jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> After all, I gave you like $200. It's not the end of the world.

Where's my $200?
What I was getting at but forgot to include in my comment. Unfortunately it’s still a distant dream of mine that all carriers, fixed or mobile, would simply provide a dumb pipe billed based on max throughput and nothing more.
Well, there has been a couple of deaths after having received the vaccine.
Honestly, a small amount of programming knowledge would make a lot of jobs better
Yep. This isn't massively different from what I did when living in the states; I've always found myself far more productive at night when there are fewer distractions. Now I just get more sleep since I don't have to report to an office in the morning.
That's not a pet theory, it's simply true.
There's nothing wrong with Mesos on 4 hosts, though...

Anything more than a single host requires additional co-ordination - picking Mesos is mostly no different than rolling alternate methods for doing so.

It's not choice with the least overhead, but it's a possibility, for those for whom it has the right conveniences...
This study may show that more sleep may reduce longevity, but it doesn't say anything about daily well-being, alertness, and general state of mind. If I had to choose between more sleep and feeling better and being more productive everyday (what 9-10 hours/night does for me) and living longer but feeling crappy all the time (6-7 hours/night), it's no contest.
It's not about needing it, it's about the security of knowing that you have proper redundancy that will work if you need it ( e.g. one goes down) without manual intervention.
One of the many problems in poorer nations is the cost to get people to the vaccination centers. Multiplying that cost 3-4 times does not help.I don't know if mobile vaccination teams are really possible for Moderna and Pfizer, due to temperature requirements.
There are two people on the IRC channel answering questions. When the official #mtgox channel on freenode was muted (reason support gave: until we get answers from mtgox management) they kept talking to people on the unofficial channel ##mtgox-chat.
Yes it does - just not every time.
It won’t be that difficult, if it’s a digital video that’s cryptographically signed with the White House’s private key.
Discussing like adults means having the knowledge and will to face the facts (and to avoid childish blanket downvotes...)

John McDonnell say himself that he is a Marxist. The current Labour manifest is hardcore socialist and many of their plans are exactly how things were in former socialist/communist countries.

It's clueless or disingenuous to claim otherwise.
Has anyone any experience using this in place of emacs lisp? Wikipedia seems to suggest it is actually possible?
Lisp is a failure.

It failed to deliver a usable Operating System within a budget. It failed to deliver AI with even the intelligence of a donkey. It failed to deliver an efficient IDE. It failed to deliver a serialization format for the industry to use. It failed to deliver a fast interpreter for high performance applications like Games. It failed to deliver a usable framework for Web Applications for 20 years. It failed to deliver package management for libraries.

If the History of Lisp is to teach us anything is that the unity of data and code is not a prerequisite to write useful applications.
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Transeau found that software tools to accomplish this weren't readily available. So, he decided to develop his own, forming his own software company, Sonik Architects. And later Sonik Architects was acquired by iZotope.

It's like saying: "Columbus didn't discover America because it already existed" or "Newton didn't discovered 'Law of inertia' because it already existed".
> Also, to be frank, many languages give a false sense of knowledge portability.

This is true, there's a very common psychological bias that people experienced in one domain when encountering a new subject which they find difficult will sometimes blame the new subject matter as flawed or overly complicated instead of realizing the limitations of their own knowledge.
I just finish "The Martian: A Novel" by Andy Weir and I really enjoyed it.
Try Leech Block:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476/

It blocks selected websites during hours / days you select, or allows you to say "No more than 30 minutes of Hacker News every 4 hours." It's highly configurable.

Of course, you're smart enough to find a way round its blocking if you want to. But really, deep down, you want to be productive and when Leech block pops up with its "Site blocked" screen, it will be a helpful reminder of this.
The person who succeeds best in our culture is the one with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. NPD people are great at telling others what they want to hear, and, unfortunately, that gets you further than any other skill.

If there's a reason that our civilization will go the way of the dinosaurs, this may be it.
> Finish your education. It's the basis for your future.

Not sure about this one.

Sure, good education helps a lot, but not all education is good, and sometimes (and it's probably especially true for startups) you will learn much more by just going into a field.

The most famous example of a successful dropout is Bill Gates, and I believe we have a few dropout here at HN as well.

> And if you think it's not, why on Earth are you paying so much for it?

Education is so expensive because lots of people want to get a degree, and high demand means high prices.

High prices do not mean that something is really necessary or useful for you - think of diamonds.
"Brush your teeth" never worked me. I'd get hungry and eat anyway. Two servings of whey protein powder a day, on the other hand, completely nukes my interest in snacks.

