jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I'm 34 and I didn't think it was banal at all.

Fair enough, for someone who is 34. Just make sure to read/listen/see ( if you can ) the works of people who are may have made astute observations of human nature a very long time back, even generations back. I'm talking about the likes of Aristotle, or a Carl Sagan, or a George Orwell, or a Woody Allen ( a comedian) etc. They all offer significantly more insight into human nature much more than PG can.

Ofcourse your limit might be PG at your age. And nothing wrong with that. I too will be banal by some standards. We all got to fine tune to our level of stupidly to the 'thought' leaders we are think are our heroes.
Ford? is there a listing of what companies own the largest blocks?

EDIT: just found it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
In my experience, an iPhone takes 2-4 weeks to get used to.
> At what point does a good faith disagreement become taboo?

It should be never.

Let's take your example. For sake of argument I'm going to make an argument against interracial marriage.

The US has a great diversity of cultural identities which are largely tied to race. For example, African Americans make up 13.2% of the US population and have a unique history and music, their own vernacular (AAVE), etc. We should seek to preserve these diverse cultural identities, but they are generally lost in families where the parents come from different cultural/racial groups. For example, if the current generation chooses mates without regard to race then in the next generation only 1.74% of offspring will have two African American parents. In the following generation the number drops to 0.03%. The entire third generation would fit into a typical school auditorium and the fourth generation would be extinct. The same would be true of every other unique culture in the country in a single-digit number of generations.

Am I now supposed to be shunned for making that argument? What part of it is even logically invalid? You can disagree with it on the basis of priorities. I disagree with it. But why is a person making that argument a bad person? Why should that line of discourse be verboten? If you think the argument is wrong then say why. If you have to run the people you disagree with out of town because you can't refute their positions, chances are you're the bad guy.
No helmet laws in the Netherlands.
How does repealing Prop 13 change anything? Wouldn't everyone just end up paying the same or more taxes? Looking at property tax rates in other states (which presumably don't have such a law), we're about on par with them.

The people who can't move because of increased taxes would be forced to flee the state maybe?
Punting balls are also the special kicking balls.
The answer to both is to look one level up, at the meta question. Both of your answers are still about evaluating individuals. Instead, look to the system both individuals are in.

In this case, the system encompasses the evaluation itself, and the answer is to cease evaluation altogether. You can clearly see the problems it causes.
Non-selvedge denim will begin fraying badly at the cuffs and probably have holes in the crotch in well under a year of daily three mile walking, nevermind more active wear. Any selvedge denim jeans cost over $100. Sitting on a tractor or on various other farm machinery is not heavy wear.
IIRC the micro kernel which added MP support came in 8.6
GDScript is a garbage collected language, it uses reference counting. That's literally a garbage collection method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_s...
If you want the state to launch something, a healthcare system rivaling the NHS would be the start.
> If pyca/cryptography was instead advertised as "python crypto library for rust lovers"

I feel like this really only makes sense if pyca/cryptography had planned on adding the Rust dependency from the very beginning (or from very early on). Is there any indication that was the case?

> but not just that, it depends on a custom-patched llvm!

This doesn't seem to be true [0, 1].

[0]: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/backend/updating-llvm....

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26217182
Try more detailed arguments and less snark.
Red Dead redemption 2 online also does this exact same thing the first time it did it I shut the game off and then charged back my credit card I dealt with it for GTA and I'm just not going to deal with it anymore.
Github own npm. They're absolutely the right company to do this.
It won’t matter unless there’s a better alternative. Reddit wasn’t the first popular forum online, and won’t be the last.
I always assume the worst! There will be some auto engineer trying to backport some functionality and will be googling "JSON Assembly" and will port this code.
> Both, but the main limit of a parachute is that our probes don’t go into orbit first but rather crash on Mars.
So you enter the atmosphere at higher than orbital speeds. From orbit a parachute might be doable despite the relatively thin atmosphere.

> So you enter the atmosphere at higher than orbital speeds. From orbit a parachute might be doable despite the relatively thin atmosphere.

