme.

It's easy to come up with a headline with big numbers in it, but it's more difficult to put it in perspective.
Personally I didn't even notice. To me "curse" words are just words that evoke a stronger meaning in the rest of title. Potatoes are horrible vs Potatoes are shit. It just seems like the curse word gets the meaning across better, at least to me.
I still don't know why people limit the scope of surveillance products/services to Microsoft.

There are a handful of companies to avoid that work with the NSA.

If you have missed the list, check out the slides: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-serve...
Congrats! But how nobody analysed this bug for 8+ years is a bit of a mystery to me...
*female

'women' is a noun, 'female' is an adjective. We wouldn't say 'men programmers', we say 'male programmers'.
Seems decent. Thoughts:

* Lose the background image. A plain background is fine.

* "You have punched out for the day". Okay? But it's a button, do I press it? What do I do with it?

* Consider not using the term "Stuff", "Company Stuff" -> "Company", "My Stuff" -> "My Attendance"

* Things like attendance tables could probably be more "graphic" rather than boring tables of "Present" or "Not present". Think about coloured squares to indicate attendance or icons.
Put an extra line item in the quote for maintenance. Done.

Seriously, not only does that work, there are companies which will send the quote back and ask you to requote them with a maintenance contract if you don't do it the first time.

(And yep, 20% is indeed quite standard at many places.)
"parroting" and "wide-eyed credulity" and "absurd grasping-at-straws" count as calling names in the sense that the site guidelines use that term: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't think your comment needed to "describe his credulity" at all, because that's not the topic here, and it's a step into making the discussion personal, which is always best avoided in a disagreement. A better comment would have added more substantiating information about how judges have already refuted what rayiner was saying.
IME, AWS is slower to set up initially. Since you are starting out with it, I'd say it will take longer to do things "the AWS way". This article should help quite a bit with that part.

The real trick with AWS, IMO, is figuring out what you want to do yourself vs what you want to have hosted. For example, they offer a hosted cache such as memcached or Redis. For my app, I run Redis myself as it required roughly 15 minutes of work total to set up and maintain in 2014. OTOH, that's not nearly the case with Postgres. I spent a day and a half tuning the version I host, switching to RDS, then switching back because RDS was too slow (even though by the specs, it was using a more powerful VM than the EC2 box I was running my instance on).

Basically, once you grok AWS, things become more productive AND you don't need to spend time on doing things like setting up VLAN's, transferring data between boxes, etc. You can do cool things like detach a virtual disk from one VM and attach it to another, rather than pushing 100 GB's of data over a network. This, AFAIK, is not something that Linode or Digital Ocean can do.

Having said that, DO is great for lots of things. It's a good place to experiment and to run lots of really small things. For me, that's side projects or things that I am trying out before thinking about moving them to the "big iron".
One of my first encounters with Java was in writing silly IRC bots with some friends. Easy and fun.

http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php
I've gone back and forth on this but generally come back to liking piston's approach - it's worked out to be smarter than everything I've hacked up myself. I have yet to try the unified approach where the html and api views are the same underlying code, but I can see where it has appeal. I could also see where it would get hairy. Will have to try it.

I didn't see anything about authentication. Thoughts on OAuth, basic auth?

I'd love a nice API enabler for simpler non-django frameworks such as flask as well...
The discussion of beauty in mathematics resonates deeply with me and I seem to always relate such discussions with music. As a musician turned math enthusiast, I think the thought processes involved in the creation of music parallel those involved in the creation of proofs quite nicely. My obsession with music seems to complement my obsession with mathematics on some level that I cannot quite define. As far as I know, there is not a distinctly important practical relationship between math and music (please correct me if I am wrong), but I still feel as though there is some connection. I do not know if this is a personal thing or not, but I cannot stop relating the two!
> Essentially, successful financiers tend to be older (50s and up) while successful entrepreneurs tend to be younger.

I think this data can also answer the question. Has any one done any calculations on this front?
Another useful insight: I rent an apartment with a standard lease. I'm gone almost every weekend and definitely gone for at least nine hours per day monday through friday. Someone could easily use my apartment for an office (in the context of current discussion) while I'm not home since it has internet, chair, desk, couch, fridge, stove, heat, air conditioning, water, bathroom etc. The point is: my fully functioning apartment is vacant about 55% of the time (9 hrs/day five days a week + 48 hours on the weekend)... and these are contiguous blocks of time (9 hours straight on weekdays and 48 hours straight on the weekends). Seems like someone could use this space. (and I think many other people are in the same situation)
Can we explain this by saying many hedge funds are negatively correlated, along with survivor bias?

