jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, once you've voted for an idea, you can't re-vote for it. You get one vote one time for one idea, and its value decays exponentially over time.

So to remain at the top, an idea has to keep getting new votes _from new users_.

The ideas at the top of the list have been there for a long time because they're good ideas, and they having staying power.

(Note that you can change the vote decay rate depending on whether your site is more interested in what's hot now, or what's popular over the long term.)
I'm not judging, it just doesn't fit IMHO. A hacker using cocaine and psychedelics? That seems like an Olympic runner smoking cigars, if you follow my meaning.
same on Chrome/Vista
Interesting, as you said I suppose they better have the workers over their sight. This looks promising and sounds that I might have a shoot and get to travel the Atlantic.

Regarding remote contract work, yes, I've tried that (no US) but it went the boring way and as I said, I am in my early 20s and I kind of succeed on all places here, there's no competition, nothing that can keep a developer entertained. No startups no nothing. So that's why I want to move to US.

The money won't really be a problem, as I am covered up by the freelance work and personal projects although I expect the minimal salary based on my experience not the country I come from.

I think I will just have to try my luck on several job boards around the w3 and see what I can get :)

Thanks
I've noticed this too. I guess Congresspeople are just normal people too and need days off, but whenever there's some national crisis or brinksmanship over some important issue it feels like I'm always reading about how "We need to get this done now before we go on break". Like, what if you held off on going on break until you got it done? These people all make big 6 figure salaries, plenty of people work weekends for a lot less.
Wish they returned city, state, and ZIP information for domestic numbers like Telesign does. Telesign is outrageously expensive.
If you have a forget-in-the-back-of-the-closet application, you might do well simply switching to a ChromiumOS build. http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
> I wish my errands were that eventful, but they just feel like chores.

Keep in mind the excerpt you just read was written by a professional writer. A good one at that. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's got a quality where even if nobody told you it was written by a writer, you could just tell.

No flowery prose. Just simple description. But highlighting many little things and quirks that most people leave out of descriptions of events. Without those, his errand reads a bit like this: "I write on a typewriter. When I'm done I mark it up in pencil, then I ask a freelance typist if she's got time to do a clean manuscript for me. Then I have to go down to the newsstand to buy an envelope to send it off in. I like the roundabout way of doing it"

Not quite as fun is it?

edit: the style reminds me a lot of reading Gaiman's blogposts about his life
Agreed. And the same happens in every field, sports are a good example, you see the 100x people on TV.
I've tried Debian, arch and several flavors of Ubuntu (like #!). The quirks aren't in the OS, they're in the shitty drivers, which are common to all linux based oses. Just because you don't personally see an issue doesn't mean others don't. The inconsistency across hardware is a large reason apple forces people to use their OS only on approved hardware.
Non-removable SSD's. Just, no; never, thank you.
Is there a single point of failure here? That's crazy, if so. Why is this the case?

I know the Fed is responsible for resolving transactions between banks, but one would expect they'd have a very very broad and resilient system.
The next two decades of nuclear science are going to be extremely exciting as the next-generation electron-ion collider is built and comes online in the US. Since electrons are not composite particles, electron colliders allow us to probe nuclei much more precisely than protons, neutrons, and other baryonic particles do. It's going to like going from a VHF tuner on a CRT to an 8K AR experience.
These types of moves are usually not looked upon favourably by China, and might risk the fate of the two Michaels (who were locked up in retailation for Meng Wanzhou's arrest).
Sure, they can prosecute everyone holding Bitcoin. It would be as effective as the war on drugs.

They can shut down the exchanges, block ISP traffic but only in their jurisdiction. They cant't stop Bitcoin mining in every other country. They can't stop people from Africa doing business with Bitcoin. Or people in Venezuela where you see an real use case for this technology.

The network will continue to grow without US if they choose that path.

Or US Goverment realizes that Bitcoin might be the tool they need to revitalise the economy, and to avoid loosing influence and allowing China to continue growing stronger.
> Your definition of success changes as time goes on as you get further into a project that's groundbreaking.

If you fail to meet your original goal because you are not capable of doing it, and then you change your goal to accommodate this reality, it doesn't change the fact that you failed in your original goal.

If my goal is to go to Mars and I only make it to the moon because it turns our Mars is just too far away, even though I did something revolutionary, amazing, and extraordinary, it does not change the fact that I failed in my original goal.

