jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh, I agree that the supply of people is not fixed, and does respond to incentives. But I have done open source software long enough to realize that a lot of great programmers are outside the US, and that creating artificial barriers is not a good solution, long-term.
I guarantee you, open your doors to remote programmers, and you will get more top-quality prospects than you can possibly hire.

You're restricting your hiring pool to people who are willing to live in a small, overpriced, and absurdly overrated city.

It's a wonderful place, don't get me wrong. But expecting every single great programmer in the world to live in that one tiny city is just ridiculous. By Paul Graham's own arguments, they wouldn't all be able to fit.
USD price does fluctuate and inflate over time yes, but the difference is that this is essentially an invisible effect on day to day life for anyone that is not doing forex trading.

The reason the US dollar is "stable" is partially due to the fact that it is backed by the US government. It is a requirement that businesses operating in the US accept payment in US dollars. Until somewhere mandates that bitcoin _must_ be accepted, it will never truly be a currency, the same way that gold is not a currency, and the same way that wheat, or potash, or shares in GME is not a currency.

There's also a concept of "sticky" prices that most economists are quite familiar with - this assists in keeping the price of a coffee stable, whether or not technophiles accept it or not. Even if the price of the US dollar fell by 50% today, your coffee would still cost you around $2 or $3 tomorrow (assuming the coffee shop was even open).
I don't relate, or I'm not fully understanding your point. In my opinion, experience in the tech world helps leveling with more gifted brains. There might be a complicated concept that a brilliant brain will master immediately or after 1/2/5 years while a good-enough but not-so-brilliant brain will need 5/10/20 years to master it.

So, since not every company is FAANG that can appeal to and are constantly looking for those brilliant brains, there are many companies in which experience will help you to improve your position and salary.
The short version: Get it (encryption software) while you can.
I predict many of the additives in our food and other products will be dimly viewed in retrospective, similar to how we view asbestos & lead paint today.

The preservatives, anti-caking agents, food colorings and other profit-enhancing additives are basically used with an "innocent until proven guilty" mindset.

As usual, you need only follow the money; who profits from adding these things to our food? Pretty much everyone.

There's much less profit motivation for pure food, so it simply won't happen until there's conclusive proof that the additives are bad.

And who's going to pay for that proof -- enough that those profiting from them can't squash it?
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He says you want an "active position" where you "benefit from rise [in rates]."

Rates went down dramatically. In fact, they were cut almost in half. He was completely wrong on this prediction over the last 5 years. Maybe he was early - doubtful - but over a 5 year time frame that's as good as wrong.

but he has an options position which fixes his maximum loss at some known value

If you are long an option then it fixes your maximum loss at some known value. If you are short an option, then your maximum loss is infinity.

But let's be real. Even if you are long an option, that option will expire. Over 5 years you probably rolled that option a minimum of a few times and more likely several dozen times. Almost every time you would've experienced a loss.

Why is it bad to admit that he Taleb was just spectacularly wrong on this position? (Just like 99% of other professional investors that expected rates to spike up dramatically from 2010 to 2015).
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AirPlay is great, but it does have a non-trivial delay while it syncs and buffers, which becomes especially noticeable when skipping tracks.
I worked in lawn/pest control and my boss said that after a time, some guys take a hit from the chemicals, and become 'exquisitely sensitized' as is referenced here.

Chemicals that had no noticeable effect previously, suddenly have immediate consequences, like rashes or illness.
I don’t understand your thinking:

A rental house is an asset; a house you live in is a liability.

Your argument doesn’t make sense to me if you replace “rental house” with another business:

“Why would you put your life savings into gardening equipment to cut other peoples lawns when you don’t have enough savings to also be out of work for months?”

If your point is just that you should have 6-12 months of runway before you start any kind of business, that’s lovely advice.

That nearly no one can follow and only makes sense to extremely privileged tech workers, who already have stable and high paying employment.

If you shouldn’t put your whole savings into a rental property, you definitely shouldn’t put it into a house for yourself.
This is pretty clearly targeted at rehosting CICS applications on Linux. No one will move batch processing without JCL support, does anyone know if they offer that for Linux? Also this appears to be commercially licensed only, so no way to download and play with it that I saw?
CAN make more. Not so many of them actually do.
It doesn't really sound like she took on Google, but I guess "A woman who took on Modis and won" is a less engaging headline.
Here's your gun.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/13...
For starters, minimum wage workers are humans and need water to stay alive.
Maybe, just maybe, those of us working in great conditions can give more weight to the many more who clearly are not, lest we all see a reduction?
Are you kidding? The Juke is smaller than a 1 series, smaller than a VW Golf and much smaller than a Prius.

