jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, I am a connoisseur of command-line weather apps. In fact, I've written three:

1. wu -- written in Go some years ago, and actually pretty successful (as these things go). Picked up by a couple of distros, etc. It used the Weather Underground API, which was truly fantastic. But alas, they closed off free access to the API, and I had to shut down the project.

2. dsw -- wrote this one in C++. Uses the Dark Sky Weather API. The API is great -- maybe even better that WU -- but not quite as feature-rich as Weather Underground. Then I discovered that they don't want you to distribute your program and ask people to get an API key. So I shuttered that one too.

3. wwo -- another, fairly recent C++ effort that uses WeatherAPI.com. I like the way I designed this one, and the API itself is easy to work with, but honestly? The data just sucks. It's often wrong, too far behind, not enough of it, etc. So . . .

I am now working on a yet-to-be-named thing written in straight C that uses the NOAA API. I've stayed away from this API, but honestly, it's the one to use. JSON linked data all over the place, sort of cumbersome in some ways, but the data is awesome, and barring government shutdowns, the API is pretty much always on. Not sure what to call it. Sort of afraid to cloud the namespace with "noaa" (noah is also taken). But as you can see, I am a Serious Expert on cli weather apps, so maybe I'll just take one of those.

And that is what I am doing with my quarantine. Thanks for listening!
Far Cry 5 as well has some fine water in its rivers.
If they’d said something like “they’re effective but it’s better for all of us if these people get them instead of you” would that have been effective?
There was a paper that went by my Twitter feed yesterday about how dish towels tended to do better on the particulates the researchers were testing on than a t-shirt (or piece of silk, or double layer cotton shirt, or...). I agree about them being better than nothing and it'll be fairly dependent on aerosol size but you should probably prefer thicker clothes.
>A large part of the growth in tourism over the last 15 years can be attributed to cheap flights and cheap housing, via Airbnb and the likes (I.e hotels have not added the number of rooms needed to support this tourism boom).

Quite a bold claim, care to back that up?
That's the interesting theoretical bit.

The reality bit is where you have to ensure that you can get both bets checked in with the bookie(s) involved at the price you wanted - and arbitrage opportunities tend to show up more when the market is moving fast.

Further, just like the stock market, arbitrage acts to keep the market stable- this is why most bookies have more or less the same odds on the same games at the same price.

One also must factor in the transactional costs in moving money around depending on who you are using for bookies, and also realize there are already lots of guys out there running software 24/7 looking for arbitrage across the entire bookmaker landscape globally - so such opportunities tend to not last for long.

The more "fun" opportunity is the middle - when a line moves so much during the time leading up to a game that a guy can make a bet with the same bookie that he wins on no matter what, or at least can't lose on (at worst it's a push - no loss). To find those you have to bet early on what are likely to be fast moving lines, and then be quick enough to get your bets in (and have them accepted)
Did I read that correctly? Ashton Kutcher is an angel investor?
Shrug. It's the job of ticket inspectors to make sure people aren't travelling without tickets. If you're travelling without a ticket, it's their job to give you a fine. They need to have certain powers if they're gonna do their job properly, which includes the power to apprehend people who try to run away from them. So reasonable force from a ticket inspector is perfectly justified. And of course anyone on the receiving end of force will usually wind up complaining that it was unreasonable.

Don't wanna get tackled by a ticket inspector? Buy a ticket. Or if you don't buy a ticket, fess up and accept your fine.
Yep, pomodoro technique rules.
Because Free Software people aren't supposed to care about quality, but rather be willing to suffer for freedom.
Prior to 2020, health work was probably safer, but since then over eighty thousand health workers have died of Covid worldwide: https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2021-health-and-care-wor...

If the world is unlucky enough to experience another pandemic someday, health workers will be expected to risk their lives once again during the period where no vaccines or good treatments exist.
These things are detectable in blind taste tests, unlike wine. I did one myself to test how much the time-since-ground made a difference in flavor. I had 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week, 2 days, and fresh grounds. In a blind test I correctly put them in order, except for transposing the 2 day and 1 week old grounds.
If I had 10 million dollars worth of stock in my company and was otherwise pretty much poor, you'd see me selling a good 50% regardless of how confident I am in the company.

