jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The first part seems circular to me: you feel like we should fear becoming Lisbon because if you were in their shoes you would fear this outcome. Well, sure. But at a glance Lisbon seems to be doing pretty well for itself-- certainly better than lots of places in the US. Besides your sense that such cultural changes are bad, what makes them bad? Why, objectively, should they be feared?

And the second part feels is framed as disagreeing with my point, but actually seems to support it: we've dealt with this issue before, the fear was the same, and the feared thing didn't happen. Shouldn't that mean we should dial down the fear this time around?
There are competing services. In Nottingham I use DG Cars, which is a taxi company but has an app that looks like Uber (you can see the drivers, fixed price, paid in advance by app). They just need to be more popular and maybe make it so that I don't have to have an account for all of them.
Is PMB a USPS or private enterprise service?
This is a fair point. Carlos seemed like he did some really questionable things as head of Nissan, but it all seemed to be things that should have only been pursued in a civil case, not criminal. Instead, it seems like Nissan has used Japan's criminal justice system to punish him, and in quite a harsh way too. The guy is most likely guilty of some things, but the punishment he's experienced has been really out of proportion, and that's not going to be attractive to others who might look at Japan as a place to start a business or get involved in corporate politics.
It'll be in "hard maintenance mode" meaning bug/security fixes only. Anything new and interesting in the graphics space will be Wayland only. I also believe they intend to deprecate and then remove Xwayland from the graphics stack, at least in releases newer than some flag day in the near future, as Xorg itself is only being maintained for the sake of legacy applications.
As regards Mr. Statham:

Motion picture timelines are pretty long, so I imagine you are correct. Of particularly high likelihood (according to imdb) are: Furious 7, Wildcard, and Spy (2015, 2015, and 2015 respectively). I'm curious to know how often new movies come out quickly or secretly -- in particular, if I made the more precise prediction "Jason Statham will be featured in exactly 3 movies released in 2015", how likely is it that I'll be wrong?
One should not joke about serious matters such as coffee. I meant what I said. Starbucks makes black, coffee-smelling crud and really tasty caffeinated-crud-added super-sugary high-fat drinks.

:)
pycrypto, gmpy, pyOpenSSL, psycopg2 (fixes in progress, I hear), PyV8, Pyflakes
I always cringe a bit when I come home for the holidays and get praise from family on my purported intelligence and achievements. I feel as though this mentality kept me intellectually fat and happy for most of my teenage years, inhibiting the drive to constantly grow that I've fostered since entering college.
It's probably worth getting if you're a MAN or have a known family history of a genetic disease.

Prostate cancer is out there. Quit smoking, eating Red 40 food coloring, and remember...we're here to put a dent in the universe with the time we have!
> You're calling out the system for being outdated and broken. Just because you don't explicitly say that "most professors are lazy and incompetent (except for the ones I like)"

The system can be broken without attaching any blame to the workers in the system.

The real problem is of course the high-up administrators and board. The purpose of a university is not education. The purpose is to funnel money via inflated salaries and unneeded construction jobs to those that are politically well-connected.
Great idea! 798 is certainly a good place thematically, although transportation wise it's not as accessible as some other sites...? Still, one could do a lot worse :)

Had the pleasure of living in Beijing for a few months last year, hope to be back again soon. Although back on the east coast now, would love to stay in the loop...
I get "olalonde does not appear to be a registered HN username".
I agree that the passwords themselves don't expire. The meaning I'm trying to convey is that if you shared the URL in an email, for example, the password associated with that URL would no longer be accessible. It's quite likely the password itself has been written down. Perhaps a better marketing message is as you suggest, 'Password URLs that expire'
For what it's worth that's honestly not the intent of the article. The point was that teachers are doing the best they can, and they should be rewarded more for teaching.
I have updated the title in response to this criticism
Yes, I added the bold/underline myself for emphasis. E-mails were sent in non-html form so plain text. I commonly use bold/underline in my blog to make it easy for readers who skim to catch the key points.

I just revised the post. I made a mistake and reacted to an e-mail that was perfectly fine.

The post now focuses on how different words can trigger emotions in customers, rather than slamming a great theme author.
I have an idea for Dell: sell the company and give the money to the shareholders.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has been aptly described as "never the calmest man in the room" but this is good, sober coverage of the problem. If as according to AXA the EU is treating "Club Med's debt trap as a short-term liquidity crisis" the long and most likely medium term outcome will be grim.
Keep in mind that they'll use this case for the next four revisions...
It makes you a terrible investor - 10% was already a bad move - but holding them now that they are 35.5% of your net worth is insane. Yes it might work out again but so does playing the lottery.
Piggy backing on OP, if you're new to these topics and are interested in a more in-depth explanation about these stages as well as a number of other really interesting history check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Markets_Fail
How would you even keep cats away from a graveyard?
My opinion about the subject: AMD actually does not care about GPU compute on customer hardware.