Even by European standards it's a tiny car.
Synchronization primitives are being suggested for addition to JS,

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/02/26/the-path-to-p...
> Maybe it's because they exalt one line functional functions over a nice, simple, easy to read FOR loop when the former are so difficult to read, figure out what they really do, what is the performance cost, debug...

Why do you even need `for` loops? Comparison + labels + jumps are good enough. You want to know the reason? It's easier to understand the intent of the programmer when there is a loop. `for i = 1 to n do ... done` means that the programmer wants the body to be executed n times. `while not (list.is_empty()) do ... done` means the body should be executed as long as the list isn't empty. If those are acceptable, why not also abstract away applying an operation to a collection, or removing elements from a collection, etc.? Basically it boils down to: I like Go, and everything it has needs to be there, and everything it doesn't have is unnecessary complexity.
Are the statistics for civilian casualties lower because we've actually killed less civilians or because we've labeled more civilians as enemy combatants? This could easily skew the numbers in either direction very quickly.
Great story, but total myth!

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2013/oct/02/david-c...
I'm having trouble understanding the definitions of these roles. I see the chart, but the terms are all vague to me. What does a data scientist do that a mathematician or scientist doesn't do, and what does a scientific programmer do that a data scientist doesn't do?

My impression was that "data scientist" was a colloquialism for "statistician that knows how to program." Is a scientific programmer just a programmer that knows some statistics? Why is the direction important? The author says he/she feels that a programmer that knows statistics can make "more robust software" than the other way around, but what exactly does that mean? Do they mean "doesn't crash as much", or do they mean "gives the right answer more often?"
It's text-only like hacker news... but for useless chatter.

Bonus: doesn't work without a trackable, paying subscription to a cell carrier (some workarounds like Google Voice exist).
you did not provide any details... but usually it's due to the difficulty you have in proving a reliable and steady income. It's not "discrimination", it's viewing you as an unknown and/or higher risk.

When you have a job/career, provided by someone else, you are viewed as likely to be more stable in regards to your monthly income. Typically your monthly income is fixed or round-about the same as every month, providing said stability. This is viewed as lower risk, because they can judge how likely they believe you are capable of repaying your debt. Yes, you may lose your job/are terminated, and they take this into account as well, usually by noting how long you have been employed at the current location, etc. Other factors contribute to your ability to be take on debt, such as if you own your home or rent, and how much your monthly payments are, any other existing large loans, etc.

When you are self employed, it is difficult to gauge the level of stability you may have. One month may be great, the other not so great. It's also difficult to prove on paper exactly what you are paid since you are paying yourself (nobody to vouch for you), and it could be temporarily artificially inflated with the intent of getting a loan, etc. Being self employed, they may view you as higher risk also due to your priorities (ie. your business). In the event you fall on hard times, will you pay the debt back first and foremost or will you struggle to save your business (because it's the only method of income). This contributes, along with other factors, to you being viewed as a higher risk.

I'd wager different types of loans will be more accessible than others, such as a business loan if you are in fact incorporated or an LLC (I don't know about sole proprietorships but my guess would be it varies by state/country). The purpose of the loan will greatly effect you ability to take on the debt, ie. a personal loan because you just want some new things is not likely to be granted unless you put of collateral.

Of course, a lot of this depends on the lender and their policies/terms. I'm not an expert, so if this is a problem for you currently I'd recommend reaching out to a few different lenders and asking them to explain their polices.
also english content is presented in russian language only copy. i prefer watching movies in their original language with subtitles but this option is not available, neither is netflix - which I still use via vpn - which is technically puts me in a breach of contract.
But they claim copyright on "all images" on the site. This would have the implication that simply pulling the images off the site (and not using their web site presentation) for use anywhere else would be infringement. Does their scanning of the photos add such a transformative element that they hold copyright on these images? Perhaps it could but I don't believe that it does in this case.

As to the phone number lookup examples, lists of facts cannot be protected under copyright. My understanding is that this extends to indexes of facts as well. Though there may indeed be a presentation or transformative element (which may have copyright protection), the underlying facts (and their indices) do not have copyright protection. I've seen many websites attempting to make this claim with lists, and they make it technically non-trivial to copy the data from their site, but should such a case actually make it to court, I don't think the claim would hold water.
Yes. Right now, this is done informally....but we definitely have plans to provide more structured vet request and feedback systems.
I have planned entire holidays using online information, going to places I'd never go to otherwise. While on holiday though I prefer travel guides in book format however.
They are rewriting BLAS in Python? Seriously? Links please.

