jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's ok to send feedback, but understand that it's probably not going to change anything at the organization in question, except brand you as the 'Anti-Teams Crank'.

It's also perfectly ok to reject a position based on anything at all; the UCC suite they use is a perfectly reasonable reason, considering how much time you'll likely have to spend using it. Hell, I rejected an offer because the office was in an old building and the wooden floors creaked like mad.

However, given the weight of your opinions and the emotional response you have to an environment that doesn't suit your needs, have you thought about starting your own company?
Where are you seeing the author suggest most people in the described jobs could actually be replaced by rocks?
I'm sorry to hear that it extends to many fields.

> but who have unwittingly entered into a predatory industry

How exactly is it predatory? Rheumatology, which rarely engages in "cures" and whose "treatments" are often an exchange of one set of problems for another (if at all), and yet never fails to collect on its patients, might well fall under that umbrella.
You pretty much have a fundraiser even like a politician would.

Obviously the company is in need of money, seeing as it can't pay its bills....
I wonder how well these will do with the grab-and-go gangs that are currently working higher end retail in Chicago. Do they have reasonable security or simply depend on cameras to identify perps?
funny how coincidental this comment is! i was thinking about the expression "welcome" today. as in: you are welcome here, welcome home, etc. how ubiquitous that expression is and how there are many languages i know of that have some equivalent of that expression.

i have no background in linguistics but my thought was that since our ancestors moved from place to place. when they move to a new inhabited place, people there needed that word to let them know that their (long) journey has reached a stopping point, they can rest now, or stay, etc.
Your web server can easily host SQLite. It’s the only mainstream database that doesn’t need a server. It’s actually just a single file of C code, and most languages have an api binding to it so you don’t have to set anything up besides giving it a file to write to!

Backup, yes you can just copy the file to back it up, but SQLite documentation has a preferred method that uses its own backup api which is likely safer than a file copy.

Replication, I don’t think there is a way to keep multiple DB’s in sync. You will likely need to move to a client server DB like Postgres if you get to that point.

Availability, only allows one writer at a time, so that’s the biggest issue for performance. The docs say it’s used on websites that get 100k’s or hits a day, but likely not great for workloads that have a high amount of writes. You obviously will be constrained by how fast the servers CPU and I/O is.

The author of SQLite says for blobs of about 20kb or less, it’s faster than reading and writing to the file system due to the overhead of opening a file.
> The Rule allows for civil penalties of up to $42,530 per violation

> FTC considers a number of factors in determining the appropriate amount

> the operator paid a total civil penalty of $35,000

I'll take 'Captured Agency for $100, Alex'
> 2. Genius is overrated.

What?

> But for nearly every invention and idea, history shows that multiple people were working on it at the same time.

Not just "people" - "geniuses". History shows multiple geniuses were working on it at the same time.

I do agree that we give too much credit to a single genius. Had Isaac Newton not lived, we'd still have calculus, physics, etc in some form or another. The same thing with Einstein, Turing, etc. But that doesn't mean genius is overrated. What's overrated is the hero worshiping narrative we build around a single genius due to racial or nationalistic reasons.

But I think we should have as many geniuses working on problems as possible rather than saying that genius is overrated.
As someone who frequently submits title change requests to the HN mod address (hn@ycombinator.com), this is an interesting and insightful tool. No, none of my recent requests (the most recent is a few days ago) are shown. Which suggests I'm not too much of an annoyance, yet.

HN's mods (dang and sctb) are amazingly responsive and tolerant. I try to make their job easier in requests by keeping those short and clear. Others may find this useful or have futher suggestions.

Generally:

- Action in the subject: title, clickbait, spam, link disintermediation (pointing to a primary rather than secondary source), self-promotion (I've landed on "one-note flute" to describe this), and behavioural issues. Also occasionally vouches (for flagged posts/comments), or best-of nominations (there's a curated list put out by HN monthly).

- Followed by the title-as-presently standing. Should make identifying the post easier.

- Link to post (or comment) as first line.

- Often a link to the submitted article.

- A suggested change or revert. Often these are clear, sometimes not. My view is that submitting both a "this needs changing" and "here's my suggestion", along with a possible rationale (usually a subhead, lede line, occasionally a good overview line from the article) makes the editors' job easier.

These are often accepted, sometimes with a slight change, sometimes as is. I generally don't follow up with a thanks or further acknowledgement, but usually do note when the request isn't accepted that I'm OK with it.

There are times I've differed with views (usually tech-politics intersections). I really wish HN could discuss such topics better than it does, though that also seems to be ... somewhat ... improving with time. Discussion on HN is almost always superior to other venues I frequent online.

