jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First of all, you didn't _waste_ four years. You learned a ton of things in that time, and while you may not have enjoyed it, the knowledge and skills gained are now a part of your being. You never know where things that you learned will come in handy down the road. Without spending that time and learning to focus and push through, you would not have been able to bust out five projects since January at that level of quality. To speak apocryphally, Steve Jobs did not become a professional calligrapher, but taking calligraphy classes in college affected the focus on typography when he was working on the Mac, so it was not wasted time.

People become programmers with degrees in philosophy, english literature, french, physics, and any number of other subjects. Yes, you may not have the theoretical backing that a computer science degree holder does, but for 99% of the programming jobs out there, you do not need it, so in practical terms as long as you have passion for learning, it's not a great obstacle.

As far as practical steps - well, if you are just worried about paying bills and getting more experience, start doing contract work. You may not get hired by a company, but you obviously already know enough to be able to bust out simple sites very quickly - and there's always simple work to be found for small businesses, because most people skilled enough to do the work, prefer to work for a steady paycheck, and people who are skilled enough and don't want a company job, usually charge prices that small businesses cannot afford. So there's a nice little niche for students/upcoming developers that they can fit into for the first year or two.

Once you build up a resume of good work and a few references, you can start looking for full-time work, or start charging incrementally more and putting money aside so you can afford to take a couple months off from contract work and focus on monetizing your own projects.

I'd also suggest moving to San Francisco for a year or so - the market and the pay is better here than almost anywhere else in the country, and being a fresh graduate with few obligations, you're at a unique moment of freedom of movement in your life.
Hmm, so ipods and Macs (not to mention accessories and softwares) never existed or aren't made by Apple?
I think it's more that KFC appeals more to the Asian palate for whatever reason. Here in Vietnam they love KFC but most people don't like hamburgers.
I know that's the truth! I didn't understood how little I knew until I started communicating with experienced adults (thanks to IRC). Some discussions with my friend from WorldForge helped me realize I had so many years to go. I realized I'd be learning for the rest of my life, constantly trying to be better. It's pretty exciting.

Also, don't tell my future employers but being broke doesn't scare me (just causes horrid stress), I just want to have something awesome under my belt in 10-20 years. :-)

Thanks for the positive comment!
I'm not sure when you worked remotely but I can tell you remote work in 2014 is much much different. First off, using email internally for communication makes no sense. If you're a truly distributed team[1] you use teamspeak, or hangouts, or slack, or IRC, or anything other than email.

Second there are no radically different timezones within the US. If you're on the east coast you work most days from 10 - 6, if you're on the west coast you work most days from 7 - 3.

Third if you're working on something pressing with your distributed team you schedule some time together to work later. If you're on the east coast you may have some nights during a sprint where you're wrapping up at 9pm or 10pm.

Fourth no matter where your team is located if you have members in different US (or even international) timezones you want at least 4 hours during the day spent together (employees are really only performing at the top of their game for a fraction of the day anyway [2]).

[1] A truly distributed team is one that supports remote workers via communication and culture as much as they do their local employees.

[2] http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/crunch...
What happens when there is no work left for you to do? Eventually robots are going to take all but the most specialized of jobs. Longer term, we're all probably going to be made obsolete by AI. I understand the sentiment of living on your own dime, but we have to think about the fact that technology is very quickly making human labor obsolete.

Edit: After rereading you comment I realized you were talking about something else completely. My bad. This is still a discussion I'd like to have with somebody, if not you.
See, I actually knew that it was just part of Rails, but this is my whole problem with the Python community. They have this explicit is better than implicit attitude that infects their appreciation of what makes code good.

Code is good if it is legible. Doing things quickly is good. Nobody actually writes "end_of_day" and doesn't expect it to work outside of a rails project without running it or testing it.

The Ruby community doesn't need to clutter up their codebases with senseless imports to make programming fun and useful. And people hand wave about how 3.hours is cluttering up codebases, but it really isn't. What clutters them is broken frameworks or abandoned protocol buffers. Rails (and ember) have this amazing idea that code shouldn't be anymore verbose than is necessary and Python just doesn't have that.
I don't feel comfortable mooching, but it's an option if I get truly desperate. I do have my GED, so I can't go back and get my diploma. I can see how not having an understanding of introductory level calculus and intermediate level algebra and what not would be an issue, but I can prove that I have this knowledge, so I don't feel it's an issue that I don't have my diploma. I've used tools such as Khan Academy to make up for any classes I was not able to take. Thank you, and I will!
The billboards you describe work to help people understand their choices (an issue raised in the post I responded to). The fact that poor folks continue making bad choices in spite of this is a different issue.

