jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As usual, The Baffler is smug and ignorant to the point of dangerously distracting incoherence.

Having visited and lived in Cambridge and Somerville for about 20 years, the problem has nothing to do with entrepreneurs and everything to do with the prices/value of transient housing. There have always been hugemongous factories intermingled with the residences (remember Necco? Junior Mints? Analog Devices?)

With or without recent crass attempts at branding, the area has been a legendary entrepreneurship hot bed, from World War II radar to Ms. PacMan to Guitar Hero and everything in between. It doesn't need explicit branding to achieve this status. Innovation here comes in waves. Biotech was big 10 years ago. Now it's online social stuff with biotech still fairing strong.

There are more specific problems, such as Harvard's capital buying out houses and turning them into faux fraternal organizations and ever more dorms. Or my favorite frustration, the generation of do-nothings in Somerville and Medford who inherited three-deckers from their parents and do little but collect rent from Tufts, Harvard and MIT students.

Confounding the process is that fact that so much of the population is temporary - 2 to 5 years in resident that they can - and hardly desire - political coherency, thus yielding power to the incumbents.
Haha, could you elaborate on that? That sounds like a fun read.

disclaimer: I'm Dutch.
> help create an automated arbitration system, divorced entirely from the whims of Mankind

No. That is simply not possible with anything resembling today's technology. We'll have flying cars on a Mars city before automated arbitration on real world matters.

> help build the future we all want and maybe have a chance of creating a post-scarce World.

Except fixed supply currency is going back in the other direction. And the hard parts about eliminating scarcity have nothing to do with the monetary system.

Besides, you still haven't explained how lending works with bitcoin but without banks making up extra bitcoin.

Note: using bitcoin to refer to any fixed supply currency, whether it's bitcoin, Eth, gold or anything else.
Src based distros tend to be a little better with this.
I get that you're not particularly excited about gradual typing and the fact that type checkers are optional and live in a separate ecosystem from the interpreter/language runtime.

I actually like the fact that python code without type annotations continues to work as before and allows for easy transcription of ideas into testable code.

If a certain use case requires "forced" type checking, it shouldn't be hard to write a lint rule that disallows code from being committed if there are type checking errors, including missing type annotations.
I don't think it matters how a company or candidate justifies their offers and demands. It really comes down to their respective bargaining power. So when remote work increases the pool of potential candidates, it's no surprise that employers will try to use this to lower costs.
Hi! I'm starting a podcast where I interview totally random commenters on HN and ask them uncomfortable, hostile questions with the intent of embarrassing them in public. Would you like to be my first guest?
Let me take it another step: Every reason that it's "rational" that remote workers are payed less, i.e. not just a stupid faux-rationilization of the labor market reaching a new equilibrium, is evidence that remote work is a failure.

A world of resort-town skilled works chained to their hegemon isn't just terrible for workers. It's a terribly inefficient market: a "sharded monopsony". The very unplanned interactions that allow hot-spot workers to change jobs is also a big reason cities are such dynamic economies in the first place.
Pure meme gold. I'd like to see the face of the intern/entry position lawyer to whom they said: define hold. And then went on reddit for several hours
Have to be honest, I have a small portion of my portfolio (1-3%) in Bitcoin simply as a hedge against inflation. It's neither speculative nor novelty and has replaced a portion of what would typically be bond holdings. It seems companies and major asset holders are now considering the same.
I have no faith in "blockchain" as a component of a distributed system. Specifically: any system where mutations are guarded behind some thing of value as a consensus mechanism will trend towards centralization. (Hash chains are perfectly fine otherwise.)

PoW is not a distributed system in the slightest. The moment someone creates an accelerator for it, it's done. The set of people who can meaningfully interact with the system as a distributed system shrinks to the very small set of people willing to spend loads of money on ASICs; and the far larger set of people with CPUs is entirely crowded out. "One CPU, one vote" becomes "one ASIC, one million votes".

PoS is at least less of an environmental catastrophe, but it now explicitly involves capital. And here's the problem: capital is inherently centralizing. The idea that we can decentralize or distribute capitalism is absurd, because that's not how economies of scale work. Hell, the original distributed system, free markets, have been routinely subverted time and time again to the interests of those who already have capital in those markets.

I know of no other proof-of system other than work and stake; and both are hilariously inadequate for their intended use cases.
> As for Gold, good luck trying to mine an infinite amount of it.

Biggest barrier to more gold is technology. There's a ton of it in space.
Andrew here from Planimeter, the guys who make Grid, the largest pure-Lua 2D game engine. https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/

One of the biggest difficulties I have with managing a project as large as Grid is, is that you just barely start to become large enough for one person to have difficulties not only keeping all the finer details in your brain, but writing extensive documentation is exceptionally time expensive. And we do a really bad job of it.

