jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Capitalism is just an exchange of something(work/goods) for currency.

This is kind of like saying evolution is just animals surviving and breeding. It misses the crucial concept of natural selection, where beneficial adaptations get selected and naturally propagated through the species. Similarly with capitalism, those companies that find ways to increase profits over competition via whatever means possible will also grow and become more powerful. Bemoaning greedy CEOs kind of misses the point in IMO, because as long as greedy/competitive individuals exist, they will succeed in a capitalist system.
> all cookies that aren't necessary for the site to function

You know what is necessary for a site to function? Revenue. Therefore advertising cookies are necessary for the site to function and we shouldn't need these banners.
True unfortunately.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889
Ops on the Discord Linux channel suggest linux newbies to use the "questionable" software Balena Etcher (https://balena.io) for burning iso installs to CDs/USBs disk labelling it as easier when the OS in use by the user (Ubuntu) already ships with more situable alternative like gnome-disks or dd.

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2977

I find disgusting how the FOSS and Linux comunity is getting sold to companies and tech players to the disadvantage of the comunity and newcomers. Is not the first time users are being forced to do something they don't want to or don't need to just because someone is "pushing them" into the right direction.

In the end the suggested software didn't work for the in case scenario.

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I've legit fallen in love with sqlite. i save my global-scale infra chops for the dayjerb
Yes, but I just explained how fiat is secured by a system almost the same as proof-of-work (which you dismissed as "off-topic").
I always think this type of bad first step is a "test the waters" move.

If no one complains, sweet. If someone complains backpedal with one of those "We hear you! And while we haven't done anything wrong, we will do right by the customer just like we have always done" PR stunts.

Most everyone forgets, and the people that do remember, well they remember you "making things right." Exploding batteries on your s21? Anyone?
This article seems very pro-government's side of the story.
Being good at tech interview is an art, that few masters, and many are good at while being poor developers. I have countless tales of wow-thumbs-up-interview guys that turn out to be just good at that: interviews. Also, very anecdotal, but my best hires in 15 years have been poor interview performers.

So what's the answer? no, not contract to hire. Although good in theory, in practice many companies won't support or approve contract to hire for full time position. Call it HR inertia, a.k.a 1 of the 4 horsemen of death in bigger more established tech businesses.

So where am i going with all this? Well, that's why networking is important. Get the people you worked with to bring you in places. You don't have to impress anyone on a white board (who codes on whiteboards anyway) but put the emphasis on culture fit since you already pretty much have been tech screened by your old pals.

In conclusion, be nice to your peers. Especially the smart ones you work well with.
I think your argument about visibility is valid. Personally though I would rather see a /india added than a fork of the community here... and ultimately I think we would all benefit more from collective engagement (and perhaps some "technological adaptation"-- a la code pushes from pg/contribs) rather than divisive isolation (HN is niche enough already)

"However things like payment gateways, local events, feedback on startups focused on Indian markets are not very global and may not interest a large majority of hackers here."

I personally would love to read articles or posts on payment gateways, how they differ region by region, who controls what market, major players, how their systems work, how their businesses and pricing schemes work, highlights of their unique adaptations, or things certain providers are doing that set them apart or allow them to succeed in their particular market.

I think that's exactly the sort of discourse that should be taking place here; "what's hot in silicon valley" is great --and we get plenty of that-- but broader discussions on things like opportunities in emerging and rapidly growing markets should as well.
The bending is interesting. Are there other examples of this out there? Part of me can't help but think that it probably just got hit with a plow enough times.
"In a blog post, YouTube said violative videos had accounted for 0.16 percent to 0.18 percent of all views on the platform in the fourth quarter of 2020. Or, put another way, out of every 10,000 views on YouTube, 16 to 18 were for content that broke YouTube’s rules and was eventually removed."
If I was mildly famous and resigned as a software engineer from Amazon today, the headline might be “Xyz resigns from Amazon amid company’s union-busting efforts.” The headline would be technically the truth, but imply a completely fabricated story.
Higher rates come w/ a lot of political pain. You saw the prior administration talking about keeping rates low and tying that to low cost of borrowing for the US. It means higher mortgage rates for homebuyers as well.

The Fed has spoken about keeping rates zero until 2023 [0]. Unemployment came down considerably (~6%). Last time it was this level was mid-2014. We started raising rates at ~5% unemployment in early-2016. I think theres a good chance you'll hit 5% unemployment well before 2023, especially considering that the economy isn't fully open yet and we're still vaccinating.

I don't see the political will to raise rates and slow this thing down.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/09/16/fede...
I was thinking "black market", not "hard to administer". For that much money, there are plenty of people who are going to be willing to do off-the-books transactions.

