jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Enterprise backlashed and they had to respond. There is no need to suffer through backwards-compatible legacy stuff (JS, HTML, CSS) if you are not building something public-facing.
It's not a straw man.

How do you tell apart a job guarantee from any old program doing things that need doing?

The difference is that, with the job guarantee you may eventually have to start creating make-work; otherwise, it is not a guarantee. I oppose make-work, so I oppose the guarantee. I do not, on these grounds, oppose creation of jobs to do things that are not make-work.
I recently took some classes at city college in SF as well. One of my professors teaches the same class at Stanford and said he doesn't water the curriculum down for the CC class.

I agree with others that this has a lot to do with location.
The classes I took were as rigorous as any other non-community college I've attended outside the bay area.
more on the CNC machine?
Especially the third quote is almost unbelievable.
Then we are talking about completely different things, the basic income me (and Wikipedia) talk about has nothing to d with abolition of government.
Normally, one wants to restart Windows after installing updates, i.e. about once a month.

> I still feel unease restarting

Oh yes, I know that unease all too well. Simply booting the system is usually the least problem, but starting all my applications, placing the windows across the different workspaces, ssh'ing into various machines, etc. is always such a hassle. However, this problem is pretty much constant across different operating systems, at least to me.
It's just projection from the publication that brought us the line "Democracy dies in darkness"
It has the same concurrency semantics w/r/t IO as any other language that isn't using an event based runtime. If you wrote your app in C and used a single thread you'd have the exact same issue.
Do you think that mRNA vaccines work on a fundamentally different mechanism than any other vaccine developed in the last 70 years? They don’t.

‘What could go wrong?’ That’s an incredibly insulting perspective to take toward medical researchers who dedicate their entire careers to answering such questions.
Azure monitor ping web tests are free and unlimited [0] and wont violate any terms of service, plus you can add in much more complex features from servers all over the world if you so wish. This probably sounds like a bit of an advert for Azure, so worth mentioning that there are many other competitors who also offer freemium uptime checker services like uptimerobot.com.

[0] - https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/monitor/
Sizes in online clothing shops should be global persistent settings. If I am shoe size 10, no part of the site should ever show me anything that isn't available in that size.

You could use checkboxes to enable searching for more than one size at the same time, e.g. it might be useful for searching for clothes for my kids, or if I know that I can usually fit more than one size because I'm on the border between 2.
Why not have a law that your policy must have a summary that is less than 140 characters long?
I like to think the war is not over here. I'd say, they have not succeeded yet.
I dabbled with Scala several years ago, but I've been using Kotlin for a JVM-based project and am happy with it. My main reason for choosing Kotlin is smoother interop with the JVM world. For example:

- Scala adds an Option type, whereas Kotlin adds nullability checking for existing object types.

- Scala has its own convention for getters and setters, whereas Kotlin automatically turns JVM getters and setters into properties.

- Scala defines its own set of collection classes, whereas Kotlin has zero-overhead wrappers over the JVM collection types.

I haven't tried Kotlin/JS lately, but I expect that Kotlin's strong focus on interop with existing stuff would serve it well there too, especially when it comes to minimizing bundle size.

Scala may be more powerful in some ways, but Kotlin gives me the conciseness I want, with great interop with the huge Java ecosystem.
beej's guides are the best
The fact that C++ is vast is well known. If a language supports some arcane things then it will end up in the code (even if its very less percentage wise). Because its arcane, most of the developers will not be able to deal with it effectively. Example of arcane: overloading comma operator.
I think the point of the these articles is to point out a smell. An indication that maybe we aren't putting the best people in the best positions.

Maybe we're doing so after all, but it's worth asking the questions. And it's worth asking them again and and again and again.
Because diversity is important and hugely valuable. You shouldn't have to compromise on talent in order to achieve diversity.

Why aren't there more talented female developers? And if they're out there, why aren't they applying for these jobs?
What kind of outreach do you expect a new startup to do? They don't exactly have an excess of free time or resources to invest significant effort.

And perhaps more fundamentally, are the job descriptions looking for applicants biased towards males in such a way that it warrants an explicit female-oriented recruiting outreach?
That's a lot easier when it's your network. Skype is obviously designed to be used in "hostile" environments; super nodes are likely expected to go away and come back on a regular basis. Likewise, I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation that there will be a given number of nodes online at any given time.

If they all disappear, I doubt there's a contingency plan for that.
Could I hire you to follow me around and translate everything everyone is saying to me?

Or possibly bribe you.
Newest stuff goes closest to the place where you enter text.
Well, he makes a LOT of false or illogical statements in this article.