Response times are generally a few minutes to hours, longer during off-hours. Rarely, less-critical issues may take a few days to generate a response. But there's very nearly always one, which I appreciate.
This needs a date, I guess 1999, based on references section?

Mechanical mice.. through hole components...
But there is scope for major improvements in tech. Make software for fields which don’t receive a lot of attention. Alternatively, make accessibility enabled software so that everyone can use and enjoy the same resources
I'm not sure what's more offending - the blanket statement that says I'm a fool for fart apps or the blatant sexism. And sorry Microsoft, just cause you are finely coming to the party doesn't mean the rest of us buying smartphones for .. oh .. years now .. are early adopters. Possibly the worst MSDN Magazine article I've ever read.
There's in fact a whole command line suite, which you can script anything through.
I agree with @navyrain, this has [citation needed] written all over it, but I'd like to ask this question:

What would a community driven site that wasn't repellant to the majority of the population look like? Humans are so non-homogenous and diverse, that the greatness of the internet is found in it's ability to be a collection of niche communities, not a place where catering to the lowest common denominator is the only route to success.
Until Reddit posts a decent profit it's not clear either of them really 'won' is it?

Digg tried to monetize and drove away their users. I'm not sure Reddit has really tried to monetize as much yet apart from their 'donate' thing.
I don't "need" to do anything.
From FlightPrep's blog [1]:

In spite of the foregoing, FlightPrep stands by its offer to grant a free-license to RunwayFinder to operate its website during this negotiation phase of our legal dispute. We are not asking RunwayFinder to shut down and in-fact are offering them a temporary free-pass at our technology in hopes that this gesture of goodwill will better enable both RunwayFinder and FlightPrep to constructively work toward a mutually beneficial long-term solution.

Constructively work toward a mutually beneficial long-term solution, eh? With patent enforcement? Sounds more like strong-arming RunwayFinder into a deal they wouldn't otherwise take to me.

[1] http://blog.flightprep.com/2010/12/regarding-runwayfinder-sh...
This is an amazing change that hugely reduces the cost of transitioning to AWS. We're deploying VMs on Xen at our university and have talked about AWS but there's a high 'coefficient of static friction'. This could change that whole discussion. Well played.
Hi, I created Reia.

I used to agree with you but now I don't. I was particularly moved by some of what Joe Armstrong, Erlang's creator, had to say in the book "Coders at Work". He noted that after attending several functional language conferences, immutable state was much more a common quality of truly functional languages than other things people typically associate like static typing or lazy evaluation.

Reia is an immutable state language, and I think it's primarily a functional language, but one with a lot of features that make it less painful to use than languages like Erlang or Haskell.

In a language like Erlang, immutable state allows you the potential to send zero copy messages between actors. This can be hugely beneficial for exchanging state in a shared nothing system like Erlang.

That said, the Erlang VM doesn't work this way. There have been experiments like the shared and hybrid heaps to enable this, but they've largely been failures, not because they're conceptually flawed, but because the garbage collection in Erlang is relatively simplistic. Erlang processes are independently garbage collected so they never needed to deal with concurrent garbage collection or a shared heap before.

Erjang (Erlang on the JVM) uses Java's shared heap and lets you use the wealth of pluggable garbage collectors available on the Java platform.

In a quick test of the "chameneos-redux" benchmark on Erlang BEAM vs. Erjang, a benchmark which generates lots of messages and can benefit immensely from sharing state, Erjang was about twice as fast as Erlang.
I'm not a particularly fast reader. I'm genuinely interested in what this article may be trying to say, but there's so much lard in this writing that I had to stop reading after a few paragraphs to save myself the potential huge time loss inherent in getting through the entire thing and being disappointed by the end meaning. The writing is so full of overwrought huge abstractions and hyperbole instead of concrete fact that I can't push myself to even get halfway through it.

I do share the feeling that it describes, though, about the uncaring nature of the way we seem to construct towns these days.
Cables turning yellow and sticky is a uniquely Apple experience.

I have boxes of cables accumulated over decades. Every other brand of cable is basically in the same condition it was when it went into storage.

But Apple cables are fucking disgusting (there is simply no other way to say it). Why are they so sticky? Why are they so yellow? Every Apple cable seems to be affected--headphones, power supplies,and dongles.

My guess is it has something to do with the "soft" touch finish and the white coloring.
A precursor to Systemd spawning a commercial entity? Will we soon see Systemd Premium and Systemd Community editions?
If you want to go relativistic, you'll have to deal with the fact vacuum is not as perfect as you'd like it to be. You'll need some form of abrasion shield because you'll be hitting a thin wall of hydrogen at relativistic speeds.
> And after seeing bugs I reported eons ago still not fixed, it feels futile to even bother reporting them anymore.

