jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Have employer/employee relationships always been so squeezed, so antagonistic, that the aspirational message included "living off dividends from your stonks" and "leanFIRE" because the only thing worth aspiring to is getting out from wage slavery? It can't be a healthy economy when so much of the public discussion is how unpleasant work is, and not because the work itself is bad, but because the management/expectations/timekeeping/etc. is?

Medical staff, obviously in COVID times, basically any retail worker, basically any callcenter worker, anyone in an Enterprise company as per the film Office Space, people working anything from agriculture to factory work to Amazon warehouses, to delivery drivers timed for the amount of seconds they can step out of the van at each stop, to developers hating on unreasonable expectations of delivery time and price, to takeovers and downsizing leaving fewer people with more work, to individual craftspeople expected to compete on price with mass manufacture, to ridiculous job hopping advice (change jobs every 18 months, never don't be applying for jobs!) to decreases in loyalty and trust.

The aspirational messages have shifted from "thank God you have food for the day" to "own a home" to "get a stable job" to "a gold watch for long service and a pension" to "flip houses for money or rental income" to "desperately try to get rich quick and get out". And then what else is there but escapism with Lamborghinis and stories?
Sooo... DRM with blockchain?
meh, just buy more fans. Also, putting a filter coming in will significantly reduce the amount of dust that your fans and other parts suck in
I’m a big fan of the LiFePO4 chemistry. Super Cheap per kWh, abundant raw materials, extremely long cycle life (even without state of the art manufacturing), and usually a lot more stable and much less likely to start on fire. If you want to DIY a lithium battery pack, LiFePO4 is the least suicidal way to do it.

I see LiFePO4 as enabling Africa to electrify quickly and cheaply. It’s feasible to hook up solar panels to an inverter/charger, a cheap and/or DIYed LiFePO4 battery pack, and combine it with a backup generator to have affordable (less than 15¢/kWh... potentially a LOT less) and (just as important) consistent power without needing access to the grid and that’s like 95% carbonfree.
Yes, it is odd that many who deem shaming an effective strategy where smoking is concerned deem it ineffective and counter-productive for obesity, narcotic addition, and other undesirable behaviors.
How do Super Singles deal with punctured tires? I'd think one advantage of dual tires is that if one pops, there's a higher likelihood of the truck remaining drivable?
> Apple also insists that you must use their payment services, you can't use a competitor's.

Yes, you can. Put your app on Android. Done.
This is great news, but aren't there bigger fish to fry with really supporting node.js & npm on Windows? The 255 character path limit bug has been around for a long time and still unresolved/broken on Windows (see https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6960 and https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/5641). Suggestions to fix it on the Windows side have been closed too: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi... Would be nice for people to stop throwing it around like a hot potato and fix it for good. Although it sounds like an edge case, it's actually really common for some libraries to his this limit and be unusable on Windows.
Rison (specifically O-RSON) is a great solution to this problem. We use it in production and have done so for a couple years now, and it's served us very well to address this problem.
> "Perhaps though Ivanovic should have known better than to publicly promote his Android-first launch. This was tantamount to badmouthing Apple in the press."

What. No, it's not. Sure Apple can try and "hide" behind that, but that doesn't change it's a totally unreasonable interpretation of "run to the press and thrash us".
Yes, I had the same reaction in terms of "curse" and "recourse". I think this is a very strange name. And I don't find it particularly nice to say even, due to the double "ess" sound in the middle.
Reg A may even be better than Title III because it’s about allowing the public to invest alongside sophisticated investors into large deals.
Ubuntu runs also on proprietary drivers.
If the hardware vendor stops to maintain the proprietary driver or binary blob the hardware could become obsolete very quickly, although it runs fine hardware wise.
My 11yr old Nokia N900 runs absolutely fine hardware wise. It also could run a new linux kernel, but some drivers are proprietary and can not be updated. What a waste.
Idk bro the cpu microcode from intel is closed source. How can you live with that
Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod made an amazing educational television series called Secret Life of Machines in the UK from '88 to '93 that many of you may be familiar with. They're all about how different household machines work, in great entertaining detail. I first discovered it on YouTube a few years ago, and it still holds up today. Here's[1] a list of the episodes on his website.

Rex Garrod died a couple of years ago[2], but Tim Hunkin still occasionally puts out short videos on his YouTube channel, mostly about the arcade machines he makes for his two arcades. But he hasn't done any long-form content for a while, which is why I was excited to see that he's made a new series called The Secret Life of Components that he will be releasing on March 4, 2021. The linked video is a trailer for it, and it's made in very much the same style as The Secret Life of Machines.

[1]: https://www.timhunkin.com/control/n_tv_index.htm

[2]: https://www.timhunkin.com/a229_rex.htm
They may be wondering if the BIOS is FOSS.

