jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am not maintaining HTTPSB anymore. I refactored HTTPSB into uBlock/uMatrix. Many cringing usability issues[1] have been fixed with uMatrix, which is different enough from HTTPSB that I could not publish it as a newer version of HTTPSB.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/Changes-from-HTTP-Sw...
As a primarily PHP developer, we get told all the time at conferences and places like this how awful we are. I actually wrote a fairly popular post not too long ago about a Haskell speaker being actively hostile against PHP developers. Our mantra has become "I can't hear you over all this work I'm getting done" I've worked in many other languages and nothing really compares for how quick I can knock something out in PHP that does exactly what I want. The code probably won't win any beauty pagents but the client doesn't care. Anyway came here to say the PHP chart is backwards. We hate ourselves but are super productive.
Maybe relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKj4hYic5A
I found the lack of citations in this article to be both disappointing and suspicious. When you conclude "we will need a vastly different approach to science in order to understand the higher-order, emergent capabilities of nature’s self-organizing structures", I feel like more evidence is required. Though the author did mention some exciting ideas and research, she left it to the audience to follow up on where she might have gotten them from.
It would be great to see comparable sale prices to calculate price to rent ratios. Looking at those rents, and considering the drop in prices since 2008, it looks like a great time to be a landlord. (At least from my perspective in Canada.)
+1 on the Lumia 530. They sell them for $40 AUD outright in Australia (that's $32 USD).

I bought one on a whim and after playing around with it, i'm considering moving full time to it from an iPh6. The camera and screen are the biggest down grades, but otherwise it's just as functional.
Toyota has had their questionable behaviors before.

Tesla just hasn't been around long enough to be labeled with bad behavior yet. Which possibly may never happen, we'll have to wait and see.
As stated in the original article I reference [1] and the google play developer policies [2] google/android has exceptions for goods that can be used on other devices like amazon prime movies, music, magazines, etc. That is why you can't buy new movies etc. in the amazon app on iPhone but you can on Android.

In either case it is clear that the owners of the platform don't want it to turn into a commodity like the rest of the web and want a slice of all revenue. That means that amazon will need to have more leverage over the platform and devices.

[1] http://www.macstories.net/stories/a-discussion-about-apples-...
[2] https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html
Oh ok. What were some of the best ones that you encountered? What do you think were some of the biggest shortcomings in the ones that you saw?
> "- sw team was kept busy by endless meetings with no end in sight, which significantly cut into any chance of productivity"

Sounds like Amazon alright. I was there for two years and this defined so much of my time spent.

We'd have endless meetings with endless stakeholders. This would cut deeply into development time, and all scheduling revolved around PM schedules with no regard for the productivity cost of pulling engineers into meetings every other hour, all day long.

Which would of course result in more meetings to discuss why we're not shipping things quickly enough, and more meetings to remediate the situation...

By the time I left that godforsaken wasteland of a tech company I was easily doing ~3 hours of meetings in a given day, all spread out naturally, because fuck concentrating and getting work done.
How/why are they not executed in parallel ?
>No, you can't get rid of humor. And no, you can't get rid of corruption. They're the same exact thing.

Humor is corruption? That's how you intend to convince me that it can't be eliminated?
What would be an example of good programming primary sources?
Sigh. It is an interesting result, but I expect that you'll find that magnetic constriction of the structural motion has much more to do with heat propagation (or not). If someone liberates the actual paper I would be interested in reading it.
As the dust settles around this announcement, I'm feeling more positive now than in my initial response. I don't think Dart ever had a chance to compete with JavaScript on the browser, especially as JS is advancing so rapidly with ES6/ES7. I'm a strong believer in what the future holds for JS.

But Dart is something else. Dart showed us what JavaScript would have been if it were designed this decade, and with some thought to its architecture. It's clinical in its cleanliness (have a peek at its standard library and you'll agree). It was pitched as a full stack language for web applications done right, and I certainly felt it lived up to that claim.

Personally, I'm more interested in Dart as a replacement for Node.js. Luckily that dream is still alive: "We continue our strong investment in Dart VM for server, embedded, and mobile."
I inherit wealth from my past self.

If I earned $100 yesterday, I have $100 available to spend today.

Is it destroying the 'fundamental reward mechanisms of society'?