I've reported a number of bugs to WebKit over the years and it's the same thing, none have been fixed. You're lucky to even get an answer from someone in the WK team.
The original claim was that these parts were rare because of ITAR. They aren't rare, and ITAR doesn't have much to do with where they're present or absent. Shifting the argument to a different point about a specific accelerator or specific class of parts is exactly as I said: moving the goalposts.

The question of whether they're user programmable or not is nearer to the mark because EAR cares about it, but it still doesn't present a formidable barrier-- at least, I've been shipping parts with crypto accelerators at various levels of user configurability for a long time, and so has everybody else.
It’s not an issue if your email is primarily for newsletters, bills and other one way updates (where you are not frequently conversing back). You’ll rarely have to create an actual functioning alias in those cases because a catch-all would do reasonably well.

If you are conversing with people it’s unlikely you are going to create an alias for each person specifically, that’ll come across as super shady TBH.

So it’s not a major issue for most people because most services support 30-50 aliases easily.
It worked fine the last time I used it.... in Tiger.
New season premieres Dec 14th! Already got a few friends hooked on it.
Good call.

I haven't used Google Docs in a long time and had forgotten about them.
As an industry of computer SCIENTISTS, we should make the statement that such systems are not possible and fraud.
I'm betting a lot of rural folks have better internet than those in Silicon Valley. Given I live and work among the poor, rural, and forgotten and the internet (Facebook, Netflix) is being used all the time, I doubt the geography aspect.

I do want to see this studies raw questions/ data gathering.
I'm not too sure one this one - we need rare earths to make things like lithium cells. Moves like this one could cripple our production capacity or price competitiveness for moving away from fossil fuels - I'd argue far more environmentally pressing than rare earth mining.
Why is the conclusion always to regulate <technology> and not to regulate workplace surveillance for example?
>"Theories About the Hall of Records

The Hall of Records is said to house piles of documents, scrolls, and other materials with information regarding the lost continent of Atlantis or even extraterrestrials. Some even believe the hall replicates works from the lost Library of Alexandria as well.

Its scholars also attest that the Hall of Records could contain crucial information about the history of Ancient Egypt, too. However, mainstream scholars firmly state there is no such evidence the Hall of Records exists.

To this, believers claim further investigation has been blocked by the Egyptian government and mainstream archaeologists.

It is said the discovery of the Hall of Records would have significant effects on our understanding of world history, specifically the origin of the Ancient Egyptian civilizations. While some write off the study as pseudoarchaeology, others maintain the Hall of Records could indeed be real.

The existence of such an underground library was referenced by Herodotus, who said in Histories’, Book, II, 148:

“This I have actually seen, a work beyond words. For if anyone put together the buildings of the Greeks and display of their labors, they would seem lesser in both effort and expense to this labyrinth … Even the pyramids are beyond words, and each was equal to many and mighty works of the Greeks. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids.”"

[...]

"Seismic Tests of Underground Spaces
You might wonder why the obvious has not been done — in other words, why has nobody gone in and looked to see whether there is, in fact, a Hall of Records under the Great Sphinx?

The answer to that is apparently, “It’s complicated.”

According to a report on a University of Arizona website, a series of expeditions indeed took place between 1991 and 1993, led by an independent Egyptologist named John Anthony West, who conducted seismic and geological surveys around the Great Sphinx.

Their findings indicated the pattern of erosion on the Sphinx suggests it was carved at the end of the last Ice Age when heavy rains fell in the eastern Sahara. In other words, more than 12,000 years ago — not 4,500, as is widely believed.

Seismic surveys from their research also suggested there may be unexplored tunnels and cavities in the bedrock beneath the Sphinx, including a large rectangular chamber 25 feet beneath the monument’s front paws."
Have you considered looking for data engineering jobs? Many data-focused companies seem to be looking for people to either set up pipelines and then babysit them, or to babysit pipelines designed by another engineer who has since moved on.

If you were willing to put in the time at the start getting things well designed, implemented and instrumented, I would imagine that in some places you could create the two-hours-per-day situation you're looking for, without anyone really feeling too upset about the deal.
I'd say the best way to read it the first time is with very little notes (just to explain what's going on, plus some analysis before/after each chapter). These online, hyperlinked versions are better suited to scholars and people who want to get something more out of the book.
I look forward to replacing Signal with Noise.
Is cisphobia a thing these days ?
Ha wrong again. Is English your second language?
people always forget the sysadmins/operations crew.
Most of our people came from a stats background using R or python (more focused on Scipy/numpy than any other package).

A few of us had some experience with Lua before with game programming, so we took it on ourselves to teach the others Scheme (almost like an intro to programming class) and then teach how Lua worked in comparison.

