jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Those last two major investors lost a lot of money.

Depends, actually, on how much of their stock they sold at the IPO price. Box is already trading above the last round valuation even though the IPO was priced below it.
Just to give an alternate viewpoint:

https://youtu.be/wlLpCh-lE54?t=71

(for the record, I also sometimes pick heavy things and put them back down, but it is an inherently silly activity :D )
Of course they can.

And they can do so with or without consulting with a treaty partner. It's called sovereignty.
This is a frank response to a pandering quote which serves to let everybody know that you are a good comment watchdog and won't just ignore bullshit.
Wow I just tested with an image, and you get a GDoc with the image on top and the OCRed text in the bottom.

Pretty cool.

I wonder what are they using for Google Goggles and this
What do ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) and Homeland Security have anything to do with torrents?
In the UK the savings are a little better (but the prices are a lot higher so it works out worse). You can also save an extra 4% if you go through Quidco (http://www.quidco.com/).
Is there a TLD that doesn't have any issues?
Rather than keeping it in the bank or investing it, I'd pay off my mortgage. The resulting drop in outgoings would be far better for me month on month than any investment could return.

With the resulting money saved each month, I'd then look to invest that in a diverse investment portfolio covering different asset classes and levels of risk.
You seem to be very much worrying about money and not bothering him; he runs a 5 person company, apparently has money and hasn't routinely paid your invoice on time - and so is likely very used to being chased for payment. In other words, it feels like a big deal to you but it wont feel that way to them.

Stop worrying about whether you deserve it or if it's fair on him, or if he's had a bad month ( and stop making it your friend's problem). I've found it pretty disgusting overhearing my boss chasing money from customers to see how many habitually don't pay and then shamelessly try anything they can to fob him off - oh no it's past our finance day it will have to be next month, no the only person who can sign cheques isn't here, no we don't have your invoice, actually it wasn't completed properly so we're not paying it, the cheque wasn't signed? You'll have to send it back and we'll redo it next month, and on and on.

Writing to them feels a bit of a cop out as well, frankly, like you want to hide behind it; I wouldn't want to do it myself either, but I think you should call them and ask to speak to him/someone who can help you with an unpaid invoice and say Hi, I sent you an invoice a few weeks ago and haven't received payment for it yet, but the work has been accepted with no complaints or disputes, can you tell me what the status is, please? And go from there.

Don't be surprised if they tell you nobody is available who can help, or that they have reservations or that some part wasn't as agreed, and be prepared to take polite but pushy action - i can resend the invoice, i can come and collect payment, i can hold on the phone, come and see you to talk about it, etc.

You want to end the phone call with a commitment from them to pay, or with a concrete problem to solve and a commitment to pay after that, or some concrete time you can speak to someone when they will be there.

Log when you called, who you spoke to, what they said.

Because you can phone several times and go over several back and forth points in a few minutes it means you aren't waiting a week for a letter reply. If it's still going nowhere in several phonecalls or a week or so then write a stern letter with invoice and reference your phone call logs; you haven't delayed by much but you are in a better position to justify elevating it further.

All IMHO, as always.
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Well, if the allegations here are true, he'll probably do very well getting a revolving door of VCs to give him money even if he/his company doesn't produce anything worthwhile.
Stolen most likely and abandoned when thieves got sick.

>NTV reported that eight such radiothermal generators were brought to Georgia in the early 1980s to power relay antennas during construction of the Inguri and Khudoni hydroelectric plants, and subsequently abandoned. Six of these have now been recovered by Georgian authorities.[5] Despite a search, however, Interfax reported on 24 January 2002 that Georgian police and the Georgian Environment Ministry have been unable to find the remaining two power generators.[5] According to Georgian
It seems to be endemic with the Amiga culture to have everything be commercial. Open source never got much of a foothold there.
Too conspicuous
The same could be said for actual advent calendars - if you go around any supermarket you could get much better chocolate for a kid than any advent calendar will have and it'll doubtless be cheaper too. But when you're a certain age there's something particularly magical about the experience of waking up in the morning, finding the little door for today, opening it up and having the little (vaguely) christmas-themed chocolate shape.

As an adult, I have to say that for me doing AoC brought back a little of that magic. It helped that the problems unlocked at 6am in my timezone so I'd wake up, hack on the problem for an hour or so then walk my dog and get ready for work. It was also nice having a collective experience, knowing that not only 5-6 of my colleagues but thousands of other people across the globe were all going through the same problem at the same time. I really liked that feeling.

