jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A similarly potentially offensive remark that I feel is possibly in the minds of many Generation Y-er's right now:

The over-indulgent, hypocritical, self-entitled remnants of the Baby Boomers have done a great deal to derail the future success of this generation. Of course each individual must be valued in and of his/herself, but the generation as a whole has been siphoning economic resources to extend an entitled life well into their elderly years. They came to an understanding at an early age that they will always be wealthy and affluent and when that starts to slip away they, as a generation, decide that they are going to get what they want, everyone else be damned.

This mindset is currently ravaging the potential of the youth.

There, I got that off of my chest (fingers).
This is a substance that apparently costs millions of dollars to make. It's probably complicated enough that someone is unlikely to remember every detail about it without some hints and prompting.

I can tell you all about code fixes I made years ago if you describe the code and problem, but asking me "what code did you write 3 years ago?" gets less certain results.
"Even with good credentials, it is difficult for young people to find work and keep themselves afloat."

I would like to see this statement better qualified. Of the dozens of people I've worked with over the years, I can think of exactly three who had good credentials out of college. Of those three, I know for a fact that at least one had good credentials going in.

Conversely, some industries are still healthy and hiring. But it seems that training and qualification often lag demand. I remember trying to peddle my (albeit infant) UNIX skills in 1993 (also an economic recession). It took me a while to get myself into the a geographic location with sufficient demand for my skills. After which, I had zero trouble paying the monthly on my loans. Fast forward to 2003, and the systems administrations market is glutted with a bunch of fresh, young faces who've installed Ubuntu a few times and are willing to work 80+ hours a week for 30K a year. That was my clue that it was time to move on. One of them, anyway.

Kinda comes across as "F--- you, Jack, I got mine," I guess. But I don't like this sort of doom and gloom pity party.
Well, I don’t think my eyes have ever bugged out so much over an HN submission title!

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> The Presidential identification (ID) codes … could delay implementation long enough to prevent a rapid response

To me, a naïve human who doesn’t want to see a nuclear winter, it seems that we should be optimizing for human life instead of immediate revenge. I would even dare to hope the response to a nuclear launch would be to roll over and surrender for the greater good. And while I’m no expert in game theory, I suppose the official line is that guaranteeing mutually assured destruction was the only way to prevent all nuclear attacks.
I must admit, I don't see how it's extortion. It's capitalism at it's finest (by forcing the consideration of externalities as a free-market commodity). Since space in the streets is a fixed size-resource, supply and demand work to price medallions accordingly. If anything, the city sells medallions (referring to NYC) at a rate much lower than their actual value on the free market.
I honestly really wonder what is going on at Notion.

These guys have a gigantic growth of users. Every one is complaining that the tool is slow. They use the DNS of somalia even if they have the .com. They say everywhere that if you have issue receiving emails, just check the spam folder because sent from a ".so".

I mean guys, those two issues are the most import ones of your business, why that takes you so long to fix them ?
This makes perfect sense given that UrbanSpoon is going after both of them. I bet this ends with Yelp acquiring OpenTable.
Well, those games are definitely the exceptions to the rule and I don't think they were the types of games that poster I was referring to was talking about.
Please downvote, if you must, but after reading DF for more than a year now, this I feel to be true:
Gruber is an Apple sucker-up--apologist--fanboy. And the majority of his writing is in that theme.

Edit: an attempt at infusing relevance, instead of pure vitriol.
This article seems to say the ADAIABATIC quantum computers aren't better than classical ones. In other words other quantum computers might still be useful where D-WAVE's adiabatic approach will not?

The adiabatic quantum computer from D-WAVE has been criticized previously for not being a 'real' quantum computer.
How would you possibly A/B Test SEO improvements?
If your information is PUBLIC, what the HELL do you expect? There are so many good reasons to be irritated with Facebook's privacy debacle. This is not one of them.
I agree that the name is a huge problem. SEO is off putting in itself, but then appending "moz" makes it seem like you are trying to have some association with Mozilla too.

