jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I forgot to mention it (and I guess I'll need a part 2 to fully explain some of the subtler points), but it's important to note that ANY class can be extended by these extension methods. Even java.lang.String and its ilk.

That wasn't exactly clear from the post, but it was already getting too long as it is.
I see. It speaks to a certain elegance of programming, which is a useful filter for estimating quality. I actually totally get that.
Hacker news might need a vector arrow over it. In other words, has the direction of conversation changed from one where "hackers" (those that grok a vast or complete portion of a given system, and can identify and implement a clever tweak) can have vibrant discourse to one where the VC side of the coin has come here to observe, and essentially squash out the dialog in the process? (uncertainty principle involving observation and position)

As the hackers post less they become lurkers observing the commentary of the business folks. Eventually, interest is lost in even that. I recognize a VC professional could be redefined, interpreted, or understood as a hacker operating within the domain of the larger business and financial world, so I give them credit for that.
I think p_wt is better than p_wr. Honestly though, aligning the length of variable names is, in my humble opinion, retarded - he should have went for p_read and p_write.
A theme I've noticed is that techie sites have their traffic grossly underestimated. If the figures are being estimated through traffic going through a handful of points, this makes sense to me as the visitors to, say, a Python documentation site are likely to be less diverse than those to a Flash games site or Facebook.
Great advice! The 2 angles you generally want for a video are the front or back and the direct side angle.

Luckily I haven't had to post and vids because I have a trainer friend who is very good at form and correction. He just adjusted a few things in my DLs and I'm closing in on 500lb DL again.

I've tried sumos off and on, but I don't they are right for my body type. I have long arms and legs and I just get so much more leverage with the traditional DL. I do sumo holds though as accessory work to keep my glutes firing properly.

And yea, the guy quarter squatting is generally a dumb ass. There are times to quarter squat, but for most people they should never need to.
I am a counterexample. I learned how to write in college during my freshman year. My professor capped all essays at 300 words which, at first blush, seems like a cakewalk. I found it much harder to get a point across in 300 words than all of the previous reports I'd written where the objective was to fill pages.

Filling pages is different from writing. The most frequent criticism he'd levy was "show, don't tell".
According to US law, a president can be impeached even if he is no longer in office.
Secret Service protect high-profile Congressmen and Senators. For example: Former first-ladies, presidential candidates, and others as appropriate. Hillary Clinton, for example, had an entourage of secret service agents wherever she went, including in the Capitol. Same with Obama leading up to the election.

TLDR: It's likely there are secret service members in the Captiol at any given time.
Certainly not my intended interpretation, but it is a little pessimistic of me I agree.
Yeah I know, but this is not just a protest. If I were a right-wing activist I would already be planning a BBQ on the Rose Garden for Trump's last day on the White House.
What is Y in this graph please? Possibility to have correlation?
I spent many years working very close to Boeing, though never for Boeing so I wasn't privy to meetings that may have included the alleged malfeasance you describe. What I did see was communication breakdown between major teams. Some interface features were mutually assumed to be owned by another team and fell through the cracks. MCAS in response to unstable thrust vector is commonly cited as an example of this.

But I think it's worth noting to the (mostly software oriented) HN crowd - aerospace projects have massive manufacturing cycle times. Some things literally take years to manufacture for the proof-of-concept stage, let alone production. You can't NOT be incredibly schedule-oriented in this environment. This can cause some perverse incentives for management (which must be mitigated), but there are always going to be somewhat risky last-minute changes that could seem ill-advised in hindsight if you want to deliver something.
How long is reasonable to support browsers or devices that can’t even do HTTPS? HTTPS started with Netscape in 1994, 26 years ago?
Worth a read, more in depth analysis of some of these studies: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/mathematical-an...
You're right that it's purely a bragging point. A status symbol, or if it's really just for personal enjoyment, then a gimmick that will amuse you the first 10 times you launch from the lights.

Sure, having a reasonably quick car is useful for overtaking and pulling out, but then we'd regard performance as being 'good enough', rather than marking down a car for doing 0-60 0.2s slower than another.

I wonder if EVs will change things. It seems the likes of Kia and Nissan are able to put pretty powerful and efficient electric engines into their motors (150kW is not bad). I think what limited the availability of high performance ICE cars was the fuel efficiency and tax. If that's not such an issue with EVs, then performance will become less of a bragging point I guess.
I guess we trade upfront convenience/less friction for potential catastrophic collapse on the back end. Depending on your biz it may or may not be worth it although most new founders have few brick and mortar options.
It's also an excellent way to tell the best candidates to look elsewhere for employment. There are some environments where exceptional people will just make waves, get unhappy and leave. If you can filter those people out in the interview process, you can maintain a happy and stable team of mediocrity.

