jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Similarly, this is an astonishing (and infuriating) interview with SF board of ed president Gabriella Lopez: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-san-francisco-ren...

Even for SF, this is extreme.

Side note, for years I used to see the name "rayiner" and roll my eyes at the "reactionary libertarian" opinions expressed. In the past year though, I myself have come much closer to where you've consistently been. Part of it is the rapid leftward drift of major institutions -- media, workplace, education -- during the Trump years, and the distinct absence of any kind of critical discussion of this phenomenon. The other part is probably that I'm now at the point of having children soon. Either way, I now feel that the most sane and practical thing to advocate for is that there should be less institutional power available to be captured by extremists. In this case, it should matter a lot less that the school board is composed of lunatics, or that the NYT is trending towards naked culture war propagandism.
Agree it’s not the best response but not sure I don’t agree that indexes should be held to tighter standards of copyright control.

Google has effectively slowly turned the lever on a mass amount of industries, year by year shifting their money slightly more from their pockets into Googles, by inching forwards evermore with inlining their content. You can see entire industries being starved out basically, and in a way because they are so big it’s just hard to stop them.

I guess in the end I’m not an idealist and if a single company is suffocating many others, and if you have some levers you can pull to increase their competition, I think it’s totally fine to pull those levers. Like, I think the precedent of “we shouldn’t let any one company get too big” is the sort of Ur-Principle and it overrides any sub-principles like “free market” or whatever.

Again, this specific one seems like it’s a bit weirdly structured, I agree, but I also have about 0 sympathy for Google and even if the news media is rent seeking here and the politicians are daft, it’s a much smaller issue than “stop fucking Google now” so I’m not too worried with various countries experimenting with different kludgy rules, any help in curtailing one of the (somewhat unintentionally but still) worst actors in the market is not the worst thing, certainly won’t keep me up at night.
>I think alcohol is next,

I doubt it. There's a reason why it was considered an 'essential item' in a lot of places during the pandemic, why the soviets gave out vodka rations etc.

Alcohol's a useful tool for keeping a population compliant and sedated, people love it, it's super easy to make, hence why in many places the production and distribution of it tends to be highly regulated, otherwise just about anyone could do it, it's big business and in a lot of places, it brings massive tax revenues through sales so...I doubt it's going anywhere any time soon.

I mean what are they gonna do, ban yeast and sugar? Ban leaving fruit sitting too long? You can't really ever stop the production of alcohol. It just kind of happens naturally. It's not really possible to just ban the process of fermentation...
Hardly crucified. He published a couple of books, has some followers, made a business.
The coffee industry isn’t spraying chemicals and Bronchodilators on their products. At least to my knowledge.
I was about to point out his age to the readers here so that they would see and appreciate that. I just watched your son's video about the 8-bit CPU he is building. While viewing it my thoughts were "he must have VERY proud (and rightfully so) parents", and "this kid's future will be amazing (again rightfully so)". _True_ genius

Congratulations to you, and very sincere respect and best wishes for your son.
Artificial sweetners, perhaps.

Apparently they wreak havoc on your gut flora.

And it's basically the most important thing for overall health.
> I wonder if he'd been better to have stayed in prison.

My uncle has been in prison for nearly 40 years, and got paroled at the age of 75. Life outside was terrifying, bewildering, and harsh. At 75, with a felony conviction, no recent work experience, he's got no prospects for legitimate employment. No pension, little to no social security, he was completely overwhelmed. He made a minor mistake and violated the terms of his parole. Despite covid sweeping through his prison, he feels safer inside than out. I wouldn't generalize his story to everybody, but I understand that this isn't uncommon.
Ever wonder why the quality of software in general took a very steep nosedive a few years ago? It also happens to be around the time the whole diversity/inclusion thing started taking off.

I've seen some things... but people don't like to hear the truth.
Backlog grooming.

That is, if you can’t focus, that’s usually (to me) a sign that the “work” available is currently too nebulous to focus on, and you need instead to focus on turning it into more concrete, atomic, actionable items, which you can then focus on doing.
when calling cheat.sh for youtube-dl, it appears to cite
tldr:youtube-dl

So perhaps a suggestion could be to install tldr so as to be able to call a summary in your terminal without the need for web-access to cheat.sh
well I mean if Google shipped something in the browser that is now pretty much the only option that really helped their other business interests without getting standards imprimatur that might end up being anti-trust fodder.
Milliennials in general don’t have lawns to mow maybe?
Given that this directly precedes the sentence you rewrote:

> I don't think you can reasonably host general-purpose applications on a multi-tenant basis on shared hardware using container systems

I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make
> That's very far from the truth, and I'd actually say harmful, as design by committee without real world experience often turns out terrible.

