jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think of it as one of those things that a lot of people get intuitively, but some people have to have explained to them. You can become good at just about anything in life given enough effort, it's just that we usually prefer to play to our strengths instead of making things hard on ourselves. So if you're a terrible artist, you could (a) take years of classes, learn a bunch of techniques, and eventually be able to draw well, or (b) pick another hobby. If the thing you're bad at is social interaction though, (b) is probably not an attractive option. I feel the same way each time one of these "fashion for hackers" posts shows up. It's kind of funny/sad if it's explaining something that you already get, but for those that don't get it, it's surely nice to have it laid out in painstaking detail. Because sometimes option (b) just sucks.
The list is if they were founders and had MBAs. Not "are they the only person to found a company". Sun Microsystems succeeded because of all four founders.

Also, Trip has an MBA from Stanford, if you are careful enough to dig a little further: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ces/entreunion/entreunion_schedu...
It doesn't seem to work with folders... I dragged an Xcode project folder on to it and it spun forever at 0% uploaded.

Other than that, it's pretty cool. Very nice interface. You should make a shell extension or something so I can right-click on a file to add it to a crate (and copy the URL to that crate); that would be very handy.
If all students were free they would be cashflow negative which is worse than non-profit?
I'm not interested in global income inequality. It's more important to me that my country functions well.
This is a good start. Just my opinion, but I think Harvard should be considered a for-profit company unless all students go free.
The poor upper middle class. Always getting screwed.
I still think build systems should be written in node and js from now on. Node is easy to install on most environments, in my experience it is much easier than python or ruby and javascript knowledge is spreading.
Java desktop applications have shown that with enough resources thrown at the problem, slow and flaky things can become fast and stable. JavaScript desktop applications seem to be at the "slow and flaky but has tons of resources being thrown at them" stage.

The VM, as with Java ten years ago, is also seeing remarkable improvements.
Looks like Standford is learned something :-) Not everyone that can afford to pay is smarter then the one who can't. Students should be accepted upon knowledge and skills and not there financial situation. I vote for free education!
This is a great step. I wonder if there are any plans to expand this to would-be adult learners. That would be amazing. If other top universities follow suit (I'd love to see this at NYU and Columbia, personally), that'd be even better. Not going to solve the student loan crisis, but it'll certainly help a bit. Encouraging to see this.

Another thing I like about this is the "only contribute $5000 a year" part (especially if it does expand to adults) - that means if you've built a small personal safety net, you won't have to watch it all go up in smoke instantly. That adds a margin of safety you don't get right now.
Don't make me have to sign up or log in to see stuff. Let me into a school and let me read what's going on right away. Let me peruse your content.
That's why some team sports have imposed salary cap limits.
This reads like you're someone who's never cycled in a city.
Learning “on the job” is an anachronism from the days when companies invested in their employees and employees stayed in the same organization for their entire career. We’re moving towards the gig model, even calling programmers “rock stars” to sell it.
My point is that adding that level of verbosity for something that should be simple makes it really hard to find the important parts of the code.

Boilerplate obfuscates.
This isn't the case, monero employs stealth addresses so there is no way to tell who the recipient is just just by observing the blockchain.
You could even summon yourself to pick up your stuff. The circle is complete.
You seem to assume that everything was 100% safe in previous generations. Actually it was not the case, and you don't see many 60 years old crippled by domestic accidents when they were small kids, do you?
> Meanwhile, the proportion of taxes paid by the top quintile earners has increased from 55% in 1980 to 70% by 2013.

Citing the amount collected from the top quintile is moving the goalposts a bit. A typical 20%er is someone like a successful dentist. Sure, they probably have a stock portfolio, but that's for funding their retirement.

It doesn't help that the statistics are always presented in misleading ways. We really need the stats to be stated in terms of tranches that exclude the higher ones (eg. top 0.01%, 0.01-0.1%, 0.1-0.5%, 0.5-1%, 1-5%, 5-10%, 10-20%, 20-40%, 40-60%, etc.). Instead, lumping the 1% in with the 1-20% just co-opts the upper-middle class into defending the interests of the 1% and above.

