jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You probably hit the wrong "bubble". This happens. Then there's the various groupthink fashions that come and go like weather patterns on various comment sites. I doubt HN is much different. Probably better on HN but I've seen some oddball voting patterns around BLM and similar.
I paid for GSuite, it sucked. Between GSuite and Fi, it was a constant battle of trying to get Google's own services to work with each other. I couldn't use voice assistant to set a reminder on my phone...

I wish I had just gone with Apple.
2x to 3x at a comparable model on Hardware level.
What does reproductive mean here? Because faces, breasts, hair, and even butts aren't specifically part of the reproductive systems, but are all normally adored.

I would think things that signal healthiness or contributors to increased chances of survival are subject to a biological response, rather than specifically reproductive parts. In which case, a foot devoid of issues can be a pretty big signal of healthiness, for example one not subject to bunions or flat footedness, etc.
I suspect IPO would be impossible with one 'person'. You'd have other people on payroll: Lawyers and accountants at the very least. If you're paying millions of dollars to professionals anyway at a certain point it would more sense to hire the people directly, right?
I think this clarifies a misunderstanding I had from your original comment.

It sounds like the "secret sauce" for this collaboration includes a set of numerical libraries. They would get relatively little funding, few publications ("glory", as you say), and at best be reduced to a citation (if people remember to cite their libraries) if all they did was improve the backbone of lattice QCD with better software.

So instead they keep it internal. It's a bit sad that there's so little glory in writing better numerical libraries, but it's a common problem across the sciences (and in the open source community in general) so I can believe they'd be reluctant to share.
> Things were much simpler with svn.

Not from my experience as a newbie with SVN at the start of uni and in the beginning at $job.

In both cases, it was temperamental, prone to network issues (this was in both student accom. -> uni server, and LAN at $job) and did not like users working on the same files.

Git took some learning, and it took reading Git Magic <http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/> to go from <https://xkcd.com/1597/> to the friend mentioned in the alt text.

SVN still feels like I'm pulling teeth all these years later.
I greatly appreciate your positivity!

Experience is a great expertise builder for sure, although I find the more experience I get the more technical expertise I realize I don't have. A bit ironic now that I am thinking about it in those terms.

But I hope my comment made scaling PostgreSQL feel approachable for others who consider themselves non-experts in the area. The message I hoped to build was that non-experts can be successful without trivializing the effort. Which can be a somewhat difficult line to walk.

But thank you regardless.
This blog post is the most compelling argument I've yet seen for pijul.

Git should work the way we think it does! It's confusing that snapshots are being converted into a few different forms of change object, which can be reconciled with merges or rebases or applying patches.

Pijul (and darcs before it) actually works on the basis of patches, pijul with a robust theory of patches. A cherry-pick just moves a patch from one history-of-patches (branch) to another history-of-patches. One can share just a patch, and applying it is guaranteed to be the same action everywhere if that's possible, which it often is.

I'm patiently waiting for pijul to be mature enough that I can move everything over to using it, it's one of the more exciting projects in the last ten years.
On my phone, so can’t find the link easily, but I seem to remember reading that yes, it seems to work that way. Obviously not with 100% success. But yes. Giving someone a home, shower, etc to call their own does in fact help people get on the right track in a way that very little else seems to do.
What do you normally do to get to a 155 bpm heart rate? Not an expert but when I've done HIIT workouts, they've always started with a mild warm up to elevate the heart rate. Maybe you'd benefit from something more strenuous to start.
Did you miss the part where the op said those who suggest simple solutions are lying/wrong?
Darcs users disagree.
For the Chinese government it's a direct feed from Tencent, which Apple devices sent URL data to.
Twitter has become a joke. literally a twisted bastardized joke that only communists and fascists like.
And you'll notice it's immediately followed by ", but...". I agree this should be changed to the original headline.
And that makes it ok? Do you happen to know for sure that OP is accepting of the things that the New York Times and CNN do as well?
in rust, there is no built-in runtime, so it depends on which one you are using. the runtime (e.g. tokio) is responsible for polling the future.

for network io, behind the scenes this is most likely utilizing epoll system calls. epoll mitigates context switch problem in a few ways, mostly because there is only one stack context to notify about new io events, instead of many.
Google is the only huge company representing the open web. You might not like them from a privacy point of view, but from an open web point of view they are the most "Good guy" there is of the big players, since their entire revenue model depends on the open web.
Exactly what's "dumb" about this?