What is the difference if you substitute myself with say one of my children? The wealth was still earned, I should still be able to decide what to do with it.

I would recommend this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJwUaVDIPXg

If anything, the tax is what is destroying the fundamental reward mechanisms of society.
I think for most people, math is best learned in the context of some application that they care about (the last four words are very important). Few people appreciate the beauty of the abstract game itself.

For example, most people who play poker online quickly learn about expected value, probability, and variance.
Unless you're of the belief that language is defined by usage in which case "open source" tends to less rigorously mean "a large codebase that can at least be viewed and likely copied".

It's not as liberating as Open Souce, but without gradations in the standard you force people to choose between two radicalized tendencies.
That's not pride. That's arrogance and ignorance. There's quite a difference.
"I was tired of writing code like this over and over again."

This is getting tiring:

public class MyGraphThingee extends Graph<Foo, Bar>
You got exactly what you asked for. You knew something was wrong before you were even seated, then you ignored the "6 other tables" being served before you and continued to sit there waiting for who knows what. You have only yourself to blame for this experience.

Protip: If a restaurant jerks you around, LEAVE.
I suppose these people would rather have us stop buying iPhones, have Foxconn go out of business, and have all these teens go back to their poverty-stricken villages for a life of subsistence farming? After all, capitalist factory owners are evil, while living off the land is virtuous and pure! Or something.
This really puts into perspective the successful launch of a SpaceX Falcon9 with Dragon capsule earlier this month. Although the Falcon 9 can only do LEO launches for substantial payloads, they still managed to do it without having a single catastrophic launch failure.

Here's a link to video of the explosion - eerily reminiscent of Challenger :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLO-XoDkBM&feature=playe...!
I was at a company[1] where all the bill rates for a consultant heavy project got leaked by bad permissions on documents. I didn't think much of it at the time because I knew my bill rate (my share was a %). There were a two groups of pretty ticked off people. The employees who were "underpaid"[2] and the consultants who didn't know their bill rate[3]. It is an odd example of what happens when every knows what the company values them at.

1) no longer around in the form they were, but still not saying

2) truthfully, some of the consultant bill rates given the other expenses like taxes & insurance were not that far off the equivalent employee salary - particularly the H1B body shops

3) I think some were getting paid about 25% of their bill rate
Pretty clever. It is pretty neat how much a small team can do by intelligently "remixing" the powerful primitives that now exist at the linux and VM/container layers.

The cool bit is how many interesting things are here/arriving like bpf, io_uring, and wireguard in linux and with wasm and all of the interesting things it opens up with fast, sandboxed execution. I fully expect from some of these techs will really come innovation that will shake-up infrastructure even more than cloud and kubernetes already have.

(Also, hi Kurt and team, cool stuff!)
Addition is not as cathartic as subtraction. When you subtract something and everything still works, it means you're closer to the truth. Ptolemy's epicycles come to mind.
> some other N. American immigration hypotheses (eg, that pleistocene peoples could make boats)].

Why were they so opposed to this? You can't leave us hanging...

EDIT: ok and why is this at -1??
yeah, I'm talking about a normal uni. I'm sure if you go to Stanford (and/or have parents who could get you into Stanford) the world looks like a very different place.

Of the people I know, $130K+ is a reasonable salary, with some experience under your belt. Out of college, you are looking at $80-$85K cash (maybe $90K if you convert stock and other bits to cash) I do know a small handful of technical people who can pull off $200K plus, but they are experienced and staggeringly good, and have proved that they are staggeringly good. It's not something that your regular programmer can expect.
Is WebRTC not browser to browser? Think websockets would be better suited for this problem.
What the hell is a social security card if not a national ID card. Unique number assigned to each american citizen and you are forced to have it.
> people use Skype for a job interview

The implication there is not that they use unfashionable communication methods, it's that the stories are fake reposts of fake stories that someone invented years ago, when using Skype was a regular thing.
In my experience, "narrow" professionals tend to heavily overestimate what they bring to the table, which makes them not very hard to outcompete.
>> That's normal and is why I count startup stock and options as $0.

This absolutely need to be conveyed to every present and future employee of startup.
Unless you're founder or investor taking a risk - startup shares worth nothing.

