jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Care to elaborate? This seems like a personal attack.

Your post seemed to me mainly composed of

1. some quotes from Orwell

2. a knock against that all-purpose bogeyman "the Left" as an enabler of fascism. Which is funny how often the Left is an enabler of the ultra-right, but the Right never is.

3. and some references to such vague things as shared national culture. Which, I mean, not to put too fine a point on it - a concern with a shared national culture is really top priority with those nasty people the Left enables.

All these abstractions show someone who maybe lives in a world of ideas, and I thought it's funny that Orwell in the same part where he talked about the nasty Left and so forth, also noted this marked characteristic as something that was one of the roots of their problems.

Finally, and I didn't point this out before but I shall now, I doubt that Orwell's Left is the same as today, mortality being what it is, and the cause of personal disaffection from the national culture might not have the same causes as it did in the 20s-40s.

The Left that makes saying "God Save the Queen" unpopular has been replaced by media that makes it old-fashioned and silly (Look at that Silly John Lydon up there, done up like my granny!), and while I know that it is often pleasant to point at the media and say Look, the Left - I think there is just as much reason to point at it and say Look, the Corporations!

Although since saving the Queen has been out of fashion for longer than I've been alive I have to think there may be bonds less nation-state sounding that have been worn through more recently that we could worry about, and whatever those bonds should be, if we were to agree to worry about them being broken I would think it were more reasonable to accuse multinational corporations of destroying them than a powerless political viewpoint. Or, if we were to choose a political viewpoint as the chief source of our woes, then choose one with more power at the moment - such as The Right.

on edit: however I didn't downvote you although your on edit about truth at the end did put it right on the border. Because who really knows what the truth is.
you gotta be a special kind of piece of crap to do that now
My wife ordered a monitor since she is now wfh indefinitely and only has a small macbook- It originally said April 21st but showed up on our door about 2-3 days later like our other shipments do. Its possible that they may have reclassified a monitor to the "essential" category but my feeling was that they are bluffing a bit- or maybe just trying to under promise, but in reality things are arriving in typical timeframes.
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Wealthy investors trading in the market is an indicator out of several indicators to consider.
Programmer art at it's finest. I think the idea is functionality over presentation though, just look at the sites most GNU projects are hosted on.
First, that's a conjecture. It assumes that uncrewed ships will be safer. (Eg, it may end up colliding into other ships more often.)

Second, you don't know what you are talking about, because there's no way to get "vastly fewer ships".

There are some four million fishing vessels, of which 1.3 million are decked and about 40,000 of them are longer than 24 meters (over 100 tons). These are not going to be uncrewed because we haven't automated fishing.

According to the CIA factbook at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... there are 16,406 vessels in the world's merchant marine. Of those, over 1,722 (I stopped counting at Norway) are passenger or passenger/cargo ships which cannot be uncrewed.

Removing the crew from the 14,000 remaining ships is not going to "vastly" reduce the number of ships with crews that will need to be rescued. It will, on the other hand vastly reduce the number of ships with the capacity to help in an offshore rescue. (A commercial troll vessel with a crew of 4 doesn't have the extra safety equipment that a, say, Handymax bulk carrier carries, and can't handle the same weather conditions.)
I think Emacs and The GIMP look nice (though GIMP is somewhat unfortunate...).

DDD and EMMS are detailed but not nice looking.
I lived in short-term accommodation in Cape Town, South Africa for just over two years. The vast majority of my housemates were wealthy European girls "volunteering" or on an "internship" in "Africa", between 1-3 months at a time.

While none of them were bad people, in reality, it was a holiday for the majority of them. They were too young to have any real life skills or lessons to share or communicate. Those that did were simply not around for long enough to have any real impact. They all spent more time and money on sight-seeing, partying and South Africa's beaches than anything else.

This was an acceptable relationship for the organisations concerned because they were receiving money, but nobody had any illusions about whether there was meant to be a more productive relationship. The reality is, in these cases, it would have been more productive to just donate the money for the plane ticket, bars and sight-seeing directly to the organisation - but why would somebody do that when they can get a story to tell, and make themselves sound like mini-Mother Theresas? Let's face it, it's harder trying to get people to give you money if you give them nothing in return.

