jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd like a recipe site that included techniques at the same level as ingredients, and steps of preparation expressed as functions of techniques, utensils, and ingredients. Functional cooking.

If I don't have the technique or the pans, I don't need the recipe to come up in a search.
"Rational Rose" now here are two words I haven't seen or heard since 2001!!
Forgive my incompetence, but I have never gotten the point of private methods/variables. Could someone please explain why they exist?

Edit: I know it's slightly off-topic.
How would you detect if your router was compromised?
This is a big deal!
I had proof that the cop could not have seen what he claimed to have seen, and that therefore he must be lying about having seen it. I did not have proof that the thing he claimed to have seen did not actually happen.
The part that gets me is the 'modern'. There have been periods where things were somewhat easier in certain regards, but those aren't the norm and were for unsustainable reasons. The US had a nice honeymoon period after WW2 where our position as the world's factory and plentiful natural resources afforded food and housing to be cheap.

Young people look around and think things are harder now than they've ever been and it's simply not true. My mom didn't have it easy, hell, my grandpa who was born in the great depression and got to be an adult through the 50's didn't have it easy.

Houses and food may have been cheaper relative to other things, but people put in way more hours of way shittier work, at least my family certainly did.
Not really. I am a daily user of FreeBSD, it is my main driver.

However I am not on the mailing list. I hate mailing lists, they clutter my mailbox and I consider them an inefficient way of discussing. I prefer things like IRC that are more direct. And anonymous, which is also important these days. Signing up for a public mailing list like this is inviting a wave of spam. Sure I can make a spare google mail box or protonmail or whatever but that makes it even harder to access the mailing list.

I would participate in this survey if I didn't have to sign up for the mailing list. So it is deterring at least one daily FreeBSD user as well :)
1228 pesos in 1976 was worth about $4.50 in 1976 USD [1].

... and if he'd bought into the S&P 500 (Vanguard launched the First Index Investment Trust now the Vanguard 500 Index Fund in 1976 [2]), it would be worth about about $190 in today's USD. Which you could sell to buy about 2.99g of gold today (3 trillion times as much as reported).

While obvious you'd have to be extremely prescient to put your money in a completely different type of fund that had launched only just that year and at the time they would not have touched such small dollar investments.

... but today we now know that Bogle's idea was actually pretty good and you really can make such small dollar investments (eg. Fidelity's no-fee, large cap fund has no minimum to invest (FNILX), or you could buy a fractional share of a variety of large cap ETFs: SPY (SPDR), IVV (iShares), or VOO (Vanguard) from a variety of brokerages). Of course, a minor wouldn't be able to own shared directly... so, get your kids a UTMA account [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_exchange_rates_of_A...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group#Growth_of_c...
[3] https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/31591...
[4] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/utma.asp
I'm seeing gigabit(-ish) via speedtest-cli:

Speedtest by Ookla

Server: TELUS Mobility - Calgary, AB (id = 17555)
ISP: TELUS
Latency: 0.50 ms (0.12 ms jitter)
Download: 938.58 Mbps (data used: 422.8 MB)
Upload: 919.90 Mbps (data used: 959.8 MB)
Packet Loss: Not available.

FTTH, Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch -> UniFi Dream Machine Pro SE via 10G link -> Nokia ONT.

I _do_ get limited to around 300mbps if my Mikrotik is in the mix and using CPU for routing.

Yeah, my home network is overkill but it's a cheaper hobby than other ones might be, hah.
While I would be apt to agree with his conclusion I have trouble with his arguments, which I find sloppy.

Thesis: the high level problem is that general purpose computing (and general purpose manufacturing, like 3d printing) dramatically lowers production and distribution costs in the face of established and ingrained financial and societal structure. This expresses itself in multiple ways in the real world. The author tries to grapple with these but is always so far into specific cases that the root causes remain hidden.

1.) Cost of production and distribution is lowered below profitable margins for several large industries including entertainment and news media.