I think startup hiring managers using worthless options as a negotiating tactic should be prosecuted for securities fraud.

Misleading employees is no less crime as misleading investors.
Retro gaming consoles are kind of different. Any software for them is necessarily written for that console in particular, and can take advantage of its hardware capabilities in unique ways, even if you're using modern tools to write that software.

Standard Linux software running on a PC, even an older and weirder PC, probably isn't going to do anything that interesting. At the end of the day, an X server running Firefox (or whatever) isn't going to be any different on an old PA-RISC workstation than it is on a modern desktop computer or a Raspberry Pi or whatever.
Two police officers in Beverly Hills who played music for the express purpose of masking lawful recordings of them, such that they're extremely difficult to post online unmuted.

Recording an on-duty peace officer is protected by the First Amendment. Officers intentionally making it difficult to disseminate those recordings should not be taken lightly.
Mobbing and pairing.

Not only they reduce the team output (pairing is acceptable because you're doing a pull request review at the same time, mobbing has a driver and someone helping around and the rest of the team barely follow along), they are also incredibly draining and I can't bring myself to do much more when the session is over.

I tried to raise it as a problem but we want to standardise practices and "be more collaborative". We're getting culture mandated from above and they hired an agile coach.
If there were current examples of this type of violence against South Asians too, I think your use of the generic term would have been more accepted.
I was not a team lead. I was an IC who had written a design doc for a feature.
I’ve worked with 0.1x engineers, where the whole team is slowed down. It becomes very draining.

This is why I’ve retired and am just doing my own projects
It sure will.

Derivatives trading in ethereum is still incipient and somewhat inefficient. For instance, there is a lot of competing option trading protocols [1] (mainly for crypto assets) each one with it's advantages and disadvantages, and one of the most popular, Hegic [2], employs liquidity pools pricing options at an expensive value due to a simplified pricing model (good for writers, but not for buyers).

I believe the advent of stablecoins and innovative DeFi protocols are laying the foundations upon which more accessible and efficient solutions will be built. High transaction fees and low throughput still need to be dealt with though, ETH2 is promising a lot in this sense, we will have to wait an see.

Nonetheless I understand that hedge funds and major financial institutions don't see much value in this space yet at its current stage, in regards of trading derivatives.

[1] https://medium.com/coinmonks/an-update-of-a-comparison-of-de...

[2] https://www.hegic.co/
Thanks. I reframed the messaging to be about pay for small experiments. Let's see how it does now.
From 10,000 feet, looking down? Wrong tool for the job.

In practice, the main use of this thing will probably be identifying lost light plane pilots flying VFR into the Washington ADIZ. Over 1000 of them since 2009, which makes one wonder about the qualifications of general aviation pilots. This is a huge and ongoing headache; if it even looks like it might head for downtown Washington, two F-16s and a Coast Guard helicopter are launched to intercept. This has happened several hundred times now. Nobody has been shot down yet, but it's been close. A few times, fighter pilots have had to fire flares to get the attention of a light plane.

(Explanation of Washington ADIZ/FRA: http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2014/October/Pil...)
I used to be a founder and got burned out when building my last company.

I'm now working at a dysfunctionnal 300+ppl company as a freelance developer.
I've been in full remote since before the pandemic, I'm charging 900€ a day, 22 days a month in a country where the median salary is 3k€.
I pay around half in taxes and keep half for myself.

The company is disorganized, talents flee to other companies in a pretty competitive market so I'm not too worried about my job. I'm well spoken and I can explain my job to my managers.

Projects get spin up and shut down for legal reasons (ie: a deal is made with a retailer in Asia, then the deal is shut down because the retailer merges with a competitor), I just get reassigned, work a few months and then move on.

The company I work for is attached to a huge european retail company. The retail company pumps cash into the company I work for every year to keep it alive.

I log my daily activities as part of a personal project, I usually spend 2/3 hours doing deep work, in the morning, after our daily stand up meeting. In the afternoon I take walks with my wife, read, work on personal stuff, but stay available on Slack just in case someone pings me.

I havent worked more than 16 hours a week for the past 4 months according to my daily logs. I only had to work really hard for a couple of months about a year ago when a project had to be shipped and the senior dev in charge of it left without warning

It's a very unusual situation to be in with such a high salary but it's fairly easy to find a gig like this as a freelancer in a large group / a bank while raking in 620€ a day before taxes.

