jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The way Opera hides http:// is a nice touch (edit: because they avoided copy&paste problem that Chrome has), but such addressbar style has been pioneered by Firefox (extensions) and Chrome.
Where does that leave web developers ? Sharecroppers on the Facebook platform ? Doesn't sound like a very interesting long-term career.
Boost is my favorite Reddit app on android
Perhaps disable Windows Defender for the database (or whatever) folder
But it goes with the HN trope that "you should use the tech you know".
I've lived my life to the fullest extent possible over the last year, seeing friends on a regular basis, going to bars/restaurants whenever they've been open and even traveling by plane.

I caught COVID recently, and my symptoms were incredibly mild. I like to think that keeping my immune system healthy and exposed to all of the stuff it would normally see played a role in that.
The existence of more dangerous jobs is not an indicator that the job in question is not dangerous. This is especially true when the number of more dangerous jobs are a small percentage of all jobs. The linked article is literally titled “Top 25 Most Dangerous Jobs in the United States,” so his own source says the job is dangerous.

Whether the job is dangerous or not is in part fact (by whatever metric you choose) and in part where you draw the line (which is largely arbitrary but may have some statistical support).

If I were to stipulate the metric of fatalities, I would still conclude the job is dangerous because I consider construction work dangerous and it has fewer fatalities per capita.

Whether it is appropriate to throw parades or not for any of these groups doesn’t have an impact on the veracity of the claim.
> Tests will be available to pupils, students and staff at secondary schools and colleges – so pupils in year 7 and above.
Half of my playlist isn't on spotify, so I wouldn't call that problem "solved"
I don't think that is correct.

It looks like in November/December the rate among grades 7-11 was almost 3x the rate of those ages 35-39.

https://twitter.com/c_drosten/status/1347544994941431808?s=2...

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Also, most schools were closed from the beginning of January to March.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/world/europe/uk-lockdown....
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-51643556
In annealing, you heat the metal up almost to the point where it loses its shape, then let it cool slowly.

See also: tempering chocolate. Sounds like an identical process.
Well, spare your mind. Stuhlinger switched from the nazi killing machine to the american killing machine. The only difference is that the results of the work he did for US were not used in a war yet (ICBMs). Like many other governmental programs, the space program served military purposes first. See early history: wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
Because if theres anything we know for sure, its that private information (including lists of celebrities and politicians who have requested access to porn) will certainly remain private indefinitely.
>* Access to adult content through the Three network requires you to sign up with a credit card to prove your age for example.* //

Or just type the name of a sex-act in to Google on your phone. At least that worked for me, on Three, when I tried it just now.
> If they can make a unity webplugin for Windows and Mac, two completely different systems, it should be possible to make one for Linux as well.

Please share your estimates how much money you can make on a linux plugin vs how much you have to spend to create it?
There were 3 basic periods at Apple: the beginnings (aka Steve I), the Dark Ages (roughly '85-'97), and Steve Returns.

During the Dark Ages, Apple leaked internal information badly. One of the first things that Steve did upon return was try to clamp down (and fire people if necessary). He even had one of those WW-II posters "Loose lips sink ships" tacked up. And there is a certain truth to that. Competition has heated up (esp in the mobile space). Anyone and everyone would love to know what Apple is working on now, and what they will announce next month. Witness the kerkuffle with gawker over the iphone 4 engineering test device.

So people at Apple learn to say nothing, or move on down the road.
I I likewise would like to request that if you do 1. you still offer a way to create an ID unique to this site. I don't and wont use OpenID.
If you're interested in white tea (and you should be from a health benefits perspective), check out the teas at www.shangtea.com - they ship it and it's a family run business with a family farm in the mts in China. All organic and delightful.
Cool to see languages besides C running on small hardware.

I would guess that memory consumption, not speed, is the limiting factor vs. C. I skimmed through the source code and couldn't find a way to define heterogeneous packed data types (i.e. structs). That would be a serious turn-off for me. Cons cells are a lot of overhead. At least it has vectors.
Try playing a game called "Nomic".

The initial rules of Nomic are such that any game of Nomic can be subsequently remodeled into any other rules-based game. It can also simulate the functioning of real-world political structures.

The one unwritten rule of Nomic that cannot be repealed--the one that makes the game fun to play--is that you can stop playing Nomic.

Real life is not so forgiving. You start playing on the day you are born, and you can't stop until the day you die. The people who make the rules have already changed the rules such that you are not allowed to change or ignore the rules. If you try, other people who still follow those rules can receive bonus points for impeding you for as long as you are in violation of the rules.

That's not strictly true. The public set of rules are set up so that you cannot change or ignore them, but there are also multiple secret sets of rules that can be used to change both the public set of rules and the secret sets of rules. But most of those secret sets of rules have rules that prevent people who know about them from revealing anything about them to those who don't.