Not something I'd expect from someone like that.
Still as a philosophical article it's not really dealing with facts or not facts. So you can't assess it that way... you have to consider the merit of the ideas by thinking about them. A simple April 1st escape close won't refute the notion
What I gather from the comments in this thread: you built a tool to make it easier for developers to make custom data visualizations (for other people in their company to look at probably).

The fundamental idea of building tools that radically improve developer productivity in making internal tools is sound. Logically, engineers cost a lot of money and don't like building internal tools so decreasing the time they spend on them is a win for everyone. And empirically, I know of at least one company in the internal tools market that is doing extremely well in this space: Retool (source: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/181-david-hsu-of-retool).

You might take a look at their State of Internal Tools survey (https://retool.com/blog/state-of-internal-tools-2020/) to get a broad idea of the market and problems developers are facing.

If I were you, I'd try to find just a few developers in any organization that you can work with one-on-one and get them to use your product. That would easily help you validate that the problem exists and your product addresses that problem usefully in organizational contexts. Or not and you learn a bunch of things (for example, maybe you find that hosted solutions are more useful).

I don't think a broad reach is the right move at this stage. I would only focus on widely distributing your product once you've had a lot more early validation and it starts to build some momentum (the best being organic word-of-mouth — developers using the tool convince others to use the tool). If you don't have that early validation, I'd expect that distributing would just feel like throwing messages in a bottle into the ocean — kind of lonely and depressing when you never hear back. But if you do have early validation, then you have a lot better idea about who finds it valuable and where/how you should market it.
Yep that was what I was referring too. Good to know, today I learned.
I always thought it had to do with chaining flags. For example, if multi-character single-dash flags were supported, and you wanted to write a `-lah` option for `ls, you wouldn't be able to or else you'd introduce ambiguity. And nobody wants to type `ls -l -a -h`.
This answer is great, because it’s just something people like. Some people like espresso, some people listen to hip hop to relax, some people find meaning in Jackson Pollack paintings. There may be some underlying cause for foot fetishism like there is for the taste of cilantro. But ultimately, what’s awesome to you?
> Study co-author Nicholas Meisburger, a Rice undergraduate, said "CPUs are still the most prevalent hardware in computing. The benefits of making them more appealing for AI workloads cannot be understated."

I don’t think this statement means what he thinks it means. I think “cannot be overstated” is what is desired.
It used to be the case. These days I find that online GUIs (but not only) change every few days completely messing up any muscle memory.
Labour is cheaper, but margins are smaller.
I would honestly love to be in a position to make announcement, verbatim

Because the company loses cash, not the personal bank account

And it would be hilarious to say that knowing it is consequences free to a bunch of non- or small- shareholders
Most of those supposed EEG sensors are just sending the forehead or facial muscles which are quite thick and noisy, electromagnetically. When you focus, you tend to tense your muscles, so these devices work to a limited extent. But they are not EEG, especially without a conductive lubricant to get through the skin.
Mostly because Snowden and his image and how it was done make the whole thing much more believable and has more impact in US and Europe then random anon disclosures.

Who knows what his motivations are, they very well maybe noble. Enemy of my enemy is my friend kinda thing.. and when you face US gov power you need powerful friends. He saw what happened to other whistleblowers.

In the end whatever the story is I think he did a great thing for the republic in the long term.
> if he had stopped at revealing the domestic surveillance he would be an undisputed hero/patriot. but with all of these unnecessary leaks that does nothing but harm to national interest

It's also important the public realize the NSA is more than just the National Stalking Agency.
I guess yes, with more and more jobs being replaced with AI.
Maybe people have a shifting view of what AI is. But I think it's more that there is too much of a focus on the end result. There are many many things that are hard for a human to do, and might require AI to do with the human method, but can be bypassed with a far far simpler mechanism.

Let's take chess as an example. The way a human plays chess is very difficult. But a computer can bypass all that and beat most people with a simple "check all possible moves to depth N and pick the one where your decisions make you have the most pieces".

The only remotely-good threshold is the Turing test. For soft AI there are no good tests and debate turns into a quagmire.

And gluing a vocoder on something sure as hell doesn't make it AI. People are too anthropocentric.
> The business model of social media companies is powered by engagement

This is the business model of many companies and industries, including advertising and marketing, legacy media companies, and gaming.
> But if they are not breaking the law, it seems to me that in the limit such speech cannot somehow be stopped from being spread.

It can't be stopped, but it can be severely limited. See: 8chan and Stormfront.
I don't understand the internet's new obsession with descriptivism. Yes, it's English, in a circular-argument kind of way, but that doesn't make it good style.

