jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
...people who aren't in that top tier have seen their real wages fall consistently since the 1980s.

This claim doesn't pass the smell test. Can you name a single good or service (note: not a category of goods/services) which is less available today than it was in the 80's? If not, then real wages (i.e., wages measured in terms of the amount of stuff they can buy) have not gone down.
Note that these are arm based; the intel based ones are more amenable to running alternate OS.
I was going to post this if somebody else didn't. To add one important detail: the HP Stream you linked doesn't just exist as a proof of concept or whatever, which would be one thing, but it's currently outselling all the Chromebooks (and every other laptop for that matter) on Amazon.

Chromebooks dominated in 2014, but they've been bumped and I'm not sure they'll ever be back at the top. Rather than a sea change, it looks like Google was just ahead of its competitors for a year, and now that year has come and gone.
Yeah it's petty and spoiled. You could just get used to it but choose to be spiteful. It's just a chat/video tool, who cares where the buttons are?

OTOH if you feel that strong about it how do a bunch of random strangers get to invalidate your feelings? The strong emotions that makes you decline a job is a good indicatior that you give a fuck. Try to move in that direction and you may find motivation and purpose.
Do you have an example of a GUI that doesn't use folders to represent directories? Macs, Linux, and Windows do. That's almost 100% of the GUIs in existence.
If he finished with that line with a photoshopped rock it would've been great.
Exactly, and demonstrated beautifully by John Oliver:
https://youtu.be/cjuGCJJUGsg

An aim at 'balance' is part of the problem because it's not an aim at facts or truth.

Aiming at balance is the media twisting debate to produce maximum outrage, and therefore increase 'consumer engagement'.

Aiming at balance is politicians providing themselves supposed reasons to maintain the status quo or move in counter-factual directions.
For those interested, a second aircraft-related Ideas submission that has a higher likelihood of making it to production is this "aircraft engine workshop":

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/224b606d-44d0-452e-9693-88be...
Or writing HN posts.
Aehm, it's "The Waste Land".
The original developers thoughts on GPL have been discussed at length on the Shen mailing list during the BSD licensing donation period. If you look through the archives you'll be able to read their thoughts.

This link may be a start: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qilang/mVSJIyp-OhM/FjcAOAWUi...

It's unfortunate that the original authors views on licensing takes so much discussion away from Shen itself as it's an interesting language.
It says it uses wifi.
There are $5 wifi modules, which I guess would have enough processing to remember your wifi, and do 1 HTTP request, and (in volume) should be feasible for $10. A spark core (which has a bit more functions), costs $20 retail.
I don't entirely disagree, but my point was that it's a lot harder to use a computer without a physical keyboard/mouse than it is to use an Xbox without a Kinect. You can certainly use a Surface with no type cover, but even in Modern IE and other apps I prefer to type with a hardware keyboard.

Let me put it this way: by having a computer (even if it has a tablet form factor, it is a Real Computer) without a mouse/keyboard, you give up half its potential (if not more, depending on how you use it). By having an Xbox without a Kinect you give up none of its core capabilities, just some of its extra navigational features and a distinct minority of exclusive games.
That's just wrong... what you're saying makes me think you're not having the scaling factor (equivalent of OS X scaling) enabled in display settings.
Even if this is the case, I don't think anyone has ever stated that an auditorium of 1000+ people is an "open office" either.
I'd hit that button when down to the last few beers and have a carton of something interesting delivered. Many use cases. In offices too.
did anybody else read this and think, Anonymous?
> but it would still be a major jerk move.

Why? Genuinely curious.
Or this one:

https://media.wired.com/photos/59327bdd9be5e55af6c25628/mast...

Wired Article:

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/physics-and-the-magdeburg-wate...
You'd have to find a way to pin the keys in the registers, lest they be put in RAM during a context switch.
Unless you're bringing a big industry name with you as cofounder, it's simply not possible.

Just to get certified to do any work as a subcontractor would be in the $XXX,XXX range.
Nylonkong are getting more attention with Trump, Brexit, and the protests. When was the last time you read an in-depth news about some under represented region, say, Nigeria? For a country experiencing population boom and worsening internal conflicts, 200 million people there ARE going to fight for fresh water and other resources if the rest of world just sit there and do nothing.
That's another possible way of putting it that's probably as good or better than what I came up with, thanks.
It seems that this is why the next OS X will feature special full-screen application UI, to take advantage of things like Fitt's law, instead of encouraging people to maximize windows.
$100 chips aren't a problem to cash in. It's the larger chips that are tracked.
The title here is a bit misleading. It should be "Why FitFinder never happened at UCL". It's a bit much to tar all of the UK with the same brush as one University.
Ditto that, I actually emailed them to get their 'API key' to write an iPhone app for the site. They told me they only got half way through writing the API and then decided to give up and keep people interacting to their site through their mobile browser. :S
It's not an either-or. You can read N books and remember M of them, along with having a vague recollection of the other N-M.