Nonsense. We send orbiters to Mars all the time, often on the same missions as landers. We could absolutely brake to orbit first (which is almost free via aerobraking) before dropping landers, but it wouldn't make any difference to being able to use parachutes, the velocity difference is insignificant.
> Outside of events like these

Crimes against humanity ain’t a minor issue you can ignore. Directly related to communism. Democratic states don’t do that, communist regimes did that a lot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity_under_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

> had higher standards of living while they didn’t

That’s debatable. Might be true in 1910-1920, but by the end of the last century all communist states with planned economy have failed their economies, catastrophically so, with direct consequences on standards of living. China’s the only exception, were lucky to have smart enough people in power to pivot towards market economy, and execute it relatively well.
Gone every year so far. Company has sent the entire dev team (7 this past year). We're less than a two hour drive away. It was an easy sell for us because of cost. Tickets, hotel, travel, and food (the catered breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and pig roast are awesome) costs less to send 7 (8 or nine will go next year) than to send 2 developers anywhere else. Some talks are great, others are ok. Its great for netwotking and getting exposed to things outside your dev stack and for us its a team building function. You get out of it what you make it. They are trying to incorporate more family and kid stuff. Our team includes single devs, married devs, and devs with kids (though no families came with this year and would be a non company paid expense). It's also something simple our company does to stand out from others in the area (helps retain and show respect and care for developers from the company) feel free to ask me if you have any questions.

Add: There are some well known people from various dev communities that attend and/or present. Its kindof cool to be feet from them or even better getting hang out with them since its not massive in head count.
While HTTP2 is a layering violation incarnate, apparently properly layered solution is undeployable. Perfect is the enemy of good.
Social networks are just vacuums of interest and I think they'll continue on that trajectory until an inevitable societal disinterest in centralized information sharing platforms.

The internet will never reflect reality.

- If you walk around venting to everyone all the time, you will have no friends.

- If you walk around virtue signaling and one-upping people all the time, you will have no friends.

- If you walk around telling people all the prestigious companies and schools you've attended, you will have no friends.

Except on the internet all of the above is totally acceptable and even encouraged. People love to share information about themselves, there's a psychological component to this. It feels good.

- It feels good to let people know exactly how frustrated and slightly nihilistic with the world you are.

- It feels good to unload on the political opposition and get likes and shares in return.

- It feels good to have reductionist arguments that get cited on mainstream news.

You can delve into plenty of reasons why people do this stuff. Personally, I don't think it matters and I say that as someone who detests social media so much that I stay off of it. People come to the internet for different reasons and those reasons find an intersection on social media. I love IRC primarily for this but also because it couples anonymity with the service. We get some abusers and manipulators but even the stalking and harassment attempts that people have tried on me are worth the stay. I can speak freely and relate to people in a way that would not be possible otherwise, and largely I thank the culture of Freenode and it's channels for that. Yet, Freenode is also a vacuum of interest, just one designed for nerds that communicate over ASCII anonymously.

Join the network that's right for you, just like you would in real life.
It's unfortunate that they went in that direction as opposed to something like a tire tax. Just have the regular smog tests also include a tire wear check to catch the folks trying to run their tires bald.
Again, what's the alternative?
> HN shouldn't be used as a platform to push racially charged politics.

Surveillance is a staple topic of HN.

Can you explain how posting this article amounts to someone using "HN... as a platform to push racially charged politics"?
> It seems surprisingly un-Apple-y to allow someone in that position to publish articles detailing the flaws in Apple maps, speculate about where they get their data and how the quality problems might affect unannounced future products.

That tells me he no longer works at Apple. If he did, why would he need to speculate about Apple's internal processes based on what they publicly release? This article (https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-summer-of-google-maps-and-ap...) from 2017 even has him noting hits from Apple's website and tracking how long it took them to correct gaps he outlined.

Those two articles I linked were dated 2016 and 2017. Looking at his website, before that time it seems like he was mostly writing about Google Maps. So maybe he wrote about Google when he was at Apple, then started writing about Apple when he left.
I last saw Chick live with Return to Forever at the Fabulous Fox theater in St. Louis in 2008. I think the band had been disbanded for 25 years.

It was the craziest audience I'd ever experienced for a jazz concert. 5 minute standing ovation when they came out (it was awkwardly long) and a roaring standing ovation for every single solo.
Budgie looks cool, but I've personally stopped dealing with the unmaintained legacy complexity stuff of X.

What are Budgie's Wayland plans and how are they influencing/influenced by the switch from Mutter? What other reasons are there to switch?
There’s always lots of bluster and comments about cryptocurrency with things like this and not always much concrete information.

I think as a tech community here on HN we should try to focus on why these changes are occurring so quickly and what the repercussions are. Let’s talk constructively about the risks and opportunities more than we do about who’s buying, who’s selling, on and on.... is it a bubble.. does it have value, etc etc. Clearly it’s here to stay and clearly large chunks of our economy will soon be dealing with it.

So let’s instead talk about constructive ways to move regulation forward. Expand education and communication etc.