We're supposed to be launching Grid Engine 10 sometime between now and March, but I don't think we're going to make it, because we haven't finished writing documentation for the next new major version.

So I looked into tooling to get around these problems, but you have to hint at types in Lua comments. I also looked into typed variations of Lua, but there's a few, and some of them are all-or-nothing solutions.

Teal has been out for a while, but I'm always pleasantly reminded of what exists in the Lua space, and how people continue to create great solutions for what I accept to be a more niche language.

I hope that these solutions continue to be shared around on HN, because even though Lua's ecosystem is small enough for many of us to recognize one another, there's a lot more tech out there than Lua and you forget what people are working on.

For as mature as Lua is, there are still complimentary solutions that are lacking in maturity or solutions that still don't exist all together. It's a very exciting space for developers.
But most tinkering journeys do not start with dedicated hardware. They start with hardware intended for something else, generally on a quest to solve some problem or do something cool..
There is only really one option to store it, underground.

Now you might ask if that’s in pure carbon, CO2, or dead organisms but that is just an economic question. While multiple options exist picking one is far less difficult than funding it’s implementation.
Yes, 403 Forbidden in lynx as well. This is a very unfortunate trend I've seen increasing over the last couple years. The answer almost always comes from an nginx server, but my understanding is that it's User-Agent sniffing being done for DDOS protection and the use of nginx (being used as a proxy?) is incidental. I have not been able to find any good discussions about it.
Have you tried baby mittens? It looks like a pouch, there are no individual fingers on the mittens. We put those on our baby to avoid the scratching problem. Here is an example: https://www.amazon.com/RATIVE-Newborn-Scratch-Mittens-9-pair...
I would not be surprised if FB had a class called Eigenperson, somewhere in their code or database.
Vagrant is a great tool and I'd love to move my projects over to it. Here's hoping the 64bit Windows incompatibility can be fixed!
Not really. you shouldn't be always doing the hardest thing, but the thing that gives you the most value/ROI, or in terms of >1 entity, the thing with which you have the most comparative advantage.
I know this is a terribly jaded way to look at the world but when I see big corporations boasting of big donations to charity, which have to be only a small portion of their profits, it makes me wonder why they are paying their employees so little or charging their customers too much.

Their corporate voice doesn't speak for me and other individuals would have chosen different charities, so why don't they empower more people to make their own donations instead of taking from us and doing it for us in their own name.

What if instead Google just doubled the pay for all their employees in India (for example) and allowed those people to put the money back in their own economy as they buy things they need?
Also, http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/#tnc
It's often handy to have a full blown programming language at your disposal in a configuration file. Want to pull a configuration setting out of another file? Want to loop through things to avoid repetition? Want to switch some but not all configuration settings depending on some parameter? Depending on which hardware you're running on? Easy.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1917274
Thanks for this. This is an awesome resource!
Jerry Maguire
The second example is even more of a smoking gun -- adding a "return;" to the end of a function shouldn't affect optimization within an earlier loop. Especially not that much!
Comparing slack to IRC is like comparing an mp3 player with the first iPod.

And the answer is "yes" you're missing a lot.
I'm sure it's not terrible to use, but I'm not sure it's worth it for a caveman like me to put time into learning it. Sublime Text and Brackets already work very efficiently and allow me to focus on getting things done.

Of course, PHP people probably said the same thing when Rails came out. The difference is that current GUI editors are already very advanced. I'm skeptical that I would get any efficiency boost from vim (at least anytime soon).
So causing housing to become less affordable and eventually driving the community out is considered "making it better" Better for whom?
Personally, I just get annoyed at the libertarian dreamers. It's not that I hate bitcoin or even that I want it to fail. On balance, I'm probably in favor of it succeeding. But it's really hard to keep wanting that after hearing all the ideological claptrap.. I find myself hoping it'll crash just to shut these people up.

A movement that started as a reaction to the failures of communism has become just as ideological and unrealistic. "The whole world would have peace and prosperity if only people acted the way we think they should." That's aside from the libertarians who are basically just garden-variety tribal Republicans but want to be hip.

I'd also note that, for the purpose of this discussion, "liberals/progressives/moderates/whatevers" basically includes everyone who's not a true libertarian believer.
Looks to be fixed now. Thank you for alerting us to the issue!
The original AI memos at MIT show almost step-by-step how McCarthy developed Lisp. Here's the first, which includes symbolic differentiation as an example: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/AIM-00... . For the rest, skip down to the Documentation and Papers section of http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fam... .
If every endpoint could support at least two isolated enclaves, it would be feasible for enterprises to isolate some high-value info assets to an internal VPN that is isolated to one of the enclaves, with the other exposed to risky public channels and attacks.
How about sorting by stars?

