jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This seems like an anti-scammer fantasy. I’d like to see some examples of the stories that are created out of scammers following these procedures. Just stats like how many made it through each stage will be funny.

It seems like it won’t be very effective in saving the poster time as they’ll get the same number of messages. But any time spent by scammers at least is less time on others. However, I suspect scammers have lots of free time because they cast a wide net with spam and then reply back to every single person who responds. So they will still interact with the same number of people, they will just waste more time and go home later. My understanding is that most scammers are in very poor nations so scammers working long days is pretty cheap.

It’s different from synchronous spam like telemarketing where occupying a scammer does literally reduce the amount of time someone else would get.
Thanks! I'll add an export feature soon
> Just write a poorly written article that alternates between interjecting disconnected ideas and making vague attempts at guilt by association

The whole guilt-by-association thing that's going on these days is one of the most worrying cancelation techniques, because it can be done even through a very remote link. I like person A, who likes person B, who likes person C, who happens to also be liked by White Supremacists. therefore I am a White Supremacist (and person A, B, and C, too). How many degrees of separation do you need in order to be safe from the mob?
> The article's last paragraph gives the lie to the controversy that has raged in tech circles surrounding publishing Siskind's name.

>> In his first post [on Astral Codex Ten], Mr. Siskind shared his full name.

The fact that you think this after reading the article shows just how misleading it is. He shared his real name after quitting his job because of it. The NYT leaving that detail out is completely bonkers. It's a little bit like saying "what was the point of WW2, Hitler just ended up killing himself after all that trouble anyway."
Is there a Linux compatible NFC reader that would allow a simple tap to authenticate with one of these?
They also don't stop people from going to a neighboring mall. Unfortunately, the app stores' owners certainly do that.

https://www.wired.com/story/install-apps-outside-app-store-s...
There's just a black rectangle at the top of the page when opened with Firefox for Android or Firefox Klar (Focus for German-speaking countries, telemetry disabled by default) -- even with tracking protection off.

Edit: turning uBlock Origin off helped!
They generated the money by allocating it to a process that was productive.

> whatever they allocated it to did.

Machines are inanimate.
I’m not sure what you a referring to. I’ve been reading the blog for years, I have never seen anything “bad” on it, I’ve seen ideas that can be debated.
https://t.me/intelslava

Intel Slava Z is a Russian Telegram channel with war news from a Russian perspective. That's the post.
Most definitely. I live as an expat in a foreign country and while I use the internet a lot and even speak the local language, I still feel very disconnected from the celebrity and political drama.

I find it very beneficial, and it definitely helps broaden you general outlook on these things. I used to follow the news pretty closely, now I just get the headlines once a day and move on with my life.

But as always it's a rather privileged position. I'm a high-wage childless white dude with a French passport, I don't have a lot to fear from politics. If things go bad here for some reason I can just move somewhere else, a luxury the vast majority of human beings don't have.

Having the possibility not to care is a luxury, in a way.
Fiefdoms are bad, but is a company monoculture necessarily a good thing? Perhaps different teams (especially if geographically dispersed) can adopt a culture that works for them rather than follow some top-down mandate that they'll follow half-heartedly if at all.
"helps avoid politics" thats how we got where fb is now
That's not really devil's advocate, just a great example of the many corrosive effects of an untrustworthy government.
On the other hand, there is still no universal agreement on the morality of the wartime bombing campaigns that lead to high numbers of civilian casualties.
> My job allows me to go back stage at Glastonbury and track-side visits at the Olympics, front seat views of royal weddings, orchestral pit on last night of the proms, and I have a fairly sedantry job of mostly pushing buttons.

I had a similar job once, where I worked in TV coverage of final table of WSOP (World Series of Poker). I was around the poker celebs at the time, preparing talking points for my boss who interacted with them, even have somewhere a photo of me sitting at the final table. My ultimate conclusion is... so what? Beyond a cool story to share with people interested in poker, there's little value in that for me, and I was a poker nerd then.
Though I’m an atheist, I think that many different churches do good things for their participants from a community and social perspective, even though they may differ from each other significantly in their specific religious doctrine.
> It was for an EDH group. (BTW, don't do this. We no longer play EDH. It makes the spiky players even spikier, and then they get saltier when they're targeted as they have a far higher ELO)