You've got Google, who are now pretty much running the world high street as the quintessential evil rentier, providing little value while extracting virtually all the profits.

They are constantly moving the goal posts, which can ruin businesses overnight, with no oversight.

Now they have to tell businesses beforehand before they make them bankrupt, so the business at least has a chance to change.

Does that sound less dumb and more reasonable if written that way?
Does anyone have any info on why the actual macOS installation isn't bootable by both architectures? I seem to have lots of different universal and x86_64 binaries and kexts on my M1 machine.

Also the kernel (that I thought was the actual kernel in use) in /System/Library/Kernels reports "Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64" so I'm kinda confused about all this.

I'd appreciate any pointers.
The Heroku situation is more nuanced than it seems. This is not a PCI DSS 3.0 issue. The thing is that Heroku provides a platform and this platform is not PCI DSS compliant (1.21, 2.0, 3.0, you name it) and Heroku is not willing to let QSAs verify their compliance on behalf of their clients (and, yes, I have first hand experience with this very scenario). There's a caveat, however: if your payment platform is completely segregated from your Heroku environment, you might be good to go. Let's say you use a payment gateway and cardholder data never touches your Heroku environment (e.g. you're redirected to Payment Gateway XYZ's app to enter your payment information). In this case your Heroku environment would be potentially out of scope, as you're not transmitting, storing or processing cardholder data. If you're handling cardholder data in any capacity in your Heroku environment, then, yes, you're in for a big compliance surprise.
Dupe. Previous HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2449520
Yes the additions that were added to support Linq makes c# (imho) the most advanced production language today. By advanced I mean it's fully supported, everything works as intended. It's not academic. I can use advanced features today for real work and get full IDE support and good documentation.

I just built a search engine. I was able to make it massively parallel with some trivial parallel linq code. The power of Linq and the parallel extensions is just amazing.
The feel was like that, but with generous whitespace (blackspace?) and room for just a handful of items, useful for glanceable overall prioritization.

Thanks for the reminder on Geckoboard, another project can make good use of it.
This is FUD, here's why.

The price of the US Dollar is decided by international markets. The US does not manipulate its currency prices. Most economists in the US are very happy with this situation.

The only governmental force which might change the value of the dollar on purpose, by increasing or decreasing the amount of dollars available, is the Fed. The Fed's primary goal right now is to prevent deflation. All of its actions have been entirely consistent with its goal of preventing deflation, and just about every economist in the universe agrees qualitatively with the Fed's behavior, though there's wide disagreements on just how much they should print.

Deliberately printing money for the purposes of a trade war would be inflationary stupidity and would be a shocking move from an institution that had, in the past, actually prolonged a recession in order to maintain a stable currency. (Inflation doves like Paul Krugman would suggest that the Fed is doing that a second time, right now.)
How hard is it to add the power control widget to the Home screen that turns on and off WiFi with a single touch? I use this widget all the time.
Any thoughts on how to do this better are most welcome! :)
Are you thinking of someone like Ed Buck? There's a difference of magnitude at play here. Buck donated $500k his whole career, SBF has donated tens of millions and before his downfall pledged _$1 billion_ to the Dems.

By the way, that kind of reddit/twitter-tier commentary isn't really appreciated here and I'd encourage you to do better.
"Cool," said dired.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di...
I can only speculate they must've concluded that their bottom line is better served by cheerleading 45% of the population than constantly disappointing 90% of the population. TL;DR; it's more profitable.

Also, lack of regulation. In the US you are a news organization if you say that you are news organization. Just like, at least colloquially, you are a professor if you teach a class at collage level. There is no body, or authority to set standards, expectations, and to confer those titles after a vigorous process.
I am looking for another magazine/newspaper but which covers more culture and have more cultural opinion.

The New Yorker is one alternative but i find their pieces very long-winded and high-brow.

Any suggestions?
imo, the problem with estimates vs reality is that estimates don't include mental state. And just to clarify more about mental state, I am referring to being in the zone / flow, and individuals are healthy and experience normal stress / happiness levels.

We assume and expect consistent productivity from ourselves. Anecdotally, In my 20 yrs experience, I've never heard a software engineer saying to their manager "add 2 more weeks on top because my mental state is not at its sharpest these days". No SE in their right mind would put themselves in such a vulnerable situation especially when no one else talks about it.

