jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think that's evident in the Bernie Sanders movement (and to a lesser extent, Warren). Folks like myself support him even though we're some sort of "upper middle class" or some form of middle-merchant class. Not owners, not truly capitalist/investment class, but solidly aligned with everyone else who also has to show up at 9AM daily to get their checks.

This more affluent middle class of information workers are leading the rest of the folks who punch a clock for a living to a better life. It's not everyone though, there's older folks who are fully committed to a dog eat dog existence, because it worked out easily and well for anyone willing to even try their hand in the post-WW2 era. It's understandable that they don't see the connection between relatively easy prosperity, and destroying all of your industrial competitors. Some of the younger conservatives don't have the life experience of being exploited and tossed out to form well-informed views on labor, and are often afraid of challenging their tribe's view, with their fathers often being the aforementioned Boomer. Then you lose another chunk from those who are not very capable, but inherited wealth. Insecurity that they couldn't duplicate their position in life from scratch leads to extremely anti-social behaviors that we see from the capitalist class.

Claiming some defectors from each of those groups, add in the blue collars who know the score, and add in the "Bernie Sanders" educated folk and I definitely am seeing more support for the movement in American society today than I do for any other grassroots movement. Judging from the strength of support of someone like Sanders, the only competent base of support that rivals it is Trump's. It may not be tomorrow or next year when it succeeds, but we're definitely seeing what you're describing and I suspect it'll continue to build until big money can't stop it any longer.
See my sibling comment - it’s entirely possible for fumes to enter their work via plumbing.

So I’d really downgrade that “probably” - ambient outdoor exposure maybe, but the facts as presented better fits an indoor exposure during the day.
tldr: anecdata supporting "Windows is still worse"

I switched to the Windows ecosystem from the mac ecosystem in 2012 because two things happened: I kept hearing that windows had gotten better, and I finally grew up enough to admit that none of the windows complaints I made as a mac fanboy were actually based on experience. Windows did nothing but disappoint and embarrass for a year and a half before I finally gave up and moved back to mac. I've got a list of "small" complaints the length of my arm and a large list of big complaints that were "my fault" in the weak sense that with foreknowledge I could have avoided them. I won't post those. Here are the big complaints that happened after I adopted a "don't do anything my mother wouldn't do" policy in an attempt to improve stability:

* An update broke the dynamic linker or something: every time I would try to launch a .exe I would get a segfault in ntdll. Needless to say, rollback didn't fix the problem, all checksums appeared fine, and I had to reinstall.

* During the Win 7 generation, the shut-down process broke. All process would appear to exit, but the computer would then spin up its fans and never actually shut off. Every time I restarted the computer would want to spend the better part of a day on fsck. Naturally I habitually canceled it; day-long reboot times aren't acceptable. Eventually this led to blue-screens on reboot. Reinstall!

* After months of normal functionality, Windows 8 decided to forget my serial number. Upon entering the number again, it refused to re-activate. After 5 hours on the phone running remote diagnostics, they had me reinstall the OS.

* Most recently, sound and/or keyboard would stop working on wake from sleep. I installed fresh drivers from the laptop vendor (they mentioned a similar problem in the release notes) and it didn't work. I uninstalled those and installed fresh drivers from the sound card manufacturer; those didn't work either. What kind of a laptop is a laptop without sleep?

* The battery life got down to 20 minutes on a year old laptop. That was the last straw.

I've been told that this isn't normal, but I've caught the same people who told me that I simply purchased from the wrong manufacturer living with huge wake-from-sleep bugs so I don't know what to think. I'm sure that there exists hardware on which Windows is as stable or more stable than Mac OS is on my mac, but I don't know how to reliably find it.
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz2pvrebxdl8sif/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: hn@gestas.net

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud, Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.
That's the way you get rich. Make apps, social networking..stuff like that. Or invest in already-successful, viral app companies like Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, etc. Why anyone would go the brick and mortar route is beyond me. I would rather invest $100k in successful web 2.0 companies (like the ones I listed) and double my money in 6 months than start a crappy regular business which has a 50% chance within five years of totally failing and taking all my money with it. Like the Dire Straits Song Money for Nothing, except it's apps and web 2.0 instead of music.
It's true that the problem space of “accounting” seems, at least to me (I likewise don't have deep experience), somewhat more constrained; indeed, accounting seems very specialized. Perhaps one difficulty here is that “software engineer” isn't really one job or career---it's dozens of jobs or careers that we're pretending are one and the same. To follow the accounting example, I guarantee people are hiring software engineers to do work that is largely accounting. But they're doing that work in something other than Excel, so it's software engineering, not accounting. But is that actually true? You wrap these software engineers in teams with acceptance criteria, etc, etc, but really you're trying desperately to paper over the fact that your software engineers aren't accountants, and you're basically training accountants by trying to help the software engineers build an accounting system.