> But all this ignores the main fact, which is that actual rich people make most of their money not as income, but as unrealized capital gains. High marginal rates on income taxes affects high-earning professionals. Not the private jet crowd.

Of course. That's where discussion of wealth inequality (and the estate tax) takes over from income inequality.
You're right that I am misunderstanding what you wrote. I continue to not understand what you are writing. I'm not even sure if we are in disagreement or not.

My position is that there are a handful of ideologues who have perverse beliefs that typically feminine things are bad or demeaning. These people are left-wing, academic, modern feminist types. They think things like "Wanting to be a princess is synonymous to wanting to subjugate yourself to men" or "Wanting to be a housewife will make people think you aren't intelligent".

The reality is that women and girls are, on average, predisposed towards "girly" stereotypes. More girls are interested in aesthetics, talking, emotions, etc. In the same way boys are more likely interested in things like fighting, guns, dinosaurs, trucks, etc. I think we should be equally fine with anyone interested in any set of subjects, but I also contend that the people I referenced earlier argue that girls doing typically girly things are undesirable and girls should be encouraged to pursue interests that boys typically do.
> The window into the internet shouldn’t be controlled by big companies. It’s a principle thing for me.

That's exactly why I stopped with Mozilla. They are just a proxy for corporate controlled interests. And it is heartbreaking.

Every single battle, they have folded. Nearly every decision they have made has aligned with corporate interests. And then they issue a paternalistic statement saying that selling out is in our best interest.

- They embraced EME web DRM. They didn't have to. They could have taken the position that if someone wants DRM they should do it via Flash or Silverlight, or some other external means. They could have just done nothing. They didn't have to legitimize it as a concept. It would have been so powerful if they had just done nothing.

- They killed off RSS support for no good reason. The cost to maintain it would have been less than their office carpet cleaning budget. They don't see RSS as an integral part of the web. They see it as a toy, not worth including by default. And thanks to their attitude, RSS is actually becoming that way.

- They killed off XUL based extensions, and embraced a much more limited extension system (but at least it is more compatible and less differentiated with Google!). The functionality that was lost has not been restored.

The job of Mozilla was to be an EXAMPLE, more than to be popular. And they have accomplished neither.

I was with them since the start. Firefox was amazing when it was NOT compatible with Internet Explorer 6, and not trying to be! I'm so glad that they had enough faith in their own vision of the web to risk turning off less technical users. And we were all better for it.

Mozilla has failed us, and the best outcome is for the Mozilla foundation to go bankrupt, so that maybe we can pick up the pieces.
When I was a teenager(?) at Facepunch Forums, I wrote Half-Life 2: Sandbox as a free and open source competitor to the by-then commercial version of Garry’s Mod.

It drove me nuts that GMod multiplayer games were declining rapidly in quality over the years and I wanted my own platform that had faster load times, better out of the box game mode experiences and so on. And I actually did it.

Due to some licensing agreement change issues with Valve, I ended up not taking it to the storefront.

But prior to that, I didn’t spend enough time marketing the mod anyway. Those who knew about it seemed to pass along some encouraging words, which was nice.

These days I work on Planimeter’s Grid Engine instead, and I have the freedom to do new things with it. But of course, new is always hard.

Anyway all that to say this reminds me of Minecraft, which is obviously a fun game. And if this has Lua and some proper bindings, it’s gonna be a blast. I’m sure it already is.

But it’s hell on earth trying to get people to play a game that is a spiritual derivative—of another well-established game.

Have fun developing this. But do it for you. Like I did Half-Life 2: Sandbox for me. All these years later, my mod still runs better than even the latest version of GMod. It does that because I put more care into it.

But since the Source SDK 2013 base is frozen in time, and there’s no usable Source 2 SDK, no one plays it. But that’s OK. I had fun.

