jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> My point is more like, 10x the number of people could be dying of COVID per day than are dying right now, and I would care about 10x more than I care about all those people who are dying of heart disease, which would still be an indescribably small amount of care, even with the multiplier. I am not making the argument that it's "just a flu", but I will make the argument that it's "just death". Death is. Only a sheltered person is emotionally distraught because of this; and in turn, only a person who cannot handle this perspective would deem it logical to permanently damage society in order to reduce this number.

What are you talking about? 3500 died in a single day, that's a 9/11. Multiply it by tenfold like you said, and do it for a year, you're looking at 12.7 million Americans dying alone. Is that a death rate you don't care about? For comparison, the 1st world war, second world war, vietnam war, korean war, war in afghanistan, war in iraq, combined, gets you to about 0.45m casualties.

And that's in one year and one country. On a global scale it'd be insane, and again, just one year. A year in which a vaccine is rolled-out and can end the lockdown. Ending that lockdown now without having rolled-out the vaccine makes no sense.
That one person was (at least based on what we know currently) shot dead by police. All of the HN comments about how dangerous this is and how the police needed to be more aggressive are effectively calling for more people to have died - because that's the inevitable consequence of what they want. (I've seen people in communities less polite and aggressively moderated than HN, but pulling from more or less the same tech community, outright calling for the police to open fire.)
I'd say the key point is the ability to identify and reason about complexity.

Figuring out what the irreducible complexities of a problem are and at what tradeoffs these complexities could be addressed in different components of an application (including handing them off to the user).

A few corollaries of this are:

- Masters will write less code, as they will eliminate most of the complexity when there is time for this.

- Masters can more easily put the complexity where they want it, having more control over trade-offs between performance, usability, flexibility, etc.

- Masters will have an easier time estimating the required work needed to implement a project, as experience gives them a good intuition for what the irreducible complexity of a problem is.

- Masters will rarely tell you a "right" solution except for simple problems. Their answer will depend as much on your specific requirements as the problem you're trying to solve[1].

- Masters will often fix problems by simplifying code. Refactoring will be a natural part to their coding workflow, not a separate "housekeeping" activity.

- Those who hide complexity behind more complexity are not masters. Those who always fix problems by adding more code are not masters.

[1] It could be argued that "add to numbers and do it fast" is a single problem and that's not wrong. Requirements like "speed" and "usability" are really just another aspect of the desired outcome of a program, but it's rarely thought of as part of the problem to be solved, thus I am considering these constrains as separate from the "core" of the problem.
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I've experienced something like that as well. Depending on what you can do, try a different monitor and/or different cable and/or different dongle. I've managed to find a combination that doesn't do that anymore.
I applaud you for being crypto-conscious (and confident) enough to write your own pw generator, but I think it's important for there to be commodity options available to those of us who aren't.

Also, as far as closed vs open source: http://keepass.info/
Page faults are usually expensive because the bits you need must be read in from disk. In this case the bits you need are still in RAM, and could even conceivably be in cache. It's probably not tremendously more expensive than a cache miss (which is still quite expensive, but hopefully the collector is fixing up pointers fast enough that actual page faults are relatively rare).
Hmmm... well I don't always agree with him, but Mark Cuban often has interesting contrarian views on the technology business. He's certainly outspoken:
http://blogmaverick.com/
I strongly disagree.

I think marketing skills are incredibly in demand in an early stage startup, even more so than technical skills!
Look at this recent HN post and what people would want to read about most:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2012959

If you're a nontechnical person joining a startup, don't bother learning to hack beyond a very basic understanding. You won't be any good at it for a while, and they probably already have smart technical founders who will tackle the difficult technical problems.

There are lots of brilliant hackers in the Bay Area. People who know marketing seem to be far more rare here, and as a result are highly sought after by the smart startups that have a real business model and understand they need marketing to succeed.

If you're actually good at copywriting and can drive serious traffic, you will have numerous startups literally BEGGING you to to take their money and run ad campaigns for them.

It's important to make a distinction here. If you come from a brand advertising background, then forget it, no startup will want to hire you.

If you know performance marketing, and can deliver conversions and predictable ROI, you can rapidly and easily get as many consulting clients(which lead to job offers, if you want) as you can possibly handle.

Go to startup meetups, mention that you know how to drive traffic and convert it, and before long you'll have a stampede of eager startup founders beating their way to your door.
Because they were seized without due process?

"Copyright" is such that it takes a trial to decide whether something is or is not infringing, so you can't just administratively seize a domain.

