jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Title of this post sucks but I agree with the sentiment of the article.

What I've been looking to do lately is get rid of my phone and cash it in for a USB modem for my laptop. My phone distracts me from the real world. I only really use it to read reddit and hackernews on the bus or before class, and it's unreasonable how much money is spent just for that.

Edit: As I'm typing this up I have AFK by Pinback in the background. Here are the lyrics that were playing as I typed this comment:

"No one uses the phone anymore. The tracks are wrecked and the odometers ticking. The edge is pushed and the lines are melting. Too scared to look at what I hear outside. Release me."

Kinda eerie.
Alex Lande did something similar for WalMart http://walmartlabs.github.io/web-style-guide/ ... on the tail of that, he built Radium. We had many conversations in between about the shortcomings of CSS after working on such large projects. http://projects.formidablelabs.com/radium/
Don't tell me what to do!
Loyalty is earned, not owed.
In a hypothetical, if the two did not breach Bitfinex servers (unauthorized access to others systems) but instead managed to "guess" the private key to the Bitfinex wallet and transfer the funds, would this also be a crime?

Would this be treated the same way?
Yes, it's a one-way street. Edits and revisions have to be done in Word, unfortunately. What makes it worse is that most people don't know how to use Word properly either, so you end up with documents with multiple fonts, text in a dozen different colors, half the suggeted edits as comments/annotations and half as text written into the document, random highlights with no context, and so on. Complete pain in the arse. But at least the part I control is plain text, version-controlled, and easily scripted.
which if allowed in perpetuality sounds an awful lot like a general warrant.
I think this exposes some of the problem we're discussing though. Your view that one party is anti-evidence, anti-facts, anti-science betrays enormous bias or at least indicates that your information stream is very biased. There are plenty of examples of policy proposals from either party that can be described this way. Facts and evidence are conveniently ignored in the furtherance of policy, routinely. To say that this party or that party is _mostly_ unlike the other in this respect is itself "anti-evidence" or contrary to the objective evidence.
I think the important difference is that the situation is expected to get worse. While this may seem normal, it is a peak as the cause will have stopped by now and the lead time is short. In this case, the fallout from Christmas and New Years is just starting to hit.
Diversity of thought means, in this case, you can find enough people that share your exact believes.

Less diversity as in-for example-a small village means you have to find compromises with your neighbors.
one feels like a personal attack and the other seems like an opinion.
> It is unfortunate though, that this strategy is only seemingly applied to white people.

It is much more than unfortunate.
Ok, this is a big problem. We've started a project that uses their fdb-sql-parser, which was an Apache-licensed fork of the Derby sql parser. I did not make a clone of it before they pulled it. Does anyone have a copy?

Fortunately, they can't pull the artifacts from Maven Central.

Pulling an open-source project upon which people may depend is total jerk behavior.
I guess he hasn't learned the house rules.
You're the exact same person at church, work, hanging out with your buddies watching sports (or playing board games), doorbelling for a political campaign, baby sitting your nieces, etc?

Per the article, your traits are on a spectrum. Not binary. You may be more extroverted at church and less at work.
My dad gets so much swag from companies and it all seems to go to waste.
T.S.A. officials respond that the random searches are “special needs” or “administrative searches” that are exempt from probable cause because they further the government’s need to prevent terrorist attacks.

Sigh.
All of our intuitions betray us these days, whether it is how to behave on a social network or how to properly handle your privacy.
Yeah, it's a part of American history that schools skip quite often.
Most European airports have had those as long as I can remember (definitely since the mid 90s).
> These days, there are Java programmers who get that "deer in headlights" look when confronted with terms such as "cache line miss".

Forget that, most of these folks can't reason about a program that doesn't have automatic garbage collection. Even if they have direct experience with C or similar, I have asked recent grads how they imagine reference counting or malloc/free works, and they very often start pulling out GC-influenced magical thinking about "the system" reclaiming things under the covers.
Why didn't Word for Windows ever implement the Mac-like feature of a search box in the help menu? Start typing what you think the command's name is and then its location in the menu hierarchy is highlighted for you.
Sure if one is counting just their personal impact, but in reality the developing nations will have no problem replacing you and the children you choose to not have with their own and it'll be a wash. Those resources don't disappear, the market will move them around.

Is the argument to have less kids to save the planet not just population control propaganda?
Books are great for making you feel something about fictional (or non fictional) characters, but they've got nothing on games when it comes to making you feel something about yourself.
No it will be possible, and it looks like it is already happening. I'm just not sold on the benefits.
hold middle mouse button, drag
I would say disable flash/javascript by default but I too was surprised they didn't have this. Nothing like knowing you shouldn't click on a link only to have some malicious javascript do it for you.
> It probably would not be a stretch to say that billions of people use these daily.

