jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Some companies in the past held enormously more power than today's corporations. VOC of The Netherlands owned Indonesia and had a mercenary army of over a hundred thousand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
You have a pretty negative take. There are fewer software engineers with the skills you mention. But it's kind of the wrong question. Without these skills, individuals are still capable of offering tremendous value to tech companies. I work at a solid company with a great team. Those with solid CS fundamentals have certainly been profoundly helpful when designing systems that need to be performant and reliable. But other, passionate engineers with liberal arts backgrounds have added insane value to the product as well. It's about curiosity, intelligence, and thinking about what's needed to get the job done.
Fair point. But I bet you have earned quite a good experience from building that app. And it was an idea that could be profitable. It's never 100% guaranty.
And he went to Rearden for the steel.
It's more of a design problem in american cities than anything else. It's hard to get public transport working well in cities - as a result less people use them - as a result they are slow - as a result they are dirty and not well taken care of.
Even something like Grammarly should be managed better. They offered something like $8/month which was OK and I assumed was set until I changed it. But then suddenly I was billed for a full year which I was not expecting.

I hadn't noticed for a few months since I went back to college and missed the three month grace period. It took a lot of back and forth negotiating before I got only 50% of the fee back.

Grammarly is a very aggressive company. And even worse I saw mistakes in the suggested corrections. The only thing I liked was the plagiarism detection feature.
Exactly what happened to me. I had offers from Google, Airbnb, Lyft and Uber. In terms of numbers,
Lyft > Airbnb > Google > Uber.

Google tried to lowball me all the way through, and asked me to share screenshots of actual emails from other companies to prove my other numbers. They increased the numbers but frankly, they weren't anywhere close to Airbnb/Lyft. They did not act like a company that would beat other offers for talent. My offer was in the AI Assistant team under Google Search, so it wasn't an orphaned arbitrary product team either. Broke my heart coz I was so keen on joining Google from the start.

Hope this helps somebody out there!
Anyone know if there is an Edmonds.con variant in Germany?
I have heard that people do that, but I know zero people who have done it.
The sock puppets in the mainstream media bought it when they told us a youtube video caused the Benghazi attacks. Why not try it again?
Quarterbacks like their footballs to be broken in a bit, and they all have their own preference for doing it. They lobbied the NFL years back to let them break in the game footballs and the NFL said OK. They have to use official NFL footballs and they are SUPPOSED to be properly inflated at game time. Each team uses their own footballs while on offense.

I doubt this happens in basketball because the same ball is being handled by numerous people on both teams, so it wouldn't be fair to let one player or team break the ball in to their own preferences. The same would be true of your AFL. In the NFL, teams are using their own broken in balls, and the quarterback is (usually) the only guy who has to actually throw it.

Baseballs only last a couple of pitches and offense/defense are completely different games, so I seriously doubt anyone is allowed to do anything to any ball before the game. When a pitcher gets a new ball it is already pre-rubbed in a special mud, and they can rub it in dirt a bit but they can't put anything that will stick to the ball on it as it gives the pitcher an advantage.
So, it's only about a tiny security concern but it got much bigger usability problems and what's worse RedHat is forcing people to use podman since RHEL 8 when it's not even ready.
You can change that in the php.ini to set the levels of Warnings/Errors to show if you want to. (And also naturally the MySQL config, to allow more connections)

But if you were the developer of this code, it's useful to pinpoint what went wrong and where.

This is a common "HN Hug-of-Death" ;)
I searched for 'nuclear' on that page, and found no mention of the word at all. Whatever you might think of nuclear energy, I don't think such a drastic energy cut is even possible to implement without it. (After all, I see little point in cutting CO2 emissions in the US if people in other countries emit an amount equivalent to whatever gets cut here.)
> I think he said that he views it as a moral issue and he doesn't believe he should be compelled by the government to directly provide a public service, or something to that effect.

Yes, absolutely. I’m a high taxation statist. But tax me, spend it in whatever public services you want, and then leave me alone. This sort of case-by-case exercise where state and municipal governments impose random unfunded mandates on individuals is incompatible with the idea of “government of laws, not if men.” The government shouldn’t make anyone keep running a public beach just because there used to be one in the property. Especially where there was no public vote, just an agency making a case by case decision.
Yes, I gave an example of burdens advertisers face, but as I lead the post with: there are many.
I can't find that text in the article. Who are you quoting?
Switzerland isn't a magical neutral land on Earth. It's a neutral place from the point of view of Europe because its terrain is difficult to practice for troops.

On a virtual level (software, intellectual, legal), Switzerland is not more neutral than any other small country on Earth. It could have been Iceland.