And no, it won't be simple to audit. Can you prove that all the food you ate last year came from the grocery store? That you didn't buy any from your neighbor's cousin, who works at a wholesale warehouse?
Almost a 10X return in a couple of weeks.

Having inside information on this announcement was highly profitable.
Correct, and I think it's a very common thing for people to opt not to burn those bridges if they can help it. Who among us hasn't played the whole, "Thanks [company], I've really loved my time here," bit and smiled on the way out while simultaneously thinking, "Fuck this place entirely"?
I maintain that part of the disconnect here is that people assume you're looking at the correct piece of code. They defend it being not a big deal that it's arcane because it fits on one page and with a little work you can understand it.

But as the code size increases, the likelihood that the bug is in this one function goes down. First I have to scan ten functions and prioritize how likely I think it is that the bug is in #2 versus #7. If every one of them is a precious snowflake, then they all have code smells that I have to investigate. It can take me much longer to find the right one, and by then I've lost the memory slots that contain the reproduction steps and have to dump state again to go pull that back in.

"I found what I'm looking for! Now why was I looking for that?"
Thanks :) FWIW I find this level of detail useful.

What do you mean by "Index miss" – index cache miss (ie not in RAM)?
I believe the IoT distinction is that the platform reports to a cloud service, where parts of that are implemented as SaaS, if only for SSO and remote management. I think this is a fairly loose definition though if the underlying device data is still on-prem.

Wi-Fi router I would take to mean one of those consumer all-in-one boxes, which is what the UDM fits the description of.

I agree that this distinction is unnecessary. When we consider who wrote the article and who it's for, we should expect a bit more granularity than foggy acronyms.
that is not true in the event of war or major political movements
Software startups also tend to be very product-oriented and focus on global markets. But the most successful people I know (I don't know any billionares) run service-oriented small businesses and are focused on changing the neighborhood.

Changing your own 'hood is the first step to changing the world. There's not enough being said about serving your neighbors and getting to know your regulars on a first name basis.
The prices are raised. The rtx 3060, released a few days ago, was not selling for MSRP. The only time there is an MSRP is for nvidia FE cards, but the majority of cards are not. The 3060 was called a "non existent card" by GamersNexus because the $320 price tag never happened.

What I don't understand is why gamers aren't petitioning their government to stop the trade tarrifs responsible for the price increases.

Gamers rise up /s
This article was posted one hour ago and was in the top page of HN.

By now already it is nowhere to be found in the first eight pages!

Can someone explain?
This is IMO the most valuable reflection of the whole thread. It can be seen as morals are conditional for big tech companies and depend of arbitrary circumstances like location
One of the things I find really cool about Ingenuity is how it is in large based on consumer hardware. The main processor is a Snapdragon 801 running Linux which communicates with Perseverance using the Zigbee protocol [1]. Perseverance on the other hand uses a RAD750 from 2001! If successful I hope this can lead to more modern hardware for these kinds of missions in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
>Rather than inclusionary leftism.

Traditional left didn't give a shit on gender, race or whatever bullshit you think you should declare yourself "inferior" because of an excuse. Just work and equality.

I hate both poshy techno-aristocrats (I would kick them out to Somalia or a Mexico narco shithole, to see what they can do without social support or a state backed police), and SWJs with far more points in common with fascism (Fuck that so-called cultural appropiation) than the common worker.
The website could really use some work for those users trying to browse it on an iPad. The paging indicators imply that the user should be able to swipe, but in actuality, the user must wait for the timed change, or try to hit one of the extremely small pips (well, extremely small for mobile browsing)

Creating a positive web experience for actual users of the device you're selling to is critical.
There's a close button next to any of them that you see. It'll get rid of it for good if it annoys you that much (or if you already donated...)
Does it have to be xbee? I have a Bluetooth prototype working.
In the US at least, you can still patent an idea for some amount of time after it's been made public.
Original evidence: https://gist.github.com/714852
I imagine that the AV cabling and switches could get pretty expensive with that many players.
When Jimmy Wales stop trying to sex me with his eyes, I'll think about it.

I find it hard to "donate" to megalomaniacs.
> can be equipped with an internet device

I don't know how efficient a houseful of IOTs can be, but I don't want one.

Second question: what's to keep my neighbor(s) from ignoring efficiency in favor of demand. So I'm doing without lights while they party on. (Please don't say regulations.)
My theory is subtly different from these. I sometimes call it "ambient sociability".

