jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Again, like I said previous comment google runs a bunch of other services that you can't just block the entire google ASN and not expect stuff to break. As for who's doing the blocking, there are basically two groups: enterprise sysadmins (or their vendors) and hobbyists running pi-hole at home. The former would certainly care about breakage, and likely isn't concerned about ads. Not to mention if they block safebrowsing (or google software updates) and they get hacked because of it, that'd look really bad on them. Hobbyists would care less about breakage and more about ads, but I suspect the same hobbyists don't care much for safebrowsing and probably has it disabled so whether it gets whitelisted or not is irrelevant.
Yeah, I try to address this on the start page.

I did contribute a bit to hyperapp for a while and used it professionally. They took a different path with v2 though and forking v1 to add the features listed proved to have a similar diff to writing it from scratch.
Not directly answering your question, but you might want to look into FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early). The subreddits /r/FIRE, /r/leanFIRE, and /r/fatFIRE are full of excellent info and active communities of people who have either achieved or are working to achieve exactly what you are hoping to do.
Out of curiosity, what is an uncivilized country?
> That's exactly what these totalitarian wokists aim for

That’s pretty much the core of the entire SJW-movement right there.
There are two distinct groups with some overlap.

There is the "social media is the internet" group and the "social media is part of the internet" group.

I'm in the latter and happier for it, I have a facebook account (because of Oculus gah!) with no friends, no activity and I never check it and I have a twitter account which follows a handful of programmers and a lot of project accounts.

It's strange because my mum is heavily in the former group so when we talk her worldview is shaped by Facebook to an uncanny degree - it's worrying how much so.
Can you name any that do?
I mean ... it was complex system and did not functioned in a simple way. Guns and labor camps played the role, but the propaganda did too. But also stuff like "you kids wont be able to go to college" or "you will get only really bad jobs" or "we will regularly harass you" or "people will be afraid to socialize with you".

And stuff like "still being traumatized from having relative taken away or from being arrested 10 years ago". It is complex, just darker and less facile, less directly comparable.
I think the reason he didn't pick up the China virus cue from Donald Trump was that he is being sponsored by Chinese exile groups (Falun Gong and Miles Guo) and that trope was too much even for them.
To be fair, that kind of comes with the territory when talking about data warehousing. The data volumes are so large that migrating them is usually out of the question, and query languages vary between vendors pretty significantly.
Yeah that sounds good. However I think there are a lot of ideas where a solo engineer could hack out a prototype over 6-12 months and significantly increase the pre-investment value of the company. I guess it depends on the type of product and the hacker's skillset.
>Er, people have complete control over their accents

No, they don't. Some people can imitate accents which they don't speak natively, but many people can't do this well at all. E.g., how many Americans can do a good impression of a British accent? Not many. If you've ever tried to do an accurate impression of an accent that you don't speak natively, you'll know this.

Also, it's quite unlikely that the woman's accent is cultivated. It's a pretty ordinary English accent.

For this reason, saying that you don't like someone's accent is roughly as rude as saying that you don't like some other quasi-permanent-but-pretty-much-insignificant part of them. You can express your opinion if you want, but it's rude and insulting to do so.
They'll gladly rent in their 20s when they're starting out, but they want to own the house they raise their children in.

I'm not sure that's really true. The rental and purchase markets tend to offer different products in most places. So while you can find studio rentals easily, you can't find rentals for a family of 5 nearly as easily.

Also, in the US, we tend to only see short term lease options for residential renting (say 12 months). But as you get older and get children, the cost of moving begins to rise. You've got a lot more stuff and your friends are older and busier and less inclined to blow a day helping schlep your stuff. So I think part of what older married people with children are buying when they buy a house is freedom from having to worry that they'll suddenly have to scramble to find a new place and then actually move.
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Why does this completely destroy the back button?
I don't know enough about Kotlin to know if it's useful or not to point out Kotlin/Native: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_relatio...

The UK is also proposing a law to give informers and police widespread immunity from prosecution for undercover crimes: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/spy-cops-law-bill-polic...
I mean, not trying to be grim about it, but broadly speaking, an airplane landing has a lot less fuel to do damage with.
The FBI doesn't "permit" you to lawyer up, the Bill of Rights does. Comparison of the tactics used is sound.

The FBI isn't "less evil" because they "tolerate" laws that they have no ability to ignore. They aren't tolerating them out of the goodness of their hearts, or out of a sense of morality. If they had the ability to ignore them, they would.

