jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Which is why I side with explicit, patch-like behavior. Interpreting a `move-and-copy` as a `move` when there's a chunk of duplicate data that could mess things up means it's essentially doing a primitive semantic analysis of what you meant to do. It may be correct more of the time, but it can't be correct all of the time.

What I "meant to do" could have been as you stated, where both should have changed. Or I could have copied the internals of a function to a new one, and made minor changes around it, and actually do wish to use that new copy as the official version. There is no way to 100% accurately detect such intent without being explicit about it, so I'd prefer something dumb and therefore extremely predictable.
The entire domain system is a racket.
How much does it actually cost to run a TLD?

Even with the usual governmental bureaucracy overhead I bet it’s be a rounding error. Seems a good fit for something like the UN to take over.
Sure. That’s what therapy is for. It's still a long, tough road for survivors of trauma.

Triggering people in an unsafe, uncontrolled context can make it harder, not easier.
A discussion of a set of interrelated topics both distant from much HN focus, and yet strongly related to much that HNers do, participate in, and are exposed to. I've found this surprisingly interesting, entertaining, and informative.
Specifically turn-by-turn navigation, which Android had via Google Maps but you had to buy an expensive app on iOS like Garmin or TomTom. It was a real killer feature.

Apple and Google had been long time collaborators but the relationship was finally cooling off as iOS and Android competed more aggressively. Google continually pushed the rollout date for turn by turn on iOS so it was always “6 months away.”

Eventually Apple bought some mapping companies and when they were near complete Google finally added turn by turn to its iOS map app. Apple had a reaaalllll rough rollout the first ~3 years of Apple Maps I’d say, and for years after still nobody trusted Apple Maps. But they were no longer at the mercy of Google.
There is json batch

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/json-batching
People crying out loud: Facebook made us stupid! - is a bit disconcerting to me.
> Ford decided to drive from England to Munich and back to see how many miles he could squeeze out of a single tank. To extend the drive, Ford kept the windows up and the air conditioning turned off, but otherwise drove about 65-70 mph on the motorways and autobahns. By the time the tank ran dry, Ford had covered 1,013 miles and got to within 70 miles of Calais on the return route. That's an average of 57.4 mpg at 59.3 mph.

Since when do drivers optimize for max miles per tank of fuel? 57.4mpg is extremely low compared to a Tesla's 97mpge [1]. Diesels are great, they just won't make sense when the 35,000$ Model 3 comes out.

1. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2013_Tesla_Model_S.sh...
No, I think parent is exactly right. I feel similar to the OP, but I know for sure it's not a depression. And I think I suffer the same problem the parent described. The real world just seems so messy and complicated compared to virtual worlds.

You may call it a mental health issue, but it is neither addiction nor depression; if anything, it's just not being addicted to real world enough.
"Unchecked population growth will exceed the limits of any system."

Good thing we're not seeing that, then. The world population growth rate has halved since its peak in the early 1960s, and the rate is continuing to decline.

"You can't manufacture or farm virgin wilderness by any means."

Good thing modern farming techniques don't need virgin wilderness, then.
Most of these benefits are being subsidized by VC money (and pension fund LPs). The only reason I enjoyed my $2.25 LyftLine rides last month was because Lyft was burning through their VC money trying to build enough supply/demand to get better scale. Thank you California Teachers Pension Fund! Even with 20-30% markups these companies will not make money without big assumptions about moving down the cost curve. When the VC party end for these companies, it will end for us too, and then we'll have to go to the store to buy our own damn gluten free kale! Until then ladies and gentlemen, we live like aristocrats!
That example is not relevant in the slightest. Setting up a router quite clearly requires prior knowledge, even if that knowledge is something implicit like "familiarity with navigating Web UIs" or "general familiarity with basic networking concepts".

Neither of those are applicable to doing laundry. There's literally no knowledge required other than "clothes and detergent go into machine". Hell, you don't even have to know WHERE to put detergent because machines are variable enough that they usually just tell you where to put detergent.
We are also currently working on adding OpenStreetMap as a map provider, so that could also be the fallback instead of the web based solution.
There are many very nice places to live in the world that are not afflicted with suburban sprawl and provide houses to live in, yet are not tiny villages. I'm not going to sit here and fill in the gaps in your imagination; I suspect you've already made your mind up.
This isn't gospel. This is just my opinion based on observations I've made from working with or against people that are considered "great".

You don't know what you don't know. Someone could say something with shocking clarity, that not only answers a question, but answers it in such a way that you understand a seemingly complex problem right away. The person that answers that question could be perceived as having an expert level of knowledge on said subject, but in reality they might have been in your position mere months ago and just happened to come across the answer. They might only know a fraction more than you do on a subject, but knowing that one thing makes it all fall into place.