Humans are pack creatures. If you put us in solitary confinement we go insane. This is generally true even for introverted people; only on the far edge of the bell curve do you find people who crave absolute solitude for weeks or months on end (and these people tend to be really odd, and it's often hard to tell if the oddness is cause or effect.)

However, as every reader of programming productivity books knows, being surrounded by a bunch of people that is constantly interrupting you makes it hard to focus. And so civic design has evolved the library, the coffeeshop, and the coworking space: Places where you can be alone yet also surrounded by people.

The secret is to surround yourself with people who don't have the same agenda as you. Then you won't often be interrupted by things that break your focus: The staff might occasionally ask to refill your coffee, and you'll get interrupted if the building catches fire, but otherwise you can work on your own thing.
Great! But what about lein?
> and didn't "bother to read the ANSI C specification" because he was so certain of what he misremembered.

Yes, it appears my recollections of ANSI C have faded away.
/r/gonewild is not even in the first 50 subreddits with most subscribers. What makes you think it's the reason for Reddit's popularity growth?
"Oh, cool! I can split this into images and print out a full color wall mural of Andromeda!"

looks at prices of poster printing

Professional printed glossy full bleed posters: $30ea (x25=$750). Ouch. Wall mural printing services don't seem to list custom pricing, but I assume it's less. A cheaper alternative is KISS Printing, which at $0.15 per 12.5"x18.5" printable area would be around 10x10, so about $15.... but you also choose how much profit they make, so figure at least $30 profit, since half goes to a charity... $45 is very affordable, though not as nice prints
Do you, perhaps subconsciously, prefer the night hours to the day? Can you hypothesize why?
Exactly; the atoms you have around you are perfectly fine for bootstrapping the process of getting to the atoms out there.
Many people can’t imagine if they are not directly effected by something. It is not necessarily they are not intelligent in certain domains, but they have trouble seeing beyond the familiar.

All this is explained in Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb, everyone should read it! Please do it now.
From the article:

"As consumers and end-users of software, our expectations are continually rising."

A very agreeable statement, but no they're not. Expectations are that your service works, makes sense, is easy to use. This is not a rise in expectations, it has always been there.
My guess is that they're giving themselves a ~4 week buffer so they're free to prioritize orders both by necessity and efficiency.
This is really going to hurt businesses -- I just went to order a replacement serial programming cable I need for a project and it's saying April 21 (and it shows as in-stock too!).

I can probably hack the cable to get by ... but as soon as I need something I can't hack/fix/cannibalize or get elsewhere, then I'm screwed.

Sadly, any local competition has either gone out of business (Radio Shack, maybe Fry's) or is closed due to the lockdown.

Hopefully, Digikey/Mouser will keep going ...
Anecdotally I noticed a difference when running next to big, busy roads in Northern VA vs. running next to lakes (or even the same busy roads later at night when traffic was negligible). Couldn't go as hard, didn't feel like I was making as many improvements to speed/time/health, etc.
Totally. It's certainly why I never had kids, I can't stand all the responsibility of that.
I've seen some backlash against 'magic' lately and it surprised me. 'Magic' doesn't need to be understood to be used.

I don't care how my car works, just that it gets me to work every day. If it breaks day, I have the choice of learning another craft (car repair) or paying someone that already knows it.

Likewise, if I find a bug in Ruby's base code, I can choose to learn enough about Ruby's code to fix it, or write a bug report and let someone else.

I'm not advocating ignorance, I'm saying it's a perfectly valid option given that we aren't immortal.
> It's known around the world that the United States always pays its debts...We're pretty much the only country that people depend on this way.

Really? I thought that the US arrears situation with the UN for the last 25 years was well known. I would suggest Finland as a country that always pays its debts.
It's funny, people lather praise for Vic when he is presenting Android and what not, but he was really out of his depth with Conan.
My understanding of what might be going on here is broken telephone with intent. A reporter gleans only a subset of information from a given body of research, then ends up reporting only on what portions they consider to be essential. The end result loses nuance and context.

I don’t think reporters want to be doing this, but society doesn’t incentivize serious reporting in of itself.
This post shows zero understanding of how social networks attract users and usage.
> when they manage to get mining rights to the moon or set up martian tourism or the like

I always wonder if people actually seriously believe this.

We are many, many decades away from this being even close to a reality.
Yes even I felt the slowness when doing basic features like opening tabs.

