jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Had this happen to me in the 90's with a dial up internet provider. The ISP said it was unlimited usage. So we had a second phone line in our house online a big chunk of the day. Eventually we got a bill with a very large "dedicated line fee" because we were dialed in too much. After enough complaining they removed the charge, but it was a good lesson that "unlimited" services backed by a finite resource are never truly unlimited.
No one is claiming we should hand out an amount that is larger than the average salary in the country.

The current welfare system does incentivize staying poor and having more children, because those increase your benefits, and moving out of that level of income directly correlates to a decrease in benefits.

With basic income, there would be no punishment for climbing out of poverty, your yearly income at no point declines because you were paid more money. This incentivizes people to earn as much as possible, because there is no downside to earning another dollar.

The kids thing is the trickier issue. I've seen people promote the idea that people under 18 should also get a monthly stipend that is a percentage of the adult rate. I think that this will still incentivize people to have more children, since they can capture the extra income from it.

I have heard others say that children should not receive a basic income, and that the income should not be increased ro changed for parents over non-parents. This makes it so that every person over 18 receives the same amount and does not incentivize having more children. The problem here is that childcare costs can be high, so it seems to disincentivize people from having children at all.

I'm not sure which is the preferred outcome, or if there are other possible solutions, but its an interesting question to think about for sure.
No, I often buy used text books when I find them cheap so I can fill in what I missed by skipping out on a degree.

I have a separate title on discrete math (Epp) but its companion only had some solutions to exercises available in a separate $60 [used] book. I found this title and figured that with the intersection of ML and discrete math I'd have better luck. (Staring at a ton of problems in a text book without knowing which ones I'd be able to verify my solutions against - the Epp book - was a daunting prospect for self-study).
I feel like I've needed that since I first started coding PHP 17 years ago!
How can i use Sqlite with react native?
I'm getting certificates for various websites with fake details for years now. The theater is there already, it would and we should not pay for it anyway.
The first thing I expected the article to show: a correlation between welfare state strength and rate of entrepreneurship, with the counterintuitive result that there are numerous countries with higher rates than the US and weaker welfare states, but if there are, it didn't list them.

The closes it comes is showing that the already-abysmal rates of entrepreneurship for people around CHIP eligibility levels, it's 30% higher for people just below the bracket.

Then there's idle theorizing about how food stamps "must" embolden entrepreneurs because they know they can fall back on it if their venture fails. While it sounds superficially plausible, can anyone give a concrete example of the kind of hypercompetent person who launched a successful startup and who would also have needed food stamps if it didn't succeed? Bezos? Musk? Kalanick? Even Brin or Page?
IMO the analogy to human languages is a distraction and best avoided, since we're not able to say meaningful things about both.

> is there any concrete example you could give of an idea that is easier to express in one programming language than in another

Sure. Since this thread is about Lisps: writing code that works with other code is an order of magnitude easier in Lisp. Therefore people tend to do it a lot more.
'Harmful' is a pretty strong word. No longer the underdog and dominating in business issues related to search maybe, but I have a hard time seeing how this cause harm in any tangible way. Do you have some examples of how a lot of people might find Google to be causing harm?
> My main problem is that, as a candidate, I would interpret being asked this question to mean that the interviewers have already undervalued me (or worse, have no idea how to value me).

No, your main problem is just how many of your contemporaries with indistinguishable backgrounds and experience totally bombs this question.

Being offended by a simple fizz-buzz style question[1] is roughly as constructive as being offended by "Is this a good time to talk?" even when a good time to talk has been carefully scheduled.

1: I don't think many people use fizz-buzz exactly, it's too well known, but there are tons of other really quite simple questions that exercise two or three basic programming concepts, maybe throw in some basic problem solving for good measure.
Did you have some implicit expectation that you could heat it for an arbitrary amount of time, at full power, and it would just be fine? Almost all of the spot checking I just did shows temperature warnings / upper limits of around 450 degrees F for non-stick pans, right on their packaging.

Also, equivalently-sized cast iron pans are almost always cheaper than their quality non-stick (i.e. Calphalon) counterparts, and you can restore them if you jack up the seasoning on them.
If you just want to manage multiple tiled command-line windows, just try vim+tmux (getting session management on top of it).

There was at least another tiled window manager able to embed GUI windows.
The sixth, certainly; it was the first that had become routine enough to send a professional geologist along. I'd go so far as to say that most of the scientific value in 12-16 was in making 17 possible. There absolutely should have been a seventh, eighth and probably ninth; scientific targets had already been picked for the next three IIRC.