The delays we naively anticipate are the obvious technical related ones and gotchas / cases we might not have considered for the problem.

This is a problem that is prominent in this field and unless I've been missing out on discussions, I've never seen it discussed.

There is a huge productivity difference between people that wake up in the zone vs any other zone. And I've yet to see an SE or any other human that can wake up in the zone every single day. It's impossible. Although this is something we can improve at an individual level by focusing on lowering the std deviation which will help us estimate better and imo it's one of the key factors why some SEs can give more accurate estimates than others assuming they have similar technical skillset.

Each SE deals with this fluctuation / "problem" alone. I've often seen SEs jumping on the management track when the gap between "being in the zone" start to consistently widen. Often after a burnout that never fully recovered.

You wouldn't see this being a problem in careers like HR/Management/Sales. Because an individual can still be somehow productive without being in the zone. But in software engineering, art, writing and the like, it's kind of binary and is very visible.
Fair enough about the eastern part, but as you say we're lacking something comparable to the western half as a starting point. I'd been sort of implicitly averaging the two halves together for the US.

Regarding electrification, yes, it's not rocket science, and the cost of raising bridges and tunnel clearances will usually dominate, but because electrification on the main lines covers basically every metre, I'd think that the costs would still add up significantly.
All too familiar. Luckily, I have built "date time" functions for a relational DBMS before!

I had specifically worked on functions like EXTRACT to pull out different parts like ISO Week numbers, as well as DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions which do date math. It is exceptionally unpleasant!
I've never even heard someone talking like that when I was a teenager, and if I had, my reaction (and the reaction of most of my friends) would have been "Oh wow, geez..."

Maybe girls around you found it funny, I don't know, but women around Stallman clearly didn't. It's not a joke if nobody finds it funny.

Also, apparently it's controversial, but being unable to distinguish "telling a joke" from "creeping people out" should disqualify anyone from being a public figurehead. It's like a software engineer not being able to tell bubble sort from quicksort.
That’s not a representative example of none of the languages. It is also just plain invalid for Elixir. I recommend checking actual code examples on their websites to form a better opinion.
> When I discovered there was a general order to learning web development.

Wait, what?
Funny, I use four "apps" more than any other software on my computer: Shell, Emacs, Firefox, Thunderbird. That's it. Sure, every now and then, I'll run some other program, say, Evince, Synaptic, Nautilus, or occasionally even The Gimp... but frankly compared to my usage of the other four, everything else is statistical noise.

The development tools I work with every day are either accessible from within Emacs or I run them from the Shell. In other words: I'm old school.

Anyway - my point is: the original post was how Mac OS provides less distractions, and your argument of having more apps available seems to claim the opposite.
dropping out to work on something can be a good idea. start while you're in school, and only drop out once you can't handle both, though. maybe take a light course load at first, and if your project really picks up steam, drop the courses.

dropping out to work for someone is just stupid.
I still have no better understanding of what is in the license, or how that changes things...
> But there's something to be said for a degree as employability insurance.

There's something to be said for going out and learning how to get things done and build a business as well. A college degree is hardly insurance for anything.

It's clear this guy doesn't have any actual experience with startups. He rattles off the usual talking points:

> startups can be as profitable as a few are, only because the great majority of other entrepreneurs with similar ideas fail.

Uh, no, they didn't succeed because others failed; they succeed because they were able to sell a product. Also, the ones that failed did not all go hungry in the streets, many if not most of them gained priceless experience of far more financial value than what academia is offering.

I don't necessarily advocate dropping out or going to college. You can learn a lot in college, and I certainly value my degree, however it is not the source of my financial security. As the cost of college goes up, grades inflate, and the percentage of people with college degrees increase, the cost-benefit of college is rapidly shifting. Going to college simply isn't much of a differentiator any more, and because it's gotten so easy, it's not as good an indicator of competence the way it used to be.

Especially these days when companies are no longer loyal, the type of job that a degree is required for is not some bastion of stability. 30 years from now when those college graduates get layed off to cut costs, what is the value of their college degree then? At that point they will be much better off if they've learned some business hustle.
Learn to write and speak well.