I wish you all the best, I probably won't do this all my life but I'm enjoying it while it lasts after spending the last 3 years working 11 hours a day on average, week-end included.
Honestly I don't see how this would help. If every bit of transaction history is public at some point in time, then the transaction history is public, since it is impossible to make someone forcefully forget something.
For those wondering about an update, they posted a "Narrative Description of Activities" document (something to do with 501c status) recently (https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1367894681342799875), choice quote re comments in this thread:

> The Dynamicland researchers are not developing a product. The computers that the researchers build are models: not for distribution, but for studying and evaluating. The goal of the research is not to provide hardware or software to users, but to discover a new set of ideas which will enable all people to create computational environments for themselves, with no dependence on Dynamicland or anyone else, and to understand how these ideas can be taught and learned. The end result of the research is fundamentally intended to be a form of education, empowering communities to be self-sufficient and teach these ideas to each other.
FWIW, if you’re on macOS at least, private chats are supported under the Cocoa client.
This is rather terrible news. On the other hand; there's no technical reason someone (like, say the EFF) couldn't fork the client and server - and establish a new signal network - maybe drop the need for phone number registration as well?
> Moxie and Josh Goldbard hold no MOB, along with the employees

Right, the foundation sells the premined crypto-currency at a pumped up price. The foundation pays Goldbard and Moxie for their work. Employees are paid from the VC. No one connected has to hold any of it, nor will they want to after the dump.
https://www.codecademy.com/articles/react-virtual-dom
An acceptable daycare for the "professional, white collar" class is minimum $1,500 per child per month and doctor visits are at least $200 or $250 out of pocket each time for regular viral/bacterial infections.

Kids aren't cheap if you want to keep up with your socioeconomic class. And by far the biggest cost is the extra you pay for a house to be located near other high earners so that the schools your kids go to is filled with kids of other high earners.
https://takeout.google.com/ is exactly what you want. Deselect all, check "Google Photos", click Next, chose your archive format, confirm. It'll take some time but at the end of the process, you got a nice zip with all your Photos in original quality.
There’s at least one group (probably more) of people in Sweden working diligently to feed foreign media, particularly US media, with information (and arguably disinformation) about what a failure Sweden is. It seems to be some kind of play for domestic power.

I’m not a fan of Sweden’s strategy either, but the above has made me be a bit wary of opinions of the same in international media.
Why then don't you ask the candidates to interview themselves, while you're at it?
So the boat will submerge when it senses trouble. Then we'll get submarine pirates but... The barrier to entry would have expanded sufficiently.
Yes, and I don't blame whoever chooses the title. It's a cutthroat game for writers now and I'm sure many are having to do things they don't want to to make ends meet and get as many clicks as possible. Nevertheless, I think it's important for everyone to maintain alertness about how their feelings are being evoked and to what end.
The life insurance angle is real, but the solution isn’t to wait, it’s to get into the plan before you find out. You can always stop the plan if you think your risks aren’t as high later when you know more!
Nicotine is in fact highly protective against Parkinsons. The effect is not small!

Smoking has declined by at least half in the last fifty years in the United States. Also not a small effect!

"Very plausible" here means "someone should really do a study where they correlate for lower levels of nicotine use and see if there's anything left to explain".

I can't imagine anyone would see "very plausible" and think the explanation should be accepted without investigation. That's just not what that phrase means.
I don't get how the additive solution does not require to understand the whole system and all it's interactions. If I place a jenga block I need to understand the static properties of the whole jenga tower to prevent collapse.
Come on, what’s up with downvotes? That was really smart joke.
I actually think there are tons and tons of "homeless" people who are completely invisible because they're otherwise normal people who just happen to be living in their car or a tent for an extended period. The people I've met who have been in that situation were not dealing with addiction or psychological problems. They were simply victims of circumstance. In at least one case I'm aware of the person was kicked out by her husband with no job and no address and was totally unable to access any social services. Her getting housing enabled her to get a job and access services she didn't have access to when she was homeless.

I think giving people housing is a huge part of getting them off the streets, and I think you underestimate the number of people who are homeless because you're not seeing the countless homeless people who are keeping their lives together in spite of not having a permanent address.