You think some site is serving up copyrighted material? Get a warrant, file a suit. Let proper authorities do it. Anything else is theft, plain and simple.

Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
That's cool if true, given Jonathan Blow's many posts about his frustrations in porting to Linux, particularly the fine grained control you need over sound for that game (play backwards, play at varying time rates). See the long thread here: http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364
So the salt was just added to the hash without hashing the concatenated hash + salt, i.e was this the method they chose?:
saltedhash(password)=hash(password).salt

A part from the obvious flaw of including part of the password in plain text, how secure is this method compared to the following method were the salt is not a secret and were the concatenated hash + salt is hashed?:
saltedhash(password)=hash(hash(password).salt)
I always liked the idea of carpet-bombing the Middle East with porn magazines.
I use One Password and love it.

There is an iOS version. Android in beta. OSX and Windows versions and the windows version can be used via Wine on Linux but has no browser integration there.
This is British tv. They'd have to include a disclaimer if it was staged.
Work with a US nexus is subject to withholding. More broadly, this article does a good job of summing up my concerns:

http://www.whitecase.com/hrhottopic-0711/
When I got to that image, that's when I completely gave up on it. This article was complete spam, and devoid of any real content.

Somebody spent five minutes googling "bomb shelter" and then posted a few photos with some asinine remarks.
"The internet die" huh.

I think you'll find in the absence of one solution, another presents itself.

As an example, github is not an ad based service, nor is it some sorta bait and switch. It's terms are reasonable and is generally useful to everyone.

That is ridiculously dramatic to say "The internet will die"

It's just the shitty part that will die.
Here's a patent they applied for a few years ago, with plenty of detail: https://www.google.com/patents/US20120093994?pg=PA1&dq=Hsieh...

It goes into detail about how they use they tweak the raw ingredients, pressure, and temperature to align the protein fibers of the plant and achieve a similar shear force as meat.
Nice!

Fedora 21's out, maybe add it to your templates.
So you'll need a middle layer no matter what (unless you go with like... CouchDB or something), but can I recommend you use something lighter weight than Rails?

Consider using something lighter weight, like Sinatra that you can task with just providing a RESTful API to the backend. Unless you're wanting to sometimes render pages (which you can do with sinatra) to send to slow clients, I really don't see much of a use case for the full weight of rails.

Rails is too heavy, especially when you're using a front-end framework
interesting little bug...data formats are always fun for interesting bugs like this
I agree with your first paragraph 1000%.

One of my old start-ups had white boards everywhere (when we ran out, there were windows...) and ad-hoc bi-lateral marker-of-death struggles would spring up anywhere all day long. That was super handy.

I've mostly been an independent lone-ranger type for a long time now, and have rarely met most of my clients face-to-face -- but I do miss at-the-drop-of-a-hat white board sessions.
I had an idea for an emacs version of this.

Anyone have any ideas on how you'd implement this with emacs?
Maybe Prolog needs its own Paul Graham?
An outlier that wrote like...10 books.

How hard is it to write 10 books and not be successful?
It depends a lot on what the average Wall Street Firm would do with that programmer. Is the hacker going to be doing (for example):

1.) IT Admin stuff (Creating accounts, internal admin tools)

2.) Backoffice Dev (plumbing code to book trades, query databases, feed data to risk and PNL reporting tools)

3.) Infrastructure (writing fast code that talks to exchanges to trade autonomously, or writing tools to help people run lots of regressions, experiments, and simulations with ease)

4.) Desk Quant / Quant Dev (writing valuation models, trader UI, tools for trading, tech support for traders, structuring new products, building the grand unified system that processes financial instruments)

5.) Prop Trading (finding new ways to trade for profit; systematizing that into software)

I'd say anyone who is skilled at either 3,4,5 is going to generate more value to the Wall Street firms than what most startups budget for hacker employees.
What could they possibly need $25K for? As far as I can tell, all it is is a web app + a magazine/book.
GHCi, version 6.12.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
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Prelude> :t 5
5 :: (Num t) => t

This is the sort "practicality" issue. Care to enlighten on the rules about when `(Num t) => t` resolves to `Integer`?
Very do-able on 2015 MacbookPros; can't imagine it's that different on the M1 mobo.
The laws I mentioned (14th amendment and California Prop 209) only apply to the Federal government and California.

There are other laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and those may be applied to tech companies in some situations. That law was recently used to sue Harvard for discriminating against Asians in their admissions process.
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There's a econtalk or maybe a planet money that goes into detail on this: the cold chain is super important in food safety, especially for stuff like milk. You want to be able to move from refrigerated milk truck to grocery store food fridge rapidly, so you put the milk near the loading dock. And of course, you keep the loading dock as far away from customers as possible so they're not inconvenienced.

