jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Get good at something first.

You're just setting yourself up for disappointment if you go down this route you've planned for yourself. The kind of money that makes people rich doesn't usually come from wishful thinking. Hard word, passion, and perseverance play a part. Of course it also helps to come from a wealthy background, have influential parents, and be well educated.

But all of that doesn't matter.

What you should be doing is figuring out what gets you up in the morning. That can take years. Some people are just lucky and find it early before they go into university. Most people I know who've gone to university ended up working in a completely different field than what they studied.

So don't sweat it man. You're twenty. Go drink. Get high. Backpack around Europe. Start a band. Or a business. Watch it burn away all your money. Move in with your parents until you figure things out. Move out to the big city. Meet people.

Eventually it will hit you straight in the face. Whatever it is you're suppose to do that gets you up in the morning... it will just come to you and you won't be able to sleep without thinking about it. That thing is what will give you the drive to wake up in the morning and work your ass off all day.

And if you're lucky, you'll get that million dollars. Only when you do you might not even realize it. You'll be too busy working on the next big thing.
Los Angeles, CA :

We're looking for Linux sysadmins, this is an entry level position, ideal for someone with a little, but not too much real world Linux experience. (read: not the highest pay, but a great learning experience).

Additionally we're looking for Rails contractors for steady part time work, preferably in the LA area, but if you're remote that would be fine as well.
Contact me at andrew@andrewvc.com and I'll make sure to route the mail to those in charge of hiring.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

We're looking for an engineer to join our backend development team and work on our architecture and cool new features. (Mostly working with Postgres, Ruby, Queueing systems, AWS and of course Rails.)

Have a great place in the city center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. it's a permanent on-location job.
I think that the main reason they are trying to do this is that so many government networks and even utilities are hooking up to the Internet, so they want to be able to shut out 'invaders' if there is a bad attack happening.

The problem with this is that maybe those networks/utilities SHOULDN'T BE ON THE PUBLIC INTERNET. If the military or other government agencies can't defend themselves appropriately, then maybe they should invest in rolling out a completely separate network just for US government purposes. Hell, they did it once (i.e APRANet).
Ah that’s not at all what I hoped for with my post.

JS is at its core a Lisp/Smalltalk hybrid, and if you write serious JS you know what “currying” is, whether you call it that or not.

LINQ maps onto a lot of the same math that gets used in Haskell.

I hope I haven’t done some elitist gatekeeping bullshit that discourages people from trying new things.

I’d I did: don’t listen to me, keep trying new things!
Personal attacks are not welcome on Hacker News. We ban accounts that are repeatedly uncivil, so please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702873 and marked it off-topic.
It was my understanding that California's CARB emissions standards were specifically written to keep foreign diesel vehicles off CA roads.
It's not small at all. It's about 30KLOC of code.
It's not so much the stage of life, it's that these technologies have become the de facto standard way of interacting in today's younger part of the population.

In other words: even though cell phones and social media were around when I was younger, they didn't play the central role they do today, so presumably it was much easier for me to do without them and still have a normal social life than it would be today.

Here's a sad thought experiment though: if you can only remain an active part of your circle of friends if you use the same technology as they do, what does that say about the depth of that friendship?
I know I shouldn’t think this but I’m relieved to know that all the crazies aren’t exclusively in the US right now.
What happened to the Nightingale hospital? Can it be re erected?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/london-nhs-nig...
To me it feels like a multi-step process, caused by a mix of our worst human tendencies:

1) People prefer news coverage which confirms their previously-held beliefs (aka confirmation bias).

2) News outlets are financially incentivized to deliver news which confirms whatever beliefs we may have, since if we don't then viewers will change the channel. This causes news outlets to balkanize along various points on the political spectrum, ranging from extreme right-wing to extreme left-wing.

3) News outlets receive 100% of the gain of confirming our biases, but pay less than 100% of the total cost of doing so (aka "the tragedy of the commons").

4) Viewers end up consuming primarily (if not exclusively) media which confirms their biases. This becomes a self-reinforcing echo chamber.

5) Simultaneously, there has been a proliferation of media outlets. In the 1950s, there were 2-3 TV channels from which one could consume news. Today, there are 500 channels on DirecTV, and any number of internet news sites / Twitter accounts / etc. where you can get your fix.

6) In the old days, news outlets had to be moderate in their reporting, in order to appeal to the broadest possible audience. Conversely, the more sources of information there are, the louder any individual source must become, in order to stand out from the crowd.

7) With the internet, it's possible to create news outlets which cater to a minority of people who hold extreme viewpoints (aka capturing the long tail of the media market).