This is a huge simplification, but consider for every four hedge fund managers, one goes long the market, another short the market, another long volatility and another short volatility.

No matter what it's very likely one or two out of those four perform very well over one year. Start with enough hedge funds and throw on enough leverage and after a few years, there are bound to be some huge outlier-sized winners and many other blowups. It's like a big roulette table, but every possible outcome has someone betting big on it.

Contrast that with startups, where almost every startup has exposure to market beta (either in receiving funding or finding an acquirer). In addition, it's quite possible every music startup in the industry goes bust, or every PDA-maker startup, or every online poker startup, etc. The roulette wheel has an infinite number of bets, and can easily land so that no one wins.

Edit: I'm very convinced there are people with extraordinary skill in investing and/or in founding startups. I'm only suggesting how the Forbes 400 list could still exist if it was pure luck and no skill.
Definitely not 13 year olds only. I know friends that are in their 30s and 40s who play.
I think this really hits the nail on the head. Make sure your product's core function is well designed and the rest falls into place. Because that, my friends, is where it really counts.
new tech: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
This hurts everybody in the world. Americans too.
How should NSA spying figure into the public's view of Obama's efforts to help municipalities build out competitively priced broadband networks?
There's no reason to pick Offense vs. Defense any more than there is Social Security vs. Education. It's just a question of budgeting. Why wouldn't we invest in both?
True, but you have a much smaller "margin of error" (+/- 1 hour) as opposed to the many more inconveniences described in the article.
The MBP Retina is one of the finest machines out there, and I've looked. If there is a manufacturer who can compete with the quality of the MBP Pro, while also giving superlative Linux support, I'd love to know. So far, no dice - close, but no cigar. The Google Chromebook Pixel is pretty darn close, but doesn't seem to be getting the upgrades and forward-thinking features that the MBP Pro has.

That said, I eagerly await the day that Apple are bumped down a rung or two. I'll be quite happy to abandon the MBP Pro for something better - when it exists. Trouble is, it doesn't yet.
It would be a hard sell...
That anonymous account knows where you live, who you talk to, where you go, what you read online, ...

Linking it to your legal identity isn't hard. Data show that just two ZIP Codes (in the US) can indentify an individual with 95% accuracy: your home and workplace.

Makes me want to rightgrade to an uncontracted dumbphone and a custom-ROMed tablet. Not linked to any Google accounts.
When can we start seeing regular services using client authentication using asymmetric keys?
You only really need 1 keypair per identity, you can store it locally on your machine, and use a single password to encrypt the private key.
At least in tech it's a choice, though; I know lots of techies who work 40 hours a week (and, you're right, lots who don't), but I don't know a single banker who doesn't pull this sort of crap. And I know a lot of bankers.
“Free speech” servers are sort of infamous for nazis and brigading, unfortunately. There have been enough incidents that some moderators block first and ask questions later.
Parent said 5% had symptomatic infections, 50 in this example, while the correct number is 0.5% percent or 5 people.
I think the point is that the “radicalization,” as you are calling it, actually resulted in fewer deaths than say a typical day in Chicago. The point is this is all blown out of proportion simply because law makers themselves were involved. When there 20 death in a weekend the law makers don’t give a damn, it’s not radical, it’s just the norm, but when a couple deaths are close to a lawmaker then they care. It is hardly radical at all in my opinion it just has a microscope on it. It’s completely obvious as others have said the way this is being portrayed. It’s as others have said, the same journalist who would refuse to call a BLM protests with multiple deaths and burning buildings a riot calls this one a mob or riot and not a “mostly peaceful protest.” Hell it took some digging for me to even find what they were perpetrating about since the “why” is left out of every headline and article that a big corporation doesn’t agree with. They don’t want to humanize the people there, they want to exaggerate the actions, it’s a clear and obvious agenda on some of these organizations. I’ve never seen any response more clearly show the bias.
Didn’t they ban him indefinitely for a period of 2 weeks?
Yep, as ‘delusional’ as all the warnings from people who said Trump and his group of psychopaths were going to end up causing a violent attack on democracy... that clearly was an overblown concern, right?
a cpu in a computer is a commodity, heck even a Celeron from my 15yo "netbook" would work for $modern_day_task
Thanks! It’s not what I remember, but interesting, nevertheless.
I do not understand what you people are talking about (also referencing some flagged replies here). Ignoring for a moment my instinct to down-vote unneeded sarcasm, I did my best to understand what's going on, I still have no idea.

