jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are right that there are risks in making big changes at this stage, but my understanding is that the I/O redesign is not as radical as it would seem, and it resolves long-standing issues.

There has been a lot of churn recently it's true - more than ever - but much of this activity is directly motivated by making these kinds of commitments. The changes you are seeing now are the culmination of years of iteration and we really do think we're on the home stretch. If we can live with these APIs for a release cycle or two we'll have a good deal of confidence.

Frankly it would be better not to cut it this close, but Rust 1.0 is going to be a great foundation that we can commit to. There will be mistakes and misdesigns that we will have to live with but that is true for all languages.

I too think that the culture and community of the Rust project is special and am always heartened to hear others agree. Whatever happens with Rust 1.0 it's going to be something for a lot of people to be proud of.
Totally agree that most company charge a fortune for using the data that their customer entered for them :) ... I guess if you have a free app you should know that you are the product. And yes MFP doesn't allow access to their API except if you are an already established company with thousand of users, again it make sense given their business model.
OFF has UPC has well, if you download the app you can scan a product and if it doesn't match the database you can add the information and attach the pictures of ingredients and nutritional info.
That's just for Ontario's provincially-funded public sector employees, not all of Canada.
OP here... I would be happy to discuss any comments you have.
You guys know scientists are supposed to ask questions, right?
Men at all age levels have higher insurance rates than women. This means they are riskier employees than women and if the reason women are being paid less is purely economic then the situation ought to be reversed and men should be paid less because of the higher risk. So clearly the reason is not economic but is a systemic bias.

Yes, making an argument involving decisions that affect the life chances of human beings and hiding behind "economic theory" is sociopathic.
Unfortunately I think that would be suppressed by asking the court to seal documents et al
You lost, the word was...
I've scrolled through these comments and am surprised to see no one's pointed out the alternative - it's $13.99/month for the content if you don't buy Peloton hardware.

That is in fact as bonkers as it sounds - my wife has a $700 spin bike and just puts an iPad on the front of it. Because she didn't spend $2000 or whatever on the Peloton bike, she says a third of the price for the content.
I'm confused though. Videogames can use the GPU without being an administrator, why is administrator needed to run F@H with GPU active?
> Should programmers[1] at NASA "move fast & break things"?!? Of course not.

I have a problem with my coworkers making the claim that it is actually safer to move fast. If you're uncertain about your software, release it now, rather than later because you'll become even more uncertain as time goes on.
Thanks! The tech works the same, and we've thought about hooking into Spotify or something for this. The problem is that the hardware is too expensive right now to make sense (each box costs us $300).

Accuracy is high and getting better every day. Right now, we get ~65% of all commercials, and false positives are super rare.
I don't think that the US could prevent a full-scale Russian or Chinese strike from causing massive damage. And I think that even the UK, France, and Israel could probably at least wipe out a couple of US cities.
I backed his new game Half Truth (made with Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame) and it arrived just before social distancing kicked in. It's a fun take on a trivia game, because it's set up so that it's not so much of a binary "do you know it or not". You can definitely use some strategy in how you play. Of course, folks who do know a lot of trivia will still win. It's just that other players can still make progress, too.
I want to see ads from the business I am sitting in even less than I want to see ads for car insurance. I cannot be alone.
The level of detail in this is pretty nice. But I also feel like it's too much- some of the comments here are poking holes in the write-up. Is there a mis-translation from geek-speak to lay-speak (maybe due to the short turnaround)? Is it better to not mention some of these details at all?
That’s true, but to make them hide, you have to be able to kill them.

http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html: ”the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field”
Sick and vulnerable people get transported by planes all the time. They don't go through the TSA.
According to the article it’s up to a judge on how the funds are dispersed. It seems to lean towards the bitcoin being returned to their rightful owners.

It worked out well for the owners assuming it is returned.
The concept of frameworks in PHP predates its package manager and its PSR standards. Nowadays you can easily slap a collection of libraries together to create your own micro-framework that fulfills your precise needs. That is often a better decision than to go with a monster like Laravel or Symfony which by design aims to be good at all the things, instead of good at the things you need. Those frameworks themselves usually have individual components that can be used independently of the rest of the framework for exactly this purpose
Yep -- I am more worried about the PHP side because there you run into the question of whether other PHP devs whose packages you use are as good as the Laravel guys.
The police wouldn't have to raid the family members, they'd likely give up what they know immediately, to avoid become accessories to whatever crime the police were alleging.
The signal to noise ratio is exceedingly low on the website. It looks like some people are really, really easily entertained. Does he plan to add the ability to block spammers and such?
I wouldn't try to convince you they're a bad idea, although I might try to convince you that they're just as good of an idea for pedestrians and people in automobiles, where they would almost certainly also save lives.
If you are 100% Containers (Rocket, Docker, etc) the Base OS matters the least. From that you should be concerned about security upgrades to the base OS.

