jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Partition was of course a great Trauma to many families. But to us two generations down who were only told the good parts, it was a strange social experiment. One of the things I find most fascinating from knowing a bit about my family moving from Lahore to Delhi and Calcutta (and saw echoed in this article), was how much social advantage remained when 50% of the people you knew moved together at one. And then it was also fascinating how quickly that advantage evaporated for the next generation in a changing India. My grandfather and his siblings, arrived to or quickly acquired in India relatively cushy private sector or government jobs. Frankly, In today’s world jobs they would not be qualified or hired for. They continued a life of extreme advantage. My parents generation, caught between new and old India had a much higher level of struggle to make it. I can’t comment on the current generation first hand, because my parents chose to leave instead fight it out there.

And now the metamorphosis has come full, with meritocracy beginning to show its beautiful egalitarianism in India.

Can’t wait to see what comes next. India of 2050 is one of the things I look forward to the most in old age.
I've checked Linode. Why it's price is much lower than others like AWS, Azure or GCP? Because of some drawback?
No mention of IQ anywhere in the article. I am sure IQ plays a major role in terms of outcomes. Often children from disadvantaged backgrounds and abusive/negligent parents who pull themselves up tend to also be smarter than average.
While The Economist has some redeeming factors and is often worth reading, it should be noted that it is not the objective dispassionate newspaper it claims to be. The Financial Times is far more honest about its commitments.

It is one of the main journals of the liberal business elite and has a fairly awful (and fascinating) anti labour history. It cloaks itself in a casual Oxbridge patina of disinterested expertise, but at its core, it radically advocates for liberal international capital, deregulation and privatisation. Neoliberalism to use a modern polysyllabic word.

Its stance towards the Irish famine should give one a taste of its beliefs, and they haven't changed much in 170 years or so... There have been some wonderful articles written on this publication, and I'd urge anyone to take a look at the publication from another angle.

[1] What the Economist doesn’t tell you - https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-the-economi...

[2] "The Economics of the Colonial Cringe," about The Economist magazine; Washington Post, 1991 - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot...

[3] How The Economist Thinks - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/how-the-economist-thi...
ok, I'll bite. What current Unix systems ship with a default shell that supports neither command-completion nor command-history?
I've been working on this for a while so it's nice to get it finally out the door and finished (to a certain definition of finished!).

I'm really pleased that the ESP-Now part actually works as it does mean the Walkie-Talkie can operate without being connected to an actual WiFi network. According to people on the internet you can get about 200m range with ESP-Now and I've seen some people claim to get 480m!

I do need to look at some light weight codecs that will run in software to really call the project complete. At the moment it's just streaming raw audio which is fine, but feels slightly cheating.
Maybe a little trite, but this is the correct framing IMO.

Blindly accepting rules, just because they're noted down in some policy by a perceived authority, is the very definition of bootlicking.
A market doesn’t work in countries without a strong government, since for a market to work, there needs to be faith that the other party isn’t going to break the rules of the market. If you’re trying to sell your goods and someone comes in with a gun, then you have to hope that either you have a gun or can call police. If you have to resort to using a gun, then that leads to huge costs and lots of dead people.
Everything you just said is basically wrong.

There IS a consensus understanding to what caused the Great Depression, they only folks who disagree tend to be charlatans pushing Gold or other deflationary bubbles such as Bitcoin.

The world is not going to adopt deflationary currency away from central banks - that would be suicidal.
I actually find that oh-oh sound annoying.
Link for the curious https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26083919
> Good, then you’ll have no objection to me helping myself to your surplus. For “the good of society.”

I don't evade taxes, so you're welcome to my surplus.

> Its interesting how people are often quite concerned with someone else’s perceived lack of things, but references to someone being a victim of violence are dismissed.

By all means, please expound upon the victims of violence caused by taxpaying in modern day America. Are you referring to those flag fringe-watching sovereign citizens and tax protesters still up in arms over the 16th amendment? Freemen of the land unjustly persecuted for courtroom creativity? Wesley Snipes?

> The fish didn’t try to justify his aquatic lifestyle by reference to moral philosophers.

Indeed, for the fish is far more wiser for not getting sucked into fruitless interminable debates with unyielding ideologues.

> a moral wrong doesn’t become acceptable on the basis of someone asserting it as an integral component of some other thing

Then you'll have to provide your alternative to taxation, and indeed your alternative to governments or societies, as those can't really exist beyond taxes, at least until we achieve a post-scarcity society.

