jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was interviewing recently, and I asked everybody explicitly about remote. Any places that have wishy-washy answers or seemed enthusiastic to get software devs back into the office, I didn't continue with.

I have no way to know if I influenced anybody's thoughts or actions, but I communicated to everybody involved that I'm only interested in remote work, and told them that others I have spoken to feel the same.

That's not strictly true, I do know some folks that are looking forward to getting back to the office, but I tried to do my part anyway.

I think in a couple years we will be back to a pretty high percentage of positions being onsite. Right now there is a small window of time to really drive home the idea that there is a sizable group of folks who will refuse to commute to an office, and hopefully at least influence the number of future remote opportunities a little bit more in our favor.
I had no idea what this was, but found the main web site here: http://www.seldon.io/ (It features a carousel which updates faster than you can casually read the text, which I did not find encouraging.)
Meanwhile the community is trying to create a beneficial framework for all:

http://www.open-ix.org/
Well we are kind of like parasites to Earth:

http://www.bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Earth-Ma...
I've been one of the beta testers of Bugfender and so far I like it very much. It provides much more context when an issue happens instead of just getting the stack trace like Crashlytics does. One thing would be awesome to have in Bugfender is to automatically use the NSLog calls instead of having to change to BFLog all over an existing project. That way the only step to get it working would be to import the SDK and that's it.

If you are an iOS dev you should check it out, it may just save you many headaches when trying to debug a problem when it is not easy to replicate.
Those risks can be mitigated with a scalable business model, which scales up or down. When I first starting getting into the details of running a business, I was taught to always build in a core transaction that is the basis for the revenue. You then budget your expenses based on the actual costs and profit from a single transaction, and scale based on how many transactions actually occur. If your sales slip, your budgets decrease, and you may need to let people go, or take other actions to scale down... but the business itself is still running at a profit. The scenario of having to scale down sucks. But it doesn't have to move you into the red.

I admit that not all business plans can follow this philosophy, in particular if you are of the thinking to get traffic now and monetize later. And I'll work for people running companies who don't follow this philosophy, but I won't run one myself.
Last I checked it was the consumer ISPs that were stalling with peering upgrades according to multiple transit providers

http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/verizons-accidental-mea...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9264381
For various reasons, ISPs tend not to build competing infrastructure. Many municipalities grant time limited monopolies to Telecoms to get them to accelerate infrastructure construction. Also, after an ISP lays its lines and pays for them, it can make all future pricing decisions on the margin, meaning, it can price its service just above the cost of maintaining it. Another company will find it very difficult to incur the cost of construction and keep its price competitive.

I don't know enough about unbundling to say if I support it or not but I believe it has been pretty popular in countries that have adopted it.
Same goes for the US. US will use branches of foreign companies to leverage its rules.
>Why do people jump so easily from "lets build an efficient monitoring system" to terminators?

Because every technology that can be effectively used to oppress people has been.

While you can't stop technological progress it's farcical to pretend that people trying to oppress people will not use all the technology at their disposal. You cannot get the good with the bad.

If history is any indication I'm betting many people will have to get hurt by <thing> before society forms a consensus that it isn't ok to use <thing> to hurt people. It took WW1 to convince practically everyone that chemical weapons weren't worthwhile). It took the holocaust to get society to agree that genocide in developed nations (note the qualifier) is not ok. I'm not going to guess who will go down in history as the reason we don't build skynet but someone will likely have to before we stop building skynets.
The proof follows from the labour theory of value (the proof of which is, I believe, more controversial, especially as Marx does the "proof"), which states that the magnitude of value of a commodity is objectively determined by labour-time, not by "risk", and I think that's shown in cases where many busniesses, no matter how risky (and it seems here you're only talking about the capitalist's risk, not that of the waged labourer), realize different rates of profit which don't align with what we consider to be the risk of production. More risky businesses, in general, simply don't generate more profit than non-risky ones. If it were the reward for decision making, the rate of profit would diminish the more you sell something the same way and in the same place, since there are fewer decisions to be made for each subsequent commodity. Investing in future products and protecting against potential failures are uses of the $2 profit, not explanations as to its origin.

Let's say that it is risk. The capitalist labours the monetary equivalent of $1, i.e he spends $1 on his labour power, producing a total of $2 worth of labour. When the product is sold he is still given $2, but not all of that is profit, only $1 is, since the $1 paid is now a cost, he only gets $1 "for free", not $2. Therefore it's clearly in the interest of every capitalist to minimize the amount of work he does himself and instead "exploit" a waged worker for it.

