jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having worked on a couple products (one a hardware product and one a software product from a different company) that were reviewed by Walt Mossberg throughout the years, I came away very impressed each time with him as a reviewer. I give the guy a lot of credit for taking the time to really understand the product and digging deep into features, thoroughly test it on each platform, and asking technical questions when appropriate.

Both reviews he gave on products I worked on were fair in both praises and criticisms, at least from my point of view. While I don't always agree with everything he writes, I do think the guy is a real professional at what he does.
For 10x the price, he could buy a Mac and run Ubuntu in a VM/Bootcamp option. He would have Netflix on a Unix Box.

(Of course 10x Free is still free, since Ubuntu is free. I'm talking about 10x the hardware price of his rig.)
The places im interviewing are are the opposite of startups. One was a community college, very rude .. when I asked why I wasnt notified that the position was filled she said "im planning to send out an email". No email to date and this was a 3 weeks ago.
I'm gonna start doing stuff to prevent these 19 people from being elected. For a start, I'm gonna make a website, I'm a coder, any designers here who'd be interested in making a site dissing these 19?
I'd spend the money on hookers and blow. Seriously, a rose by any other name...
Err. What did phds do to you?
I wonder if this will lead to more WebEx sessions and/or loss of business. I think it would be great if people stopped coming to the U.S. for holiday. (Except my girlfriend!)
I should add that this is a video from the RSA.

Great talk, and great animation.
There's nothing about contacting other potential acquirers. That would seem like a good idea, but I have no experience in this area. What's the wisdom there?
effective =/= perfect

> "HN manages the maintain reasonably good comment quality with few simple measures."

That's really the point -- the system works to maintain good comment quality. Different sites will require different measures; the key is figuring out which ones you need. The original article's comment on carrots and sticks displayed a surprising lack of understanding of this principle; it seemed to suggest that the lack of one particular type of carrot/stick makes creating a quality online comment system an intractable problem.
Leaves out the most important thing - Keep building/act like its not going to happen. You get more leverage.
I think it's more fundamental. I trust a computer more to react quickly to something unexpected than I trust myself to. Maybe I'm biased because I spend all day programming and poking at computers and almost none of it driving.
Echoing the same sentiments with methodology that others have made - I wonder if they put self-driving, or autonomous vehicles, instead of something like "automated vehicles" that the percentage would go down. After all, most people don't know it as 'automated vehicles'.

The wording also might betray the age demographic of most people in the survey, but who knows.
File buffer is sent to our service responds with converted buffer. Nothing is saved or logged anywhere
As in, the incentive to kill customers? I see the value of considering incentives, but I think the situation is more nuanced than that, regardless of whether wide-spread self-driving will start off unsafe.
That's pretty much Cloud Run, no?

https://cloud.google.com/run/
Gates is the victim of some aggressive messaging from the Ripple crew in 2017 or so. His early comments on Bitcoin were very positive; in fact, he called the Satoshi a paper a “technical tour-de-force” a few years prior.

However, Ripple’s go-to-market strategy in that era was to attack Bitcoin as a darknet currency. Their board and partners at that time were stacked with ‘traditional banking’ types and others as part of an attempt to be the ‘safer Bitcoin’, and they pitched the mutability and reversability of their chain as a key feature that had a social good.

There were a few key meetings with Ripple folks brokered at the Gates foundation, and after those his message has stayed pretty much on point: the four horsemen are bad, and therefore Bitcoin is bad, we should use other systems.

In this, I think he’s wrong - tech that comes under the same regulatory regime as existing payment and monetary systems doesn’t add much to the world.
Yeah, I do think it's vaporware forever or at least a few years, but who knows.
No, you should use short lived certificates, ideally locked inside hardware tokens and 2fa.

This is just snake oil that doesn't actually add protection.
Citation needed, last time I looked into this, the internet could handle 8mb blocks before a significant number of nodes %4 percent wouldn't be able to mint blocks in time.

What's the current research show?
It could also mean that 80% of people are better than average according to their preferred metric of good driving but that everyone has a different metric.
I agree, once it's stated clearly, well it's clear and you are free to decide. The problem was the double standards, which should also be stated clearly.
You are all getting way too caught up in terms. It doesn't matter.

A company firing an employee for getting arrested is a very close situation to Twitch "firing" a streamer for getting arrested.
Out of curiosity, what's hard about bazel?

From my experience the main issue is interoperability with third party build systems. i.e. using a cmake library that was not manually bazeled by someone.
There is only one Twitch.tv.

There were thousands of fourms. I ran one. Ezboard and other platforms made it easy to host one without even paying server bills.

But there's only one Twitch, and when they ban you, you're gone. Your audience is too.

This is what we get with platform monopolies.
innocent until accused

That concept has been going on for a while.