So yeah Project Euler has very compact, well-written, well-designed, challenging problems in spades ... but AoC is a very specific sort of event that I must admit I look forward to more and more each year :-)
As soon as they make a usable remote control for that robot the US military is going to buy a bunch of them and attach machine guns and use them to shoot up "suspected terrorists".

Looking at what the US military has been doing with drones, that scenario doesn't seem that far fetched.
People working on open source projects often solve real problems and make other people's life better, yet some of them consider themselves anti-capitalist or even socialist.
Some people like programming in C.
Exactly, for the others there's Software Carpentry: http://software-carpentry.org/lessons.html
Given the corrosion of the traces they were no longer functional anyway - destructive testing on a few of them to identify the chips inside and getting microscope images of the dies is justified in this case in my opinion. Xray doesn't have the resolution in silicon that's needed to see the actual device structure. The information yielded allows the construction of an equivalent circuit, and possibly repair of the board. You only need to break open one of each type, at worst.
Like myself, the enthusiasm that you felt may have had more to do with yourself not yet developing a healthy sense of skepticism for technology than the usefulness of the technology itself.

I can definitely see some uses for it - architectural walkthroughs for example. But using it for creating a virtual store would just get in the way of doing any shopping.
Do you use it to handle customer's questions/emails? I see redmine more as a project management tool rather than a ticketing system, but I might have missed a few features.
There's more than resistors on logic board. Also, by even touching component leads with multimeter probes is sometimes enough to connect the joint back thus fooling you to think connection was ok.

Also, the problem might as well be one of the numerous chips in BGA packages whose connection points you can't even see, let alone- probe.
BTW, my laptop is an ASUS X202E. It's small, and the build quality is surprisingly good. You can also get usable laptops from the pawn shop for $150. A bonus is you'll never have to worry about someone stealing it :-)
I don't find it really that surprising.
Some shared hosts run very old/outdated PHP versions (at least one I know still uses 5.2).

At the same time many, many many linux servers are never updated after the first installation...
I generally use http://www.zabbix.com. It comes shipped with basic OS tracking but you can also add custom scripts for monitoring almost anything.
How do you mean 'incomplete' content - you mean not getting access to all the extra features on the DVD, or not having a great selection of films so you can watch anything you want? I agree that the latter is problematic, but that's why I asked the question in the context of a film that is available through multiple streaming services. I would like to understand this better.

The profits are still largely going to the middlemen, and from all indication (that I can see), the content creators are still being shafted.

As someone who works in film, I have to tell you I'm really tired of hearing this. Of course whatever Netflix pays to the original distributor goes to the distributor. From there it is split with the producer and the producer distributes into other profit participants, like investors or actors who are due residuals or whatever. Bear in mind that the main distributor often advanced some or all of the production costs, and all of the marketing costs (which are usually 50-100% of production costs). As well as that, less-successful films are often cross-subsidized by more successful films (especially in international distribution) as part of the deals distributors negotiate with producers.

Now it's not the case that every distribution deal is fair, but most of them are a lot fairer than people seem to imagine, and sticking it to a distributor in some way does nobody on the creation side any good whatsoever. I like distributors, they have fat checkbooks. I don't think people outside the business realize that they front a lot of the money that pays for movies to get made in the first place. Dealing directly with thousands of theaters and hundreds of different media markets is an awful lot of work; producers would like to focus on making more movies than trying to manage all the logistics, accounting, and collections of the distribution phase.
The EMH isn't falsified by people engaging in widespread cheating, and it isn't falsified by big market reversals driven by public psychology. It could only be falsified by the market's inability to accurately set a price on average, across all equities, perpetually.

Apparently it can't be falsified or proved before the heat death of the universe, so not a very interesting or credible hypothesis.

This claim is obviously contradicted by the fact that people are willing to use equities to raise business capital.

jjarmusch, who is inexplicably hellbanned below as I post this, makes the point that people willing to use equities to raise money do not depend on an efficient market, in fact they profit from a broken or delusional market. So no, people using a market does not prove it is maximally efficient or even close.

The EMH isn't falsified by cheating.

No, it's falsified by comparisons with real markets which it attempts to model (which include cheating, stupidity and greed as well as occasional rational valuations).
Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops. The number of people learning to code and switching careers now is insane. And anyone anywhere with a laptop and internet can do it.

I’m hoping I can stretch my career out by getting good at mentoring and management and helping all this new talent. But those entering now should seriously plan towards finding other sources of income as well by the time they hit 35+.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
A fair amount of game brands have also been destroyed due to "bad game". SimCity basically blew up what was left of its brand, Harvest Moon and the whole thing around that destroyed its brand, etc.