As for HN and such, I find my interest waxes and wanes. I definitely have days where it's a big distraction, particularly when I'm waiting 10 seconds for something to compile and come back ten minutes later. Then there are days when I'm too focused on coding, marketing or whatever I'm doing for it to be a big distraction.
I meant to ask last time, but for those of us who aren't DC natives, what is RFD?
I am always amazed at the number of very senior IT people who have never heard of him. I read his book as a very junior employee and felt like I was in some kind of secret club compared to everyone above me. People can be forgiven for going down technical dead ends or any of a multitude of bad decisions that are only obvious in hindsight. There is zero excuse for repeating mistakes that are well-documented and avoidable. The funny thing is, it's not like his book is all theory. Anyone who has spent 5 or more years near most big corporate IT shops can readily identify most of the things he mentions in their own organization.
I don't know if that is a solvable problem. Society is trust, and it always takes trusting someone to make any system work.

People try to build trust-less systems all the time (like blockchains) but always run up against someplace where trust is required.
Consider avoiding sample bias (or any unconscious bias) that might shape your further hiring decisions. Also --even if they only lasted a year-- if they gave their A game, they may have made impactful contributions to the startup.
I mean, good for you. Same here. But how does this address the question? The OP was not asking if everyone else working at big tech felt the same. Whether you like your job is irrelevant to whether OP likes theirs.
The Houston Chronicle reported today that the Texas GOP plans to purchase several domains resembling democratic candidates and run active disinformation campaigns against them using fake campaign sites[0]. Might’ve had something to do with it.

0: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article...
Some years ago I wanted to give it a shot so I tried one of those meditation exercises, where the goal is to have your mind calm to the point of not having any conscious thoughts and only experiencing sensations. Was stubborn about it and did it for maybe 3? hours continuously until I actually started having some success.

I can definitely report reaching an altered-state experience afterward that mirrors some of the things described here. The intensity of everything was dialed way, way up, in a way I had kind of forgotten was possible but I'm pretty sure I experienced as a kid. I don't think there's a way to put it in words that's comparable to experiencing it but it was not a subtle effect at all.

Abstractly, say everything has an "interestingness" value, and certain things would be near the top like a great movie or book. It was like there was a dial for this value that just scaled everything, and it was dialed up high enough where just the way light & shadow interacted on some things was as interesting as a great movie. Everything was super interesting. Kind of like a reverse burnout state, where maybe nothing is interesting. The effect lasted the rest of the day.

Anyway it wasn't easy at all to get in that state and I don't think I made a serious effort again. But I'd definitely recommend giving it a shot to anyone who's curious. It wasn't like there was any complex technique, it was basically just close your eyes, focus attention on breath and let go of all conscious thoughts. Personally the last part was the hard part.

I wonder if it gets easier with time so you can reach that state in 30 min or something instead of struggling hard for 3 hours. If that's the case maybe I should try seriously practicing it since having control of that dial would be pretty useful.
That's not how .nyc is used or is expected to be used. It's a top-level domain, not a dotless host name. Here's an example of how it's used: https://thecity.nyc/
In a similar situation, I decided to take a leave of absence with no plan for what I was going to do. Since I wasn't sure I'd go back, I made sure other people on the team were prepared.

Then serious family stuff happened and I was happy to have the time to deal with it. After the leave of absence was up, I still wasn't sure and asked about extending, but they didn't go for that so I left the company.

Since then I've learned to play the accordion and now I'm tinkering with electronics to come up with a new musical instrument. No real desire to get a job. After a while I decided I'm fine with simply being retired.

So I'd say try the leave of absence?
It's less stressful.

I show up to work, try my best to work with my team and accomplish something.

You do have plenty of people who think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread since they are going to go work for Google or Facebook but can't seem to actually leave... which is weird because they're so damn good. Unfortunately, they don't leave and are not so good and make your day hell and make you yearn for the sweet release of going home and playing some Outer Worlds.

But yeah, less stressful.
I can't find anything about this. Link?
Even Windows 3.1 is at risk! http://img.zdnet.com/techDirectory/_PROGMAN.GIF
http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q0q8r8r8888070...

another interesting one visually and acoustically
In case you are interested in developing on the Microsoft platform instead of Apache and MySQL, Web Platform installer is the way to go. Makes it a lot easier to install Visual Studio Express, ASP.Net MVC which otherwise is a real pain sometimes.
Honest criticism here with suggestion on how to please me.

