jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I think you misunderstood my point about spouse and kids: it wasn't about getting away from them, but about juggling work with kids vying for attention -- how do you explain a 2 year old that daddy has to work and cannot play with her for a few hours, and that she must stay locked in because there's a lockdown outside? -- and a couple sharing very limited space working at the same time (just think of Zoom meetings!).

In that case it's a very different point and I understand the difficulty. But what does that have to do with remote work? Assuming the coronavirus is eventually under control, why not just work remote and send the kids off to a babysitter or wherever they would be while at the office?

> and a couple sharing very limited space working at the same time (just think of Zoom meetings!).

I feel like I often spend more time on meetings than actually coding so I can relate. Just buy a headset with a mic. Just like it's reasonable to invest thousands in a car if you have to commute to work, I think it's reasonable to invest at the very least 20 bucks on a convenience store headset to be able to focus a little better. If you can even splurge 100 bucks it's a big improvement. I'm physically closer to my partner than I was to my coworkers at my previous job, so I understand the concern, but I haven't had issues by just using headsets and muting as needed.

> ("hermits", as you put it) are doing well during this pandemic. What about the rest of us?

That was part of the point of my post. You've only had it rough for a year. What about us hermits for all the rest of human history when fully remote work has been a very rare luxury? For some of us, it's a countdown until we go back to a world that makes us as miserable for a lifetime as you've been for a year, except we won't have anybody fighting to let us keep the isolation and comfort we've been enjoying, whereas you have every world government and relevant expert sprinting to end this current way of life. It's frustrating to see people complain about being unhappy for such a short time and completely disregard how unhappy many people were with the old way of things and for how long
Just my experience. I stopped biking to work due to COVID and I eat less than before. I tried to just go for a 5mi ride in the morning but I'm not motivated w/o the commute and just take the dog for a walk instead.
Anything in CS can be generalized to its purest, most theoretical forms. The question is how usable is it and how much work does it take to get anything done.

See

- https://danstroot.com/2018/10/03/hammer-factories/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20120427101911/http://jacksonfis...

Bazel, for example, is tailored to the needs of reproducible builds and meets its audience where it is at, on the command line. People want fast iteration time and only occasionally need "everything" ran.

Github Actions is tailored for completeness and meets is audience where its at, the PR workflow (generally, a web UI). The web UI is also needed for visualizing the complexity of completeness.

I never find myself reproducing my build in my CI but do find I have a similar shape of needs in my CI but in a different way.

Some things more tailored to CI that wouldn't fit within the design of something like Bazel include

- Tracking differences in coverage, performance, binary bloat, and other "quality" metrics between a target branch and HEAD

- Post relevant CI feedback directly on the PR
I thought the same thing when we initially put them on. I thought "hey they're a bit weird, but this is the internet! What isn't weird here!?!?"

But if you put them on continuously in front of a young kid (or at least my kid) and you can almost see their gray matter being systematically obliterated.

I think its childhood equivalent of mindless doomscrolling.
> treat it like a Linux box with a shell script (though at least with the benefit you can shoot it in the head)

To be fair, that by itself is a game-changer, even if doesn't take full advantage of Docker.
I struggle to understand how personal playlists need a user to work. And comments... well, YT Kids audience is not the most commenting one...
I think it's lost to time, unfortunately.
Sorry to digress here. Just want to comment on Ai. He is like many other iconic/famous people in the country, who got awards aboard, do things that seem against the ruling party in the country and basically walk away with way less consequences almost every time. Some of them get into short-term jail like hero and after that their experiences worth much more. This is very interesting since average people would probably face fatal consequences, if they did something like that, even once.
I second StrangeLoop. I went last year for the first time (after hearing about it every year) and was duly impressed. Amazing content and impeccably run. Also, it's the most progressive conference I've been. They dedicate a ton of time and scholarship money to increase attendance by under-represented groups.
It's only when someone gets killed from something is anything done and then it's quickly forgotten back to the regular pattern.
Some of these designed wouldn't work in places like San Francisco if you own a vehicle that just barely fits into said garage. The entire interior/exterior operating clearance would need to be available and measured carefully.
In all the TSA discussions on Hacker News, people seem to have settled on a procedure which is maximally inconvenient for the TSA but should still allow you to catch your flight: opt out of the backscatter scanning, request a supervisor to be present during the pat down to make sure you're not sexually abused, and make sure they do the pat down in the public screening area rather than a private room. You do get groped, but it makes an impression on the other travelers, slows down the system, and makes the groping agent uncomfortable, which are all positive outcomes in terms of protesting the system.
The core take-away from this, especially for the early startup, is doing less better is a far superior strategy to doing more worse. At the early stage, nobody is going to care about how many features you have. They care about how well you solve the small problems you are solving.
The market data suggest that you're mistaken. In 2010, the App Store took in almost 20 times the revenue that the Android Market took in. $1.7 billion for the App Store, compared to $102 million for Android Market. Considering where Android market share stands relative to iOS, this means that iOS users are absolutely more willing to spend money on apps. That's obviously not the case for every Android user, but the relative aggregate difference is what matters when deciding what platforms to develop for.
A classic. This keeps getting more credible as it ages. Now it's been at the same URI for 13 years.
It's great to get more than money from an investor. It's often the case that you get money plus various intrusive behavior that is of negative value (requiring time to manage the shareholders, etc). If you have your choice of where to get money, go with the Ron Conways of the world.
You are 100% correct, and I agree, they aren't the same thing.