You may not be aware that NumPy does it's heavy lifting by offloading the work to C and FORTRAN, and that's where the speed comes from. You set up your data in Python, use the nice high level language to parse files, etc, then you pass chunks of memory containing matrices off to the FORTRAN to crunch, then use Python again to say write it back to a file.
I can't even conceive that China, Russia, etc. would one day demand payment for anything exclusively in bitcoins unless they're well aware that the countries they're selling to have enough bitcoins and are willing to deal in that.

Also, there's nothing stopping the US government from simply using BTC itself, or whatever cryptocurrency it sees fit, as it might any foreign currency.

I've never seen any sign that the Fed or the USG actually see cryptocurrencies as a threat.
> I feel this way so strongly. "Why do you want to work for us?" Because I have to sell my labor to pay my landlord for a place to sleep.

Yes, exactly. I personally don't have a problem with being subordinate and receive tasks to do. But if asked that question, my answer would be just like yours. "No, I'm not coming to your place because I care about things you do (I probably won't even know what you do until day 1 of my employment anyway). I need to slave my life away somewhere to provide food and shelter for myself and people dependent on me, and your company just happened to ask me to accept you as my slave master. I have tons of my own projects and ideas that are million time more interesting than what you want me to do here, but money doesn't grow on trees.".

But of course I can't tell that to a potential boss. I need to dodge the question with "I'm a passionate programmer who loves spending time coding stuff, and I'm looking for interesting projects, which your company seems to have". Or something.

I'm increasingly thinking that maybe I should find some mundane computer work, automate the hell out of it without telling anyone, and use all the free time I gained by this to do my own projects. That way company gets the service it wants, I get paid for it and don't feel sick all the time. Win-win.
Screw this guy for being right about me.
The author writes an entire article accusing Gruber of failing to follow his assumptions to a truthful conclusion without giving a single example of him doing so.

I think that there's a lot of criticism toward Gruber because his opinions are not a carbon-copy of the unified public geek opinion that you'd see on a site like Slashdot. I think it's refreshing to see a solitary source of Apple commentary in which the author actually attempts to understand Apple's motivations rather than blindly lambast them. Gruber is not afraid to criticize Apple (I've read dozens of criticisms of the app store approval process, for example).

And that's always been his attitude: The opinions from someone who is a long-time fan of Apple products and does not instantly overreact to every news story about them like most tech sites. You can't accuse someone of jumping the shark for consistently doing what they've been doing for years.
Isn't this just the sports version of the EU or the DOJ slapping fines on Microsoft or other big companies for anti-competitive practices? i.e. you are so far ahead that we are going to use the rules to cripple you in some way?
Public transport + 3g + laptop. Use an hour each way for work and cut down on the time in the office - more free time in the evening or morning.
Shows the hypocrisy of Apple when they're saying you shouldn't need a plugin, but then force you to download a new browser even if it's not necessary.
+1 for The Teaching Company. I've spent many hours sitting in traffic while learning about music, linguistics, economics, philosophy, any many other topics. These are recordings of lectures for college-level courses, purpose-made for canned consumption.

Also consider regular audiobooks. I have a subscription to Audible.com (site is lame, product is good). These aren't limited to the latest thriller novel: there are plenty of good non-fiction books available.
I think quality is better than quantity. Build relationships with folks you are targeting. Take them out to lunch. I know in-person meetings are not something most of us love to do, but they are really important -- especially for the potential user. Get a handful of say 5-10 people that you really want to reach. Listen to them. Solve their problems. Ask them for blurbs. Put the blurbs on your site. Ask them for referrals etc.

This might not be answering your question, but the hundreds of emails approach (at least to me) doesn't seem like the most efficient strategy.
> EU to reduce their emissions

Why would EU need to reduce if they are currently 'middle of the road' like you said.
That's cool. Why did you decide to use something self-hosted instead of a service like feedly?
Thank you for the feedback. There is always hard balance between power and simplicity. It is remain to be seen how we handled it.

Email signup is in near plans, it was just much easier to start with Google/Microsoft signup to not be responsible for passwords.
Kind is explicitly not for production workloads[0]:

Non-Goals: Being “production workload ready” - kind is meant to be used:

for testing Kubernetes itself
for testing against Kubernetes (EG in CI on Travis, Circle, etc.)
for “local” clusters on developer machines
NOT to host workloads serving user traffic etc.

K3s seems happy to support production workloads. It's a single binary and gets you a cluster in one command:

curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -
sudo kubectl get nodes

Personally, I use both Kind and k3s. Kind is great for running locally and k3s is awesome for single-node kubernetes on a vps.

[0] - https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/contributing/1.0-roadmap/#non-...
I didn't think it was necessary to google up a source for something so widely reported, but ok. I did oversimplify a bit, and corrected that in the comment above.