Edit: Re: responses

I'm not claiming that the FBI is incapable of violating the law, I'm objecting to the parent's claim that they are somehow "less evil" than the Stasi because they "allow" the law to be upheld, when they're not the ones allowing anything. Yes, when they are able to get away with breaking the law, they sometimes do. It's not clear how prevalent this is, because "able to get away with it" implies not getting caught.
> he was very skeptical of socialism

these people fled into Germany, Austria, Denmark and France which half the US claims is socialist
I find the whole concept of the case to be off. The author is concerned that applications can’t take advantage of the increasing parallelism of computers because of the difficulty in writing fine grained parallel tasks, but misses that 1) the paucity of programs that end up CPU bound and 2) Http requests already provide an excellent threading container within which imperative code runs, meaning that the system takes advantage of parallel computing even if the program author doesn’t (so long as they don’t explicitly write themselves into a problem)

Edit: others on SO already pointed this out.

Also, IMO imperative programming generally maps better to the way business requirements are-
First do this, then that, unless you see Y then do that. It’s harder to walk a BA or non technical manager through functional code and stand a chance of them tracking what’s going on.
> Is there any language where you can just go:

Nothing prevents a map function to run in parallel.

There are other things that can happen in parallel, however - the whole instruction flow is reordered in the CPU before it is executed and if you have enough execution ports and enough in-flight instructions to keep them fed, you can accomplish a lot in a single clock cycle before your source code even needs to acknowledge that instructions don't happen exactly in the sequence they are written.
I think we (those of us using "cloud services") put entirely too much trust in the providers that we use.

We all just pretty much assume that they're doing the right thing(TM) with regard to security even after we've seen, time and again, that this is certainly not the case.
In the article, the guy that dived for sand bringing it up in a bucket made $16 dollars a day. He had to dive about 40 feet down. Someone else hauled the sand up that he dove for. This person made less.

So lets say between the two and maybe a boat, $25-35 a day. I looked up how much concrete sand costs... in the US at least I found it for $7 a ton. Are they able to bring up 3 or 4 tons a day per two man team diving down 40 feet? I am skeptical, but maybe there is something I don't understand.
From what I gathered of the talk, they mean unifying the build, debugging, and analytics tools. So no more need to have Terminal, Xcode, and Chrome Dev tools open
In some cities they reward you for returning bikes to certain locations that have a borrow/return ratio imbalance. For example, they will add bonus minutes to your card so if you go over the standard single-trip time period (e.g. 30 minutes) you can use the extra minutes to avoid getting an extra charge.
True, you could minimize the requirements of self-driving systems by making license plates carry obligatory modules that transmit information to self-driving cars. The train of though is that this is an area where working together might have a bigger pay-off.
There are (were!) some pretty nifty mechanical computers out there.

If you can spare the time, this 2014 Ars Technica story on USN fire guidance computers is engineering porn of the first degree:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gears...
"it gets about $800 in state aid per student and loses more than $6,000 for each local kid who goes to a charter school, instead."

That's confusing. Can someone explain?
Bullshit jobs arise in two ways. One is through the crazy inefficiencies of huge companies and governments. This is likely not you. Second is as an emergent property of red queens races in the economy, escalating complexity or overhead that does not actually increase overall macro productivity. The latter requires at least a casual familiarity with evolutionary game theory, but once comprehend cannot be un-comprehended. Most global military competition also falls into this category, and that's double digits of the economy in some countries.

I feel like these kinds of emergent pathologies are a species scale IQ test that so far we have utterly failed.
But Frank Abagnale proved that he was at least able to learn as he was going along, like he studied for and passed the bar.

I think it would be interesting to work with someone like that, especially in software, you can mould them to anything. Would I enjoy it for the first couple of months? Probably not, but clearly not everyone you hire has to be excellent, sometimes you just need people that learn fast and are able to pick up new things easily.
That’s a benefit of not sticking the clerk inside the convenience store all day like other stations.
I'm one "in the know", so I'll answer that part.

Heck yeah it is valuable. My area has numerous employers that are eager to hire people with that skill set. It pays more than the typical software development jobs. Most of the jobs seem to be related to how things get hacked into. One can play defense or offense.

I post about my employer in the "Who is hiring?" sometimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21422735
True, will do!
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Are struct tags meant to be similar to Java Attributes and C# Annotations? Seems like a fine pattern but needs more tooling.
You'd need charging stations - an added cost/inconvenience to the ordeal. I don't know if you've been around many job sites and/or locations where they might store the trucks - charging infrastructure isn't there. It's going to vary a lot on the company though - tbh. Work trucks have so many varied uses that it's hard to say. Some people take their trucks home - but then they're not gonna wanna charge at home because then that costs them $$$ and tracking that expenditure might be annoying every night. (Versus filling up whenever you need and saving the receipt or using the company card) This is presuming they can charge at home - which some workers won't be able to.

