jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is awesome and should help reduce friction for SaaS business AND customers.

Is this feature pretty unique to Stripe or do competitors also have it?
People are not created equally. There is a heavy negative correlation between IQ and education, and fertility.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602....

"There were strong negative correlations found between national IQ and three national indicators of fertility."

In many parts of the world, the primary occupation has been, is, and forever will be - subsistence agriculture, with a typical IQ of the country in the 60s/70s. In these countries the fertility rate is ~6.0.

In many European and East Asian countries, responsible for essentially all of mankind's technological achievement over the past centuries, the fertility rate is typically 1.50 or lower.

As the age pyramid flips, more of the productive effort of these latter countries goes towards funding the welfare state, and the capacity for development and advancement is limited. The burden of maintaining this welfare state further diminishes fertility. Many countries are now in death spirals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance)

The idea that we should limit the taxation of families - the fundamental basis of civilization - is totally valid.
A nitpick: "Lua". It is not an acronym.
As mentioned in the link. Those are not equivalent because the != operator can be overloaded. I believe this is a less verbose version of

if(Object.ReferenceEquals(person, null))
Give me a dedicated office with a door that can shut, allow me to commute during off-peak rush hours, and raise my pay or shorten my work hours for the same rate... then we will talk about coming back in.

Currently:

I have an dedicated office at home, I can shut my door and work when I need to be distraction free. I don't have my head pinched by headphones for hours, and I can work in silence like I prefer. No coworkers interrupting me when I'm in the zone.

I've saved between 8-10 hours per week in not commuting. Worse, I've had bosses who enjoy flexing by having meetings promptly at 8am, where you have to leave extra early because you travel at peak rush hour.

I don't have to keep up appearances when I'm done with my work for the day or moment. If I'm waiting for responses or reviews, I can veg out, watch Netflix or play a video game, while staying on top of my email and work load. I've also taken to getting some of my house work done during this time. Laundry, mowed grass, exercise, lots of little things that used to get stacked up on the weekend.

I never have to eat off my diet, or feign excuses for not wanting to eat another office provided carb loaded meal. I stock my own foods, and have a hot meal for lunch everyday.

Finally, I don't have to smell the 2 smokers that spend a couple of hours smoking every single day nor do I have to sit next to someone with questionable personal hygeine. Yes Richard, you smell awful, and stink up half the office with your body odor and cigarettes.
> "Only if you already have decided that this is the conclusion you want to reach"

That is not a very charitable interpretation of my comment.

I don't draw the conclusion because I want to. I draw the conclusion because I've studied the texts in great detail.

> "Jesus states that he hands Peter the keys to heaven, which following this logic then turns Peter into God."

Only if you haven't studied the texts in great detail. If you have, you'll recognize the parallel to Isaiah 22 -- Eliakim taking over Shebna's role, not as king, but as palace administrator. That's very different from the role Jesus claims in Matthew 7.

> "Jesus instructs his followers to forgive sins, which according to your logic turns them all into God."

Again, you're missing some nuance. The Lord's Prayer mentions forgiving sins "against us". I can forgive sins against me and you can forgive sins against you. In Mark 2, Jesus claims to forgive sins against God, which is why the crowd considers it blasphemous.

Again, these sorts of claims permeate all four gospels. They're things that, if you have a thorough grasp of the Old Testament, jump out of the text. But if you're not that interested in the details, you might totally miss it (and, to reverse your uncharitable take on my position: if you have already decided Jesus makes no divinity claims, you can surely rationalize it all away.)
It was free in Iraq under Saddam, paid for with oil revenues.
No one says that there are no problems. The world is chock full of problems. But, from a long-term historical perspective, the problems we face today are relatively minor. And more importantly, fewer people live in abject poverty and more people are wealthier and healthier than ever before. IMO, this is a good thing.
I actually posted both this and the non-link-baity version at the same time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799505

It was kind of an experiment to see which one would be upvoted more. Can't say I'm surprised at the result.
Might the === comparison be faster, since the underlying JavaScript engine doesn't need to determine how the two types should be cast back and forward to be compared?
>While it might take a hundred hours to do a restore of a normal car Tesla can swap a pack, some body panels, electronics and interior in a days labor.

Any source for this?

I spend some time on the Tesla forums. There are threads of people get into minor collisions and receiving estimates of 100+ hours of labour to replace some front end parts and paint, along with bills over $20,000[1][2].

So, I don't think it's as simple to replace these parts as you suggest.

[1]http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/26326-Cost-of-...

