jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And the first example of the doctrine provided on the Wikipedia page dates to (drum roll) 1828.
I just love the idea of having the computer being a plug in accessory to my display. Small enough that where ever I go and a display is available I have my computer and data.

Now if it is topped up with good sync software so I can have the truly workhorse computer at work/home and take whatever partition of it I want I will be sold
This is for mere humans who don't want to fight with sed awk-wardness.
I would be astonished. I'm a junior on £27k, and when I was looking for jobs I never saw a single one at that level advertised over £30k.

Which rather puts the £8k fees in an unflattering perspective, but there you go.
I have a vague memory that FreeBSD does ship with the binary blobs for the acceleration, so pfsense might be doable. I did install FreeBSD on mine for a while, but you need some external setup to build packages as there isnt enough storage for the ports tree and no mips binary packages.
Notes from the trenches:

There's a million and N ways to die, both as a company and an individual, if you let them. Basically, expect failure as a default state, don't (or try not to) take it personally. Don't give up on something that people want (and will pay money for)... you may hit 2 to 5 patches where it's "this sucks, I wanna die" times. Get over it (you can if you really want it bad enough), move ahead. (If not, take a break and recover... Working crazy hours/conditions if it kills you doesn't help anyone.) Even if you have to live in a car or tent, put in the effort to make the best shot possible. It's basically impossible to die of starvation in Amerika at least... More caffeine, exercise and less "ambient eating"... Self-restraint is paramount. Get back in the saddle, get up off the ground, another biz model awaits expermentation... Maybe have some survivor bias eventually, if not start a practical business. It'll all work out, on way or another. Have a good time along the way. :) No one has a perfect formula or perfect advice, just do the best possible and hire people that do whatever it is much better.

(Picking cofounders carefully as one would their SO, because it's effectively marriage.)
You (and others with real software development skills and drive) are in an incredible position today. You've graduated into a very exciting market (I went through the previous boom and it was frenzied, but this is one is even more so) with opportunities everywhere. If you can't seem to find anything on the 'art and design technology' side, take a look into organizations like EyeBeam [http://eyebeam.org/] and AdaFruit's job page [https://www.adafruit.com/jobs/] to start with; they may not be trivial to find, but some are out there. Before I became a software developer, I was in audio engineering (didn't last long) and am an occasional musician, so I've seen both sides. There is definitely an incredible amount of boring stuff out there, but there's also exciting stuff to be found.

Many people do just jump in for the money, and others in this thread have addressed it, so I won't except to say that there are people who start out in an industry because they need the money (for example, I had to live on my own and start work at 17, no familial support), but then realize they really enjoy it and stay for the other stuff: problem solving, puzzles, building elegant things, and all the rest. Perhaps not most, but there are some.

As far as the passion vs. profit stuff, there's no denying that there's a serious tension there, and that's not going anywhere anytime soon. I've dealt with this too, and I saw three choices:

1) You can live like a pauper in an expensive area/decently in a very cheap area and do what you enjoy, even if no one ever buys it. There are people who do this with code - I've seen plenty of indie game devs pick a cheap area in the US, work the occasional freelance job, and spend every other moment working on their games. This can be a totally valid path if you're OK with its limitations. You know what this is like from the art side already, too.

2) You can try to get wealthy and then do whatever you want - no more working terrible jobs, being paid a fraction of what you're worth, being engulfed in [other] company politics, working for others when you'd rather be working for yourself, etc. I'm sure many people of us here on HN are doing exactly that.

3) You can try to find a decent compromise - some companies will give you 5% time, others may pay you to just do research (a previous company I worked for paid a few people to do nothing but work on an audio/3D visual coding framework, for example), others simply hit that sweet spot of giving you interesting stuff to work on for decent money.
http://rainbowstalin.ytmnd.com/ and http://rainbowstalin[2-5].ytmnd.com/
If I was going to be nitpicky, it was not actually communism, but it was partly the work of some aspects of communist theory, as the idea of state communism was that you had to go through this immense struggle and remake society before you got to the nice fluffy city on the hill.

However the folk who rose to the top realised that if they wanted to stay on top, they had to keep the struggle bit going indefinitely.
This gives me the creeps. Authorisation and identification are not the same. If you use 'Login with X' you're giving X access to all your accounts. That's not just third party attestation of your identity. It's kind of like saying a passport is what gives you access to your home country... in reality your status as a citizen is what gives you that right, the passport is merely a convenience.
Got a Filco with browns, and dampening O-rings. It's really loud though. I'd like something quieter, the Cherry Clears sound good.
Insofar as the market allows.
Why not subreddit?
It's likely Louis CK I was thinking of actually! Oops
Maybe the reason is that so they can go work abroad if they aren't fitting in with Japans conformist culture.

