jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What's changed since 2006?

At least from my knowledge:

the rise of Rails and ActiveRecord

a multitude of back end JavaScript technologies (node, et.al)

NoSQL databases have become more prominent and widely accessible.

How has the Author's opinion changed?

I could submit a link-baity article from the 90's decrying object oriented programming as a pointless dead end in computer science, but I doubt the original author would hold the same opinions
Ctr+f "Invader 1" and choose the Vector Magic version. Star Trek!
> I tend to err on the side of the database-as-model camp, because I think objects are overrated.

That approach is really quite fine and wonderful, if you can put all your business logicy awesomesauce into the database layer. But it can make a variety of problems really awkward if you want that business logic to interact with code that lives in a different process... starting with "validating user input on a web form" and going on from there.

Also, I'm curious whether you'd write stored procedures in your database to set up objects for your automated testing suites, when you want to test the business logic in your stored procedures. :P
It's a quote from someone else's essay which explains it as a situation where initial results are easy but finishing the job is hard. A strained analogy at best, and the essay is very verbose.

"One of the key lessons of Vietnam was the danger of what's colloquially called "the Slippery Slope": that a given course of action might yield some early success, yet further investment into that action yields decreasingly commensurate results and increasibly dangerous obstacles whose only solution appears to be greater and greater commitment of resources and/or action. Some have called this "the Drug Trap", after the way pharmaceuticals (legal or illegal) can have diminished effect after prolonged use, requiring upped dosage in order to yield the same results. Others call this "the Last Mile Problem": that as one nears the end of a problem, it becomes increasingly difficult in cost terms (both monetary and abstract) to find a 100% complete solution. All are basically speaking of the same thing--the difficulty of finding an answer that allows our hero to "finish off" the problem in question, completely and satisfactorily."
SAGE is still going very strong.

numpy/scipy have very many more users, but I don't think that they're really comparable: they're aimed at numerical computation for science, while SAGE aims to be a do-everything tool for mathematics. All of scipy/numpy is actually included in SAGE, and you can interoperate between numpy stuff, and, say, exact rational arithmetic, or group theory, etc.
Gluten intolerance isn't a binary state, it's a scale. Everyone's on it somewhere, but unless it's REALLY bad, you'd probably never get diagnosed or even tested.

Main benefit of avoiding gluten though is it's a simple rule that helps you avoid a lot of bad foods, and excuse it socially.
when you say read- do you mean fiction? novels and stuff?
Ghost is similar to wordpress. You will need to setup and maintain your own servers with Ghost.
Yup, coupled with a little init script and instructions for use. Oh, and this particular method can't be used to log into your forwarding host, due to the construction of the public key.

Only wrote the script so I could add network topology reporting as well, so it can submit local MACs. Oh, and maybe automatic wifi scans. Figure you could plug those into google's geolocation services for street-level accuracy.
Perhaps some kind person will respond by explaining why this may be an interesting new phenomenon. I'm not young enough to know everything, and I may be missing the key detail that suggests this is more than just another excuse to fire up the Libertarian Echo Chamber :-)
In the defense of this story, raganwald, I think statements like the one jrockway singled out in other comment could be considered a new phenomenon.

A short-lived one, I hope.
Yeah, I definitely agree with this. Knowing a lot more about software than when I was a middle-school/high-school kid makes me a better programmer, but vastly increases the startup energy. When I wrote mIRC scripts to do something I wanted my client to do, or some Perl scripts to maintain my Home Page, the startup energy was nearly zero, and I didn't think about alternative technologies, architectures, the "right" way to do things, APIs, extensibility, etc. I just wrote some hackish thing, then when I couldn't extend it any more, I rewrote parts to fix it. Ugly and unmaintainable, but time-to-ship was like a day.

I guess the trick is combining some aspects of those approaches. I find it hard to do: it's now so obvious to me when I'm writing ugly and unmaintainable code that's Not Doing It Right that it's almost painful to make myself do it anyway.
I'd think that the abuse of a backdoor into your computer is more likely than your laptop being stolen. Would anyone else be uncomfortable installing this on your machine, or am I a little paranoid?

Regardless, I think it's a neat idea. I'm no security expert, by any stretch.

Thanks for the utility!
I convinced them to switch to a new iMac.

Mission accomplished.
This is a great story of someone fighting against oppressive forces to gain his freedom. I really hope he wins his lawsuit against them, this being one of those cases where he really deserves something for the time lost. As an aside, I can see this being made into a movie already.
I got this email as well, replied asking about it, and promptly got a response apologizing and explaining it was a bug in their mailing code. Life goes on.
All this does is make an already available service (SSH) available at a predictable location. You still need to use a password, RSA/DSA keys, or other methods to log in.
I hope the ACLU takes this case to the supreme court. This Orwellian policy needs to be examined and the sooner the better.
Something can simultaneously be true and also strategically displayed. The question is, who stood to benefit from intimidating SSC into going dark?
I agree. If you want to influence a art form like games or music or writing, you have to have skin in the game and release things. Telling others their way is wrong isn’t going to change anything, the burden is on you to present that your model works and is superior in some way. You just have to have hard material you’ve created for that to happen. Everyone has their own great ideas to validate
Guernica is a painting about how great war is.
http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/gemma.html

http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/seventy.html
The original RCT doesn't measure the exact same thing, which is why we need to actually try to measure it and confirm protection is durable...