I know you guys are well established, and I've read some of your stuff with interest, but that name is terrible.

You should try setting up a separate entity called "Search Analytics & Research" or something that does the actual engineering, and try A/B testing job ads. I bet you'd get a hugely different response.
i've just given Obsidian a try as a result of this outage. it's damn beautiful and a lovely way to write Markdown, but I really wish it had database features like Notion, I rely on those so much
1. I do not listen to the Dan Held podcast.

2. Like with every solution suggested in the bitcoin ecosystem, LN attracts a lot of FUD. The weakness you observe in LN seems to me like arguing in 1995 we'll never be able to stream movies via the Internet. "X Doesn't exist now, so it never will.". Present this argument to one of LN's creators, and they'd likely wipe it off the table.

The fact of the matter remains that any scaling solution has 2 minimum requirements:

A. It needs to be done off-chain.
B. All transactions need to be verifiable from the genesis block.

LN satisfies these 2 conditions. If you'd design LN from the ground up, you'd probably end up with LN again. Just like you'd end up with bitcoin again, if you'd design that from the ground up. So these solutions will have to do.

3. Just because PayPal doesn't support this now, it doesn't mean they won't support it in the future. Matter of fact, it's fairly likely they will. Once again... "X Doesn't exist now, so it never will" is an inadequate argument.
The best sound that I reminisce was the PlayStation 2 startup[0].
The sound was oddly terrifying as a child, and you booted it up in the dark. But I guess the nostalgia makes me miss it.

In addition, Windows XP and Windows 7 were the two most familiar Operating Systems that I used, and their startups probably are the most pleasing to my ears. [1][2]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZet5jQmY1o

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2oiVqKHw

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=095XUlKnQSY
Google is obviously big enough to survive a SAP introduction. :-P
According to the edit at the bottom of the post, "1" is now complete.
Alright. Programming is like soccer. The barrier of entry is very low, but it doesn't mean every poor Brazilian kid will be a football genius. But they sure won't be golf world champion.
I grew up relatively poor in Hungary. Programming has been a great path to a good job for me, while it would have been more difficult to earn the same as a lawyer without connections.

Programming levels the playing field compared to gatekept jobs where you must be born into a dynasty to really make it. In that sense it's easy. But it will still only be a part of the population who are well suited to do it.
Actually this news is still not confirmed well since there is no evidence. However with all these customized iDevices things from Shenzhen guys, I think it's likely true.
Wait for further investigation.
I find TIOBE's ranking to be the least helpful and most volatile of any of the language popularity measurements out there. A couple years ago, the Julia language team did a pretty good deep dive on just why that is.

<https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2019/09/tiobe-blog/>
So what happens if the SSD goes bad or refuses to mount....you have a mult-thousand dollar brick because of a hundred dollar part?

I assume you can recover from corruption...but what if its a hardware defect.
> Fortran's renewed popularity

There's no way to know if a language is becoming more popular. You can only observe if a measure of language popularity is rising, falling, or staying the same. We're almost certainly observing the "measured" part as opposed to the "actual" part.
I love it when founders will only take what they need and not automatically adjust their salaries to each other even when their life circumstances are different.
Your missing factor is "the fact that Google is serving 40K (now 47K in live statistic) requests per second" is wrong.

"The number of requests peaked out at 52 Mbps. Let’s put that number in perspective". Perspective is 52 Mbps isn't a small number, but not massive either.
LIRR to JFK from Penn takes about 20 minutes and only costs a few dollars!
I think you could define your own mutt package that doesn't have the optional stuff, although it may be a lot of work.
Beyond illegal, it's an abuse of trust. Very much "this is why we can't have nice things" behaviour.

I hope anybody doing this only uses it outside of business hours or something to not be a total jerk.
I am looking for recommendations something like if I like Social Network movie then what are other similar movies that I can watch?

