jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Starbucks on Park/Naglee, or any Panera Bread. Also although can get crowded, there is a Starbuck with a special room to work in on Lawrence and El Camino.

But you know.. I've found nothing is better than a Library. Quieter and more conducive to working since everyone else is.
Uh? I thought the purpose of splitting code between different files was simplicity.
Some companies have technical positions beyond Senior Engineer.

LinkedIn goes up the technical chain like so:
1. Software Engineer
2. Senior Software Engineer
3. Principal Software Engineer
4. Software Architect

All of our architects still code, I believe. Some quite a bit. There are also Engineering Managers, Directors, and Senior Directors, but this is going the management route. Most engineering managers here code a bit, and a few directors still code (or at least script useful queries for helping diagnose issues when working cross team)

I think it all relies on stepping up to the plate, either technically or managerially.
What is your time worth? Generally startups seem to have a fairly common lifecycle (at least in the embryonic stages). Vision -> work to prototype/proof of concept -> { Seed | Exit }. If it is not self-funded the founders should have talked to at least Angel investors, they should have a list of questions that investors have been asking them prior to deciding to invest, and they should have a plan for answering those questions. If they don't, then they may have lost their way. If they are lost then staying is a waste of your time.
If you demand that human trials be done for every possible permutation of conceivable risk---throwing out as incomparable all data that is taken in even remotely different circumstances--then you can claim health risks about every single thing. And it's pretty much impossible to satisfy you because of the cost of human trials.

The concerns raised in the UCSF letter are strained beyond belief. Further, a number of points (like the breast-cancer bullet point) are clearly there to influence emotions rather than critical reasoning.

I'll just explain this one. As the UCSF letter states, the radiation is being deposited on a volume smaller than usual by a factor possibly as large as "one to two orders of magnitude". That means that at absolute worst this is like radiation dose of 1 mrem (still less than the flight tiny compared to your yearly dose), and that's assuming that all of the risk of cosmic radiation comes from skin cancer (which is wildly wrong).
Google Voice isn't, and has never been, a VoIP service. Phone calls made through the iPhone app or Android app have always used the phone's minutes.
I think we need to chop government worker pay severely, but I don't like the misleading way this headline frames the problem. That is -- I think others may correctly point out that this is a very odd metric to quote, and hence people must need to fudge the numbers to argue the case. The more accurate is what Rand Paul just said -- federal total compensation averages $120k vs. $60k for private sector. The only subtlety there is total compensation including benefits vs. salary.

The problem with those making more than X has increased by Y is that you can always generate extreme numbers by choosing X appropriately. Imagine there was a large subset of our all-knowing overlords making $145k five years ago. Maybe this was the cap for some particular level in the hierarchy. Now assume they got a 5% raise. Bam, huge increase in number of feds making over $150k. True, but misleading.

If you want subtlety, there are studies out there comparing apples to apples (since federal employees are skewed towards professionals) and still finds massive pay differences.
"We're not talking about the average here."

No, but if you're not hiring low-paid positions, then clearly the people you're left hiring are going to be for high-pay positions.

Also, the number of >$150k positions went from 1% to 4%. Which is a pretty small proportion of total Federal employment.
Thanks for the writeup, Steve!

Takeoff is really well done. The UI is beautiful and really intuitive. Congrats on a great service!
http://shrtn.co (posted on HN very recently) has an interesting take to being charitable. They allow users to gain money by placing shortened affiliate links into their social posts. Another option is for users to donate any affiliate money they generate to charity. In this case, shrtn.co will add 20% of the money donated.

In this way, you get to 1) do some good, 2) benefit from the marketing of it and 3) retain most of your profits.

Seems like a damn good middle-ground to me.
Very much agreed and I have no idea how to help. If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them.
>renewables+storage also cost less; and cost is still in free fall.

Except they don't because you can't even get that level of storage without a huge downside.

>Soon, synthetic hydrocarbons will be cheaper than most mined/refined/shipped, where that stuff is still needed at all.

Only because the supply of fossil fuels is dwindling. Using renewables to make this stuff will NEVER be as efficient as the way fossil fuels have been used in the past century. Free fuel out of the ground vs. making it? Free fuel is way more efficient then either biofuels or hydrogen that has to be made.

Ethanol and biodiesel are the two main types of biofuels, derived from organic matter (obtained directly from plants, or indirectly from agricultural, commercial, domestic, and/or industrial wastes). To be a viable alternative for petroleum, a biofuel should provide a net energy gain, offer clear environmental and economic benefits, and not reduce food supplies and/or increase their costs. Biofuels fall short of these requirements and should therefore stay a niche market, used moderately and optionally instead of mandated at wide-scale public use. Environmental groups themselves have found that between 2008 and 2022, biofuels will receive more than $400 billion in subsidies.