Incidentally, I should note that being against the principle of taxation not only precludes income taxes, but sales taxes and other consumption taxes, property taxes, estate taxes, tariffs, public tolls. Even if I was to suggest a revolutionarily different society- say a maximal Georgist world where the land value tax literally was the single tax levied to fund government and alleviate inequality- you would call it theft and thus NASA would continue to go unfunded.

> Just deal with the arguments as presented rather than trying to link them back to some ideology as a convenient means of dismissal.

"Taxation is theft" is a meme well-known to the internet, and this conversation we are having has been repeated over and over uncountable times. Neither of us represent original ideas. We are just rehashing the same unanswerable debate many men have had before us.

To bring up technology into this discussion- memoization can be a way to expedite a solution.
They are just being upfront with her. 'British Paralympic swimmer Tully Kearney added: "Wrong on so many levels but the repeated use of ‘the disabled’ unforgivably offensive."' It reads like she's not okay with her life circumstances and found a way to blame someone else.
Thanks for that context. I wish that information was more obvious and well-documented since it seems like enough people still don’t know the details. D does seem useful and it’s something I want to pick up someday but had been holding off because that situation sounded so demotivating.
Perhaps, but printing money is effectively a tax. And it's not going to be the ones who are benefitting the most who are going to be paying that tax proportionally. There's no honest and justifiable reason The Feds efforts should be so top heavy.
Why do you think virtualized == toy? Is MirageOS a toy too then? They have no chance of ever getting enough device drivers to be able to support all the hardware out there. Running virtualized makes sense, and it's not a big performance hit.
Anyone else shocked that China only has 1.6m relative to the world? Maybe this is because it doesn't take into account relative cost of living and cost of goods. I imagine a million USD goes a lot further in Shanghai than in SF.
if anybody is serious about learning swift I would encourage you to try http://exercism.io/ I just finished the swift track of problems two weeks ago and I learnt a lot. example. http://exercism.io/submissions/e4af36983df54ad2afd53c48c51af...

It is also an open source project so if you can help by implementing other problems. I think I've learnt more by implementing an extra 9 problems into swift than I did by just solving the 14 currently in the swift track. Check it out! https://github.com/exercism/xswift

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/exercism/
"[founder] has no plans to turn the site into a business"
Dude. It's "you're welcome" not "your welcome"

(in reference to the screenshot on this page)
> the resulting JS is said to be more performant than raw JS.

This claim always bugged me. The output of dart2js is raw JS. Same with CoffeeScript (which makes a similar claim). So these claims are totally reliant on parameters that haven't been defined, ie. what constitutes "equivalent" handwritten code?
Are people finding it easy/easier to fill clojure positions?
> it says that the author is out of touch with the community and the commonly followed standards

Maybe. I suspect your interpretation may be the common one (which may be reason enough to follow the convention) but it is certainly possible that the author is aware of the convention and consciously chooses to ignore it.

If other code-quality signals (does it work? does it build? is there a demo/quick-start? is it tested? documented? readable? not re-invent the wheel? follow relevant architectural and organizational idioms, etc.) are there, this seems to me to be the more likely scenario, especially given this particular convention (which is somewhat controversial).

For what it's worth, I feel I'm pretty well versed in the JavaScript community standards and conventions and yet like the author I commonly follow an underscore_based_naming_convention rather than aCamelCaseOne in JavaScript/CoffeeScript (even in open source projects). There are some studies [1] that suggest that the underscore version is more readable in general, but I've seen earlier studies that come to the opposite conclusion.

For me it comes down to personal preference -- I find underscore-based-names more readable and easier to remember (e.g. `http_client` vs `httpClient` vs `HTTPClient` etc) -- but I concede it's essentially a matter of taste.

I'm not trying to convince you that underscores are better, just that the use of underscores in JavaScript isn't as directly related to code quality as you seem to assume.

[1] http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/papers/ICPC2010-CamelCaseUn...
> Gödel didn't end mathematics with his theorems. It simply moved on

That's another way of saying Godel's theorems didn't end Mathematics, mathematicians just redefined what Mathematics was, presumably so they could keep their jobs.
I like this idea. :)
The post does not advocate that systems should not be secured, quite the opposite. The point is more that if they are directly connected to the Internet then people might have a realistic picture of the level of risk.

The point is that machines on a private network are effectively connected directly to the Internet anyway from a security perspective, so lets do away with the illusion of security afforded by being "on a private network".
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I'm with you.