In a similar manner, I sort of wish there would have been someone from the gaming generation before me, maybe a Quakeworld player, who would have passed on the same insight.

Projects this large will take years of your life in development time. You only get to work on some many of them. Ask yourself if you want to see yourself working on this in 5-10 years, or a similar title.
In short, don't.

Pure clis (where you type commands and get answers) are okay. Ncurses apps are sorta kinda usable, but a native GUI is way better. With a real web browser or native GUI, a screen reader has access to semantic information, so it can tell you that you've reached a table with 3 rows and 5 columns. It can then let you navigate that table by row, by column, by a mix of both, or in whatever way you choose. With a terminal UI, all you have is dashes and vertical bars, which will be [read as dashes and vertical bars. You can make sense of them, given enough time and patience, but GUIs are just way easier.

The guideline I give for accessibility of textual interfaces is "make it look good in a non-monospaced font, with no color support". Don't expect character 33 in line 12 to be directly under character 33 in line 11. If nothing breaks, you're probably good to go.
Stablecoins are a way to use the Ethereum network (or another blockchain) to send value that is pegged to the US dollar. There are a lot of stablecoins now (USDC, DAI, USDT) and they have various mechanisms for staying pegged to the dollar, some more effective than others.

Using stablecoins allows you the advantages of the Ethereum network (interoperability with ethereum loan platforms and other smart contracts) without having to be concerned with the price of ETH.

Stablecoins have the same level of security as their underlying blockchain. To double-spend ethereum-based stablecoins you need to 51% attack Ethereum itself.
Ask yourself: What drives the price increase? Are people buying because they expect to use Bitcoin? Or because they expect the price will go up?

If it's the latter, it's a self-reinforcing cycle: The price goes up because people buy. People buy because the price goes up.

So what happens when the popular narrative switches? What happens when the price goes down for years at a time and people watch their money dwindle? Will people wait around for the price to skyrocket again? Or will they see their friends getting rich in altcoins or meme stocks or NFT trading cards and sell their BTC to get in on the next hot trend?
Totally not a problem. If you are in the f-off frame of mind then probably for the best!

You won't be pushed that hard for an exit interview if it was pretty clearly not a good fit. Some of these transitions are a relief for all concerned (employee AND manager).

If a manager has someone with leadership / significant upside potential I do think a discussion is worth doing if possible.
Hyundia announced an EV with built in inverter, they call it Vehicle To Load[1]. Like you mention with a transfer switch your whole house could be a "load"
For a non-emergency it probably makes sense to use a <70% depleted 2nd life battery, and save the new battery for transportation usage.

[1]
https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/company/newsroom/hyunda...
I forgot who said checking notifications is like pulling the slot machine lever, but it's an apt comparison.
As a...
- website user
I want to...
- do multiple clicks and scroll and find non-obvious buttons
So that...
- I get the minimum cookie choice i want.
> (They also last at least 10 times longer than bikes, in terms of number of miles... including tires, etc.)

What? By what metric?
I don't see how your version is easier than the sequence of commands in the first few steps of the article, which is basically `pip install flit; flit init; flit publish`. Flit is just as easy to install as twine, but you save yourself the hassle of having to write a setup.py.
He got his point across.

For every innocuous "I will not be attending X event" tweet that Twitter deemed "violent", one can easily locate dozens of Democrats threatening murder, insurrection, harassment treason, arson, robbery, and vandalism.

So when the average voter sees THEIR guy get silenced, while folks with the magic "D" by their name get a pass...

And then that voter sees those organizations and their employees donate almost exclusively to politicians and causes ALSO bearing the magic "D"...

A point is made that won't soon be forgotten.
That's exactly what I did. My kid loves live music like NPR tiny desk concerts. It also allows me to censor the few that had some bad words.