For those of us that realize the best hiring strategy is to find people that cover the weaknesses of the rest of the team, these are pretty terrible questions to ask. A few of them might work well for the initial phone screen, but beyond that they're useless.
It may look like it, but this isn't the Slack (team chat sold at slack.com) you're thinking of.

Top post on there right now:

A quick note from Jeff Morris Jr. (founder of Slack Chats):
Slack Chats was created to help you meet interesting new people.
We are not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Slack
Technologies, Inc. Thanks for your awesome support! :)

I smell a rebranding coming. If it wasn't for that post I would've assumed this was something from Slack Technologies. Even the logo is so similar...

Worse yet, this is building negative brand recognition for Slack Technologies at the moment, as the UI polish isn't what we'd expect from the Slack team, and their page isn't keeping up w/ HN traffic.
It doesn't have to cost performance (not even compiler performance!) or create impedance. You just represent the None variant as null in the compiled output. I realize this sounds suspiciously easy and it seems like there must be something I'm glossing over, but there honestly isn't, as long as you never introduce null to your own language in the first place. Once you've done that, though, it gets harder, because you have to differentiate between Some(null) and None, which means they can't both be compiled to null. But this is a completely self-imposed problem; it is not an issue when you create a language from scratch, only if you want to retrofit optionals onto an existing language.
You know 802.11g released in 2003 offered maximum theoretical speeds of 54Mbit. It's been 12 years now and Wifi has evolved quite a bit since and will continue to evolve.

802.11ac can currently do a maximum of 1300Mbit.
There is no transfer pricing mechanism for programmers like there is for footballers. Worse, programmers are often loyal to a particular technology or concept. So in order to extract the valuable staff from a company it's necessary to destroy that thing so the staff can be reallocated profitably.

"Technology" is rarely re-used per se.
Thanks to the author for the quality of the article (could have been a tad shorter but I'm nit-picking) and for the Steinbeck quote!
You're right, it was the dopamine system I was thinking of -- the phrase had escaped me.

On Cheney: I think it's possible to say when someone's having a sybaritic lifestyle and when they're not; certainly someone who's as eagerly discussed by the media as Cheney now is (while Clinton's allowed to live his rather un-Presidential post-Presidential years in media silence).

This isn't a defense of Cheney, though. I would call him less nightmarish if he had the excuse of wanting money as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. It seems to be a common vice, this thinking of life as Donkey Kong, and if you die with a high enough score you get to leave your initials on the machine at the end...
I agree, without Pixar and that experience, I dont think Jobs would have the knowledge of the creative content arena to have made the IPod happen.
The autodesk case is linked with both MDY vs Blizzard and UMG vs Augusto.

Cliffnotes:

Autodesk case is about this guy, vernor, who went around buying legit copies of autocad at tag sales and the like and reselling them on ebay. The autodesk license says you cant resell it. They sued vernor and lost, now its on appeal.

UMG vs augusto is about how they sent out "promo" CD's that said "not for resale". Augusto did it anyways.

MDY vs Blizzard is about how MDY made cheats for WoW. Blizzards TOS for WoW says that cheats are not allowed. WoW charges xx$ /month and is a continuing service, despite having a initial software.

Anyways.

I think its likely we will see the first sale doctrine applied for both autodesk and UMG. We will get a clear ruling that a EULA can not upset the rights of buying a product. If I buy a Ford Taurus, I can do whatever I want to that car and add any modification I want to it. Turbo chargers or extra wide tires. I can even throw a Ferrari logo on it.

With that fact in mind, I think that the first 2 rulings will be for vernor and augusto.

In regards to MDY- I believe the result will go to Blizzard. WoW users have to continue paying to use WoW and its evident they dont own it, but license it.

The basics of this is :

If it smells like you dont own the software, you likely dont. (ie- paying monthly or a primarily online service)

If it smells like you DO own the software (IE- buying a copy of autodesk which you never have to pay for again and provides free updates (or no updates) then regardless of what the license says, you do own it.
This is not correct.

It says that for any countable collection of real numbers, there's another real number that doesn't occur in that collection. (Hence the collection of real numbers cannot be countable).

[You don't need Cantor to show that there are irrational real numbers. sqrt(2) is irrational, for example. These kinds of numbers are called algebraic, and there are still only countably many of them.]