And how to add things - I am trying, but without a success?
That is an interesting line of thinking. At some point we'll likely break from the invisible hand of the greedy gene, but I'd be surprised if we're there yet.
The Microsoft project is a way of figuring out current upper wind conditions from data available from the aircraft that fly at those upper altitudes ... which is pretty cool, but doesn't help plan fuel loads by itself. For that you would have to use those derived wind speeds to generate a better forecast. You need to know what the winds are going to do in the future. Getting the upper wind forecast wrong doesn't cause a crash. At the most it might cause a diversion.

The Microsoft idea has nothing to do with the sort of bad weather that people think might of been an issue with Flight QZ8501. That bad weather mostly consists of thunderstorms which are small unpredictable areas of vertical air movement.

Drones are not likely to be of much help here as they normally operate at low altitudes.
A smaller population allows you to devote more resources per capita while reducing the resource consumption of the population as a whole. Apart from the obvious appeal of enjoying at least comparatively luxurious allocation of public resources, this can have real benefits for a modern knowledge economy; having more educational resources to devote per-child can give your country a leg-up on those that have to use their funding on a much larger, ever-growing student body.

Put another way, which problem would you rather have: desperately trying to keep 2000 inner city youth from dropping out of a school that is halfheartedly going through the "everyone should go to college" motions and not really teaching them anything relevant or helpful to their life track so that the majority can graduate into minimum wage service jobs at best or end up on welfare or in a gang at worst, or teaching 20 everything you know about web development or some other marketable trade that can lift them out of the vicious cycle?

I don't really know anything about Japan's education system beyond serafuku, but this is the way I see the world moving in the somewhat near future as manual labor and service jobs continue to fall to automation.
I worked on a project using Akka (Scala), and this seems to have the same core aspects as that (well, it's just message passing but easy to set up and thel like). Hope this catches on, seems like a very promising library
Excellent website. What did you use for the front-end, is it based off a template? It looks great!
Coul'd not agree more. Still think that git should have comments by default
Sounds stupid until you realize that the kids could be allergic or have religious or other reasons to not eat certain things.

I'm pretty sure that the teacher have had to deal with angry parents in the past and now want to avoid it.
Perhaps some kind of evolutionary algorithm might work.
Got one recently. It’s really great and Just Works in a way the Wear OS watches don’t. An advantage to a closed ecosystem.
I am based in europe and my hosting service recently requested me to confirm my details (country of residence etc..) to charge VAT in accordance with EU laws.
I assume fair amount of these startups service Mexican market and local people. What do you expect them to do, charge locals the US prices? If you don't have that insane SV investor money to burn it makes them struggle.
My mother got injected by combat medic in uniforms. You can count it as involvement in rollout
What kinds of applications do you build? It sounds like having pixel perfect components that match exactly what the designers want is a really high priority for you. And that is fine but man it can really make dev go slower than using existing ones and I'm not always sure it's worth it.
Exactly, the problem is that you don’t get these baseline features for free. SPA, in my experience, is a lot of people poorly reimplementing the wheel.
Would it be okay to like segregate the misconduct accounts under a domain like shitbirds.twitch.tv?

Then everybody would know that they were only providing them service under threat of government force.
Diabetes is highly preventable and we choose not to address it societally. We may not like what that says about us, but it says something. Especially when you compare our societal response to it with our societal response to COVID.
It's like Intel is releasing the same CPUs with new boxes and naming hoping that people won't find out :-) That company has become such a failure. What happened 5 years ago?
I like your nginx logo it very much!
Tarballs must be compressed in a very particular way to support random access, and even that only works with on-demand decompression using a slow compressor (zlib). In Fly's model this would probably also need to happen inside the container's VM.

All together it might save a little one-time startup cost, at the expense of making every other operation on the filesystem much slower for the life of each container.
Although more complicated than just "provider bans speech", this was an interesting case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Technology_Center_v.....
Yes, but most of these iterations took place under very different circumstances than what you are likely to face today.
is there any contact for interested buyers?
(serious)

sent e-mail to delicious and yahoo - if anyone knows a quicker contact let me know! THANKS!
I saw a few posts from the account, but I didn't know any more.

I've been seeing an increasing number of duplicates myself, including entries using the same URL with an octothorpe added at the end -- a pretty obvious ploy, in my mind.