You couldn't design a game that sadistic. No one would ever start playing it. But here we are, still taking our turns, trying to figure out how to win.
You can kinda tell when a process is designed around fraud prevention, rather than being designed around user experience. Big companies make big targets and so they naturally become more risk averse.
What? Early Beatles is all about falling in love and being in love. There are sexual undertones, sure, but your statement seems like pure trolling.
True for a single game, but developers don't like to learn an entirely new system every time they make a new product. With Unreal and Unity, you might have to learn a few new things when new major versions come out, but your old knowledge is still very much applicable. And if any 1 developer quits working on those engines, it's going to keep trucking along.

But the worry here is that if the main developer of DragonRuby quits, it's dead in the water. Sure, you can use the old version and it'll probably still work, but there won't be any improvements, whereas other engines are constantly improving.
Misleading indentations, unused variables, unused goto labels and the like are a quite good indicator that there is something wrong here. The thing we are talking about here is issuing warnings for "but that's not how we usually do it".

When you add a new warning to a C compiler, you will break build processes all over the planet that have "-Werror" turned on and/or have management that insists on warnings being addressed. Some of those build processes compile decade old, safety critical production code. Code that has a couple hairy, stylistically sucky places in it. Code that sometimes does weird but perfectly valid things because those portions were ported over from assembly back in the 80ies. (And yes, I can guarantee you first hand that the situation I describe here is very real)

C compilers have become critical infrastructure and meddling with their internals and their behavior poses real word risks. Adding a whole new compiler warning must be carefully considered and better have a damn good reason.

"This pattern in the syntax tree strongly indicates that there is something wrong in the code" is a good reason.

"This is not how I usually write code" needlessly forces people to rewrite finicky code that has been working perfectly for decades in safety critical environments, for no reason other than you not liking e.g. the order of operator arguments.
That doesn't work. Consider the case where the missing and dup differ by 1.
No, that is not what I meant. Many of my family members are academics so I am familiar with the odds of getting a job in academia. However, I never actually knew the real salaries. In fact, this search began because a chemist uncle of mine was curious as to what he could have made if he went into academia instead of industry. (Academia won, envy of college roommate ensued) I was surprised at how much the professors actually do make.

I realize it's hard to get a full tenured professor job, but I thought that once you got it, you maybe made $100K, tops. The University of Minnesota is certainly not a top school and the professors are by no means superstars, so their salaries were surprising. If a prof makes $300K at a 2nd tier university, I wonder what they make at a good school like Stanford or Harvard?

The engineering school example is actually a job I am trying to get. After finding out these salaries I thought "wow that seems like a nice vacation after killing myself at startups the past 10 years," and started looking for a position I could do myself. I know the salary through personal negotiation. On the salary survey site it is probably one of the ones listed as "instructor." I would prefer not to post the job ad as I don't need more competition. :P
Part of this might be because of social media and consumer-oriented websites (such as Yelp, Beer Advocate, Urban Spoon).

A big problem trying a new product or restaurant is fearing a possible bad experience. With McDonald's you know what you're getting. It might not be great, but it's consistent. Rating systems and recommendations from peers help give confidence to consumers trying new things.
You can buy a house for literally $1 in several neighborhoods in Detroit right now. Perfectly livable houses are available for the cost of a few MacBook Pros in other depressed cities and towns.

I think the issue is really that the places you want to live are also the places lots of other people want to live--not that the absolute floor on housing costs has risen so far.

In ancient history the people who lived 10 to a house also rarely owned the house or land where they lived. Either they lived in a society with little organized sense of individual property rights (really ancient history), or they were sharecropper tenants on some lord's land. Not so different from young people in a popular metro area today, except that back then there was almost no possibility of ever changing their lot in life.
Oh I really really want TradeWars to come back somewhere.

Thanks for popping in here - the OP and you both made me nostalgic for the BBS my friend and I ran on an Atari 800XL back in the day, with two acoustic coupling modems. Felt just like Matthew Broderick.
My understanding is that credit problems are the #1 reason for denying clearance. In fact, as long as you check all the 'No' boxes and aren't on anything top secret, credit issues are about the only thing that will sink you.
Don't forget to check it out. i'm playing now http://aruljohn.com/info/princeofpersia/
In the vertical scroll bar, if you drag a little up and down and at the same time move the pointer right outside the browser window onto the desktop, you can still scroll. The
behavior seems strange to me, but perhaps it is typical. (The browser is Safari 5.0 on MacBook with OSX 10.5.8)
Financial services firms are FULL of Vice Presidents. At Merrill Lynch, we had a 23-year old, 2 years out of school who was an Assistant VP and many mid/late-20s engineers as VPs. [Almost] All of us wrote code all day long.