I'd still prefer if I could whitelist regular YouTube videos I explicitly approve of...
I always keep this diagram of the scales of universe [1] close at hand. It feels liberating to look at it when I feel overwhelmed. To me, it shows that it is completely preposterous to worry about.. anything, really. The Earth is negligible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Location_of_Earth_(9x1-En...
>"The final Xenix work at Microsoft was an effort with AT&T to integrate Xenix support into the main System V.3 source code, producing what we unimaginatively called the “Merged Product” (noted by the official name of

“UNIX System V, r3.2”

in the timeline above)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V

>"SVR3

AT&T's UNIX System Development Laboratory (USDL) was succeeded by AT&T Information Systems (ATTIS), which distributed UNIX System V, Release 3, in 1987.[12] SVR3 included STREAMS, Remote File Sharing (RFS), the File System Switch (FSS) virtual file system mechanism, a restricted form of shared libraries, and the Transport Layer Interface (TLI) network API.

The final version was Release 3.2 in 1988, which added binary compatibility to Xenix on Intel platforms (see Intel Binary Compatibility Standard).

[...]

SCO UNIX was based upon SVR3.2, as was ISC 386/ix. Among the more obscure distributions of SVR3.2 for the 386 were ESIX 3.2 by Everex and "System V, Release 3.2" sold by Intel themselves; these two shipped "plain vanilla" AT&T's codebase.[13]

IBM's AIX operating system is an SVR3 derivative."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

>"In 1987, SCO ported XENIX to the 386 processor, a 32-bit chip, after securing knowledge from Microsoft insiders that Microsoft was no longer developing XENIX.[40] XENIX System V Release 2.3.1 introduced support for i386, SCSI and TCP/IP. SCO's XENIX System V/386 was the first 32-bit operating system available on the market for the x86 CPU architecture.

[...]

SCO released its SCO UNIX as a higher-end product, based on System V R3 and offering a number of technical advances over XENIX; XENIX remained in the product line. In the meantime, AT&T and Sun Microsystems completed the merge of XENIX, BSD, SunOS and System V R3 into System V R4. The last version of SCO XENIX/386 itself was System V R2.3.4, released in 1991.[45]"
“Open source” doesn’t mean much if it doesn’t come with a usable license.
He mentions that SSGs require tooling and dependencies.

And if all you need are dynamic headers and footers, just wrap those in 'php include' tags and rename the files to .php. It's still HTML and CSS that's getting rendered.
It doesn't mean that some companies shouldn't exist to fill the demand from people who want 4 day work weeks though. Not everyone has kids, plus, not everyone in the company needs to be employed on the same terms imo.

Also, given how difficult it is to recruit developers, offering roles on a 4 day week will ease this process as it's a "USP" that few other companies offer.
Telegram is to messengers what Emacs is to text editors.

- Unlimited storage that doesn't expire

- Complete API access. There are many alternative Telegram clients because of this, and the official clients are opensource, too.

- Native clients for all the major platforms (macOS even has two official native clients), including a web client. All clients work without needing to link up with a phone. There are unofficial clients for the terminal and Emacs, as well.

- Excellent bot API that gives you the ability to easily write your own bots, and has enabled a rich ecosystem of bots. E.g., https://t.me/InLaTeXbot, https://t.me/MusicsHunterbot, https://t.me/GmailBot, https://t.me/libsan_bot, https://t.me/scihubot, https://t.me/to_kindle_bot, https://t.me/music, https://t.me/youtube, https://t.me/imdb, https://t.me/minroobot, ... . Check out https://github.com/SpEcHiDe/UniBorg for a self-hostable bot that is just superb.

- Good support (best I've seen) for sending text, images, audio, links, etc.

- The above combined with support for one-to-many "channels" has enabled a very rich ecosystem of personal microblogs (ala Tumblr) alongside official news channels. (As this needs networks effects, the ecosystem might not be strong in English. I only follow https://t.me/techmemenews and https://t.me/tldrnewsletter in English, which are bridges to some non-Telegram newsletters I have built myself.) There are also a lot of channels that "liberate" "information", such as https://t.me/HeadSpaceChannel .