[Edit: I corrected "transcendental" to "algebraic". Thanks to RiderOfGiraffes for the correction]
Thank you. This looks like a good place to start.
If you said that right, my mind's blown. Wouldn't that prove the reals are countable?
Engage with the general startup community: Build up your twitter account, blog readership, and Hacker News karma score

If someone makes a hiring decision based on my NH karma score or # of twitter followers, I don't want to work there.
I have to agree. They could have tried to distinguish themselves with a name resembling something novel, yet they decided to go with one that sounds like a copy-cat version of company already in the industry. Why not something like XCHIP, POWER2 or whatever. I hope the lack of imagination does not extend on their chip design.
I doubt French kept the term the whole time. I would say that it is more likely that later intellectuals knowledgeable in Latin created afresh a calque on the Latin term.
The international community barely cares about what India is similarly doing in Kashmir, despite India being a democracy. In effect the most fundamental right in a democracy, the right to habeas corpus is suspended there.

There is much politically informed anti-China coverage in the MSM, so it is hard to take reports on China from them without much skepticism. Even in Hong Kong it is on display that the police are largely acting with restraint similar to what a western police force might behave, it is the protesters who have been violent.
"I think your post has a grammatical error."
with how much love VCs get here, i'm pretty sure that's an accurate sentiment.
So I'll break news to you: C14 and K40 do not accumulate in your body up same way like radium/uranium/heavy metals do.

"Even at low levels, these isotopes represent health hazards as they can accumulate in the human body (eg, in lungs), gradually enter the blood circulation, and deposit in bones and teeth to remain for life."

http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/79/5/289.full

So there are three things that you really miss: doses are essentially permament (due to half-life), cumulative and localized in small areas of body.

And you miss problem of coal ash waste which needs to be stored and there is plenty of it.
Well, if I have “no idea”, please give an example of where “market dominance” was defined as narrowly as you’re trying to define it.
> The complexity comes when you want to do something more interesting.

And for 500,000,000 people.
Pleroma, part of the fediverse (3,500,000+ users) has exactly this.
They don't have an inherint right to a satellite free view and Starlink is just the start of multiple systems which will be launched over the next few years. If they want to continue to do ground based astronomy it is their responsibility to determine how to continue to do so.
You can sorta do it kinda today: https://crates.io/crates/typenum

But it will be much nicer and better once const generics lands, it's true.
In fairness, his justice department made a serious effort to transfer some gitmo people to the US justice system, but there was an opportunist shitstorm over it, and close to no principled liberals/libertarians who stood up and called out the shitstormers.
I personally feel that Dropbox removing files from someone's account is completely wrong, regardless of your ToS. Your service is there to backup files. When you delete references to files from someone else's accounts, you're violating the trust that people put in your service.
Understandable. Dropbox doesn't want to become a piracy website. Using a DMCA takedown request was a stupid way of dealing with the issue, though.
Best thing you can do now: offer the dropship guy a job.

He knows your product well enough to "break" it and he has the motivation to create something strong enough that it is causing a fuss. Learn from Geohot. Don't scare away people who want to play with and extend your product.
Why bother removing it when it will always be available elsewhere? I honestly don't understand.
Marco.org didn't have his comments turned on his blog. Marco, the tracking data in the phones is used by stalkers. It isn't just the iPhones either. It is the PDAs and Smartphones. The stalking is widespread and horrifying.
We didn't remove the file - we simply banned public access to it.
All of the companies I've worked for _did_ have such an explicit policy, but both of our examples are anecdotal.
"We have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) from Dropbox that the following material is claimed to be infringing."

Doesn't this seem to imply that Dropbox is the owner of the code and is both the DCMA submitter as well as the company executing upon it?

An automated system would still require a company name that is requesting the DCMA to be entered, or your automated system is implying that all DCMA requests are coming from Dropbox. Something isn't right about this...
Hi HN! I'm a high school developer who just went through the college admissions process. Along with my Common Application, I submitted this website to Stanford to show them a little bit of what I've done with technology over my high school career. The site was built over three months last summer with Webpack and React.

It's among one of the best websites I've built to date, and even though they were unfortunately unable to offer me a place in their class of 2022, I thought you guys would be interested.

I hope you like it, and please feel free to leave any comments or questions -- I just recently added a mobile version as a result of feedback on my previous submission, and I'm always looking for ways to make it better.

Nathan
Just a general advice for writing HTML games: remember to preventDefault() on all keyboard-related events (keydown, keypress) for all keys you use when your game has focus (add tabindex to your canvas so you'll get focus/blur events).

Otherwise browser's shortcuts could interfere with your game. I have Opera customized with 1-key shortcuts (with no modifier key) and that's a minefield in games that assume keyboard is all for them.
Can you explain when "ethics that have at least some grounding in science and empirical examination of the world" conflict with the non-agression axiom?
That depends on the product. A 50/50 UX back end split is fairly common. But, some products need a simple interface and a ridiculously complex back end. EX: Weather map's.
Here is a mirror of the video http://vimeo.com/22474499
They may or may not conflict; I just reject it as an axiom. It's possible that there are good reasons to support a society structured around a non-aggression principle, though.