Not sure if there is a site that does this already
Signal is a not-for-profit organization.
I do communicate with non technical friends thought encrytped email. I made them install DeltaChat. It's a encrypted chat relying on mail
I think what the author is suggesting is that decision making, especially those which can critically affect a person, should not be automated by machines. There must be a mechanism in place which is open to scrutiny (preferably by a qualified human) and accountability.

Take the example of predicting terrorism threats based on facial queues of stress or fear. Machines lack context, which a qualified human would otherwise take into consideration. You can be stressed out because you might be accompanying a child, or fearful that you might miss a flight. If a TSA agent deports someone simply because a machine recommended it, that would be inhumane.

People like to argue that more regulation will adversely affect automation and/or growth/scaling of technologies and businesses. Growth is important but it must not cost us our humanity.
Some additional anecdata: on my maxed out 16” (admittedly Intel) Mac, IntelliJ/PyCharm/Goland/Webstorm are all quicker to start than Spacemacs. I haven’t tried Doom Emacs but don’t get the impression it would be much quicker.
I consider this an instance of stream programming.
"Content with lower resolution" screens, when almost all of them dramatically led Apple at the time of their retina unveiling. Add that companies like LG, Sony, and Samsung actually make the screen (and rest assured, Apple is not stopping any of those companies from doing what they want with their own lines).

This is the mythology of Apple that is so bizarre. Apple overshot competitors not because Apple has such a dedication to technology excellence (I mean, at the time their offerings were dramatically behind all competitors), but because the simplicity of the SDK meant that they had to simply double existing resolutions.

It's going to be interesting to see what Apple does with the market-lagging iPad Mini on the refresh -- double each dimension resolution, yielding a hilariously excessive pixel density purely to maintain the wrong-headed SDK?
As someone who's been a volunteer coordinator for an organization using ~550 volunteers a year, yes, you can fire a volunteer.
> There are many many benefits to having local, private dealers.

Oh, so is that why they are mandatory through legislation? Usually if something has "many many benefits", the behavior will spontaneously arise and not need to be government mandated
Quote from an Ubuntu user with an X1:

The Lenovo X1 Carbon is a dream for Linux. If you want to run Linux on an ultrabook, I cannot recommend the Carbon more highly.

http://www.inaccuratedesign.com/2012/10/22/Linux-on-the-X1-C...

Fedora is also OK apparently:
http://sysconfig.org.uk/2013/05/fedora-18-on-lenovo-thinkpad...

Arch too:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1
Windows 7 had "nepitutal" benefit from windows 95 and Microsoft Office. Ballmer could release a OS with no start menu, with a bunch of weird squares and it would sell
Yes, commuting is a bitch, and having to drive ~1 hour each way definitely contributes to my hatred for my job, and is part of why I feel like I've hit a wall recently. There's nothing like getting home at 8, and then trying to convince my girlfriend that I need to be working more instead of spending time with her.

As for getting involved, if you're far away from meetups I'd say github is probably the way to go. I'm just starting to get to the point where I feel like I could maybe possibly try to contribute... I just have to figure out what I want to contribute to...
I believe what you are looking for is the alpha channel--the fourth color component which specifies how to blend two values. It doesn't make sense to add RGB(0,0,0) and RGB(0.5,0.5,0.5). It does make sense to add RGBA(0,0,0,0) and RGBA(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5).
No comments, because no one understand these (At least, I don't).
Well, for the application I was looking into this for (remote deployments in Greenland and Antarctica) it would be almost certainly politically impossible, so did not pursue, but I doubt it's possible to purchase Sr-90 in non-negligible quantities as a civilian (you can purchase it as a calibration source easily enough, I think, but at great expense).
Cannonball Runs have gotten a lot easier during the pandemic because traffic is drastically lower than usual.