Yes please keep tournaments and rankings away from EDH for the love of god. CEDH is a different story because it's a completely different mindset, but if I sat down for normal EDH and was told we were tracking Elo I'd run far, far away.
They singled him out because the original tweet showed the salesperson's full name and picture. He might lose his job because he unintentionally showed everyone how the sausage of monetizing open source is made.
> "Not even one sentence in and we already in a "left vs right" argument... Newspeak isn't a leftist thing, it's a "people who know the power of words" thing"

To be honest, this captures my frustration perfectly. I have a concept I am trying to communicate but I'm essentially being told "no, you're not using the right term". If I were to go back and change "people on the left" to "Newspeak users" it wouldn't substantially change what I'm trying to get across. And I feel like all we are doing is bickering about word-choice.
No one was using it.
Never thought I would see the day when people on HN would enthusiastically support making it much more difficult for anyone to publish their stuff on the web. All while, in the same breath, clamoring for the "good old days" of the web when publishing something was as easy as just uploading a folder with your HTML/CSS to your host.

No, thank you, I don't want to go through audits and deal with bureaucracy when I just want to publish my side-project blog on the web. If you want to discourage people from building and publishing their personal projects and making them easily accessible to the public, that's how you do it.

However, I am absolutely ok with EU doing this, given they seem to be hellbent on running their local tech industry into the ground. Truly great founders from EU will either manage to make their companies succeed despite EU or eventually end up creating their companies in the US, and both of those scenarios sound like a win-win to me (from the perspective of the US; from the perspective of the EU, I guess they are doing all of this knowingly, so they get what they wanted, which would count as a win in a way too).
Are you sure that is really their goal in the first place? If they wanted that they would downsize their intelligence agencies.
It was Chris Lattner's baby and when he left Google no one cared to push it forward. The Google vs. Apple fights over ads and privacy probably didn't help the case.
Those actually seem reasonable (other than the swag one) if and only if that info is locked away on a need-to-know-basis, it’s used for precisely that purpose, and regulators vigorously punish any sharing or release. The GDPR seems like a good step in that direction.
Final doesn't mean most important, and if that was the big secret, then we would be seeing many foods lasting extremely long times (millennia in this case), but we don't.

That points to the big secret being the chemical makeup, plus keeping moisture away.
I'm not sure if it's possible to get the released file out of SourceForge, but my complaint would be (as a user that generally verifies cryptographic checksums) that what I downloaded didn't match what the project advertised.

Looks like some remedy in the case of FileZilla is that they host their own installer as well:

http://download.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_3.7.3_win32-...

(Which matches the SF.net hosted FileZilla_3.7.3.sha512 list.)

Edit:

Looks like the original files can be gotten if you make your own direct link, e.g.:

http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net/project/filezilla/Fi...
The livereload stuff is magical. Best use of WebSockets ever...
What's the context around this? Is this a huge problem? It seems like it's just Xerox announcing a patch - rather mundane and routine.
I enjoy that this hit Hacker News the same time Microsoft announces Steve Ballmer's retirement, and I wonder if it is not a coincidence.
You are incorrect. The legal definition of genocide under the UN, and recognized as international law by ratified signatories is discussed here. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

The reality is that child separation, sterilization, and the acts taken by the Chinese government to destroy Uigher connections to their cultural history meet the definition. Genocide isn't just about killing people, it's about obliterating a people and their culture, and you can't stop the definition at mass murder.
When the pandemic started it just coincided that I learned about the Bronze Age Collapse. I remember myself thinking about how a similar situation would unfold today.

What if a meteor hits now? Solar flare strong enough to take out electronics? Some country deciding tactical nuke warfare is acceptable? A supervolcano?

How many simultaneous catastrophes can current civilization survive?

Only definite conclusion is that Isaac Asimov will not go out of fashion soon.
Another Amiga OS clone is a cute retro project, but this is not forward motion.

Nobody seems to want to clone QNX, which is a better architecture. QNX was a great technology lost to bad marketing. Blackberry has it now, and it's used industrially and in automotive systems. But Blackberry dropped the desktop version and the hobbyist version, and you have to cross compile from Windows now.