Ultimately, it comes down to having the right experience. Someone could design a fantastic API and be lauded as a great architect, but this could be the first success from a long line of failures. The best thing I can suggest, from my own experience, is to decide what you want to learn, and to work towards getting experience in said subject. Reaching "that" level is hard, because the goal-posts always change. As I said at the start, "you don't know what you don't know".
"con phone" for short
I assume everyone reading this wonders how they would know if they are at risk of something similar.

Propublica performed a great public service by putting together this cancer map:

https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/

It pinpoints elevated cancer hotspots.
> The Yogic practices originated in the Indian subcontinent, so yes the people who identify themselves with the same civilization and culture as the person(s) who originated these practices do have a larger claim as to how these practices are presented, taught and understood.

Why did Patanjali not mention that Indians have more claim over his techniques than humanity? Why do those who, on average, do not engage with his ideas think they have more claim on them? Are you going to claim there is an innate link between ideas, ancestry and where one is born? Ridiculous.

> I don't see you presenting any reasoning as to why you believe this is "ridiculous"

Because I assumed that relating the ownership of an idea to its geography when it is explicitly taught to be applied to any human, and moreover, that ownership to those who were born later on the same land but probably aren't using the idea, to be obviously ridiculous but I didn't take into account that you'd be a nationalist.

> See above.

You didn't answer above.

> No ad hominem, just an observation.

Ad hominem is a fallacy of relevance where the one committing the fallacy avoids addressing the substantial point with observations about their opponent in the debate.

> You keep insisting that it's not a problem and that I should just not care. It's again hard to attribute good intent here.

Again, ad hominem. What is the bad intent? What would be bad faith? You're yet to provide a reason why this plagiarism - that you didn't bring up but waded in to - is a problem other than someone taking offence over something that isn't theirs and that they probably don't do.

> > Why do they care more than Patanjali?

> Why not?

See above.

> > Poe's Law comes to mind.

> Randomly throwing the names of rhetorical devices or "laws" in a conversation does not make your argument any stronger FYI.

It wasn't part of my argument, it was an observation, though not ad hominem as I didn't avoid the point.
I can attest to the power of "acting" even in private. When I was a teenager, I had incredible difficulties getting myself to study. I was behind in every single class and the stress created a vicious cycle where it became harder and harder to study due to the paralyzing anxiety.

One day I got fed up with that huge pressure / inability to move and said, "Damn, how is this so easy for Anne, or Josh!!! How do they do it?" Then suddenly, "wait... how DO they do it?"

I tried to put myself in the shoes of the best student I knew. He was quite autistic, moved his face and body in unusual ways, but he loved learning and always read the books before term even started. I had a bit of experience with acting, so I adopted his body language, movement patterns, and mindset. "Wow," I thought, "I frigging love learning!!"

I got to work on my math homework, worked with effortless joy for the next hour, and was so weirded out by the experiment that I never repeated it.

(I later overcame my fear of math "myself" thanks to meditation: I realized trying harder didn't work because it only made me tired faster, I had to learn to truly relax—then study became effortless for me.)

--

I later learned a technique from Napoleon Hill where you have a big meeting in your imagination with folks whose wisdom and character you admire. In this way you use your "hardware" (brain) to run different OS (mind) using an "emulator" (imagination).

It might sound silly but I'm always amazed at the fresh perspectives I'm able to obtain when I ask "someone smarter" for advice in my imagination. Truly my range of thought is severely limited by the constraints of my own self-concept—it's good to let go of it from time to time and see what else comes up.
No, thank you! This is quite the gift you've given me and I look forward to learning more about what you're doing!
What are you doing that a specced up http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusV-17/ couldn't handle?
Here's a (poor) image of what the prefilled form you get in the mail looks like in Finland: https://www.ts.fi/static/content/pic_5_856409_k792913_1200.j...

Top left is the form section. The orangeish part is the prefilled value and the white box next to it is for corrections. Top right is a breakdown of your finances, bottom left is a breakdown of the tax calculation and bottom right just contains some payment slips.

Not sure how many people actually bother with returning the paper form these days as you can do it online as well.
depends on which part of the world you are, military grade can mean different things.

I would not be surprised to find hair saloons with better security practices than our military.
> Open source developers across the world would like to have a chat.

I think this touches on an important aspect of working remotely: a high percentage of open source developers participate in these collaborations not because of financial reward, but because they are on some technical level passionate about the project(s) they are involved in. In other words, they find relatively strong intrinsic motivation in their endeavors in comparison to strictly external rewards such as remuneration.

Personally, I find that the presence/lack of such intrinsic motivation plays a far greater factor when working remotely than when I made hours at the office. In the office, social interaction and a clear-cut shift would compensate for otherwise intellectually unrewarding tasks, whereas at home the same kind of tasks often seem to turn into solitary mental struggles.

