jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I actually think this is awesome. This means a few motivated individuals can put together a niche social network and have a guaranteed buyout from Facebook. Basically, if you get big enough, they have to buy you.

I think the only option they really have is to spin off new social networks to cater to new generations and become just a holdings company for them. Sort of a YC of social networking. Their main advantage would be the ready source of funding vs a random college student thinking up the next Whatsapp or Instagram.
A stable market with trusted financial intermediaries etc.
It is a bit like a social club - say the Lions club of SV. Socially it sounds important and people network and know the brand.

But if you ask a random person in the street, they will know what crypto is, they may know dropbox if they are computer litterate, but they won't know YC unless they are a geek.

And for those who want to be successful by creating their company, I have strong doubts. Profitable businesses are laughed at as "lifestyle business", and profitability itself is considered less important than network effects.

In the end, I'm not surprised companies like wework are happening, where no sane person should invest a dollar. It's like the dot com boom again.
Your case would have much more weight if similarly equipped 2012 Macbook Pros with discrete GPUs were failing at the same rate as their 2011 counterparts.
I'm sorry, but just to make sure I'm getting my point across, I'm going to restate it more simply:

Security people freak out at new amateur encryption tools because when they don't, those tools get adopted by hapless users who entrust real secrets with them. It's not a theoretical concern; it happens over and over again in the real world. It happened to Snowden twice, once with Cryptocat and once with Lavabit. In both instances, crypto experts begged people not to use those tools. In both instances, misguided privacy advocates pushed back on the crypto experts. The tools either didn't get fixed (because, in Lavabit's case, they couldn't be) or didn't get fixed in time. Almost certainly, NSA has decrypted intercepts as a result.

It's happening right now with other tools. It will, with certainty:100%, happen again with Cryptocat.

During the snake oil era of medicine, people used to take radium tonics as a cure-all. That's what these tools are: radium tonics.
The PS3 may be slightly more powerful than the Xbox 360, but what is important is the number of them connected to the internet which seems to be much higher in the Xbox camp.
I still have a flag button.

Maybe there is a restriction on flaggings?
argh! so why was the server crashing? you can't leave me in such suspense....!
This has nothing to do specifically with cloud computing. What is mentioned in netflix's case is but the idea (randomly killing a service) can be used in a more traditional architecture aswel.
Chaos monkeys would help with non cloud architectures as well...
Netflix is turning out to be my favourite tech company. Just a week ago, in an extensive interview they mentioned that to provide a consistent interface across so many platforms we ended up porting our own version of webkit. And now the Chaos Monkey. It's amazing how technically sound they are considering they were just an online DVD rental company at the start.
I couldn't help but think of how fragile it is, and how I could never spend so much time making something if I knew it could (physically) break so easily.
Meta: automate things that are frequent, not things that are risky; hence: no WOMPR, Wing Attack Plan R or "Big Red Button."
That, and he's also arguing that they're all somehow the victims of a hate crime.
This is inflammatory. The truth is some people just don't care about these implications. You can find people in this very thread arguing that it isn't Facebooks responsibility to filter these (whether or not you agree is not the issue, it is a valid position). Calling engineers who do not fit your narrow view "amoral" is disingenuous.
There was no password on the original ES instance it was open to the web.
It worked for me perfectly. I'm going to miss it. :(
No, Facebook should not allow someone to run an ad promoting genocide. They should not wait for the issue to go to court.
... for everything except front end development. And hopefully that changes.
Too bad he is making these comments at the ADL.
> - Printing easily from Linux

This is as easy as it can be without needing cloud print though

> - Printing from Chromebooks

> - Printing from your phone

This is an artificial restriction created by google. There is already a network printing protocol that works without the "cloud". You just have to support it.
Problem: Finely chopping food

Complex and Easy: Stick blender with chopper attachment.

Simple and Hard: Knife and cutting board.

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Problem: Making a drawing

Complex and Easy: Computer and printer

Simple and Hard: Paper and pencil

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Problem: Sewing lots of clothes (perfect stitches)

Complex and Easy: Sewing machine

Simple and Hard: Thread and needle

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Problem: Software

Complex and Easy: Graphical User Interface

Simple and Hard: Command-Line Interface
I completely agree its ugly, but from a utility point of view, this this is awesome. Not having to carry around ramps? Check. Power? Check. Compressed air? Check. Room for four people? Check. And, at a range of 500 miles at the top end, finally a vehicle I can drive the whole way across the state without a recharge. The prices listed on the Tesla site are even very competitive.