When HN started up, it was about the conversation. If someone else had already posted a link, great: People just joined in the conversation there if they had something to say. From my perspective, it saved the time of having to post it. And, in that I was often learning as much or more from the conversation on HN than from the links themselves, I was happy to find that conversation focused in one thread.

I'm not sure how, but I'd like to see the site steered back in that direction, if possible. (I have a few half-baked "ideas", but PG and crew have already demonstrated themselves to be more insightful than me -- in my own mind.)

I do think identifying the HN member behind DupDetector might be a benefit, to demonstrate their investment in the community and therefore, in my mind at least, credibility. Yes, I see the email address now, and I half remember off the top of my head whose domain that is. But I might have been a bit more supportive if I knew who was behind it and that they had an established, positive history with HN.

Anyway, just my 2¢; spend them before you need a wheelbarrow full.
Indeed. I have no confidence in Facebook's authentication of people... in what way do they verify that people are who they claim to be? Do they require a credit card number? A driver's license number? ANYTHING verifiable at all?
I apologize for offending you and for being rude.
Seems like a dog eat dog world in 'creativity'.

If I'm sad, I'm too busy wallowing in self pity than to do anything meaningful.
What are the power levels this thing emits?
For now you can try torrent files with size NOT more than 1.7 GB
This sort of subtyping tree available in abstract algebra isn't the same as an inheritance tree. Inheritance merely layers constructors.

What you really want to consider is interface subtyping and layering. Actually, more than just interfaces you want to also carry along laws. For instance, a group is a monoid with an inverse operation appended (interface concatenation) cut down by the fact that the inverse operation must be "nice" (law concatenation). If you only append the interfaces you end up with free structures.
"Non-conforming" only means they didn't completely adhere to the ES specification. There should be no possibility of buffer overflow.
GopherCon 2014 had a talk on "Go, from C to Go" by Russ Cox. Here's the slide deck and video for those interested [1, 2].

[1] http://talks.golang.org/2014/c2go.slide#1

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIE5nV5fDwA
I take exception with the choice of wording in "all major operating systems".

If you saw a game marketed as runnable on "all major operating systems", would you think it's deceptive, or at very least a poor choice of wording, if the game really only ran on Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11?

In the open source world, on a site called "Hacker News", "all major operating systems" would usually be thought to mean more than just Mac, Windows and Linux, particularly when it's chosen as a headline.

Also, claims by the author about ARM support are nice, but I don't see any ARM anything, anywhere, so not only is it not "all major operating systems", but it's "just the three most popular OSes, and only then on 64 bit x86".
>Sounds incredibly easy to cheat

Not if they make you write something when you come for the interview. It's not uncommon to have to fill out a questionnaire, even in Western companies.
This fascinates me. Can you tell me what the perception of time is like for this experience? Obviously it must be extended as compared with waking reality, but how long did it feel like? Was it like a lucid engrossing dream that has a plot that literally feels like many days length, or did you perceive the outside reality moving in more slow motion?
IME (lived 3 years in Germany) most Germans seem to think there is only one country in the world, that country being "Federal Republic of Germany around the 1970s or so".
>But it's not finished yet. We saw a better performance with a GC (due to all the extra copying autofree has to do), and made it the default

On vlang.io I can find this:

>Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's autofree engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. Remaining small percentage of objects is freed via GC.

So it's been 2 years and it's still unfinished, and you just use Boehm GC instead (from what I understood). Isn't your landing page a little misleading? This is the problem with V: a lot of grandiose claims but at the end of the day you use a GC used in every other toy language.
By law in the US farmers have up to 30 days to package eggs and then the eggs have to be sold within another 30 days, so the oldest eggs on the grocery shelf can be is 60 days. Most eggs are packaged and in a store for sale shortly after being laid.
What works for me best is to tell people what I do. This includes family and friends. Most of the time someone knows someone who needs a custom webapp.

Sometimes you can also join a business club in your community. This sometimes costs money but this can be a good investment.

And the most important: deliver good work. That will spread the word.
It depends on what server you want to play. It is not hard to download a pirated version of Minecraft and play it without paying. But, if you do it, you won't have access to most online servers available on the internet. In my opinion, the best thing to do is to buy it. After that, you can download any server you want from https://servers-minecraft.net/minecraft-bedwars-servers . Check it out by yourself. I am sure you won't be disappointed about it. Also, you can build your server here.
Turmeric has had similar issues, with some individuals adding industrial lead chromate to improve the colors (and add to the weight, as it is sold by weight) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/28/turmeric-...
Although the resources weren't great, most people in CG think marching cubes is "obvious" because the algorithm was independently discovered by a large number of people (without needing a guide like this!)