The other part is that work trucks need good integration with tools and tool storage. You need to be able to add tool storage/access on the sides of the truck. If you can't do that - it's going to eliminate a lot of the market for a work truck. But - of course - that's just ONE type of work truck. (One where a person is getting out and doing manual labor with tools - electricians, plumbers, general handymen, etc.)

Other types of work trucks are basically completely different and require an entirely different bed. And the Tesla here definitely won't work with those. (Think flat bed trucks used for hauling)

I think the idea of this being a work truck is a silly idea. I don't know why anyone is thinking this would even be a remotely good idea considering you can't mount anything to it.

An article with an image of various types of work trucks: https://www.worktruckonline.com/343935/comvoy-launches-as-on...

Just imagine trying to make the Tesla fit those use cases like outlined there...
I'm convinced the heating of the brick is a contributing factor to the cable 'sliding out' near the brick. I treat my charging cables like they are made of spiderwebs and I'm on my third magsafe.
Switzerland is about 41000 km^2 in area. The US has about 660,000 km^2 of fresh surface water.

The scales of the US and Switzerland are incomensorable.
In Pirsig's Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance he discusses mastery of writing and language as beyond that of robotic regurgitation of language rules. In fact, most languages have many exceptions and inconsistencies among their rules, and being a good writer is not defined by them, and even can invove stretching or breaking them.

I also have taught English to novice speakers and sometimes am struck by such questions they receive, sometimes being all of: obtuse, irrelevant and pedantic at the same time. But that is their primary objective: to sell tests and teaching materials to their tests, not direct competency.
And I don’t think GETwoman or PUTWoman would be good either, as there’s other apps for that.
Not all GC enabled languages that currently target WebAssembly are buggy as you make it to be.

PNaCL also did not have direct GC support, yet it got released with working OCaml support.
So pretty much the only thing I boot into Windows for nowadays is to play FF14.

My routine is always the same: log in, open Chrome if it didn't open already (happens 50% of the time), and then open the start menu, type fi, and click the first icon that appears.
That’s just a marketing stunt. It would be sheer stupidity to actually have the same design goals for both terrestrial and Martian vehicles.
And stuff like that just so kills Tesla for me. All that late stuff that came after, say, Model S or at least Model 3 looks more like Musks version of buying a Porsche convertible aged 45.
I'm not sure how any of this relates to each other.

Twitter banned Trump for reasons.

FDA and EPA are government regulatory agencies.

The baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple broke state statutes.

How are any of these things related?
I made a comment before to the effect, what happens when you are banned permanently from the biggest social media platforms currently in existence?

Will these bans carry over and will they start to affect any who oppose the bans or simply parrot what he says elsewhere?

Will these spawn new social media sites or will they damage existing ones or do both? This is all so fascinating and frightening at the same time. People may want to claim there is no government interference but these sites have for many years recently reacted to the threat of it which in turn effectively is what is happening now.

I am just find this all so bizarre but I think these sites figure they can act now simply because in a short time he will not be in his position of power and lose the bully pulpit which he can use without them
2024 is when you will see the effects of this realignment.
I mean, the sitting president urged his followers to storm the capitol in order to reverse an election result. That's pretty much the most clearcut possible grounds for impeachment that exists.
> To all the censorship apologists here: you've given unelected and unaccountable people at big tech companies the ability to decide what people can say in public. Is that really the world you want to live in?

You have things backwards: they haven't and in fact I do and already do.

What gives Twitter the right to decide what can be said via its software is the first amendment to the US constitution. Which is a world I live in and do want to live in -- it's stronger and better than the "free" speech guarantees in Europe.

The first amendment prevents elected people from deciding what people can and can't say in public.

And twitter banning someone doesn't actually control what they can say "in public", merely on Twitter. I don't use twitter and I heard about this from one of those other channels.

Throughout US history the person with the press has been able to decide what is printed on its press. Today there are more opportunities to be heard than ever before.
Nope. They will never police themselves to the extent that they had too on reddit. Anyone stumbling into them who wasn't already heavily inclined to their cause will bounce off from the sheer nastiness of the place.