Will be very interesting to see how middle America responds. Truck buyers tend to be a traditionalist bunch.
I think this author has lost his focus.
Maybe there's only 1 choice if you want something to sit "on top", but anything can interact with "an unprecedentedly ubiquitous cross-platform toolkit for layout, typography, and rendering". Including Python.

For games, an introductory class using Python with Kivy or PyGame doesn't fit the bill because they may not always be around? If a student really wants to go deeper into game dev, they're going to need to learn at least one of Swift/ObjC/Java/C# and their respective native libraries anyway.
You're not indoctrinating them into a platform like the web or iOS, you're introducing them to programming.

The rant about libraries not always being maintained is really brilliant considering the library churn than in the JS space. After all, they may be "well-intentioned today but unsupported tomorrow?". TkInter? This was around before Angular 1.x was a glimmer in daddy GOOG's eye. It'll be around after Angular2.0, and long after 2.0 is buried and the next JS framework/library rears its ugly head only to be put down in short time.
Given the choice of having invested my time into TkInter, or Angular 1.x, I know which I'd rather have dumped my time into.

So what's the goal here, to teach programming with something you can show others? If so, then you can do it with almost anything, especially Python.

Use what you want to teach, but don't delude yourself with half-baked reasoning to justify what you clearly always considered an inferior choice to do it in- for the last 2 decades.

Back to the drawing board, professor.
many people I know !== many people

The percentage of people that considering JavaScript "to be a silly extension of what a web browser" is so small that it would be a rounding error in most charts.
Maybe I was too vague. I meant that a programmer would always use an API rather than scripted interactions with a GUI. An ordinary user might assume that programs use interfaces designed for humans, because the concept of an API doesn't even have a place in his mental model of how computers work.
That looks really trippy. I think it would actually be a cool rendering mode to have in FPS games in general, on computer screens, particularly the cyber-/techno-punk kinds.
I haven't used Uber since their 'glory ride' post or whatever it was. I'm back to using regular taxis.
True. I'm mainly referring to the fact that some stablecoins, such as Tether, are not honest about their actual reserves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788409
I've used Dyson's hand dryers in a public restroom. They seem to work really well compared to the standard hand dryers.
Given their volatility and lack of a derivatives market to drive liquidity, I wonder what the banking capitalization requirements for crypto-currencies will be.

I can see the argument of "it's just another currency for exchange, how is this hard," but the difference today is it's super high volatility, without a rescue facility, and given bitcoin's public ledger of every bad person who has ever owned it, it is arguably less fungible than cash because MC would have to track the provenance of every block it had on its books.

Your mastercard probably won't be a bitcoin wallet either due to card chip capabilities, and I'd bet heavily they will just support it as another virtual currency and do your real bitcoin settlement asynchronously on their back end in a hypothecated and risk-managed form, and even then it will be a private ledger with their bitcoin capital levels levered way up.

IMO, the entire levered business model and capitalization requirements when applied to cryptos sets banks up for the squeeze to end all squeezes, like when countries demand delivery of their physical gold from bullion banks and it creates political instability, except next time it will be 4chan organizing to get delivery of their bitcoin. For an issuer to act as a bank maintaining a float of cryptocurrencies to facilitate settlement seems like a super interesting hard problem.

Edit: this will probably be handled by reserving the right to pay you in bonds or IoUs instead of bitcoin, just like paper gold and silver today, which reduces the usefulness of doing your BTC payments through them in the first place.
You are wrong. > 50% of mining can only censor transaction.

Changing the fixed cap would break consensus, so it can only be done with an overwhelming majority not only of miners, but also users, exchanges and merchants. (otherwise miners would mine an empty chain).
It should save your size in your profile and pre-filter the whole site.
Yep, the Spark codebase is a great example of what a big Scala codebase should look like. Nothing crazy, not too many traits, mainly just "regular functions".

Imagine another codebase uses a feature like self-types extensively: https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/self-types.html

A small team has no good way to resolve the argument if self types should be used all over the place or avoided entirely.
> In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge or constructive termination, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is, in effect, a termination. For example, when an employer places extraordinary and unreasonable work demands on an employee to obtain their resignation, this can constitute a constructive dismissal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
I am not sure if you got that quote from the paywalled article, but I was just looking at TurboTax this year, and they have removed the income requirement. But having experience with others dealing with Turbotax; I have nearing zero expectation that they will not be immensely unethical or at the very least be intentionally grey in their ethics.

What I mean by that is that even for people who were eligible for doing their taxes for free last year, they offered additional services like e-file (literally sending a file akin to the effort and cost of sending an email) at some ridiculous price, and then for those having to do state taxes both charging for the state return software (understandible) and the state e-file … but at rates that ended up tallying up to higher than if the "free" filer had just bought Trubotax with state and free e-file at some discounter or in some cases even at higher rates than the full price.