Women who were sexually harassed or assaulted were ignored for so long, we over corrected and we became cautious of just being accused. And now you get stories of male investors not engaging with female founders or execs who won’t meet with women without the presence of a trusted woman in the room.

Cancel culture is more of the same. Let’s dig up tweets people made years ago and call them out. As though people don’t learn or absorb new ideas as they age and change their behaviour accordingly.

We’re more interested in making sure we catch everyone that is guilty and some innocent people are acceptable casualties. In fact, let’s widen the net slightly for more by-catch. Then we know for sure we got everything.
But it's railroad tycoon discussing these tracks belong to me and rules are simple to a man who built a driveway. Your vbulletin and big megacorp websites don't compare on any level.
I can vouch for this. Dysfunctional companies have no conception of humanity and you will suffer as you try to squeeze through the cracks, which is much harder than it looks.
The modern C++ techniques being referred are 10 years old at this point already and have stayed in consensus. No need to get salty.
> I have no idea why, though.

Check out the "The Penfield homunculus" and note that in the brain's sensory map, where we process foot sensations is very close to genitalia.
I have already used it for new projects and was glad I did. Yes there are some teething issues, but the small amount of pain is manageable and the productivity improvements are very worthwhile. I start all new projects with Swift now whenever appopriate.
Small parts of Genius Scan are written in Swift. It's working fine.

In theory it's nice to work with, as it forces you to think everything more carefully and consider all error/nullable cases. In practice, integration with XCode is still full of bugs, code completion is crashing all the time, Swift classes show up as missing symbols in Objective-C (but the project compiles fine)... So, it's a bit painful and it slows down the development process.

We will keep it to very small and well-defined pieces of code for now. It's good to learn about it, but it's not productive.
Nimbys are strong in SF and prevent building up. Tokyo, which has a similar earthquake problem has built up.
You saw my link to the open world assumption above... so I'm not sure why you'd go on about the incompleteness theorem.

Can you think of an idea that cannot be represented as true, false, or unknown? Now consider a hypothesis. I'm not saying it would be simple or easy, just possible and preferable to the present system.

As far as my apparent lack of humility: in the interest of not wasting your time or my own, I've truncated my correspondence. From now on, just imagine that all my posts are prefixed with a paragraph in which I grovel before the throne of scientific greatness.
The NYC MTA has Youtube videos (http://www.aetherltd.com/communicating.html) and a Flickr feed (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos). They're offered with little commentary; most of the videos are just raw images of construction, repair work, and emergencies. You get a sense of the huge construction and repair efforts required for a major subway system.
> Unlike rotary phones, touch tone phones allow you to continue to dial after the connection has been made, enabling the new telephone systems, such as automated menus.

Actually, rotary phones also worked like that. All you needed was something at the other end that could detect the signal -- called pulse coding, as opposed to the DTMF signal used by push-button phones. I worked with Dialogic boards in the 90s that supported both at the same time, so it was easy to create a PBX or menu-driven system that supported both types of phones.
IMHO, LibreSSL was doomed to "fail" by the mere fact that it was not picked up by Linux distributions to replace OpenSSL, the same way that x.org had replaced XFree86. Linux's influence's simply too big. LibreSSL will survive in the BSDs, and OpenSSH. That is, until OpenSSH's forked for whatever reason and the fork becomes the standard ssh on Linux distributions. I fear that's inevitable (cf. zfs).
Have you looked into the "Cognitive Functions" that MBTI theory uses? If not, I'd recommend reading through the 101, 201, and 301 articles here https://personalityjunkie.com/typology-101/

To me I see "INTx" and think that makes no sense because INTJ and INTP have completely different functional stacks. INTJ's are dominant "Introverted Intuition" (Ni) followed by "Extraverted Feeling" (Fe), whereas INTP's are dominant "Introverted Thinking" (Ti) followed by "Extravert Inuition" (Ne). So they're basically completely different.

Once you have a functional stack, then the MBTI theory becomes a lot more subtle: not only does everyone have 4 our of the 8 functions in their stack covering both sides of each of the distinctions, but the relative strength of each of these functions can vary continuously.

And that's before you even get to variations based on experience, which the MBTI doesn't even attempt to describe (you'd typically use someone's MBTI type in conjunction with their life experience to explain their personality as a whole).
"Streams" for example. You cannot create a group of contacts that only receive messages from you, but they cannot send into the group. Replies of stream-members only come to the creator of the stream. Moreover, members of "streams" do not see other members. Basically is a BCC functionality for messages. I am a signal user since ages and constantly try to "convert" people. I miss this.
> Until now I did not offer any rewards for sponsorships but planned to introduce them.

> VAT is due on any exchange, but not when receiving money without a counter performance.

> To make things worse, if you offer a 'digital good' for a sponsorship, for example access to a streaming a video course, many countries apply special rules for VAT handling.

