jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I share some of your feelings, although i also believe that downloading copyright material is not right.
Anyway, take a look at how the game industry is managing the situation, specifically at what has SteamPowered has done or is doing. Whatever security mechanism is implemented into game protection, it's always possible to hack it and most games are available for download on torrent sites, at least. But even that comes with it's own problems:

* cracks sometimes cause instability problems to the games

* although cracks are included in most downloads, when a game patch comes out, if the gamer wants to take advantage of that patch, he needs to lookup a crack for that version, if it's available

* you can't trust the downloads not to have viruses or any other form of malware

* if you wipeout your data (either intentionally or not) and don't have backups, you need to re-download the game(s) and repeat the above process. If the game is "old", it will be more difficult to download it as it may suffer from the lack of seeders

Now take a look at (Valve's) SteamPowered platform:

* it has a (centralized) store with a large number of games, both recent and older ones, mainstream or indie, meaning you have very easy access to content

* in games as in movies, ultimately the user is not interested in the physical copy, as file sharing success has proven. When you buy a game, your "possession" of it is associated with your account. To access it (from a fresh OS installation or not) you only need to install a thin client and select which games you want to download and that's it

* you can buy games as a gift for others

* it even stores your save games on the [steam] cloud

* games patches are downloaded and applied automatically

* the store usually has a lot of price cuts on "old" games or promotions

and this, i believe, is creating serious competition even for "free downloads". Why would i download a game on the torrentz and risk my computer security and etc when i can just buy it for a couple of bucks, with all the advantages of having it through the SteamPowered platform?

Downloading movies from the interweb, although for "free" also has it's downsides, like:

* quality

* getting proper subtitles if it's in a foreign language

* if you lose the downloads, you need to re-download and hope to have seeders

* not everyone is a proficient at using torrent websites. My mother uses a laptop but doesn't have the skills to properly use them

what i'm trying to say is that i fail to understand why the film industry doesn't start treating the "file sharing" as competition and create a better service than "free as in beer", because obviously they won't "win" any other way, their business model is obviously being made obsolete with the advance of technology.

Why not create a similar platform as Steam, where you can buy films at a lower price which are associated with your account and that you can download entirely and copy to a pendrive to stick on your TV and/or stream onto your computer? with similar features as Steam?
Better results are had with "golang".
Except he doesn't write it. It's output from a program. Compilers don't emit readable output either.

I'm not saying I'm against clean HTML. But the argument you give is probably invalid.
If you can explain them please enlighten us all. You will have to show that Hardy-Littlewood's Conjecture F is true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%E2%80%93Horn_conjecture
OTOH, feedback fades out even if you read it. I think, it'd better not.
Ah, gotcha. Will fix that.
I sure did. I just doubt he'd answer me as soon as the HN community ;)
Because a lot of people including institutions like Goldman Sachs and the FX brokers were short-selling the CHF (selling borrowed CHF on the open market hoping to pay it back at a lower price denominated in another currency). Except the trade went against them because it was worth more denominated in other currencies. What I don't know myself though is how they were expecting it fall if it was pegged. Perhaps they announcement coming but thought it would fall in price instead of rise.
>(because if it isn't faster than what we're already doing what's the point)

stability, security, etc

having no more page corruption issues would be nice
The issue is leverage. [1] [2] In order to trade $1mm worth of EUR vs CHF, you didn't actually have to have $1mm. So, if the CHF, for whatever reason, increased above the SNB peg of 1.2, you could then trade $1mm for, say, $10,000 in your account (100:1 leverage). Then, if there is a 1% move back to the Peg, you profit 0.01 x $1mm, or $1,000.

The reason brokers will give you this much leverage is that ForEx (up until a couple days ago) was one of the most liquid markets on the planet. If you hit a margin call, your broker could instantly liquidate your entire portfolio to cover any loss, with very little risk.

And then, the SNB walked away from their Peg, and the earth collapsed underneath all these traders (and brokers in some case) - All these traders/brokers who thought that a position could be liquidated at minimal loss, ran into a market with a scarcity (absence) of buyers, and were wiped for the entire value of their accounts (and more - lots of traders ended up with a negative position)

This is a wakeup call that people will remember or a very, very long time (and should have been learnt in the 2008 Mortgage collapse) - the potential for a black swan event is everywhere.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/forexleverage.asp
[2] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/08/margin-leverag...
Im the same way. I think, in my 14 years of using google, I clicked through for one ad on a laptop charger. Their revenue...I still just dont get it.
Cgroups are not a virtualization / containerization feature like jails, their use cases are entirely different.
To me what you suggest sounds somewhat conflicting. If bitcoin might be a good store of value in the future, it might be a good investment today. Which means good store of value, but a big dose of risk.