I don't even consider this to be semantics. It's people trying to justify to themselves that there is no failure. You've literally failed by your own definition of what success is. Changing the definition of success doesn't change reality.
So this is why I gotta keep opening the links to figure out which articles the email is about. Terribly annoying.
I have taken gabapentin (which is similar) but for visual snow. While I'm not diagnosed as bipolar, I have noticed that gabapentin does level out your emotions some. I've considered trying lamotrigine but have been scared of the allergic reactions it can cause. Gabapentin may work as an alternative.
People who use Racket on Emacs might appreciate Racket Mode, which I only recently discovered:

https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode
Jenkins is not even mentioned once in the marketing piece, other than the Jenkins image used at the top.
I've always wondered, when do you round up (or down) for orders of magnitude? For instance, is 6 close enough to 10 to say it's an order of magnitude larger, or does it need to be closer (say 8), or hit a hard floor of being at least 10 times larger before we colloquially say it's increased by an order of magnitude?

Completely ignoring the time variable, I don't think it's crazy to say something 6x bigger is an order of magnitude bigger. I'm curious what other people consider a cutoff for this though.
When you open your app, It says we collect cookies for feature usage. There is only one button "Accept". Where is this button called "Decline" ?
Ah yea I totally understand.

I love this thing though. So simple but powerful.
Hmm. I think it plays really well with macOS's windowing system. What am I missing?
I'll have to look through these links in more detail. For years, I've been looking to replace a lost Koh-I-Noor Rapidomatic .5 mm mechanical pencil . KIN still makes .5 mm mechanical pencils, but they are plastic barreled and made in China. This older generation was made in Japan and has a hefty brass barrel and a very firm, precise, but not stiff lead advance action.

The extra heft was just enough to make the lead glide over the paper and to neutralize minor hand tremors as well as deviances caused by variations in the paper surface. It was and absolute pleasure to write with it.

I bought a Rotring 600 series mechanical pencil before they disappeared. Externally, it has a rather similar appearance. But it is lighter, and the action is stiffer and less precise. The Koh-I-Noor was at another level.

With some digging, I can find a page that describes them. But I've never found a hint of one for sale, not even on eBay.
That’s not really a good comparison. The reason C has been so prevalent is because it was used to make Unix, which was distributed widely for decades, and because it was relatively simple to write compilers for it/port it to new platforms. Ada doesn’t exist in the same context; compilers were expensive and not widely distributed, there wasn’t a free, open-source compiler until GNAT in 1995, and Ada was never the default systems language for any widely distributed OS. I mean the circumstances could not be more different.

If C had been designed as a safer language (with even just small improvements that would not have been hard to implement), it would still be widely used and there would be fewer security problems associated with it. It is the Just World Fallacy [0] to assume that the most widespread language became so on its merits and not based on its historical context.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
First wave: don't think of monads as monoids in the category of endofunctors. No, Monads are burritos, programmable semicolons, design patterns etc.

2nd wave, monad tutorial fallacy, red herring, don't read/write monad tutorials, they just sort of grow on you! e.g.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monad_tutorials_timeline

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336085

http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuitio...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534405

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997341
Here is the UK equivalent: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

We have roughly the same number of accents/dialects as the US, in a tiny fraction of the area. Yes, it does get confusing sometimes.

(Unfortunately the recordings are in WMA. Ewwww. VLC can cope.)
If I could somehow appropriate the Scheme-to-LLVM compiler for producing ARM code to run on the iPhone! Doing what Gambit Scheme does [1] without Gambit Scheme would be great. The LLVM code it generates looks pretty neat [2]. Alas, it looks like the source code for this is not available.

[1] http://jlongster.com/software/iphone/scheme-iphone-example/

[2] http://impromptu.moso.com.au/extras/imp_tech_notes.pdf
Relay traffic should be easy enough to identify and filter out. If you think about it, all incoming relay traffic is mirrored on the way out. Obviously it's re-encrypted, but the amount and direction of data remains the same.

It adds complexity to the attack, but doesn't negate it completely.
As a metanote, I wish there was a standard way of marking sarcasm and joke posts on HN, so they don't get downvoted simply because they don't make sense when interpreted literally.
Out of interest, why is validating strict XHTML ridiculous?
I'm amazed this has got 52 upvotes. Thats 52 people who want to stop a discussion thats unearthing lots of very interesting statistics.
>accepting the weights as completely subjective seems dangerously close to saying "All languages are equally powerful, and it's just a matter of preference"

I don't agree with this statement...I would say that Java is worse than Python for just about any given set of weights.
There have indeed been a number of webapp properties that have successfully sold on Flippa. An additional consideration to those raised by flipfilter is that the more serious of these buyers are going to want to see revenue and usage metrics (note that if the problems you mentioned about your venture are serious enough, it will impact your sale price). Let our support team know you came from HN if you go ahead and we'll do what we can to work with you on securing a successful sale...
I know, but it is not very fine grained, is it?
Sorry the title has been revised to "Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?" in case mods see this.
SQLite should be fine if your workload biased towards reads. But its design does prevent many-writers and these, even operates on completely different tables, has to be serialized between each other. This can be more problematic since many SQLite articles recommend big transactions to improve performance. And write transactions have to be serialized between each other. If you are a write-heavy workload, at some point, you may need to shard and may even need to implement custom transaction support on top of that yourself (or is there open-source libraries does that? rqlite from my understanding only handles consensus / replication, doesn't do sharding).
> I don't see a strong argument for why to choose Scala over one of a newer hybrid language.