[2]http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/39325-Owning-a...
Don't you love government regulation of the market until it affects something I want to buy?
I wonder how sensitive these forms of life that live in such hostile conditions are to climate change. Perhaps in the future, we will farm them for food once the oceans acidify.
I've always said that my lack of desire to play ping pong or sit in the office beanbag chair has no relevance to my ability to deliver value. "Culture" isn't ping pong and a beer fridge; unfortunately many companies in the startup world think that it is.
Yea that sounds like tough situation, i went through it and its impossible to focus even when you aren't tending to the toddler.

> Should I consider giving up my position as lead to someone who has no children during this crisis?

Yea if you think this is a vaible possibility with your employer. I would say, do this for sure.
One of my colleagues has an emacs flow to quickly land him in a new “experiment” project. He’s on backend, and I’m on iOS. I’ve used Swift Playgrounds for iOS a few times which is nice, but I never liked Xcode playgrounds as much. Most often I’ll just create a new test case in an app’s unit testing suite to do my experiment. This doesn’t work as well for UI experimentation, though. Usually I iterate right on the actual UI of my app, but it could definitely be worthwhile doing a simpler thing on its own before moving into the full-fledged existing UI. Certainly would help when filing a bug with Apple when they ask for a sample project...
The sort of crash looping that took down their nodes is one of the parts of OTP that I’ve found to be both quite unintuitive and dangerous, for exactly the reasons described. There are controls for max retry attempts within a time window, but no obvious way from what I can tell to require a supervisor to halt rather than propagate a crash loop in a way that is easily auditable. This has caused me bad failures as well, and I’d be curious to hear what others are doing here. It’s not that it’s a hrs problem to solve, but that it’s an easy thing to overlook.
I love this entire blog! I learned about it when another story—about the development of Aperature—was posted to HN a few weeks ago, and I've since read through every post. Great little peak inside of Apple.

I think my favorite, very short story might be: https://techreflect.net/2019/05/30/horsey/
The 2 week quarantine on incoming people, appears to be the only way to control the re-emergence of the virus, from external sources.

Three weeks is probably safer, but they can relax movement on the third week, and allow the person to move about, with active monitoring.

However, this will kill the tourism industry.

Another way, is they only allow entrance from other countries that are certified to also be virus-free. And which controls their borders from other uncertified countries, while maintaining an active health monitoring of the traveling person.

So much for being James Bond in this new age.
I think 5 years behind may be an exaggeration. People can read https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/tupperwar... and make up their own mind.
conclusory statement.

You got to ask, are our homes burning, our factories being bombed. Our skilled workers going to die?

Answer is no.

Only danger we face if we bring the hammer down and squash this is it'll upset the delicacy balanced system extracting passive rents from working class people.
I see that the company is based out of Winnipeg. I wonder if there's any startup incubator or "show and tell" events in that area.

I recently attended a Show & Tell in my small city of 25,000 people. The attendees included people active in the Business Improvement District and multiple small business owners (including the owner of 3 local bars). If Taiv was local, I'm sure every bar in the county would know about their product within a month.

Obviously, my small town is a fraction of the size of Winnipeg, but sometimes it's all about staying out there until you find yourself at the right place at the right time and surrounded by the right people.
> An SOS button app? This is a niche usecase.

Not at all. In fact, more and more emergency services providers (i.e. the callcenters where 911 gets you) get your location automatically when you call them. I'm not entirely sure though if they only geolocate by cellphone tower, or if the handset also sends location data along with the emergency call. I vaguely remember hearing about this being "supported by all modern phones" or something, so it might be the second. In this case, you absolutely don't want faked location data because it could cost lives.
On the other hand, "just might kill us all" is, not reasonable.
PredictionIO is built for the large scale recommender system based on Spark. But gorse is designed for datasets that fit a single PC. :D
You don't even need to purchase them. Anyone with a drill press can make them with impunity.
Pretty much.

I think it's difficult but there's almost no doubt that Yahoo would have people who understand the problem with security. The problem is, were they, and did they have the power to reign this in at scale?

All too often, you get risk people buying products then asking for all your logs, promising the easy silver bullet. Being a pessimistic engineer, you're unlikely to ever be near a leadership position with people who want easy answers.
If you run a nonprofit, what do you do if you have money left over at the end of the year? Why, you call it a surplus! (I was once told)
> They're also hesitant to ping coworkers and ask for screen sharing time because they can't sense if the more senior developers are working on something.

My team's solution is for one developer to just ping another when needed and if they don't reply for a while, they are busy. Don't be afraid to ask, but don't take a lack of a quick reply personally.

With Slack, whether they are currently working on something is not important. If they are busy, the message can just sit there until they have time.
GitHub Pages doesn't have to be written in .NET to use IdentityServer4 or any other implementation of OpenID Connect and OAuth2 whatever language it may be written in. Anyway, I'm not a fan of OpenID Connect because I personally think that it is overkill for most projects I work on. I was just wondering why Microsoft doesn't use the tech if they are pushing it so hard.