(BofA has since purchase MER, long after I left.)
Two words: Sarbanes–Oxley
Very Honest I support that a 100%
Bless you "John Hacker Doe" :)
> The catch is, if you trim Apache down to do only what you need, the margin between it and Nginx becomes much smaller. If you really know Apache well, then you don't necessarily need to switch to Nginx, just because it's hot and new.

Care to elaborate? I used to do that few years ago for static serving, from tuning Min/MaxSpareServers, measuring resource usage and speed of worker/prefork MPMs to strip out all modules to bare minimum and I still can't get the margin between Nginx and Apache to be any close.
Read "outliers" by Malcom Gladwell and "Talent is overrated" by Geoff Colvin taking.
10 000 hours rule to be really good at something and this with deliberate practice. (I am 39, I wish I had read those 2 books and the studies that nurrished when I had your age.)
And if you like Water check out Charity:Water / they may need people to work for them?
Good luck with your life.
I don't think he meant "middling-six-fgure" rather "middling, six-figure".
I’ve never had a device brick by removing the power. The only button on the Vigor 130 immediately cuts the power too: there’s no “shutdown” button.
The sheer size of Amazon is mind boggling. Is there anywhere they've opened their logistics network to other operators yet? Like AWS but for their logistics.
Thank god Canada created the CMHC which would insure loans and allow you a down payment as low as 5% for first time buyers.

ironically because the loans where insured they offered lower interest rates on these loans, which meant they costed almost the same as 20% uninsured loans (you paid the insurance premium on-top of your mortgage payment).

even if you have a 20% down it made more sense to put 5% down and put the rest into the index funds or a HISA.
Some sense from the govt agency for a change, it is not as if the IRGC hosts their missile and nuclear programs on Github.
While it's probably true that a full gui ecosystem could be built on top of wasi+webgpu+windowing, it would mean that programs would often reinvent the wheel. Perhaps that's not a bad thing.

Speaking of moving complexity into sandboxed code, browsers could potentially run js engines inside the wasm vm, reducing a lot of complexity there.
Let Iran sanction the US then.
Interesting. But it requires tampering with the hardware while the computer is sleeping. Given that, it’s not that exciting.
Of note, all of those 66 planes are leased from and operated by other cargo airlines, like Atlas Air. Amazon doesn't own the planes or employ the pilots, they just lease the ability to paint the Amazon logo on the side and have the planes fly routes they choose.

It's unclear if the planes mentioned in the OP are talking about Amazon actually outright purchasing planes (which would be a first) or if they are just leasing more.

edit: Actually the article does say this at the bottom:

>Amazon launched its own air cargo fleet in 2016 and, prior to Tuesday's news, the company leased 80 planes, but the move is the first time the company has bought their own
You're right, and anyone buying a house today is banking on them staying low. But what other option do they have?

If interest rates go up to 6-7-8%...double digits, the housing market would be a bloodbath.
Thermionic tubes are works of art. It's amazing that most of the work to build these was done by hand, and yet they perform very well and are highly durable.

Now the article has me wondering what a DC Millimeter is. :) I think I need to get one for my metrology stack.
If you have trouble concentrating while reading, consider reading while exercising lightly. Pre-covid I would read while on the elliptical at the gym and I could go for 90 minutes or so totally engrossed in the book, which was pretty much unheard of for me before.
What I find worrisome about this piece:

1. it at no point mentions what the fellow is actually alleged to have said. I'm sure I could find out with a few clicks, but what's up with that?

2. This is mostly an anxiety-rant about an entire political movement-of-movements that, for the most part, has nothing to do with the specifics of this anecdotal case.

How is this front-page HN material? Sample size?? Connection with something other than ~feelings~ to leftist tendencies more generally? Like, IDK, this does not seem up to our normal burden-of-proof standards.

Not to put too fine a point on it, I think we are showing our bias, allowing mediocre content that we like here....for ~reasons~.... to bubble up without due scrutiny. Wisdom-of-crowds requires a wise crowd. I doubt ours here.
Holding someone at the border is not the same as denying them entry from the country sadly.

I think its a rather gaping hole in the constitution that has been ruthlessly exploited. Warrantless searches at the border were allowed to be exempt from the 4th amendment since customs agents needed to be able to inspect goods coming in to apply tariffs appropriately and prevent contraband.

Snooping through people's personal papers and phones is pretty far outside of that mandate if you ask me.

The takeaway is that if you have the time, you are free to tell them that you won't be providing a password. They are free to hold you for a 'reasonable' amount of time (reasonable could mean many hours). And they are also legally allowed to seize your phone and allow you entry to the country.
And similar statements came up from the C-level at my previous company as well.