>Aircraft using LH2 will drive kerosene-driven out of all high-profit routes as quickly as they can be built and fielded

Unlikely. The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25% for practical use — an unacceptable value to run an economy in a sustainable future. Only niche applications like submarines and spacecraft might use hydrogen.

If planes use hydrogen getting on one will cost astronomically more than it does today. The business incentive and R&D on such things will be infinitely less. Planes will be running on oil for as long as the industry can.

You also still haven't apologized for being an ass. Please do that.
Coke and Pepsi do not taste the same, and Sprite does not taste like either of them.

It's not simply a matter of different amounts of sugar, they use different "natural flavors" and have different levels of carbonation.

The difference in flavors is roughly similar to the difference between an IPA, a double IPA, and a cider.
So it is now verboten to ask questions?

SSRIs vs Untreated depression is a false dichotomy. There are many treatments for depression.
DARVO. You did not say you didn't care about DMCA complaints, you responded to a point about 'a web form for reporting gruesome images.' Nobody bullied you.
Where do you propose we make cuts?
> I think the whole success of the Hollywood is based on their ability to create films that cut across all the cultures.

Good time for Rammstein's _Amerika_ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

Their point is that the USA _exports_ its culture to the rest of the world, and Hollywood is one of the main ways in which it does that.
Federal Circuit's ruling would only be precedent in the 9th circuit.

No, not only 9th circuit.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is binding nationwide. And if the case includes claims about patents and/or trademarks, even if those specific claims are thrown out, then the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit becomes the court that the case is appealed to.

Which is how this particular case wound up there in the first place.
JS/UIX [1] originated from the same idea. Compare command "info". Supports vi and (space) invaders. But no globbing. :-)

[1] JS/UIX (2003) https://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/
This article[1] describes him as "ruthless" and unnecessarily critical, and I'd assume that's most people's issue with him. It has recently resulted in him not giving young drivers much of a chance to "find their footing" before demoting them (e.g. Kvyat, Gasly, Albon).

[1]: https://www.planetf1.com/features/formula-1-villain-helmut-m...
Can you link to this statistics confirming your claims?

I am quite suspicious and dubious about claim that Mao had any sort of positive effects that would balance his criminal incompetence and/or cruelty.

I am willing to be convinced by good source but ...
how would you install node modules though?
How would you get a new ip address on demand or is there such service out there? What about all these sites that sell paid proxies, can be trusted?
>> I actively tried to have a more interesting conversation about "it's actually pretty damn hard to implement crypto software".

You might have said that!

>> Since when is learning a single crypto library the end-all solution to writing good crypto software?

It's not, but it's a start, a start which all of these stories that hit HN and get torn to pieces are missing.

-- edit --

When I made my comment that you can learn to use existing things with minimal training I should have padded it out by telling you the reason I was saying that - learning to use well-understood crypto primitives, and (if you can) pre-provided crypto implementations is far from all you need to make secure software. But it's a start.

"Hey, come and look at our neat new crypto, it's awesome!" is a big red flag, and it's a red flag with a subtext that reads: We don't know what we're doing.

Software that does use good constructions and good implementations can still be done very badly, it's true.

To go back to your first comment, you say there's this gap between the way crypto people work and the way developers develop - that may well be so, but in most of the messaging apps we see here on HN the developer hasn't really even attempted to bridge that gap.

Think about it like cooking a meal - you're asking what it takes to become a top chef but in the case we're discussing they didn't even start their marinara sauce with tomatoes.
Indeed. Not all sand is created [1] equal. For a funny example, see http://www.utrechtcentral.com/featured/soil-expert-from-utre... (not quite selling sand in the Sahara, but reasonably close)

For the Sahara example, I fear that part of 'strength' here is brittleness. The concrete may be strong enough, as long as you don't drop heavy objects onto it or hit it with a hammer.

Ignoring that, thicker walls in the Sahara probably are a good idea to keep rooms cooler, but can be problematic in high-rise buildings, as they weigh more, and thus require even thicker walls at lower levels. Floors are a problem, even in single-floor buildings.

[1] Actually, it is not just creation. Age plays a role, too. For example, you have to replace sandbox sand once the smaller grains have been rained out of it because it stops 'sticking'.
Maybe you were thinking about chat ? (https://twitter.com/lukew/status/411233184529911808)

Once you're chatting, dating is not that far anyway :)
learn-once-write-anywhere

You're into commercials and marketing hype?
It's actually been out for a couple of weeks, see the blog post from March 9th: https://github.com/blog/1964-open-source-license-usage-on-gi...
No they aren't -- not nationwide. Americans in most of the country are no more entrepreneurial than Europeans.