If you scroll up, you'll see that I agree with you about stopping crime. I oppose our current system of anarcho tyranny (to borrow an excellent term).
I'm using adblock type stuff to conserve resources. After finding out about the memory use my safari process size went from 6g to about 3.5g (i'm a heavy user of tabs). So yeah it comes in handy for resource conservation.
And the teacher's union... which will not allow the firing of bad teachers ("reassignments"), resulting in mis-justice to student in US who then fail to get necessary skills to succeed in this world.
Oh, well, sure. But the COVID vaccines even at peak production will likely only be using a single digit percentage of the endotoxin tests done in the US in a typical year. In no way can this be considered limiting.

About 60k doses/lot, figure 30 endotoxin tests per lot, that's 1 test per 2k doses =~ 300k endotoxin tests to vaccinate the US.
Also, at least in some places there was a policy that you can't mix the leftover from two vials. So you could have three vials that each have only 0.8 doses in them, you have 0 extra doses, not 2.

That feels like one of the points where bureaucracy is stupidly killing people.
15 years ago I had a business try to force a group of us into such a system.

Almost everyone that agreed are still there.

Great way to kill a career.
Because if purely liquid water seeps out, it will flow away. If it were cold enough to freeze it immediately, it would freeze the opening shut. There needs to be at least a slush to give enough structure to freeze onto, like an icicle.
Probably not. In many places, shutting off utilities to an occupied residence is very hard to do legally without meeting a huge number of requirements.

I once lived in an apartment tower that didn’t pay the water bill for 3 years (because of an incompetent transfer of management responsibilities). They didn’t shut off the water. They didn’t threaten to shut off the water. After 3 years, they threatened to charge interest on the unpaid amount if it wasn’t paid within 30 days!
Brave injecting its own ads in place of a publisher's own seems like a scam to me. Even if users knowingly opt into it.

Or collecting contributions on behalf of creators without their knowledge.
> who gets to define what is violent and damaging?

"They" are literally the ones attacking and threatening the seat of American government.
This isn't a thought experiment at this point.
He also posted from the @potus account and Twitter immediately deleted the tweets. In case you missed it (because it was only up for a minute):

> As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 great...

> ...patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company, but without the government’s gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long. I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we...

> ...also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely...
Of course. Sun was ahead of the curve in OS scalability and SMP hardware departments and for some time Solaris was still the best OS to run databases and Java.
Link to consolidated version https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347677573900242944.html
Look, I'm sure it is about to become an over-repeated political talking point, but there is a @SpeakerPelosi tweet on the record where she says in May 2017.

"Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts." [0]

Now I'm sure that is an out of context tweet and she probably didn't literally mean "Our elections [were] hijacked", but that would get Trump booted from Twitter.

It isn't a serious argument to say that Trump is bad because his opponents can deduce he means to do secret evil so it is OK to out-of-context quote him or purposefully choose the least charitable interpretation but Pelosi can say that and get the opposite treatment. The current situation is not that unusual for losers of a US presidential elections.

[0] https://twitter.com/speakerpelosi/status/864522009048494080?...
"BLM organized protests which were peaceful and then bad actors incited riots."

Interesting line of argument. How is it different from capitol climb? The protest in DC were mostly peaceful until after Trump ( and friends ) speech. It is just some bad actors, who incited riots.

"What happened on the Capitol was not peaceful from the outset--people came up, climbed the wall, broke through the entryway, took a podium, etc.--they started it."

This is where we may disagree. Initially, it was just a gathering. The wall climbing and all that jazz happened after speeches were over. Timeline is important.
Twitter and Facebook (combined) have tens of thousands of employees moderating content and threats of violence lead to bans on these platforms, but not on Parler. The difference is pretty clear and it has nothing to do with Apple policing content themselves.
They don't want to kill me specifically, they want to kill me because they are Nazis and part of their ideology is that I should die. That's why they wore shirts saying 6 million was not enough or camp Auschwitz prison guard.
I got the impression that's what the Clay language [1] was aiming for, but progress on it seems to have stopped around a year ago.