What are you trying to say? If you are Turkish and trying to make a point that here is some racism against Turks, as a Turkish-German, I've never witnessed that (other than a few flagged troll attempts). If you are Greek and trying to say (with too much sarcasm) that the Turks get a "free pass" or something, I don't understand that either.

All these words, and what I'm trying to say is actually:

Please be clear :)
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Or simply create your own contribution to the world without anchoring relative to any other entity.
Most people seem to have missed the fact that this is an advertisement for his book [1]. The person who is going to go through the whole article is a very likely to make a purchase. It's unfortunate that the book doesn't seem to have many sales and apparently, it's not practically available anymore.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Quartz-Objects-Power-Global-Economy/d...
"It is _very_ frustrating that the internet has had messenger fragmentation since the beginning of time"

If you ignore IRC...

"Signal just works."

It also contributes to the fragmentation you complained about, because it is closed -- no federation, no third party clients, not even a web client. If you are on a platform the Signal team does not have time to deal with then there is no option for you. If you have a specific need that the Signal team cannot take the time to support, too bad. More problematic than lacking federation is lacking any third party client software.

Whenever I confront developers about this the conversation usually results in someone demanding a specific example of a user need they are not meeting; if I give one, they say, "Oh, we are planning that, but we first need to do $XYZ!" and if I say "there are needs we may not be aware of" they say "Well we are trying to do $this or $that, we can't solve everyone's problems!" As if users who have unusual or overlooked needs deserve to be cut off from everyone else...
Because they don’t care that people are prohibited from forming mutually beneficial arrangements; they just want public healthcare to be free to the consumer at the point of sale and the details of how this is achieved (and what is sacrificed in order to obtain this) are generally not interesting to them.
> Or how many stack overflows is one trello?

I shall not express any opinion on this topic other than to say that Trello is not a good example to bring up. The entire customer base of Trello is not using a single shared board and thus they could scale in any direction they wanted to maximize ROI.
Definitely not LISP. LISP uses a prefix notation, the expression in the post uses infix (like most programming languages).
And bitcoin has a distributed machine army. Both pretty useless for the end user.
Unless you are at a German non-startup company. Then you have people rolling in at 6-7am even in the winter.
Citation needed.

The notion that we have no art or artists unless compensated appears to imply money somehow causes art.

If this were the case, then why all the fuss when capitalist music and art industry “discover” an artist? Sure, some pop groups are created, but the greats are discovered, long existing, before glommed onto by publishers or labels.

The argument that artist was not already creating art, uncompensated, for the sake of creation and, particularly for music, sharing, seems without basis in clear objective reality of where art comes from or what ‘causes’ artists to create art.

Perhaps you’re confusing distribution with art. The distribution industry would look very different if sharing were frictionless from artist to fan to fan and no middleman had to get a vig.
> Is that smile at the end of your first sentence meant to be condescending?

What? Of course not! You're reading way too much into that. It's simply enthusiasm. I read about Redbean and it being a single file webserver and the first thing to come to mind is Caddy, as "prior art".

Like I said, different usecases; Caddy is a general purpose webserver which has automatic certificate management, H2/H3 support, reverse proxy, file server, a strong plugin system, the list goes on. Of course it'll be bigger in size. Redbean is super cool and does have the advantage in file size and portability, clearly, but it is essentially a single-purpose tool. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Super-stupid suggestion, but…
why not enhance building indices for given topics?
Some sort of semi-automatic creation?

Say I believe in genome editing, CRISPR and personal medicine, and I would like to have XX stocks in my index. Your system could support me by picking the appropriate stocks.

Biggest issue is to map trending topics to XX according companies for me.
> it points to the problem that what you sometimes really want is just a function

Interestingly, this fact has been known to procedural as well as functional programming proponents for decades (one of the few aspects on which they agree).
For the calculations I ignored it. The discussion was inflation/deflation. Putting it in only changes my example by adding more arithmetic (calculating interest paid per period), but doesn't offer any insight into paying debts under inflation or deflation. EDIT: For the sake of this discussion pretend that the $100k paid includes the interest if you really want it to be there.

So in the EU interest rates are pegged to salary? Can it go negative? Because that's what needs to happen for loans under deflation to make sense. Your effective interest rate in a deflationary economy is deflation rate + interest rate. If you take out a 2% loan with 2% deflation your effectively paying 4% rates. The higher the deflation, the worse your rates become.

Now, if interest can go negative, then borrowing under deflation makes sense. But lending doesn't. Because the lender would be handing over money that would be more valuable kept under a mattress than loaned out at a negative interest rate.