But one would expect that protection from days 21-41 without a second dose is comparable to protection from days 14-21.

We do also have some indication of durability of a single dose from the phase 2 safety trials (looking at titers).
> When I was living in Munich it baffled me how some companies there could get away with paying experienced people only 50k and still run a successful business and not have everyone straight-up walk away from them.

I heard before that the European tech scene sucks, and my only advice is: relocate.

Pay in Switzerland for example is more competitive.

Incidentally, one reason I heard for low pay in Germany, specifically, is that it's very hard to fire people.
This is most likely going to get flagged into oblivion, for those who come later it's a list of supposed cases where there are mass deaths after the COVID-19 vaccination.

Of course 15 million people have received the vaccine in the UK, so any sudden deaths even at the level of 0.01% would be quite noticeable by now.
> That's an interesting thought but I'm not sure if it can be applied to software. Part of what makes security hard seems that it only takes a single point of failure in a chain of dependencies to go bad.

I think this is the point. Software is about operating at the top level predominantly, packaging together stuff other people wrote using only simplified API's which abstract away their internal complexity. So you can zoom along at light speed producing "solutions" before the other guy and make the most money the fastest and move on.

Engineering is about starting from physical principles and building a product that fits the understanding of those fundamental principles at work. The engineer generally stays with a set of fundamental domain principles their entire career (e.g. sticks with bridges as opposed to transmission lines) while programmers tend to stay at the top layers while the technologies below the surface change radically.

It doesn't have to be that way for all software, presumably. Critical software and hardware can be designed together, for example, from the bottom up. I wonder if software patents is at fault for allowing those at the top layer to capture almost all the value in computers, and commoditize the technology below.
From Germany here as well, I am extremely sad how the vaccine situation was handled, 3.3 percent of population over two months is an extremely bad metric, especially when the lockdown situation is being lengthened for another month.

By this rate, people won't be vaccinated by 2021.

The dashboard for Germany: https://impfdashboard.de/
That would make things even worse. A lot of people only use smartphones for computing and they want large screens. Making the screen even smaller would have doomed the mini even harder.
It's not everyone else's problem. No one owes me new housing. But it's also not my fucking fault that housing prices are going up.
Thank you for reading my story and hearing me out.
This is not about Korea but about humanity falling apart at fringes. We value truth because we fear lies. We value kindness because we fear brutality. We value order because we fear mayhem.

We fear because we know we are capable, of all these shadows.
Of course. I was just speculating based on the comment about using routers to DDoS; I don't know if an uptick was actually observed during the outage. I know SSDP has been the hip new thing for the past few months though.

If that's not the case, mind giving any hints?
I'm sorry, I can't take serious any person who would describe Ilbe as "extremely popular right wing" site, talking about that (almost racist) epithet about that fish as if it's normal.

If you are Korean, shame on you. Otherwise, find a better source to learn about Korea.

(Also, 10 years of "leftist administration"? For heaven's sake, in both elections there were basically two choices. One party harbors those people who sent troops to murder their friends and families in 1980. So they voted for the other one. Turned out these two presidents were about as "leftists" as Obama, which in turn disappointed some of their supporters who wanted faster progress.)

And if you want to bitch about how they brought "danger to the security of republic of Korea", you might want to dig up on the whole "gun-wind affair (총풍 사건)" in 1997, where several government officers of the "rightist" regime met North Korean officers shortly before the presidential election, and basically asked them if they could start a border skirmish, to persuade South Koreans to not elect the "leftist" candidate Kim Dae-Jung (who later received a Nobel Peace Prize for the Sunshine policy that's so cheaply mocked these days).
You should certainly be proud of this work, it it beautiful. But be careful of patent-protected feature detectors like SIFT, you could get burnt[0] There are alternatives that perform as well, also mentioned in the link

[0]http://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/what-are-some-fr...
Well, not all LISPs are considered friendly from our modern context. Just consider my favorite 'love to hate' Emacs Lisp example: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DestructiveOperations Check out the bit where using 'sort' incorrectly can self-modify the function. Anyhow, maybe Clojure is "just" another LISP, perhaps, but it is really nice due to many small improvements making a big difference.
You lost me at Joomla. It has been one of the worst CMS's and most easily exploited codebases of the last decade. Why on earth would anyone base anything on Joomla?
The photos are gorgeous and I would definitely use this mode.