I wouldn't necessarily say "make good game get sales", just because there are a fair amount of devs who don't get marketing right, but the point stands.
This is covered in the article about 4 paragraphs in. You have to make about a hundred bucks a year from each super fan.
I think this can be measured in how long it takes another capable programmer to get up-to-speed in your codebase (accounting for the overall size/complexity of the domain, of course).
Do you support the creation of something similar to an inverse ETF, so a basket of stocks can be shorted?
Speaking as someone who's car is currently plugged in, and who just went through a couple weeks of below -40c mornings, this is bunk. Modern IC engines start reliably at -20 without preheating. Mine started fine this morning at -22c even though I had not plugged it in. It isn't a great idea for the engine/battery in the long term, I am kicking myself a little for not plugging it in, but I had no doubt it would start (honda civic). I've even cold started it at -36 in an emergency. I generally wait for my brake/clutch/PS fluid to warm up but they have nothing to do with starting.

In a modern IC engine, the real issue isn't the block heat but the battery. A bad/old/tired battery won't provide the amps when cold. For all practical purposes, anyone worried about cold starts would be better served by a battery heater/blanket than a block heater.
Lol, this seems pretty accurate.

I implemented a simulation framework once, where the core simulation process took in all parameters as command line options. A runner program would read a YAML file describing the parameters in arbitrarily complex ways, and invoke the sim process potentially thousands of times (doing parameter sweeps). The intent was for the underlying sim process to always be directly runnable for debugging just by copy/pasting the generated list of options, regardless of how complex the config file got. It was a year or so before somebody started passing in an intermediate config file to the sim process by command line argument...
If you can't reproduce the equivalent emotional load in English, it's probably because this particular phrase is not part of the culture. You can simulate it, much like Tolkien might, by choosing words that are more likely to resonate with an English speaker. For example, the word "walker" is not going to cut it, and "pedestrian" would be worse. Your explantation is helpful.

So you could try variations like "The traveler will beat the path." Or wait for the Russian module of WordLens :-).
On Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRgmq9f6VBY

https://www.level1techs.com/article/threadripper-ragnarok
Author is male i beleive. Also if he would shrink his dating pool a ton if he refused to date Americans.
Unfortunately, it's like that on Reddit too. I just can't find an unbiased, not trying to shill their product response to just about anything. Fake reviews everywhere, fake gurus on YouTube, Fake answers on Q&A sites. Now I can't even get news without paywalls. Also, Medium is smelly garbage. I hate their popups on every article. The WWW is in a sorry state right now.
> but in Singapore it’s a moot point: any opposition is already quite effectively silenced

Singaporean here. I don't think this is true, but the "fake news" law allows the government to set the terms for any political mudslinging.
I have thought of this my whole life. Well, since I was 12 years old, so 48 years anyway. I would develop small reaction engines for orbital maneuvering. Make them lightweight and inexpensive and infinitely customizable. Sell them to every rocket company and satellite producer. Make a whole family from hypergolic to plasma to ion thrust. Be really good at it. Establish a 100% reliability record.

But, how to bootstrap that? Perhaps write the software for some other reaction engine company? Or create a simulator for orbital maneuvering?
I would call that broad special interests as opposed to corruption per se - corruption implies that they are abusing or perverting something for personal gain when it shouldn't be.

Taking your own salary obviously isn't corruption nor even outright banditry - the intended function is personal enrichment. Nor is voting in your interest even if short sighted and likely to cause future problems.

Similarly demanding construction helmets diverts resources but keeping workers safe is a legitimate goal. Even if the demands were extreme and inefficient like demanding the development and manufacturing of power armor to paint a shed in case a piano falls on them or a moose attacks while irrational, terribly inefficient, and stupid wouldn't be corruption per se.

Now the armor demand because of kickbacks? Doing shoddy work for repeat customers or harming others directly for their own gain? Definite corruption.
It's missing green cabbage stew in northern Germany. One of the best things ever
*Cairns

Be careful with that, though. Some times they’re used as trail markers.

Last year I was on a trail in the Southwest that had loads of cairns, like every 20-30 feet. Rather than feeling disgust at silly Instagram tourists that must’ve built them, I made a game of kicking over as many as I could.

When I returned to the trailhead I saw a sign asking to please not touch the rock stacks because they mark the trail.

Oops.