2.) Regulation of the means of manufacturing chains has been a useful tool for the governance of products, consumers and society (guns, drugs, chemicals).

3.) Lowered costs, where they can be gathered instead of passed to consumers, means high margin profit businesses (Microsoft's business model).

4.) With lower communication costs, 'services' are an emerging (and now very established) model to replace or pair with the 'restricted machine' model.

The problem is that pockets of accumulated Capital, established market leaders (and often entire industries), and conventional mechanisms of regulation are all trying to resist the giant transformational changes that the digital front could represent. They have succeeded for a full generation now and the new generation doesn't understand the terms of the issue.

This is not to say that this is a purely bad thing. These transformations completely upend the world. The US government (or whichever) needs to cope with these dramatic changes - either by softening them or by undergoing radical transformations itself. For example, one might think it's a good thing that guns don't cost $8, can be produced by anyone, or lack serial numbers and other forensic signatures.

To welcome the utopic world that Cory Doctorow (and I) espouse we need to figure out a way to structure society so that $8 anonymous guns don't represent a serious problem. Until there are solutions to that problem it is inevitable that legislation will do everything it can to balance the benefits of general purpose manufacturing with artificially raised costs and barriers to criminalized enterprises. Doctorow recognizes that the 'balanced' solution - 'services' and 'pseudo-general purpose machines' - are a bad deal. But he does not yet recognize that without answers to some difficult societal questions so are the others.
Looks like someone just did:

https://twitter.com/OtherNEOJobBank

So far, it appears to be just a Twitter account that shares local job listings, but perhaps they are working on a formal email list and website too.
I had the worst burger I've ever had about a month ago... It was a delivery place via grubhub and was only up a couple of weeks... I'm fairly certain it was at least part vegetable protein, and was horrible. "Garden Burgers" are way better than what this was.

I don't know if it was genuine or a sad experiment... beef wasn't actually mentioned anywhere so I don't know. The texture was weird and the taste was way off.

---

edit: Wow, voted down because I had a bad veggie burger experience? For the record, here it is..

https://www.grubhub.com/phoenix/chef-efes-burgers/
"looks at site in the OP" "looks at username of parent" I'd buy it.
The julia-users thread discussing this post may be of interest:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/GyH8nhEx...

My response (which is too long to include here) is this:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/GyH8nhExY9I/0Bzn...
n.forEach(console.log);

Works on firefox. Chrome treats console.log differently from other functions for reasons unknown.

but really, this library has no reason to exist
I've just completed a screen-writing course, and wrote a feature-length screenplay as part of that process, and was struck by how much like technical writing it was. A screenplay is not a story the way a novel or short story is, but rather a technical description of a story that allows the various people involved to do their jobs: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1666

Screenplay structure is so tight and formal it's almost like poetry, an analogy I found very useful.

My novel (http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...) was developed much more organically.

I'm an experimental physicist, and the process for me was more like setting up an experiment, from early ideas to failed prototypes to little side explorations to a final result with (hopefully) all the loose ends tied neatly away where the reader can't see what went into the making.

I found Stephen King's book on writing to be one of the best for understanding the organic process of creating stories. If you haven't read it, I'd strongly recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Stephen-King-ebook/dp/B000FC0S...
Cool just signed up and same issue, unauthorized when I try log in
Yes, this is so needed in the era of SoC notebooks. As much as Apple M1 is a leap forward we still need systems similar to frame.work notebook.