For example, here's the list of books I read in 2005:

http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/83785.html#cutid1

I remember maybe a little more than half of them, and perhaps 1/6 of them fundamentally changed my thinking enough that I'd be able to remember in detail (you can quiz me on them if you want an accurate sample). However, 1/6 of 150 books is still 25 books. There seem to be a bunch of people on this thread who would love to read 25 books/year, let alone remember them in detail.
Wait, why don't do that? What's the point?
It can do so because the number of missiles coming in at it are few.

In the end, dummy IBCMs are easy to build, and it will be hard for any system to shoot them all down if there are a thousand dummies for every live missile. Missile defense it ultimately impossible, IMO.
FTA, under "Criticism":

> Every time VRML practitioners approach the problem of how to represent space on the screen, they have no focused reason to make any particular trade-off of detail versus rendering speed, or making objects versus making spaces, because VRML isn't for anything except itself. Many times, having a particular, near-term need to solve brings a project's virtues into sharp focus, and gives it enough clarity to live on its own.

>

> Clay Shirky
This is a tangent but why do you think The Four Agreements is not worth reading. Its been on my reading list for a while.
I'd love to read a blog post or a link to a repo to see how this is done. Sounds very fun and interesting!
The blog post is excellent. It led me to this:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html

I've programmed in C a fair amount, but I am incapable of understanding the construct contained therein. Specifically, the interaction of the switch and the loop and all those fall-through cases. I would absolutely love it if some C-guru hn-er could describe it in layman's terms?
I had to write my own router, but the event system [1] allows you to catch left-clicks or touch events and let you decide how to handle them and the lifecycle functions [2] allow you to update history/URL params to reflect the state of your app. If you have app state which isn't easily serializeable, then you'd have difficulty providing a good URL structure for people but you'd probably have that issue even if you weren't using react.

1: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/events.html

2: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-specs.html
I may have been wrong. Apparently it varies by country but in the UK Master is a male < 18 and in the US < 12. I have had it used in relation to myself though when I was in my 20’s so convention around it seems a bit unclear.
Here's a brief history of children being sent via the mail:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil...
Why would America First not continue with any American president? Any nations' leader not acting first and foremost in the interest of their own country ought to be removed from office.
That's more of a profession of faith in what a 'good' BCI will be, than a critique of the science --

There are many ways to get high fidelity 'joystick' level control out of a brain, especially if given one-on-one training.

The problems for Neuralink will be the same with any implant - immune responses and infections - and in a sensitive area no less.
I think it's interesting if law enforcement bungles a type of evidence that is almost certainly going to be more of a society-wide problem in the near future
No, cargo holds are generally pressurized and have been, as far as I know, since the beginning of pressurized aviation (late 40s to early 50s - there were a few test airframes earlier).

It doesn't mean cargo compartments are not cold, dark, loud, and unpleasant places to be, but they're pressurized.

If you pressurize a cylinder (say, a more or less round airplane fuselage), the stresses become tension stresses around the perimeter - it's trying to inflate the balloon, but the perimeter is designed to handle these stresses. The floor only has to support the weight of passengers.

If you had an unpressurized cargo hold, the floor would now need to not only support the weight of passengers, it would have to support the entire pressurization weight - which is far harder, because floors are typically flat. It would have to be far stronger and heavier.

There have been several aviation incidents from the cargo doors opening in flight - the DC-10 was particularly prone to the problem, because instead of an inward-opening, "plug" type door (where the pressure holds it in place), it had an outward opening door - more cargo space because the door doesn't swing in, but if the latching mechanism fails (which it did), the pressurization tries to push the door open, and it occasionally succeeded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10#Cargo_...
Do you remember the names of the people you worked with during a summer job while you were in school? I sure don't.
Getting XKCD/1425 vibes off this one :)
Don't want to, but I am getting a slim benefit from the situation, and I would not like to give that up.
Well contrary to what anti-nuclear supporters say, we know from a fact that in terms of death ratio per MWatts produced, Nuclear energy is certainly one of the safest ways to produce energy out there. It's not because there is one bad recent incident that it puts a sudden question mark on the whole technology.
one of the benefits of expressing business logic in a high level declarative language like SQL is that the order isn't specified and can be reversed depending on the execution context. a perfectly sargable and streamable view definition for example can end up on either side of a join in some execution plan with data streaming in either direction, and the same code can power filtering as well as generating.
This is awesome. It’s always nice to see new Win32 productivity software. Thank you!
Without mrustc you'd need to trust the rustc binary, or build around a hundred versions of rust to go back to a rustc that itself didn't depend on rust.
> IBM calls this "microcode", but it's unclear if this is microcode in the usual sense or just firmware instructions.