I think it is a stretch. There are maybe 4 billion people that access the Internet currently and most of those have limited access. Only a fraction of those know about, much less use one of those technologies. To be in the billions, 50% of people accessing the Internet would have to use one of those technologies every day. I just don't believe that is the case.

BTW, this has nothing to say of the technologies themselves. It's great that they exist. The faster we can get rid of royalty the better IMO.
I was curious about this too. I don't use Slack, do they enforce a password complexity and use a bcrypt work factor high enough to justify not requiring a reset?
It's ok he's also playing for publicity. ;)
My analogy was borderline, I just think there's value in terse static glyph, and going away from it would be detrimental.
Great animations and game concept. Would be nice to make it multiplayer and have people work on the same puzzle and race.
Shibboleth?

Or maybe it's a reverse dog whistle. (A dog whistle is something you and your group can hear but everyone else can't. A reverse dog whistle is something that everyone can hear, and know that you're trying to use a dog whistle.)
There's very little medical dissent from doctors. Plenty from Rogan and Fox News. I guess it depends on who you trust.
I’d say, rather, try and build your intuition in accordance to what mathematics, in fact, tells you (which is achieved by doing exercises).
Wow... How is this not more well known? It's not like von Neumann doesn't have plenty of other important contributions to his name.
The New York city police also maintain a black site in NE Manhattan.
I don't know who originally said it, but does the old adage, "code is harder to read than it is to write" apply here? Is COBOL more difficult to read than C?
At application/interview time, you're too late.

Trick is to talk to all the existing product managers, and their managers, ahead of application/interview time and figure out what they need, when, and why.

Do that, and the application/interview will be a formality.
I’m guessing it’s native extensions rather than a custom ruby implementation.
>Somewhere between zero and very depending on how good the person doing the interrogating is and how much the person being questioned knows about the techniques being used against them

With your "very effective" conditions, I'd argue that an innocent person would quite often respond the same as a guilty person, making the process unreliable in a different way.
> The US Surgeon General, CDC, WHO, etc. got on national television and said masks don't work when what they appear to have really believed is that masks DO work, but they wanted to reserve them for healthcare workers. The cost of this dishonesty is that when they flipped the script people were less likely to comply/believe them. And any recommendations they give going forward has to go through the "Are they sacrificing me for the greater good" filter.

I think this was just a problem of messaging. The science really wasn't there to support the hypothesis that masks could help limit transmission in the community. Even the evidence for their effectiveness in a clinical setting was extremely limited.

There was reason to believe, however, that if they were effective, they'd be more effective in a clinical setting because they'd be used in combination with other PPE, hand washing would be more frequent, and staff were trained on how to wear masks correctly. Clinicians also happened to be putting their necks on the line by knowingly coming into close contact with infected individuals, while the rest of us were hunkered down at home.

Here is an extract from a review of the published literature shortly after the CDC gave its guidance for the community to wear masks:

> There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low‐moderate certainty of the evidence means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited, and that the true effect may be different from the observed estimate of the effect. The pooled results of randomised trials did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks during seasonal influenza. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection. Hand hygiene is likely to modestly reduce the burden of respiratory illness. Harms associated with physical interventions were under‐investigated.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

> What's being asked about is gain of function research.

I'm glad that we can (seemly) agree that Covid-19 created using genetic engineering. Are you aware of any evidence to suggest that its evolution was guided by deliberate human action?
The cheaper price used to give unlimited loans until last year or so, and it's still free with unlimited loans if you're under 19 or have a low income (look under Stadspas). But yeah. Arrangements may differ somewhat by city/village.
Oh believe me, I do realize. RIVM is a complete failure, it’s a scientific institute that has lent itself to political tricks.

It is completely untrustworthy and has shown time and again it is willing to lie for political purposes.

RIVM by law is independent. It cannot be forced to take positions. It is by its own choice that it bends over backwards and makes false statements for political purposes.

It is a scientific institution that has failed science. It is rotten to the core, it is less than worthless, it must be dismantled and replaced.
I started with PGP in the Nineties, under DOS.
Back then it made sense. Though, it certainly was not for everybody. And despite all the crypto parties and what not, it's still not mainstream.

And yes it's great that some tools manage to hide PGP, it's not easy to do.

The problem, maybe it's not us, maybe it's PGP?
I still think we just don't appreciate actual marketing and corporate sponsorship.
I go to a restaurant with some friends. The bill comes and it’s in USD because of course it’s in USD. One guy puts down his card because he plays cc miles games and anyway the waitress doesn’t want to deal with multiple cards. He gets home, logs on to Venmo and requests my share from me—-in USD. I click accept, the money comes out of my bank account, which is in USD because of course it is, and goes into his Venmo account. That’s the last I ever have to think about it. There’s no 1099B coming.