If they did they would not have:

- Have had support for Linux only, with no ROCm on Windows

- Have made ROCm as a GPU-specific targeted process, there's no IR like PTX to make your current *binary* run on future GPU generations

- Having dropped support for GCN2/3 (https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1353#issuec...) making the _only_ supported customer GPU generation Vega, with no support for RDNA/RDNA2.

They obviously don't care about the market as they should, despite anything they might or they might not say. Nothing to see here... It's only and solely their own fault that NVIDIA is the only option.

Intel so far has a much more competent strategy around GPU computing, and might prove to be an actual competitor. I've written off AMD as a possible competitor to NVIDIA for GPU computing a long time ago.
Google implements the million monkeys approach to recreating Shakespeare and watching it fail at scale provides interesting lessons, despite being sad for those sucked in and under.
I can't either but it still was a satisfying comment to read.
The "employee access to customer data isn't protected" sits as unsolved an opportunity canvas/brief in almost every SaaS company. You can get to a fair amount of controls with little to no code and only with process changes (aka SoC and ISO certifications), which is also what SaaS security teams spend quite a bit of time on. There are a fair amount of problems to be solved here.
An IP provides an approximate physical location – a canvas fingerprint does not.
If someone wants to build something similar and open sourced for modern interfaces, count me in. I built ui-editor that can generate code for reactjs and I want to work on something big.

Here is my project https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor
Primarily, the employer benefits - which is particularly evident in this case.

They can ask the applicant to do the work to prove themselves, with the pretence of an available job, and don't even have to consider the result of that work.

This scenario lays bare that the employer has all the power in the situation.
I'm a rightie, but I periodically move the mouse to the other side, partly to avoid too much RSI and partly exactly because the numpad was in the way—especially with MS' ‘Natural 4000’ keyboard that takes half the desk. With the ‘Sculpt’ keyboard I finally learned how much space there is.

Combined with the fact that the numpad for me is pretty much completely useless outside of entering one-time codes for online purchases and Steam login—I'm quite grateful that it's a separate unit on Sculpt.

That's all despite the fact that I'm a programmer and supposed to love the digits: purportedly that's how they ended up in ‘lowercase’ on the second-top row of the keyboard, i.e. pressed without the shift key (and Apple managed to stick dot and comma in the upper register on that row, in my language's layout). I actually tried to change the mapping so that the symbols are entered without shift, but somehow that breaks a lot of muscle memory of which I didn't even know.

I'm vaguely curious about one setup that seemingly would be especially ergonomic: an Advantage keyboard with a trackpad in the middle. There's almost exactly enough space for a trackpad there, and I've seen kludgey setups that slap a trackpad on an Advantage. A less-ideal split keyboard like Freestyle would probably work too. Meanwhile, semi-portable keyboards like Microsoft's ‘All-In-One’ still go the tired staggered flat-board path and attach a trackpad at the end, despite the opportunity.
She's a materials scientist. I'd wager that she's considered all of these factors. She's also been doing this for a while, and produced tonnes (literally) of these for, if I read correctly, a year and a half. Maybe consider that she's thought through this?
Others mention they had 8 months time for that. Maybe they just want to give Apple users a worse / less secure experience and hope Apple gives in.
I'm writing for a long time and I agree with that. But I'll still continue to try producing the best thoughts / writing I can till I'm dead :D maybe I'll never write something good, but at least I tried.
The obvious answer is technological development, though I think it is a bit more subtle than that.

It seems like there is an evolutionary cycle going on: Software becomes too complex, is being abandoned in favour of simpler products to support specific needs. They do in turn also become bloated and complex over time.

My latest think on this is something that has been discussed here earlier in various ways. I think to is because of forced growth. However, I think a lot of projects would benefit from a fixed scope and then doing maintenance really well.
> How precious. I thought that the novelty of "my website is a terminal" had worn off by now, but oh well.

Gratuitous negativity violates HN's guidelines and is not welcome here. If you have criticisms to make, make them substantively. This is not a site for spewing bile.
Slashes are not possible, that makes it hard to load code from somewhere.
It is indeed official, but it's a try-out, not yet an actual migration.

>NOTE: Before the actual migration the current repository on github will be wiped!
We also designed (or, hacked together) this login page with (JavaScript) snow: http://app.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/login.php

Christmas times are fun!
"I would have guessed the leading operating system on the top cloud platform would have been Red Hat and its close relatives, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Fedora."

So all the surprise he is expressing has nothing to do with Linux ruling the clouds, just which distro of Linux, so why did he pick that title?
Solar power humvees won't happen very soon.

But the US military is one of the World's largest oil consumers.
I held this view ("hold own in server hardware") until I actually tried to run FreeBSD on modern server hardware. The Intel 10G NICs worked, but slower in benchmarks than Linux and Opensolaris.