As I see it, the author of the article appears to be challenging people to ask themselves if they fit in the category you fall into (somebody with something to really offer), or the category I've described (somebody who naively thinks they can help; or somebody effectively going on holiday to an impoverished area in such a way that makes them feels less guilty about being rich while giving them a moral-superiority card to play when they're back home) - because there is a real social cost to this latter sort of self-serving volunteering.
Goes hand in hand with GNU software being some of the clunkiest and most awkardly engineered UNIX software out there.
> The problem is that engineers, including the people here, hate elegance.

... and all the year I considered myself an engineer ;) What am I if I love elegance?
lines are parallel in parallel logo. it is a trick
Or tons of effort into producing streamlined and technically efficient software.
Programming and research are an expectations game. Your manager neither knows what you do or how long it might take. My manager once had to write my status report because I was so busy.He was a good manager but revealed himself to be totally clueless about what I was doing.Thereafter I became extremely serious and a bit paranoid about my status reports.

Necessarily a manager evaluates you by whether the product works or it doesn't and is on time or late. You are evaluated against management expectations. The more that they expect,the worse you do. Because expectations are typically unrealistic,you can get a fine reputation for perfunctory but consistently on time work.

Decrease early expectations to do well. During project planning be pessimistic and extreme humble. Programing and research have very high product and deadline risk. For each project have a contract with your manager that identifies the main risks, and accept responsibility for only what you can do something about. Your professional self management will impress your manager, but he will hate the uncertainty.
Presumably the "real" auth will be at the end of the project, which means it could still fail. This is also the case with kickstarter projects right now - typically a few % of your pledges fail and you can't collect the money from them.
Great idea! But why don't we make it simple? I just made Open Google Docs List, put your HN name,link and twitter link.

Fell free to join the list everybody is welcomed, no carma points are required.

Here is the link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApUjBkHSxmB1dHdMdlN...
Toast, great advice, thanks for sharing. How do you estimate how much to charge for a project? I'm more of a designer than a coder (though I can technically do both), and I'm always seeing price estimates all over the board on craigslist and other places. Any advice on this?
In my experience the type of exercise matters a lot: after my average cycling training (50-100km) my legs are hurting but I feel more energetic and awake.
Mostly it results in staying up later than normal.
At about 12:47 into the video he mentions that the makeup exam will be open 51 hours.

The duration of the test might mean that students can leave and come back (or even take the test at home). If that's the case and students are looking up the answers from the test bank (as opposed to memorizing them all ahead of time), then I'd definitely lean more towards it being cheating.
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That isn't related to the issue at all. On Linux, you can have a TPM + Secure Boot + Full-Disk Encryption setup with the TPM schematics all open and you will have your SSD bound to your system similarly, which is good security practice.
It's a cliché of this ideological topic, and therefore flamebait, guaranteed to provoke a shallow, repetitive argument. That's what we're asking people not to get into here. Shallow, repetitive arguments are boring.

If you'd like to "challenge popular notions" in some more interesting way, that of course is fine.
I think the paradox of programming is that it's easy for some people to learn, and prohibitively difficult for others, and we don't know why. If you think something "special" makes it possible to learn programming, like high intelligence, math, abstract thinking, whatever, you will meet people who lack those things and are getting along just fine as programmers.

In my view, programming is easy, doing something useful with programming is as hard as the thing you're doing with it, such as software development. When programming is hard, it's because of the things that generally make hard things hard, in or out of programming: Complexity, domain knowledge, shifting technology landscape, organizational management, etc.

The thing that makes software development stand out is the degree of complexity that it allows for.

An indication that software development is hard, is the number of books and debates on trying to manage it.

Disclosure: I've been programming for 40+ years, but am not a software developer.
Yeah I really think the most accessible and closest analogy is to writing. Everybody writes, few write professionally.
If you do the standup the way it's supposed to be done, it'd be quicker and easier to just send an email. Assuming you've got people who can read and write intelligibly, which is a big if.