So, clearly GitHub sponsorships aren't meant to be used for selling stuff. If you would try to do so anyway, it would indeed likely be illegal, but I don't think it's necessarily clear that anything illegal is going on at the moment.

> Because it happened to Patreon which now charges VAT. And to other digital service platforms like OnlyFans.

With these services it's more directly obvious that you're getting something in return for your money. GitHub will likely claim that sponsors aren't typically getting anything in return directly, as development on the open source projects would happen to some extent regardless of each (individual) sponsor's contribution.
Don't know why you are downvoted. I think it's super annoying...
Could you suggest any particular book by either TH or DB?
This was my question too, I don't understand how you can begin to make a computer out of something with - as they explained - intrinsic randomness. And I didn't quite understand, how, if we can't see or ask the computer how it did something, how we can be certain of its answer or know that we've built something that does what we want.
> But why do the Airpods “just work?”

Ours don’t, the microphone went early on. It takes some fiddling to get them to connect to the intended phone and sometimes the left ear is has to be put in and taken out 3-4 times to get sound. My wife and I almost always use our wired lightning earphones in preference to the AirPods. We are both still resentful that our nice ordinary headphones no longer plug into our phones. The only reason we stick with apple at this point is the better privacy
Indeed, I forgot about that. $2k is an exhorbitant price to pay for those specs, and I consider the non-USA version expensive as well, but it's the cost of local manufacturing and I applaud Purism for the effort. Hopefully that overhead will start to diminish once more manufacturers start doing the same.
Good luck with that. I was fired for having cancer while working remotely. The state EEOC said I might have a case for suing the business for wrongful termination but that it would be difficult to win. Unemployment was something like $250 a week when I had been making 4x that.
I believe my company is going to end up maintaining a small office with a set of open desks that people can come in an work at. At least for us, this seems like the right balance. We've grown in the pandemic, so keeping a smaller office lets the company save money. Hiring remotely expands our pool of candidates. At the same time, employees who benefit on the whole from remote work get to keep it, while employees who thrive on in-person interaction and a dedicated space outside their home get to keep it. It's a little tricky to set up blended in-person and remote meetings, but once that's in place, the office can be much more fluid.
I feel like making a career change to teaching as well. But the horror stories I hear about how hostile parents are towards teachers, and the fact that I'd take a pay-cut to about 1/3 of what I'm making have prevented me from considering it seriously.
I'd like to add "Working out at home anytime"
Branding can be done with screens. Logos can be done with screens. Fascinating idea, basically a pop-up company..
I think the bigger issue is that coding is about knowing what the hell you're doing. Copying a snippet manually forces you, as a side effect, to read the code, and read it more slowly than you otherwise would. You notice the limits of your understanding more quickly, and can try to fill them in.

I didn't learn with Zed's books, but I did (and do) avoid copying and pasting anything I didn't (don't) understand, and would recommend that approach to any newbie.
> At the same time we are asking for the government to protect us.

Speak for yourself.
Oops, yup you're correct. Every outside analysis seems to indicate that they're incredibly profitable (there retail products have pretty dramatic markups) so the earnings gotta be in the $100s of millions at minimum.
Apple does a pretty good job of this, no?

And to be fair, the Dreamcast was about as open as a 7/11, but that didn't fair too well for Sega.
I was fortunate to be a student of Dr. Bose many years ago. No other professor gave unlimited time on exams, plus free Toscanini's ice cream to boot!

Beyond those small perks, his stories working with Norbert Wiener and his inspirations have completely transformed and shaped my personality and how I solve problems. Above all, the highest integrity one would have with his/her work, has been my #1 beacon thanks to Dr. Bose. I will always cherish that end-of-term field trip at his corporate headquarters where I witnessed amazing demos (including the active automobile suspensions), and heard even more stories that made me believe that anything is possible when you put your mind and heart into it.
You might be taking the quote too literally. I think what von Neumann was getting at is that the abstract world of mathematics is essentially artificial and alien to our natural sensibilities and that if you expect to 'understand' something to its very core you may be misguided. The deeper you go the more counter intuitive things can get.

It reassures me because it feels at times that the people around me who are so 'great' at mathematics are born naturals and that I may as well give up. For me is a great 'leveller' to hear that even the greatest minds struggle with these things, albeit to differing degrees.
En México ha aumentado el uso de internet con un 21% entre 2009 – 2010.
From a great number of people's reports about their experiences while using psychedelics, they all seem to follow a common theme (things about opening their mind to God, communing with the great underlying themes of life, opening previously locked doors in their minds). If a plurality of people report having the same experience, then to me, that validates it.

Then there's the solipsist point of view, which is to say, it doesn't matter that someone else thinks you are deluding yourself, because all that is knowable is in your own mind, so you aren't capable of validating anything anyway.