Though the immigrants I work with seem to just reconstruct the same pattern of behavior. My Japanese office mate works til midnight every single night for no reason. I feel sad for the poor guy.
people aren't that anal here :)
Spoofing is the easy thing, as the hashing is done in the client. You'd just have to figure out the protocol to get the file with a known hash (and other metadata, probably).

However, "guessing" the hash for a file that you don't have is not. The chance that you'll get a file by trying random hashes is very very very small.
duplicating the host_id from the Dropbox config onto another system will immediately gain access to all of the Dropbox files associated with that host_id, without further authentication

Sounds like the host_id is the secret key. So to paraphrase: "If you type someone's username & password into the facebook login page, you get complete access to their account"
Previous svn user, now happy git user: if you have the choice for greenfield dev, user git, hg, or any other DVCS. The advantages to doing so are enormous. It will likely require changing your workflow at the commit, branch, and merge levels (you'll do a lot more of all three), but after you adjust, particular things which once caused workweeks of loss simply don't happen.

SVN is wonderful software. It is a quantum leap above "no version control" and tortoiseSVN is probably the best GUI available for getting value out of version control prior to understanding it. That said, magical goodness awaits you if you use DVCS instead.
its the "BRE".

LibOffice would be infinitely better in terms of pronounciation.
http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-cannot-rightly-apprehend-th...
It's exactly the same as generating an RSA public key -- pick two prime numbers and multiply them. The only interesting part is that the sizes were chosen carefully to give an increasing ladder of difficulty.

There's nothing more mathematically interesting or distinctive about the RSA numbers compared to other semiprimes of similar sizes. In a way, they were meant to represent typical moduli from RSA public keys, to mimic the difficulty of attacking an RSA public key of a particular size by factoring.
No need to assume an income tax based financing if that’s what you mean. My own take on UBI is to finance it from land rent. In the way Henry George thought about it (or Thomas Paine, John Locke, or even John Rawls for that matter)

See Geolibertarianism for good start to learn about the argument https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
According to the wikipedia article "RSA Factoring Challenge":

>The RSA numbers were generated on a computer with no network connection of any kind. The computer's hard drive was subsequently destroyed so that no record would exist, anywhere, of the solution to the factoring challenge.

referring to reference 3:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130921043454/http://www.emc.co...
We can make some pretty good guesses. We make this kind of judgement call about species all the time. Like it or not, we pick the winners and losers in this world. That's why there are lots of dogs, cows, and chickens, and no smallpox viruses (at least not in the wild). It's because we've decided that dogs, cows and chickens deserve to live because they make our lives better, and smallpox viruses don't deserve to live because they make our lives worse.

It seems to me that a Sumatran Rhino is a lot more like a dog or a cow or a chicken than it is like a smallpox virus. It's true that we can't eat them or keep them as pets, but just the ability to go see one in the wild has value IMHO.
Another point is that the rental is not always available, at least at a reasonable price.

I drive most of my kilometres during certain seasons: Christmas, Easter holiday, school holidays (when visiting parents etc).

These are exactly the times when very many others also want to make similar trips, so the rental companies are out of capacity, or rather, there is surge pricing.
What exactly does playful mean in this context?
Not sure if I agree with you but I was very surprised to find that their Python kernel is also implemented in C++: https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus
Did you try the docs, the blog or YouTube? You'll find plenty of information there. Feel free to start with https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt06Z28uzPA
This article is wrong. Moral good comes from moral incompetence as much as competence (as per the author's definitions) because morality is intention, not result.
If I had said to you in 1993 that "ordinary people are not going to abandon the large platforms for these new internet discussion forums", what would you have said then?

Yes, there's a network effect. No, it's not everlasting, or all-encompassing.

Basing current policy on claims about how people will behave in the future seems like a bad idea to me.
This will still get caught up in litigation, won't be backed by the Biden administration, and won't be funded by any of the big banks, which have refused to participate [0]

[0]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank-of-america-joins-big-...
Interesting how lobotomies are good for treating mania but not brains despite the brain producing mania
Agreed. The yellow would imply a neutral to mildly negative, rather than somewhat positive, sentiment.
whops ;) I read it as "spread the contents around widely" == sharding at first
The source article describes an incident where Balaji Srinivasan was emailing Curtis Yarvin about how to stop the media from reporting on the links between Yarvin's ideology and prominent tech figures such as Srinivasan. I'm unhappy about the guilt by association, because that really doesn't have much to do with Scott Alexander, but a prominent VC trying to kill news stories which might embarrass him is pretty noteworthy.
Everyone on our team at https://CHS.gg had a drink for y'all. I hope today is better Yev!
Shooting someone is more effective if you don't put yourself in between the person and the gun.
All Shitbowls possess this feature, it's involved by a simple formula of

(age in bowl x proximity to bottom x urgency of real-time need)

Some items such as padlock keys, unused postage stamps, and nearly expired gift cards will override and invoke a quantum certainty of 1.0 when they are trying to be located.
I use junk drawers, which scale to available drawers, after which you buy more storage or a larger house.
I wanted to write its market cap being 1% of the gold market cap. Then I checked and it looks it has already happened, and I still don't consider Bitcoin successful, just a little bit crazier.