E.g. LibreBoot https://libreboot.org/

> Non-free BIOS/UEFI firmware often contains backdoors, can be slow and have severe bugs. Development and support can be abandoned at any time.
I love it - but the patent-anything crew (IBM, Intel, etc.) would throw all their money at that. Maybe at least a percentage of total patents after the first 10 invalid ones, or something similar?
I dislike the patent system, and I also dislike dishonesty - but could it have been possible that the person accused might have stumbled across the same solution independently?
If you lined up all the words contained in US law, the median word would be health care related, that has to matter for something. Also AMA enforced under supply of specialists. Also direct and indirect costs of health care liability. Also requiring hospitals to serve the ER without regard to ability to pay. Also low reimbursement rates for medicare, lower for medicaid. Also third party payment system that makes consumers price insensitive. Also huge overhead to third party payment system. Also enormously expensive FDA approval process recovered through drug costs. Also service business in a high wage country. Any others for the list? I don't mean to be totally negative, we get a lot of good things out of all that inefficiency, but it doesn't surprise me that quality can be higher and costs an order of magnitude lower under a different regulator regime.
Articles like this define corporate or national peaks.

In 1986 IBM recorded the largest profit ever recorded by any corporation in the the history of the world. Nothing would ever be able to compete with IBM. The media was in a swoon about how amazing IBM was. But IBM was already losing ground in the PC market, and they were losing ground in electronics to the Japanese. In 1993 IBM was struggling to avoid bankruptcy.

Circa 1991/1992 there were articles about how Japan was taking over the world and nothing could ever compete with them because they were relentless. But the early 90s marked the beginning of global retreat for many Japanese companies (with a few exceptions, like Toyota).

In the late 90s nothing could stop Microsoft, yet the late 90s marked the beginning of the era when Microsoft's momentum began to fade.

Somewhere around 2006/2007 Google was the most perfect collection of human beings that had ever thought to work together and nothing anywhere, ever, would ever be able to even conceive of an idea that could compete with Google.

In 2010 Facebook is an unstoppable juggernaut and nothing will ever be able to match the unbelievable genius that runs this organization.

In 2014 MingaMingaYXZ corp is run not by mortals like you and me, but by people so inhumanly smart they must really be gods that have temporarily taken human form.

Then in 2016 we will be told that MingaMingaYXZ secretly had problem abc the whole entire time, and so they never really had what they needed to compete against ZunkZunk corp.

Around that time, the media will tell us that ZunkZunk corp is, of course, run by people of such incomparable brilliance that aliens from the future travel back in time to beg for advice to deal with the problems they face a million years from now.
The war on curlies is over, curlies lost.

Good to see new languages improving upon syntax, readability is key and a great way to gain adoption. As Norvig said, it is easier for him to explain an algorithm in python than any other language. Well, now CoffeeScript has just passed that test too.

Brendan Eich is also adapting many good things from CoffeeScript to JS.next, validating the point that coffee, in its short life, has been able to influence other great language designers.

And that says a lot about CoffeeScript and its potential.
The DMCA was put in place to deal with the copyright issue, so Amazon was covered. No one could hold them liable for copyright infringement.

The putting innocent people in danger argument, if they really made that argument, is a ridiculous standard. Almost anything can put innocent people in danger.
That is an astounding thing to say. I can not think of anyone that I know personally who thinks that death is a good thing. Can I ask what country you are in, and what religion and/or spiritual tradition, or philosophical tradition, are you arguing from?
There's perverse incentive for them to allow drugs into their prisons if they benefit when inmates fail drug tests.
That sentence is interesting:

"They are certainly the longest-lived mammals on the planet. Indeed, they may be the longest-lived complex animals of any sort."

I wish I had the money to follow up on that. Of the long-lived vertebrate species (I mean the ones that can live in excess of 200 years) most seem to be at least occasionally exposed to high pressures in the deep sea (off hand, the only exception I can think of is land-based turtles, who also live a long time yet, as far as I know, never face deep sea pressures).

At this point there is a substantial literature suggesting health benefits, to humans, from hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Certainly, HBO seems to be an effective treatment for insulin resistance. This raises the question, is it the pressure, or the oxygen, or both, that creates the health benefit?