The biggest thing that I hate about standups is that it ends up being the de facto start of the work day. If you're supposed to start work at 9am, you can't do the standup at 9AM, because a third of the people who are supposed to be there will be running late any given day. So you do it at 9:30, or 10:00, or, god help you, at 10:30. And then it just works out that you can't actually do any real work in the morning with that hanging over you, so you diddle around doing email, or everybody just starts planning on getting to the office five minutes before the standup is scheduled to start. And then it's just a big waste of time because nobody has read their email or thought about what they are supposed to be discussing, and you start getting pressure behind your eyes and the irrepressible urge to scream.
> You do not pay the government VAT. You collect VAT on purchases on the governments behalf, that amount was never yours in the first place.

While technically true from the legal and accounting point of view, but from economic point of view one could argue that there would be one market price level without VAT (p0), and current market price level with VAT (p1, p1+vat). Then real effect of VAT on consumers is (p1+vat-p0) and on providers is (p0-p1).
It's the serum level of activated vitamin D that matters, not your intake which may not even be absorbed properly. (You need to have sufficient magnesium for instance).

That there will be large variations in outcome is indicated by this conclusion from Nutrients 2020, 12, 1268

In 238 healthy adults (18-64; 50% male,female) screened for serum 25-OH-VitD concentration "two months of treatment with 25 µg (1000 IU) daily was not sufficient to assure recommended serum 25-OH-vitD levels in all subjects"
It's killing me slowly right now. I got hired in the middle of the pandemic and I think just 6 people even know I exist. I've spent more time talking with HR than my team members. Not for what you think, I respond to their emails and chats so we get along great. My team is mostly on DnD, no idea what their working on and emails take 24-48 hours to respond.
Thanks, I wonder if that is origin of the usage..
> Why not every other politician? They are all the same.

Please elaborate.
You have to look at the item IDs to be sure. Timestamps get temporarily adjusted by the second-chance pool. Sorry for the confusion! It would be nice to find a solution without confusion but doing it this way is the local optimum so far.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169818
I think you and I agree with respect to what problems can be solved with software here, but this does nothing to help with:

- existing solutions that were bought for HUGE amounts of money by a VP who doesn't want to look like he made a wrong choice

- entrenched personnel who will go out of their way to multiply paperwork and invent reasons to avoid being automated

- managers who insist on secrecy and wish to distort information to suit their own personal goals

You can have the leanest, tightest, most brilliant piece of software to run an enterprise and be powerless against these kinds of forces. People suck.
I didn't suggest it was a hypothetical. But I wanted to be clear that its not like you double the size of a not l33tifi36 dictionary. Rather it becomes 100x larger. And depending on how many l33t variants you supports several thousand times larger.
Adding the "api" parameter is also useful if you want to copy the URL to someone else. So you can write such things as: http://sa.column80.com/?q=1860&api=77 Now it is a URL that can be copied to someone else that is not on the same session.
I think it's first time this year I heard about the end of IPs. Such news tend to come out every few months. Quite often for a thing that won't have such a big impact on "normal" people...
Parking tokens(or arcade tokens) shouldn't have any issues.

They aren't issued for general currency like coins are, they are used to redeem a specific service provided by the people issuing the tokens.

In that way, their redeemable value never changes. A parking token means that you will be able to park in a space for a certain amount of time, no matter how much they are work in terms of actual currency.
The FBI press release[1] says that they've shut down all the sites' bank accounts too, so you're unlikely to be able to pull your money out.

I selfishly hope they go after everybody with money on any of those sites, because it might generate more outrage than just the domain name seizures.

[1]: http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2011/manhattan-u.s...
According to the 'reference site' [1]

"Disney Dollars DO NOT expire. The oldest bill from 1987 can still be used today. As they are worth real money. They also may be exchanged back for the U.S. Dollars or purchased using the same.

They may used to pay for anything that can be normally paid for with cash including the following locations: (only Disney locations)"

They are exactly like casino chips, which is to say that within the Disney properties they can be used equivalently to cash, and even converted back into cash.

Given the Las Vegas experience however, I suspect that people in and around Orlando or other Disney locations, who aren't associated with Disney, should not accept them in lieu of cash.

One of the parallels to remember, the Secret Service wasn't going after the casinos for their chips, they were going after people who accepted them as cash even though they had no business relationship with the casino.

[1] http://disneydollars.net/where_can_disney_dollars_be_used.ht...
This is actually an interesting idea to me. Forgive me for not being very knowledgeable about the DNS, so if somebody could correct me, I would appreciate it.