A relatable story - I have an Acer notebook from 2013. I bought it from Microsoft store in Valley Fair mall in San Jose, CA. Over the years I have upgraded its hard disk to ssd, RAM and more recently wifi card to wifi 6 (learnt not to buy before opening the notebook. I bought an m2 card while in 2013 half mini pci cards were all the rage)
It's not "disingenuous". Everyone knows they're talking about external dongles because those are the kind of adapter that's actually annoying. Complaining about their modules because they're implemented in terms of USB-C is the worst kind of technically true but semantically nonsensical nitpick, precisely because it takes a long comment like this to unpack it but only a few words to make it.
The buffet indicator doesn't hold true with zero interest rates. Even he said at one interview "if thee is unlimited money printing, stocks are extremely cheap right now". People are confused because they input one or two variables in their mindset instead of the true N variables in this complicated system. More of them think "oh, market cycles every ten years and now we have 12 bull? OK so time for dip". No, apparently it doesn't work that way.
No, building codes are a separate issue from land-use restrictions. Apartments must still meet whatever standards exist which can include minimum facilities, size and number of floors.

Although at the limit such standards can be effectively the same as simply banning apartments outright, so there is crossover.
Copying my reply to HN:

Some feedback: you should add a PTR record (reverse DNS) for studer.dev
and mail.studer.dev.

I also noted that your DMARC record has p=quarantine, which depending on
the details of your outgoing setup, may cause your emails to be placed
in the spam folder if DMARC fails for any reason. I generally advise
against using DMARC with any policy other than `v=DMARC1; p=none` or
else you're liable to run into issues, it's not a very good standard.

Otherwise, your configuration looks good to me. Also try
https://www.mail-tester.com to see what they think.
I'm surprised that the energy usage axis does not come up in this summary of his thoughts. Isn't that likely to be a factor in bitcoin's growth and long-term survival?
Does anyone know if HGST's 1TB hard drives follow this reliability trend?
Whoops! We're working on that, it will be back in a moment.

PS. But Panda (the service) is working, it's just the static frontpage.
Haven't these companies already received retroactive immunity by act of Congress?
Once I started thinking about interviews in terms of 1) do we want to work together (not do they want me to work for them) and 2) how can I help them solve a problem, I found they went a lot better. In my cover letters, I'll often even say, "I think I can help" rather than "I think I'd be a good fit for this position". It makes me feel better about it anyway :-)
Why aren't there more <gender> <roles>?
female bricklayers
male seamstresses
and on and on and on.

Is it really a problem? People do what they want, less women want to program, I see no problem with this.
This seems incredibly anecdotal. A box of thirty items from one store in one unknown city picked by an analyst trying to prove something, and all of a sudden Amazon is dead?

On top of that... they didn't factor in time, gas costs, convenience, etc
I agree with point #2 "seeing people like me do it" but even taken down a notch to exclude the difference in gender. Personally, I have two sisters both of whom do programming after seeing my dad and I both do it. The other variables in their cases are just like everyone else in this community which has the same percentage of women in cs than other places (i.e. not sv).
Stay tuned, for next paragraph on "the post you're replying to" all your questions will be answered!
For the Hummer crowd?
I definitely want to drive this truck. But never want to be seen driving this truck
"Deputy Attorney General Jesse Drum argued that the deputies had not acted in bad faith"

Is it typical for DAs to have lacking judgement? I know we hear about the bad ones but whenever any kind of insane police stunt appears in the media the DA is always on the police's side. I thought the judicial branch was supposed to be separate and neutral from the executive branch.
They are going to sell an insane amount of these.
Walter White just put in his pre-order.
My iPhone's battery has been discharging like crazy after I updated to iOS 13.2.2. Without any active usage of the phone the entire battery discharges in about 4 - 5 hours, due to apps' background activity. I'm having to charge the phone 2 - 3 times a day.

According to https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/11/19/apple-io..., the battery discharge issue has apparently not been fixed, so I'm not planning to update my phone yet. Hopefully it gets fixed in the next iOS release.
It'd look better in black and with a licence plate or something more on the front or back.
This is a nice list to read through. The concept quoted, Goodhart’s law, came up in a project review today, though I didn’t know it was named. It feels nearly unavoidable, but at least recognition helps.
Try a few low budget vps and see what works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGffGw3uDg is another great cyberdeck with portability in mind.
How open is Israel about the vaccination and its rollout?