In other words, the freedom and efficiency of working remote can be wonderful, but I find it only tends to work out like when I'm (on some level) genuinely enthusiastic about the work at hand.
Digital locksmiths here are generally applauded as ingenious. This tale is not at all surprising except that the OP fessed up in the end. The morality aspect is moribund, in an ocean of tracking, data mining, fake accounts, yes fraud, and the general disregard for other peoples hard work (those you don't see, you don't feel for).
Why should I choose this over Amazon's RDS?
No. As many of the other comments have here have said in more words, correlation != causation.
I'm from Cordova and sometimes my dad and I would dock the boat in Whittier during closures. I remember playing connect four with Irma at the Sportsman and drink Roy Rogers (which is also where I learned how to play pool, I was between 7-14 then)

Fished the sound in one way or another until I was 20 and moved away.
Most pervasive cyber-surveillance state
Most self-righteous has-been in denial.
Most politically jaded western democracy
Most disturbingly enthralled celebrity culture.
Worlds smallest media attention-span.
Worlds best dogging hotspots.
At least in EU - the platform is responsible for the content their users upload.

So based on that posting personal information like address, name, age etc. Without consent can put this site out of business after few fines.
Yes. And people on HN complained that it is yet another example of Apple “locking down” the Mac for killing an app that secretly installed a backdoor and let an app reinstall itself.
Got it, thanks. This reminded me of e-Paxos (e for Egalitarian) and a bit of digging there are now 2 additional contenders (Atlas and Gryff, both 2020) in this space per below:

http://rystsov.info/2020/06/27/pacified-consensus.html
The biggest win would be cutting down population sizes and that seems to be happening naturally because it enables people to live more comfortable lives.

The cloud of massive inequality and diminished opportunities for people of childbearing age has a silver lining after all...
What does that mean? That apps using third party payment providers should still show up as app store subscriptions? That would make it even less clear that it's third party, that's exactly the opposite of what apple wants.
No, they care about maximizing profit as a whole not about any individual franchises. Platform holders have shown again and again that they are willing to sink money into exclusives if it means they can make more money off their platform.
On i3 there is autorandr which does something similar, but of course i3 being i3 you have to configure the outputs manually with xrandr the first time.
This is mostly first time setup. After you've done it, it becomes "Commit, type git push, click pull request." Same as "Commit, type 'git format-patch', send email."
I think your making assumptions about how easy it is to build a succesful product. It's easy to look at the winning horse and say "Well that horse only cost X, and trained for Y years. I'll just go buy a horse for the same amount and train him for the same time."

Consider how many different people/organizations were trying to accomplish what cloudkick has? You're cutting a check to get the best version of all their efforts.

Additionally, Rackspace has become fairly large, I'm sure there are sufficient politics in that organizaiton to force any in-house app right off the rails. The marketing manager would want the app to only measure all the places where rackspace wins. Any top shelf talent would be poached by the orgs core business units etc... Even starting with the winner in this area, they may still fall behind.
You write:

"Yes, resource usage may be greater per capita in the suburbs, but the most expensive resource in most cases is space/land and it is very, very expensive in urban cores."

As I have said repeatedly, my focus was not on cost but on resource use. Cities use land more efficiently than suburbs. Nowhere did I say that cities were cheaper than the suburbs. I said that the cities were pricier than the suburbs. The cost and the resource use are 2 different things. In fact, you could argue that land in a city is more expensive precisely because the land is being used more efficiently.

Per capita, a city uses less land than the suburbs. This is almost definitional. A city is efficient in its use of land. Land is an important resource. This is an example of how cities are more efficient in their use of resources.
Too bad not many people read this https://twitter.com/ibobrik/status/454205142662119424
Mine looks something like

<!doctype html>
<html lang=en" ng-app="App>
<head>[...]</head>
<body><div ui-view id="content"></div></body>
<script src="/path/to/production.js"></script>
</html>

And, aside from the stuff I snipped out of the head, that's about it. Angular populates all the rest.
Thanks for the feedback. That is something we discussed, and we have it on the list of upcoming improvements.
While IRC is certainly in use at companies and by the public, it's in a pretty steep decline, especially in the last decade and a half. The only people who avidly use it in their free time anymore tend to be tinkerers and tech types. (As a side effect of this, the only large network that hasn't been shrinking significantly is Freenode.) From the public point of view, IRC is something for CSI-type movies to name drop when they want to evoke hacker culture, which is not by itself a bad thing, but it's a strong indicator of a perception problem.