Crypto makes this story much, much worse for very little gain.
I'd be willing to bet your brother is happier and more mentally stable than the vast majority of Americans.
I think it is moving the cursor simultaneously with clicking that causes it. In other words the web-browser sees it as intention to mark / select content on web page.

Any suggestions for how to avoid this?
Indeed, it is not monetization it is corruption and embezzlement. Moxie uses his role in a foundation to make himself and his buddies rich.
Per-minute or per-byte charges are also really high. But that's "high" relative to individuals, maybe not compared to operating an airliner.
All the sources I've seen just show the tweets and then go on to say how he went rogue and removed the repository. Seems like a really weak argument.
Awesome work but I imagine at some point it really is going to make sense to split those projects into their own repos.
I have also just started to allow 3rd parties access to my data!

I plan on expanding this functionality over the coming months as well, as there are a number of websites that keep requesting feeds and API access to the algorithm predictions.
We created a search engine which indexes vehicles found on over 100-thousand car dealership websites. MotoMiner's highly innovative approach has yielded more vehicles to search on than Cars.com and AutoTrader. It is a great tool to use if you want to find great deals without having to sift through a lot of websites on your own. It's like Google but for vehicle classifieds. Let us know what you think. Thanks!
Big fan of 10minutemail - great job! How are you able to keep track of the emails going to expired addresses? Aren't those addresses destroyed? Do you ever repurpose expired addresses?
>the first line is praising the language, it just didn't suit their needs anymore.

Well, praise for a language is telling people how it suits your needs, so...
I think you're calling fast multipliers "hardware support", which is fair, but the hardware support needed by GHASH is idiosyncratic to things like GHASH. CLMUL is only a few years old and GCM is its primary use case.
It is indeed, which makes for a nice backup. In fact, a lot of our storytellers never visit the site, interacting with the service entirely over email.

It's still great to have a copy online for backup, editing, sharing with new family members (e.g. spouses), or ordering printed books.
Everyone has made mistakes. But it takes a certain special person to stick their head in the sand when their mistakes are pointed out.

Make your mistake, take responsibility, learn and continue on.
Cool! If you're willing to share, what is the most popular site people download videos for? I was thinking NSFW sites as well, but you said they only account for 0.65%.
I for one personally don’t care why we go to the moon but still think going back to the moon would be a boon for technology. Social attitudes are the same way often; it doesn’t matter much why people are anti-science, or pro-violence, both are bad no matter the motivation, even if there is occasionally a good reason to punch someone or disagree with prevailing scientific wisdom.
There's lots of friction on spending if it's in an offline wallet.
Fork and/or write one!!

and, check out Terry's TempleOS videos.

If I can't cure you, might as well help you scratch the itch!
I'm not sure. In Canada it's legal and so much money was invested prices plummeted in terms of the cost of marijuana. Maybe not surprising since you can easy grow more than demand.

Once enough producers and retailers go under then you'll probably find some nice equilibrium, but margins will be very small.
The US is a republic of 50 states, a federal district (capital), and other territories. Otherwise known as a federation where states dictate their individual representation at the federation. States can do as they please from that regards, mostly.
I can't find it right now but I remember seeing a video at a dev conference, and a GIMP dev was taking questions.

A user asked if GIMP would be adding support for a feature. It was something related to printing, I wanna say either 32-bit color or CMYK. The GIMP dev spent the rest of their time trying to convince them that the feature was a bad thing and that they didn't want it or need it.

That mindset is why GIMP remains bad.
My 20 million SHIB tokens must be protected until they reach the moon.
PHP runs out of memory when I try to export all of my mutual friends to dot or nodebox formats
So the company is an LLC, there isn't $500k on account. So I could only sue them into bankruptcy.

:(
This is how. Knowingly allowed toxic zones within populations. In the USA.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90692691/this-super-detailed-map...

> At the map’s intimate scale, it’s possible to see up close how a massive chemical plant near a high school in Port Neches, Texas, laces the air with benzene, an aromatic gas that can cause leukemia. Or how a manufacturing facility in New Castle, Delaware, for years blanketed a day care playground with ethylene oxide, a highly toxic chemical that can lead to lymphoma and breast cancer. Our analysis found that ethylene oxide is the biggest contributor to excess industrial cancer risk from air pollutants nationwide. Corporations across the United States, but especially in Texas and Louisiana, manufacture the colorless, odorless gas, which lingers in the air for months and is highly mutagenic, meaning it can alter DNA.
Showing no conclusive causation doesn’t negate clusters of correlation. It just begs studies to clear up the correlating relationship.
Would be very interested in that blog post or some more detail haha

Did it have some kind of decision making functionality to decide which people to like?
Stacks are a fixed size. Unless you are running out of stack space there is no point in “freeing” memory from the stack. Where in the stack the stack pointer points has no bearing on stack size for any OS I’m aware of.