I think it's probably one of the 'things that could work better' but unlikely something the company makes much money from.
Great language, great community. Glad to see its adoption spreading.
Also live in Kitsap county. I am sure you have looked, but is Wave Cable an option in your location at all? The business I am at in Silverdale utilizes Wave. I know others in the county that have Wave, as well. I am not sure how coverage is dictated between the providers.
Let me tell you my point of view. It is all about the company culture. There are cultures that breed stars, and that usually ends up being bad for the company.

The company I am currently working at, has a flat structure, with everybody at the same level basically. We have a lot of real celebrities here, people who are really know for what they have done, and exceptionally brilliant.

But the culture here is of knowledge share. People are open to share what they known. There is no real internal competition, the competition is focused externally. This has made our company grow faster. Junior developers are absorbed on entry, and they stop being Junior, and just become engineers.

What I have experienced in companies where stars are allowed to breed, is that the competition is internal, which damages progress and direction. Such stars start looking to the outside as fast as they can they never really integrate into the company.
Why are there no small ISPs doing this like in Eastern Europe? Is there some regulation forbidding doing it commercially?
Sodium/Nacl is a good recommendation. If you can use them, do.

If you're not using Sodium/Nacl, don't go out of your way to use Salsa/ChaCha/Poly1305. If your platform has a good AES-GCM, that's also fine.

The important thing is to use the best tested, simplest interface available to you. If switching from AES to ChaCha means you have to do any of your own protocol design, it's not a win.
I can tell you that the comment section on FT.com is positively trolled by at least a few accounts. They seem to have allocated some of the smarter ones to the site, but they are easily identified because..

* They sometimes drop determiners in English. (A pattern I've noticed).

* They post a lot of comments.

* They fill up the comment section early in the morning (Europe) and then nothing.

* Rampant quoting (especially zero hedge), like someone spent their whole day researching the issue.

* Assumptions in arguments are official Russian talking points.

Now, how do I distinguish these guys from just gold buying Max Keyser followers? Mainly the time that seems to have gone into it. If I were to post as prolifically I would need to dedicate at least several hours to this every day.
Every once in a while, I like to sit with a cup of hot tea or coffee, in my bathrobe, in read about Clojure. Algorithms, ideas, data structures - it's so .... just...clean and well thought out. There's something really nice about LISPs, and it's drawing me into it as well.

I still do C#/Javascript/Java/whatever in my day job, but LISP is just...sexy.

And for those that hate parens - Emacs paredit. Nuff said.
Your summary misses the longest and most interesting part of the article: the discussion of the pre-existing relationship between Lamo, Mark Rasch, Poulsen, and Chet Uber (can the names in the saga get any better?), the fact that Rasch is the guy who sent Poulsen to prison before he was a writer for Wired, the fact that Rasch himself is a writer for Wired, and the fact that Lamo's claims about the contents of the log continue to shift in ways that seem beneficial to the prosecution.
Boolean algebra (does that count?) in '59-60, Fortran in '63-64 (on a NASA 709x).
Relatedly, we could also tax leisure. This would do a great job at hitting Paris Hilton, while leaving the doctor alone.

Of course, we'd need to create a big exemption for the poor (most of whom choose not to work).

[edit: citation for my assertion that the poor choose not to work: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2008.pdf ]
ha - brilliant. The fallacy of "diversification" is that it only transfers risk intertemporaly. Ultimately someone will get shafted double or more at some stage - it's just a question of arbing the unstable correl matrix while you can... which can and will go to a fully populated matrix of (abs)1s at some unfortunate stage when you (they!) are left holding the baby. You're left hoping that you'll have been paid a few bonuses before that happens....
Yes and there are also iPhones that cost $399…

Again, if you can afford a developer setup, $99/year is not a showstopper.
I've been thinking about this for a while too.

I think that making editors do this is within the realms of feasibility. Most support auto-formatting to your preferred style so it doesn't feel like a leap for it to format to your preferred style but keep the file on disk the project owner's preferred style. I haven't looked extensively to see if this already exists though but we chatted about this at work as I was advocating for use of prettier on a front-end project!
I wonder how many trillions of credit cards have become microplastics in our oceans over the many decades...
Hopefully FedNow will come out soon and be usable, backed by the US government: FedNow https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....
For ads, businesses, and groups, that's fine.

But for friends, if I mutually added someone as a friend, I want to see 100% of their content by default, with an option to mute their content if they get annoying.

I don't want an algorithm deciding this for me.