In general, I agree with your point. It's mentioned elsewhere that there's a difference between a trade school and a university, and a software engineering degree is a broad university degree. Much like an English degree won't guarantee you're a great author, it seems odd to expect a CS degree to guarantee you know how to handle an OOM error, for example. I think in many cases CS/SE degrees to themselves a disservice by trying to teach everything, instead of allowing specialization that can be clearly understood in the next phase of someone's career.
The problem you describe is not actually specific to this approach, the same would apply to any Size check, or any limit in general.

In fact, I think the problem is less relevant to a Quantity check, where an order of magnitude headroom above normal usage goes a long way, more so than a Size check.

For example, do you know of people who receive 10,000 attachments per email? This limit would be far and away above any reasonable usage and yet provide decent protection at the same time.
> I fail to understand why any economist would prefer QE over helicopter money.

It's not either-or, it's both-and.

* https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1241690862448529408
Rust and Swift though do have a very close relationship IMHO. They have similar design decisions for ergonomics, and often borrow (no pun intended) from each other.

Not to mention Graydon worked on both.
The paying for supplies part is a bit funny when compared to small competitive software or electronics companies. As an engineer, I'm always offered monitors, computers, peripherals, test equipment... whatever I want, they'll order with next-day shipping.
This is very much a game of assumptions and a game of cutting corners at this point. It's wartime. The hospitals near me are literally using pieces of cotton, cut shirts, hand-sewn layers, instead of regulation-required certified N95 masks.
> Well you’ve moved the goalposts quite a bit here (by now tremendously far away from “There's not a single person who would agree that the US president is handling this well”).

This might make sense if I said this. I did not.

> This was so obviously a joke to anybody except those willing to take even the most spurious opportunities to criticise him for anything.

Again, not really much of a joke if he actually believes it.
> It was funded, however, by companies like Philip Morris, Anheuser-Busch, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola, and it’s goal was to “confuse the public narrative regarding waste, and distract from the corporations and manufacturers creating the litter and waste” (wikipedia).

I looked for this part on the linked wikipage and didn't find it. I looked at the edit history and it turns out that this wikipage is subject to a PR fight and the account DoBeautifulThings keeps removing parts that may be too critical and adding things that put it in a positive light. The source for the quote was this recording: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757539617/the-litter-myth

Here is an edit from them that removes this part (2019-10-03): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keep_America_Beau...

A revert of the change (2019-10-03): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keep_America_Beau...

The change is back in (2019-10-04): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keep_America_Beau...

Another change that reverts some lobbying edits (2019-09-12): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keep_America_Beau...

If you want to see the wikipage version which contained the quote, here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keep_America_Beau...

Lobbying on Wikipedia is real.
I don't know where to ask.. is vaporized cbd helpful ? it's said to be a potent anti inflammatory compounds and also help cleansing cells through apoptosis.
It's not optics, it logistics, science and psychology.

Costs? Just imagine how you would do it if you were in the government.

A mask on its own may be cheap but for a whole nation? They have to be manufactured, where from? They would have to be distributed, how? You'd need to send everyone at least 2 of them. That's over a hundred million of the things.

Okay, so lets imagine you were able to find a manufacturer of a hundred million cotton masks and were able to buy them, and were able to send them to every household in the country. What should you imagine next? Why should anyone wear them if they are not being serious now? What should you do as a government to get people to wear them? Shouldn't be against the law not to wear one? Who would enforce that? How much publicity would you spend, who would write the advice and how would you do broadcast it? Do the scientists agree with this? Wouldn't social distancing work just as well? Could people feel more safe wearing them and break social distancing? There are more questions you could put here with some imagination....

I feel we are panicking and reaching out for any stricter solution. I'm seeing many left wing people on social media in the UK call for stricter approaches, but that is partly to oppose the government whatever the cost and partly fear. How about the army on the streets enforcing curfew? That would be effective and probably quicker than cotton masks. How about mass surveillance? That's just digital and doesn't need anything manufactured, nor paying the army. We can easily and happily give up our rights and liberties when we are scared - after all we are saving lives and so many people are lacking seriousness.
Sounds straight out of golden age of dystopian novels.
https://nocodelist.co/ is a great resource for what you are looking for
Yup, as a Canadian, apparently I'm not part of 'everyone'.
In comparison on the Acid3 test...