8) Over time, there are more and more outlets delivering more and more extreme reportage, and the news we consume becomes more extremist in nature.

9) Since our news diet plays a big part in shaping our worldview, over time we ourselves become more extreme.

I'd love to be wrong about this, since it doesn't bode well for the future of the human race. Someone please restore my faith in humanity by effectively rebutting the points above.
There are many ways for anyone, let alone a president of the United States, to make his views known. He can call a press conference; call into a host on a favorable network; issue a press release. Somehow the 40-odd presidents of the US whose terms ended before Twitter did get themselves heard from.
I didn't take a picture, but one of his responses to the takeover of the Capitol was that "this is what happens" and a renewed demand to throw out the election.
And if the President wanted to escalate? Like he has been doing for 2 months now?

Also, he's currently the president of the united states. Was the president of the united states completely unable to communicate with the country before twitter?
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Related: I recently published a preprint describing some techniques to speed up evaluation of transcendental functions in the range of a few hundred bits to a few thousand bits: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7176
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Not quite - the most controversial are the ones with both high upvotes and downvotes, with a ratio closest to 1:1.
Reminds me of the naval idea that it's bad luck to have a woman on board.
Surely there's a more direct way to determine how someone's brain is wired? Have a conversation with them about some algorithm or data structure. A four-year CS program is definitely not the only way to learn that sort of thing.
He didn't say the word evil, but he characterized Israel as evil, which is just as bad.

>he stated that Israel has taken actions to stifle Palestine. That is an objective fact...

False, saying Israel takes actions to stifle the Palestinians implies the intent is to stifle, when the intent could just as easily be defensive and as minimally stifling as possible. Those are both opinions. endtime merely pointed out what is there for everyone to see: the Palestinian territories dedicated an uncommonly high percentage of their economic output to terrorist activities, regardless of if you think "they had to do it."

In short, the logic is clear, the amount of man hours dedicated to terrorist activities is objective, saying the Israelis intend to stifle the Palestinians is analysis.
The big Muslim countries in the middle east are kind of fucked one way or another. Iraq and Iran alone have more than 100 million of the Muslims in the area. You're not going to see a lot of hot startup action from war zones or autocratic regimes. Jordan is one of the most stable and open societies in the Middle East. A year ago, I worked with some programmers from Oman, and they were pretty good.
I think it might be fair to say that MS has gotten "lucky" more times than probably any other tech company, including Apple. Maybe only IBM has gotten "lucky" more often, but they also have a much longer history.
In YouTube's early rapid growth phase, they were putting servers online without switches.
The lack of options to backup and restore from Android to iPhone was extremely frustrating. I convinced my mother to use Signal as her default SMS app on Android, and when I bought her an iPhone, all her SMSs were lost (except to open up the old device). Not the worst problem in the world, but it leaves a very nasty taste.

Never mind that transitioning between iPhones (we almost bought her a new phone this year) has the same problem. That this is not supported invalidates Signal as a replacement for SMS or Whatsapp for many many non-technical users.
This came up the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650905
i could do this one in my sleep. wish more were like it...
This is unreal... I thought these kinds of things would've been fixed in 2000 with the ILOVEYOU virus [1]. But apparently Excel VBA allows you to manipulate the registry, access Windows APIs, drop files onto the system, and manipulate/access Outlook to run macros across all of your mail and more. Does Microsoft really expect the average office worker to not fall for an urgent-looking, highly-realistic spreadsheet asking him to enable everything? If this is really what I think this is it's an obvious security disaster for the whole Windows ecosystem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU
That certainly doesn't preclude research that's useful (and essential) to developing new pathogens; all of these things are by nature dual-use technologies.
In that case they used anonymity to suit them (increase the importance of a person who ended up being way lower ranked then was in implied). Anonymity is a weapon of MSM, they use it to write poorly sourced stories saying whatever they want, and remove it to hurt people they don’t like.
I keep meaning to look into zig more. Can it be used for embedded chips like M0s yet?

I'd love to hear if anyone's cross compiling to embedded chips in any real projects with it. Or it's strongest play still command line tools on Linux?
This isn't even a bad faith argument, it's a straight-up conspiracy theory that you can't hope to prove in any meaningful way.
For very large codebases, this is often not an option. I know of very large 'let's write Cobol mainframe to Java' projects, burning 10s of millions of euros, that were just thrown away because they could not actually get it working in the end.

And this is not limited to mainframe projects; it happens with (large) more recent projects (Java/C# mostly) as well.
Plastic is recyclable in the same way a sugary bowl of cereal is part of a balanced breakfast.
When employees want to have more say over their working conditions, they organize. If users want to have more say over the product conditions, is there an opportunity to organize as wel?
SD cards are useless for long term storage, they last maybe 5 years:
http://www.datarecoveryspecialists.co.uk/blog/what-is-the-li...