Moving the cold chain closer to checkout involves additional expenses, so it works more for higher margin products, and ones a bit more forgiving if there's a thaw, like Coke, Monster energy drinks, and canned coffee from Starbucks.

So the question becomes: would you pay 50 cents more for milk from a fridge at checkout, when you can get the same thing at the back?

EDIT: it was the host of econtalk, appearing on NPR Planet money:https://www.npr.org/2014/08/01/337034378/everyone-goes-to-th...
Why the documents https://slon-i-giraf.ru/app/ofertaIP/ and https://slon-i-giraf.ru/app/ofertaLLC/ are so different? The Russian one seems like rules for some offline event and the English one is like the reduced version of the former.
In switzerland both our national amazon alternative (relatively huge) and main food delivery network accept bitcoin and several other crypto currencies. Including weird stuff like Tron and Monero.

I spend more in crypto some months than other currencies.
I've been developing for more then 10 years and have always listened to music; my favourite period was when lastfm worked, I used to pay about 5 USD per month if I'm not wrong.

Nowadays I have Spotify, but lastfm for some reason was much better.

There was a period inbetween these, where I used winamp back in the days, but there were quite a lot of flash websites with playlists.

I listen to whatever I feel like, from Instrumental music, hip hop, punk, jazz, blues, African music, South American, eastern Asian, Balkan, funk, soul, etc.

Depends! 2019 was mostly Khruangbin, I think.
It might also be so unpopular because we are smart enough and technically inclined enough to make our own conclusions on the technology without relying on ideology. And the more we look into it, the more dubious the siren song of crypto becomes.
Came here to say exactly this. The germanium experiment actually preceded silicon, but yes—-very fruitful.
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The best explanation I found was on the book The Value of Tomorrow by Eduardo Giannetti, Brazilian philosopher and economist (in this chapter he had several consultants):
If there is a trade-off between longer lifespan and reproductive capacity at a young age, there will also be a point of equilibrium.

Suppose there was no senescence, we all lived perfectly healthy and at peak capacity for the duration of our lives. We would still have limited lifespan in nature, because of diseases, natural predators, etc. There would be a life expectancy, since people would not live forever. Now suppose a mutation occurs that grants the individual a boost in body functions at a young age with a caveat: a gradual decline in body functions after a certain age. If this certain age is way past the life expectancy of the population, this mutation would give competitive advantage to its bearers, with no real downside, since nobody lives way past the life expectancy anyway. This mutation would spread throughout the entire population and aging would establish itself in this population.

The point of equilibrium in these trade-offs would be different for each population, since the environments and species are different, hence why hummingbirds, dogs, humans and turtles have wildly varying life expectancies.

Trying to stop aging would involve stopping or mitigating these mechanisms, which are deeply ingrained in our systems. The consequences of doing so are far from straightforward, both to the individual (if we could not stop side effects to have the cake and eat it too) and to the population as a whole.
Interesting. What's the nature of work do you accept at oDesk? Do you mind mentoring people?
Presumably the police would maintain a minimal, unobtrusive monitoring presence and only gear up/deploy if violence began. This might delay response during a violent protest, but, in theory, would make a peaceful protest safer and might prevent it from turning violent. I don't know what to think about the proposal but it's not completely ridiculous.
Performance. See the graphs here: https://fitzgeraldnick.com/2018/02/26/speed-without-wizardry...

Look how much spread there is in the JS, and how little there is in the wasm.

Depending on what you're doing, this may or may not matter to you.
That's what indigenous people in the Americas thought before the Europeans came.
If you stop mining bitcoins, anybody with a small rig can produce a double spend and destroy all trust in the network. It wouldn't disappear, but the coins wouldn't be worth much.
The rust+wasm story is quite nice these days. I've been working on a rust+wasm SPA for a few months and I have yet to run into issues with the tooling (wasm-pack, wasm-bindgen, etc).
Wasm itself is at the level of assembly, not the level of JavaScript. If you want to compile a GC'd language to wasm, you have to bring your own garbage collector and compile it to wasm as well. That's not a showstopper from wasm's perspective, and several languages have done just that, but porting a GC to a new compilation target can be a bit of work.
I think the value of NFTs purely based on "ownership" will not last very long. Yes it's cool, but most of these are already on the way to becoming almost purely speculative instruments.