IE9 Platform Preview 68/100
Firefox 3.6.3 94/100
Opera 10 100/100
Safari 4 100/100
Chrome 4 100/100

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3
August 2014 beta build was a really small update and the only one in year 2014. To be honest, my feeling also was that project has been abandoned. ST3 was silent for about a year and is supported by the single developer (as far as I understand it). No updates (except for one in August) in the times of Atom release, this looked like there was no more motivation for the Sublime Text developer. I am really happy that it's not true and Sublime is active again in 2015.
I like it, but maybe make it a bit more subtle - remove the @ and possibly also the <p> element.
Death due to honeybees mutated with Box Jellyfish venom.

"the venom causes cells to become porous enough to allow potassium leakage, causing hyperkalemia which can lead to cardiovascular collapse and death as quickly as within two to five minutes"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chironex_fleckeri
According to the Qualys Lab SSL Test[1] there are some problems with your https configuration (mainly POODLE vulnerability)

[1]https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ilikerabbits....
It's slow with huge source files, agreed, but you shouldn't have huge source files anyway.
Wasn't putting "a computer on every desk and in every home" Microsoft's mission?
For some people xbox is their facebook or twitter.
Well you said "I" so that's what I assumed you meant. For the effect on you.
What about the privatization of space technology from a political standpoint? You see nothing problematically evil there?
"Can we stop arguing at this point? Anyone who still thinks the fossil fuel status quo is okay is insane."

72%[1] of republicans in the senate are insane apparently.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFOPf0s5u5E#t=54
The problem is, that would be a vastly different interface from what app developers (and web developers) are expecting. You might as well get a dumb-phone, since the vast majority of apps will work poorly (if at all).
>What's wrong with people using BTC to buy drugs?

Other than it being illegal? Nothing.
This is such a good post, its shameful the HN political correctness crowd have downvoted it so. I don't think HN is a mature enough forum for this discussion. Its just a reddit-like upvote/downvote gamificiation machine at this point.

I find it amusing that American culture dictates that once you become 18 you are now sexualized and free to partake of whatever media you like, but an hour before your birthday you are an asexual being with no interest in things other than what the political correct types dictate.

A lot of this stuff is aimed for the 14-18 group where puberty kicks in. Yes, there are boobs and bulging crotches! The characters sometimes have sex! I know, its crazy! It almost reflects the hormonal madness of puberty.

The problem is American culture is so damn puritanical that not only have we dismissed this kind of art as victimizing, if not illegal, that we pretend that the status quo of this level of censorship is fine. Puberty will find a way. Kids will date, fuck, get high, etc. Why our art needs to reflect some kind of Judeo-Christian 1950s ideal is beyond me. Heaven forbid kids that age are represented as how they truly are or art they want is aimed at them. Or that, heaven forbid to SJW types, that most people don't have a problem with traditional gender roles. A manga about a girl trying to get a boyfriend shouldn't cause a social catastrophe. Its fine.

I think this kind of thing is a legitimate social panic, the same way people were obsessed with Satanism in the 1980s. We're going to look back at these ultra-politically correct attitudes today and wonder why we were so worried about displaying traditional roles, sexuality, and violence in fiction.
My work environment has a high concentration of nerdy people with similar interests to mine, so I look forward to our lunchtime conversations, even though I'm also pretty strongly introverted.
Older folks (presumably retired) can get away with eating a whole lot less. Piety probably provides the means and structure to keep the 1/day in place.
A similar thing has happened to Hudson/Jenkins.
A college student is privileged in that they have the free time to learn, all day every day. They may not realize how special this is until they decide, at thirty while supporting a family, that they want another degree -- and they do it via night classes, working eight hours a day and studying four, and it takes a decade.
clojure has leiningen and clojars.org which are awesome
You might want to consider a "department" strategy.

Structure your service as something that an individual department of a larger company can get hold of without support from IT, approval from on high, or a mess of purchase orders.

37Signals has talked about this in the past, a couple people within a big company start using Basecamp for some one off thing they're working on, then a few more people get added to the project so they get the departmental credit card (used for buying office supplies) and sign up. A few months down the line everyone in the group is using the service.
"this is fun" has structure and I suspect is an easy password to guess from the pool of all three word passwords. Just like using a dictionary is better than brute force, trying common words that usually go together when guessing three word passwords is much better than trying all three word passwords. If Google were to write a "word" password cracker using their data trove, I suspect "this is fun" would go down early. Likewise putting spaces between words would be to the Google cracker like adding a number on the end of a dictionary word is to a standard cracker.
I for one am incredibly glad!