When people float companies they built and worked at for a long time with little tangible reward it is not unreasonable for them to want to take their money and actually enjoy it.
what about the reverse problem? plain English words that
mean something else in other languages. I am bit amused whenever an English speaking person shouts "Cut Cut Cut!" (I speak Dutch)
You seem to have confused a true statement (qualified immunity is about torts, not crimes) with a false one (if there was a crime, then there can't be any qualified immunity claim in a corresponding civil case).
I'm not sure I've ever heard someone pronounce 'bit' like 'bite' in French. But, in English, everyone pronounces 'coq' like 'cock'.
> when something finally does go belly-up, I can't remember how I set it up in the first place

Why should you need to remember it? Like you wrote later on, you just " document everything you do", as you do it. That's better than any sort of script or version control, since you can describe it how you like, which means quite succinctly. And it's not too difficult to adopt the mindframe of "What would I have needed to know 10 minutes ago to understand what to do".

> Docker has helped tremendously, since you can essentially use an out-of-the-box Linux distro with docker installed, and you don't really have to install anything else on the hardware

This actually illustrates, IMHO, how containers and docker are overused. You're talking about a single machine with a single purpose/set-of-purposes, and no occasional switching of configurations. So - why containerize? Whatever you have on Docker, just have that on your actual system.

> my advice is to keep the number of customizations to a bare minimum

Sound advice based on my own (limited) experience with self-hosted home-servers.

> and just as importantly, back up every single configuration file.

Fine, but don't rely on this too much. It's always a pain, if at all possible, to restore stuff based on the config files. Usually easier to follow your self-instructions for configuration.
Plot is another pretty bad one, for the Québécois here...
True, and I understand how that can be bothersome for some people. On the other hand, I'd rather have someone that swears like a sailor but is otherwise a decent human being when it comes to the things that really matter (i.e. not imposing undue pressure on you, compassion, treating your fairly even in the context of a frayed relationship (firing, etc)).

To me "professionalism" doesn't mean anything. Just try to be good. Be on time, not because it's professional, but because wasting other people's time is disrespectful.

My problem with "professionalism" is that you can be "professional" by not swearing, wearing a nice suit and never raising your voice - but still being a complete asshole (in particular when the going gets hard). I've met people like that.

I feel like there's hardly any correlation between swearing and "decency" (acting like a good human being). In fact, there might even be a slightly positive correlation, since people will tend to cut you much less slack for such egregious behavior (unless you are at the very top of the chain, I suppose).
Mind that he repeatedly refers to Julian Biglow of the IAS as a (neutral) witness. There have been plenty of law suits regarding this… Probably, the same also applies to any commentary and/or writing by von Neumann.
Also I'd consider Microsoft too. Its Hololens is the best AR device available currently. Although it focuses on enterprise and still clunky to use, the company has quite good track record recently and I have faith in them.

If just Apple vs. Facebook, I'd vote for Apple. Apple would rather kill a product than release anything mediocre or exprimental.
Since I first tried a thumb controlled trackball, almost 20 years ago, it's been impossible for me to imagine ever going back to an ordinary mouse. Arm/wrist movement is just bizarrely inefficient and unergonomic in comparison. The only thing I dislike is the limited number of high quality models to choose from. Right now I have a Logitech MX Ergo which is fairly good, but I wish there were more alternatives.
A ton of sketchy stuff comes from people renting time on AWS, GCloud, or some other service provider. One of the ones OP lists -- 44.192.16.204 -- is an AWS ec2 instance. The other one, 52.224.55.198, looks to be an Azure IP served out of Virginia. Today they could be someone doing something sketchy, but tomorrow they could be assigned to completely legit users.

Sure, you could just block any IP that geolocates Russia, China, or whatever locale is the current worst nation-state actor, but IP blocking is worse than Sisyphean.
Well, C only “has” these things because they are in a library (which, by the way, doesn’t even have to be written in C).
I can understand a 6 year old being confused. They (maybe) aren't old enough to grasp that actually composing something like a poem is the hard part. At that age, memorizing and writing it down can seem like an impressive feat all by itself, possibly even more impressive than the composing part. All the more true for a kid under the circumstances described (challenges with English due to immigrating, etc).

With an adult, though...I'd think they'd understand the concept of taking credit for someone else's work being not ok.

I'm not fan of the way intellectual property law works (in particular the way it is shoehorned into a free market system which only works efficiently on scarce goods with non-zero marginal cost, which IP is not), but still. This isn't really about intellectual property per se. It's still wrong to claim you came up with things for which the copyright is long expired or never existed. It is dishonest, and it is cheating.