Google, however, actively ignores a lot of input, including full-on objections from other browser vendors (who do have real-world experience).

Designed by IE, sorry, Chrome, alone is just as bad.
Thats Good no? Maybe we can get back to actually discussing content and topics again.

Currently we have reached peak character assasination. And you can ruin a life at this point because of one moment caught on tape.

Who cares if Karen or Kyle did x,y,z. Specially if it was intended to be private.
I haven't written the STL critic parts yet. The testsuite contains a lot of hints.

Major quirks: no proper allocation/resize upfront, when you know how big the resulting vector will be. Also not much help with bulk inserts. (Like a proper set join). The 3 STL's I tested massively overallocate.

Unordered containers allow ranges, iterators from some to some, whilst they are unordered by default. This begs for bugs.

Ranges are pairs? How broken is that? Iters need to be fat and ranges. Starting with a broken design upfront does not help.

Set and hashmaps have to use the slowest datastructures, because they considered better ones as too experimental. Hence no open hashmaps, just chained and rb trees. Their arguments of pointer and iterator stability is just an excuse after this decision. Everybody can work around that, and use open hashmaps and btree's just fine.

How about 3way comparison safety in set? It is not. They just found out recently.

No hashtable security, none. Slow, too big and insecure, how nice is that. 0 out if 3.

No sorted vectors, no small (stack) vectors.

No strings. Better than POSIX C, fine. But still no unicode support and identifier (names) support. How would you search for an international string? With accents and different normalization? You wont find it. Strings are not binary buffers.

Formally verified? Not, just 2 parts out of 20. This would have found the 3way compare problems, or their forward_list problems.

forward_list, one of the most basic datastructures, heavily used since the 50ies in Lisp. So why does lisp still has much better support for it than the STL? Cycle detection, length, shuffle, ...?

The manual free is of course annoying, agreed. Ditto the missing operator overloading, which is even worse. Or default args.
www.transferwise.com
To learn and demonstrate understanding of statistical concepts, no calculator is required. In fact calculating and graphing by hand are great for learning. To bridge the gap to the real world, a computer, however crappy, with Excel installed, however outdated, is infinitely better. (Not that I endorse Excel, it’s just the most common tool among the general public.)

I happen to be a physicist too and while I’m not an experimentalist, I’ve been through plenty of experimental training, and have participated in real world data analysis projects. Never once have I seen any physicist doing any statistics with a graphing calculator (I did see a few when I taught undergrads mostly from other departments, so there’s that).
The gamble has not failed. It just takes longer. Democracy and market economy are definitely gaining on the Chinese people. More people are studying aboard and wanting China to be more like the West, although some bureaucrats are stubborn and holding China back. Take Hong Kong as an example, nobody would image such pro-democracy would happen at such a massive scale. Hong Kong people have done it. The Hong Kong people demand democracy more than ever. I am very very proud of them.
What you describe is called the Expression Problem [1] in programming language design and there is no simple formulaic answer on which method is better. I think you have to consider many aspects of your code's current design and possible future evolution when deciding which approach to use. For example: do you expect to have more types of transforms, or more operations/method per type of transform? It also means you can't nitpick a limited tutorial for focusing on one approach vs. the other.

Fortunately swift (as well as Rust or Kotlin) has excellent modern toolbox that includes protocol conformance and algebraic data types so you can use either one.

Keep in mind that swift protocols avoid many of the pitfalls of Java\C++ school of OOP design you might have seen before that can only express "is-a" relationships.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
How do you prove that? Environment are in large parts shaped by your genes. If you are an easy to please baby then your parents will like you more. If you sit quietly and study in class your teacher will like you more. If you are good looking people will want to be your friend. Basically the environment adapts to your natural traits and makes them stronger. This variance gets attributed to your genes and not nurture, since the environment was shaped by genes and not by artificial means like parental intervention.
That was my understanding as well - this goes back (or at least that's Khosla's argument) to before California became a part of the US.

Interestingly, property right dating back to Mexican land grants are respected in the US as a part of the agreement that settled the Mexican American War.

I don't know enough to say whether that's a valid argument in this particular case.
An OLED and a dark default would probably also reduce insomnia.

I don't know about you guys, but Night Shift at max setting is still too blue for me. I end up turning the brightness down. I just need to switch to dark.
Since we are all playing word games. He was wrong, but now he is accidentally right as nothing is self-evident.
What's shortsighted about using mammoth tusks?

It's not like they contribute to climate change.

Or that the mammoths are alive to need them.

I mean, would you rather that they just rotted?
hard to say when no one really knows what 'this one' even is.

of course this whole thing creates a loss of faith in the exchange, but if they somehow restored all the accounts I bet people would be willing to forget about it pretty quickly..