[1] http://claylabs.com/clay/
The comments on the article point out an error in the article. Specifically, the description of the loebner prize rules are apparently out of date or inaccurate, possibly getting confused with a similar prize.

Just mentioning this in case one reads these comments and the article, but not the comments on the article page.

A good article I think.
When the devices are so old and far behind that they can't reasonably run a new OS
The service splits a helicopter five ways, so about $200/person...
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Thanks for all the links. I will definitely be checking this out! I had watched Nathan Barry's screencasts with Michael Hartl, but I didn't know he was active on HN, these links look pretty good, so I'll want to read these over! Thanks again.
veth pairs are a reasonable default for simple single-host connectivity (it's the default for Docker, for example). But for high-throughput production deployments where latency matters, you may need to look at other options. This is what we most commonly see when Docker is deployed in production (note that the lesson applies to any orchestration system based on linux containers, not just Docker):

- Sometimes people dedicate a whole physical interface for the sole use of a container, by moving it into the namespace. The downside is that the interface is completely unavailable to other namespaces, including the host.

- macvlan is pretty popular, it allows multiple containers to share access of the same physical interface, without conflicts and without the performance overhead of a veth+bridge combination.

- you can also connect your container to an overlay network using a variety of tunneling systems. vxlan is the flavor du jour but there is a flurry of competing standards and implementations in that area.

By far the coolest part about container networking on Linux is that it's just regular linux networking. The entire stack, and all the tooling that comes with it, is available to containers. You just need to glue it together. And of course these options are not mutually exclusive: a namespace can contain as many network interfaces as you want.

Disclaimer: I am not a networking expert, but a lot of networking experts want their favorite toys natively integrated into Docker, so they take the time to explain to me how they work.
Did you have a finished game before, and if you did, did you have paying customers?
They plan to grow the company (and revenues), of course. Valve runs a somewhat similar business with their Steam content delivery and promotion system. A lot of indie games are on Steam and "Steam sales" are somewhat similar to the humble bundle mechanism. There's certainly a lot more money in the indie games market than the humble bundle has brought in.
Rokus are streaming boxes/sticks that connect directly to streaming services (like Android TV). Next to the Amazon Fire TV devices, they're the smoothest way to get YouTube and other services on a TV.

My desktop is two floors away from either TV in my house, so being able to stream my personal media library to them over LAN is more convenient than lugging around a desktop to either TV. It's buttery smooth streaming too, and the interface is really customizable
>Without anonymity, there will always be enough metadata to hang you with.

Not in most cases, for most people, most of the time. Everyone knows you communicate with your family, friends and business associates. Very few people communicate out of those groups and even if they do they rarely have to worry about anyone finding out about it.
Apple has been involved in the toolchain since nearly the beginning. They hired one of the original authors and sponsor its development: https://foundation.llvm.org/docs/sponsors/

Not only have the paid for it, but it wouldn't likely be anything more than an academic project without Apple.
I believe it is possible to unseal the volume and disable these protections, a quick google seems to indicate this. Apple usually does seem to provide (a maybe annoying) way to bypass these sort security measures.
I guess I'm interested in fixing actual problems rather than invented ones.
I have done that for so many years now that half my vocabulary is miaow
Did you miss that part of the article or have you intentionally excluded the presence of Asian students in your reply because it makes your argument stick better? I don't think it meets the definition of segregation when a subset of multiple groups are given special treatment due to their aptitude on topics that are inherently race-agnostic. Yes, those with money and power can better educate their kids compared to the poor, but so can those without money who simply value education higher (speaking as a 1.5 gen immigrant who grew up extremely poor). Why are we always the first ones to be penalized in the name of racial equality?
Your question makes me wonder what niche Rust is trying to fill. Anything that can't bootstrap literally everything then will never replace C.
My GF had to go through a round of technical interviews with clients after opting to accept a job with a contracting firm. The firm fills the various contracts they receive with employees, but the clients want to greenlight the employee before they start work.

That might just be contracting with the government though.
Hence the need for studies ;)
You are correct that mathematically, I have not proven the direction of total subsidization.

However:

> In some TV markets, Abdoulah said, sports channels account for 60 percent of the overall programming costs in the cable-TV bill because of fees for regional sports networks.