I guess we lucked out because they were able to pick it up quickly after the education on functional programming.
I'm in the process of reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari for the first time. In it, he writes about how Sapiens' major development over other human species was the ability to believe fiction. For context, he defines fiction as any concept not observable by the senses, and doesn't equate fiction with falsehood. Rather, he seems to mean abstraction.

Assuming this to be the case, our ability to abstract is what is responsible for the creation of things like government, the arts, the sciences, and basically all of our culture and knowledge.

Is it surprising that that ability to abstract could be taken too far among certain groups of people? Conspiracy theory is like a disease, not an inherent trait of humanity.
Means they don't rely on Amazon's warehouse infrastructure, just their online store.
The article you quote validates my point by assuming other emissions can be decreased to a minimum. If all emissions we have to worry about in 2050 was air travel, that would be spectacularly good news!
I think one of the most challenges are focusing on work considering all the distractions like family, surroundings.
What's exactly the failure of EU that I'm talking about. There's little cooperation at EU level. Only some members cooperate on ad-hoc basis. But in general everybody is out for themselves.

More examples - Poland closing borders and not allowing people to pass it to return to their home countries. Or little centralised plan to close borders, both internal and external. Or countries essentially nationalising airlines en-masse, which was strictly forbidden by EU rules. Or Belgium citizens going to party to Netherlands since one has shut down everything and the other one is banking on herd immunity.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27361622.
Actually, this is very simple:

Me: I insist on maintaining certain personal requirements when conducting any business. One of those requirements happens to be never revealing salary data.

Them: Not willing or able to respect my personal requirements.

Me: Goodbye.
You are allowed to discuss reality here. What you are not allowed to do is make jokes about something as repulsive as rape.

If you are civil and respectful, you can make any point you want here. You failed that first test, though.
Too many people gets the causality wrong in the Netflix story.

The story isn't that Netflix isn't on Android because of fragmentation. The story us that Netflix will cause fragmentation on Android phones.

XBox 360, Wii, PS3 and iPhone all have strong DRM build into the platform.

Android doesn't have strong DRM in the base version, so Netflix will (or can) not support that version.

However, individual Android phones may have Netflix because Android is Open Source, so individual manufacturers may add strong DRM to the platform.

Hence, the user experience will likely become (further) fragmented because of Netflix.
I would say the appeal of Iron Man in that sense is the montage effect. I love montage sequences in movies, and movies that use them right are totally energizing. There's nothing like seeing the trip from obscurity to success without coffee breaks, writers block, tooth-brushing etc.
These days all the cool kids are using the "my test suite is running" excuse instead.
If you read the actual Netflix blog post, you'll see that they describe fragmentation as the result of the lack of a DRM scheme in Android OS (aka nothing to to do with hardware), not a cause of why they can't put Netflix on Android.
Thanks. Your mom isn't my mom, is she? ;) Sounds familiar.
There's also a chance that you've got lucky with a car. Sometimes the cars at Go-Carts vary a lot with a power. On my last team meeting everyone on a car #6 was winning. It was just much faster than everybody else.
Arguably this could improve people's health prospects on two fronts simultaneously.

I note that the CEO here basically stepped up because the UK government hadn't -- it's doubtless not easy, but the best thing about this story is that he's said 'we'll match our casual worker's shift pay up until early April' (when the UK relief package for casual workers is meant to be implemented).

I fear a lot of my risk has, and will continue to, come from casual workers who simply can't afford to pay rent or eat if they don't head into work. So far I've heard the UK's the only place so far that's come out with a financial plan to mitigate this risk.
The trouble is that realistically, it's not possible to get by with a single weekly shop in the UK right now. A lot of supermarket shelves are empty due to everyone buying more than they usually would, and even when they're not there are purchase quantity restrictions that make it hard to get a full week's shopping in.
This is awesome. Anything like this for Ubiquiti EdgeMax gear?
And some more little videos on Brian's YT channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjVLbSDoM-8-eEM7A30igA/vid...

I hope he makes some more programming stuff at some point as he has a super creative and interesting way of teaching.
If this is true, then things like FlattenTheCurve are the wrong approach. We would need StopThatShit asap.
Here's a Google doc showing the performance of various GPUs when folding: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v5gXral3BcFOoXs5n1M6...
> in France 50% of ICU patients are under 60

But you have no idea how many are infected and will never see a hospital or even a doctor.
About the same in California; mandatory emissions check every 2-years. In the case of a private sale, if the owner has not had it inspected within 90-days of sale the buyer is required to have it inspected upon registration.

There are exceptions with older (vintage) cars, and relatively new cars.

As with most things, these laws vary from state-to-state, and even county-to-county within said states.