jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1) Yes

2) Yes, but those appear to be the actual semantics of uv/dv buttons, not the intended meaning. It's sad but true. This has it's own impact, people tend to talk about the things that people will agree with in order to get upvotes.

3) Yes a million times. The actual Apple/Google/Microsoft discussions here are a very tiny signal in a fantastic epic pile of ideological noise. These are companies we can learn a lot from by looking at their successes and mistakes, but it's virtually impossible because people have invested far too much time making their purchase of products these companies make part of their personal identities.

4) Meh, maybe. That's just the way a community like this might skew.

5) Yeah well. But I find I'm fantastically up-to-date on the technology and business concepts for this area.

6) I actually find the comments on HN and interesting meta-discussion to most everything that shows up. I typically don't care to talk with the author of something. Most of the time, the link target isn't a blog with a comments section anyways.

7) Oh well. I'm not sure blogging is that great a benefit to humanity anyways.

I'm surprised it's not over the mysterious rules that PG tweaks constantly on the site, or the slow degradation along the HN->reddit->digg->4chan path.

And common, no alternate site that he's going to?!
If it's all client side s3/cloudfront and you're done. Costs pennies.

You can go super jank using s3 only with simple sites but realistically you're going to want TLS at some point.
Optimizing for the species survival is more valuable than some whiny landlord demanding rent.

Growing up a poor person going to the city was a real trip.

Life’s exciting things are very different emotionally when you accept Switzerland isn’t an option.

Not having health insurance didn’t stop us from playing with rockets.

Words and feelings are not necessarily a connection to reality. Internal anxiety isn’t truth.

Western culture seems addicted to the notion the world needs it to spread its gospel across the globe, or life isn’t worth living.

Consume in accordance with the demands of high finance!

An exceptional nation brought to its knees by the idea iPhone 2021 not being released is a sign of the end times.
> It's unseemly to blame the other half for that.

Who is "blaming" anyone? Suggesting that there was no public consensus for extreme actions 6 or 8 weeks ago isn't blaming anyone for anything it is just stating a fact.

And your last comment seems to be repeating the lie that the President called the virus a hoax, which he did not. He called the unfounded accusations of his lack of actions another hoax. It is unrcontionable to be spreading that misinformation at this point.
based on SARS is not useful. Until we get COVID-19 specific data that means nothing. 15% of the common cold is attributable to coronoaviridae and that very much doesn't cause these problems. Just because you see something in SARS-COV-1 doesn't mean you'll see it in SARS-COV-2. SARS-COV-1 has a fatality rate of 15% overall and 50% in over-65s [1] and MERS have death rates approaching 35% [2].

Until we see actual reports of this in the wild directly attributable to SARS-COV-2 we shouldn't really extrapolate. Otherwise it's as useful as saying "based on the fact 15% of the common cold is attributable to coronaviridae, get out there and have fun" or "based on the fact MERS and SARS-COV-2 are both coronaviridae 35% of people are going to die."

[1] http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2003/05/estimates...

[2] https://www.who.int/emergencies/mers-cov/en/
If you want to delve into the details then the Apple II source code is on github: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

Along with technical documentation: http://jordanmechner.com/downloads/popsource.pdf
Health care workers are already reusing masks due to short supply
VMware just announced a Folding@Home virtual appliance. https://octo.vmware.com/vmware-appliance-fah/

I'm fully aware that this is not a container, doesn't run on free/open-source software, etc. etc. but it's an available alternative now.
I used to adore JT’s work after seeing it on Hacker News Monthly and feel very sad to hear about her fate.
Microsoft is obsessed with GUIDs, Windows is also full of them.
The person you linked to believes it to be a government computer, that did not comply with the security protocols (which he says is “very common”).

https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1346925826923663360

There’s no debunk here. It’s a computer connected to the government network at Nancy peolosi’s desk. Anything else is just semantics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/21/seattle-chaz...

"police say violent crowd prevented access to victims"
I think you mean sniping, not shopping, and I can certainly see your point. Believe me, when I bought the business I carefully thought through the ethics. At this point it is unlikely eBay changes its policy because the pros and cons both are run surprisingly deep.

FWIW there were a few studies done on it in the early days of eBay, and it appears that sniping tends to bring more buyers to the table, even though sellers can feel uncomfortable with it.
me too! mine was on an Atari Portfolio like the original, but I wasn't able to get it as smooth as in the movie using BASIC

In hindsight I'm guessing I made the noob mistake of relying on a slow PRNG or similar
What I don't get is this, there are real-life people working at these companies. What are the managers and developers at Facebook/Whatsapp thinking? Are there hi-fives in the hallways to celebrate the impending win?