But you try telling that to someone who isn't so technically inclined. To the average joe, jailbreaking probably equates to pirating, just because it enables you to do so. Just like "torrenting" isn't the same thing as "pirating," one will often find that the mainstream association of torrenting is that of piracy.

However, it makes me feel slightly better than the majority who are jailbreaking their phones aren't sailing the seven seas and looting and pillaging all of the apps that they can find.
Use Firefox 4
First off, I think this is good data and commend you for going back to the numbers to make your point. It's not perfect data - as the report says, by nature it's overstating actual consumption - but for short-term trends it is valuable.

But I don't see where gross carbohydrates are decreasing in Table 1. It seems like they went from 420g in the 80's (from under 400g in the 70's) to 480 or so a decade ago.
Security concerns can be dealt with via the pre-existing public/private key crypto that's going on in apt already.

The problem with torrents is they don't work well for lots and lots of (relatively) small "file groups" where each user has a lot of the files, but each user has completely different files. Something based on tiger tree hashing or some other mechanism like that might be more suitable, perhaps?
What about introverted people, who will do good work, but prefer their own company at lunch time?
Applause. KYC is the most abused wealth verification requirement, worst modern plague of freedom, personal data protection and privacy of wealth accumulation.
Hey! We have gotten a lot of feedback on pricing. We need to fix it. Please go ahead and start using it! We'll have an in-between pricing soon :)
> I am heavily against switching from WhatsApp to Signal,

I'm curious - what are your arguments against the switch?
I'm scared. From 2000 til 2013 I did exclusively server side development. In 2013 I transferred (@ Google) into doing mobile and embedded work, and missed the whole docker thing & the K8 transition. I've now transferred back over to doing cloud/server/backend work and I'm just a little terrified of what I've gotten myself into. In addition to re-learning Google's Borg stack, learning Golang, and readjusting my headspace, there's a whole giant world of cloud tech and vocabulary that frankly wasn't happening 7-8 years ago. And then I see articles like this... haha..
That's a cool idea. I've also been put off from replying to older comments. The chronological thing is also interesting as it's a lot more like the forums of old, which I grew up on. Definitely a different experience from the algorithm heavy forums of today. Better of worse I can't say.

Some subreddits hide the vote count for X amount of minutes, which I also like. It doesn't stop the algorithm but it helps prevent dogpiling on popular comments.
As a store of value to launder money.
Does anyone know of any raw stats at what one beefy server can handle with a typical HTTP CRUD app? <10k doesn't seem right?
Nature abhors two things that humans adore: straight lines, and walls.

All kinds of innovative solutions to contain ecological damage have come and gone, and will continue to come and go - but there's no working around nature. Everything we do will be undone by nature at some point; probably sooner rather than later. Ultimately, the only thing 'containment' does is just make it somebody else's problem in the future.

I don't think there's any realistic prospect of 'safely' containing anything in the ocean - possibly some kind of tethered buoyant container might be a useful innovation for the immediate future, but it's not going to be a permanent solution, and our best bet is to massively reduce the damage we do in the first place rather than keep kicking the can down the road.

Even the continents will be destroyed and renewed ultimately - perhaps our best long-term bet is to try to manually send the 'bad stuff' down into the outer core and just let it be obliterated and recycled.
The provided instructions would have allowed people to use it but the criticism of the ux remains
are they related?
I understand. By your problem statement, I thought you were more interested in replacing content editable or a text area. An editor that adds text to canvas with manual line breaking has been done plenty of times before.
The only plausible way to understand the 10x programmer is that this person is someone who accelerates productivity 10x, by inventiveness or whatever else.

For example, the person who wrote the first parser generator was a 10x programmer. He may have written less code altogether than the first client of the parser generator but he made generations of programmers more effective.
I feel like whenever I click on a Geoff Wozniak link it's because the domain is 'wozniak'.

e.g. - I think it's Woz.
> I've never seriously used Linux

You mean "OS X"?
I realize that his engine development abilities alone qualify him as an excellent developer, probably at least top 1% of all developers. What I think the article is talking about is the true handful-in-a-generation elite, who are quantifiably orders of magnitude better than the top 1%, and have the money and fame to go along with it. Are his development abilities alone that much better than even the average top 1% developer, or is it more other things to go along with that? Or maybe it's more accurate to say that you can't really separate pure development skill from being able to develop the right program for the right market at the right time.