For instance I have a concern that we’ll leave a large percentage of people further behind as digital cryptocurrency becomes a larger part of the economic system.
Updating dependencies is a funny way to trick the casual reader into thinking this is more recent than it is.
This won't work. H1B aren't only for software developers, but for different kinds of specialists. For example, doctors, who are having residency in US often use this visa. However, resident's salary is smaller than software developer's.
Sex education in the United States is often bad. States which either don't mandate sex ed, or which promote abstinence based education tend to have high rates of teen pregnancy.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10/461402/teen-pregn...

But don't trust their word if you don't want to. Here is teen pregnancy rate by state. http://www.livescience.com/27417-teen-pregnancy-rates-by-sta...

Here is data on how sex education is handled in states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education_in_the_United_St...

Here is median household income (to control by). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income

Go ahead and see if I'm wrong.
Some risky moves from the white and we’ve got a pretty quick checkmate https://www.dropbox.com/s/q66h70kuauog3zq/Screenshot%202015-...
Labeling sure is a tricky business. There are certain lines you cross in life though-- you get locked up, you live the rest of your life as an "ex-con" to most of society. Speaking for myself but I think also many others in this community, if you troll, whether you are later considered an "ex-troll" or just a "troll " doesn't matter, you trolled. It's an egregious offense that was foolishly committed and they will always regret it now, as they should.
My wife kept bantam chickens as pets for a few years.

It was worth doing.

They turned out to be more articulate, intelligent little creatures that I gave them credit for before I started and they had a lot of personality.

I built a nice PVC coop that used a doghouse as sleeping area.

Advice:

Find out about chicken diseases, supplements and chicken doctoring before you start.

Downsides:

Chicks are cute. The whole laying eggs and hatching them is educational for the kids, but a lot of them grow up to be roosters. Roosters don’t live together peacefully and the fighting can get vicious. For us getting rid of the extras turned out to be difficult.

Chicken females have a strict hierarchy and the bottom one gets hen-pecked - it’s unfair and a bit upsetting and there’s not much you can do about it.

With the kids they turned out to be “death with training wheels”. We buried quite a few of them, so it was a good opportunity to practice and discuss death and the rituals that we have around it in a simpler context.

There are a lot of good websites and books aimed at keeping chickens at home, but they tend to have rose coloured glasses on for the most part.
Cheers bro. Good luck to you in 2015!!!
The downside to tools like UPX is that the executable code is actively transformed on load. This limits the ability to use shared memory for multiple concurrent executions of the same executable.

If the OS loads executables by mmap and load on page-hit, you can potentially save memory by not ever loading unused parts of an executable. a transform-on-load requires the entire program to be loaded before execution begins.
Well the culture is really really diverse to cast into a single type. You have to be extra nice AND enduring when there are 100s more like you wanting the same job. The only way out of it is to make yourself better so the competition isn't as fierce or just bend over and take it all in.
#t=4198s
MVC5 still not working tho. Good thing we have Nancy.

Edit: Seems like many do not know about Nancy, check it out, some even say it's better than MVC. The good side is that it's 100% compatible with Mono because they run tests against it too so you can host your C# websites on Linux.

Github: https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy
As far as TV support goes, no one should expect their TVs to handle streaming media for them. That was and is a terrible idea. A TV should be a monitor, end of story.
Mixed up the apps a bit, there is a strong accusation of Candy Crush being a clone of another game named Candy Swipe. In that case they are trying strong arm the guy out of the way despite his strong claims. Just yet more crappy behavior from a modern day bully.
Thanks for the insight, I still thought the Bitcoin protocol would have had enough transparency to make the case clear as to whether or not this is a situation of dishonesty or incompetence. I guess the protocol does not provide the level of transparency I assumed.
OpenBSD doesn't use any on drive encryption features.
not if they want to retain talent. a lot of engineers are moving to cheaper areas far from the cities. I plan on doing the same in a couple of years.
OpenBSD doesn’t send NTP queries to those sources - with the exception of Cloudflare’s NTP pool.

It uses TLS timestamps to constrain the possible time values. This prevents spoofed NTP packets from changing the time.

https://man.openbsd.org/ntpd.conf.5

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/etc/ntpd.conf
I guess what I'm trying to say is, the arguments in these threads mostly go like:

* User A: Bitcoin is bad, it uses tons of electricity.

* User B: Bitcoin is great, and [other thing] uses just as much electricity.

And I'm just confused why User B never says something like "Bitcoin is great, but I agree it really needs to use less power and allow for more transactions."
It is understandable that people are selfish but why society as a whole should pay for that? It is a relatively recent development, no more than a century, that people actually have such a power to derail urbanization while at the same time profiteer off of it. Society just pays [1] those people basically because they were born at the right time.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-05/nimbyism-...
>"Of course, with Brexit, I'm headed for Zurich."