Americans in a few cities and regions are very entrepreneurial. These are not necessarily the cities and regions with the lowest taxes, most "business friendly" policies, or anything else that right wingers would consider likely to produce entrepreneurship. California is incredibly entrepreneurial, but it never shows up on those top ten lists of most business friendly states.

I think that strongly argues for this being cultural.
I see a lot of patriotism in this comment but almost no facts.

> And somehow, a huge part of the world's entrepreneurs and innovation come from there

I would say that's for historic reasons and the egregious amount of money you possess as a country rather than some in built ability to take risks?
Ironically this article is a fumblebrag for Silicon Valley itself.
95% of the VCs are in ONE TOWN. Its not a USA vs the world problem. Its just a concentration of wealth problem.

And hey, its not like the best programmers are sheep being herded into the US. They have to apply. Don't they get a say? In a one-world view it doesn't matter where they work.
I think very few people don't want the U.S. to let in exceptional programmers. But the fact is that "1%" programmers are 1% of the population. Tech companies have tremendous trouble identifying those 1% from the other 99%. The government is almost certainly going to do a worse job at that. And if the government delegates screening to the private sector, then the system is tremendously gameable. So the issue isn't whether we should let in those 1% programmers. It's wether it's worth it to let in 99 mediocre programmers for every exceptional one, or to create a system with tremendous incentives to import those 99 mediocre programmers in an effort to drive down wages, hoping we'll get some exceptional ones in the process.
So the people who were martyred wouldn't have died for nothing, perhaps.

Why were there martyrs to begin with? Well, why did people drink the poison at Jonestown?
Simple, Fast and Easy Way to Store Call Notes/Number/Tasks
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Here's a real testimonial: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147102
I don't think there is a rule against it per say but just as a thought experiment, I don't think it would go down well. Perhaps a better question would be why is a Marxism society accepted?
Worse still, I saw some speculation as to what portion of WSB traffic was in fact bots.

Regardless of what happened, next time it could be all bots doing the hyping.

Cybercrime is already catching on to these ideas, there were reports of criminals breaking into corporate systems to steal financials, then trade off them (or sell to traders). This is all rife for abuse.
> The caller cannot assume that the thread will join on destruction and needs to conservatively join or detach explicitly anyway.

This seems a little backwards to me? If the thread should join on destruction then that flag should be set. If not then it should be clear. I'd argue that flag should probably be set in general (and it seems you might feel the same way), but if you have a reason to clear it, then you're just fighting your own program by ignoring it.

> Re container, they will only be instantiated twice if you actually use both std::jthread and std::thread of course. The idea (which I disagree) is that jthread is the better solution and std::thread is sort of deprecated.

Good point!
How many hands to equate one average 2021 ASIC ?
The whole point is that biases are inherent in most models, no matter who the builders are.
ok, I think we can all agree not to add any more letters to that acronym at this point and just call it big tech.

Although I really would like to get a job at GAFNDMRASDGAMGICZ soon.
The most fundamental part of the system, the one which makes driving decisions, is not open. I did not say anything about whether or not this was "better" than the product being fully closed source, only that it is not truly open, and I fully believe this. "Open source autopilot" implies to me that the autopilot is open - that an end-user can inspect, audit, and attempt to understand the decisions their vehicle is making. This is not the case for Comma - rather, it is an open-source CANbus translation layer attached to a closed source autopilot.
The Multipla was also very successful, and also happens to be one of the few Fiats that hold their value. A utility vehicle doesn't necessarily need to be attractive to be successful...
The moon would be good enough.

The first thing I want to send to the moon is a bulldozer, you could make one based on that platform.

Also it would be fun to road trip on the moon at the right speed to stay in the sun all month.
fwiw I live in a place where everyone owns a pickup (I use mine to plow snow, pull a gravel dump trailer, and to collect large items from Costco) but I never hear of anyone renting a pickup. I'm sure it's possible somehow but I doubt you can just roll into Hertz and sign out an F-250..
That's why I originally said “misleading”, if we’re going to be pedantic.
Wow, interesting read. For many years shopping on Amazon when looking for a preferred product I always a) click on the reviews, then 2) immediately jump to the 1-star reviews. For the most part they contain information that feels more authentic and relevant.
I'm Dutch, and I've effectively made this change. Our number system sucks (though not as bad as the Danish one - which is my wife's language so I'm regularly forced to decipher that mess), whenever someone says a number like 47 out loud, I have to think hard about whether it's 47 or 74.

So I've decided to generally stop doing maths in Dutch. Our company is international so we all work in English anyway so when I do stuff in eg Excel, calc.exe etc, I just count in English. When I speak in Dutch, I generally simply avoid the last digit in large-ish numbers. Eg I don't care what language I say "250" in, but when I'm speaking Dutch I'd round "252" to "about 250", which is fine enough in most contexts.