As someone who has spent a non-trivial amount of time in IRC development and as an operator on small and medium sized networks, I've noticed that IRC (especially when services are involved) is pretty counter-intuitive for many users, even otherwise brilliant ones. Modes are obtuse and vary wildly from server to server, the idea of a separate nickname and channel registrations seems unnecessarily complex, channels just disappear when everybody leaves them, and so on. On top of this, the IRC architecture is needlessly limited for the most common IRC network use cases these days. In the past where networks were a federation of autonomous servers, it made sense, but these days a network's servers are partly or entirely controlled by a single entity, and things like netsplits are an unnecessary interruption in user service.

There is a working group to define the next generation of the IRC standard, but the additions tend to be patches for small nigglings in the protocol (such as needing to consistently poll for user away statuses and account names) than aggressive overhauls to the whole architecture, which is okay; there's only so much you can do with an effort like that while still seeing progress, and these are things IRC has needed for a long time anyway.

In my opinion what is needed if IRC is to regain its popularity is an innovative new server implementation that challenges the very workings of IRC from the ground up, maintaining only enough of the protocol to interact with existing clients. If users are to feel comfortable with IRC, they need a server software suite that conforms to their expectations of how a chat service should behave, and no solution currently provides that. The problem is, there is an enormous engineering cost associated with this, and the IRC development community is having a hard enough time as it is finding people who are willing to do more than just basic maintenance tasks.
> many small services with limited content (original or not)

UK customer here, totally agree.

Add to that the frustration of time limits on how long content is available for. I'm dawdling my way through Alias, just started s03, but Amazon emailed me today to say it's going away on April 12th.

Multiple devices, or device lock-in - I have a Roku 3, it'll do Netflix, BBC iPlayer, NowTV and Google Play. But I need to buy separate device to watch Amazon because Roku is a competing h/w platform. Fortunately I discovered my old Sony BDP BluRay player works with Amazon, but it's still a friction point and the UI is clunky.

No One Provider - you need to have subscriptions with at least two or more streamers to get a semi-decent range of content and even then I find 75% of it fairly mediocre.

I could go on.

> It's for a big, diverse, easy-to-explore library, in which I can discover new content and I always have something to watch.

I'm happy to and want to pay for content, but I still seem to end up torrenting stuff because these services are so infuriatingly patchy and limited.
So why not just start a company that sets it up once and maintains it for tons of companies? Like github. Less lock-in with IRC, since it's all can be standard protocols and open source. The company can then move it in-house later.

For that matter I always wondered why someone can't do the same with git and watching files, instead of proprietary clients like dropbox.
Article would have benefited from a discussion of transient/nomadic labor, still used in modern times, e.g. http://twc2.org.sg
Can someone familiar with the code explain what's the difference between this & adblock/disconnect etc. Why is this lighter? (a little technical algorithm difference would be good to know)
The etymology is important. Private vs. public is the difference between the individual and the group. What makes us individuals is that we exist independently from the public. If our actions, thoughts, opinions, and histories are public, we cease to be individuals. In practice, that means that differences between people will become a thing of the past either due to being "corrected" by the public or when we feel we must change ourselves to conform to fit in with the public.
Thanks for your encouraging feedback. Thats a very good suggestion. I will start putting together something once I port this game to iOS.
Stuhlinger's thoughtful reply seems like something very few people would do today. Not just the part about taking time to reply to a random letter, but the part about deeply considering the role of their work and its effect on humanity as a whole. Perhaps he's just rationalizing a greater good because he really likes space exploration, but if that's the case he did an excellent job of it.
DuckDuckGo has made vast strides over the past year, and you choosing to set them as your default browser will only help them improve faster. I had the same complaint as you roughly a year ago, and forced myself to switch for a month or so. After that month, I had gotten used to DuckDuckGo and haven't switched back. 99% of what I need can be found there, and for that last 1% of searches, it takes me approximately 500 milliseconds longer to type www.google.com into my browser address bar.
It could have been, but it was also the cultural event of the year... and it was a book. I grew up in an era when "bestsellers" were written by the likes of Harold Robbins, so to see a genuinely massive popular attachment to books of the (variable but always good) quality of the HP series was a wonderful thing.
That's a decommissioned silo. When it was operational, it would have had the fence and usual such around it. The Northern Tier facilities are mostly underground, too. The actual silos (Launch Facilities) look like basically nothing from the top, were it not for the fence and nasty signage starting "Use of deadly force authorized". Also the Southern Tier silos had the launch control facilities integrated with them.
This is actually why we all need to support systemd. It is already an init system, and a sophisticated one; now that it has integrated container support it's only a matter of time before systemd's pid 1 assumes zombie reaping duties for the host and all container images.

People who criticize systemd fail to realize that it provides solutoons for many problems under Linux, and even problems with the Unix model itself, and has widespread support from companies, distributions, and other stakeholders.