After that, maybe not so much. But the program was designed with ~nine landings in mind, and that's what we should have done.
Literally nobody will notice when Firefox will start shipping components written in Rust. It will be some footnote about security somewhere that will be ignored. But everyone will be like OMG VIRTUAL REALITY THE FUTURE IS HERE.
I'm going to earn my downvotes today. It was more interesting reading the comments than the article, especially when one of the threads devolved into saying the article is political.

The other entertaining point is the offense at the notion that America is it's entertainment. The fact that some took offense at that is interesting from both a technology standpoint and a startup standpoint. It is an imperfect mirror, reflecting why we do things and why some businesses fail and others succeed, from a certain point of view. In other words, perhaps part of why a given venture gains customers in not just need, but need coupled with entertainment used to market and sell.
I disagree. I have been using the same init.el across Windows and Mac for several years. Hardly anything needs to be tailored but you can inspect the system-type variable if it is really necessary.
Although only a paragraph is dedicated to the topic, I think this essay is more about the wonders of biology.

I've been thinking about this more lately, how cells are more or less the nanomachines we read about in sci-fi. Animals and plants are living machines, much more compatible with humans than the machines we have created - yet the investment in artificial machines dwarfs the natural ones... (I make this statement without evidence :)
> First, you have to create enough each year that you can earn, on average, $100 profit from each true fan.

Definitely not possible to earn 100k per year from 1,000 fans through music streaming alone. Musicians earn about $0.005 per stream on Spotify. To ear $100 from a single fan, that fan would need to listen to 20,000 songs, or about 1,000 hours. There are only around 720 hours in a month.
Maybe eventually, but at the moment they lag some generations behind US/Japan/Taiwan/Korea. This, in spite of the fact that China has been dumping money into the industry for years.

There’s a narrative in the west that China is “willing to spend what it takes to win”, but at the same time, China’s spending is tied up by internal politics (also, corruption, pork, kickbacks) as much as US spending is. China is also, for example, willing to spend as much money as it takes to make a mega-blockbuster movie and yet keeps churning out flops (again, due to causes that are intimately connected with internal Chinese politics).

If you look at major US boondoggles like the F-35 program you might think of it as a partial success (the plane works) and yet a massive waste of money (we could have spent the money better), and some of these massive initiatives in China suffer from the same problems.
Our technologies now rely on a complex and non-optional supply chain (The Industry).

Partly this is due to an increase in complexity, but it's also driven by what "industry" wants.

Things are being designed so they can't be fixed or even used without proprietary parts, consumables or services. The proportion of technology that works that way is increasing.

Call it the "juicero effect". The wifi router, vacuum or watch that won't work without the manufacturer's cloud services. Tractors that you can't service yourself, that only keep working while you have a subscription. Printers that add magic dots and won't accept generic ink. Everything about phones, and increasingly, computers.

This guarantees recurring revenue for suppliers, but the real evil is control.

We're moving towards a world where you don't really "own" things, you're just licensed to use them. You may use them only insofar as the true owner (whoever control the supply of essential parts, consumables and services) allows.

The idea of "technology without industry" is that we can and should have technology that doesn't have these means of control (by industry) built-in.

Comma, for example is open-source. You don't have to buy their hardware, you can hack it yourself. You can fix it yourself. You can collect or share your own data. You can see how it works.

What most companies want to build is an opaque black box. Some will just rent you rides. Even for vehicles you nominally own, "industry" will no doubt lobby to make it illegal to "tamper" with them, for safety reasons. Every ride will add to their moat.

Self-driving car networks will be great... until your account gets cancelled for a terms of service violation. Or because Elon was pissed at your tweet. Or until the day you try to get a ride to a protest or a strike and the car tells you it can't take you there.
What I was about to say:

"As much as I love cryptocurrency and speculation, I think this investigation is warranted. Elon was putting out lots of tweets that reduced to "buy doge" without any substance behind them. That's pumping."

What I'm going to say now that I've thought about it:

What's the difference between Elon saying "DOGE good, buy?" and Jim Cramer saying "here are 20 top SPACs you should buy?" if Elon hasn't shown intent to short it? (I think Cramer has even more reach than Elon since he's big on CNBC and has been since forever.)

Everyone with money pumps tickers all the time; it only becomes a bad thing when they dump after the pump. (I'm recalling someone on Twitter saying that they were going to put $4M into GME via tweet to further pump the stock...maybe $4M put options?)