Being on reddit forced them to tone down and memeify to the point where they were kinda entertaining in the beginning, that's what drew a lot of people in. thedonald.win will end up like another infowars or 4chan, that weird corner of the internet you visit occasionally to look at the weirdness but mostly avoid.
I think the entire year and everything about it has been a disgrace. Sure, treat them equally.
"If you think Parler does a poor job of moderation and stuff being said on there offends you,"

Parler is being used to organize violence:

"About 20 or so hits will turn everything around"

"Who do you think the first Democrat assassination will be?"

"It's time to put that ammo to good use."

This kind of stuff gets out of hand very quickly.

It's obviously different than:

"I think the election was stolen"

"Rumour has it Georgia was full of fraud"

"I think so and so is a liar!"

Which is more mundane and obviously within bounds.
Or the hotel that tells a black family that there are no vacancies.

Or the restaurant that denies service to someone wearing a MAGA hat.

"private property, they can do what they want" is indeed a slippery slope.
Sarcasm doesn’t work too well in a text medium, but if taken at face value Simon Wiesenthal would disagree with you
> You don’t need GA

No, but it’s what people use. Let’s not ignore reality.
This is not true. I'm sorry to post this twice but it's relevant to the discussion and also an answer to the OP.

Strike (https://global.strike.me) has built a product in which they use Bitcoin and the Lightning Network to send money (fiat currency like USD, EUR, etc.) around the world instantaneously and at virtually no cost. In some cases, they are able to offer exchange rates that are better than the inter-bank FX rate.

Explanation of how it works:
https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-global-2392b90...
In many contexts that doesn't really matter. Sure, from a programmer point of view that's a problem because there are potential cases with incorrect or ambiguous behaviour, but being able to sort files by date could be useful in cases where that level of correctness and granularity don't matter.

You might just have a bunch of files from around the year that you just know won't ever be that close together in time, and which you perhaps also only ever touch manually, not programmatically.

I once chaired a smallish organization, and I used to name the minutes of meeting files with ISO 8601 style. If you have a dozen or so files from throughout the year, having them reliably sorted can make them easier to find, but there's never a problem with time zones or basically anything with granularity greater than a day.

Usually, if you've got a situation where you need to worry about time zones or DST, identifying things with year-month-day style timestamps treated as strings would be too low-tech a solution anyway.

(FWIW, the practice of using ISO 8601 didn't last, presumably because non-technical people didn't find them that nice for one reason or another.)
Russians build balanced ternary computer in 1958 [1] and were experimenting improving its design up until early 1970-th.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
It would be good if somewhere on the blog one could learn what is Plato??
So $7600 (plus half a penny) in transaction fees on $38M. How much would a bank charge for wiring that amount?
I agree. I retired at 35 by saving 90% of what I made and lucked into living in Toronto at the beginning of the property ladder in the 90s. Like a diet, it's more about the determination to live with what seems like privation but really it is just being free of all kinds of crap - furniture, creams, soaps, appliances, clothes, decor - that provide social acceptance but ends in indentured servitude.
Why should being written in a particular language matter? We see a lot of these “written in Go”s these days for a lot of new softwares. I’m a big user of Go myself. Love the language and use it for almost everything. But I just don’t get why an editor or IDE or static site generator or any other piece of software brag about using a particular language or library.
Well designed and executed.
Okay. So, init starts the process supervisor. Then, the process supervisor starts everything else.

Then all of a sudden, something goes wrong and the process supervisor crashes. Init then inherits all the children, and has no clue what's going on with them, so your system is hosed.

What benefit is there to having the init be separate from the process supervisor?

EDIT: let me just expand on this a bit... Monit and other process supervisors do more than just manage the lifecycle of a process; they can run various checks to ensure that a service actually works. Systemd's process supervision is limited to knowing the current state of the process (running, stopped by admin, failed to start, constantly crashing, or optionally: not responding to watchdog), so systemd in no way makes monitoring daemons redundant.

When the traditional sysvinit starts and stops processes, it actually has no clue what it's doing and thus init scripts need to rely on PID files and other hacks to provide basic functionality.

I would like to know why you think that the process that starts and stops processes should not be interested in whether the processes are actually running or not.
Goldman Sachs Fined $800,000 for 'Flash Boys' Style Dark Pool Trading... Coincidence?
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/goldman-sachs-fined-800000-flash-bo...
For small-time miners, yes. But wouldn't any large scale operation run the risk of moving the market? By mining, they continue to amass coins without having to worry about this, so maybe that is a factor.
This article is very good - it covers doctors' hand-washing plus other things.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist?p...

(I read it a few years back and just re-found it now)