I, however, believe that to be unlikely given their response to the situation.
Well, yes, and if you can focus and be totally present at all times whatever you are doing. There's many definitions for meditation. Some day it's simply being as still and as dead as a rock, some say it's about regrouping all the bits of you scattered all over the place...
Url being wired.com already make it very clear it's a fluff piece
TL;DR : "Google's styleguide on that subject is also very clear that you should indeed not close void tags"

P.S. The article is very well written.
Given that any number of people who have died in Africa post World War II did so because of the "great game" between the US and Soviets, spook action is likely the direct result of those deaths he professes to lament.
> Old style text plists are still supported:

True. Read-only, however. :)

And the type ambiguity is amply demonstrated.
"operating under the extremely obvious assumption that the world is not switching to universal basic income tomorrow"

Uber is not automating its fleet tomorrow, either.
Why don't you just pay for Pandora and feel good about yourself? (Interesting enough, they make more money on the ads than on a paid subscriber.)

> Visual content with visual ads isn't really that different, except that some sites vastly overshoot the expected norm for the ad-inconvenience to content ratio. I think those few bad-actors are to blame for most the current online ad-climate.

Yes, convenience is key. Print magazines often have around 50% ads, but they don't bother as much as on a screen.
FWIW, the 19000 lines of "configure" for Varnish also check whether stdlib.h exists. Perhaps it's still useful today to do so in order to avoid obscure compilation issues or to catch problems on misconfigured systems early on?

As an old-timer with ~30 years of programming experience, I have similar sentiments as the author about complex projects today, yet I also often feel that too much knowledge, accumulated in sometimes cumbersome form, is being thrown away and reinvented badly. There has to be a compromise somewhere and it's no surprise that projects in an old language like C, running on evolved systems like Unix, de facto standardized on Autoconf to make it a little easier for developers. Do I want to use it myself? Certainly not, I have the luxury of being able to choose a modern language that abstracts most (not all!) platform-specific issues away at compiler installation time, at the cost of having much fewer deployment options for my code.
In case you missed it, restaurants already do this (well not the suing part) but many will charge extra if you order an entree (main dish) and ask for an extra plate to share it.
Probably the same way folks try to justify selling a DVD that only plays on North American DVD players. Generally people substitute the phrase "it isn't fair when ..." when they meant to say "I don't like it when ..."

I expect that the airlines will be unsuccessful in their suit but will get the FAA to approve a fee that would be charged if a passenger did not make the complete flight. In the back rooms they will tell the FAA its for passenger safety, after all its important in an emergency to know who is really on the plane, and people who get off early are putting first responders in harms way as they will go looking for people who aren't actually on the plane. They will argue they need a way to discourage that behavior and one way to do that is to charge a hefty "early exit" fee should a passenger depart the route mid-route. They would of course be open to discussions if it was for a legitimate emergency like you had to get back home or something.

And then there will be a $250 "early exit" fee and this web site will be toast and the airlines will be happy again.
Only once? You must be a fast learner!

I learned to drive on my parents' then 10-year-old car that never let you forget when it was running. When I started renting cars, it was quite a shock to me to find how quiet modern cars are.
But with a whole lot of 'developer share' that Dart doesn't have.
THey should have a return policy such that - if your device is no longer sending you a profit, please mail it back and receive this refund for your device -- then send the device to poor gamers who otherwise could not have afforded such a device...
So ~15 companies a year? That doesn't sound outrageous for a company with billions and billions of dollars in the bank, and billions more coming in every quarter.

edit: If anything there's probably immense pressure on Cook to buy buy buy more stuff. I don't think anyone inside Apple wants to have a repeat of stuff like old Apple maps or other products that just languished and died internally while external companies innovated. Easier to just spray the money & acquisition cannon around indiscriminately.
Very interesting proposition. Small side note - a lot of this $300/year/tax-payer is flowing back into paying US salaries in various states... which is probably recursively why the ticket price is so high in the first place (cost-plus, politicians and all).

Also, the $60,000/tax-payer Covid ticket price (though I find that source questionable) is missing averaging out over multiple years as you said yourself. Needs to be consistent with the other number.
Watch what happens if you try to tell people to use him/he for you instead of he/him.
JTIDS is a radio.

Flight controls don't get connected to radios. Except in the QF-16 perhaps.
don't worry it just needs war to get there things going. Warfare drives all innovation. I can't think of anything major last century that wasn't developed for military uses. I think we will get another infusion of war in about 18 years when China will start blowing everyone out of antarctica. Government will carry on pretending to care about environment and proceed to release vast amounts of carbon in the South Pole. It's an entirely predictable conflict, yet only China will be partly prepared.