I'm not sure comparing this to a pre-pandemic record makes any sense.
Facebook is not a public space at this time. As such, they have the right to kick anyone off their platform without reason - just as you may choose who to invite inside your home. To those who are arguing on free speech: your argument has no merit. And until facebook is considered a public space, your argument will continue to have no merit. If you would like to give your argument a leg to stand on, then I would suggest you focus your efforts on making facebook and similar platforms public spaces under the law. I think you'll find instances like this will serve you in making this argument.
I know a lot of people who worked for members of Congress and a few who do now. Computers sitting on desks in regular Congressional offices do not have access to classified materials. Most members of Congress or their staff do not have access to classified material at all.

There is a lot of private information on those computers, though, and the biggest risks there are the use of that info to harass staff and/or manipulation of it to feed conspiracy theories (see: Pizzagate).

Blackmail material is extremely unlikely since these are all government computers and everyone who works there knows they are subject to oversight.
In theory SOX only has benefits, but in practice the compliance costs due to it are very high. I'm sure some of that is for the better (bad oversight before SOX) but I can't imagine the insane paper tigers that come out of it are a net positive in the end.
You don't even need to learn javascript for web dev, checkout a project called Coffeescript.
I'm not sure if you're making fun of me, or your response is just way over my head.
encapsulation?
I've got a question for you and Patrick. It seems like a lot of the HN elite (you two, cperciva, jacquesm, etc) know each other to some extent. Is this because you had preexisting relationships, because you guys emailed each other after seeing each other's HN comments and submissions, or because there's some kind of secret HNers With High Karma group?

If it's the latter, is 4k karma enough to join? ;)
> Android is ultimately intended for OEMs.

And ChromeOS is not?
I will not dispute that those are problems. I will dispute whether they're issues with all colleges.

I went to a liberal arts school, and a good one. I was never in a large lecture class (my CS101 class had 12 students in it), professors were mandated to have regular office hours and email availability to meet with students outside of classes for extra discussions and help, workloads were reasonably balanced over time, and no one really cared about grades or GPAs as long as they weren't so low that you got put on probation. (It goes without saying that we also didn't have anything resembling class rank, which is an awful concept in all possible ways.) In other words, none of those were issues in my college experience.

Thus, to me, that sounds more like an argument that "X College is broken" than "college is broken". Do some colleges offer sub-optimal educational experiences? I wouldn't doubt it. Do all of them? Clearly not, for those reasons at least.
What about if cells are shock triggered by g forces to emit certain proteins / chemicals initiating the wave of memory excitation. This could be tested
Sat down at a bar once and the woman next to me was a pediatric oncologist, basically just crying into her beer about how she wanted to quit. It wasn't just sad-- it was an incredibly interesting conversation that I still remember about a decade later.
Do the mechanics of the Skinner Box really matter? If GPT-3 generates interesting popular content and posting it is profitable because it gets retweets and reactions, is it any worse than the content that comes from real people?
Any job is better than no job as far as possibly leading to something better. At minimum, it shows you can show up for work. A surprising number of people cannot do that reliably.
I had never used youtube-dl until the story happened. I downloaded for windows and its speeds were throttled to around 50kB/s. Posters on Stack recommended the ytdlp fork which i tried and it was 5-10 MB/s. Just fyi
While you are absolutely correct that this won't scale, and doesn't have a lot of advanced features like faceting and synonyms, it's still a useful technique. I use the SQL LIKE operator all the time, especially when I just need a simple way of searching my data.

If you under a million rows, LIKE is reasonably performant.
Any favorites or good ones to watch? There a quite a few and I'm fairly certain many of us are busy. I've learned from the 1-2 conferences I've gone to that titles are deceiving as well.
Carbon scrubbers are the healthy, bulletproof solution to eliminating stubborn odors in the home. Not the tiny little activated charcoal sheets that are in some air purifiers, they are too small to do that much, I'm talking about the cylindrical ones made for indoor marijuana grows. I used to live in a small NYC apartment with a cat. You could not smell any pet smell once I got a carbon scrubber going in there. If you get a decent variable speed fan it's going to be no louder than a regular consumer air purifier. If your only concern is odor, it's going to be more cost effective in the long run than an air purifier too.
I wonder if it would help if we had the option to use agree/disagree arrows that pointed horizontally, in addition to the upvote/downvote buttons we have already. I often encounter comments that I disagree with, but are well-argued nonetheless, and I wish there were a way to indicate that.
Those are fringe global communities.