Some - like punks and hashmasks among others - seem to be taking advantage of the medium, to do things with art that only NFTs can do. Art that embraces the medium and does something unique that only it can IMO will eventually win[1]. In the case of NFTS, having each piece be self-contained bits of code sitting inside an execution engine open up a lot of possibilities, from self-mutation to generation.

1 - longer summary of my thoughts: https://hrishioa.github.io/the-two-innovations-of-hashmasks/
Unless I'm much mistaken comments on HN show whether they've been edited more than a few seconds after they're first posted. I believe I edited that comment to clarify something a few seconds after I posted it, in an effort to prevent people from taking my words out of context to incite rage and then blame me for that. But I'm sure whatever your comment was it was really well thought out in the short time you had available, and that it didn't do any of those things.
I think this book, "The Master and his Emissary"
https://www.amazon.com/The-Master-and-His-Emissary-audiobook...
would argue that the right hemisphere of our brain acknowledges multiple perspectives and contextualizes them, and that our culture suffers from a severe left hemisphere bias.

Brain lateralization probably isn't what you think it is since pop culture gets almost everything about it wrong and it has become a career-ender for academic study so that no one synthesizes the research into coherent theses. Sadly, the topic has gotten such a bad reputation that I have to take a brief moment to defend the validity of bringing it up.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8619789.
I just discovered that. They're using building polyfills to simulate the browser behavior, too. Very cool.
If they dont have any funding its going to be kind of hard to accomplish goal #1, right?
Have you seen GreenArrays (http://www.greenarraychips.com/)? They produce massively parallel chips that run arrayForth natively. Targeting the cheap supercomputing market.
I didn't see where in the article it said going to this library inside Minecraft could get you killed. I saw that in Minecraft there is a library that OUTSIDE of Minecraft, had you been caught accessing the same literature, could be harmful. Misleading headline?
While I don't know for sure what
ganeshkrishnan intended, I'm going to take from the name and comment ganesh knows both countries. Perhaps what Ganesh meant is the while the population density in those Australian cities is very low, Australia has a highly urbanised population. ~11% of India's population are urbanised, 2/5 ths of australia's population is in just two cities. You hear figures for 80 or 90% of Australia's population is urbanised, but I don't have a cite.
You should update the readme to include this context!
It's unbelievable to me it hasn't already been postponed. I expected it weeks ago, along with the postponement of Euro 2020.

Nobody in their right mind should even be remotely considering holding a major global event this year.
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Not for pro users, which I thought is what the topic of discussion was. Lack of color matching is the first feature that comes to mind, and that's an absolute deal breaker for any print design people.
Leave the straw man alone.

I was responding to a specific question, “what makes this
dirty work” and specifically made no moral judgement or assertions.

Obviously, there’s a chip on your shoulder about the topic. Camgirls have a shitty job and aren’t nurses. That doesn’t mean that camming is uniquely shitty or that it’s some sort of act of personal liberation.
The political climate was different back then, wasn't it?
Interesting/troubling survey findings:

- 93% agree that employees that turn their cameras off in meetings are less engaged in their work

- 92% agree that employees who are frequently muted or camera-off don't have a long future with the company
You can't package up bandwidth and send it to someone deployed to a war zone (unless you have a spare StarLink laying around)
Apple isn't going to be selecting for mass/energy density. That's a major concern for EVs, but for a phone, you would gladly take double the capacity for 3x the mass.
So the trick is to always be running a speed-test in the background?
Atari actually got the code illegally from the copyright office. Here's a video discussing that portion - https://youtu.be/fLA_d9q6ySs?t=11m37s
Impossible to know for sure, but the ROI on “accelerate packets that match an IP whitelist that is drawn nightly from the DNS records for well-traveled speed test sites” must be quite high.
Uploading to package managers (or convincing said managers to package your upstream, this is a particularly big problem for fragmented OSes like Linux desktops) also don't scale easily from the developer's side compared to configuring TLS which is usually a single toggle on your cloud host's DNS config.
Successor to the Space Shuttle is not the same as being a space shuttle.

What makes something a "shuttle"? The original name is because it was supposed to take as little as two weeks to refurbish a shuttle and be ready for the next launch. This of course never happened. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_... )

I think most people consider a "shuttle" to be a spacecraft with wings that can reach orbit. That is SpaceShipOne and the X-15 are spaceplanes, not shuttles.

What is your definition of "space shuttle" which includes Orion and the Space Shuttle but doesn't include other existing crewed spacecraft?
Are the walnuts whole or ground? I'm not a fan of nuts in general, but whole walnuts are the worst offenders!