I have worked on many a project in my time, and I can't think of a single instance where we knowingly screwed over users or clients. Our teams' goals have always been to make the product better. What's going on here? I am honestly curious.
> witnesses who filed sworn affidavits

Which are not intelligence agencies nor election officials. Anyone can sign an affidavit, it's not some magical paper.

If intelligence services or elections officials had found something, they would've announced it officially, instead they have announced the opposite. [0] [1]

> I'm thinking the blogs got it from him, not the other way around.

Trump is regularly retweeting information that has no other source or basis than theories created in the deep bowels of the internet. [2] (and hundreds more)

[0] https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-electio...

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-electio...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-la-ballots-idUS...
Did they remove similar posts about BLM?
Half of your country doesn't deserve respect? Democrats need to listen to themselves first and then maybe they'll learn to listen to others too.
It hasn't been an issue, and I thought it might be. I believe all the current MacBooks have the power button in the same location. Luckily OS X and Windows let you disable sleeping when the power button is pressed.
I had a similar idea two months ago, but instead of being a web api (with all the scalability and privacy issues that ensue), I made it a browser extension. where people could add parameters to embedded iframes in order to display them nicely formatted.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nahmdndkmncjhppb...
I get email from Google recruiters every couple of months, you'd think they'd lay off now that I've told them a few times I'm a full time student... and will be for another year and a half. I've also been pulled in for a contracting job, but that wasn't from a recruiter.
What netbook do you have? A lot of popular laptops and netbooks have a page in the Arch wiki with installation instructions step by step.

As an example, this is the Asus Eee PC 1005HA page on Arch's wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_1005HA
TV Tropes is a huge time sink for me whenever I go there:

http://tvtropes.org/

Edit: a couple more:

http://arstechnica.com/

http://pitchfork.com/
Thanks .. I just realized that Tripit does this w.r.t itineraries.
This actually runs pretty smoothly on my Milestone's default browser. Colour me impressed. It did not run well on Opera Mini though.
This is to say, there was roughly three delayed notes per beat, or as Tim Darling points out, it's roughly 3/16 tempo (though really I think he meant 6/16 time or 3/8 time, where 3/8 = 0.375, which is a close approximation to 0.36788).

No, I think he meant 3/16, especially since he explains the derivation of that value. It's a fixture in reggae music and dub because it provides instant syncopation, and later found its way into a lot of electronic dance music for the same reason. Get started with Dub at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music and then study the early studio history of Lee Perry, who pioneered a great many audio production tricks by necessity. This 1978 track is a seminal work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9Z2TEqSZo All the sound effects going on are done with a mixer and 2 delays, using tricks like splitting the output of a channel back into 2 inputs and inverting the polarity on one.

The 'number of delayed notes per beat' comes in around 3 because the delay unit is feeding back on itself, and a 4th repeat (being equal to 12/16ths) is likely to fall exactly on a beat: 1/16, 5/15 and 12/16 are the strongest beats in rock and dance music. If you hit the 9/16 beat it's straight rock or dance, if you delay it by half a beat you get the basic rhythm of hip hop. You can of course turn the feedback up higher but above a certain level it tends to run away and make a horrible noise, independently of the delay time.

Edited to add: I hope that explanation didn't sound blithely dismissive of the mathematical investigations. The 1/e hypothesis is compelling, but has the air of being 'so beautiful, it must be true' - be careful of this! I have several notebooks' worth of similar explorations of geometry, golden ratio and so forth as applied to music. It's wonderfully inspiring, but it's easy to find yourself trying to square the circle or retrieve the Lost Chord.
But are all 420M people saying things worth hearing? Of the 300M people in the USA, I haven't found a whole ton of it is worth reading!
Are you saying that we don't spend enough on the military given the tasks that our leaders have given the military? Or are you saying that as a general principle the level of funding for the military is too small?

Personally I think the military budget should be drastically cut. This includes cutting back on military commitments. I don't see how it is efficacious for the U.S. to spend around 5% GDP on defense matters while European countries spend much leas as a percent of GDP. It does not appear to me that the average American benefits enough to justify this expense.
Makes me wonder why stories like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6107478

are so easily killed off on HN.
I'm not completely convinced that programming in C in an hour long interview is the most productive way of testing system call, libc and garbage collection knowledge.

I do agree if you are applying for a systems level job, C testing should be more rigorous.
ditto.... I also do the "trick yourself into doing things" technique.

Good to hear that other people go through the exact same thought process.