I guess other way to say what you are trying to say would be: "Bitcoin is a very bad store of value for those with a low risk-preference."
Continuous steel rails do have problems with large temperature swings. See the link I posted about "sun kinks." They cause about 50 derailments per year. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-warp-railr...

Rail lines have more curves which can take up that slack, and the positional tolerances are much more forgiving. Because of its high speed operation the hyperloop is both incredibly straight and incredibly sensitive to kinking.
> Are there many public COBOL code bases? From a quick search, I'll I've found is ...

The community of COBOL researchers is growing exponentially! [0] It's best to start with COBOL development in order to be an expert when COBOL's use really explodes.

[0] https://github.com/search?q=language%3Acobol&type=Repositori...
> excellent developers decide they simply couldn't take the pressure and head out for something easier

Been working since late 90's with a 1.5 year break for grad school, but going through some extreme burnout right now and I totally want to do this. Don't want to try to "get away with pretending to work" at all, just want something easier with less pressure/stress.

> Check they're IT ops/dev organization; note whether they're using a third-party[2]. If you want that "back-end only job", look no further.

Can you name some specific companies to look at for this?

> My buddy took my advice and ended up getting an "Easy Corporate Job"

Which route did he go, the DBA team or the third-party IT org?
> While cracks are still made and distributed by amateurs, they can't be developed at large scale by commercial companies because of the EULAs.

Wouldn't the DMCA law itself already make this illegal?
I can't agree with you more. git commands are definitely not designed for the current main stream usage (i.e. with services like GitHub/GitLab). Simple things like forking a repo from another user and edit locally requires >10 non-straight forward steps is far from ideal.
For a laptop it is important to be able to close the lid, go to zero power state after X minutes, then resume where you left off.
At Twitter we hit 15s memory allocation pause times due to fragmentation. We had to switch the memory allocator to fix it.
> It strikes me as bizarre that something as old and as important as git is to the general version control problem, doesn't have a beautiful, complete and helpful user interface.

It has several.

Tower is a wonderful interface in MacOS, Sublime-Merge too.

Github is another, Gitlab also a very good. Gog is a free as in beer option too.

There are several. None has dominated the market, tough.
Picking which price to use could easily vary another 10x either way. Is the government using local farmer's markets, retail at grocery stores across the country, or the price that retailers pay farmers? What does a "bulk" price mean for grains? Corn is at about 7 cents per pound, if you buy it a metric ton at a time on the commodity market.

Not saying the result you got is necessarily wrong, but I'm very skeptical of economic comparisons that don't carefully control for these sorts of things.
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You shouldn't really have to 'try' in a conversation. If it feels that way, it's fine to just be quiet until you feel like talking (if ever). Learning to be comfortable with silence around others is one of the keys to beating social anxiety. That horrible awkwardness you feel when you can't think of the 'right' thing to say is the core of it all.

Friendly quiet people are as well liked as anyone. If the other person feels awkward, so what? Let the encounter end. No need for you to feel awkward too. If you can learn to meet people without getting stressed out because you don't click with most of them for whatever reason, it becomes much easier and more natural to meet people, and you'll have a better chance of finding your kind of people amidst all the madness. Have low expectations and occasionally you will be pleasantly surprised.

The best way to meet others is to do things with people. Look for any possible way to do things you like with others, whether it's a hobby, sport, game, working, studying, painting, whatever. This removes the need for much conversation and the ones you have will be easier and more genuine because there's something to talk about that gets the ball rolling.

Also, it couldn't hurt to take mdma with a group of nice people if you get the chance.
> rather than a long digest string

A bit of a nit, but git does allow a shortened SHA-1 form.
Thanks, I'll start looking for events and meetups in my area. It's probably a good opportunity for me to get some other interests outside of technology too.
You're right, I've been making this into a much bigger problem than it is. In the past I've always assumed that nobody is interested, I need to work on my confidence and assume that by default everyone is interested until they say no.

Thanks
I could say about a few things I notice about myself
- I generally don't get past small talk only when I am too much in my head not thinking about the other person. Whenever I start thinking about them, I generally get past that hurdle (given that other person is willing, too).
- Also, when I start judging people in my head, or trying to find out if being a friend with the OP would help me in someway, I lose the conversation.

This is what I try to do to fix it:
- I try to be humble - without even thinking of bragging about anything (even if I should :))
- take genuine interest (without crossing the line) in OP (e.g. work, education etc) and reduce 'I's from the conversation.

As johnny22 said, join an activity/class you like or have been thinking of taking, develop an interest, and talk to people, respect them, discuss the activity with them; and smalltalk generally leads to 'hi-hello' and gradually to friendship.