FYI fun trivia: Norway fixed this about their language. They used to do what the Danes do but now it's like in English etc. They not only made up normal proper words for eg "50" or "90", but also reversed 2-digit numbers, eg "42" in Danish is "to-og-fyrre" and in modern Norwegian it's "førti-to". That's a pretty ballsy way to change a language and I'm jealous.
The article points to a specific instance in which, it argues, the NYT has misled on climate change. Are you disputing that instance? Or are you okay with the NYT misleading if you think it's for a good cause?

I think this is where a lot of the pushback regarding climate change comes from. Saying "Southern Vietname will be underwater" is not the same as saying "Southern Vietnam will be below sea level". That kind of jump, when it happens over and over again, only results in people mistrusting the media (and, by proxy, "scientists").

> Building dykes to product numerous coastal areas may well be a good answer, but in aggregate that is an absolutely massive capital project. Media reports will obviously need to be part of that since people will need to understand why their taxes are going up and why the government is taking their land.

I think that this comes down to a difference between you and Lomborg's perception of how large groups of people solve problems. It's top-down/central planning vs. distributed. I think I'm usually on Lomborg's side: I expect that people will solve these problems (rising sea levels) in fits and starts, as people's lives become more and more affected. I suspect that any other approach isn't politically feasible (and is also, perhaps, undesirable). Once you acknowledge this perspective, quotes like "the real solution is to lift the world’s poorest out of poverty" start to make more sense.

I understand this perspective is dissatisfying to many people, especially scientifically-minded, highly educated people. But I don't see any way around it.
But that doesn’t make it beautiful.
The problem is that this revision will override all the previous ones in the “blame” output so it needs to be explicitly ignored. See a great link elsewhere in the thread on how to deal with that in newer versions of git.
Not-loading tabs is a heck of a lot quicker than loading them (and I usually have more than 500 in Firefox). Otherwise, I'm not the only person who has had too many problems with Chrome:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm...
Interesting compromise from the github issue:
"In other to reduce latency we decided to compress and flush on each data frame. The downside is that it degrades the compression ratio. The second option is to let gzip to compress until the buffer gets full. I think we could make it configurable."
Wow, a blast from the past. I ported this program to 6502 assembly and added more features, and used it for a school project.

Then I read all of the articles on neural networks claiming they were a dead end and went off to other things :)
The tape cannot contain arbitrary numbers, but symbols from any finite alphabet, which can be int256_t, and the transition function can be any partial function on pairs of tape symbols and input states.
And why is this relevant?
Might add hacker news to that list
All kinds of people. You frequently see analysis and reverse engineering of Apple’s app and network traffic here on HN.
> their apps do not display ads

Except for the App Store and Apple News, AFAIK.
It'd be worth a calculation.

Every single beekeeping book has a chapter on selling honey, because all beekeepers are flush with it. When you consider that most of the "hours" spent making honey are spent by the bees, I could see making $50-$100/hr (but not necessarily translating that to $100-$200k/year)
I may be extremely naive but what does Stanford need the donations for? Aren't they rolling in dough.
You've clearly been burned. That's fine, but tell us your story rather than giving some vague advice devoid of context.
I replaced the TN screen of my x201 with a Boe Hydis AFFS panel with IPS like viewing angles and contrast so I would _not_ remove it from the list. It's a great laptop and you can get them really cheap used (I've never bought a ThinkPad new so far).
This could not work with DNSSEC. What do they do? Do they just strip it because so few clients care?
Sometimes software stinks because it IS bad. Perhaps the software he is using grew from simple to complex and nobody did any housework, thus the smell. Maybe it does need some work.
Fred's not actually grumpy. The reporter just put that in the title to get back at Fred for refusing to talk to him.

And as for that bit at the end about NYC not having a Facebook or Zynga, what does he think Fred could be doing that he isn't? That was a pretty low blow, considering Fred is probably the biggest regional booster of all VCs.
I love Linux's elegance and power for development, but can't use it as a "regular computer" for three reasons:

1) The GUI is terrifyingly ugly, in every single distro I've seen. Ubuntu is trying, but they're still way behind. If I only ever needed command line interface on my computer, I would've fully switched to Linux yesterday.

2) It doesn't have Netflix, Vudu or anything else with Silverlight. This is not a "don't have it yet" type of deal - Linux doesn't have it and won't have it in foreseeable future because of philosophical differences (because it's using proprietary Microsoft code)

3) Most things don't work out of the box, and need some tinkering with. This is not such a big deal, since I love to tinker and after tinkering, they usually work much better than anywhere else. But for many non-development things, I love when programs I install on my machine just work. For that, OS X is light years ahead of everything else, and Linux is dead last.