I guarantee that it is not the case that greater than 60 percent of people who sign up for cable do so solely to watch sports. So, in certain markets, it is for sure people like me who subsidize sports programming, not the other way around.
In terms of rendering speed, how efficient is CSS compared to webGL or other related 3D technologies?
Do it. I signed up. Will you have it by Monday? :)
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university is free in most european countries
I'm mostly a Telecaster player. One thing I don't like about the Strat is the smooth, comfy curves. I can't feel where the guitar is relative to my torso or my forearm, which costs me control and accuracy. The squared edges of a Telecaster dig into my ribs and arm, and I have a better sense of what I'm doing.

Les Pauls drive me nuts due to the lack of dynamics. Marshall amps, too. My favorite combination is a Telecaster into a vintage Mesa. The thing about Teles and Mesas is "all the way up" == "too much". They're happier with the control knobs backed off some. And picking? A little dynamic slip and it sounds like a gun going off by your ear. Forces you to be controlled!
This isn't off-label use though. This is where the drug has been specifically approved for that use.

Pfizer here are not trying to limit prescribing their branded drugs for off-label use, they are trying to restrict the available uses of products that are legally supplied to the NHS by other companies.
what's the word? I speak Hindi, but not very proficiently.
Yup, and perpetual licenses are going away next January. Full version of Maya will be $185/month or $1470/year.

Ouch.
My guess is that you wouldn't get the shades right. Maybe with a lot of trial-and-error, but at some point it's easier to just make some printing plates and go that route. Either way the paper is the real problem.
Sam,

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Michael
I'm going to assume sarcasm since ignoring doesn't usually involve replying.
Anyone have any info on the tech behind this? Is this a node.js demo or something?
Sort of like a startup postmortem without necessarily the mortem part? I like it! Would be good specifically for those of use just venturing in to Startup Land :)
That's why recommendation systems are hard. :-)

You could try to identify a population of users whose likes and dislikes are expected to be "similar" to the user in question, though, and then base your training set off them. I believe that's how actual recommendation engines (eg. Amazon, YouTube) work. Of course, then you have to figure out how to identify similar users, which is another hard problem.
CondoInternet.net offers 200Mbps/200Mbps (up/down) at certain condos in the downtown Seattle area. They claim they have a tier that goes up to 500Mbps, but I've never seen it available anywhere.

They have nowhere near the market penetration of this company though.
How many people are tested annually for toxo and in which situations would someone be tested for toxo?

Dr Sapolsky tells some interesting stories but the skeptic in me wonders how someone can take such a seemingly small independent variable like the presence of toxo in humans and suggest it affects certain specific behaviors like driving aggressively. To be fair, he stops short of establishing any sort of causation, but his implications certainly allow him to weave a fascinating story. Is it safe to assume that telling a good story helps one garner support for funding research?
Women are often their own worst enemies in this regard, and the simplistic model of "women feel and men think" is nowadays promulgated not by misogynists but by women themselves; worse yet is the idea that critical aspects of society, like science, should be oriented towards feeling instead of thinking to be more "inclusive". Who are the ones pushing Oprah as a model of womanhood? It's not men or the "patriarchy" because we don't get it. Oprah is a successful woman and she's achieved a lot, but she makes fun of critical thought on her television program and promotes all sorts of wasteful, dangerous nonsense, all in the name of making issues of health and suchlike more "feminine".

It's not patriarchal to teach girls and women logic and critical-thinking skills. In fact, it's critically important to do so to counteract the enculturation they've received that a lack of critical thinking capability is somehow good and right and an ideal of womanhood; just like it's important to teach them self-defense skills to counteract the simple mechanical fact that (on average) women are smaller and weaker than men.
You can use Pangolin, a Uniswap clone that runs on Avalanche (wich offers EVM compatibility so you can just use Metamask).
Looking at the hero section, my first thought: it says "Do everything you need by only sending 1 message", but in the photo it just shows a basic chat-bot replying to questions, so it just shows information that I can't correlate with "doing" things.

In other words, I think the tagline is miss-matched with the screenshot.
I agree generally, but Lightsail is just obvious hot garbage. The CPU throttling is crazy aggressive, and you'll see it after 30 minutes of use, for all but the 2 most expensive of the 7 total plans.

I don't see how they could be maintaining a decent customer base with that setup, but I guess marketing is powerful.