All the best.

edit: grammar
As someone that listened to people harp about SEPA for a decade. I am not impressed by it.

The actual user experience of SEPA is 2-5 business days just like America's oh so antiquated ACH system.

There are some very specific edge cases where SEPA instant exist, and that edge case may work for a large number of people that live in that walled garden.

That garden seems to be same country to same country transfers, where both banks have SEPA instant.

But to make it seem like the Eurozone or SEPA participant network has this solved has been very disengenious.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/stories.html

I don’t know what sort of evidence or experiment you are looking for.

It’s even possible that it isn’t stable and we are undergoing evolution now.
It is possible to do both. The answer is customization, about:config already exists.
So a failing industry gets propped up because governments want it to happen and media aggregator sites have to pay companies for making their content available and expanding their audience.
Incrementing the counter, and generating the next HOTP code in a single UPDATE statement could be useful.
Most if not all species with biological sex presentation. Binary sex characteristics are an abstraction and extend beyond a specific set of chromosomes (which also present more non-binary configurations). Most humans and other sexed animals bunch up on one side or the other but it’s still a convenience rather than an either/or fact.
Chicagoan here - if they ban GTA I'll buy 10 more copies in addition to the one I already have just to get the Streisand effect officially going
I'm not sure there is one but it may be the Dissenter browser, which is a fork of Brave. It is ultimately based on Chromium tech, but we need to stat somewhere. The browsers will ultimately end up implementing their own censorship. I was surprised (but also not surprised) when Chrome and Firefox banned the Dissenter comments extension (https://reclaimthenet.org/dissenter-free-speech-browser/) and with that ban being normalized, it'll soon come to which IP addresses you can access.
As an experienced developer it is getting really grating. Why so many jobs requiring NoSQL "skills" when a relational database will solve 90% of the perceived problems. We have good mature back end frameworks. So unless you are writing a chat application, why is everyone looking to Nodejs?
I thought this was going to be about reading articles online, with ads appearing in between paragraphs, blinking on the left and the right, making it impossible to concentrate on the actual article.

How does anyone actually read these articles?

And do the ads even work? If I can't disappear the ads, I close the page.

But somebody must be reading the articles(?)

And somebody must be clicking through the ads and buying stuff(?)

I can't believe how bad the experience is.

Tell me it's just me, and everyone else thinks its normal(?)
The judges ruling (allowing the trial to go ahead) says that the university claims that he made threats on web forums. They have never provided the proof to him or the judge.

These alleged threats were the basis for the banning from campus, but not the suspension. The claim is that they have been made after the suspension. A lawsuit should bring these into the air.
Ok, I looked a bit closer at the cases and the lockdown dates [0], there does seem to have been a repeating pattern there of case numbers changing about 14 days after a lockdown is enacted/lifted. With the repeating pattern, I'm more convinced it did have an effect on the case numbers at least. I still think the cost: benefit is way unfavorable, though. We'll have a better picture in years to come once the dust has settled.

[0] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...
A wall of ads is all I see. Thanks big media.
If you base what is right and wrong of what is illegal you make the perfect model citizen for any dictatorship. Have fun with that.
This is an idea that's been around forever and from a hardware perspective it's super easy. The problem is finding applications for this. You need to find something that is so difficult that it requires atleast dozens of instructions (because the FPGA isn't going to be running at the CPU clock speed so it needs to be a decent chunk of work to jsutify), is done often enough to dedicate silicon for (the FPGA can't be dark 99.999% of the time), but not often enough that you can't justify full custom implementation. Then you need to write a set of custom instructions that map to this logic, and build support for using these custom instructions into the compiler - accounting for the fact you don't just need to dispatch data to the fpga, you need to program it each time you change instruction and that takes forever in CPU terms.

It's not impossible, it's just very difficult, impacts every single part of the stack, and is very difficult to justify.
In practice, it does.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/they-get-a-get-out-of-jail...

> “In such cases, when the court declines to establish whether police used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment, it avoids setting a clearly established precedent for future cases, even for the most egregious acts of police violence,” the report said. “In effect, the same conduct can repeatedly go unpunished.”

> For example, there’s Jessop v. City of Fresno, Calif., in which a pair of businessmen alleged that police officers had stolen some $225,000 in cash and rare coins they had seized while executing search warrants. The officers were deemed entitled to qualified immunity because “at the time of the incident, there was no clearly established law holding that officers violate the Fourth or Fourteenth Amendment when they steal property seized pursuant to a warrant.”
Windows finally added support for UTF-8 2 years ago: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/globaliz...
Should we be allowing psychologists to gate-keep academia?

