jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fascinating.

Recently, we saw similar action when Seth Vargo, activist programmer at large and former Chef employee, damaged the Chef community by making his free, open source cookbooks unavailable for a period of time in protest for Chef making a deal with ICE to provide services. Chef had to cancel this deal, which probably in turn massively damaged the finances of an already-hurting company that had contributed significantly to the overall open source effort.

Because Vargo disagreed with ICE for political reasons, he damaged ICE in a miniscule way by denying them the ability to purchase Chef's services. No doubt ICE barely feels this and can pivot to some other config management solution, but Chef is hurt, and that's the point - not just because this is what Vargo had power to accomplish, but because hurting the organizations that even consider dealing with ICE is the precedent these folks want to set.

Vargo is clearly only one of many people who are involved in this effort, if

> The Investor Alliance for Human Rights, which claims more than 150 institutional members representing $4 trillion in managed assets

is trying to crush Palantir for dealing with them.

Is this legal? It seems like it adds up to an attempt to make a denial of service attack against a government body so as to effectively ruin their ability to procure services from the market. It's not a long shot to suggest that the goal is to stop the ability of ICE to function reasonably at all.

Whether you agree or not with what ICE is doing, it's a valid question to ask whether interest groups should be allowed to deliberately interfere with the ability of a legitimate government agency to purchase things. If this scales up beyond software projects, and it may already have done so - both with direct efforts and with self-censorship - the organization itself could actually begin to suffer at large.

So, who is this group?

https://investorsforhumanrights.org/about

> The Investor Alliance is supported by the Open Society Foundations, Humanity United, the Freedom Fund, and anonymous donors.

Ahh, the OSF, which is George Soros.
Thanks; I've added non-apostrophe-escaping to our list.
That's why you make the thieves be white-hats hired by the government to steal the key. Then it becomes a cloak-and-dagger affair where you have to unravel who's working for who and which side is really the bad guy.

And decrypting cryptocoins is too obscure. For maximum effect, make the key able to break all encryption.
Seems like a bit of a National Labor Relations Act violation. Bizzare how the more defensive a company gets the more it is likely to violate labor laws.
To quote the conclusion of the article.

"Opposition to higher minimum wage laws is increasingly based in ideology and orthodoxy rather than real-world evidence, economists say."

The article does not make a persuasive argument or provide any relevant data to prove this point. At best there are quotes from two economists and takes that as consensus. I would want to see at least a longitudinal survey of those who oppose the minimum wage and why in order to make that statement.

I didn't say that monopsonies did not exist, but that they are extremely rare. I think that "many companies enjoy a monopsony on local labor which distorts the traditional relationship between supply and demand" would be considered a fringe opinion by most professional economists. Even the article you've linked does not agree with that statement.

"Monopsony does not appear to have been important in company mining towns, a standard textbook example, or in markets for teachers and nurses, early suspects. In fact, the largest plausible estimates of monopsony exploitation to date are not for blue-collar workers but rather for professional athletes and possibly college professors."

Information dictates the efficiency of markets not their ability to exist. In reality there are plenty of asymmetries that can exist within functional markets. Trade secrets for example, are quite common in industry and give advantage to firms that can keep them. Markets can develop in surprising places, for example kidnapping is a surprisingly orderly business when you consider the circumstances.
PS C:\> 'accessibility' -replace '(?<=^.)(.+)(?=.$)', {$_.Length}
a11y

(PowerShell 7)
It could be the no-poach agreement.
I,ll rooting for this initiative. I used to take for granted that I'd own the things I buy. But it seems that every year that goes by I'm having less and less ownership of my possessions.
Oh, fair enough! That's a fun example.
Did my sentence "...and most software engineers don’t understand the value of true human factors engineering — in particular the cognitive psychology and human-computer interaction expertise that human factors engineers bring to user interface design" not show that I am aware of HCI?
I like the idea, but think I'd need more users before I could attract the attention of senators/aides/other.

Congress members have their websites, email list of their supporters, would need to offer something they didn't have.
As a student of international relations, this seems familiar to me. Liberal international relations theorists focus on economic variables as causal to a far greater degree than realists or constructivists, and have also imported a bunch of their methodologies from economics/econometrics. Realists tend to deny the primary importance of economics, going on about power and the animus dominandi like old saws.

It's funny that in this NPR piece economists focus on all the monetary and financial risk aspects, while seemingly blind to the central motivation of the people on the streets:

What's more, he really liked being a drug kingpin.

I loved it. ... I felt like I was powerful. ... It was every man's dream to be free. ... I'd rather be doing that than anything else, almost.