Marxists have never argued that the worker has a "right" to the surplus value, only that it would be, in the most non-moral sense possible, in the interests of labourers who have this surplus appropriated due to the structure of production to ensure it is no longer appropriated in this way - i.e. a socialist or communist society.
As others have indicated, this is just an auto-update check.

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/lib/gui/etch...

This makes me very curious as to the motivation behind such an inflammatory issue report. Does this individual work for a competitor, or have some other issue with balena?
>barring misfortune like a health incident.

Here is a reminder to everyone that a health incident is only a financial misfortune in the US.
In CA I can't sell my current property tax rate.
The $25k for someone making $50k is a completely bogus number. It’s likely a little less than half that for a family of 4 on a Kasiser healthcare plan according to google.
If you can run it, and they don't link to cocoa, it should be able to do that just fine. Apple used to distribute a Darwin iso, I remember running it in the mid-2000s on an older Mac mini.
Thank you, I'm going through such a phase (similar to a very long burnout), and this helps.
It's possible to be both. Do not tolerate protest, and also promote family members to run state organisations.
have a quick question: how do I sort the comments coming in by time? Getting pretty overwhelmed here.
I'm not sure if hexxeh pushes updates to it now, but the Flow version is like a year old.
I assume this will reduce the quality of the merge algorithm from a stand-alone point of view, which is presumably a very hard sell.
Out of curiosity, how many of you worked on it and how long did it take? I can imagine just the sprite artwork alone was a good chunk of time.
It's very nice and all, but it doesn't just work for all of us, because it requires JavaScript.

That means there are people who will have to figure out which domain(s) to whitelist in NoScript, among other things. And the LaTeX logo still doesn't work even after that, unless it wasn't intended to look like the real one: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:LaTeX_lo...
For what it's worth:

I winced at the "tell them we're oversubscribed" recommendation, but didn't think less of them for it.

I am in exactly the same point with a product right now and wish I could find better advice than "make stuff up and throw it out there to see if it sticks". Credibility is expensive. I can't burn it on cold emails. You may not think I'm a liar for pulling that stunt... but you're not going to jump on the next email I send out, and I can't have that.

But, I sell to F500's, and WePay sells to neighborhood soccer teams. It probably worked peachy for them.
Shouldn't the article title be just the opposite?

"Polar bears assure survival with inter-species mating"

Wonder why people always want nothing to change? Seems like a strange thing found in folks of all religions and philosophies. This sounds like great news: life carries on. Such a great story and such a sucky title.
It's more advanced in some ways, but misses a few features in other ways. For now anyway... 1.1's nearly ready for submission and 1.2 will follow shortly after... We're moving fast.
> Huh? Courier was first shown in 2009. Way before the iPad was announced.

It was shown days before an Apple event. Rumors at the time pointed to Apple releasing its tablet at that event. They didn't and watching the rushed CGI video of a concept that would never become a product being released right before a non-event was priceless.

> If anything MS cleard the field for the iPad

I wouldn't hold my breath
Correlation now counts as causation on HNews?

Pitbulls greatest asset and its ultimate downfall is its wonderful toned muscular body and its iron will. Thats why they get picked up by assholes who tend to abuse them and train them to attack humans. Its the owners that are problem not the dogs. These guys could make any kind of animal into a "vicious killer".

The pit is anecdotally the worst breed for guard dog. They tend to be that friendly towards humans. You have to remember that these dogs were indeed bred for fighting. Dogs not humans. So they were heavily bred to be friendly towards humans - how else can one control a powerful beast if it won't obey you and let you tend its wounds?

They are so protective of children that you can easily let one babysit your kid while you're away.

Condemning the breed because of their retarded owners is like condemning whole minorities because of gang members.
First of all, great job! I love the simple design and layout!

I'm a bit tired which might have affected things, but I a bit confused on the initial upload page - I kinda expected the upload to start automatically, and then when I clicked on the video format some kind of magic would kick in.

Personally, I would experiment with the page layout a bit; I'm not sure how well it'd work but maybe something like the user clicks browser, selects the file and that uploads automagically, and when that's complete the buttons for the video format appear, and finally there's a big "ENCODE"-type button at the bottom which kicks off the whole process.