I can imagine arguments in both directions. Possibly the pure oxygen creates oxidative stress which then brings forth a response, as Wikipedia writes here (on a page about calorie restriction):

"Although aging can be conceptualized as the accumulation of damage, the more recent determination that free radicals participate in intracellular signaling has made the categorical equation of their effects with "damage" more problematic than was commonly appreciated in years past. It was previously proposed on a hypothetical basis that free radicals may induce an endogenous response culminating in more effective adaptations which protect against exogenous radicals (and possibly other toxic compounds).[49] Recent experimental evidence strongly suggests that this is indeed the case, and that such induction of endogenous free radical production extends life span of a model organism and mitohormetically exerts life extending and health promoting effects. Sublethal mitochondrial stress with an attendant stoichiometric augmentation of reactive oxygen species may precipitate many of the beneficial alterations in cellular physiology produced by caloric restriction."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction

But pressure can lead to the increase of a wide range of chemical reactions, and probably increases the activity of various enzymes. This is the angle that I think has not seen much research, and which I wish I had money to dive into myself. For instance, does resveratrol become more efficient when under pressure? Or when in a pure oxygen environment?
>Truly, to combat his assertion, you should find statistical evidence to show that his anecdotes are actually contrary to the trend.

It is never my responsibility to disprove any assertion, as that is fundamentally impossible. It is the responsibility of the person making the assertion to provide a sufficient quantity of relevant evidence.
Well it at least seems to verify discs now.
Geeks like us would understand that, but regular users (especially for Facebook) would be utterly confused. Any better ideas?
Do you have any additional details about this possible memcached replacement?
I second the need for a good CRUD example. Also "clear" instructions on running NODE on Windows would be a big help.
If you are in the Bay Area check out Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. If you want, you can think of it as a coffee shop with

1) Free coffee. Open 24 hours.

2) Screens you can hook up if needed.

3) Other coffee drinkers who also hack.

4) Very fast internet connection.

5) Happy hour on Friday, when you need to lose the caffeine edge.

Guests are welcome. There is a box for voluntary suggested donation. Membership is $100 per month. Remember the "no free cup of coffee" theorem. :)
Long division is a bad example, as you don't need to know long division... for well... anything.

But I did SAT tutoring when I was an undergrad for disadvantaged kids and I used to have serious trouble with a lot of basic concepts that made it really hard to go further.

For example:

1) Some students didn't understand greater than vs less than symbols. They didn't know which direction indicated greater than.

2) Some students didn't know the relationship between the numerator and denominator. 3/2 and 2/3 would be routinely confused. Couple this confusion with (1) above and things get really weird.

3) Area, volume, circumference -- while they knew the concepts they didn't map the terms to the concepts.

4) The relationship between remainders and fractional parts was often completely unknown.

5) Percent to values often wasn't known. "60% off sales" often meant a bit more than half off. The right intuition, but you need an actual answer for the SAT.

You're right, math is not linear. But if you only understand 50% of what is taught in elementary and junior high school, you're going to understand even less in high school.
I read in Esquire or Wired or somewhere (I'm having trouble finding the source online) that smells change our perception of time. Baby powder slows down time for us. Coffee beans speed it up. Perhaps we frequent coffee shops to get work done, because we want the work or workday to get done faster.
recur isn't tail-optimized by the JVM. It's converted by the Clojure compiler into a loop.
It's basically just a web browser with some tweaks for convenient offline Google Docs. You can unlock a full shell and download some decent editors (Caret is one that I've used), if you want to do JS or Python development. Unfortunately the third-party package manager ("chromebrew") does not have a very robust offering, so you're pretty limited in what you're able to do. You can try building binaries yourself but you'll need to build your toolchain as well.
I would wait until I actually try the product instead of calling quits. And jQuery/Backbone is not an infested nightmare MVC. It's beautiful modular javascript.
They increased pricing by $100/$200 for 24/32 core CPU since last year. May be it's not ridiculous, but they are not undercutting anymore.
Yes, but when the server does not send the token as cookie the only option is to store it with JavaScript. And yes, that also means (any) JavaScript can access the token.
Thanks for the link. I appreciate the work and the backend detail.
I guess I just don't know what you're saying then. It's easy to make money if you already have it? Maybe in terms of quantity, but in terms of % return i don't feel the ease of producing a return is really super linear or logical.
It would be interesting to make a unionization app for tech workers, too. Something like blind where you can share your salary history, insider stories, etc, and use it for leverage when negotiating salary. The one thing I don't like about blind is that most of the discussions are very low quality, but you could fix that by disabling the discussion part, focusing on salary data, and perhaps company reviews (like Glassdoor) anonymously.
If you want a campsite in a major national park you need to look up when they are released (normally 3mo in advance) and wake up at exactly 6:59am and get your trigger finger ready or you really don't stand a chance.

I just wish there was a "calmer" way. The experience of exploring our national parks should be an escape from our hectic every day lives. That begins with getting a place to sleep.
Yeah, on an 8 core thats 100% utilization of one of the cores...
What about bot-throttling heuristics and captchas for suspected ones?

They seem to have captchas down to an art in every other context...
Most what steam offers is game related, but the categories they have are rather broad, one of them being "utilities".
The EPA had an annual budget in 2015 of $8B. So let's say they overpaid 2x for the furniture, and we fix that. Now we've saved ~.6% of their overall budget. Nowhere near enough to run the country on 1% taxes.