I know members of c-level meet with politicians and even leaders at the likes of Google. Are these conversations happening? I don't know, but I would not be surprised.
> There has been a delay (11 month) in the sync

That is quite an understatement. This is like Facebook saying "we will protect your privacy, but there is a slight delay".
Strongly agree. I've played every kind of esoteric video games except for puzzle games and I've never solved a Rubik's cube. But ask me why I like programming "oh, it's like solving all these different puzzles all day long!".
Forget gatekeeping programming, I'm going to gatekeep gatekeeping programming. Contrary to what this article claims, the sentiment that "Not everyone can program" is well worn, especially on this forum.

"Does everyone need to learn to program?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759475)

"Not Everyone Can Program: As Seen in Pixar’s Ratatouille" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020748)

"Not Everyone Needs to Learn How to Program" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070518)

"Everyone Should Learn To Program, But Not Everyone Should Be A Programmer" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5469812)
I honestly feel the opposite. It's more necessary for people managers to be greasing the skids of communication and inter-organizational awareness when I'm not bumping into people in the halls.
that's like saying that the internet isn't decentralized because lots of people interact using facebook. that address isn't decentralized, much like facebook isn't. that doesn't mean that bitcoin or the internet aren't decentralized.
To add to this, I find that they are quite ready to examine the challenges to their position and are willing to give other viewpoints credit, especially in their observations. Empathizing with another side's point of view even if you don't agree with their approach is the first step to finding common ground, and I enjoy that they consistently exhibit this in their editorials.
If the desktop kernels still remain (which they may not due to realtime needs) the userspaces still need to change for touch UI. So if it happens, I don't expect the current desktop champions to suddenly get good at mobile.
It would be interesting if someone could combine the two. Colleges give experience credit all the time. I wonder if an accredited institution could work with a company like Y-Combinator (which provides mentoring anyway) to create a business program that awarded a degree for going through a program in which you create a startup.

There would certainly have to be gen ed considerations but Universities do those online now so it wouldn't be hard to make them available.
> Fairly anti-climatic. For someone that it comes easy too there is no real emotion or sense of accomplishment.

I completely agree with this statement. Personally, I felt like I didnt put in as much effort into my highschool work because I knew that I could easily pick up whatever I missed in class or homework and if I knew I could do it there was no real drive for me to try harder. And this goes back to the original article.
Well, I guess I meant to include both Windows and Office in that statement. Samba, WordPerfect, and Netscape are good examples.

Although in the case of Netscape, they just coerced all of the OEMs not to include it.
Given that pirateat40's ponzi managed to take in the majority of the Bitcoin community, I'd say their actions don't necessarily represent sound financial practice.
>such a policy would be additive rather than subtractive.

Yes, but it still seems an infringement on the First as it, in effect, requires people to also "say" things that they don't want to say, even if only by referencing the words of others.

Also, if a person found the opposing viewpoint morally repugnant to the point where referencing it would be objectionable then he may opt to stifle his own speech in order to avoid such a reference.

Free speech, of course, provides no requirement for noble motives of engaging opposing ideas, etc. as this guy proposes.
The reason I use Nim is because it is a compiled Python with static types, generics and very powerful macros.

When I say "powerful macros" I really do mean it. I wrote what is essentially the equivalent of C# async await using only Nim's powerful metaprogramming.
> the Snowden leaks have sparked other students' interest. NSA computer scientist Ziring also helps lead academic outreach for the agency. "[Students say], 'I actually know some of what you do now, and that's really cool and I want to come do that," he says.

That's crazy. I'm inclined to believe they're just trying to avoid an awkward conversation with a grown man about how shitty his life choices have been
It is stated in the linked article:

"Located in the city's Banglamphu district, Thailand's Supreme Court ordered a partial demolition of the shopping center in 1997 when judges determined that seven of the 11 floors were built illegally"

There have been other large retail collapses in Asia[1] so it is good to see this happen.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_colla...
Are you pg?
Fair enough.

As a side note: I think we as a community should promote the catchphrase "You've Been Torvalds'd".
> Dude, seriously... who's talking about invading Iceland? Are you out of your mind? I never even suggested that!!!

You really don't see how your words could have been interpreted that way?
I really doubt sarbox says anything about email.
love that one...thanks
It's not rumors. Some guy (gal?) named dougr said so, and he is "seemingly very knowledgable". Q.E.D.
I looked incredulously at your dimensions of the 3.5 inch HDD, only to search for the correct ones and found the exact same specs on Wikipedia, then realizing that's probably where you got yours. Looking at hard drive manufacturers' sites, I see that that is in fact the correct dimensions.

What does the 3.5 inch figure represent, then? The size of the plates?
How about "distribute?"
I suppose I am too naive to think Ph.D advisors would not treat advisees like a piece of meat.
That vector space would be the real numbers.
Blue Apron would be $210 per week per person ($10 per meal) if one was going to use it to provide three meals a day! Canada is still cheaper than that. I think. Maybe? Hopefully? :)
I had Java project that was deployed using Capistrano. Great thing. :)