I don't know how you manage working from home though... going to the office in a morning works wonders for me. I tend to regress over the weekend; I'm at my peak on Wednesday and Thursday.
Ah yeah, for startups I can buy that. Since Georgia's isn't/wasn't nearly as clear-cut as California's, it's much harder to get the lawsuit summarily thrown out, so it's a big drain for startups. The "de-facto impossible to enforce" part is more that as case law developed and somewhat expanded the "loophole", it became difficult for an employer to actually win a suit for violating a noncompete clause. But they could certainly drag it on for a while.
I sent an email to the address listed in your profile. I'd be happy to help point you in the right direction to resolve your immediate issues, just check your email and shoot me a response.
Yeah, I'm aware of the amounts. However, they do vary. I recall reading of 100k being considered a 'substantial investment' for software. The main problem is that the investment most likely should not be made in the startup since the investor also needs to own an equity stake according to the "inverted rule". For amounts in the 100k range, this is > 75%.
Well, more like it's Google's not-a-JVM VM that they provide a JVM -> Dalvik bytecode translator. E.g. from stack based to the rather rare choice of a register based VM.

Therefore no Harmony patent grant could cover Dalvik, as wmf points out elsewhere in this thread.
Most interesting is how APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority) is essentially calling some Australian financial institutions negligent:

"APRA has noted that its regulated institutions do not always recognise the significance of cloud computing initiatives and fail to acknowledge the outsourcing and/or offshoring elements in them"
This is actually very interesting. Because you can just turn this around make sure that the person at home leaves their house at that time because someone is coming :) Out of curiosity are you also working on an appointment specific service?
I think a mix of things are coming into play here.

There is some innate talent involved in having the personality and mindset to easily think logically, and analytically. Likewise, the ability to jump to higher/lower levels of abstraction.

However, these are areas that people with different personalities can develop. Maybe the guy who comes to it naturally will pick it up quicker, but 5, 10, 20 years into a career, I suspect many people have balanced the playing field.

The mini-skillsets referred to in the article do come into play, as does the experience of what problems, industries, etc, one has worked on in their career.

At the end of the day, I think the overall idea that one person may be 10X in one situation, but 1X in another is 100% accurate.

Using myself as an example, I excel when working on old IBM legacy platforms to manage document-based applications, and modernize them to today's web UI expectations. That has been my specialty for about 10 years now, and I really am quite good at it.

But aside from HTML, CSS, JS, I don't know squat about the tools used by the startups who are writing thigns from scratch these days.

So at the end of the day, I am at least a 10X programmer in my little niche, but would not even pass a phone screen for a YC company.

The flip side is also true. The "rock stars" in SV would crash and burn if they had to do some of the things I do, as they would have to learn old legacy platforms that would be archaic and depressing to them.

And yes, this situation is problematic for my long-term career, but seems to be a great example of how different skill sets perform vastly differently depending on the project.
Some of the most interesting aspects of climbing to me are the mental and physical challenges that humans continue to plow through.

I mean, look at free solo climbing. You have to be so confident of your physical endurance, mental endurance and climbing skill that you are absolutely certain you will not fail, and then rely on sheer adrenaline to get through any rough spots. This after completely ignoring routine problems such as weather changes, holds breaking, animals/insects, physical injury, etc. How is it even possible for us to accomplish this physically, much less to work past the fear and uncertainty and keep the mind focused enough to work on complicated problems and accomplish a challenging task?

Other animals have no difficulty climbing walls. But typically they have some kind of natural advantage that helps them scale the nearly sheer surfaces... scales to provide friction, nails to dig into tiny pits, a high strength to weight ratio, hard friction-y pads and tough keratin hooves. Of course, we couldn't get very far without our specially designed climbing shoes, but even without shoes we still manage to lumber our weak, squishy bodies up complicated pitches. And the real kicker is we don't do it to avoid predators or reach food stores; we just feel like climbing.
Yes, new programmers spend a lot of time just getting things to work.

But, from years of managing summer interns, the biggest surprise to new programmers is the amount of non-code stuff that needs to be done alongside actual coding. Doc, comments, peer reviews (and the associated rework). The sooner they learn this is part of the job, the sooner they'll fit into the team's workflow and contribute at a high level.
I have a Nexus 4 like you and I treat it like a Windows 98 PC : reboot early, reboot often (ie at least once a week since Lollipop, it was worse before).

The phone seems to have problem exiting airplane mode (I do it every night) and only a reboot cures the problems.
Do a factory reset.
Agreed. Got a call from a headhunter for a contract job I was uniquely suited for because of the niche I had been working for 10 years. I needed a change but was quite relatively content so I aimed high with my requirements, got the job, and then slam-dunked it so well someone tried to sabotage my efforts.

I also agree with the post that there are a lot of different things to be good at in programming. I tend to be good at some of the ones that are not mainstream, and I tend to suck at some that are mainstream. Sometimes that makes me awesome, sometimes it makes me stupid.
http://www.androidpit.com/how-to-downgrade-a-nexus
We blame algorithms and optimization a lot here but that analysis always glosses over the fact that people pick their own sources and form their own bubbles.