Astrophotography always kind of rubs me the wrong way though because that's not how it looks. Even if you go out to somewhere that's really dark, like a large National Park, and wait for a clear night it's never going to look in your eye like it does on Instagram. Don't get me wrong, what you do see is absolutely magnificent, it's just not what's in those pictures.

Seeing the galaxy with your own eyes is one of the most majestic things you'll ever witness. It's something that has inspired spontaneous prayer throughout history. It doesn't really need a filter.
I will not use sites who are doing this.
First, thank you! That paper is awesome, actual Scottish science. Cheers!

Second, I would never begin to deny that "the drug has a pretty powerful impact on your brain", because that would be stupid.

Third which "effect"? Your linked study "sought to investigate the acute brain effects of LSD in healthy volunteers", we're discussing psilocybin for major depression. So... what's up doc?

What I'm saying is that getting high is not the best available therapy for depression.
If our spending includes researching sand scaling low-emission technology, that will affect India's and China's emissions.

When electric cars are competitive, and solar and storage cheaper than coal, no one's going to keep throwing away money on the dirtier alternatives..

China isn't building coal because it's hip. They do it because it's cheap, so long as you don't account for its externalities. If solar + storage were significantly cheaper and met demand just as well, why would they keep throwing away money on coal?
It's not particularly clear at least from the website (which initially looks fairly legitimate, and has a .edu domain name) that there were no classes, and it does state that they offer F-1 visas.

It's possible that some of the students had transferred from other educational institutions and did indeed want to remain in the U.S. - it's a huge matter of prestige and hope for some families to send their children to the U.S. for education.

I'm sure there's some aspect of gaming going on with educational visas; what I'm not convinced about is whether setting up elaborate (and likely expensive) schemes like this -- which end up seeming a lot like entrapment, and risk criminalizing and punishing vulnerable individuals -- is the best way to approach handling the problem.
Its always been tribal, but the indoctrination of the uneducated into a army of sorts, is a new phenom. The rise of talk radio and opinion based news/broadcasting has truly amplified this and created the deeply opinionated and woefully ignorant political discourse we have today.
That would be pretty sweet to share as a doomsday bathroom reading collection. Any chance you might throw it up on archive.org?
Yes, it's just 600 CE! It's not the notation historians use; it's just a bit of thought-provoking fun. It also has the advantage of really pissing off the kind of mindless conformists who beat up gay people, hackers, and anybody else who seems "odd" or "queer"! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26291173.
It's especially concerning for developers, since this mentality is sadly spreading through the rest of the ecosystem. If your Mac has a 128 gig drive and you install xCode, you'll be left with a little over 20 gigs of free space.
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the logical next step would seem to be extending the zip hack[1] to allow embedding lua source with the binary?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117
An interesting thing I see here is that no one seems to be discussing the needs of the kids themselves in all this. It's all about races, politics, ideologies.

However, one of the main positive motivations behind gifted/advanced education is that if you put those kids in a class with 30 randomly selected children and force them to move at the pace of the slowest kid in the class, they become so bored they either disengage from education or become problem students.

At the same time, if you took the median student and constantly compared them to one of two of the advanced kids, who will look like they "just know everything (since prior work is invisible to the class), that's just disheartening.

A priori, I'd say the goal of an idealized education system is to continuously provide learning challenges at the optimal difficulty for each student. Since that's far from possible right now, the very least we can do is bracket kids in 3 categories so they don't drive each other insane.

Not having an gifted program is like having wrestling matches without weight classes. It's no fun and no good (for anyone).
Assuming you’re a company (as opposed to an individual), if you want a PAAS, there are a few different options that in my view are sustainable which I think is the key criteria for adopting something for your platform.

- Heroku. Sure it’s a bit expensive but it’s still super easy if you’re a dev.
- OpenShift. If you’re a really big enterprise, OpenShift is a reasonable choice for PAAS. But only if you’re huge.
- Kubernetes. Yes, it’s complicated. Yes, it has a steep learning curve. But it’s open source, has a huge and growing ecosystem, and it has less lock in than any other PAAS-like thing that I can think of.

The main downside of Kubernetes beyond its complexity is that you still have to build abstractions on top of it for your developers. But that world is improving regularly.
Sorry, not bond wires. A weak cross section in the metal layer.
Almost every major American city has the same story of a stripped city core where even as young professionals gentrify the real estate in the area they don’t do the same to the schools by sending their kids to private school. A family will live in a neighborhood with a gang reputation (eg San Francisco’s Mission or Viz Valley) before they send their kids to a bad school.
Fun fact: This is not the first time a space program has flown on another planet. The Soviets launched weather balloons on Venus during the Venera missions [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program#Balloon
People who bet against it were careless.