Power and independence, not money, were the ultimate goal. Very realist.
However, due to the market being flooded with PhD's, industry won't accept you for a research position without one, even if you don't need it. In a perfect world, a Master's should suffice if it gave you any lab experience at all (at least in science).

For a research position in industry, your job is to create new knowledge, and that's really hard to do. It's partly a matter of knowing what's already known, partly a matter of understanding how to do research, and partly a natural skill of just being "a good scientist" -- i.e. someone who can pick the right hypotheses, make the right approximations, and turn experiments into understanding. These are all hard skills, and I wouldn't be especially confident in someone having developed 'em in only a Master's.

The incentives are in all the wrong places. Schools want funding. They get funding by writing grants, which requires research. They want to do the research as cheaply as possible so as to maximize how far each dollar goes. So, they have a very strong incentive to keep grad students in limbo as long as possible, delaying graduation.

This much is true, especially in the US. In Australia, where I did my PhD, the funding agencies solved this problem by declaring that all PhD students should finish within four years, and that every semester after that results in certain funding penalties for the hosting university and department. (In case you think that this provides an incentive to grant undeserved PhDs don't worry, theses are marked by three examiners of whom only one can be at the student's university, and one of whom has to be in a different country).

Some parts of Europe are even stricter -- finish your PhD in three years or you're out the door. In fact my last department (in the US) lost a promising prospective PhD student to France after she realised she'd probably have her PhD three or four years earlier if she did it in Paris instead of California.

So actually, to anyone considering doing a PhD in the US I do heartily recommend checking out your options in other countries. Nobody wants to be a 30-year-old grad student.
For mutating GCs, they stop the world when making changes so there's no erosion of the immutability contract in concurrent access. There are parallel GC systems that works quite well with multiple-core systems.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it's not a realistic option for objects that come from or depend on Cocoa library code?

Or would the mere act of using cocoa in one part of my application somehow prevent me from exploiting such an opportunity in another part of my application?

My instinct says that, for example, a plain C library that used such techniques would not cease to function just by being linked into a cocoa application.
I guess my conclusion here is that just like most of the problems I see in the U.S. socio-econo-political system, the issue is rooted in money. The system is so biased toward allowing those with money to exploit those without, that it makes me want to go back to Canada.
These guys don't have infrastructure as scalable as Google, I'll say that.
I was taught the "rape prevents conception" myth in my liberal condoms-on-bananas high school health class, and I suspect others were too.

I have no idea if it was part of the curriculum or just an off the cuff remark from a misinformed teacher, but the idea came from somewhere, and it can't be exclusive to Republican politicians.

I really do suspect other people had been taught this, but pretended they'd never heard it so they could lash out with more righteous indignation and outrage, rather than accept some people honestly believe wrong things they were taught.
Actually, they removed that feature in December. [1]

GitHub is a developer tool. Users not interested in viewing/changing/building the source code should get the software from the project's website.

[1] https://github.com/blog/1302
Leadership requires people to have confidence in your abilities and be willing to follow you. And the semi-sexist bullshit the article has about scientific evidence that women have "more effective leadership strategies" is moot if, as the article contends, they do not appear confident.

Even if the article is correct, it's fundamentally conflating leadership with management and the two are not the same.
Could you at least answer who you believe they are supposed to be targeting if not people who set off explosive detectors and can't provide concrete evidence of anything they say?
i can't remember if we used fedex or ups but the most expensive shipping i've purchased was the result of an oversight. booth equipment, about 200 pounds, overnight from LA to denver in order to make a trade show. cost us nearly 2 grand but the cost of not shipping would have been much greater!
If there's money to be made, you can guarantee someone has a bot to capitalise on it. Doesn't matter if it's stocks, domain names, or ecommerce, there's a bot out there doing most of the work.
would also like to recommend my friend who runs a similar product (I have no affiliation):

http://sslswitch.com/
YotaPhone 2 is able to fully function using only its eink screen, it will mirror android interface with some customizations considering eink refresh rate and color (but the phone still has OLED screen at the front). The phone already available in Russia and some European countries
I agree. I mean I am assuming your referring to my right to runa private business and not allow animals on my property if I don't want them there. Yes? That's the right to which you were referring? Ok good.
>The reality is, you're basically going to get paid based upon what your employer has deemed everyone else in your position is earning, plus or minus some % based upon experience level, your reputation, and how badly the company needs the position filled. If you don't like that, time to go into management or sales.

Pretty much this. If you are not part of the profit generating side of the business, you will always be viewed as a cost overhead. Engineering is unfortunately a question of cost expenditure for businesses but even more so for smaller software companies who don't have monopoly.
ey! just like Mexico.
In 5 years time when this tit for tat results in some massive disruption in the US (power outage or something) people are going to be severely angry and say NK attacked them for no reason, etc. (i.e 9/11)

The US yet again going around the world making enemies, and giving them perfectly valid reasons to retaliate.
The state has already drawn those lines, and does not recognize KKK membership as a religion.