-The Prophecy of The Thirteenth Marshmallow
Hey that's not a bad idea. I frequently check my website's dashboard anyway, could just add my 'top sites' there.
How does spending VC money help with this? You will still inevitably end up getting locked into whatever company you use
To be clear, you disagree with the article then, right?

> It's great until it's not and then you're kinda screwed

Do you have some example? Because black frees us of any argument over coding style in merge requests and this is great. It helps us focus on the important things. I've seen places where I don't quite like what black enforces, but this is very rare and it is a matter of taste and you get used to things, so meh.

In contrast, standard (for JS) seems opinionated at first does not come remotely close and leaves many things without opinion, and unfortunately we don't have the same opinions and tastes, so we regularly argue over them and this is a waste of time.

I don't actually quite like standard's rules but since this is what we use, I wish it were much more opinionated (over brace position in React files, line length, how obj.hasOwnProperty should be banned, how to declare methods in React components, how order imports should be sorted alphabetically, or which variable we can deconstruct…).
The Economist is a great magazine ("newspaper", as they like to call themselves). The emphasis is on presenting facts and educate the reader without any of the proselytizing and moralizing of the major American newspapers. I also love the Wall Street Journal, which is the American newspaper that comes closest to The Economist, save its increasingly shrill editorials and opinion columns.

Can anyone who grew up here explain why Americans prefer partisan media? It boggles my mind and is something I have failed to understand. Elsewhere in the world, being biased is taken as an insult, whereas here, news organizations seem to take pride in it!
Does an uber driver know when they accept a ride that the rider has a dog with them?
The differentiator for me is battery weight. Mazda can't make an electric MX-5 Miata with current battery density as it would cease to be a Miata. One of the core improvements (in my opinion) between the 3rd and 4th generation Miatas is the diet it went on, and that was only 110 lbs in the 2.0l model. The Japan-only 1.5l lost over 300 lbs over the 3rd gen.

Consider the Lotus Elise and the original Tesla Roadster. The Elise weighs in around 2,000 lbs. The Roadster is around 2,800 lbs. It's not 4,000 lbs, but it's a good chunk o' change more. I think we'll get closer eventually.
It's also good that Breyer wrote this opinion, given that he was one of the two judges who dissented in Eldred v. Ashcroft almost 20 years ago[1]. Lessig called that opinion "perhaps the best opinion [Breyer] has ever written"[2] in his retrospective on the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft

[2] https://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_l...
I also have a V20 and am quite satisfied. The replaceable battery, SD card slot, headphone jack, and LOS support make for a great overall package. I pray this device lives for many moons.
> You have this insanity where a person making money out of their hard work pays more tax than a person living off dividends and doing nothing.

It's not insanity. They worked and paid taxes on the money they used to buy those dividend bearing stocks, why punish them?
:) I enjoyed your anecdotes. I agree the face kids present about things is not how they actually feel. My point was just-- a lot of YA stuff is about teen and young adult stories, and doesn't entirely make sense to younger kids.

> I responded "Those are the rocket boosters. The rest of it is gone. It exploded."

Of course, the truth is far worse-- the rest of it was not gone.

I agree that we should try and tell kids the whole and honest story about as much as possible.
Yes, in 160 years, as opposed to 30, and then solved many problems we aren't able to solve.

No one is saying that authoritarian governments are good, but opposition to efficient governments just makes life worse for everyone.
This was my first thought as well. The Dunning-Kruger effect is poorly supported, but people pass it around like it's a divine revelation.
Of all the apple remotes, I liked the old white one because it was tactile and clicky. (although they overloaded too many features on the buttons)
I feel that it will start with developers using VR/AR tech to make an "infinitely large monitor" workstation (once the resolution and focus mechanics are good enough).

Only once such setups are ubiquitous will we start seeing code break free from the confines of 2 dimensional text. But in general, I agree with you. Most coders today still rely on environments that essentially assume the teletype as the lowest common denominator.
If you honestly believe your lifestyle is no different from someone getting by on $10 per hour then I doubt there's much I can do to dissuade you. That being said, I still believe you're underestimating just how much more stability and confidence you have as a product of your income.

I personally have very clear memories of the years where I worried constantly about finding and keeping enough work to pay rent, left problems with my health unaddressed because I couldn't afford to fix them, and stayed in a bad relationship because my partner had a place to me to stay and a car I could take to job interviews.

If you had asked me then I would have said my life was fine b/c I had friends, plenty of cheap beer, and didn't really know any better. Now that I'm also solidly in the middle class and can afford luxuries like an entire house I share with just my wife, regular meals out, and leisure travel I would describe those years as "strained" and "challenging" at best.
Additionally, Slack has had SQLi attacks found against it in the past, which is proof that they aren't defending against it systematically.