Scala has been in production use and getting bugfixes for longer than some of the newer languages have existed. I feel like a re-read of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... is warranted.
I wish I had seen that
Not only are airblades gimmicky nonsense, they are very loud.

Anything that blows air around will also blow viruses and the like into the air. People do not wash hands in a "standardized manner" and some people do not even use soap. After their hands are wet, they just stick their hands to the airblade, sometimes touching the sides and shaking the rest of the water all over because they are in a hurry and can't wait that 10 seconds or whatever it takes.

I hate airblades and I don't like hot air dryers.

Paper towels are the best.
The key difference between laws against sweat-shops and pornography is that we sweat-shops are defined by measurable traits that is not based on a moral value about the work being done. We do not have a law against work places in china. We don't have law against the type of industries those work places do. What the law is defines is the hours of work being done, if people are working under the threat of violence, and the wages, and the work safety standards.

We could make a work regulations that forbids any work that has the same level of health risk as in the pornography industry. We could forbid work which workers would not volunteer do unless being paid. We could make regulations that forbid industries that has the same level of human trafficking and slavery as the porn industry. We could mix and match. As long it does not use the word "sex" or "naked" or any other word which would be proxy to the moral view about pornography, it would be a regular work regulation that can be discussed as other work regulations.
> Aren't many of the recent language success stories now about AOT compiled languages like Go, Rust and Swift?

Scala also has Scala Native which, well, compiles to native. It's not yet as polished as Scala JVM and Scala.js, but the plan is to make it so.

https://scala-native.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.0/
> If 25% of circulating USD were created last year, and our economic value is the same or even diminished, wouldn't it follow that there must be significant inflation?

Not necessarily, no. The value of money is a function of supply and velocity. If the velocity went down and the supply went up 25% the fed can still nail its 2% target. [1, 2, 3] If the velocity increases next year the fed can shrink the supply commensurately to maintain its targets.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/velocity.asp

[2] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2014/september/wha...

[3] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042015/how-does-mon...
It greatly depends on the industry, the specific company, and the specific language of your employment contract. As an engineer I've never worked at any company that required a strict daily schedule and if any of my employers had tried to hold me to one I would have either quit on the spot or let them fire me, depending on my mood. A lot of my colleagues have been perfectly fine with a regular 9-5 schedule though; I value flexibility, but it's not everyone's first priority.
Doesn't work.

You can't guarantee that you haven't memorized the private key. You can't guarantee you haven't traded the same key multiple times.

The only way the receiver can truly guarantee ownership of the BTC is to put it in a transaction, which costs money.
You can also see huge blocks of land that used to be dedicated to railways, sidings and rail yards, mostly gone and replaced with large buildings.
I don't disagree. In fact, there's a whole branch of transhumanists (SIAI and fellow travelers) who may be even more pessimistic than you are, but don't view that as a reason to give up trying for a beneficial Singularity. Me, I'm concentrating on enjoying the ride, and if it turns out that humanity (including existing people) isn't wiped out by mid-century, that'll be a most pleasant surprise.
“We’re the dot in dotcom.“

Well, they ended up as the .loser instead.
I became convinced of this myself when I worked for a large digital publisher. Direct sold ads outperformed programmatic by a large margin and are easier to implement. All it takes is someone to make the deal.

Therein lies the rub. If ad tech survives for long enough, the skills of making direct advertising deals will die with the profession.
Just because they failed doesn’t mean they didn’t seriously try. A woman was shot in the neck and died because she climbed through a barricade towards men with guns pointed at her, telling her to stay back. What was her goal? To get to the senate floor that was still being evacuated. You don’t want to call it terrorism even though the entire legislative head was nearly at the mercy of a mob?
George Orwell was right. He just got the year wrong: 2021 instead of 1984.
It's probably a page that was created 10 years ago by the idealistic nerds who created YouTube.
I think reddit started with a similar ideology before falling back to the ideology that you could express anything as long as it is broadly fitting the views of progressive North Americans.
All? No. But some? Hell yes!

Even when ‘leftists’ protest at congress, they go through metal detectors and demonstrate peacefully—no window smashing, no theft, no overrunning security lines. Trumpists on Wednesday literally hung nooses from trees and killed a cop.
Thanks for the feedback! All those points are valid, and I do agree 100%.