> "the general implementation is heavily inspired by this"
Inspired but flawed because they "rolled their own"
I could have written this rant. Excellent stuff :)

But, the thing is... programming is easy for some people. If your creative mind turns that way. Like "drawing is easy, anyone can do it", which is true provided you spend most of your waking life drawing. "Music is easy, anyone can do it" - again, true for some. Not for me, I'm almost tone deaf and have no sense of rhythm.

But programming is different from Software Development as a career, just like "drawing" is different from "commercial illustration". Being good (or successful) at Software Development doesn't necessary involve being good at programming.
Have you used osquery? Seems like a good chunk of what you’re looking for!

https://www.osquery.io/schema/4.7.0/
Many times, you don't know a team mate is working on something that you would like to know about, or indirectly concerns you, or that you have an insight your team mate never would have thought to ask you about, if not for the stand up.
Same here, it's maxing out 3 cores for me.
It should be noted that the risk for blood clots from birth control is much higher, yet seems to be within the bounds of what is acceptable.

Quick google search:

> Out of every 10,000 women taking birth control pills, 3 to 9 of them will develop a blood clot.

Also, for scale:

> Out of every 10,000 women in the first 12 weeks after giving birth, 40 to 65 of them will develop a blood clot.

https://www.healthline.com/health/birth-control/pulmonary-em...
Yes you are correct that unemployment insurance is taken out of a check, and paid in part by the company.

HOWEVER in many states, and the further republican/red it is, the more onerous it is to be granted it. It'd be a whole different story if it were really employment insurance". Much of the time, it's "unemployment insurance after 6-12 weeks if the systems to register you actually work, and you arent excluded for inane reasons, and you aren't later excluded for $reasons". And hope you can survive on what you have currently in the bank for the SLOW state procedures to give you a ruling.

Turns out, the state doesn't want to pay out just as much as insurance companies don't want to pay out.

And to counter your narrative, I've seen the state point at unemployed people the local state park as a temp job. When they took it (else they lost benefits), the temp job ended and were excluded from filing for unemployment since they knowingly took a temp job.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-states-unemployment-insu...
Everybody here posting on HN throughout the workday - whether you are in the office or working from home - is incredibly privileged, including myself.
Before I got paid to compute, I drove a forklift and unloaded floor-loaded ocean containers in 150F heat. I'm acutely aware that I'm spoiled to all hell.

Its too bad all students aren't required to perform 'real work' as part of their education.
Yeah this guy has it backwards. OSX is still a *nix. It's still open, and you can do more or less anything you would need with it.

It's the iOS devices that are locked down. The lock down was one of the major reasons i got a Nexus One instead of an iphone.

Protest Apple where their behavior is bad, not where their behavior is decent.
Inverted here. I was born in 1980 and just thought most people did it. Then I noticed more and more that I have the change the default settings in games. Now, when I play with my younger cousins, I have to change their settings. Funny how you don't even notice a little thing like mouse inversion, but it is 'impossible' for me to play without it!
So, I get it and all that, what are some real world use cases of this and the postgresql equivalent? Who's actually using these things for something other than saying how fast they are?

I just hope they aren't being used as public-facing JSON API endpoints and the such, since none of them seem to even consider the case of SQL injection. From a quick glance it doesn't seem that any type of parameterized query or prepared statements are available to even begin helping with that, and the "documentation" examples wouldn't be setting people off on the right foot by even limiting the location paths with strict regex's.
The Clojure folks are doing this with EDN:

https://github.com/edn-format/edn
This is great! It is pretty simple to setup and the output is much easier to understand than similar tools in my opinion.
Its pretty clear that whatever not having mandatory insurance does, it doesn't suddenly imbue consumers with the insight and skill to manage their deposits in a way that avoids widespread catastrophic bank failures and attendant losses. This has been tested in the real world.
Maybe in the industrialized world. Your frame is too small. Zoom out a bit. Put the entire 7B of us in the picture. Now, do you have a luxurious job? The answer is yes.
There is, however, evidence that FedGov can remotely activate webcams on some devices of their choosing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/fbis-searc...
The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations, said Marcus Thomas, former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico...
toseraccount, I know what you mean by 'barely usable'. I often find it hard to find programming related (as well as other things) on DDG. However, I do mostly use DDG. That shall give you some idea on how important privacy is to some people. They would rather have what you consider

'barely usable'

results than compromise privacy.