Take Mark Zuckerberg for example. He's probably a really good developer, but he didn't become a famous billionaire on development skill alone. He is where he is because he had the right idea at the right time, and executed it aggressively and intelligently. Is that a separate skill from pure development, or is it part of being an elite developer?
Usually a fast means you can drink non-caloric liquids, water being the preference. There are many different kinds of fasts, and some are less strict than others, but for the most part water is allowed in all of them.
The article you referenced doesn't really support your argument. Mitt Romney only paid 14% (he could have paid less) because of a massive charitable donation.

Are you arguing that we should remove the tax break given to charitable donations?
I wouldn’t say this is radical, I think PG wrote an essay years ago with this as the core thesis!
> Namespaces: In order to identify the versions of services for routing, you need independent virtual nodes and routes in a virtual router. You can reuse the DNS names or use cloudmap names with metadata to identify the versions/virtual nodes.
> OIDC at ingress - App Mesh does not do this yet, ALB / API Gateway is needed for this. App Mesh has this on the roadmap.
> Resources - You can reach the app mesh team with specific questions at the App Mesh roadmap Github and we can help
The reason you don't see flicks used all that much is because media encoding is incredibly proprietary in the space where it matters most, live broadcast. Selling into the broadcast space, every broadcaster has petabytes of video in their own chosen format. You have to support EVERY format to sell broadly, and they're not going to let you transcode everything into your format. Using flicks gives you the ability to support as many combinations as possible with the least effort.

It matters very little when users are trained to tolerate slow transitions between videos, formats, etc...

It also doesn't matter a whole lot when doing offline transcoding either, as you can afford to do the more expensive calculation.
Nice to see that it's

Common Lisp 96.7%
Makefile 1.9%
Other 1.4%
Lots of people say "tracked inflation", but few understand that inflation is measured relative to a basket of goods, and which basket of goods you pick really matters. Which means that the inflation rate you personally experience will depend on your lifestyle.

The result is that the inflation rate as experienced by the well-off (who consume more luxuries) is generally quite different than the inflation rate as experienced by the poor.

There is no good data that I know of over a long period of time for this. But https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/working-pape... has estimates for recent years, and it appears that inflation for low income groups is currently significantly higher than for high income groups. Mostly because price differences have been rising between stores available to low income groups versus high income groups.
I would love to see a flat tax -- we all pay 20%, 30% or whatever is needed. Doesn't matter where or how the money was earned, we all pay the same %, but sure, below a poverty line, say the first $20k isn't taxed. This would resolve the sense that some get by without paying via loopholes and so on.
Move to Georgia. Atlanta has a very low cost of living, a good business environment, and plenty of world class engineers coming out of Georgia Tech. Of course maybe you don't want to live in a state like Georgia. That's understandable but that's a lifestyle choice, not a talent shortage.
AKA pick your battles.
If they can't match FAANG's salary+totally liquid stock grant compensation (generally $300k+/yr for a seniorish engineer), which most startups can't, they need to offer more equity. I've seen way too many startups offering sub 1% to their first employee, despite asking them to take a large pay cut. It's absurd.
I did as well (in massachusetts in 2016)
Have to agree about IRC. If your product is something hackers--especially "hobbyist" hackers--use, IRC is still a great way to get feedback. Back when I ran robot game [1], IRC was basically the de facto way to request features and report bugs.

[1] robotgame.org/robotgame.net
#voltaSEED
Although I'm not American and disapprove many NSA privacy concerns, I can't blame their technical employees: they are choosing a stable high-paying job.

Articles like this try to put an ethical burden on analysts while ignoring the real actors and influences behind an ethical issue. Analysts are just doing their job and one certainly can't blame them.
Between Google Shopping Express, Instacart, and Amazon Fresh, yes, I'd say there are tons of people who lack the time and/or willpower to do their own groceries.
Snowden and the fact that two people tried to attack the NSA yesterday. NSA does not seem to be a very popular choice at the moment.
> Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube

This is great! Actually just today I was wondering why Firefox was still using the Flash player for Youtube. Now it isn't anymore :)
As I've mentioned in another post around here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9297375 ), it seems to be a cultural thing where car ownership is indeed strongly encouraged in the USA. You shred a little bit more light on it.
> Google has 50,000. By contrast, Microsoft has 128,000, HP has 300,000, IBM has almost 400,000, and DEC had about 300,000 at its peak.