Probably the question of how volatility markets work and how much risk there's would need a more extended article.
> At least Ballmer can attribute his incompetence to being overly cautious after the antitrust case.

Theoretically, anticipating an antitrust case might lead you to be equally cautious, in roughly the same way, as having recently gotten an antitrust case.

Though things that "demonstrated that they ... have too much power" sound like some of the worst things you could do if you were anticipating an antitrust case.
Why not just curl the raw file and ignore any git cloing at all?
Yup. They used to (or maybe still do) have 5 pages of "Do you know these people? What about these?" each time I logged in, and in one of the pages it would ask to connect to your contacts. I don't know how but they actually tricked me into do it that, and all my gmail "contacts" (read: anyone i ever sent an e-mail to) received an invite to connect to me. I received hundreds on new connections over the following days.

I closed LinkedIn last year when I realized I never got anything remotely good out of it. It's a terrible place to find jobs. There is no lack of websites that do the same, but better.
Finding a way to make an income outside of tech, now that life circumstances + covid have ended my career.

Long-term Depression + a complete inability to focus on anything for more than about 3 minutes at a time have made this difficult.

Been thinking about politics or drug trafficking as better options than sysadminning.
I don't find it very surprising. Sure you pay them a fee for them to provide coverage for risk, but they will offer you a discount if you allow the risk to be calculated more accurately.

It's not unlike health insurance or long term care insurance requiring you to get a physical before you can get a policy.
This is where most of the "falsehoods programmers believe" articles fall flat.

The thing to do is not try to design a single form that accommodates every possible address or name or whatever. The thing to do is examine your use case, design a form that works for, say, 99.9% or more of the people you want it to reach, and then if you really want to get the last 0.1% have someone who can do customer service and has access to a freeform text box into which they -- not the end user -- will enter the information.

Because when you get right down to it, the freeform text box is the only thing that accepts 100% of valid addresses (or valid names, or whatever). But it also necessarily accepts a ton of invalid ones, too, and so it causes more trouble for the common cases than it saves in the uncommon ones.
I would love if that were a thing. It was meant to be 'find' but typing on a phone keyboard is hard!
Right, I hope people making this claim realize it's not possible in principle for Dart to always be faster.

I've always assumed claims like this are implying that average case code is written poorly and that's how It could be faster.

However as you point out we'd need all the assumptions made clear to believe such a claim.
Depends on the project. Often while I'm stuck on a bug or something that causes me to wait, I'll switch to something like designing iconography or working on the user interface.
The term "capitalism" was created to refer to and defined by the early industrial economic system of the more developed countries of Europe in the 19th Century. It is quite odd to claim that it never existed anywhere other than Hong Kong or Singapore.
OK ...

Firstly, I've tried several times to to understand what you're doing, and I still have no idea. There are several possibilities. One is that you're deliberately hiding the details and producing fluff to confuse people. Another is that you think you've explained it, but you understand it so well you don't realise that what you've written is incomplete. A third is that it's simply a language barrier. To start with I was happy to give you the benefit of the doubt, and was even going to offer to help translate your work in the hope that it would become clear and be interesting.

But the section on encryption further down on the page makes me deeply, deeply suspicious of the whole thing. Then further investigation shows that you've effectively submitted the same page three times in the last few hours, and one of those submissions has comments by what seems like a sock puppet.

So I'm now minded to just ignore the whole thing. If I'm right, then others should also ignore it all. If I'm wrong, you have some hard thinking to do about how you are presenting and marketing this site/startup/venture.

So far, it's not encouraging.
Configuration is programming. Perhaps I, being the devops sort, am somewhat alone in this opinion, but I opine it anyway: Configuration is programming. Often very simple programming, but programming nonetheless.

There's a configuration language a Google that's stated goal is that it's not turing complete... and yet it is, because it was a necessity for achieving the expressiveness, and now it's almost entirely unreadable because of the convolutions needed to achieve the real-world solutions necessary in it. There's another that's python based, and widely bashed for being 'too hard to reason about', but it has none of the problems with disgusting 'standard' libraries.

Where I am now, Facebook, has adopted a python based model... and used almost none of python's features. Instead, everything is generated through convoluted lists and dictionaries, and it's treated with very little exception as a json file. This saddens me.

Almost all configuration should be done by libraries with sane defaults. So should programming, even though it's not.
In some countries derivative work is covered by fair use. Also the fact he has negatives could indicate permission (in some countries).

Anyway, I am just trying to help, thanks for down votes. If they hunt some remote cousin in France, re-importing seems legit.
Also, it's worth pointing out that the use of the ports collection is optional in modern BSD, as you can install anything that's in ports directly as a package instead using pkg.