- Those channels are also great for private note-taking.

- Ability to selectively export data to HTML (good for human viewing) or JSON. There once was an unofficial terminal app that exported to sqlite, but the maintainer gave up after this feature was added to the official clients. Nonetheless, exporting data via the API is still an option.

- Multiaccount support

- An open and free-as-in-beer ecosystem for (potentially animated) stickers, which has resulted in some really creative stickers, and where one can find stickers for most niche interests.

- Multi-device usage (Signal only works on a single phone)

- Seamless device switching, courtesy of not having E2E on by default. One also doesn't lose history.

- A lot of small quality-of-life features, such as: Video profile avatars; Granular settings for notifications, storage, privacy, ...; Ability to group chats into folders; Ability to group files (including photos and videos) into a single post; Animated emojis; Ability to pin chats to the top; "Instant view" that lets you read a cleaned version of articles in Telegram itself; Rich link previews; Scheduled message posts; ...

- E2E chats are available when you want them, and you can even set a self-destruct on your posts.

- You can fully use Telegram without revealing your phone number to anyone.

- Great support for groups and their administration, and you can always use bots if you want some niche feature.

- Group voice chats

- Acceptable search through everything in your history. (I am not up to speed on what the competition offers.)
Syncthing isn't solving josephg's problem. When two people open an Excel or Google spreadsheet, both people can see the other's cursor position and edits in near real-time. Both apps require buy-in to a singular, proprietary back-end (Excel's collaboration disappears in the file is outside of OneDrive). This is a "Mother of All Demos" level feature and people will suffer portability issues to keep it.
I had 3 people giving quite some damn about it today at work. Got them all to switch to Signal :)

And it seems like may others do too: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1347240006444675072
Why did you leave? Did they downsize after the BBVA acquisition?
They brought bombs and a cooler full of molotov cocktails. This was a planned violent activity
Parler.

They'll welcome him with open arms.
"a blockchain for general purpose computing" is precisely the problem. Nobody wanted or needed that. Bitcoin was created as digital money. A bunch of people mistakenly thought that the best "feature" of Bitcoin was its programmability, and doubled down on that by allowing arbitrary computations in transactions, which just opened up the Pandora's Box of attack vectors.

And you can't really say "Ethereum is one of the good ones" if it literally enabled the wholesale defrauding of billions of dollars from ill-informed speculators by providing the platform for those fraudulent ICOs.
I can't reply to your comment, rectang, so I hope this will suffice.

You will notice I did not call out anyone for denying help to make rape victims, merely that I believe bad actors exist in all facets of society. I by no means am putting down the hard work of the heroes who give their time to help people. I find your black and white response just as disgusting, to ignore that people can take positions of power over others and abuse them.

As for naming names, I have given an example of an organisation I find abhorrent.
This thread is reminding me that the ease of finding a good toilet in SF varies a lot with the part of town.

In my experience the east side of town, especially the financial district, businesses start being cagey about letting you use the bathroom.

Going westward, when you get to the Lower Haight or so, I can start naming many coffee shops with decent bathrooms and no lock on the door. And decent park bathrooms too.
That I think was the reason the deposit price was dropped to
$100. That's nearly nothing at the price these will come in at so Tesla gets a nice big number of 'pre-orders' to wave around and get second and third waves of press coverage while basically selling people tickets from the take a number roll at the deli.
> block “rogue” (read: tracking) IPs.

With IPv6 that's as impractical as blocking "rogue" FQDNs.
Twenty thousand flamethrowers at $500 a pop meant about $10 million in revenue in about 100 hours. Literally afterwards he could sale amost everything..
Because reliance is the Mother of great leverage?
Aluminum is harder to work / weld / repair and is more expensive than steel. Yes, aluminum is much lighter and oxidizes less destructively.

You don't see a lot of manufacturers wasting weight on very robust body panels--in fact, quite the opposite, preferring aluminum or carbon fiber for panels, hood, and roof when practical.