I know it varies from country to country. Norway for example has been quite public and doing weekly reports on reported side-effects and investigation into severe cases whereas other countries have not.

At present it must be possible for Israel to provide through-out statistics on side-effects, possibility of infection after shot 1, shot 2, effects of various variants, effects on overall mortality.
>“Air Fresheners” rank right up there with leaded gas, asbestos brake pads, and coal plants: two decades from now we’ll look back...

If asbestos and lead are any indication I'm sure joe blow in 20yr will be writing long Reddit and HN rants about how <insert carcinogenic air freshener chemical you shouldn't atomize in an enclosed space> is nothing but pure evil and the CEOs of <insert company> should be lined up and shot for using it in <insert industrial application where there are so many more poisonous contaminants about that a little lead in your bearing surfaces or asbestos in your insulating materials doesn't make the environment any more hazardous>.
Oh?

Mine, at least until people cotton onto it, is to be a "Slum Landlord." I buy and trade for the cheapest sets I can find, and then I put four houses on each property. Remember, they're slums, so you don't expect hotels. If I can corner the market on houses[1], no matter what the other players do, they can't bankrupt me with rents because they can't improve their properties.

This doesn't work in a game where people ignore the housing shortage rule, of course. But If you toss that rule out, I don't think you're playing Monopoly any more.

[1]: There are 32 houses, so if you own 21 houses, it is impossible for anyone else to upgrade a three property group to hotels. If you own 25 houses, no other player can upgrade any group. It's fairly easy for two players to control the property market and kill the other players off.
Fun game! I'm happy I got to play. Smooth and natural feeling controls at 50+ fps on Opera 11.01, Windows Vista, 2.4GHz Core 2. Smoother than some native code games games I have played. Good art, good sfx.

I did want bigger pixels. Zooming in the page in the browser worked fine. And I would have liked either a higher difficulty setting or adaptive difficulty that gets harder if I haven't died for a while, like Xevious had. And I agree with nicetryguy that a short jump would be nice. And the monster didn't really make any sense in the game story.
Ballmer pretty much acknowledged the state of things "the world's going html5" back in late 2010.

(Ballmer interview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI47b3a9cEI

http://www.osnews.com/story/23966/Microsoft_Changes_Silverli...
Additional unexpected behavior:
4 - NPCs were able to shoot through boxes/floors which stopped my bullets.
5 - When dropping off a ledge, it is possible to walk into midair before falling.

Also, like many 2D games, the best way to kill something like the level 1 boss is to scroll it off the screen and spam bullets.

I did not have any performance issues - it was steady at 60fps.
If anyone is interested in direct access to InnoDB (without relying on Oracle who has stopped distributing it for download on their website) you can embed it directly into your applications using HailDB, which is an open source project continuing its development:

http://www.haildb.com/
Thanks for your comment and info!

The message no longer appears twice, it was displaying the text/plain and text/html parts which you can now select with javascript buttons.

I dont know if its too small, but currently only the first 10 kilobytes of a message is stored.
I would think a bubble requires something that can be bought and sold (gold bars, equity, tulip bulbs, condos in Shanghai). You buy it with the expectation that you can resell it for a higher price. Or, more to the point, you accumulate and hoard beyond what is sane or reasonable in the expectation of higher prices. For any given individual its difficult or impossible to say what the real value of an education is going to be in the future. Even if there are no prospects for someone with a degree in linguistics today, it doesn't mean that the degree doesn't open a door tomorrow, perhaps in a related field.
I don't think of it as a novelty account. I think of it as a robot providing a service. Since it's still under human supervision it lags somewhat, but it's already found a discussion that's been split between two duplicate submissions, something I find annoying, and a waste.

It's still an experiment - I may yet give up entirely.
Yea, RSS is nice but some of the blogs don't have RSS feeds. I was just curious if there was some website that had some way of tracking non-rss blogs.
So use PHP-ass: http://www.openwall.com/phpass/. It's integrated into Wordpress and does all of that stuff, including falling back to md5 if you have a really crappy host.