It's a great browser with lots of built in features. You don't have to use (or trust) more extensions. But too slow and overwhelming with all the shortcuts and features.
I agree with you. A domain filter would be the best as there are other sites in addition to Quora that provides junk content.
For example, for all health type of search theres a website named healthline.com which appears with 2-3 of the top results. I wish I could block it somehow.
> By comparison, Element is much more like a chat program than a phone messenger. It's good for "I want to connect with that person from GitHub"

Element is what messaging should have been from the START: a federated service just like email, where you register an account with your provider of choice, just like email, and start adding/chatting other people after getting to know their address, just like email. So, instead of asking that cute girl her phone number or her email address, you would ask her her element address.

Whatsapp spoiled this approach years ago, so now we are basically screwed because everyone is used to the central approach and it's almost impossible to move away from it. But TODAY's implementation of Element and their shiny clients 12 years ago, would have been a great success just like WhatsApp was (whishful thinking at its finest, I know).
In a similar idea, you can also make them less visible, so indentation strikes more: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face/
> Soft errors occur when the data in an electronic device is corrupted after neutrons, produced when cosmic rays hit oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere, collide with the semiconductors within the equipment.

Uhhhhhhh. Neutrons? Doubt goes here. I was pretty sure charged particles and ionizing radiation are to blame for messing up your electronics.
>I'm not sure where the limitation actually was.

Simple, the sales and marketing department.
Telegram has bot payments API (had it for some time now).

As a user (regular or a business owner for example) you can use solutions like https://ecommpay.com/products/telegram-payments/ to receive payments
Yeah, but consider the use case where you lose your phone in an accident or someone steals it. You can recover your sim card, you know your recovery password. But you'll be SoL and you won't be able to recover the history of all of your group and individual chats. This sucks.
> I honestly don't know what's going on.

He's accusing Sean Parker of rape. He doesn't mention Parker by name, but other commenters have explained why he's clearly talking about Parker.

The accusation makes no sense: if I'm reading his vague words correctly, he's saying he was a passenger in SP's car when SP picked a girl up from the side of the road and raped her... in the car? While the author just sat there and watched? Why didn't he do anything? Why would SP think he could rape a stranger in front of a witness who knows his name and knows him well enough to be given a ride in his car?

The author then extrapolates from this alleged rape to the claim that Silicon Valley has a systemic problem with rape, without providing any evidence or reasoning why the latter follows from the former. Also, all men are evil - except this author, of course. Thank God he's here, right?

I realise that the nature of the alleged crime means it's hard to provide concrete evidence, but if this guy wants to be taken seriously he needs to drop all this insinuation and give specific accusations that form a coherent story.
Codebases compiled to WebAssembly still cannot access the DOM directly. So yes, for now you still need JavaScript.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...
Threema doesn't.
Lots of people think that's the media's job. There's a meme going around showing some rich wall street tycoons sitting in their office watching the Occupy Wall Street protesters from years ago with a speech bubble saying: "Introduce them to identity politics".

Here it is - https://m.imgur.com/gallery/KdeMOdA

Another version has a timeline chart below it showing some interesting facts but I can't find that one right now.
What he is trying to do is produce a simple relation between RGB values and EM frequencies; which is not possible. There is no simple relationship there, RGB values are only related to how we see light, how our eyes work, not to the EM spectrum.
Have people already forgotten about Tibet? They also did invade Vietnam.
These guys really need to bring it to mobile:
http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;ws=31587
Yeah because MS is necessary for anything... Oh wait, Android, Opera, Chrome(>10%market share), Firefox(at least 20%market share), Safari and iOS... people now can make a living without caring for what MS does or not, just add "You need a standards compliant browser" with links and care only for the people that does.

MS is using this trick with Hotmail: You need IE version X to benefit from the amazing features hotmail has.
"After all, people on Earth suffering should be a higher priority than looking for spacemen, right?"

Of course not. That line of reasoning is always flawed, as it is presumably always typed on a computer that was purchased with funds that weren't used for free water/food/vaccines.
One thing I find hard to beat when it comes to Apple: the image.

Apple is the hip and cool thing that your artistic cousin uses, whereas Microsoft is the lame and boring thing that the enterprise uses.

Between these two stereotypes, what would be the image you would market to in order to turn huge profits like Apple is doing? I have no idea, and I think it would be unwise to just imitate Apple, they have more experience being Apple than anybody.
I don’t understand this. How are we supposed to read the case word? Is there an online interpreter for this so we can play with it?
You drew an analogy with having root and being able to edit the sudoers file, but note that in that case the attacker is not able to see any passwords, only change them. I think it provides a useful level of security if the browser would encrypt stored passwords with a master key, using an OS-provided keychain. As with Safari, it could then ask for the master password before showing any passwords, while remembering the same password for normal logins for convenience. This is under the assumption that revealing your password is worse than somebody being able to use your accounts.