SCSI/SAS support has been rotting slowly, with the now industry-standard LSI cards I tested, working, but without interrupt coalesce and thus using more CPU and reaching only 60% of the speed of the same card in Linux or Opensolaris. Infiniband support is nearly all happening in Linux.

Then there was the problems with the new Core i7 CPUs and Turbo Mode. NUMA support has been missing until 9.0(unstable), and even now its only for the allocator and not the scheduler. The final straw was when I had USB issues (modern server motherboards have mostly dropped PS2 ports) which meant keyboard wasn't working at all on a server.

ZFS is less stable and slower than in OpenSolaris, and for all these years FreeBSD has lacked a journalling filesystem. Which I consider basic stuff, after all, Linux has had XFS for 10 years now. Linux has several virtualisation options, and while VirtualBox has been ported to BSD, it isn't really suited for server use. FreeBSD Jails have stagnated for years and still cannot handle running multiple copies of PostgreSQL because of SYSV support.

I believe FreeBSD is the best and most enjoyable OS for hacking on, but this was 2 years ago, and things have further stagnated since then, so like many others, I have been forced to give up and move on.
You may have good chances of getting a job at a startup that is working on a similar technology. I think it comes down to how well you are able market your skills. Experience never dies out, but you need to be careful how you showcase your abilities.
If you're writing games, you should probably go with a C or C++ based solution with OpenGL es. That can run on all platforms except for Win phone 7 (for now).

For applications there are a couple of iOS/Android solutions such as Appcelerator or Phonegap
Yeah, I think they made that up. I've only ever encountered the term "flat file" in the sense of a flat file database, such as a CSV file. As you say, pre-rendered static page is a much better name for it.
"I mean if the doctor overruns putting your new liver in, it is by a few hours at most."

Speaking as someone who went to get a new filling in June, went through getting a root canal on another tooth, and finally will end up going under a GA to get some more serious work done in a month or two, I can assure you that doctors (well, dentists) do <i>not</i> charge on a fixed-symptom basis.

Even if you need to return to a doctor only to get a new copy of a script you have already had, most doctors will charge you the consult time.

Given that you appear to suggest there is no art to medicine, it sounds like you have no exposure to the medical world. Our profession isn't as unique as you make it out to be.
But that was in the news 2 years ago - why are we talking about it again?

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1858843,00.ht...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7726118.stm
I'm pretty comfortable with functional programming, but have never touched Scala, and after a quick skim through I can get a pretty good sense of what's going on in most of the problems. The beauty of functional programming is that there is so much richness in the abstractions. If you see a 'for' or 'while' loop there's no way to tell what it's doing, but just seeing map, reduce (foldl, foldr), filter etc I know a lot more about what's going on.
It was and is major news, just google hiv immunity - tons of links come up.

For example: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100505133250.ht...

Also - that's exactly what this case is - the donor was naturally immune to HIV.
> Are you guys getting tired? Come on fighters you can do it.

Actually, there's a maximum number of times you can downvote someone, presumably so people can't vendetta against someone if they get their feelings hurt. So, maybe they can't do it.

Sidenote: I think Steve Pavlina created a joke word for people who are totally normal and in control, and then flip out randomly over nothing online in a comment thread - "Kittywompus." I'm not sure where the word came from (maybe he had a cat that was relaxed most of the time but then flipped out occasionally?), but it's definitely a real phenomenon.

I still don't understand the roots of it myself, on the rare occasions I get upset online I close my laptop up and go out for a walk... it's like a circuit breaker, "oh shit, I'm losing the ability to think clearly, I better get out of the environment" - I think most people have something like this, but maybe a few lack this circuit breaker?
...People do that? Make emacs work for you; don't work for it!

There's nothing wrong with using the arrow keys. There's nothing wrong with remapping return to do newline and indent. Heck, if you want to use the standard C-c, C-v, C-x for copy, paste, cut, there's a mode for that too. (http://www.emacswiki.org/CuaMode)

Put your .emacs and .emacs.d somewhere easily accessible and updateable, like GitHub or Dropbox, and you don't have to worry about not knowing the default settings.
Reagent (& Rum) are still IMO the state of the art in frontend web development: https://reagent-project.github.io/
Yet more pressure to move to SaaS (which is probably why SAP are happy to disclose this).
SAP is a magic money tree for those that know it well.
Can you give an example of a specific set of countries where this applies (country of origin of course non-EU)
>we've seriously fucked our own society in ways that aggravate this, and medication is at best a stopgap.

My gut feeling is that overcoming this is a big part of the true solution.
As someone who lives in a country that is essentially a collection mining companies with a flag (Canada), I'm glad to see other people are starting to take this seriously.
Even in the US, the identity of most subscribers are known to the mobile operator.