I also don't buy SEC's intent to "regulate" crypto prima facie. The market has decided that crypto is a valuable thing. Tons of people dump money into crypto that later becomes invaluable, but how is that different from the MILLIONS of people who dumped an insane amount of dollars into GME at the height of the GME craze a few weeks ago (or even now given that GME is on the upswing?).

Cryptocurrency, by definition, is meant to be decentralized. This + proof-of-work is what maintains the authenticity of their ledgers. I can't see any regulating body maintaining control over it without breaking this very basic and very fundamental tenet of the idea.
How much time per week is spent administering or maintaining this system?

if you were to start over with a new organizational methodology, what would you do differently knowing what you know now?

I applaud the effort.
Beauty of leds lighting I assume?
The best way to break from Twitter, is to get banned.. You'll spend a few days asking why, they give valid answers.. You still check it.. But then once you cant give supposed meaningful feedback.. You don't care.

What you write in twitter only matters to your legacy.

It's a semi protocol now after all.
Most commercial CO2 that is used in the market today is actually produced as a by-product of ethanol production: https://www.attisbiofuels.com/by-products/carbon-dioxide
Yup... when Embarcadero bought Delphi from Borland in 2010, the pricing scheme and lack of a "community version" made it clear that they were considering it a "cash cow" and weren't putting a priority on expanding its market share. Providing a free version now is a bit late. Delphi is still unmatched if you want to quickly build a GUI application, but the Delphi language itself feels a bit too dated to attract new developers - and I'm saying this as someone who has used Delphi in my "day job" for ~ ten years and as a hobby for even longer, but around 2010 I kinda drifted away from it. Now, if someone would take the GUI designer of Lazarus and pair it with, say, the Go language (which, although it's not obvious, has a lot of Pascal-family DNA in it, and badly lacks a good GUI story), that might be an interesting proposition...
I would be very interested in a more detailed write-up on Nomad vs Kubernetes for bare metal. I'm working through getting Kubernetes stood up, but I'm running into a dearth of features--namely you have to bring your own load balancer provider, storage provider, ingress controller, external DNS, monitoring, secret encryption, etc, etc before you can run any real world applications on top of it. I would be interested in how Nomad compares.

EDIT: Downvoters, I'm really curious what you're objecting to above, specifically.
we as security professionals try to do this. you hear a lot about defence in depth and the ol saying "it's not of but when". the business pushes back a lot, because they already did this one thing to stop stuff, why do another? unfortunate reality is that people do not what to change how they work, to support security, and their managers will happily blame security for any and all hiccups in projects
"This scenario" being the complete disbanding of the US military? I imagine everyone would be using crypto at that point since there would be no USD.
I dont get this "its based in Switzerland so its secure" thing..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
I wish the comparison could also include "message sync across devices". Currently Signal requires one to export past messages in a file (that can be unencrypted).
This means that to be sure to keep their messages if they use new devices or lose their old one, one has to use a cloud storage, an area where privacy violating providers are still prevalent.

Note that WhatsApp was doing exactly that (with an opt in IIRC) with google drive sync on android and I guess iCloud on iOS, so I always found even their e2ee claim dubious.

At least Signal doesn't make it easy to use unencrypted cloud storage but I wish to see more services with message persistance. On the other hand, it certainly has a much higher server cost.
Thanks goodness for people like Chris Crawford. He is the crazy guy in his lab doing weird things. He may be misguided but it is good to have him and people like him around to be contrarians and try to push/pull things in a different direction.

I think Crawford has been barking up the wrong tree with his storytron thing ( http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Storytron ) for decades but good for him for trying.
Thanks and I am totally rooting for Zoho, you're building an amazing company and culture quite like Apple, Zappos and Netflix.
Wikipedia suggests the English-reading Chinese population is in the hundreds of millions (much higher than the English-speaking Chinese population), and I would guess that group overlaps quite a bit with Baidu users.
Every time I have to write a duplicate XYZServiceResponse instead of ServiceResponse<XYZ>, I don't think "Hey I can't do stuff", I think "I have to copy and paste the same code AGAIN."
This is genius idea, Using GFW to deflect GFW attacks!
This could be optimizing on the wrong thing... sure, we want more women in math and science, but instead of focusing on eliminating gender bias among researchers, we should be thinking more about increasing the number of women who want to learn math and science at a younger age - and that will do far more than any gender bias elimination ever will.