I’m assuming by string you mean a stack allocated array of char and not a std::string.
I love watching the text load in discrete chunks!
I recommend you make a support group[ for your team. Meet weekly and discuss how things are going. Purpose:

1) Help people focus - when you are laid off its easy to get lost

2) Discuss opportunities - if one of you finds a great job listing, they should share it. You are not so much competing with each other as you are competing with hundreds of others. One more competitor does not matter but increases teams odds.

3) Lay down goals and objectives - Weekly and long term. You should write out your strategy for finding a job, set a time limit for readdressing your strategy (like 3 months).

4) Help each other - write resumes, develop elevator speeches.

5) Support - It is encouraging to know others care. Others will help me redo my resume, and provide encouragement. For those with low self esteem, it will help them boost their resumes properly.
Yep, I still don't really know what's going on and why I'd want to use it. It is certainly competent; the things I've clicked on have looked nice, responded quickly, etc. But, it is not clear what I'm supposed to do with it.
Because in many countries, including US, it's illegal to leverage one product to ensure unfair market advantage for your other products, and this is very close to that...
> mainstream society marginalizes vegan choices

Do you encounter this sort of thing outside of the internet? I've certainly seen online trolls mock vegans, etc but I haven't witnessed it IRL.

At work for example, we always make sure we go to places which accomodate those on Vegan diets.

> If you want the mainstream to embrace your values you don't want to damage the chances of increasing acceptance

Is this what Vegans want though? For the Vegans I know, they don't try to get us to embrace vegan values, they simply stick to their diets quietly.
Not the OP, but this is incredibly common. I will say that if you wish to continue working as a programmer for your entire career it is a mistake to specialise in a particular technology. It doesn't matter what technology that is. The more you specialise, the less versatile you appear to employers. It just doesn't matter what you are working on. It could be a website, or it could be a computer vision system. You use a handful of languages, frameworks, techniques, etc and 10 years later these are no longer in vogue.

I think the most important thing to keep reminding yourself is that your career will hopefully last 40-45 years! The pace change of technology is increasing, rather than decreasing. If you think the flavour of the month JS frameworks are hard to keep track of now, wait 10 years when there are 4 to 5 times as many programmers working and what's hot changes practically every day.

You are not "safe" with any technology. Even ML techniques will change completely an absurd number of times in the 45 years of your career. Your only hope of staying employed as a programmer for the entire time is to build yourself as someone who can pick up and work on anything at the drop of a hat. Similarly, you need a "story" that explains why you are worth more money than a person with 2-3 years of experience that has specifically trained for the flavour of the month that the company is using now. They will happily chew up and spit out those young programmers and pick up new ones when they go with the new technology. Why would they spend a premium on you? You need an answer (and a good answer) for that question. (I was going to try to answer that question for you, but it's probably better for you to figure it out for yourself... Plus any answer I give is undoubtedly piss off a bunch of people who will identify overmuch with the group I'm marketing myself as "better than" ;-) )
That's a fair reason to post things, I guess, although fairly meta. My point is just that, just because this post may be common knowledge to you does not mean that it's common knowledge to most people (especially considering the number of upvotes). I see this thought pattern all the time on forums: "I know this, so clearly everyone must". If it was obvious then it wouldn't be getting upvotes.
According to some other comments, the problem might indeed be that it is not a browser compliant with the current HTML standard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629207
Thanks for saying what I was about to.

Yes I find the curriculum often runs in 'historic' order, as if the students are expected to learn in the same order as humanity discovered things.

Why not teach the powerful underlying principles as soon as they can be comprehended? For example, it's not until after you've learned about many kinds of chemical reactions that you actually learn what chemistry is, about atomic electron shells, valence, etc.

Same with biology, too much naming flower parts, and not enough evolution, molecular biology, etc.
> If Burger King is forced to get a separate stove(or whatever it's called in the industrial-sized context they're in) just for that 1 burger, they will cancel that burger.

I'm not a fan of regulation obstructing experimentation, but in this case, I think requiring proper cooking process for something that is purportedly vegetarian is absolutely necessary.

I don't see the problem with fine-print like "may have touched real meat". The impossible whopper should be marketed towards omnivores who:

1. Understand the personal/environmental problems with eating meat.
2. Are interested in alternatives.

This market seems to be increasing. If this is profitable, then it makes sense to support a fully vegetarian pipeline for producing fake meat.
What are the damages? Are they out money because of this? Did they get sick?