It is not so much that I am not willing to share stuff (even with the government). I used to run a small SaaS for a specific legal industry, and I was subpoenas by the attorney general's office. So I am well aware of the process and I do think in some cases, government do need access to our data to ensure security.

The difference is to ask for permission (court order and transparent due procedure) and have transparency. Maybe the big difference is the exercise of Power instead of Force.

And power is a word with many means, so to be rigorous, this is what I meant by power:

"Power means pretty much the same thing as freedom. Power is a thing that everybody wants the most they can possibly have of. That is, skiing is power, sex appeal is power, the ability to make yourself heard by your congressman is power. Anything that comes out of you and goes out into the world is power and in addition to that, the ablity to be open, to appreciate, to receive love, to respond to others, to listen to music, to understand literature, all of that is power. By "power" I mean human faculties exercised to the largest possible degree. So, in a way, in a large sense, by power I mean individual intelligence. Now when you reach out to another person through the energy or creativity that is in you and that other person responds, you are exercising power. When you make somebody else do something against their will, to me that is not power at all, that is force, and force to me is the negation of power." - Charles Reich

And Free Software (Free as in freedom) is a good real world exercise in power.
I agree,about our society, being too full of extremes, but the article doesn't change this at all. It's just more honest about what it takes to make it all the way to be a winner in - a lot of hard work and persistence and a willingness to ignore what everybody else tells you to do. It's not a new view of the way to success, but it is a great message which we have to be reminded of from time to time lest we forget it.
I am personally surprised by the number of proper names on there. Jennifer, Jordan, Michelle, Micheal. I know these are pretty common names (Jordan?) but when you figure the percentage of the population that would have these names, then the percentage of those that would use their name as a password (assuming they are using their name, and not for some other reason) then it's surprising that so many would make a top 50 list.
Given its popularity, do you really think Twitter is going to exit for less than $10B? Those exits are rare, but so is the position that Twitter is in.
How is it at all different than the old

AB/cd

you used to see at the end of letters typed by the secretary?
This is very sad. I would be glad if we can have site to expose those patent trolls. Browser plugin which automatically displays "Those are patent abusers, don't visit!" when you try to visit given url's would be even better. Maybe that would build some pressure to not use abusive claims.
Lots of things compete with twitter (and beat it by miles).

Instant messaging apps - AIM etc do far higher volume of messages. IRC does. Facebook does.

Sure, it's not apples for apples identical, but can you imagine ICQ being valued at this price?
Do you know how many people get taken in by phishing scams every day? Do you know how many people blindly click the top result for the search "facebook login" and assume it is Facebook's login page even when it's on a different domain? Do you know how many people even know what a Web browser is?

The answers to the above questions are, respectively: "A lot," "A huge number" and "Less than 8%, according to a Google survey."
Most doors and locks don't take much more than 30s to rake, and maybe a minute or two to pick.

This is true of the pin-tumbler and wafer-tumbler locks that are common in the US, and for that matter there are plenty of "locked" US doors that can be opened with a credit card; but in places that have crime, pin-tumbler locks are fairly unusual, at least for the doors of houses and businesses.
If you're curious what the source of the DDOS attacks are from, here is a recent one that hit OVH:

> This botnet with 145607 cameras/dvr (1-30Mbps per IP) is able to send >1.5Tbps DDoS. Type: tcp/ack, tcp/ack+psh, tcp/syn.

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/779297257199964160

This is much higher than the Akamai attack on Krebs too. Welcome to the wonderful side-effects of the totally insecure firmware of IoT...
Why is that bad? Most people probably wouldn't want their twitter account to be their most lasting legacy.
Before you voice an opinion it helps if you have the facts. What they did was write background stories on facebook news items to see if they could find corroborating news articles. Basically what every sane human should do when reading anything online. As for the statement that we are blessed: thanks.
Not really, there was traffic, but the profit was not so obvious as it is now in hindsight. Engaugement as a metric did not exist, not sure the term clickthrough did either. Investers were, in general, not the same people with the technical understanding to see this future.

There are similar areas of business today, transformative, and underfunded because the value is too far in the future for most investors.
I'm not saying they have to do anything. I'm just wondering why people on this thread are pretending it's anything except a code dump. Look at the Github mirror I've given above. All the commit messages are like this:

Imported from https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/xnu-4903.221.2.tar.gz

I mean, this is a response to an article that illustrates the severe limitations of Darwin as an operating system.
+1 to this. k3s is an extremely lean and simpler k8s. it is a fully certified k8s distro ..with backward compatibility code removed.

perfectly fine running on rpi or production.
The U.S. is not blameless in supporting money laundering through real estate:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-kle...
It`s a known fact for parents. Babies in the womb can hear and see many things actually.
I have to say applying the squint test to language design seems immensely confused to me.