Isn't this how universities become temples?
You're assigning meaning onto young infants' babblings that isn't there. They're not words.
Is someone on EBT really going to have a credit card?
Hidden cameras in AirBnBs are horrible.

But what crime in Irish law do you think has been broken?
Yeah exactly. The funny thing is that the US still has that developing country mindset about cars and other creature comforts. I wonder why that is.
Or it's a buffet for sexual predators.
That is false. TikTok is a platform where people upload videos of themselves doing things like lip syncing, dancing, etc. That does not have to turn political at all. Unless you use the good ol' argument that "banning all political discussion is supporting the status quo which is also political"
EOS is not really something to use as an example
I wouldn't hold Steve up as a paragon of truthfulness. I think he preferred to be truthful when possible, but it was a secondary matter. I think he was generally concerned about landing his pitch, and if the truth had to be bent or broken to do that, so be it.

My first Silicon Valley job was at Apple, and my second was at NeXT. I was back at Apple for the introduction of the iMac, and I was at the Apple all-hands meeting where Steve announced the new product to the employees. (I use the word "new" in the loosest sense. The iMac was old technology in a colorful new package.)

I attended with a friend who was, like me, an Apple programmer at the time. I had met Steve a few times and seen his presentations before. I knew what to expect. My friend did not.

My basic impression, as I remember it, was, "thank God Steve is into tech marketing, not politics." He could really work a crowd. I never understood how the world's great demagogues had managed their terrible achievements until I saw what Steve could do with a crowd.

As we were walking out of the auditorium, my friend said to me, shaking his head, "I don't understand it--I believed him! I work on some of that stuff. I knew he was lying, and yet I still believed him!"

I felt like that said it all. I guess I still feel that way.
- Cargo lock has a very verbose format.

- Cargo lock contains "test" dependencies, in this case the criterion benchmark suite. Without it it's ~750 lines.

- It's actually "only" 10 direct dependencies and including transitive ones 60.

- Some dependency are the same dependency split into multiple parts e.g. foobar and foobar-core count as two dependencies.

- Some dependencies are also build-only dependencies, e.g. derive related dependencies like `syn`.
>>At the start of 2014, American’s stock market capitalization was about $13.3 billion. Shareholders got back $15 billion between then and now. 3 In the aggregate, shareholders got about 113% of their money back over six years. If their stock is now worth zero—it’s not, American’s market cap as of yesterday’s close was about $6.8 billion—then that’s not an amazing return

He's assuming that they sold the shares. If not, they may hold a lot more shares in total, but all are now worth about half.
If the last few years should have thought us anything it's that stock prices don't matter. The only time they become material to the business is if they urgently needs to raise capital, and are for some reason unable to access capital markets (unlikely in the current era of quantitative easing).

They are on the other hand a very easy indicator of sentiment around the business and therefore attract way more attention than they deserve.
Does the Fed have anything it can do on the demand side? I'm pretty rusty on my macroeconomics, but I thought you needed fiscal policy to buy stuff if you want to juice demand.
Sure, Android apps are not interpreted by a traditional JVM, but they still rely on a Java-like runtime environment (libraries, etc.).
I agree there has to be a way, but it'll have to be cleverer than what you suggested. App stores already rank apps based on user reviews, and reddit ranks posts based on user voting. Both are manipulated to hell, and I've read reports of third world sweatshops dedicated to churning out those reviews. Since the farmed reviews are written by humans, they don't get filtered by AI reading the text or watching people's mouse movements or whatever.
Is there anything like temporal tables (select as of) in SQLite? The one thing keeping me with MariaDB
> I always had the sense - without seriously looking into it though - that D was about avoiding some of the mistakes/mis-features of C++, [...] and then it plays somewhat clunky catch-up.

My opinion is that D lost its goal on the way. It was indeed supposed to be a cleaner C++ without all its confusing history of layers of features over layer of features. And it was so, for sometime. But then they started adding this, and this, and that, everything and all sorts of kitchen sinks depending on the fad of the year; meta-programming, taking from C++, or lately rustifying itself. The current state looks to me is as indigestible as modern C++ (and the process to get there has largely been the same, the process the original goal of D meant to rid and avoid). A pile of templates and annotations. D's evolution has been a great disappointment to me. I can see Nim going that way too.
> Is Kubernetes really overcomplicated, though?

I imagine that a million voices read that and silently, immediately, think "yes, it is." and then giggle without commenting.
Austin is the best and it’s I hospitals. Why didn’t they test that?
However unlike Cloudflare it does support multiple origins with a IMO pretty simple to understand nginx like location x maps to origin b and location c maps to origin... This feature alone is one reason I stopped looking further into Cloudflare...