IBM had all sorts of unconventional usages of the word "microcode", e.g. parts of the OS/400 operating system were referred to as the "Horizontal and vertical microcode" (they were in fact the kernel of the operating system)
There could also be trademark disputes, which is a little bit different. I don't imagine that Apple would register apple.badass, but would likely get upset if someone else did.

I guess in that case the (claimed) trademark owner would have to sue the (claimed) trademark infringer directly, rather than using the domain registrar as a sort of deep-pocketed extrajudicial enforcement mechanism. I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing. That's what courts are for.

The same is true of straightforward ownership disputes, too.

We don't expect (e.g.) gas stations to be responsible for monitoring for stolen cars and refusing to sell them gas.
> , if this is true, then this fucking asshole is responsible for causing immeasurable harm to "science" as a human idea on the whole.

Irrespective of what you think of the theory, it will help us all if we could identify and prevent the people among us now who could cause such harm to humanity.
Thank you very much for replying with the info :)
The game has microtransactions. Coincidentally, also a large reason why load times were so slow.
The online mode has microtransactions. People not playing anymore aren't paying for microtransactions either.
And what was this mysterious comment ?
http://wegottaeat.com looks interesting, but subscription seems somewhat expensive ($15/year) for what you get, and it doesn't look like there's been any updates since February (which incidentally seems to be when it moved to paid subscriptions).
An agnostic, literally, "doesn't know". Atheism is actually more complicated. A "strong atheist" or "positive atheist" does believe gods don't exist, but a "weak" or "negative atheist" simply does not believe that gods exist.

Interestingly, they aren't mutually exclusive categories. One can easily believe something without claiming to know it, so one can be an agnostic theist, but one can also be an agnostic atheist.

By sheer definition, "agnostic" doesn't really mean anything. But in a social context, it's generally a term used by weak atheists to emphasize they are open minded people who aren't coming to a firm decision either way without evidence.
Trader Joe's has a single queue with multiple registers.

They do plenty of other "shaking up traditional ways we shop", or at least their marketing folks would have you believe.
#11 SEO is it's own worst enemy and this bullshit industry will hopefully be gone in 2015 (disclaimer: i'm one of the most sccessful SEOs in the european market)
Cheesy, but I use types of birds, based on what the machine reminds me of.

iPhone — Chickadee
Macbook — Pigeon
MacbookPro — Peregrine
Time Capsule — Grouse
Windows box — Dodo
I'm sure, like most rules, it's mostly just a guideline to handle the common case. People have all kinds of circumstances in life, so drawing the line on an age is often something that can be explained through. As a totally unrelated example, I have a Jewish friend that just turned 27 and got an exception made for him for Birthright Israel even though the cutoff is 26.
Oh wow. If this lets me test the bookmarklet I'm developing without setting up a fake environment, you have made my life much easier. Will try it out real soon.
I think there are several reasons why Jehovah's Witnesses generally have lower incomes.

First of all, we do our evangelical work everywhere, to both rich and poor individuals, but in general people who are poor or immigrants or minorities are more interested in religion when compared to someone who has a high paying job and feels they are already very satisfied with their life.

Second of all, Jehovah's Witnesses advocate a simple life. The idea is that it doesn't take a lot of money to live a nice life, its how you use that money. For example, a baptized Witness is not be a smoker, gambler, alcoholic, etc. By quitting the smoking or drug habit many individuals have lowered their expenses, allowing them to live better lives without raising their income.

To some extent the pursuit of high education is not encouraged. Although many Witnesses will get an Associates Degree, it is generally not encouraged that they go on to higher education. This does also limit income.

But to go along with your comment, yes I feel happy and fulfilled. I spend roughly half my time at the computer doing freelance web development work or working on my startup Bookflavor. The rest of the time I spend with friends or doing door to door preaching. It is actually very interesting.