What happens if people start selectively paying attention to the ICANN root servers? For instance, my computer is set to use google's DNS. What happens if the DNS admins at google decide that they're going to just ignore the update from ICANN?

And what happens if there is a second-tier DNS that crops up specifically to thwart attempts at messing around with the records? (Honestly, domains being 'seized' should be treated like faulty equipment. If a drive starts bailing out, you replace it. To me, it sounds like the US gov't's ability to modify the DNS at their will is a click-of-death on the DNS)
Not even that. I believe the servers for the Amsterdam stock exchange are in Basildon.
It's a view that I once held and it's easy to agree with reflexively because it appears correct at a surface level.

Poor white people hearing about "white privilege" does alienate them, it implies they've failed even with a kind of starting advantage and can be taken as an invalidation of the hardships they face. Rather than inviting them to be empathetic to the additional issues faced by others it instead prompts them to be defensive of their own difficulties.

When GP frames the issue as one of income inequality and not racial inequality, he's partially correct. On the surface it is an income inequality problem, but for the black community that income inequality is the result of wealth inequality that is itself a product of historic racism.

The same goes for the wage gap which he's dismissive of. The usual argument here is that women simply choose lower paid work. But if we look past that surface level analysis there are still issues with employers not wanting to hire women because they think they might get pregnant, underpaying them because they're less likely to complain, or whether the types of work performed by women should be lower paid in the first place.
Your argumentation ignores that Google had to invest money to test for another browser, which may be more than the money they can make on adverts to Opera users. This has nothing to do with any supposed problems in Operas js handling (which I've never noted ... for me the js works just fine in Opera and disallowing js to handle the right mouse button is a great feature), but is a simple cost-benefit analysis.
Whether digital or analogue, it can take a great deal of work to make a print from a negative. Ansel Adams work was largely made in the darkroom process, manipulating the image heavily - and he was fantastic at it.
I think if they would be further away from each other it would be less of a problem.
This is just official confirmation that they don't care -I wonder why they did it... if you want to be silent just keep doing what you've been doing so far: ignoring the reports.
Many developers know that many important bugs remain open after many months and Google doesn't care at all, but the average Joe has no idea.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs
* I'll make the duration selector better, so that you get a drop down of 15 min intervals, but also you can type out an exact duration if you want to.

* Yup, I'll fix that.

* The todo list idea is on my todo list (haha, see what I did there?). Thanks for the suggestion!
Ah, those are different faint lines ;)

The forecast lines don't currently have tool tips, but the averages do. Will add.

(I'm one of the devs on the site)
It appears to be locked to the vertical black pole next to the middle of the bike frame.
They had 'smart' versions of bombs and missiles back in 91. They just didn't have GPS guided ones/cheap guided munitions. They have both now (with cheap in a relative term).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paveway
all told OS X and iOS combined only comes to something like 3000 engineers

That sounds about right. For Win7 about 2500 engineers (1000 devs, 1000 testers, 500 PMs). I suspect WP7 is probably 500 engineers. So Windows + WP7 is probably right around the same number.

Interesting to think that in terms of products where Apple and MS compete directly, they probably have very similar headcounts. There's a mythology that MS is this huge beast that will crush you (at least in the past). But in reality MS ships 100+ different products. The company is spread a lot thinner than lay people might imagine.

http://www.pc-wholesale.com/networking-news-a-small-army-of-...
I've been using CakePHP on an existing project (Cake was already in use) and it does not completely suck. It provides the normal, useful MVC abstractions, an interesting way of integrating non-Cake libraries, and decent updates (on the 1.2.10 release as of last week).

Having said that, Cake does not enforce separation of business and display logic like the Django templating language does. Unfortunately, my predecessor took great advantage of this, defeating much of the purpose of MVC.

All in all, I like Django better, but CakePHP gets the job done.
I doubt anybody really expected the DNT header to actually stop anything.

Sometimes there is value in stating your position clearly, and the DNT header provides a standard, unambiguous way of doing that. It is a lot harder to claim that your users wanted tracking as a "feature" (or that asking their opinion was to difficult or impossible) when lots of of the HTTP requests have a header that explicitly states users' opinion.