The whole takeaway from it seems to be that self-described descriptivists intentionally use non-standard definitions of words then blame the other party for misunderstanding, making the writer fail at the primary goal of communication. And that is literally ridiculous.
What is a "half working bicycle that takes me to town". Like by definition it fulfills it purpose.

A garbage collector that breaks down on circular references is crazy town for real work. Like there's even AI Lab Koan about that specifically. http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html

A better example would be a bicycle without the front wheel. Yeah, if you're real good and real careful you can probably treat it as a unicycle and get to where you're going, but you'd be real pissed if someone sold it to you as a working bicycle, no?
As of this writing, that list contains about 270 items over about 35 years (from the first closure). The "Killed by Google" list contains 191 over 13 years.
Coming from Belgium and speaking English a lot.

Obviously, no
I think the root the issue is that "AI" is a vague term where almost any kind of program, no none at all could go under. The fact that a machine can automatically calculate the sum of two numbers could be considered artificially intelligent by someone who's never seen a computer before. At the same time, no matter how far you go, any program (based on turing-like machines) will always be a deterministic chain of cause-and-effect, which is "just a computation".

But AI in its meaning use contains a certain set of fields in a way that makes sense. It's just the puplic misinterpration nonsense that makes it look so weird.
Yup, that worked for me.

Indeed they do have a profile on me - a bare minimum, scaped from GitHub. That makes sense, since that's about the only social platform I use, aside from HN.

EDIT: My GMail address has the most amount of information gathered, which makes sense. It's gathered Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, GitHub..

It lists my skills as: firefighting and emergency planning/management/services. I suppose, with a stretch of imagination..
couple of those will do the job https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/tdk-lambda-america...
Also, gas taxes don't account for different vehicle damage rates to roads. Gas taxes impose effectively a constant per pound-hour tax on road use, which is fine, but roads are damaged based on what is called the 4th power law, so 1000kg axel weight does 16x more damage than 500kg axel weight.
Lots of tiny investors got burned: employees who took stock options.

(You might say that they knew what they were getting into. Startup stock options are risky. But you can't deny all sympathy to those working stiffs.)
Scrolling, moving/resizing windows, switching windows/tabs.

None of these need to be animated and even if they are not animated they can be disconcertingly janky under X. Tearing is even worse/more obvious if screens are rotated into a portrait orientation.
I think that BF implementation uses 32bit cells (which is not standard BF?)
> The whole of the West has a smaller population and less manufacturing capacity than China alone.

The US + Germany have a larger combined manufacturing capacity than China does, in a population about 30% that of China. With the population gap you can then throw in France, Britain, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Canada and far exceed the manufacturing capacity of China (which has about 20%-22% of global manufacturing output and declining as a share).
> ...college is also to meet people, to create a network in your field of interest. So use this time to achieve this, meet the futures CTOs, coworkers or maybe your future cofounders !

I totally agree with you on this. This sounds essential. But I wonder if there will be any smart people worth hanging around in a rubbish college? I think that the quality of students sharply declines at such colleges.
Regardless, you bring up a really noteworthy point. I will keep this is in mind.

And thanks for replying!
> SpaceX will probably end up shutting down due to lack of lift demand...

The launch business is tiny compared to what's possible when you can do large volume industrial research and manufacturing in microgravity.

I take the approach that space right now is like the computer industry in the early 1970s. We're about to have our microprocessor moment with fully reusable rockets.

This means ridiculously cheap access to space which could yield entirely new industries in biotech, semiconductors and other areas of research we haven't even imagined.

We're only done the tiniest amount of research so far and have found put that you can grow much larger and purer crystals, antibiotics work in unpredicted ways and a hundred other examples of interesting areas of research.

If launch costs are commodity, then do something with all that capacity. Cisco may have struggled when computer server prices fell, but that made companies like Google and Facebook possible. We're now living in a world that benefits tremendously from one thing becoming a commodity.
Has anyone ever been able to make a reservation on that site? Anytime I look at locations they’re either closed, or booked, or you have to plan a half year in advance.
I'm curious how they determine the 'Most Popular'.
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I was struck by the prescience and clarity of Mitch Kapor's writing. He correctly predicted that a computer would be able to win on Jeopardy [0], 9 years before the fact. And he understood that the Turing Test was more of a thought experiment than an actual test [1], which is why I assume he took the bet in the first place.