Articles like that are the definition of outrage inducing bike shedding.
How to determine if the passenger has a service dog?
Neat! FYI the blog link in the footer of https://housestockwatcher.com/ is broken.
Red Bull operates under a fundamentally different principle than other brands. Other brands look for something to sponsor that aligns with their brand ideals or image. Red Bull creates the sponsorship opportunities for their brand. In doing so, Red Bull creates a) a much deeper connection with the activities and athletes they sponsor, and b) creates a brand that feels far more genuine than simply slapping their name on something.

The result is not something that's "brought to you by" or "in partnership with". The sponsorships, the teams, the athletes; they _are_ Red Bull. That sort of identity has an incredible connection, and one that can drive it's own revenue in addition to driving fizzy drink sales.
JetBrains does about $300M annual revenue, and a substantial portion of that is from Linux users. Clearly people on Linux do pay for desktop apps if they offer enough value.
I can recommend the bootlin course to get started with kernel development. https://bootlin.com/training/kernel/

Additionally, I often use new drivers "published" on Phoronix as example. They are often quite simple. The complexity usually lies in the reverse engineering the hardware, not really in the driver development.

E.g. for the apple magic mouse: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Ma...

And for corsair PSUs: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Co...
The Supreme Court is the court of last resort. They'd have to start over with some new argument, and if they had a better one I imagine they would've pulled it out by now.
Well, it's also true that the liberalization of the later versions of the BSD license (removing the advertising clause) was at least in part a result of FSF pressure. But that wasn’t what I meant. I had thought that the early BSD releases were under the four-clause BSD license — but you needed the AT&T Unix source code to compile them.

However, this turns out not to be the whole story at all. I tried rooting around in http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD without any success at finding a 4BSD license. http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.htm... has Kirk McKusick’s recollection of the history of the licensing; up to at least 4.3BSD-Tahoe in 1988 it’s talking about “site licenses” rather than free-software licenses, and all the recipients needed AT&T licenses as well. It wasn't until the NET-1 release ("the networking tape") in 1989 that what we know as the BSD license existed, and it wasn’t until the NET-2 tapes in 1991 — largely impelled by Bostic — that there was anything like a complete free BSD OS.

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html talks about how Bostic credits Stallman with inspiring him to care about software freedom.
"These switch off above 25 MPH or so, so they don't contribute to freeway noise."

Ugg. So they only contribute to the destruction of the street-level soundscape to the detriment of walkers, cyclists, sidewalk cafes, and birds.
There are many services of this kind. Some (like Western Union, MoneyGram and Ria) have agents all over the world. Others are specific to certain corridors, often serving a specific diaspora. There's also the hawala system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala).

None of these options are free or close to free.
VT-d is an I/O MMU: it does address space translation for DMA. In a virtualization scenario it enables DMA between real peripherals and virtual machines. In a security context it means you can control which parts of memory a malicious peripheral can DMA to, instead of granting it access to the full physical address space. In a more general OS driver context, it means that you don't have to worry about reserving low memory addresses for doing DMA with devices that only support 32-bit addressing.
There are over 100,000 employees at DOJ, and it would be an extraordinary claim to suggest that enough of them are corrupt to make this kind of corruption routine. It might be true, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Note that because of selection bias, links to Brady stories probably don't constitute "extraordinary" evidence.
Maybe the time has come for someone to write a "pidgin for music streaming services", a wrapper client with playlists and search that jumps between all your subscribed services depending on track availability :P
I've often wondered why OCaml isn't more popular. There was a time when it utterly dominated the various benchmark games, both in brevity of code and in performance.

Of course, I never used it for anything, so I should probably ask myself why I never used it, knowing how concise it is and how fast it seems to be...
Actually, you can only publish if you're registered with one of four record labels: https://tidalsupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201167132...
Given two identical products for the same price with different levels of wear, it's only sensible to chose the less-worn item. It will almost certainly last longer for the same money.
I found this to be a great reminder of how far we've come in 16 years, but it's also a reminder of how little some of the basics have changed.

We still advocate going down to A lower language for the fast boys, but we can more or less forget about having to write ASM for all but the most complicated algorithms.

We still fight platform differences, and DirectX is still one of the most powerful and developer friendly frameworks.

Low level knowledge is still mocked by some individuals, yet C++ is still the God of graphics and video games.
Scala has learned from Scala's mistakes too. Scala 3 cleans up a lot of the mess that had accumulated over the years and is on the cusp of being rolled out this month.
Yeah, that is deal-breaker. I have Caps-Lock assigned to ^C and won't be moving that to Escape...
I liked podman for what I was working on with it. The only hangup I found was that it couldn't do networking related routing? Does anyone know more?