Either way, the experience is validated, to one's self or to the world.
What about the next day when he uses his insight to write the script in 1/10th the time?
Maybe this implies that MIT is a good marketing school.
Not at all. But if it turned out that Toyota was already trying three times harder than everyone else to get it right, it would be harder to argue they didn't take "reasonable" precautions.

In the talk, he did mention that the government agency that certifies vehicles does only basic checks and does not enforce any standards on software. One could easily argue that they are partially to blame, as they're leaving it up to the manufacturers.
Finding "F# jobs" is a lot easier in my experience, due to easy interop with C#. Many places using .Net or C# are willing to let you use F# in places if you can convince them it makes sense.

As to the question of it being "worth it". I learnt more about becoming a better programmer by learning Haskell than probably any other single thing I've done. And while I've never written Haskell professionally and haven't used Haskell in probably a decade, I use many of the concepts and principles I discovered via Haskell almost every day.
I would think that the PHP4 -> PHP5 (relative) slow transition was more about hosting support than developer's adoption. Because of of the extreme (and often infuriating) stance on backward compatibility migrations were not that difficult : http://php.net/manual/en/migration5.incompatible.php

It was mostly new things, not different things. I don't even remember the new object model being that hard to pick from the PHP4 one. I think lots of developers got more stuck on the 5.2 -> 5.3 transition.

Isn't Python 2/3 more about libraries and compatibility than hosting ? My personal anecdote is that it deferred me way too long to learn the language seriously. I didn't want to waste time learning an old version but too much things were on it, especially Django and Flask (being mainly a webdev).

PHP7 vs Hack could mirror that though.
I also don't understand how filesystems work.

They have like... b-trees? And inodes? Something like that. Or is inode a linux thing? No that's file descriptor... I guess?

What is a journal? I don't know. Something that exists somewhere. Is it the same as systemd journal? I don't know.

And I still don't understand why I need to use FAT32 from like 2000 to be able to work on Linux, OS X and Windows. Why is there no standard that works everywhere? What's the hard part there?
Which uses of metaverse would be useful/entertaining?

And so worthwhile that supporting some company would be good use of time and money?
That’s a very convenient excuse, if your goal is to collect more data sell to advertisers and anonymous users annoy you. What next? There has been a lot of spam from people wearing clothes, so everybody needs to be strip searched?
I'd love this to be so easy, just get a car then. I have already spent last 2 years trying to get driving license.
Ok

if a is None:
raise Exception()
if a.b is None:
raise Exception()
if a.b.c is None:
raise Exception()

One of the advantages of Python/Typescript style type hinting is that it avoids the mega-nested `if`s that you often have to resort to in Rust. In Rust the above would not work:

if a.is_none() {
bail!();
}
if a.b. // nope! a is still Option<>.

It may be possible to fix that when enum variants are distinct types but as it stands you often have to do lots of indenting.
People have added some Englishy stuff and at least the syntax of that is not in the spirit of Lisp.

Ha! I knew it! He hated LOOP as much as I do! :-)
I am an OSX user primarily but I have never seen this kind of behaviour on any of my Windows installation. There is something wrong in what you describe.
Good work! It's like a fa2png 2.0. I really like it!
I think a lot of that is switching cost, and that both OSs are pretty similar now.

My recent experience on OS X:
- Couldn't find an easy way to get windows side by side[0]
- Installed a program, but it just kept crashing on launch until I rebooted the computer
- Challenging to figure out how to get Finder to actually show you the drive contents

[0] http://www.howtogeek.com/181681/4-hidden-window-management-t...
> hardly grasp what is going on under the hood? And just glue external code together until it kinda works?

Wait, isn't this what all of us do? Do some folks really understand things?
Maintenance schedule from once every 6500 cycles to once every 1000 cycles. 352 hours per maintenance check. That plane just got a lot more expensive to run. If I was a Boeing/P&W customer, I would not be happy.
> when seeing centrally planned economies as a moral evil...For this reason, central bank money, with planned (not natural) supply, are not good.

What would it take you to change your mind on this? To be frank and brutal, is this a religious kind of belief where no observation , no evidence, no argument can change your mind, or a scientific kind of belief where there are ways to change your mind - even if implausible?
You cant compare back-then-yourself to general population now and assume the comparison is good comparison between generations.

Plenty of your peers were not on those chat rooms. They did not interacted with tech like you or even did not interacted with tech at all. They had different hobbies and interests, different habits then you.
No they are not. There are requirements for various configurations of planes (Single engine, Twin engine, stealth) and Tejas fills one of them. Besides they just ordered 83 from HAL. There is a Mark 2 also in the works , apart from newer twin engine designs.
> I'm firmly in the anti-customisation camp myself.

> It is possible to do both. The answer is customization

Err well that’s not doing both then is it? That’s having customisation. I don’t want customisation. So that’s not doing both at all that’s just doing it your way and ignoring me.