Nothing is a more serious menace to our society and our way of life than ... online gambling. I'm glad that in this time of unprecedented natural disasters, geopolitical unrest, and financial crisis our government still has its priorities straight.
To be fair, she doesn't link it from the blog post.
Assume there are 7500 very commonly used english words. A three word sentence, all in lower case, would yield 421 Billion permutations. Let's say, of those 421 billion permutations, which don't tense or plural nouns about 1 in 5 are familiar english language constructs, which drops down to around 20 billion permutations. In this case, if we took all capital letters, all numbers, and 6 punctuation characters, we'd end up with ~67 unique characters, for a combined 82 billion permutations.

Furthermore, like Richard Feynman discovered in Los Alamos, you could narrow down the possibilities of combinations if you know something about a person. You could probably build profiled dictionary attacks and reduce possibilities a lot.

So, is it more secure? No, it's maybe equally secure, but it would completely depend on the attack. A combination of capital letters would probably be more secure though.
CHAR_BIT is a minimum of 1 byte (8 bits), but is not guaranteed to be 1.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf (Annex E)
comp.misc is still going strong. It has been "taken over" by people running away from Slashdot when it got "corporatized" some years back, and has some interesting discussions from time to time.
Seriously though that’s a good idea. Might be better to just disable swap. :) Well, at least until I go out and buy more RAM.
Still in the brain storm phase.
All of Hacker News is written in the Arc language, which runs on top of Racket.
One can already embed Ruby in any C-compatible project with mruby, which this project uses as a default backend. mruby itself is extremely modular.

I’m not too sure this is for embedding related to size, but more as an abstraction layer to have the ability to switch backend, as well as embedding (as in inside a larger app, not as on embedded-class devices) but aimed at Rust projects.

I find the description a bit misleading:

> Artichoke is a Ruby implementation written in Rust and Ruby

The arch doc seems to indicate this is an implementation in C and Ruby (mruby) with a frontend/backend layer written in Rust, and packaged as crates for ease of use in Rust. Maybe the desc is about the endgame, gradually eating the C part with Rust?
Of course, if he published by himself, and his name in publicly known, then yes, nyt has no obligation for source unannonimity. The fact that the anonymous source that published an editorial is a very different case.
The anonymous source didn't publish his writings in a personal blog, he would not have publish the op-ed under his name. So the only way to get that op-ed to be published is by ensuring anonymity.

These cases are not related in the slightest.
Convert plastic waste into e-waste?
Yes! Maybe it changed a bit with akka typed, but I stick with: use as few actors as you need to get your job done.
> I was also warned by people “in the know” that as soon as they got an excuse they would publish something as negative as possible about me, in order to punish me for embarrassing them. ... Predictably, the NYT piece came out soon after, and predictably, it was very negative

Not sure if we all read the same piece, but I wouldn't call it very negative. Pointing out the neoreactionary affiliations of the Rationalist community is neither something new nor "hit piece"-like. But apparently criticism of Silicon Valley's favorite darling cannot be tolerated here.
That paper also has:

> Hand washing (1.447, 1.274–1.644) and gargling (1.319, 1.183–1.471), however, were not associated with protection. In the natural setting, hand washing and gargling showed a negative association, which may have been due to inappropriate infection control measures or aggregating infected and non-infected children to conduct those measures.

So hand washing isn't effective and masks are? That's the opposite of what we're being told for a different disease. Are you going to say we shouldn't wash our hands?
Typically it's the fast followers who succeed, especially when the first mover has expended a lot of energy to establish the market.

"How can you tell which ones are the pioneers? They're the ones with the arrows in their backs."
In developing nations, we often don't even have good internet. Uploading a 20 MiB file to Dropbox may fail a few times. But these days developers often forget these kind of situations.
Good question. If you mean specifically getting around the "some objects on this page are insecure" popups, a trick I've seen work is to cut off the http protocol portion of remote URLs, forcing them to look like "//www.example.com/to/file.jpg".
Therac was designed to send a concentrated beam of radiation into somebody. That was the machine's purpose.

Are the scanners designed or even capable of doing the same?
Great list of people ... very impressive that Larry, Reid, and Mark aren't affiliated with them.
So... do we get to take a day off?
Is there a good way to set up a Varnish or Squid-like caching proxy in front of HTTPS, or is that by design impossible? My fairly small sites don't generally have performance problems, but on the occasions that they get Slashdotted or on the front page of Reddit, the caching sure helps keep things moving.

Edit: It looks like the best way might be to do SSL between the client and nginx on my side acting as a reverse proxy, and then non-SSL internally on my side? Not sure how that setup compares to Varnish in general, but it's probably fine for my purposes.
Apps are a special case of software in general behaving more often like media and less often like tools.