But having another layer of complexity where people run half Docker Half Snowflake will eventually burn you like running MongoDB with MySQL on the same ec2 instance.
My feeling is that you are already executing CPU microcode on reset anyway.
I have the complete opposite interpretation. Life before was gruesome and today we live in a world of relative plenty if not obvious excess. Reduction of input costs makes us more wealthy not less. How many shirts do you own? How long do you work to afford a lavish bowl of berries and cream?
For my personal project quick.collanon.app I'm going with Blazor WebAssembly and I enjoy not having to write no more js for the frontend
The US auto industry was extremely successful before the UAW took over. It's not a coincidence that all three of the Big Three auto makers got taken over by the UAW in the 1950s and 60s, and saw decline in the 70s.

For another example, Bombardier in Canada was a successful airplane manufacturer, and the demands of its unions gradually sapped its international competitiveness.

For yet another example, all the passenger rail services in the US went bankrupt after they were forced into collective bargaining with unions.

It's common sense that unions, backed by laws that give them an extra-contractual monopoly over who a company can negotiate with, are not good for industry.

If they were, shareholders would push for their companies to have their workforces unionized. The only reason the notion that unions are good for the economy has any traction is that there are millions of parties with a conflict of interest in this debate, who use their time to push these pro-union-monopoly talking points.
Like, there's definitely questions to be had about international accounting, but some of the complexity is because national subsidiaries rarely operate in isolation, and valuing much of what they get from their parent organisation is exceptionally hard.

The very, very easy solution is for every corporate entity to be taxed on revenue in each jurisdiction. E.g. if I am in the UK and I spend £4 on a coffee in Starbucks then their legal entity in the UK now owes the taxman £0.40 (for example). How they pay their operating costs and internally transfer the remainder of £3.60 to their parent company is up to them.
> First, the sort of people who go on Erasmus and Interrail tend to be the sort of people who could have afforded it anyway

Absolutely not in my experience. They don't tend to be super poor, they are college demographics. But among social classes that do go to college, it actually enables people who could not pay for it. These programs are a way how students for whome it would be expensive go abroad for few months.
Bootstrap and Jekyll for all of my personal sites and side projects; with HTMX and/or vanilla JavaScript when needed. Same stack as well for clients who need static sites.

For other clients (that need a CMS) it's WordPress.
The Gulag Archipelago is widely considered by historians to be fiction. Solzhenitsyn’s own wife confirmed he made it up.
I like how they list Node as a language lol.
From what I understand(I could be mistaken) BMW reused the i3 drivetrain in the Mini. While its impressive that they squeezed it into a smaller car, it shows their lack of seriousness that they reused 2013-ish technology in their newest EV. Given this, is it any surprise that the range, acceleration and other metrics are lacking compared to what else is on the market?
As dependencies go, sqlite isn't a biggie, that's one of its best features
I'm a layman but I think it is pretty well known that allergies typically come from an immune system over-reaction.

I'm not saying AA should be tossed out (it has helped people I care about), it just seems weird to stick to using a pretty well understood word wrong. This is not a grand philosophical statement, just a matter of not using intentionally confusing lingo. If there's anyone out there who actually thinks it is an allergy, they should understand that current research into treating allergies won't help them, that specialists who treat allergies are the wrong ones to go to, etc etc. Surely there's a better word for a physiologically based tendency toward addictions.
Why not IM those friends?
This, unfortunately.

The more work you put into something, especially if it was very difficult and you were uniquely qualified, the less likely it is that anyone cares. It just becomes more niche.

Most of the times when I put effort into something, nobody cares. That's okay, it just puts an upper bound on how much effort I do before it's not worth the chance of reward. Other times I slap together a page in 2 minutes and thousands of actual people click through, more people than I could ever really get to know.