I wasn't interested viewing a website I saw last week as a pdf. What I suggest doing is checking out how arc90 made the readability bookmarklett, scoop content that way so that it works on your pages with your own magazine-like design that isn't boring. Include top comments, and create a section for discussions (comments that get a lot of replies/nesting). I go far out of my way to un-style every website to be nice and uniform without superfluous content screaming at me from every direction (why did gopher:// have to die?!).
I like this approach a lot. Assuming the idea is just to make it a teeny bit more difficult to apply than firing off an email to jobs@wherever.com, this is a great way to do it. It filters out those with no real interest in the company and establishes a competency floor (albeit a rather low one), and selects for people who are interested in solving problems in the most elegant way possible -- by actually giving them a problem to solve.

I didn't try this particular challenge, but it reminds me of Reddit's recent job postings (which I was able to complete in a couple minutes using Google and the command line on my Ubuntu machine) in spirit. Maybe the tone with which they communicated it was a little smug, but if you had your choice of people who spent as little as 7-8 minutes on this versus folks who needed to work on it for a whole afternoon, who would you choose to hire?
I was specifically using the full site because the Android FB app, on 2.1 anyway, is pretty limited as to what it can do. I'm still eagerly awaiting an update to 2.2 from Samsung for my Captivate that will supposedly happen before the end of this month. I'm not holding my breath.
They're listed in clockwise order.
I see where the author is coming from but I think there’s a much more insidious problem that’s “destroying America”.

“Fake Work” managers are incompetent. But in my time consulting I much preferred the “fake work” manager who was just trying to hide the fact that he was doing nothing to the manager who was just as incompetent but who thought he was a genius and wanted a say in every decision. I’ve dealt with…

= Managers who insisted they needed a $30,000 accounting package because they “only wanted the best” and ended up foisting layers of complexity onto a company that would have gotten by on Peachtree.

= Managers who arbitrarily decided to upend a project because of a positive article they read in the NY Times or WSJ.

= Managers who insisted I get all my info from them and not their underlings (even though it was clear they had no idea what was actually going on and their underlings did).

And so on…Much of this behavior ended up putting money in my pocket as a consultant but it was unquestionably destructive to the companies that employed these people.
With the places you access the computer from do you use dynamic or static IP addresses?

If they're all static IP addresses, try to block everything on port 22 except for your static IPs.

If it's dynamic you should have a pool address block, you can add the block in but there's a risk that if your block is in an ISPs home user pool that the botnet could infect people in your block.

If you can't use upstream filtering then I'd suggest you configure a firewall to do the same thing, either in hardware (preferable) or software.
You might have better luck rooting around in your back yard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_digging
When the Space Shuttle program was decommissioned in 2011, the U.S. lost human spaceflight capability. We are at a point in U.S. history that is similar to the human spaceflight gap that existed between the Apollo program and the Space Shuttle program.

There is an American flag that flew on-board STS-1. It was left on display in the ISS by the crew of STS-135. It is awaiting return to the U.S. by the next American crew that is launched from the U.S.

I do my best to embrace the concept of being a citizen of the world rather than of a specific country, but I can't help feeling a little patriotic. Like many of you, I grew up watching the Space Shuttle launches; all of those memories of both the successful launches and the tragic losses. That zeitgeist you grew up with, seeing those launches: it indelibly marked young people like us, with the knowledge and firm belief that, anything is possible through science and technology, perhaps even more so because it was during that time that we were teaching ourselves to program on our Commodore 64, Atari 800, etc.

Perhaps this feeling is heightened for me now, because in the U.S., I think there has been an under-current feeling for some time now, that could be paraphrased as, "Where are we heading, as a nation?"

I still believe in those child-hood dreams, and my eyes get a little misty, thinking of when we will launch into space and bring that flag home.
Here are a few options:

- specialized WordPress Plugin development and sales

- making Android or iPhone apps

- making HTML5 apps with a mobile phone framework, and which work on Android and iPhone phones

On getting programmers, you'll want to keep trying, and putting comments out in forums and anywhere you can. I advise you to find some programmer in or near your timezone so that you don't end up playing the timezone game. And you'll likely want to check in another hemisphere. For instance, if you're in NYC, you could consider contacting some developer in Brazil.
I enjoyed my OS class working with semaphores, shared memory, and some process scheduling was fun.

I wish I had a chance to take a class that took me deep into computer hardware, but unfortunately my curriculum didn't have any hardware focus at all...
Something similar occurred once for me as well.
What is "MM"? Millimeters? I'm joking of course, but I don't understand what "MM" means in a money context. I know that $1K is one thousand dollars, $1M is one million dollars, $1B is one billion dollars, $1T is one trillion dollars, and gosh, by now, we're talking some serious coin... but "MM"? Even if MM were Roman Numerals, one would have to assume an implied multiplication.
Did he really get in trouble for 'trademark infringement' as decided by a court, or as decided by ICANN?
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You can't think of any ideas which began well outside of the Overton window, but today are commonly accepted as true?
No, it's not surprising that they explode in unpredictable ways. That's why you need the tanks and the guns for when they do, not just let them run roughshod over the basic concept of fact-based reality.
A random dude on YouTube and 4chan vs police reports?