Everyone’s Youtube subscriptions are an echo chamber of views they mostly agree with because people only click subscribe on such channels.

A recommendation engine working perfectly is going to show you lateral channels that might be more or less extreme of the last one. But that’s not the root of the problem.
#RepealStandardTime
I don't think people think that NSA doesn't have backdoor access in Linux.

But I think there's a huge difference between the maintainers purposefully implemented a backdoor for the NSA, and the NSA found exploits to gain backdoor.

Given that, what I'm more interested in is why Linus would say no when asked.
> both sides

Ah yes, the US two-party system.

The Democratic and Republican Party agree that it is in their interest to retain the two-party system induced from FPTP voting and the Electoral College and that is unlikely to change through reform from my point of view.

Some of the predominant ideologies in the US:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Democratic_socialism (PSL)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Liberal_conservatism (GOP)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Libertarianism_in_the_United_Sta... (US Libertarians)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Social_democracy (DSA)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Social_liberalism (DEM)

etc.
Building a linux server management tool where you can provide role based access to team members to run certain commands only through the interface.
I do not believe the election was stolen. But I also don't believe we had perfect election integrity either. In my mind any system involving hundreds of millions of people is bound to have some bad actors, mistakes, fraud, etc. It's important to acknowledge when and where it happens, and how to improve. But claiming any given election had near perfect integrity raises some alarm bells with me at least.
Do you imply that the doctor in this case could just easily open another clinic? Or that he doesn't need to because of enouch savings?
I've also done some socket hooking work in C/C++. Any idea if it's feasible to do with Go?
That article is incredibly stupid. From a user perspective, “single core” performance is irrelevant. What matters is single thread performance, and multi thread performance of the entire processor.
You should get $1 somehow (exchange BTC to dollars for example), so it's equivalent to sending the exchanged amount of BTC.
Instead of trying to outfox your own government, which is something you cannot do, turn your attention to peacefully and openly advocating for whatever it is you want to say. If that doesn't work, or you can't do so, move.

I know that this is a life-threatening proposition in totalitarian states (the Berlin Wall was designed to keep East Germans in), but I don't think that life under dictatorship is very much of a life anyway.
I love the problem solving stories. My favorite is the one about transporting the prototype from Washington to Nevada on a very wide trailer- which involved sawing signposts apart and bribing a bus driver...
The official stance according to DDG was that it was a bug and they fixed it.
> it should be illegal to ad / track users who have paid

It should be illegal to ad / track users, period. Oh hello GDPR, I didn’t see you there.
> The greater wedge they can drive between people the greater the potential for personal profit and political power.

And I agree with that. Also, I would say that the main issue here is money, not skin colour. Poor people are basically getting screwed so billionaires like Musk or Bezos add a couple more zeroes to their bank accounts.

But I cannot ignore the fact that there is racism embedded in the system, and that it is a massive problem.

I see this a bit like gender inequality back in the 70s and 80s. Are we going to ignore it, like our grandparents and parents did, or will be acknowledging it?
New York Times recognizes the severe corruption and abuses that the US patent system inflicts. They say that the US patent system actually inhibits real inventions, allows patent trolls to rob real inventors, and has been corrupted to enrich lawyers. Their solution is to reform it….

But the real problem is the fundamental concept that an idea should be owned by a person or corporation. In business, an extremely famous truism is that “Ideas are nothing, execution is everything.” Eliminating the patent system would open up the US economy to massive and rapid improvements. Think of the super fast breakthroughs and speed of inventions early in industries like aerospace when thousands of companies and inventors were putting out new products each day. Now, Boeing is the sole company left because it owns enough patents to prevent any new business from building airplanes. It’s a horrifying state of affairs that enriches fat cats who have never invented anything, and the attorneys who serve them.

Abolish the patent system!
So far as I can tell Li Ion batteries have gained about a 1.5x charge per mass improvement in the last 10 years. They may have doubled or trebled over a longer time frame though. If there was a big jump due to a particular technology an extra year or two in the time frame, or shift in the time frame might make a big difference.
Is it illegal to transfer value from person A to person B without the middleman?
Well for starters you're adding a third party into the mix.

I guess that sounds sarcastic, because probably for most people it's not worth it, but there's probably a point where the added overhead of the third party is worth the savings. Maybe then the third party insurer would be motivated to build active cost monitoring device that will cut the power to your house when the price gets too high. Do you trust your power provider to build un-backdooered logic, that they won't use for other purposes, for such a thing?

It being a third party also affords other opportunities, like, not buying the insurance and building your own power/price monitoring kit/algorithm. Suppose you are willing to pay a high premium to keep your freezer running but not the wall warts on all of your voltage-transformed devices?