Good stuff does get higher quality attention than low effort stuff, but that doesn't mean good stuff necessarily resonates with more people. Being prepared for little traction, especially if you put a lot of work into something, is unfortunately the best expectation to have, until you get a feeling for how likely something is to succeed and you also get some intuition for what works (though, even then, it fails most of the time). The trick is to keep putting things out there anyway and not give up.
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Granularity matters. Anyone can find my phone number in the book, but when the government tracks and analyzes exactly who I'm calling it becomes an invasion of privacy and an existential threat to free society.
My assumption when I read your parent comment was: Two legs are more efficient than four, and can go farther before exhaustion... but that's full of holes. Horses are huge, bristling with energy, right?
It's true, google it. The combination of two legs and relative lack of hair make humans one of the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom.
The problem is big load, even if for a short amount of time. Just like for bridges. If a bridge can sustain a car a minute, that doesn't necessarily mean that it could sustain a truck once...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
@ginny2357 I am curious what other statistical factors you used or kept that weren't used in the analysis. A friend who was a former PM at match said that height, income, race, and occupation were the four most important factors (in that order) for women to select men.

If you're ever in Miami, let's discuss this over a drink.
>>One exchange's shadiness will always affect every other exchange.

I don't think that is correct. A shady exchange will be avoided by market participants if it significantly deviates from a fair price.
Thank you so much sir. That is my #1 issue with HN
Try wearing long sleeves. And/or a hat.

If your body is cold, your extremities get screwed.
I have the same problem. I can stay up until 8am no problem working on something moderately interesting, but I can't go to bed early and wake up at 8am if my life depends on it. I think this is a genetic thing so it's not a simple change, like all the early risers like to claim. All my life people said "when you are older, you will start waking up earlier"--they said this about college when I was in high school, about work when i was in college, etc. Well I'm nearly 30 and it hasn't happened yet. If anything, I want to sleep in even later than when I was younger.

I'm lucky to work at a company that isn't retarded--I can show up at noon and as long as I get my shit done, they don't care and I don't feel like a slacker. However, waking up at 10 is still hard, and I drink about 2 cups of coffee a day to cope. My last job I had to be there at 8am sharp--I worked there 2 years and wasn't much more than a zombie with computer skills. Not worth it if you ask me, which sort of, you (by you I mean OP) did.
Agreed on having a small child. I now get up at 5:30 everyday, even if I don't want to.
(1) they are (finally) JITing their JS

Just like every other browser.

(2) their graphics renderer in using the new DirectWrite lib

Just like at least one other browser.

Why are people being so negative about it?

What does IE do so "natively" as to claim that the only native Web experience is with IE9/10 on Windows 7?
Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy for US managed file
transfer company Ipswitch, told us that the protocol we know as FTP
today is ‘a far cry from when Abhay Bushan, a student at MIT, wrote
the original specifications for FTP.’

And how is a PR quote from a stuffed shirt at all relevant to the story? Who is this chump? Why are they pulling asinine quotes from him?

You can find Ipswitch at stand H70 of the Infosecurity Europe 2011
show in Earl’s Court, London from 19 to 21 April.

Ah.
> providers

Excuse me, but I'm against this very term being applied to identities.

I possess my own identity and while I'm fine with others acknowledging and certifying this fact, I'm totally against others being "providers" of my identity.
Salaries in the Bay Area remind me of sushi restaurants in Tokyo. The vast majority are in a fairly normal band that we can all relate to. Then there are the upper echelon which make a very sudden and alarming jump in price. Much like how Chowhound focuses on the creme de la creme and its commensurate pricing, HN focuses on the top 1-5% of tech jobs.
oh man, both clever and evil. love it!
My favorite for a while has been FatCow: http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons. 2000 16x16 and 32x32 icons.
Probably because hacking systems like this just to see how they work is inherently fascinating.
Relying on Google, or any other single source, for your income is the same as having an employer. This is just as true whether you run a Youtube channel or have a multimillion dollar B2B business with only one client (aka "boss").

Being in the content game is the easy part of the equation; ad sales is the hard part. You can take the easy road and join a network, making pennies on the dollar and potentially getting "sacked" by an algorithm, or you can pound the pavement and sell some ads to people. They're more profitable, you diversify your income, but it's not easy.
> Maybe it's just my mental model, or being new to the language. But while going through SICP - 'cdadadr', 'cddaadr', etc. never really "clicked" in my mind. Really anything past 3 levels (cadar, cddar, etc.) always slowed down reading code, like hitting a speed bump

I've used Lisp for a while, and where I tend to wind up on these composite forms is that I use a few of the simpler composites, but tend to switch to either destructuring-bind or some other data type if it gets too complex. (Practically speaking, that means anything much beyond 'car', 'cdr', and 'cadr' gets refactored.)
Although this article makes for some interesting reading, it is also misleading. This really needs to be re-written:

"Today I found out there was once a woman who had immortal cells."