The legal lines for what is or isn't protected are fairly well defined, by people other than me.

My own personal opinions and beliefs on the matter don't count for anything.
I think parasitic capitalism is a feature not a bug. no pun intended. There's not many companies that give back these days. Look at how hard Amazon pushed back against unions.
It provides value to Apple by providing value to users. As a user I want to find my lost stuff, Apple now lets me find my stuff without any real cost to me to do some passive scanning.
I know several places still using AS/400's, I wish they would stop calling me about software I wrote over 30 years ago.
Trillions of lines of existing code are also a strong argument of why C++ is going to stay for a while. Lot's of good C++ programmers I know would be really excited to use Rust, but the interop with legacy systems is not worth it for many use cases.
I thought that was the Internet.

Instead of a centralised government backed platform, how about a decentralised platform.

Maybe something like Signal-with-Blog-Posts, with "public" posts hosted on IPFS?
According to https://xkcd.com/radiation/, you get about 4x the normal daily background radiation from a transamerican flight.
Aren't those all pretty much lifestyle choices in the end? I chose to live where there are many jobs, but the cost of living is high (but also where I can reasonably commute by bike or transit). I could have stayed where I was and enjoyed a low cost of living, but a worse job. Whether or not to have a family is probably the biggest lifestyle choice that most people make in their lives.
For me that was one of the turn-offs of CouchDB, that it had been around since 2005 and still was not considered to be production-ready as late as last year.
Some of the answers:

Q. would u invest in a startup built on a .net stack?

A. ugh, i would question the technical abilities of the cto but if other things were great perhaps

Q. Ruby or Python ?

A. Python, baby!!

Q. I'm a single founder with a great idea and an impressive prototype / beta ready to launch. What should I do next?

A. launch it?
Awesome, thanks. Will try to check all of those out.
That's fascinating.

Add 3 hours as lots of the developers are on eastern time. So that explains the smaller dots as 9 (lunch).
have you? How does it run?
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llvm
> It's not like your brain just deletes entire memories; your brain simply does not work that way.

A brain, like any arrangement of atoms, can only hold so many bits of information. The more you cram in there the more degraded older and less intense memories get until you can't recall more than a vague feeling, and eventually nothing at all. Probably one could hold a few memories close to heart and be able to avoid forgetting them, but anything you didn't continually refresh would be gone after the first few hundred years. Often, "forgotten" memories are still hanging around but have nothing to trigger them, but those too must disappear eventually to make room for new stuff.
I don't see why 48% would imply an accuracy of less than ±1%. When people make predictions or forecasts, they typically don't include error margins when talking to the public. For example, the US 2010 deficit forecast is $1.17 trillion. I have no idea where one could find the margin of error for that forecast.
> After assessing the language in these Tweets against our Glorification of Violence policy, we have determined that these Tweets are in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be immediately permanently suspended from the service.

Wow, if that's not an example of arbitrary use of ToS, I don't know what is. In no way were the two tweets listed "glorification of violence". I don't like DJT and didn't vote for him, but... what a farce, what a travesty.
And I think that is wrong. Why can't I use apps regarding pornography, or about drug abuse. Why is the internet more and more neutered into a place for polite children?

I'll tell you when I started to hate this trend. A few weeks ago I saw a rich company owner on Linkedin trashing the regulator, with conspiracy theories and personal insults. There were no downvotes (because Linkedin does not allow downer reactions) and all comments were neutral or supportive. It was clearly wrong and no one dared say the wrong thing on Linkedin, because everyone has jobs and are afraid to speak against the president of a very important company. For the first time it really felt like I was on a new internet, sure I could write some words, I could create a profile and follow different people, but I knew I couldn't be myself, I couldn't express any negative (read: against the currently approved trends) comments, I couldn't read the wrong things. I was just mindlessly consuming, consuming the silly and harmless memes, consuming the neutured and feel good news, made to feel what I was supposed to be feeling about the world events. It's all a big party in all social media as long as you dot inside the lines. Nothing was explicitly stopping me, but there was always the cloud that if I say the wrong thing I'll get deplatformed, or worse, someone might badmouth me on Twitter and I lose my job. And there is no real alternative, we are social animals and desire some interaction and discussion.

I remember when I was a kid I was on the internet reading about philosophy and how to make bombs side by side. Do you know Al-Qaeda published a monthly magazine in English for years? Do you even imagine being able to read it now? Are you not even curious? How did this world became so scared of reading different points of view, when were we convinced that people can't handle their curiosity and at the same time maintain democracies work because they are ruled by the people.
Good.