But that's me and a tired, slightly confused mind ;)

Oh, a couple of minor points: I'm using Chrome 8 and the copy link to clipboard button didn't work. Also, the download link for the video took me straight to the video playing in my browser - if you want to change that you can send a (damn, getting old, memory failing...) header that'll bring up a file save box :)
I actually think your feedback is poignant and helpful, but the way you frame it is disingenuous.

Fair enough.

Someday someone will invent a compiler for forum comments, so I can get an error/warning listing right away. Until then, I'll just keep trying to improve the process of putting my thoughts into words.
I've got a few spare if you want one.
Are you the same guys that made PushupFu for the iPhone? Or is that purely coincidental?
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If anybody "demands access" to anything, just feel free to kick them out of your life (or install a fake GPS app and have some fun traveling around the world).
Why should I trust haveibeenpwned either?
I know the reputation of the owner of that site, but how is it really different?
Is the resource publicly verifiable ?
Its just implicit trust we have on the site.
Away from HN echo chamber, a regular user can't differentiate various websites.
Calling it stupid is a bit too much.
Disagree. One of the big selling points of Rust is the safety guarantees you get unless you use the escape hatch, which should only be used conservatively. When you add third-party code, you are trusting that the maintainers of that code have only written unsafe code where necessary and that the unsafe code is correct.

A few years ago, everybody suddenly realised that one of the big Rust HTTP libraries was full of unsafe (incorrect) code and went on a crusade to fix it. Up until that point, nobody had properly vetted it and took its lofty performance stats at face value.
As much as it is criticized for being used to gatekeep in the jazz scene so to speak, it is nice to have somewhat of a reference for competency. Music is so subjective that when you are teaching yourself it can be hard to know if you are heading in the right direction.

Music is all about utilizing shared language, and I feel The Real Book was just a way to add some depth to the expected knowledge base in a certain scene. Kinda like software patterns.
Our kindergartens (Finland) practically cost nothing (expect a small fee mostly as a formality).
I think the discussion about this already over, i.e. it's now a part of the social contract that we don't question certain things, not because they're true or false but because of social cost of challenging them. For example, we know that the distribution of certain psychological traits in both genders is a bit different, but discussing it - either in the social context or the academia - is more or less a taboo in order to protect the vulnerable, and in part also because of the expectations of desirable traits in today society [0]. For the same reason, nobody in the right mind would organize a study of IQ differences between races, and if someone was stupid enough, their professional life in the academia (and probably beyond) would be finished.

In general, in the West any study of relationships between the aspect of the body (any inherent traits) and the mind/psyche is forbidden. A few years ago the Chinese published their famous study of facial traits of convinced criminals. [1] The result was that there were more variations from the mean among the convicts than the rest of the population. Of course everybody criticized the study as unethical and minority-reportesque.

The only danger I see is that by effectively renouncing to analyze any links between the body and mind we might lose some important insights, and the vulnerable groups could also greatly benefit from discovering these. But the danger that the result of this kind of research will be used against us is not negligible, as the history shows.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-science-behind-why-so-ma...

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135v2.pd
Those are both irrelevant to the issue at hand: wrongful arrest. Wrongful arrest occurs when either the incorrect person is detained or when a person is detained without merit.

In order for police to detain people they need to place them under arrest, which includes Maranda warnings, or have a signed warrant.
When I interview candidates, for me the coding interview is an opportunity to see how the candidate reasons about a problem, how they communicate their thoughts and if they are able to ask for help or get pieces of advice and action on them.

Whether they can solve the problem or not it's almost secondary. Of course, there are expectations based on the level for that role, but I prefer to hire someone that fits the team culture rather than some random rockstar developer.

If the candidate can do the exercise correctly and efficiently that's, of course a plus, but again, not a blocker.

Finally, I do think that for more senior roles it is good to also try to have a whiteboard session where you can discuss more high level / architectural problems. This will help to get a full picture on the level of expertise of the candidate and it's another opportunity to have a conversation and see how the candidate explains their idea or react to rapidly evolving scenarios.

I hope this opinion helps, but keep in mind it is only my opinion :)
There is a book called "The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music" written by Miller Puckette (creator of Max / Pure Data visual programming languages).
That is quite heavy on the mathematical side though - really is more like the title suggests the theory underlying the DSP.