That is misleading in the extreme. Biologists generally refer to cancer cells as "immortal". Healthy cells will limit their own growth, and one theory is that the length of the telomeres at the end of the chromosomes plays an important role in limiting that growth. Cancer cells use high levels of the enzyme telomerase to regrow their telomeres, and thus the cells become "immortal". I am putting quote marks around the word "immortal" because it is important to be aware of what biologists mean when they use the word. The usage should be carefully qualified.

Anyone with cancer can be said to have "immortal" cells. Of any woman with cancer you could write: "I found out there was once a woman who had immortal cells."

Henrietta Lacks cells are important not because they are unique but because they are ordinary. They are ordinary cancer cells, and therefore they give insight cancer, and to several other disease processes.
I was 11 or 12. I learned the really hard way. I was in Norway for a month and I only had an old 486 at my disposal, a hex editor and some Sega Megadrive games and an emulator (the Megadrive uses a Motorola 68000 processor)

I was curious how the games worked so I started hex editing them at random, seeing what would happen if I changed this and that, etc.

Long story short I learned to write programs in 68000 machine code (binary) and recognize patterns in ROMs (music, art, code). I still remember how to code simple things in machine code.

Imagine my joy when I discovered assemblers, and after that, compilers a while later :)
Seems like a pretty apt analogy, programming is a very creative process. When you're a kid you might start off with very simple instruments, toys even. That's akin to me first programming Pirch and mIRC without really thinking about the fact I was programming, I just wanted to make an fserve or whatever. Then I actually started reading about it and learned VB. I don't use those languages anymore just as older and more experienced musicians wouldn't use cheap toy instruments, artists would stop using crayons, etc. But I learned a lot by "playing" in my early teen years.
The part where they didn't say if Lamo is telling the truth or not.
"use the publisher to publicise your name"

Publishers may publish, but they don't "publicise". They expect you to do that. You're basically on your own when it comes to marketing anymore.
I put 6-10 but it's not like I have 25 years of programming experience, or like it was an early calling.

It's for the hours spent mostly copying BASIC programs from magazines on an Amstrad CPC464. (with very little success rate: these magazine program were not quite working) Then, there's a gap of a few years, before college where I realized that maybe I should go with Computer Science, rather than Mechanical Engineering.

Now, I'm not quite a developer per se (in that I've never had a purely development job and that I'm mostly hacking things together rather than producing production code) but still spend most of my free time thinking about projects and building early proof-of-concepts and prototypes.

At this point, I'm very glad I know some programming but am still wondering if I should go full-on with it and work on it to the point where I can confidently look for a development job...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2048989
I got my first real computer (a C128D - C64 + C128 in one) when I was 8, with a pile of games on floppy discs. A year later, I was bored of the games and I picked up one of the books that came with it, that was titled something along the lines of "Programming your C64 with BASIC"...
Oh, absolutely. But imagine the effect if almost every physics book and curriculum taught the rocket equation in chapter 1, and either didn't teach Newton's laws or the general equations of motion at all, or only taught them in the last chapter/appendix/advanced class.
Patients are starting to skip visits to GP’s and specialists for new and existing conditions bc of fear of catching covid.

Elective procedures are postponed indefinitely. Procedures contribute a hefty chunk of revenue in healthcare.

I’d be careful being absolutist with that comment. The cash flow of many hospitals is going to get strained at the very least in the near future if they aren’t billing for a large chunk of their services.
Right now my son can’t get a time-sensitive surgery at any price, which has a non-zero chance of damaging his hearing and speech trouble.
You know, as someone tall enough to walk into doorways in older buildings, and too tall to fold oneself into a compact car... Height advantages are subjective.
Why kill Airbnb instead of simply building more housing?

Cities should allow enough housing to meet demand for both short term and long term rentals.
Not sure why this tagged ‘Assange Trial’ as that only gets a tangential mention. The author is writing that he has been excluded from the Alex Salmond trial.
Great list for the minority of people out there who have lactase persistence.
He was also an accomplished scientist who contributed to our understanding of color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe#Sci...
He was the latest modernist , for God sake he wrote Faust plays, meet with Schopenhauer and inspired many
YouTube becomes TheirTube.
But we are talking about reversal of aging, not pausing.