I'd consider it successful if I could pay with it in physical shops, or at least in one of major online shops (let's say Amazon).
I'm not worried about machines which print ballots and leave a paper trail. That's not what they look like many places. You hit a button on the screen. Your pray your vote is counted correctly. There's no audit trail, no security, and no transparency.
I still don't understand, what could be the point of deleting an email?

Privacy reasons? If you are hosted by some company, telling them you want to delete something does not necessarily interact with their retention policy. If you self-host, this is not a problem.

Storage space? Of course not, it is cheap. This is related to minimalism. I try to minimize my material possessions, but for data, I don't find this relevant.

Making it easier to find later, for you or your heirs? In that case, sure, make a folder of "important" emails, have a way to exclude "useless" emails from search by default. But this does not imply that you should delete them for real.

Sure, it's an important and interesting problem to be able to find back the emails that matter. It doesn't mean that it's wrong to keep the others just in case.
Maybe this article isn't the answer to the mysteries of the Universe. Maybe the article is complete bullshit. But IMO right now the reality is that physicists don't really have a fucking clue about how 95% of the universe works. E.g. consider this[1], yes I know it's just Wikipedia, but the general idea should be correct:

Dark matter is a kind of matter that accounts for
most of the matter in the entire universe. Dark
matter is one of the greatest mysteries in modern
astrophysics.
...
the total mass–energy of the known universe
contains 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter
and 68.3% dark energy. Thus, dark matter is
estimated to constitute 84.5% of the total matter
in the universe, while dark energy plus dark matter
constitute 95.1% of the total content of the
universe.

So maybe physicists should be grasping at straws, maybe they should even be considering ideas from mere "biologists", because (to steal a line from Dr. Peter Venkman) "the usual stuff isn't working".

And it doesn't get any better at the subatomic level. I've previously [2] commented on that. How about a theory combining general relativity with quantum mechanics? The best attempt I've seen so far is from slashdot:

Your momma so fat even if I'd entangle
with her no information would be able
to leave her event horizon.

Nobody has managed to put gravitation
and QM together yet, and you want to
do it in a your-momma-so-fat-joke? Wow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8715315
NoSQL databases were still in their infancy when Wikipedia was originally developed.
apt-get autoremove
Privacy is freedom of thought.

http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote....
https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...
There are too many of these keys on mac laptops: fn, shift, ctrl, alt, command. Do we really need five? I'm sure you could work it down to three with a bit of thought.
Business continuity comes from having warm/hot backup servers in different colos, not from the speed at which we can replace servers. But your point is taken, it is certainly much easier to have a server replacement automatically happen than to have to buy the server, set it up, and drive to colo.
The AT&T site wasn't calculating tax yesterday or the extra "phone tax" if you're in CA. You are probably being charged up to $100 more than what they said the total was.
Thank you for suggestion one of favourite qouted line of my lead is "Facebook and Goole using everything that's why we also should use everything possible" this make me sad about where i am working
"hopefully no one would have ever suggested fielding survivability-inferior but numerically-superior manned force as a viable strategic aim..."

Every wartime opponent of the USA for the last half century that we've lost to, has eventually won using that exact strategy. Its kind of expensive, but everyone who tries it, beats us eventually.
I am sure many people are like me in that there are constant meetings, questions and other interruptions to the point that you never actually get into the "zone".
Washing hands is basic hygiene, definitely not theater.
Getting a 502 error

https://web.archive.org/web/20210406074552/https://robertche...
> Afaik the value of the USD depends on the GDP / economic output of the country.

No. The GDP increases every time a USD transaction happens (e.g. you buy a cup of coffee with USD). And an American buying a cup of coffee definitely does not increase the value of the USD.
I can relate with most of the things from the blog post, and I am sure the pain the author goes through is real. In no way I want to diminish it.

Having said that, a couple of things:

- I think on HN it would be more appropriate to link to medical/scientific resources, instead of personal blog pages like this, which despite being relatable, are dangerous to extrapolate an objective and statistical view on the topic from. I personally found some parts to be too driven by animosity (against "nonbelievers"), and some to show contradictory advice. There are several good parts, but overall I did not find it a high quality piece, and I would advice against proposing that as a flagship piece.