How many of those were really engineers, rather than managers, marketing people, consultants, support?
It's a mailing list (which anyone at MIT can create), and I can assure you it's real.
Why don't people just work remotely? I've been involved in employing 3 people for Red Hat in the last few months. All are remote, I've not met any of them and I don't intend to meet them in the near future.
exactly. Despite all the discussion about the difficulties of founding a country, the biggest reason is there is no motivating factor big enough to do so.

They have a society, people and places in which they have been successful. Why leave that?
That's the point. If the candidate doesn't know that that is a SQL injection, then you have a problem.
Seems like what the US government is trying to do with the whole H1/L1 visas. Companies like to have immobile employees that they know would not go back to their home country. At the same time, it plays well with the whole immigration debate because no one complains about it, what with the lobbying efforts keeping it down to a murmur.

The startup visa scheme is another such proposition, but at a grander level. Banks want entrepreneurs that won't give up on a bad idea, but would instead keep toiling away rather than have to move their entire family back to their home country.

No one wants to speak from the perspective of an employee because, frankly, the biggest proponents have never been ideal employees. What kind of a talented engineer would want to put themselves into a situation where they lose their freedom to switch careers or engage in a personal idea? So sure, there is a shortage of talent, but not because of a lack of immigrants.
Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu, for one.
Because it would make them a target of vilification. It's much wiser to put a big chunk of your assets into a charitable trust and talk about raising taxes on the rich. That opens doors simply being rich does not.
Thanks. Usually true, but in this case, I did.
I find that events are a good starting point. You can check out the startupdigest.com for London.
Humans produce sounds, lions produce sounds. Humans have mouths, lions have mouths. Where is the substantial difference between the two?

Even conceptually, interpreters and compilers differ in certain aspects. For me, the most striking one is that compilers do not fully emulate the results of the given program (one could argue that they do to some extent, when performing optimizations - like when gcc -O3 transforms the whole process to a single printf() call).

There are many others, but I hope you get the point.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1703197
I think the author is right. GAE is not suitable for doing serious business.
Nope, but it'd be simply very useful to have at least some option to show file selector when I can put file path in my filesystem, because quite often I have that much more readily available than some option to drag and drop the file.
This is for yesterday.

Resource	Used	Free	Billable	Charge

CPU Time:
$0.10/CPU hour	46.03	6.50	39.53	$3.96

Bandwidth Out:
$0.12/GByte	2.54	1.00	1.54	$0.19

Bandwidth In:
$0.10/GByte	0.76	1.00	0.00	$0.00

Stored Data:
$0.005/GByte-day	750.78	1.00	749.78	$3.75

Recipients Emailed:
$0.0001/Email	0.00	2,000.00	0.00	$0.00

Total:	$7.90
I don't have a taskbar :-)
Nice| The English link to save some hassle: http://tex.mendelu.cz/en/
Gaikai is a competitor to OnLive. In this demo video from a year ago, ( http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_-_video/ ) they demonstrate using Photoshop remotely through Flash.
Very interesting work with the Four Color Theorum, but the BSOD isn't exactly "banished", at least for me.
a) Because I stare at a computer screen ~10 hours a day at work. When I am reading in the evening I prefer to have a book, which I can underline and scribble in.
b) Every programmer over time develops tiny helpful apps that make life bearable, having to rewrite all those apps / utilities in a fresh new language is a burden that I would like to avoid.
c) Admittedly I am a bit more aggrieved than most people because my languages of choice are lisp, scheme and python.
You can't "run the program, for any purpose" on your computer if other people can see it. You don't have Freedom Zero. Period.

How does other people seeing the source code of a program prevent you from running it for some purposes?
I started this list a while ago to help out organizers of developer-focused events on reaching out to partners/sponsors. I was thinking of turning it into a full-fledged website later on, or at least a GitHub Pages.

Any suggestions / PR are welcome. :)
Would he fall into the ~2% of people that can cope with sustained combat[1], i.e. a sociopath?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing
Looks cool. Would like to see some examples of how to use it though.
No worries, I like the idea, happy to help. Might pick your brains about it a bit if that's ok. Some traffic stats for that subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerBetting/about/traffic/

Email away!
This is a little project I started up to map all the pubs here in Dublin, Ireland that have a fireplace. It got some good feedback via Twitter (@pubswithafire) and I've since had over 500 pubs added all around the world.

I'd love to get some more good pubs added as well as some feedback and ideas of where to take it.
And this follow up: "Given that iPhone penetration is three times that of Android, more iPhone consumers are willing to try Android."
It's great to see this! We've been bitten by JSON allowing arbitrarily large numbers at Snowplow. This is what a JSON Schema trying to enforce sensible (int64) numeric limits ends up looking like: https://github.com/snowplow/iglu-central/blob/master/schemas...