What a lot of people are not aware of is just how utterly evil that these "tax preparer" companies are in their practices, they aren't just unethical or even corrupt, they are deliberately evil and even criminal in their methods. The leaked emails from TurboTax illustrate that. They actively sabotage efforts to, e.g., make it possible for citizens to simply upload the tax return or even just the tax form output from the software so that the utter nonsense e-file has to be used that the companies have a gate around.

It's just one of the many ways and things that are modern forms of company stores, traps that are intentionally and deliberately constructed to ensnare and entrap and pilfer from people for little to no value. It's quite literally BILLIIONS of dollars that are drained from the middle and lower classes to file taxes … information the IRS already has.
Maybe one could make an air drier that sucks air around the hands and into a filter instead of onto the hands?
I’m pro universal, single payer healthcare, but these types of stories highlight my main concern with it.

The people attracted to these bureaucratic positions select for rule following. It’s a reinforcing thing. Those that follow the policy are rewarded and move up. Pragmatic people sometimes bend the rules and sooner or later are pushed out.

These bureaucrats would rather see people die than for there to be a break in sacred government policy. We need to do whatever we can to keep such people from being in positions of power.
> Kids don't read comic books and don't care to.
> And it's interesting to ask why, when kids elsewhere do, and when US kids used to.

Yeah, interesting question. I believe the reason is many more easily accessible alternatives for entertainment. Computer games are a major factor, but also a larger amount of animation and childrens tv.
I saw a study online that showed music hadn't changed much since then. I suppose the test would be to ask the same question of a group of people in their 20s, 30s, 40s,50s, 60s etc.

In contrast BTW, I think television from back then seems bizarre and old.
Source story here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8898968
>Japanese manga is fully of sexy, weird, objectifying stuff that most people really wouldn't want their kids to see, but go to a bookstore in Japan and you'll also see bookcase after bookcase of manga totally appropriate for all ages with young girls pressing their nose into them. Stories about teenage girls getting picked on at school or trying to meet the right guy or saying stupid things in class. Stories about girls who are in bands and office workers and every possible thing.

I, uh, read a lot of manga intended for teenaged Japanese girls. The ironic thing is, a lot of times even the manga intended for girls is mildly sexualized to please members of the peripheral male demographics, yet the original female audience doesn't run away screaming in response. Guys enjoy "girls comics," and vice versa, and growing up around female anime and manga fans, I never really questioned it. Stories about girls trying to choose between a group of handsome suitors, or stories about guys surrounded by improbably attractive women. Cutesy slice-of-life, or ultra-violence. Ones with boobies and panty shots out the wazoo, or ones with homoerotic undertones... we didn't care, we watched it all together.

Meanwhile, in our more "enlightened" mainstream American culture, people write angry blog posts filled with stupid impact font image macros about how they literally judged an entire medium by its cover, because the female body is offensive or something.
Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skx-7TGawx4 it?
Since it ends in mab I assume it's a monoclonal antibody. Those are expensive as fuck because they're so difficult to make. I wonder whether we could scale production up to meet pandemic demand.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no to more immigration as a solution to a perceived lack of workers.

https://t.co/pCv7JgF7mF
I’ve never had a cancelled delivery in all the years of using Prime and Prime Now, but this week had a Prime Now delivery cancelled. It was clear from the map that the driver was closer to the depot than our house, so decided that they ‘weren’t able to deliver’ without trying so they could get back sooner.
Opinions like this seem to be popular these days, but they're dangerous. Because this is an emergency we want reliable information.

Think about it like this: If these researchers had done a proper trial - and there's absolutely no reason to think that they couldn't have done that in the same amount of time with the same amount of effort - then we'd actually know something useful now. With that trial - we don't.
This is what I'm running into right now. Our CEO will not buy health insurance or computers for Dev. In a second breath, he gloats about paying people damn near nothing because they 'want to work in the industry.'
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Nope. Also, a 1999 article posted to support a phenomenon that today is continuing to undercut women and people from disenfranchised communities IN THE US from receiving the support they need to enter the Tech labor force, is pretty lousy. WE need to focus on fixing the problem, not having a pity-party over it in support of some very extreme and reflexive solution-ideas (PG's latest piece).

https://t.co/pCv7JgF7mF
They need to add the individual doctors as factors in their regression.

Otherwise this could just be "inexperienced or checked-out doctors are more likely to go to the conferences.". It's no surprise that there are differences in survival that depend on which doctor you get.
However, it is not a person.
Single player for me honestly was meh.