This article presents an interesting childhood misunderstanding, and a misunderstanding by adults of how a child might think (I tend to think the teacher was rather cruel), and then spins it as if the child's point of view is sophisticated enough to be a valid adult view. But it obviously isn't.
Many. Sometimes I manage to make interesting stuff that people are also willing to pay for. Those are the good ones.
The situation is completely different these days. Back then they were a small startup. The DB space is incredibly challenging especially because engineers tend to want things for free and are pretty demanding. An acquisition seemed like a likely outcome. To partially offset that risk they offered source code escrow to prospective customers.

Now it's an opensource project backed by Apple. And from what I can tell the team is massively different these days. I'm not sure why the obvious conclusion is "we can't trust them".

I've heard this narrative from people that got burned by fdb's purchase so I'll never use it again multiple times. It's largely confusing to me, as it doesn't feel connected to the current realities.
What is a game that you would consider gender-balanced, if that's even a thing?
> But also one hard to justify in divisive times with diametrically opposed sides becoming highly popular, thus those extremes having an increasing chance to actually & drastically affect our lives.

I think it's especially easy to justify in our times, and it's arguably the sane position to take. Polarization and extremism we see in politics today is dangerous to society and democracy itself. Disengaging from various small changes that are orthogonal to you and your community is advisable, because the cost of engaging is increasingly the deterioration of individual relations with people. It's blowing up your own country from the inside.

A lot of political disengagement, including my own, boils down to this: we don't want to fight someone else's war, and we'd preferably like they didn't fight that war, because all this fighting claims a lot of collateral damage.

> By the way, that doesn't mean everyone has to become experts in lots of topics. Delegating this is quite the responsibility as well.

Delegating in modern democracies is actually one of the reasons people disengage even when they do have a stake or opinion on the topic. It's very hard to make any impact on an individual issue (not "it takes some effort hard", but closer to "winning gold on national championship" hard).

Say, for example, that I want my country to invest in nuclear power, or institute carbon taxes (both are things I currently believe in, and to make it less difficult, I'll use "or" in this example, even though I want "and"). There's literally no party in my country I could in good conscience vote for, or work to support. Not a single one. With the one party that seems to share my views on those two topics I have enough disagreements on other things that I feel reluctant to vote for them. And even if I were to put aside our differences for the sake of pushing the two issues I care about, and even if they magically won the next election, I'm very sure (based on historical experience) that they'd successfully change one or two things for the worse (from my POV), while making exactly zero headway on the issues I voted on them for.

I think more people realize this than not, hence the bad election turnouts in most established democracies worldwide. People don't believe their voices will be heard, because there's enough distortion in the middle.
What if you turn this around though and rather than the hotel owner take 100% of the profit (assuredly from ads as the article mentions), create a fungible digital token that tenants “earn” when staying at the hotel and stake interest against speculation in the token, therefore sharing the profit with those that are part of generating it - the actors so to speak.

Of course this doesn’t apply to sex trade but I’m just curious on picking your brain here.

Would love a bit of engagement into the idea rather than just downvotes. Specifically into the idea of how to create mechanisms by which the free market could produce ethical outcomes at least moreso than current practices.
Sounds great -- Any recommended how-to guides for those of us new to VLANs?
Dangerously ambiguous comment. Or a very subtle attempt at humor.
My favourite poet is K. P. Cavafy and my favorite poem is Ithaca:

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

This translation is by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Cavafy is a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria in the beginning of the century. He was very shy, he never sold any of his poets. He made copies and distributed his poetry to friends only. He was a perfectionists. Reports say that he would literally work up to 20 years to a single poem, changing words, syllables or entire lines accordingly. His poetry greatly improved as he grew older. Personally, I enjoyed this version[1] by Sir Sean Connery.

Then I also admire deeply Shakespeare. To me Shakespeare is like a crossroad between, poetry, philosophy, love, wisdom. An unbelievably refreshing, well-made cocktail of thought and art.

Those two poets are the ones that touch my spirit the most :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk
Even SemVer doesn't help here, as changing the build toolchain isn't generally considered an API breakage (after all, the resulting binaries are API compatible)
Not at all, in UK supermarkets the cheap beers often came in what we call 'stubbies', 330ml bottles. They were usually some generic unspecified supermarket own brand labelled 'beer de alsace' or something. Per litre they were significantly cheaper than the 500mls. They've now disappeared from shelves, but even today, one of the cheapest beer at the moment available in most Tescos is a 6 pack of 330ml cans of moretti.

Why talk so confidently about something you're ignorant about?

It's easy to see price per 100ml in the UK as the supermarkets have to show it on the price labels.
I was under the impression there’s no scanning as such whatsoever? It just sends a list of your packages and figures out which one should be upgraded based on what they know.
> Apple prioritise the user at the expense of the developer. I think this is the right balance.