Not to mention, as a woman in computer science, this workshop just seems like a waste of time. I wouldn't be happy if I were forced to go.
Milosevic was eventually removed from power by a popular uprising, but I guess that was 4 years after the bombings
But who really cares? The web console is something that you only use once in a blue moon. What AWS did right was make a workable command line and API so that you don’t have to point and click all day.
My GF and I have a single thermometer that is over 20 years old. It seems to still work but still.
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>Hence, as internet users, we should look beyond our time and space, ensuring freedom of speech.

What do you think drives the impulse to suppress free speech? And do you really think this is a free speech issue?
What exactly do you feel is obfuscated?

There's $, backticks, >>=, >>, ++, ., and <-.

All of these are very frequent things you use in Haskell, and deserve short notation. Besides >>, they're all learned in day 0-1 of Haskell.
Live in Cambridge.

Get told ideal place to live is Oxford.

My degree of agreeableness has just plummeted. ;-)
Just wait until she reaches her next evolution!
So don't sign up. For some this is the golden ticket into the middle class, and worth the price.

I'm guessing its really a trainer/recruiter for a contracting firm. But so what? That's a great first job for a graduate - lots of experience quickly.
I'm not sure what the takeaway from this is.

Don't implement crypto in software, only hardware? Does that cut out algorithm-writers who won't have FPGAs and fabrication available to them?...
I wonder if introducing a sleep that is longer than the computation could conceivably take would work to solve (or at least make it a lot harder to defeat) the actual problem. The failure case where the computation actually is slow enough to matter could be detected and thrown away.

This of course would require a fully async crypto lib..
The point is that the brain is the essential point of initiation of muscle movement, and it is an essential part of the sensory feedback loop which then leads to muscular adjustments.

The ability to focus without fail is not unlimited. When you're holding more than your bodyweight on your shoulders, the demands to simply maintain balance are significant. This means a lot more than just muscles holding a static position. If you are not very focused on the sensations which indicate a change in balance somewhere, you will lose form and possibly hurt yourself.

Whatever the mechanism within the brain, the breaks are also necessary there. Of course the muscles need recovery time, but the brain does also.
They have total control over their OS they can do whatever they want until they cross the line and someone sues them.
Mine, TP-Link from 2013 could definetely not do this : I assume because it just retransmitted the packets and did not have the horsepower to do a decrypt+recrypt.
Do you live in any of those countries?
He asked about moving off 2 workers of Heroku and which services to use on AWS. I was cagey because it didn't add-up. He promised to setup a meeting later this week (now would've been today or tomorrow) with another person I didn't yet see and don't know if they were real (they could be). He says he owns 70%, this could be true or fake.

Edit: the brigading flagging is fine. That's what happens when you're the little guy.
For what it’s worth the last guideline “addresses” this [1]. Seems to be a bit of a meme ‘round these parts.

I feel this submission is too quirky and long-form for the front page of Reddit. On occasion HN does a good job surfacing these sorts of articles.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Clearly this is a Texas only problem, given it works in much colder countries and States. Texas did not want to pay to winterize to maximize profits. Risk reward, a few hundred dead people once in a while vs. profits every year.
> Where does SMS get used to do payments? (...and how?)

In India, for every card transaction, for every DMAT transaction, for every password/PIN change SMS is used as 2FA. It is also mandated to require SMS 2FA for every one of these cases.

If my bank has any means to use TOTP/Yubikey, it is absolutely not made obvious, led alone clear or even possible.
You nailed it. FB and Google are just advertising companies. I am not sure what so fuss about "I am Ex-FB or I am Ex-Google". They might as well say I am Don Drapper :)
Because at least according to the Threema devs, doing e2e multi device in a secure and anonymous way is not trivial.[1] Maybe matrix solved that problem, maybe they don't care...

[1] https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/md-architectural-overview-i...
Java Applets were a security risk, but it was decades ago. Modern JVM has many options to sandbox a running app.

But it seems that WASM tries to be a mininal CPU target instead, which is questionable - I can’t wait seeing memory errors (even if only inside a single webpage) on the web. With the good quality GCs available with JS, but even more so on JVM, I would say that running system languages should not be the point.
Never ever I would sign up into a social network that doesn't publish any real-world contacts. Who are you, guys? Americans? Russians? Chinese? Why should I trust you with my online life, if I don't even know, where you live, what are your names and how your faces looks like?

And, in Germany, publishing of the real-world information is mandatory.
How much does being a part of the press protect someone when illegal activities are involved?

For example here, was this reporter already inside the Capitol reporting, or did he also enter the building together with the protestors?