Strong communication skills are powerful.
So Jason Calacanis is compiling a list of Y-Combinator-type companies. Like discovering that North Korea is stockpiling the world's reserves of Beryllium ... who knows why, but one must fear the worst.
This is kind of racist.
You are framing the situation as if there only would be two options; do nothing or pump trillions of dollars into financial markets. But there is a third option. Use those trillions of dollars to take care of the people hurt by the crisis. Provide unemployment benefits and free healthcare to the people affected. The money could also be used to fund a jobs guarantee program. For example, to construct a high-speed rail network or to build homes to solve the homelessness crisis.
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I left PHP in 2005 because it felt like I wasn't learning anything anymore. At the time I thought it was the warts, but in retrospect it's definitely the community. The problem is that every good piece of open source PHP is drowned out by a hundred shitty spaghetti projects.

When I picked up Rails, everything clicked right away because it directly addressed so many of the shortcomings of how things were done in PHP. Digging deeper in the Ruby community I found a genuine passion for pulling in great ideas and advancing the state of the art. Ruby has shitty projects too, but the good stuff is more prominent and easier to find.

After 5 years with Ruby I'm not particularly eager to leave, but I do feel the urge to pick up another language to expand my horizons once more. Preferably something with a high density of good ideas, like Haskell.

I know PHP has evolved and is quite capable as a language, but the only way I would touch it again is if I was working on a project that was interesting for bigger reasons (eg. Facebook).
Achmed is honest. He even says so.

Give him a root cert, certainly errors won't happen more than once, and anyway it would be an honest slip-up.
There is no context in a single tweet - and there's no mention of sexual assault in the replies I can see. Where does the "he will rape you" come from? Is there another tweet I can look at? Or a Storify collection of them?
Yev from Backblaze here -> we're back up now, slowly propagating (as is the way with DNS) - but we're on the upswing now.
> explain to me how Verizon can be successfully sued for "unlimited" data

Just curious, but you say "successfully sued." I assume you mean they were sued, went to trial, and lost. I've actually tried looking this up, but I can't find this case. I've never really paid much attention to that, so forgive me.
I used to do this all the time early on at HN. It really bothers people, so I unlearned the habit. I'm glad I did.
Doing social engineering / penetration testing for a living sounds like a great gig. I've been day dreaming about working for or starting a company like that. Didn't realize it was a booming industry for companies that also do physical penetration which is normally going to be the weakest link.
> The culture of the city I just came from was different. People would assume you wanted something if you opened your mouth or looked at anything but the ground a few meters in front of you. For more than a decade I lived in a place where people weren't nice to you unless they were selling something.

Honestly, I've heard this a lot, but I moved from a suburby area to one of the densest cities in the country and IME, people who feel this way are people who haven't really tried saying hello. I make eye contact with strangers and say hello pretty often, and I never really get anything but smiles and friendly replies in response. The same thing applies to chatting to people when waiting in line or whatever, etc. This isn't just a bubble thing, because I live in a pretty grubby area but also socialize in a lot of swankier areas, and I've found it to be pretty universally true.

TL;DR: You get out of a community what you put into it.
Right. It's simple but it's unfamiliar.

Confusing command parameters aside.
Most people only use 20 apps, but those 20 apps are different from person to person.
I created a separate google identity for use on my phone. I never use it for anything else.
> The number of cyclist deaths per 100 million kilometres cycled is 5.8
in the United States and 3.6 in the UK. In contrast, a cycling-happy country
like Germany has a rate of just 1.7 deaths; and in Denmark it's 1.5 – four
times safer than in the US and twice as safe as in the UK. And cycling is even
safer in the Netherlands, with just 1.1 deaths per 100 million kilometres on the
road. It appears that the more cycling is encouraged and taken up, the safer it
becomes[2]

This conclusion is specious and these statistics are misleading as they do not account for vehicle exposure. If you travel 1,000 kilometers on a bike and never pass a car, obviously you can't get killed by one. I'm aware of no studies that account for vehicle exposure. Anyone who has been to the countries with low cycle death rates will know that vehicle exposure is far less than is typical in any American city.

EDIT: I don't understand why I'm receiving so many downvotes for this comment... HN has gotten bad lately.
Great idea. My original plan envisioned something like:

- I text into her number while out of the house
- Twilio sends HTTP request to Arduino
- Piezo buzzer sounds
- Kaira has to hold the button for X seconds
- Servo rotates auto treat dispenser

In the end, simplicity won out. That said, those are far from insurmountable challenges.
Wow...is this the same Spencer Kimball of GIMP and GTK+? Pretty impressive project portfolio there.