Not for the developer.
Big industry means lots of jobs. They were right to bail them out. Are we supposed to let the car industry die on principle if it causes a massive amount of destruction? China wouldn't let it happen.
Companies use golang for web services, which directly competes with Ruby and Python.
I see, thanks for the explanation, now the project makes a lot of sense :)

I guess you didn't want to advertise the real reason of the project.
Every-time a kid googled "hacker", he will come upon "How To Become A Hacker" by Eric Raymond.

So, probably a significant proportion of new programmers were "made" by Raymond.
Incanter is already a very high quality piece of software. If you do any numeric/statistical computing I highly recommend it. It was my primary motivation for learning Clojure, and it has not disappointed me.

In contrast, R is mature and polished, but leaves something to be desired as a language (at least to me). Clojure as a language (and by extension Incanter) has a degree of loving craftsmanship that makes it much more pleasant to work with. It's like a well-tailored suit; the details make all the difference.
I'm with petercooper. If you act differently online, you're still responsible. His recent attack on Giles Bowkett was an assholey thing to do even before considering whether either one of them had a point.

That said, I'm not too worried considering his history with the Ruby community. I'd still have a better opinion of him if he didn't antagonize them though.

I'm absolutely certain he's a great guy in person. Asshole doesn't preclude you from being nice, personable, and even entertaining. Instead I take it to mean that when the bad side does come out it's nasty.
How much time and risk is doing it this way worth?

I will argue that the presented approach is the "right thing" (reap what you sow) and increasing the search space is the "wrong thing" (why should US companies get more than their 5% of programming talent?).

I don't want US companies to have more talent than the US population can produce. I actually consider their requests stealing. It's not theirs to take. If they can't produce their own talent then they should perish by their own merits.

That being said, I don't believe in the 95/5% figure proposed by Graham. I think everybody can be a valuable partner given enough motivation.

I also think that they are not looking for talent but for slaves. It's really just imperialism in disguise.
It's encouraging (to Apple, I guess) that most of the weaknesses are just small points in their system's particular software that don't work well with iPad. Those will just get ironed out.
Money is the greatest contraception. Being middle class typically makes people stress about money, so they worry they can't afford children, but they can freely afford condoms and the pill. The poverty striken can't necessarily afford condoms/pill when they want to have sex.

The middle class is being sexually out performed by the poor and the rich.
Really? Zerohedge certainly does paint an alternate reality from most other sources, but most of the time the writing seems so manic and chock-full of conspiracy theories that it's hard to take seriously. Zerohedge gained traction in an environment of fear and panic and Tyler Durden, whoever he is, plays that trump card very well.

For anyone who's interested: http://nymag.com/guides/money/2009/59457/
You'd be surprised at the kids these days. I was making websites (or trying, at least) since 2nd grade and I knew names like Jeffery Zeldman and Dan Cederholm from their books and blogs. If I had been interested in slightly different things, I could have easily run across PG earlier than I did.
Possibly, it's a littler early to tell, but I'm sure I'll make it easy to use from the shell. Could even be possible to create converters from other config file formats to the Mongrel2 data model as well.
Agree. I ran into pg in sophomore year in high school while working on an anti-spam project for a client.
As PG states:

it's easy to imagine cases where a great programmer might invent things
worth 100x or even 1000x an average programmer's salary.

If this is true, rational companies should be willing to pay salaries between 100-1000x of average for great programmers.

All hail the $100M/yr rockstar programmer.

I can't wait to see the cool things that will come out of a greater distribution of wealth to hackers, geeks and programmers. Think of all the neat kickstarter campaigns that will get funded... and all of the startup ideas that can find angel funding. And all the open-source and Makerspaces and rockets etc, etc.
People who actually own Teslas are, on the whole, less fanatic than you are about range. If you can charge in your home garage, then you start every morning with a full battery. How many days do you drive more than 265 miles? And for long trips, there's the supercharger network, and the first battery swap station is in beta along the SF/LA route.
Altenative to a bazaar is not a cathedral. It's few huts on a parking lot of a shoping mall. Shoping mall that is superficially neater but becomes abandoned when economy shifts.
I posted this because I found it quite interesting, as I've found all of this guy's writings.

Here he is more recently on Bitcoin - quite illuminating I think: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/bitc...
That is the point .. the tor people said we are the USA and we will play the PIG movie World Police style. Just as with them working with the FBI, NSA and NRO.