But really - it's just another reason not to use PHP, and not to have a crappy webhost. You could probably say much the same things about backups, app security, bad UI or design. But for most people, don't do that is apparently not a good enough answer.

Update: Just looking into how Django stores passwords, and it does much the same thing (although it falls back to SHA-1, rather than MD5). There was a push to use bcrypt a while back, but it got marked wontfix, due to "backwards compatibility issues". Sigh.
It also happens to be a community that chooses content that repels 99% of the population, so it was an understandable objective to try to sidestep them, if growth is the objective.

Requested elaboration: "Digg was never able to diversify content (read: expand, scale, grow) because it was never worth it for minority voices--and here I'm referring to non-liberal, non-young, non-male, non-athiest users--to attempt to carve out space and participate."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831431.

Looks like we've had this debate already, Michael! I think the particular niche that Digg has chosen (rather, has chosen Digg) is common knowledge. It's hard to escape the conclusion that minority voices were actively suppressed there and that Digg had two routes: niche sub-diggs or a personalized Twitter-like experience that didn't function like old-Digg. The revolt was predicted, but the technical problems that would make it easy for new users to play with it were not.
We didn't know they were DC based until post launch. They've submitted their information and we'll be adding them soon.
I think it's because people who "have a life" (i.e. are down-to-earth people who get along with everyone and have lots of friends, etc) don't care about being impressive. I mean, do you like being friends with or even being around people whose lives are motivated by the need to impress you? I doubt it.

Seems like a lot of people on this thread don't understand that to really feel like (and as far as I am concerned, be) a winner, you need to stop looking for external validation. Constantly allowing yourself to seek it out or fantasize about it is just building a habit of feeling unfulfilled and insecure.
NYTimes.com's paywall kicks in after a certain (fairly low) number of pageviews.
Darwin did excellent work in a number of areas and is a real hero. But I disagree with "the lion's share of the credit" because I don't think there's a finite quantity of "credit" that needs to be shared out.
Some kind of price scale would work well to allow individuals easy assess while discouraging hoarding. E.g

First domain $3/yr
Second $8/yr
Third $20/yr
...etc

No idea how you could track/enforce this. Make domains tied to an individual or company type thing. Shelf companies would add too much cost to have one per few domains I imagine.
More likely, wearable computing and augmented reality will allow people to get out of the house and to the parks or local performances, while still remaining fully jacked into the social-media world.

As for books and libraries: when libraries are upgraded these days, or new ones are built, the new buildings focus heavily on providing people with connectivity and games, with books relegated to an afterthought that you have to request from closed stacks (i.e. you have to already know what you want and patiently wait for it to arrive). I don’t envy any parent trying to bring their children up with 20th-century notions of reading.
Yes wrong. The first decade was either 9 or 10 years (depending on whether you want to be weird and include 1 BC), every decade after that was 10 years starting at 'X0 and ending at 'X9. This is how the common usage defines the term.

A lot of concepts in daily human lives get fuzzy near the edges. That's not a failing on humans, that's how language works. This isn't scientific or perfectly rational, yes, but neither are humans.
Yes yes, sadly I'm well aware of water memory already.
The world has come a long way in the last 12 years and it seems (to me at least) that salary date is trending towards openness.
which country is this for?
Define financial freedom. To me, that is the point where I can choose to no longer work and retire. Some call it your FIRE number, and there is a whole subreddit on it. I wouldn't expect that in 7 years of anything. I'd have to pocket, after expenses, like $800k a year to achieve financial freedom in 7 years. Another interpretation of financial freedom is escaping living from paycheck to paycheck. That can be hard, but requires that you pay yourself first and make more than you need. Over time, you have a warchest to smooth out bumps.
Am I missing something or are you openly advocating businesses should be allowed to take advantage of the poor?
If a tree falls in the forest...
They're french. They are very popular here.
I make video calls every day with iChat.