It's a regulated market, so should the need arise to keep the identity of all subscribers in the future, it is likely not much more than a counter-terrorism-related law away.
The interesting part for me was this:

> According to the NAO report, The Bank of England has estimated that 20-24% of UK notes in circulation are in use or being held for cash transactions, with a further 5% (£1-3.5bn) held by households in savings.

> “Little is known about the remainder (approximately £50 billion worth of notes)” said the report. Potential explanations include overseas holdings for transactions or savings and UK holdings of unreported domestic savings or for use in the shadow economy.

So over 70% of UK banknotes are just... missing? Apparently the UK's market for drugs is a bit under £10bn per year (a third of the entire EU, go us!) so it seems black market usage is unlikely to account for the entire £50bn.

https://www.russellwebster.com/carolblack5/
The corporation is a creation of the state. The state has obligations to humans, not to corporations. If the lives of humans to whom the state is obligated would be improved by any number of onerous requirements imposed on corporations, the state certainly should impose those onerous requirements.

Of course, the idea that states are created for the benefit of humans is bullshit, but it's nice to dream of something better...
Intentionally exaggerating/misinterpreting you here, but you can also turn this around and say someone's dead inside because they have to turn to a job to get contentment/fulfillment.

What can or can't fulfill someone in their specific situation is highly dependent on their inner constitution, their peers and societal and cultural environment. In ancient Greece being free from menial duties and being able to freely engage in science, philosophy and politics was regarded as the highest state of existence.

I know someone who had to show up 8 hours a day for 20 years without anything to do and he's practically the most energetic person I know (bordering on annoying actually), spending time with family, gardening, traveling and collecting memories.

In practice you probably want a healthy middle way of work and leisure and OP presumably wants the focus on leisure which I can understand :P...

Also, monetizing your hobby to a degree that you can be financially dependent on it causes it to no longer be hobby by definition (more like hobby-equivalent work)
Swift for tensorflow never made any sense. I remember only reason it started was one main developer on team liked swift.

Tensorflow for nodejs makes much more sense, node community is lit bigger and not sponsored by big corp.
In modern British use, a pinhooker is someone who buys yearling thoroughbred horses, hoping to sell them for a profit when they're two year olds.[1] Until this article I did not know the origin of the term.

[1] https://bradleythoroughbreds.com/services/pinhooking/
Well, the "kind of thinking" that only certified, acronym'd Domain Experts have useful knowledge to contribute about complicated problems has led us down a lot of fun paths in 2020:

- No, definitely no need to worry about this novel virus in China

- No, definitely no need to wear facial covering

- No, definitely no aerosolized transmission

- No, definitely no reason to violate protocol with a 1-dose regimin

- No, definitely no evidence of lab-release accident (TBD)

On each of these problems, attentive and interested non-experts called the correct answer months ahead of expert consensus. If your takeaway from 2020 is not "domain experts are always right, and there's no need for independent research from the outside"... you learned a really bad lesson.
>>> Category theory is the stem cell that differentiates into and lies at the root of all pure mathematics. ["All forms of pure math" is also written on the slides.]

I would say this statement is not false. It does seem to lie at the root and is an alternative to set theory which means that mathematics can be perceived with category theory as it's foundation. Whether an actual written CT reformalization has been executed within all the pure mathematical sub fields or whether doing an actual formalization from the perspective of CT will be a benefit at all is another topic all together.

I agree that category theory is not popular. However I feel software engineers should have interest in it as Category theory looks to intersect with an area of software engineering that is currently done ad-hoc style with just gut feelings.

If you squint, Category theory looks to be a formalized theory for the design and complexity of modules. Fully understanding Category theory and how it applies to software could lead to a future where design and architecture is "calculated" rather then "designed."
That's so awesome. Wish every other brazilian city did the same.
I can believe that sadly :/ UEFI implementations range from pretty good to absolute crap. My newest Dell has at least been mostly decent, but an older Dell has so many issues with the firmware, it's unbelievable.

Not that it (worn out flash) is gonna be a problem in practice, anyway. Neither will the M1's inability to boot without the internal drive. Like Marcan said, it's not really likely to die in realistic use within a pretty long lifespan, I just find these sorts of shortcomings/regressions ... disappointing. I get the various reasons why, it's just annoying.
Canonical now goes far, far (far) out of their way to hide the normal ISO installers. I mean, they try and bury them so deep that I can only find them now by googling for the name of the ISO I already have. Find your path to this page easily from the landing pages: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-legacy-server/releases/foca...
This 99% Invisible podcast episode talks about the unintended consequences of planting trees in the peat tundra of Scotland spurred by the British government's tax breaks to incentivize re-forestation around the country in the 1980s:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-the-love-of-peat/

EDIT: This is not to say that trees should not be planted. I wrote the post in support of using science and nuance to plant trees the right way, which I think is the major point of the article.