The money was under evaluated by the BNS for years. This was bound to happen.
Interesting perspective. It would be interesting to try to understand which of our biases led us both to each of our conclusions. I really felt/feel strongly that the book was about Drive.. but anyway, that's not exactly a discussion to have on HN haha.

To answer your question, I'm originally from Toronto but living in Montreal now. You should consider moving out here :) (I would say that to anyone from Calgary haha)
Weird. I'm pretty sure my usage of Amazon predates Google Shopping.
Google is scared shitless of Amazon for e-tail (from my discussion with people at Google) and at first this notion didn't make sense to me. Dig further and you'll realize the following: as more and more people rely on Amazon to buy physical things, they'll eventually rely on Amazon to buy everything. Google is one step removed from people's online purchasing behavior.
I you'd like to know what it is like to use Podman, I've found those terminal recordings by Matthew Heon (Podman contributor) quite helpful: https://asciinema.org/~mheon
Flag it, sure, but don't ban it, bro!

It is extremely useful for testing. It keeps this code simple and simpler tests are less buggy. Randomize a bunch of choices in input ranges and run a test. Need to re-run that exact scenario? Just set the seed to the same as the first go.
Hi Eric from Cord here. Scale is a great company and they have done really well in AV especially. The issue with them is that they require you to send your data overseas to be annotated by a human workforce. They also probably have a bunch of in-house automated tools, but they don’t pass the savings onto their clients because they are paid on a per label basis. We want to pass the benefit of automation to anyone that needs labeled data.
Four or five years ago I mined Dogecoin on a lark using a laptop for a month. I converted that to BTC at some point and it's worth more than I ever anticipated. It won't change my life but I could have some fun with the money.

I'm not inclined to transfer it to USD, but I'd happily spend some of it were it easy to do so. Maybe buy some stocks, upgrade my PC, or get a PS5 and some games? Sure, why not!

I'm only sitting on it because it's a hassle to use it, not because I believe it's going to suddenly grow 100x in size. If I really cared about the growth I'd immediately move it to some index funds.
Having a small experience of this with a hobby project (an AI-powered chat bot). First versions, for each bot, I just cloned the repo and did a new deploy. That's finally become unworkable, so now I'm converting the project so that one server can handle many bots.

Getting to punt on all that overhead definitely helped the initial "launch", and IMO the code quality. It's proving incredibly easy to switch it over, and I think a lot of that is coming from how polished I was able to make the core of it.

Reminds me of Factorio: First you spaghetti (shitty probe project), then you mainbus (vertical scaling, haha), then you city block (horizontal scaling).
You're a software developer, so if you really believe that, get to hacking.

It's clearly an industry with huge potential if it is economically viable to spend money buying an Argentina's worth of power on it.
Not clicking "yes" would work if most sites weren't, in fact, sending all tracking/setting all cookies by default, which most are :/
I was a Dyson fan boy for years. Then bought a 1/3 price Miele vacuum cleaner which was less noisy and more effective.

The Dyson looked nicer though with the designer colors.
FWIW, we have six furry animals of our own (with four different hair types) and also foster and board dogs. We never buy the “animal” cleaning machine. I’ve never seen a product that in any way shows it’s somehow more capable of dealing with hair or messes than other products in the same line. I have had them be more expensive and flimsier relative to that same line though.
I think I got my synaesthesia on more from playing Rez (also inspired by Kandinsky) than from this.
I don't know the answer to that. If somebody does, that person is probably Erwin:

http://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/
300 miles? The tank in my 1.6 VW Golf is 55 litres (12 imperial gallons) and I get between 420 and 500 miles out of a full tank (I get around 37mpg combined and 42mpg on highways). Do your cars generally use more fuel than European cars? Do automatic cars really affect the gas usage /that/ much?
> Modern chicken is notorious for being "dry, "bland," and "flavorless." Contrast this to the 1960s, where chicken was considered a delicacy. "Chicken should be so good in itself that it is an absolute delight to eat as a perfectly plain, butter roast, saute or grill."

Food today is so much better than in the 60s. You’d have hard time convincing anyone today that heritage chickens are a delicacy. They’re much better than mass produced supermarket chicken, but still fairly bland and flavorless.

I pretty much only buy poulets de Bresse. Far nicer than regular supermarket chicken? Sure. Still boring without extensive preparation? yep.
... this makes me suspect that investors are idiots.
Can confirm this is from Kapps, and I believe it was added recently. Not sure how he does it, but he streams on Twitch[0] and you can probably just ask him in chat if you catch him when he's live. He's live right now actually (7:15AM EST).

[0]https://www.twitch.tv/kutu182
So you want this idiot to continue to have a platform to incite violence? You may be a student of history but your understanding of it is poor and honestly you sound like someone who supports this traitor.
Haskell is honestly like a cult. Not so great, but once people are hooked, try convincing them otherwise.