Ableton have some online content like https://learningmusic.ableton.com/ which is laid out in chapter form and uses https://tonejs.github.io/ for browser synthesis / sequencing etc
> More like "there is so much less value in spending money for painkillers for you today when it could be spent for a cure for everybody forever".

exactly! my suffering as an individual is simply not significant enough to motivate you.

> If a dentist never pulled out a tooth and just charged for morphine now and again you'd be pissed instead of being relieved that they made you feel well just for one day. Not only do you still suffer (but with timeouts), you also payed more long term.

I'd be especially pissed if he refused to pull my tooth on the grounds that other people would still suffer from toothaches.

> If everyone just takes turns pushing a boulder up a mountain eventually you'll put in more effort than if everyone pushes at once, and have almost none of the results. Sometimes being even 99% there is not enough.

If few people are willing to pay the cost of an incremental solution then how are we proposing to convince them that the much greater cost of a large scale solution is worth it?
It's no longer a burner if you type in payment details to buy stuff, it's then linked to your banking identity.
I've had mostly the same experience with youtube. I wanted to get into woodworking during COVID lockdowns, so I was watching a lot of popular woodworking channels that had nothing to do with politics, and was frequently shown Trump ads. Then once I realised how expensive woodworking would be, I started watching videos about game development. After ~1 week, all the Trump ads disappeared, and I started getting Biden ads.
"I do not recall" will be his next line
What if it's just a big game between friends for Credit Card Points?

We just keep going back and forward between you and I, always getting the $1k Credit Card sign up bonuses and a TON of points each month.
That the police let them in makes this whole thing quite the opposite of a joke.
Sure, but are 7 year olds ready? As this thread has shown some clearly are, but in my experience he vast majority are not. Why not wait until middle school instead of pushing them toward something they aren't ready for. It would be like teaching an 11 year old calculus.
Then again, if the Earth is spinning faster, a 'year' will take more 'days' to complete. Sooner or later, we would need an occasional extra Leap Day to correct the difference.
I haven't seen any other HN posts about him. But I think the reason he is "in the news" is that NYT decided to dox him for failing to ban badthinkers.
I think if we worry overly much about how the fringes will react to the truth, we'll never get anywhere. I think it is a grave mistake for us to ignore anyone's issues, and the drumbeat of racism/sexism often drowns out legitimate issues that concern men (i.e. criminal and civil injustice, college enrollement, mental health, etc.) which likely has a polarizing effect on some (and especially white) men. I'm concerned about both ideological fringes, some on the right will behave exactly as you've described and use it as a weapon, while others on the left will dismiss legitimate concerns as something like "mansplaining" or other divisive/dismissive language. Both of these actions just radicalizes, weaponizes, and polarizes the discussion which is exactly what both extremes want. I'm not sure how to combat this phenomenon of small but highly energized segments of the population from herding the masses one way or another other off the brink (e.g. modern Turkey).
Exactly — this is nowhere close to MMT. Stabilizing the price of the USD during recessions is literally the definition of Keynesian.
Thank you for the suggestion, I would look into this.
As programmers, aren't we proud when we can get rid of lots of code?
Please cease and desist from infringing on our intellectual property (we sell spoons which your product rips off).

We expect you to contact us within 5 business days to settle the outstanding licensing fees you owe us as a result of your infringement.
That is a good question, and one we should discuss more actively, because if it can go wrong it will go wrong. What happens when an over eager politician learns that "we can predict with X% accuracy if a person will do something bad next year"? I might be cynical, but I do not expect the result will be an increased interest in how society can help people before they do bad stuff. It would not surprise me if instead the argument would be that extensive surveillance is a great benefit to society because it can identify the bad guys with X% accuracy.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. This is such a frightening precedent. Sounds more like the USSR than the US. Sad to see what is becoming of the great US.
Agreed, corrupting the content of the address space was pushing the reasons for a failing thread a bit to far. But I only wanted to point out that any process can fail, i.e. make no further progress, at any time independent of the code it is executing. But lets just stick with killing or pausing the thread.

And I obviously don't have to be an expert in the field to know that wait-free means that the algorithm must be able to handle processes making no progress because that is, as mentioned before, the definition.
Parsing the referrer would still require some work from their servers right?
It seems to be far easier (i.e., possible) to go from a manual-memory-management style of development to an automatic one than the other way around. I've known plenty of Java-CS-degree programmers who just never could get the hang of writing C/C++ code without leaking stuff (and not just memory).