I'd expect this on reddit, but not on hn
> he's now a lame duck, he doesn't really have power anymore

you can try telling that to the 5 dead people from the sacking of the Capitol I guess
>suppose that Bill Clinton, George Bush, or Barack Obama had declined to attend the inauguration of there predecessors. That would surely trigger a crisis worthy of de-platforming.

What? Let's say Obama had declined to attend Trump's inauguration. I don't think Twitter would ban him for that.
Ideas are edifices, they have to be constructed on a foundation. And, once trusted, they becomem a platform, on top of which more ideas can be constructed.

I think the main problem is that the lies people believe today (i.e. that the election was stolen) are constructed on a deep foundation (which, like anything, is some part factual and some part counterfactual).

To refute a lie, you have to not only tear down the lie, but the foundation on which it was constructed. And because life is complicated, sometimes we construct many verifiable truths on top of complete lies. We have to be careful deconstructing these.

So, to correct a superficial lie (election was stolen), you have to deconstruct the lie recursively (state electors, mail in voting, behavior of senators/congresspeople). This is incredibly hard, because people trust the platforms on which the lie is constructed.

This is why we don't bother trying to reason with the "lizard conspiracy" people. It's also why PhD students can't be bothered to explain their work to people outside their field.

It's a real conundrum.
I would argue that Element on android is really good in terms of UI/UX. But I think the desktop experience is definitely behind others, and I have no idea how the iOS client is like.
Yes, thanks for the correction.

As it's been said before, it's very geographically dependent.
In here, there isn't a local shop or service that doesn't advertise its WhatsApp number. Even the city hall's ombudsman answers via WhatsApp. Not email, not phone.

I'd love to be able to communicate through open protocols such as IRC and email alone. But that's not the world I, and I would wager, most, live in.
They are:

https://github.com/servo/servo
As a shorthand for work factor? Sure. It may be technically inaccurate, much like talking about centrifugal force, but you'll see "10 rounds" far more frequently than you'll see "1024 rounds". There's another thread on this post that refers to it as rounds as well.
In almost any debate there are going to be people that take one side to an necessary extreme. But at least those people who claim to have a right not to be offended are engaging in discussion. The people who demand we adhere to absolute free speech are both by definition unwilling to compromise and are coming to the conversation under false pretenses that we currently have absolute free speech in the first place.

Although I do want push back against your "literally violence" point since we handle that differently on an individual versus group basis currently. For example, if we start with the idea that slander of an individual infringes on the rights of someone, why is slandering an entire protected class of people okay? Cohen could sue me if I called him miserly (to use one of the examples of hate from his speech), but it is fine to say all Jews are miserly including Cohen? That doesn't make much logical sense to me.
Nice one. However, I cancelled in person a couple years ago (because I had equipment to return).

The first thing I said at the counter was "I know it's really hard to cancel Comcast, and I'm not going to accept anything but a cancel."

The girl at the counter smiled and said "We know ..." and immediately cancelled my account.
You get the (IMO ugly) look, but none of the feel. The old start menu, the old explorer, etc. are not available with the classic theme.
The article says it is "Company 2: OxyData.Io (OXY)"* (http://oxydata.io)
How is that true? The OKR explicitly doesn't include cloud print because it is deemed not important to Google, and so cloud print is not worked on. Seems to be WAI?
Don't forget the other side of the coin:

The President really does give a speech or make a comment, but 50% of the electorate is sure it's a deepfake.
It's a marketing ploy by ES.

They aggregated the data and published it so that the viral breach would spread their name around because all publicity is good publicity.

Just riffing of course.
Yes. As does every provider of servers, VPS and cloud services.
For those wanting to download the larger versions: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/im...
Justifying the sole control of UIKit application distribution based on the fact that either WebKit exists or that UIKit is not implemented within a VM is illogical and irrelevant.
Bodybuilders have been saying this for a while. There are always arguments about thermodynamics and what not, and there is good reason behind those, but everyone in a gym who builds up a lean body (sans steroids or not) follow a similar dietary pattern: lean meats, veggies, no flour/sugar/starchy veggies, etc for cutting and then eating more protein and some complex carbs (like from potatoes) to build lean mass.