I'm talking about how you cannot effectively stay in touch with your neighbors and local community without using Facebook's platforms. People who you see every day, but who may not share all of your views; keeping up with those people is important if we want to heal our society's deep divides.

I've tried, but very few shared interest/volunteer/neighborhood groups will go out of their way to contact the one or two people who don't join their Facebook groups about scheduling or events.

It has nothing to do with racist or misogynist strawmen, but since you mention them, Facebook has done a lot to inflate those groups' ranks.
Source here: https://github.com/locua/oscooking
> By definition, you would only have to get a few weeks worth of groceries once every few weeks. Do you need to drive alone in your car every single day because you need to get groceries once a month?

This thread is about giving up the car. Entirely.

> Why the hell are you driving anywhere in a whiteout blizzard?

Shit. Happens.

Ideally, emergencies would never happen. Still have to prepare for the less-than-ideal.
Why is the Alphabet Workers Union filing lawsuits on behalf of people who don't work for Alphabet (e.g. the woman in this article)?
Please don't apologize for Zynga. They are the meth dealers in the universe in which Uber are pimps.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...
Where does skiplaggedget their data from? If they are scraping, theres some merit for a lawsuit.
> It is ironic that with all that digital technology and people still like the comfort of white noise in the background, not complete silence. Of course the carriers could instead use some extra BW and transmit the actual background noise of whoever you are talking to.

"Comfort noise" is actaully useful to signal if the call (or the audio channel) is active. Otherwise people ask each other "You still there? Can you hear me?" hearing the noise indicates the channel is still open.

As for carriers transmitting the actual background noise, it would increase bandwidth requirements. But I am not sure if I would even like to hear the background of the person talking. It could be distracting (even if it wouldn't make a difference for bandwidth consumption).
"RISC-V is a new instruction set architecture (ISA) designed to support computer architecture research and education."

"Provide a realistic but open ISA that captures important details of commercial generalpurpose ISA designs and that is suitable for direct hardware implementation."

"Be simple to subset for educational purposes and to reduce complexity of bringing up new
implementations."

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-...

"Yunsup Lee, Krste Asanovi´c, David Patterson,
and I conceived RISC-V in the summer of 2010 as an ISA for research and education at
Berkeley. Two of our research ventures, RAMP Gold [92] and Maven [60], had just wound
down. These projects were based around the SPARC ISA and a lightly modified MIPS
ISA, respectively, and we sought to unify behind a single architecture for the next round of
projects."

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-...
Very true. But the unemployed and their (inevitably reduced wages) are the result of a larger failed system. Effectively the market considers them excess population for their area.

And as business expenses rise to cover the inflated cost of living (eg rent) there will be fewer and fewer jobs available (eg no unemployed teacher looks to San Francisco). And cost of living will rise with population density while wages fall. Also there are plenty of unemployed people in SF too namely the huge homeless population. As the real value of wages drop their numbers increase. Since calls here for justice and opportunities seems strangely focused on middle class people, I should ask how that new person's arrival would affect these other equally unemployed people.

If you believe in "market forces" then unemployment and low wages are not solved by adding more people. Indeed individuals would be happier and communities stronger if they were not often up rooted by market whims. Especially in old age. So the ideal solution for employment, wages and quality of life would not assume people are infinitely portable human resources.
There is a limited amount of land in desirable places - which is the flaw in your argument
Good luck getting a decent patent attorney for $2500... order of magnitude or 2 off.