They depend on holding electrons within cells, and over time the electrons leak out.
Not the same thing. Stop trying to make the two sound the same.

It all started when Mr. Biden, addressing a predominantly African American crowd, quoted Mr. Romney as saying in his first 100 days as president that "he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules -- unchain Wall Street." Then the vice president added with a grin: "They're going to put y'all back in chains!"
Nintendo did sell a business that didn't align with their primary markets, Rare. Rare generated hits for Nintendo (like Donkey Kong Country), but iirc, Miyamoto never liked them. From the DKC wikipedia entry:

In the years following the game's release, rumours spread that Miyamoto disliked Donkey Kong Country and found it amateurish, provoking him to create the hand-drawn art style of Yoshi's Island. He was allegedly quoted as telling Electronic Games magazine in 1995 that "Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good".

Again according to wikipedia, DKC was one of the top selling SNES games, only Super Mario World and Super Mario All-Stars are higher on the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Super_Nin....
Neither "Not Switching" nor "Use None" are viable options, which is why they aren't included. I appreciate that they are the advice you would give, but it would be unhelpful for them. They need something, and it needs not to be WhatsApp. That's why I didn't include those as options in the poll.

But I appreciate (and am sympathetic towards) your stance.
Yes I do agree, but surely you'd want to tap out all the debt first before going to equity raises. Very rarely see any debt raised in startups, so quite interesting behaviour.
> Its admitting its true

How is the statement from the Pennsylvania Department of State admitting that Rep. Ryan's claim is correct?

The problem is that there's an implicit assumption in Rep. Ryan's claim that the SURE numbers are complete and represent the actual number of voters who actually voted. If a few counties have not completed uploading their vote histories, then that implicit assumption is invalidated, thereby invalidating the rest of the claim.

> And the other explanation is a hypothetical explanation of over or under votes. No proof that this was actually the case here.

The burden of proof is on Rep. Ryan to show that the over- and under-voting in 2020 is nefarious/fraudulent/malicious. Merely saying that over- and under-voting exists is not sufficient to show something is wrong; one also needs to show that such a thing does not happen in "clean" elections. Pennsylvania is merely pointing out the gap in the analysis here.

Edit: Added missing word
I know this isn't news worthy, but as someone who's been through a lot lately, I'd love to chat with any/all that need someone to talk to. These are tough times & we shouldn't have to go through things alone!
I too talked about this before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882782
Now there's an idea. It would be a beautiful irony if, in a few years from now, the mechanical turk API was used as an open platform for AI applications to make money solving difficult problems.
You should read some material on microeconomics and about complementary products. That's not arguing, it's how the economy currently works.

a product's success ...
is whether or not it improves the company's bottom line

Microsoft controlling the platform through Windows and IExplorer hasn't improved their bottom line?

RedHat paying high wages to highly skilled kernel hackers to work on (get this, open-source software) hasn't improved their bottom line?

until they start making money, that claim can't be made

Because, you know, Apple and Microsoft installing Bing alternatives (Maps / Search) on their phone operating systems wouldn't affect Google in no way whatsoever.

http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/jan2010...

I find it quite baffling actually that so many people are criticizing investments made by Google, Apple or Microsoft; These are big companies that grew to unimaginable levels in just a few years (with respect to oil mining which can take a few generations to reach a fraction of that size).

You should really learn from them, because not so many companies can achieve what they did ;-)
ha, that's great. had seen the other promo videos, but missed that one.

i went to the conference this past april...prob my favorite one to date. b/t jason & david's 'keynote' interview, cameron moll's incredible preso on UI/UX and dan martell & @balsamiq talking about the incredible growth of their companies, it covered the gamut.

and best of all, the vibe was just like everyone wants it to be (not so stuffy), but nobody is willing to see to it...well, allen & steve do.

fyi, i heard they'll be bringing the next one back to atlanta this coming spring
You are 100% right on. It is infinitely easier to test and isolate the variables that go into metabolism than it is to test and isolate the variables that go into global climate. Its infinitely easier because the later simply isn't possible.

"I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses" - Crichton
>Near zero rates? Baloney. 0.25% interest is the normal market rate for such banks - but of course he doesn't actually say 0.25 he says "near zero".