I have COVID experts in my friend circle and I most certainly want to see 100% of their posts, for example.
I don’t always know which are important messages until a while later. Someone mentions a useful service or name, so I search WhatsApp to find it. Moved phones recently, iOS backup was screwed up, and I lost some great covid memes and was looking for a specific one. Had to ask the sender to resend it to me.
The current standard is "imminent lawless action" which is a pretty high bar. Incitement in many cases does not meet that bar.
So a regulatory body that would enforce secure, private, and open sharing of user data between services at the user's behest? Sounds good to me.
This reminds me of vx32[0], a user level emulation library that seems to target the same interface. One of the main applications using it is 9vx, which is basically a Plan 9 kernel running in userspace.

0: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/
Can be your own bank, not "is and always be completely devoid of any kind of banking institute"

America is a free country, but not everyone in America is free (some are in prison, for instance).
Kuwait just recently bought a large amount of the drug .
> Replacing these old systems with modern machines, she explains, would cost millions of dollars and could potentially disrupt national security.

My god...

The private companies who aren't willing to save money by switching are one thing (apparently the market is okay with slow store management), but the US and British governments?

That's very scary.
Surely the bug in logic would be caught by tests?
I heard about PG at age 14 reading Slashdot over my dad's shoulder :)

(The essay was What You'll Wish You'd Known, so it's no wonder I got hooked.)
You don't need to constantly think about exactly what you need to see. Nor do I need to fiddle with arrangements. There's less fiddling. With the WM I use every window is available in every frame and I can just cycle through them. I don't need to remember what a window is called or distinguish between 5 nearly identical thumbnails because I'm cycling through the windows at full size instead of looking at list or expose. I don't need to think about what monitor some window is on or what virtual desktop and there's never any visible clutter or noise because anything that's not something I want to look at is just not visible.
Well.. if you post on an internet forum it kind of IS an invitation to debate. I have a crazy relative who likes to make controversial speeches and then yell "you don't have to reply!" as if it insulates him from feedback.

I'm sure most are aware but your description about eugenics is a bit off. It seems like you are putting a positive slant on it or suggesting thats the goal, whether intentional or not. Eugenics is about denying a class of humans (however you classify that class) from the ability to reproduce. This is highly unethical and given our tendency to classify on race, usually associated with racist agendas (such as the Nazis). I had to look up Wrongthink but it seems to be a term the Alt-Right is introducing... possible a play on thoughtcrime and newspeak (both Orwell) to defend their controversial opinions [0].

0: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alt-right-has-a-word-for-...
not sure that it is can be in low-cost and raspberry pi is expensive now
I'll also admit to having difficulty understanding how is all this distinct from non-CRDT replication mechanisms. Great mission and work by DeuxFluers team btw. Bonne chance!

Edit: Blogs on Riak's use of CRDTs:

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/erlang/lasp/2019/03/08/mono...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170801114916/http://docs.basho...

https://naveennegi.medium.com/rendezvous-with-riak-crdts-par...)
I'm confident this will be possible with Budibase very soon
It seems most of them are engravings from the 19th century, so most definitely in the public domain.
If you want to visit the page directly without CloudFlare, go to http://trombone.zapto.org instead.
Not only that, the rust community also seems to have some weird complex where not only they evangelize their own language (which is fine) but also feel the need to bully and bash on other languages (usually targeting mainly C/Go but occasionally Java as well).
I would not start Sakurai without at least doing some of an undergrad book first, to get the basic concepts.
Yes, it was the modern lab on a technical school for informatics, a mix of 286 and 386 models from Siemens-Nixdorf.

The Xenix PC tower was brought from the teacher's research lab, he was usually on a motorbike, but on labs day we would bring his car with the tower in it.

By the way, we had two labs, the older one was full of 8086 and 8088 models, without hard disk, using 8" floppies.

My typing skills exam was done editing a document with edlin.
C# also doesn't have integer exponentiation.
hmm someone is messing it up already, I think. Spaghetti carbonara is under the tag 'banana'
I’m impressed now.
Not having to commute would save me a couple hundred thousand on buying a house.

If the majority of tech companies had gone fully remote, or even "1 day a week in office" the housing market would look very different right now.

I am kind of sad that didn't come to pass.
Ideally I'd have days in office to take meetings (maybe 2x a week) with the other days being purely remote but that isn't practical for various reasons. I think having an office with lots of conference rooms and a hot desk available for people to use would be optimal for me and my role.