The true value in the game was multiplayer for me. I'm almost tempted to spin up a server and find some players. You in?
I like George Bacovia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bacovia)

Here is his probably most known one:

Plumb

Dormeau adanc sicriele de plumb,
Si flori de plumb si funerar vesmant -
Stam singur in cavou ... si era vant ...
Si scartaiau coroanele de plumb.

Dormea intors amorul meu de plumb
Pe flori de plumb, si-am inceput sa-l strig -
Stam singur langa mort ... si era frig ...
Si-i atarnau aripile de plumb.

(Translation from: http://www.aboutromania.com/bacovia1.html)

Lead

The coffins of lead were lying sound asleep,
And the lead flowers and the funeral clothes -
I stood alone in the vault ... and there was wind ...
And the wreaths of lead creaked.

Upturned my lead beloved lay asleep
On the lead flower ... and I began to call -
I stood alone by the corpse ... and it was cold ...
And the wings of lead drooped.

Translating poems is pretty hard. That was an ok translation. It doesn't quite sound quite right.
One line up?

"In each case, they tested the individual ingredients against the bacteria, as well as the remedy and a control solution."
I have three short answers for you.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...

2. Watch the video at the end of this link: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/watch-me-write-this-arti...
The take away is write, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and rewrite some more.

3. Pay attention to the people who write well in your life. When you read an email that feels well written try to figure out why you like it. And use those elements in your future writings.
That quote goes on to beg the question:

> "I am not sure fasting is the best idea. People are better eating on a regular basis."

The exact issue at stake is whether people are better when eating on a regular basis!
My German is limited to introductory conversations and ordering food, so I'm not really sure what's going on with this case. It does, however, look like the warning signs were there.

https://www.mobilityhouse.com/int_en/magazine/company/tmh-wo...

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/energy/...
On one hand Trump and his team deserve to lose this case.

On the other hand, I hope it doesn’t silence future complaints.

Protecting against defamation is important but it is more important that those who think they have genuine complaints about an election process aren’t scared into silence.
> If I haven't miscalculated, then this waste means the #Netzfrequenz that there was a sudden drop in power of over 4.5GW. That would be a lot more than a power plant. So junction could get there.

https://twitter.com/netz_frequenz/status/1347537615097049101...
Yup went to florida recenty, mainly because they have less restriction, glad there is still state that has not gone insane.
This is a good idea, but there are already puzzles they have to solve (by design) that are disabled. This will sound silly, but FCrDNS was accepted almost unanimously in 2013 when a draft IETF document was created, but never ratified, that caused all the ISP's to add generic reverse DNS for everything. This turned every home PC into a malware magnet over night. Fast forwards a little bit and a gentleman in Japan created a concept to utilize this called "S25R" [1] which is a simple regex methodology to block generic devices from sending email. Problem is, very few people implemented it and instead people opted for throwing a lot of money and anti-spam companies. Multi-billion dollar businesses were created and people like money! So anyway, the mechanism is there already to stop most of the spam, but people choose to not use it. The way it can work is that using 7 or a few more simple regex rules, almost all generic devices are blocked from sending email. This limits the sending devices to those that control forward-reverse DNS. Some anti-spam companies make use of this, but only for flagging things as spam. This method when used correctly makes RBL/RSL databases effective again and forces spammers to rent servers. If a VPS or server rental provider allows abuse, their AS number gets blocked. [2]

In short, if people won't use the simple mechanisms that already exist, they probably won't add a new mechanism or make use of it. One argument against the existing method is friction or false positives, but really it just forces people to update DNS correctly.

To add a math puzzle to email servers, you would also need to update every MTA and email server to understand this concept. All the major providers, all MTA's, etc... All the smtp libraries in all the programming languages would also need to understand this concept. java, golang, python, php, perl, C, C++, C#, etc...

[1] - http://www.gabacho-net.jp/en/anti-spam/anti-spam-system.html

[2] - http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php
My rule of thumb for money supply:

adjustable, with a benign regulator > fixed > adjustable, with a corrupt regulator

So, the aim shouldn't be a return to the gold standard or a switch to BTC, but to make sure that central banks can do their job without interference from politicians.
> The srcset attribute is well-established.

on new browsers

> Every [new] platform supports AVC1 now, even Firefox.
i'm reading the book 'Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog' right now. it's about a man who befriends a wild dog and takes him home. he lets the dog live like a wild dog and gives the dog a door to his house so the dog can live as he pleases. the writer has a refreshing approach to caring for dogs. he also explores/refutes a lot of dog origin myths, while engaging with the scientific history of dog study.

very much recommended if you're a dog owner or spend a lot of time outdoors. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156034500