Note that it costs the Fed nothing to make these loans. The Fed simply creates the money. To the extent that this is electronic money, there are not even printing costs associated with this money. Viewed in this light, any interest at all is too much because the money is only free for the Fed. The citizens who are taxed to pay it back with interest must work for the money.
That's just lowered expectations. They just don't put out quality innovation products and we're all used to that.
I use http://camelcamelcamel.com to track stuff I'm looking to buy. Here's a screenshot from my price tracking last year on a WD 6TB drive:

http://i.imgur.com/evOBCVN.png
No it's not that simple. Since Switzerland was fixating 1EUR = 1.2CHF there was a new problem arising when the US dollar went up: Arbitrage. People could exchange USD into EUR and then into CHF (source: Official statement of the Swiss central bank). The result: The Swiss Franc was pegged to the USD as well. Now that's some serious pressure, and that's why the Swiss central bank decided to give up on this unsustainable endeavour. And your calculation is nice and dandy, but if z grows too large then you get a massive inflation which is very damaging.
This is true at most employers, and is one of the biggest contributors to churn and the lower-than-it-should-be pay in our industry. Companies whose offer includes (implicit or explicit) statements about how cool the projects are are peddling the same employees-are-pets nonsense that the "free food/perks" companies peddle, and there is no shortage of labor ready to lap it up.
Interesting quote.
Where can I find this interview (website/youtube/etc) ?
Interesting question.

Personally I find my work to be fairly similar to a writer's, in that my prime responsibility is to produce something interesting for an audience. Nobody will hold me liable for the means I've used to get there. So, like many authors, I'm not averse to having a few drinks while working late at night.
Weirdly some in the PHP world have tried to mimic Java's deep layering with these horrific (imho) MVC frameworks that (again imho) simply combine the worst of both worlds. Dynamic class loading, bootstrappers, magic (and sometimes unpredictable) file loading, enforced directory structures and so on are just the wrong approach most of the time.

Sorry, I have to call you out on this. In your list above PHP is really interchangable with Python, Ruby, etc (the scripted languages). The MVC architecture you mention above perfectly describes Rails. So I have to ask, are you seriously saying that Rails is horrific? Seriously?
I was exposed to the "single return" philosophy some time in the mid 80s and for some years I applied it dogmatically to most of my code. However, at some point I started looking at the resulting code and re-evaluating "why am I doing this".

Now, an important point is that I use different languages these days than I did in the 80s. Also, back then I didn't write a lot of (or any?) concurrent/asynchronous code, so the programming style was far more linear and synchronous. The things that applied to my 1980s Pascal or C programs are not necessarily true for my Java/Groovy/C/C++ programs today.
Last year the scale went up to 300k, and someone didn't want to move all the lines.
His argument is rather poor. The other post doesn't offer details or alternatives, but all his does is offer details that really don't support his argument ("it's /only/ 2.4 times slower, and you should use persistent connections anyway!"). What kind of defense is that?
Like the blog, the book is more about bragging than giving useful advice. All you have to do, he says, is start a zillion-dollar-a-year business which can run without any actual effort on your part. And then you can spend all your time doing other stuff. The rest of the book is a list of other stuff he's done and musings on whether it's better to bum around Berlin or Buenos Aires.

There, I just saved you fifteen bucks.
Hmm, any reservations about Matrix ?
> But the thing that has stuck with me since is that if a relatively junior guy working as in a startup lab had this insight about Theranos, why didn't all these major investors with world class experts know any better?

Theranos didn't really have any major Silicon Valley investors backing it. The usual VC firms stayed a mile away from day 1. It raised money instead from The Walton Family, Rupert Murdoch, Betsy DeVos, Walgreens, the Cox family, Carlos Slim and other random well-connected and influential personalities.

Few people will say this, but Theranos was actually a massive success for the Silicon Valley venture ecosystem. It proved that outsiders can't simply throw money at new startups and replicate their results. There is institutional knowledge, in-house teams (including top engineers) doing due diligence, mountains of data, trade secrets, IP, network effects and a lot more needed to be able to compete in that world. There's a reason why a16z, Sequoia, Khosla, Accel, KP, Greylock, Google all passed on it, despite the fact that Theranos and Holmes checked all the boxes for a no-brainer investment (Stanford-educated female founder, bio/health tech space, "changing the world" ambition, immense preexisting buzz).
> I had a similar experience with other west coast tech companies.

I am the infra lead for a "west coast tech company", and they gave us the same guff. I knew we would not be using them after the first few minutes of listening to them.

But please do continue to hate on this coast, tell your friends. I don't want to compete with more folks for housing.
I'm building Starboard [0][1] which I believe will popularize literate programming on the web. It makes making interactive educational content, simple web apps, and documentation 10 times easier.

Think Jupyter Notebook but built for the web.

[0]: https://starboard.gg
[1]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook
Herd immunity will be reached eventually. Either through vaccinations or infections.