(I don't have a fully worked-out ethical theory, but I'm intrigued by the stuff Sam Harris is doing to try to reduce the gap between ethical theorizing and science.)
I thought stumpwm was dead until just now! Thanks for that.

Did they ever fix the system tray situation? When I last used it (several years ago) there was refusal by the devs to implement any sort of systray support and the third-party tools did not fill the gap, so I switched to i3.
We did actually produce ISO/IEC TS 17961:2013 Information technology -- Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces -- C secure coding rules
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=61134

The rules specified in this Technical Specification apply to analyzers, including static analysis tools and C language compiler vendors that wish to diagnose insecure code beyond the requirements of the language standard. All rules are meant to be enforceable by static analysis.

I wrote an article putting all this in some context at:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2088511
Hy is Lisp embedded in Python. Most embedded lisps are bad lisps (or at least not CL compliant). Also lisp in python is definitely going to be slower than Lisp, which is generally fully compiled: https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/lisp-vs-p...
Because when you book a car or ask for food to be delivered of it does not happen you just cancel the transaction and book another one, perhaps on another app. There is not much risk associated to this transaction and this favour the apparition of « competitors » doing the exact same thing.

When you are renting a flat in another town, or country, sometimes weeks or months in advance, the risk is much higher. If upon arrival you discover you have been scammed it has a much higher impact than a delayed meal. This favour a single actor that you can trust (however bad is Airbnb, image what it would like if you had to trust a local actor in a country that you have never been, acting without respecting the regulations…).

This makes the dynamics of those two types of marketplace completely different.
And here is the US government's answer to wikileaks. Get Yahoo! to acquire them, they'd be marginalised and then shut down in months.
It's a shame that they are on Slack, but thanks I will check them out!
You're talking about posted speeds. There are long stretches of other highways in the Austin area where, if traffic conditions allow, you can safely drive much faster than the posted speed limits. This is and has been true over much of the U.S. for decades.

One time I was driving on the NJ turnpike, passing a car at about 100mph, and far behind me, on my rearview mirror, I saw cars gaining rapidly on me and flashing their highbeams almost desperately. I barely managed to get in the right lane ahead of the car I was passing, and those cars that had been far behind passed me at what must have been 150mph. They were all beemers and such. Now, I wouldn't do that, but apparently that was a common sight at the time -- young drivers driving rich New Yorkers cars between NY and FL when their owners were flying to FL to spend the winter or back to NY for the summer. I've driven on quite a few highways in the U.S. where 80mph wasn't breaking a sweat and where I believe 100mph would have been perfectly safe weather and traffic allowing. I'm quite certain that our highways are simply designed for much higher speeds than posted.
> The next financial crisis is gonna show us just how fragile this system is, whenever that is.

For now, a lot of the gig economy (but not all of it) is focused on non-essential services (food or other delivery, vacation rentals, private car rentals, etc), so in a time of crisis people can just stop using those services.

It will suck for the workers but even in a non-gig model that same problem would occur, although there would be more safety nets like unions and insurance ...

What worries me is if essential services start getting "gigged out" in a similar manner, that would be problematic..

Easy to say that would never happen, but "private citizens operating unregulated hotels/taxis" seemed impossible/illegal just a decade ago...
Yes but lastpass contains your password to something like your bank account. You don’t need your password for your bank account if you have a death certificate is what the poster is saying.
ok, thanks, still wondering what to do, build a router with debian or put pfsense on it or buy mikrotik or something else that is ready to go :)
That paper's misnomer aside, you probably don't want to listen to economists to learn how economies work. The soft sciences tend to get a bad rep but economists tend to be the ones most resembling ideological fan fiction.
You are 100% correct. This is the magic

There are people who want to make a positive return on their time + vehicle depreciation. But they are on the open market competing against people who are in a cash crunch and happy to have a net negative return on the same, as long as it temporarily allows them to convert depreciation into cash.

This is why drivers will always lose in the long term. They are racing against each other to the bottom.

I've also had Uber drivers who don't need the money at all - they just like talking to new people and are bored on a Saturday night. This of course drives the price down further. These are often the ones with a very nice car.

As other sibling comments have mentioned, many Uber drivers have no idea that this is what their gig is doing - converting depreciation into cash flow in a net-negative way. Maybe Uber's marketing style to drivers needs to be amended by law?
"It seemed to frustrate Appelbaum, who has a vivid and compassionate way of talking for a programmer, that Tor seems forbidding. [emphasis added]"
The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

Avram Noam Chomsky