It was open source for a while, and was suddenly made closed source when Blackberry bought it. Sadly, no one seems to have saved the open source version. I wish I had. I didn't have enough disk at the time.
The basic concept isn't even a terrible one. It was a reaction to the many functionally-overlapping aircraft that the various service branches were having designed and built. But it seems clear at this point that the F-35 tried to be too general purpose.
That's a decent argument. It's more typing (in both senses!) to use a specific type as the parameter instead of unpacking in the signature, but it's just as or more readable that way.
I have a Google Workspace account with multiple users. Some of which are devoted to being trash collection inboxes. I try to expose my personal email as little as possible
Does it handle Fountain syntax too?
This looks like the tool I've been looking for, and the screenshots in your README are beautiful. Thanks for the work you've done on this, I'm excited to try it out.
Having worked in both games and the desktop world, implementing replays is a lot like implementing undo/redo, and they're both an immense time-suck. It's easy for developers on the different sub-systems to create something that on the surface seems complete but is doing a bad job of recording and responding to the needed events. Inevitably either the original developer or the poor sucker tasked with implementing undo has to go back in and rewrite the code, which takes longer than everyone expects.
Here's a good one I read the other day.

Optimal Partitioning for Efficient I/O in Spatial Databases

"It is desirable to design partitioning techniques that minimize the I/O time incurred during query execution in spatial databases. In this paper, we explore optimal partitioning techniques for spatial data for different types of queries, and develop multi-disk allocation techniques that maximize the degree of I/O parallelism obtained during the retrieval. We show that hexagonal partitioning has optimal I/O cost for circular queries compared to all possible non-overlapping partitioning techniques that use convex regions. For rectangular queries, we show that although for the special case when queries are rectilinear, rectangular grid partitioning gives superior performance, hexagonal partitioning has overall better I/O cost for a general class of range queries. We then discuss parallel storage and retrieval techniques for hexagonal partitioning using current techniques for rectangular grid partitioning."

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.16.8...
I'd say your response added just as much noise and introduced a degree of intolerance not necessary to the conversation. Let the non-helpful comments die a silent lonely death, no need to get haughty about it.
It's amazing that I can ask a question like this on SO and have one of the world's experts answer. The conclusion was, basically, read Xmonad.
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I call Intelligent Design Creationism. Because it is.
I like StockTwits, but the information seems to be all over the place. My goal was to make opportunities easier to find, as well a bit of enhanced research by crowdsourcing.
this is wrong way to look at things, switch is never binary. Yes i have whatsapp, but i also have discord, messenger, hangouts, etc. You need to find an angle to attract user for something different and then keep them for everything else.
Im no neuroscientist or psychologist, but the stress of being sized up by other monkeys based on superficial first impressions that you know you dont happen to be very good at making, is WAY different than the stress that gets produced when a "cryptic" system needs fixing.

For me the former situation leads to lots of bad feelings including irritation and incredible anxiety. I have often considered the latter type of situation fun times. For a lot of programmers difficult puzzle solving stress is good stress.

From what I have witnessed from current in-the-box hiring practices is a lot of extroverts get hired who are good at spin and presentation. Quite a few managers never detect that they are actually not great programmers because they are brilliant at sucking up and putting on a show. Those skills dont always hurt, but they shouldnt be considered a deal breaker for a programmer who actually gets good work done.

Best practice I have ever encountered is when interviewers give out interview questions in advance to allow to the interviewee a while to think about the problem in quiet.

I love the idea of short term contracts for both parties to suss each other out.
Are there any options (or plans) for import/export?
Big fan of yours. I think this is the second time I’ve come across your site on HN. I’ve been getting deep into developing my own Second Brain lately. I glanced briefly at your Exobrain Repo and it seems you’re using a custom system. Have you tried out using https://obsidian.md or the whole Wikilink/Zeitelkasten Personal Knowledge Management methodology? Curious to hear your experiences.
I've been using Ubuntu for years now, and honestly it's pretty set and forget at this point. Main caveat is that you should do a little bit of research beforehand to ensure it will work well. It still has some quirks at time, but honestly my Macbook I used at my last job had just as many quirks.
> Would you feel safe picking up a random USB drive and running the programs on it?

Sure, why not? Just don't run it on the same computer that you access your sensitive data on. Given that you can buy a fully functional and tinker-friendly computer for like 20 bucks, this seems like a pretty straightforward solution.
Fair enough. The effort and quality of your work is apparent - well done.

I guess for me, I would have opted for greater inconvenience and simply let some of what you graphed slide, rather than deal with the mental overhead of actually tracking it all. But I would also not have enjoyed building that graph. :)
I replied to yours because HN wouldn't let me reply to the child comment. Not sure why. Figured my leaf node would show up next to the sibling :-)
What format converter libraries are you licencing? Techsoft Hoops, Spatial?
Its extremely light. I initially thought it was plastic until I tapped and scraped my fingernail along the vents.
Instead of picking up one of the multitude of books sent to me and typing it, I got lazy and went to the www and "found" something.