That felt awful. On the drive home I made a donation to the park so I could go on living.
I second this. It’s been very easy to find National Forest and WMA campsites in North Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Chattahoochee and Nantahala National forests and my favorite.
Psychiatric studies like this are almost always so disgracefully designed. It's inevitable that people will struggle to study themselves, I suppose.
Because the vast majority of their users are completely unaware and/or indifferent of this. You and other tech- and privacy-savvy people moving away from it will not hurt Spotify's bottom line at all.
The problem is that it takes ten years to learn emacs. Don't take my word for it, because I haven't: http://edward.oconnor.cx/2009/07/learn-emacs-in-ten-years .
In my dream world the emacs community would do a gentle fork, that would have ide like capabilities for common setups (python, js, ruby, c, perl, html, java, etc) + editing as expected (like hungry-delete) + more common key bindings (like the command key as meta on mac). Bonus point for a s/frame/window/ , s/buffer/file/ and so on on the documentation.

This, by the way, is why I tend to use Textmate for the (very) minor programming-related stuff I do on OS X: the bundles make it exceedingly easy to do stuff fast.
I don't think it's a lack of vision. More likely it's a lack of patience and guts. And a complete confusion about what constitutes a product and what constitutes features.

It takes patience and guts to focus on the core elements of your product and see if they have any merit out there. So often people compensate by adding all the features they envision could be added.

I normally use the hammer http://000fff.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/product_feature... as an analogy for explaining the difference.

That is at least my experience having worked on so many startups I can't count them anymore.
it seems like the Kensington Security Slot is an interesting market that Kensington pretty much have a monopoly over. Does anyone know how they got to this point?
I've seen people try to do flow or visual programming. There is no barrier due to dev setup. They don't even have to understand the low-level details about how a computer actually works.

But despite that, they still have trouble getting anything to happen.

While not all smart people can program, professional programmers have an average IQ that is a full 24 points higher than average [0] That's one and a half standard deviations above the population average.

If you account for all the programmers you meet that seem incapable of doing anything, I suspect that the IQ of people who actually get things done skews even higher. Even if you buy into the whole "IQ doesn't measure everything" camp, the things it does measure (logic, pattern matching, memory, problem solving, etc) are exactly the same things that are critical for a career in programming. Based on this idea, it can be said quite simply that the overwhelming majority of the population are simply incapable of performing the job well.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150325075720/http://www.statis...
To OP's point, 9/10 times that happens... everyone in standup doesn't need to be in that conversation.

E.g. https://neilonsoftware.com/difficult-people-on-software-proj...
Or a boat.

I think there might be an issue with these too. It's titled a no-fly list, but I think they have additional restrictions too. I'm not sure if they deny entry based on it too.
I will add that someone up thread just explained in detail how Dune functions like real institutions. For real. It is that, no nuance.
Two years ago I was driving on vacation in the US with my family (we are French). I was in Paso Robles and wanted to turn left, where my GPS told me to. I took one turn-leftèonly lane too early (the next left was 50 m further down the road).

I had a look around, no cars at all, so I proceeded straight on to the next lane (the French way). I turned in the correct left and I suddenly heard "wow wow wow" and saw flashing blue lights. Shit.

A young policeman approached, had a look inside and started to talk to me rather fast and with a complicated accent. I asked him to please slow down.

He then realized that we are tourists, with a GPS, with two kids in the back - and he said "you are free to go, just be careful" and walked away.

So speaking to the police sometimes makes sense.

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Another case was in France when, on a Sunday afternoon im my small city, on a deserted road, I stopped because an older person decided to cross the street when it was red for them. He .... was .... veeeeee...eeery ... slooooow sowhenhewasdoneIimmediatelystarted.

"wow wow wow", a police car was behind me. They asked me if I knew why they stopped me. To what I said that I do not know, but for sure this is not for speeding or for driving over that guy who crossed the street on his red.

They said that they were behind me, saw me stop on my green light, wait for the light to change to red and then start. They wanted to make sure I was not high or something.

Everyone was smiling, we had a chat and they we all left.

Speaking to the police again makes sense.

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Ah, one more. I am driving to the Charles De Gaulle Paris airport, i got completely lost, it wasbefore a phone was everything but a phone.

It was the middle of the night, I saw a police car stopped next to a roundabout, so I walked to them and knocked on the window. It is a good thing they had a roof because they jumped so high that they could have left the car otherwise.

They actually drove me to the airport.

The power of speech :)
I'd just like to mention that the release notes are one of the best I've read.

Same goes for PR descriptions like for the ECS v2 PR [1]. That's more text than half of open source libraries have documentation.

[1] https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/1525
> None of these virtues matter when it comes to climate change. We can demolish your house, take your children and throw you in ocean if we have to to fight global warming and local cooling.

What are you even talking about?
Lab based courses are crucial to the natural sciences. Even an institution as well off as MIT can't afford to buy enough NMR spectrometers for everyone to take their chemistry classes. Simulations and videos are not adequate substitutes for real lab work.