Conversation is actually a rather poor measure of intelligence. I would say, show me a computer that can learn anything that it wasn't specifically programmed to learn. This doesn't mean unsupervised categorization or learning to play a video game. I'm talking about a scenario where programmers present their code or machine with no knowledge of what the task will be. Not something chosen from a known list of possibilities, but any task that a human could conceivably be taught to perform in less than an hour. Anything from writing a sonnet in iambic pentameter to assembling ikea furniture based on instructions. A true test of _general_ intelligence.

I would take that long bet out to 2129, and beyond. I don't see software with that level of intellectual flexibility being written in our lifetimes, or the lifetimes of our children or their children.

[0] "While it is possible to imagine a machine obtaining a perfect score on the SAT or winning Jeopardy..."

[1] "... a skeptic about machine intelligence could fairly ask how and why the Turing Test was transformed from its origins as a provocative thought experiment by Alan Turing to a challenge seriously sought."
agreed - there are current approaches that are becoming feasible as infrastructure is opened up and affordable to the general public. It's a game changer but a lot of people misinterpret the meaning and implications it seems like. A good question to ask is how this advance would affect you directly.
How is it buggy? CMake is actually very reliable.
>Also, the phrase "Garden of storms" is beautiful!

...and it reminded me of Gogh and Starry Night. The color palette is different but Jupiter's storms and starry night are very evocative of each other.
Yeap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
What does 'typical assets' mean? Parents that haven't saved for retirement?
Yes. It was 'for fun'. Someone at CloudFlare asked me how to get the value of -j and I figured there must be some way :-)
It seems governments are both protagonist and defenceless in cyber war.
See any prosecutors' office's standard practice of 'papering' an uncooperative judge. This does happen.

Ex: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/orange-county-line/pa...
"is like" is not in the vocabulary in many OO languages, and that's the rub. A circle is not (in a general, behavioral sense) an elipse and can't support all the operations an ellipse is expected to do.

As for asking for expressing math, things like CL's generic methods or Haskell's typeclasses model this sort of ad hoc series of relationships much more elegantly, in my opinion.
Does anyone else actually enjoy fixing bugs?
That was a great read until I realized he was mentioning the To-Do List software way to much... great way to let people buy your software :).
I sympathize with interviewers who would rather be there while the potential hire writes. Have them talk through what they're doing, why they're making choices, where they're worried about, etc so that you can get a feeling for how the person thinks.

On another matter, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody worth their salt commented FizzBuzz; there's just not a level of complexity that you can better describe in English than in code.
totally understood. truly best of luck. having been in the freelance game for years i can sympathize.
That last one is similar to my litmus test for Akrasia [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia]:

1. How certain are you that you *want* to do it?
2. How certain are you that you *can* do it?
3. How certain are you that you *will* do it?

If your answers are "absolutely", "definitely", and "given historical
evidence, not entirely" then this is classic akrasia.
I think the only solution in that case is some form of self-binding.
See http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia
Assuming these inept candidates are not Frank Abagnale types just doing it for the thrill, I wonder how they are expecting the job to actually turn out. I mean what was the guy expecting to do all day if he couldn't write a single line of code?
I quit my full-time corporate job to create a start-up exactly a year ago. Worked without a salary for 9 months but had a vision. Product tested, launched and closed a Series A round of funding.

The goal now is to continue to work towards the best idea. The original idea got us here, now we need to keep growing it and pursing it - not get comfortable where we are. It's important to put goals to see where we'll be a year from now to take the company from here to great.
The site _is_ called "Hacker News," not "Biz Guy News"...

...hmm, actually.
Adding this tool to my bookmarks

Thanks for the heads up
Yup, try using something like `show --host=mysite.local 80`.
Wikipedia has a decent article about where in the US emissions testing is required:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_United_States
I have always said that the further from London you get the nicer the people are.
How to defend against these:

1) detection

2) detection

3) detection

4) sprinklers

5) detection

6) detection

unfortunately, most orgs outsource their internal detection or have no capability at all.
This thing is so fucking quirky I love it.
You are making the same fallacy you are putting forward - assuming that the system is mechanical and just needs tuning with "impedance or damping". This fails to take into account the fact that the people in positions to make decisions on control of speech have vested interests and are even often extremely wealthy sociopaths.
No. It will end this time when the stock market sinks.

Bitcoin prices and US equity index are correlated

This is why Bitcoin is a failure because if it was a "store of value" like its maximalists claim it should be inversely correlated like gold for instance.

Gold prices will keep going up and people holding large amounts of it are FOMOing
That's fantastic news. I'm one of those that spent ages bookmarking and properly tagging. Finally, there is hope for Yahoo! Only it's outside of Yahoo!