I've always tried to maintain a nuanced view of Twitter (and other socials) for keeping his account up. He's POTUS after-all. People saying Twitter should just shut him down because he incites, are, in my view, correct. Mentally however, I could never quite square the argument; I kept returning to `he's POTUS`. Social networks deserve much criticism, but those only criticizing social networks overlook the fact that there is a legislative body that has always been empowered to remove him, whose duty in fact is to be a check on him. The primary blame for him retaining his power must primarily lay at their feet, specifically those of the President's party. They thought they could ride the bull but they have finally been thrown off of it. Now they are seeking to distance themselves from the bull. I am sorry, but they should not be able to. Had they been forthright with their supporters and stuck to their views of Trump before he was president, we might have avoided all of this.

In a better world, Congress would have acted and those who were trying to cynically benefit from Trump should have had the fortitude to call him out immediately and removed him.

I don't disagree that Twitter should have acted sooner. As others have pointed out, their timing is much too late. They acted after Trump has been legislatively defanged. Still, Trump is dangerous, we're just fortunate he's an incompetent buffoon who is disinterest in the actual minutiae of the job. He should resign immediately. He won't. He should be removed by his cabinet or Congress as soon as possible.
Additionally, even those who voted for him likely voted _against_ the other candidate rather than _for_ Pres Trump. His approval ratings have never been high, and are lower at this point in his term than any other recent President except Pres Carter.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Are you serious?

I'm sure plenty of Nazis fuckos were very polite before they shot someone. I'm sure that by your standards that would then be fine and acceptable; so long as they said, "please take of your hat" first.
Let me make sure I understand: If I take gigabytes of “enriched” personal information and make it available to the public for free, then I’m an irresponsible, idiotic, incompetent buffoon. But if I put a paywall in front of it and sell that same data for a fair price, then I’m a business genius?

Seems to me that if the data is legally acquired and can be legally distributed, doing so at a cost of zero does not constitute a data leak. It may be bad business, but since when is that a crime?
Fortran 66 had a COMPLEX data type.
At least one of those A’s doesn’t have a free lunch :(
I know it inevitably feels like bias to get moderated like that, but we are careful not to single users out because of their views, and indeed there's a child comment to yours which expressed an opposite view in an unacceptable way, and we moderated it.

If you see a glaring case where the rules weren't enforced, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. You are welcome to alert us to such cases, by flagging them (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html for how to flag comments), or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com about egregious ones.
My suggest is save a nest egg, then get a public service job that offers a pension. If you want to know why realize how much you need to save to generate the income a pension provides. Especially since US and EU central banks have decided to punt and just continue to print money.
If a company makes an electric clone of the F-150, it'll lose all its sales as soon as an actual electric F-150 is released.
NVIDIA is fighting against it while pushing their own mining products: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/
I think flagging is ineffective after a post has passed 10 upvotes (it's at 49 right now.)
Most open source projects are always short on contributors. Pick a project thats of interest to you and start contributing documentation, patches, tests etc. Be open to review feedback for existing project devs. You will lean a lot and have fun in the process.

What to read would be related to what project interests you. If the project needs C, read up on that. If it needs Python/Perl/Ruby read up on that. Something like 'The Art of Unix Programming' (http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/) is always useful.

Good luck :-)
+1 for Flux I use it for over a year and I can't live without it
I was using http://spoon.net for a while. As far as I can tell they are basically a further developed version of this.

Unforutantely it looks as though Microsoft was none-too-pleased with their inclusion of Internet Explorer as one of the virtualized browsers and has forced them to shut it down. Hopefully you can elude the same fate...

Also, while I'm typically ok with the cartoonish trend of most startups these days, I'd have to say browserling might have gone a bit overboard with the whole thing. I know your only in beta and I'd have to assume things will change as you continue to develop.

Best of luck to you guys!
This is nice but it would be nicer if there was a tutorial to go with it!
Testing is the parade of preparation preceding a traditional release where they ship 53 CDs to desert island users every few years.

Testing still gets frozen once they think they're nearing a release.

Testing still completely breaks unless you update all systemy packages in lockstep — apt+deb are not designed for mix-and-match, hell it can't even resolve multiple installed versions of the same package! You have to mangle the name and fuck up the depgraphs of every package that depends on it, forcing mutual-exclusion of otherwise unrelated packages.

Testing is not a rolling release.
pseudocode will do as well
Yep, Coldfusion is overly underestimated. It now supports script based syntax (similar to Java) and has a tonne of built-in useful functionality like Ehcache and more...