Here's an article on the 12-year limit: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082019/12-years-climate...

And here's some information on the "tipping point" being somewhere between +1.5C and +2C: https://climatenexus.org/international/ipcc/ipcc-1-5c-report...

Right now we're around +1C, though we hit +1.2C in 2016: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2016_hottest_year_on_record_wmo...
A couple million would let you retire and live off of say $60k/yr indefinitely if and only if you magically solved healthcare issues.

If you've say spent $100k/yr and still saved up $2m (still easily doable), then you don't want to retire yet because you're gonna eventually run out of cash. Sure it'll last more than a few years, but it's going to deplete the longer you go.

Also figure your healthcare costs increase drastically without being employed.

Also half of my statement wasn't a financial one, just an assumption that after a few years you might get bored and want to do something for employment anyway.
The problem for me is by AI capability and volume. Stephen King is said to write somewhere in the ballpark of 2,000 words per day with about 100 books written. Scholastic Press publishes about 600 books per year. Now lets say in theory an AI were able to write 2,000 words per second and be able to produce thousands of books per day. This AI could have live access marketing data to tailor write books to specific demographics or even specific individuals. So how could a human author compete? I would think access to copyright would be the only edge a human could have.

Now as for using AI and AI-based writing tools like the GPT2 program that autocompletes sentences for writers is no different then an artist tool like you said.
https://transformer.huggingface.co/
The author seems to approach climate science as exact science. It is not. Predictions could be just way off the mark. There might be just a catastrophic failure and the food chain might collapse. The 6% drop in crop yields might just become a 50% drop. Climate scientists don't know shit. If they knew, they would be proposing solutions.
If you want to be cynical, here is a good reason. Maybe they are revoking cops "privateer" license for now in order to have a carrot to negotiate with later. Say, in a year the justice dept needs police to "opt in" to some new initiative. They can simply dangle seizures in front of them to get compliance.

Also, the policy allows exceptions. So they could do it on a "case by case" basis, with individual departments and so on. And, if they did change the policy outright, well it hardly requires a press release.

I'm tentatively excited. But I cannot see anything in it for anyone with power. So I just don't see how this would become law.
I'm surprised that Paul Graham likes debugging. I tend to stereotype programmers into two camps: one that likes debugging, one that doesn't. I thought he was part of the latter group.

Some programmers are engineers: they deal with the world as it is -- messy, inconsistent, evolved. They are good at debugging, because they are in tune with how things actually work (not how people SAY they work.) They like trying things before reading about them.

Some programmers are philosophers and mathematicians: they like to consider things from first principles, read a lot, and build up systems in their head. They make huge breakthroughs because they question fundamental assumptions. But sometimes they over-model things and ignore how the world actually works, in favor of "elegant" ideas. They may not like debugging because it is often dealing with other people's broken assumptions (i.e. legacy code), and not any real fundamental idea.

So PG clearly seems to have the philosophical bent and has made breakthroughs. But if he really likes debugging, then that means he comes at programming from BOTH the engineering and philosophical traditions, which probably explains why he's a great programmer. (I just stumbled across a copy of ANSI Common Lisp at work -- looking forward to seeing his style more closely.)

I think to be really good at something, you have to understand it in two different ways. Same goes for being able to write code from scratch (maker perspective) and being able to hack into it (breaker perspective).

Although, I have to say, there is a big difference between debugging your OWN code and other people's code. Not sure if anyone likes debugging typical enterprise code. :)
The issue of HFS+ bit rot is a good example for caring about long-term core features. IIRC we almost got ZFS per default sometime around 2007?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7876217
DNS blocking will very soon, if not already, cease to work, with the arrival of DoH.
Also, could you do a loop with an off-by-one bug, please?
As a teenager I would spend hours talking to my girlfriend using the payphone that was across the street from my house. Why ? Just to avoid the hyper-sensitive ears of my parents. Those things were an essential part of my life!

That girl became my wife, and now we have a seven-year-old son. Unlike me, he will probably never use one of these. Ever. He'll never have the joy of standing in the rain/cold/wind chatting to his girlfriend from a payphone.

And to that point, I conjecture that he will never have a POTS wired phoneline in his own home, he will never buy a newspaper, and perhaps he will never buy a CD, DVD or petrol-only vehicle.

What do you think ?
Last year. Was on a remote island with no cell phone reception and there happened to be a pay phone.
It ain't over till it's over.

We've had final judgments before (which was right before they declared bankruptcy). And there's still a mess in bankruptcy court. And Lord knows, they can try to appeal everything to the Supreme Court. I don't think there's a chance in hell that they'd actually grant cert, but this is SCO, so I have to believe they'll at least try to get the Supreme Court to hear them out.