Imagine going door to door one weekend in an affluent neighborhood where a security guard takes down your license plate before allowing you to enter, then the next week going door to door in the ghetto where you have to watch where you step to avoid trash and used condoms. Jehovah's Witnesses get to talk to people of all sorts. As someone who is deeply interested in psychology and sociology I enjoy this communication with people from different cultural and economic backgrounds. Our door to door work is fascinating not only from that perspective, but also from the perspective of practicing real world sales skills. I would dare say any decent Jehovah's Witnesses would make a great salesman/woman.

I would say that my life is very interesting, and I wouldn't be any happier if I worked more hours so that I could make more money. Indeed if I worked more hours to make more money I wouldn't have time to work on my startup.
Maybe I can shed some light on this. I accidentally launched Hackety Hack inside the Disk Image and no characters showed up. The copy on my harddrive runs without a problem. I just tried again and it seems like the bug is reproducible. It seems like the easiest solution would be to just zip Hackety Hack instead of using .dmg ;-) (OS X 10.6.5)
COVID vaccine had entered the chat. 6 months vs 4-10+ years previously, and 4+ vaccines at once.
According to the HeLa Wikipedia entry, it was common at the time to use patients' cells without their consent. The fact that she was black doesn't seem to have much to do with it, and all she was subjected to was a routine biopsy. Doctors were just delighted that those cells kept duplicating, otherwise they'd have ended in the bin like everyone else's.

I do understand that discovering that one of your relatives' cancerous cells are still reproducing in laboratories after decades can be astounding and give a moment of pause. But it in the end it's for good, no one was harmed and nobody made an unjust fortune off it. The cells are barely human anyway, with 75 to 80 chromosomes and rapidly accumulating mutations. I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Weekly option expiry. They waited until Thursday afternoon. Plus Ryan Cohen’s tweet.
It certainly has disadvantages. Great Britain lost their US colonies in large part because they needed to raise taxes to pay for their debts.

But the power to just print money has to be used responsibly, there's no shortage of examples of countries damaging their economy by triggering hyperinflation. And if you want a global currency there is no institution that would be trusted with that kind of responsibilty by enough countries.
I would put up designing an mRNA vaccine in less than a year to show that we can make technological progress when the desire is present.
It’s not suitable for new babies, that’s for sure. But if you’re closer to the 1yr mark then they’re not crying because they’re scared, they’re crying because they know exactly what’s happening and they want to party and not go through the effort of figuring out how to go to sleep, again.

Some kids are just nuts. Ours both were. We went from an hour-long party of rolling, chanting, screaming, head-butting the wall, pulling the hair of any nearby parent, multiple times a night, to... asleep in 10mins. It felt bad at first until we saw how much his mood improved in the daytime because he wasn’t exhausted.
You have to grok how financial reporting works. They said _amid_ executive shuffle, not _because_.
Yes, these days it's more classism than racism.

Mandatory single-family home zoning means that you are required to rent or own a sizable amount of land in order to live in a neighborhood. This has the obvious impact of creating invisibly gated communities where the less affluent are unable to live there, even if they were willing to live in smaller accommodations, which also means their children may not go to the same schools.

It's literally economic segregation, because it's the government forcibly segregating where people live through their finances.
For more detail on how effective Skunkworks was, read Kelly Johnson's book. It was recommended to me by a buddy at JPL and it's a wonderful view into how they did things on time and below budget on projects like the SR71.

Not an affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/Kelly-More-Than-Share-All/dp/08747449...
I'm on the Ohio border near Pittsburgh. Most of our infrastructure isn't reusing steel mill but some of it is. The thing I worry about more than the ground pollution are explosions. We've already seen a few but I don't think anything like that fertilizer plant yet. I have a pipeline being put in probably 300 yards from my house and those things scare the shit out of me.
Github is absolutely replacing resumes. It doesn't replace an interview, which is what the author seems to be getting at despite the title of their article...
granttree is a pretty bad name IMHO. I doubt non-native english speakers can understand it. Probably wouldn't pass the phone test. Biggest problem is the double T (and you don't own grantree.co.uk to catch that).
Actually, the document was written with the intention that anyone could read it and easily tell if their government was violating it or not. There have been a lot of people making up a body of work commonly called "Constitutional law" but much of that body of work seems to serve the purpose of trying to say that you can't just read it.

But if you read it, it is very clear.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

It is cut and dry. All of these siezures are not taking evidence, they are stealing property.

Money is property, it is not evidence of any crime, especially when it is electronic funds in a bank account.
> It's device independent. You can wipe the device or switch to a new one without waiting for a full sync of your potentially large media library.

I think you're confusing device agnostic with device independent. If you still require a device to sync the content with, it's not "independent".