- When I read pieces like these, the question that pops into my mind is: how can we distinguish a person that has a condition and that needs comprehension from a person that is just lazy, that just wants to do what they want all the time, and that lies to you about them being in pain (or maybe even lie to themselves, having built a view of the world in which they thing they are going through something and they are legitimized to act in a certain way, or they built a habit and can't help to act in that way)?
I do not ask this with the intent of provoking anybody. It is a serious question, both philosophical (what is lazyness? Is there a thing such as inability to focus with and without malice? Who has the right to judge morally?) and practical/scientific/medical (how can we distinguish an illness from something that would look indistinguishable, when hearing from people claiming it? What are objective methods that we can use to declare that we are witnessing a legitimate impairment in someone? Does a right moment ever come for nudging, scolding, encouraging? Or is it never the right thing to do, with anybody?)

I think, to answer the latter, more statistical surveys would be useful for all of us to share and to read, so that we could avoid the usual anecdote-driven arguments that most of the time plague threads like this one, even on a website like HN, which is full of scientific-minded people.

I am the first one that would like to read more academic literature and less anecdotes on the topic, but I am not very informed. So, if anybody has resources to share that could help the discussion, please do! :)
Dennis Ritchie got 1.5 articles and John McCarthy 0.5, although it's a bit painful to read the Economist house style discussing programming languages.

https://www.economist.com/babbage/2011/10/20/printfgoodbye-d...

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2011/11/05/dennis-ritchie...
calling me a fascist is a cheap shot and I'm not going to respond to it - not because it offends me but because it's a boring argument that doesn't engage with my point.
He is using a novel templating library, novel HTTP server, novel JS diffing algorithm ... and this approach has generated more questions than any other on this thread so clearly it is unfamiliar to much of the audience.
Please consider hosting your blog in a static form as it is being hugged to death.
My understanding is that this is a difficult problem to solve "perfectly" due to lag between incurring a cost and recording the cost.

It's impossible to solve perfectly with tech.

Amazon saying "If you put a number in this form we won't charge you more than that, but your account will be limited by <list of limitations> and if you go over those limits then <long list of conditions that will apply if you go over the limits up to and including removing you from the platform if AWS think it was fraudulent>" is a perfect solution.

The only reason why there would need to be a perfect tech solution is if AWS are concerned about giving people a small amount of service that they're not able to charge for. AWS clearly believe protecting themselves from overages is more important than giving customers peace of mind that they're not going to be hit with a huge bill. That's a reasonable position for a business to take, and they're completely free to do it, but you can't also argue that customers are wrong to avoid deploying to AWS because they're scared of a surprise bill.
'deserves to be in prison' does not imply 'deserves terrible living conditions'

Yes it does. "deserves" very much alludes to revenge, not rehabilitation.

"As far as whether punishment 'makes sense', that depends on what moral system you use. I wouldn't treat it as so obvious."

Everything depends on everything; could you elaborate? Just to further the discussion a bit. Being a deterrent has nothing to do with morals, which I see as the main argument for punishment so I'm curious where you're getting at.
In February of 2010, I was asked to appear on CNN in response to Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III having burnt his house to the ground, then crashed his airplane into the Austin, Texas Internal Revenue Service headquarters.

Joe did that in protest of IRS Section 1706, as well as the law behind it. He was and I am a software consultant. 1706 also effects consulting architects and consulting electrical engineers.

I was glad to appear on CNN - look up "Michael David Crawford" on YouTube - but just afterwards, all the local TV stations wanted to interview me as well.

I would have been OK with that however I was on a showstopper bug for my client. I finally granted just one local interview, but on the condition that the TV station would not in any way present my opinion as representing that of my client. They were OK with that; while they interviewed me in the parking lot at work, the camera was facing away from my client's office.

After a while I got so very many requests for local interviews that I powered off my phone. I also emailed a profuse apology to everyone on my project.

They were all quite supportive of my taking most of the day off to appear on TV. However my client at the time was on the ropes financially. I didn't want anyone else to lose their job just because I was enjoying my fifteen minutes of fame.
A Brief History of Time http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/...
Everything I've seen suggests the dual-clutch automatic transmission is more efficient than the manual, including VW's own figures. It came as a surprise to me, but a nice benefit for other factors.

I imagine that yes, being able to keep it in low gears would have helped, and indeed putting it into manual mode for some of the parts I found the worst (rapid turns from one busy street to another) helped, but it put it in the "More trouble than it was worth" category.

That being said, the TDI was a great car, and a serious contender for my money. I just preferred the GTI a bit more, but given I love the GTI, that's good company to be in.
I'm a big fan of skepticism, but blindly questioning anything you see without supporting your claims is just another form of superstition.