Well there you go, and they didn't need to write the 2000 other words on that page which were all excuses - no one forced them to be a publisher.

They copy and pasted and planned on begging for forgiveness later being easier than asking permission. Or maybe not even being noticed at all.

Google even has a public-domain/creative-commons search option which they didn't even bother to use.
I agree in principle, most of the time. Consider though, certain sites will require good design from day one. A 'totally rough' site would not give you the credibility you need to even get started and acquire customer #1.

The MVP mantra is valid, but cannot be applied in every case - especially when your core product involves good design or aesthetics.

Sites where a rough MVP v1 would not work, IMO:
http://sortfolio.com/
http://dribbble.com/
http://www.shopify.com/
http://www.weebly.com/

I am interested to know about "..you should have a list of designers you've already identified..." i.e. any HN'ers care to share their lists?
"queue debate about tools that hold your hands vs understanding what you are actually writing"

For a start, explain why, in Java, (int) Math.random() is a bug. A programmer that happens upon this thread, now knows "this is bad", but has no clue why. A tool will only make the programmer even more reliant on tools and IDEs, so this kind of bug will be eliminated, but the frame of mind that spawned it will live on.
The article says amazon say it was caused by ebs replication between zones - one imagines some kind of thundering herd.

Seems to explain it. No mystery here.
If I am experiencing problems or misgivings with the direction of a project I will first attempt to (gently!) communicate this to my client.

When my client and I are able to engage each other in a process of solving the problem then the relationship strengthens over time and everyone ends up winning.

When we are unable to engage each other, usually because the problem is bigger than both of us, then there is little more we can do for each other but work towards an amicable parting of ways.

Learning to see it like this has been very difficult for me and I still struggle to be better at practicing it!
Technically, it's illegal in most states to represent one's self as an 'engineer' unless you hold an RPE license.
You can debate the validity of Crockford's claims all you want, but I think you're missing the point.

This exercise just shows how silly benchmarking is, especially when all the contenders are "sufficiently good."
Atwood and the math.se community seem to disagree vehemently about what "nice" consists of and how important it is relative to other values like "transparent" and "unbiased". I urge you to handle remarks criticizing management very cautiously (especially via actions invisible to even the moderators), it's a short slide from there to a community of sycophants that's unworthy of defending.
why did i get a down-vote for saying "Great Idea"
Have a look at Dell's new latitude 15 inch 7000 series. (3840 x 2160) resolution, similar specs and cheaper. Ultrabook class.
The UX of Facebook beats the pants off Myspace, but still... doesn't strike me as a triumph of design. Though to be fair this may just be because things break more readily at a half billion users.
Education wise, they are composed of a Harvard grad, a Yale grad, and a Stanford student.

Background wise, they are composed of two with backgrounds in retail at SHLD, and one from GOOG.

They are a great team, but their product is also great, so I think that it's more than just for talent.
Adwords recently added phone support.
I'm surprised to see Atlanta, Dallas, and San Diego ahead of LA, New York, and Chicago on the initial city list. Any thoughts on why they chose those cities?
Making it hard to for others to enter the US is a just a nuisance. Making it hard for US citizens to leave the US is one of the most terrifying things I can think of.
By that logic, doesn't a hacker lack the skills that designers and only designers possess?

The whole dichotomy is silly. A tech business needs to figure out what to build, to build it, and to sell it. (Not strictly in that order.) Every one of those steps requires cross-functional thinking.
Be aware that these situations can sour very quickly. Be prepared to compensate him fairly for his contribution, and ensure that he doesn't have control of any pieces of the business (code, domain names, etc) that are irreplaceable.
I'm guessing it must be close. One of the bubbles is "Stuart", and Stuart Scott of ESPN is trending on Twitter quite heavily today after passing of cancer.
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in the US, the employer also pays a share of the employment tax (split in 2 between employer and employee) and doesn't always show you the true cost of benefits... all of these should appear and employee should be able negotiate the complete package (wishful thinking...).

I'm sure many countries do the same.
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This is a very important point, thanks for saying this. It’s amazing how many people think they can start an indie SaaS and think that all they have to do is build it, deploy it, and buy AdWords or whatever. Talking to your customers is more important than any of that, and it’s fun.