I would be curious what the tech job market is like like in Zurich. Can you elaborate on that are you EU resident or have taken a job offer with a company based there?
There's a huge difference between months and years.

The delivery platform is reusable, which is a big difference from older vaccines, where the virus that is delivered can be used only once (Sputnik-V vaccine uses 2 different delivery platforms _because of_ this.

The other thing to look at is efficiency: as the vaccines can deliver mRNAs that cells express anyways in healthy people, the lesser toxicity can mean a higher likelihood of success for the drug (which is the main problem with drug development in the last 10-20 years).
Kind of. Quantum states don't have on place or time. Only objects that share those states have locations.

The concepts like locality and physical object have become more specific over time.

Before QM, principle of locality in physics matched the common sense of locality in every sense. Object is directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings. Objects have locations. Field must mediate the action over distance.

After QM was developed, principle of locality in physics became more refined. Quantum states don't have location in space and time. They are not 'physical objects' themselves. Quantum states is everywhere in time and space where objects sharing that state are, and everything correlates perfectly over time and space.

Before QM, something like quantum-state would have been called a non-local thing. In current more refined meaning it's not breaking locality. Non-local instant quantum state 'hovering over wast distances of space and time' is OK as long as causality is local and moves at the speed of light.
The messages from the comics still very much apply to places like Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia) today.

> In a society that mixed internationalist idealism with bureaucratic dysfunction, Alan Ford was an ideal form of social satire

It is Croatian to emigrate, and Croatia does do a lot for the diaspora abroad.

> We make no promises and aim to carry them out to the letter

Croatian laws often have a lot of room for subjective interpretation. Often when you deal with the bureaucracy you have to make clarifications several times, and whatever the government servant needs from you, whether others needed it or not, you better give them.

But, in this case, everyone knows that it is nearly 100% about the government servant trying to CYA, whether reasonable or not.
The advice from Python core developers is not to rely on that optimization — it is fragile and implementation dependent. Instead, please use str.join() to concatenate a bunch of strings together. That is guaranteed to not be quadratic.

When Armin Rigo's brilliant optimization was added, the rationale was mitigation-of-harm: it could sometimes save users who weren't following the advice. Also it sometimes helped with the then common technique of building a short string with series of concatenations done with "+":

advice = 'Dear ' + customer + ', please buy ' + product + '.'

Nowadays, that would be done efficiently with an f-string:

advice = f'Dear {customer}, please buy {product}.'

One other personal thought as a code reviewer and teacher: If you teach someone to build strings with "+" or "+=" and the optimization prevents a negative consequence, then don't be surprised if they try this with other sequence types where no such optimization exists.

Really, just learn str.join() and itertools.chain(). Both of those scale nicely.
Actually, MS recently open-sourced the .NET framework (".NET Core") and announced they will be adding support for Linux and Mac OS X: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx

...seriously. April the first is still 5 days away.
If you use Slack for a week you can't go back. I would switch back to an IRC client for a few team members who would not switch and was filled with rage every time I had to use the old client. :)
A good starting point is https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-case-is-bu....

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/ for one of their previous lines of research that look similar to the actual COVID-19 virus.
Could you please define "real" in this context.
is that really always the case? do you have some data about it I can look into?

I stopped going to zoos because I didn't want to contribute to keeping animals like that, but would like to read information to the contrary if that's the case.
The fact that in the implementation “commit” means one thing, does not mean that people need to / should use “commit” to mean the sane thing, not that it is necessarily helpful to do so. In any case a commit is more than a snapshot because it has a parent, thus diff is a sensible mental model for the pair.
I thought the whole point was that what's best for them is increased wages, better working conditions and benefits?

Granted I live in a country with significantly stronger worker protections and none of that nonsense in which quitting my job might mean losing healthcare (and in some cases, for my family to as well; that is a messed up employer-holding-my-family-hostage situation that gives an employer breathtaking power over employees), but given how much these precariously employed people seem to get routinely screwed over by their employers who have vast power compared to their employees, how else are they to improve their job? If they think they can do better for themselves without a union, without banding together to get some strength with which to negotiate, what is that alternative that presumably they're planning?

Genuine question. I'm sure it comes across as snark, but from my outside-the-US viewpoint, I don't see any way that these Amazon employees are going to get better wages, conditions and benefits without banding together.
Yeah - the very earliest preview versions of Meteor had this obvious gap where reads and writes were basically a free for all. However, it's changed a lot since then. As a development crutch the aptly-named 'insecure' package is installed by default (which maintains the free for all), but you're expected to remove it and able to apply fine-grained control to which clients can C/R/U/D which data.

These two steps of the Meteor tutorial probably describe it best:
https://www.meteor.com/try/10
https://www.meteor.com/try/11