Automatically centralizing to Switzerland everything considered 'neutral' (neutrality is a debatable concept btw) is risky, stereotyping and doesn't look legit.
One use case where I've put (uri-encoded) JSON in the query string is for parameterizing GET requests with more structured data, since URL encoding is fairly limited and GET requests don't have a body like POSTS.
Trees. You're talking about trees.
Imteresting. . And immediately relevant to considering production...
https://qz.com/1235963/scientists-who-want-to-study-psychede...
I'm going to look into this option a bit more, thanks! I don't expect I'll find much in this area but I'll look more in the Atlanta area as well.
They don't allow automated code downloading, true, but nothing stops you from copying and pasting code written by someone else.
If I understand your position, and that of the FSF, rightly then you believe it is both unethical to provide, and unethical to use hosted software that does not carry the AGPL.

I would submit that a SaaS provider could not ethically allow modifications to their running software. So let's exclude that from the discussion.

What if a provider only ran software licensed with the AGPL? It wouldn't fix anything. The license requires accessing a download of the source. How can a customer verify the version of the software is the same as the version of the download, i.e. check for a violation of the license? Short of having access to the operating system on the servers, the customer cannot. No reasonable service provider would allow such access, and no reasonable customer would accept that other customers, including, possibly, competitors, had such access.

You can push the problem around all you like (every customer has their own server with OS-level access, but what about the DB?). It will always end up being cost prohibitive to run a service.

Also, under the AGPL the point is for any user of the system to be able to host and run their own instance. Meaning that any innovations must be given away. Conversely, if the software can only run in the context of the provider's data store, the problem of data ownership is not resolved.

Do I want the keys to the OS on my home computer. Darn right. At work, do I want the keys to Amazon's virtualization layer? Heck no, I don't want those headaches. It's what I'm paying them for.

Stallman's position also fails to address the ethics of contract law. What makes Free Software ethics superior to ethics of contracts?
Well that is one thing to your advantage then.

If you really have other strong potential options to making money outside of software, then I'd suggest you do that now, and continue to improve your technical side in the meantime.

Success doesn't happen overnight unless you're extremely lucky.

When I was 16 my brother and I moved out, and I ended up in call centers for the next 14 years. I am only now getting out after working extremely hard over the last year to improve myself and my confidence. I avoided your typical educational path due to lack of confidence and fear of debt. In the end I wish I had gone the typical route, because the atypical route was harder, and even now I am not going to be making as much as could be.

I'd really suggest you look into options at your local college. There is likely financial aid and scholarships, and do not fear loans. Even if you just get a two year degree that might be enough to get you an internship at some big name company in the area, or even a full-time position. If there are no tech jobs in your immediate area, think about how you can move to an area where there are more.

Unless you really can show off your rockstar talent and persona, or that you've survived an office environment and held down a stable job before, it's probably going to be difficult convincing someone to take a chance.
I see stuff like this and it inspires me to spread my opinions, but then they end up getting deleted down the line once I am convinced that it is bad for my future. It happens! I love xkcd btw, thanks for reminding me of that one.
> Inferno is used by IBM, NASA, Alcatel-Lucent, the US DoD.

Where?
Although Bill Watterson famously was opposed to merchandizing of Calvin and Hobbes, I just learned from Wikipedia that there was a USPS postage stamp featuring C&H, honoring it among some other noteworthy newspaper comics.

So, if you're ever looking for a nice little gift for a C&H fan who has all the books, and who isn't too opposed to moichandizing... there's a stamp-collecting thing called a "first day cover", in which a stamp had been put on a postcard, and canceled with the date that the stamp was issued, specifically for collectors. (Sometimes the cards have additional art, and sometimes the cancellation mark does.) These first day covers are affordable enough that you can just put one on the fan's fridge, for them to find.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/402631251198

https://www.ebay.com/itm/193646892779
I think the modern attraction of Austin has a bit more to do with its reputation as a "cool" city with its music scene than its history of chip manufacturing.
as a Scandinavian, Sweden is one of the worst examples you could've picked for how COVID was handled.
for the core functionality, the tool pretty much does that, although I am thinking of adding trending repos and things as such.. and any other features that other folks have in mind, keeping the core utility of the tool as opening a repo in your editor
As I said in the interview, I'm Dr. Frankenstein.
Looking for reverse copycat? Just kidding.

Taringa used to be the Reddit in Spanish (well, at least for South America), with really interesting content. Microsiervos.com was probably the best tech/curiosities blog in Spanish, and a few days ago I visited and it is still active (from 2006 I think).
You didn't mention that need in your initial post - that is somewhat distinct from the core needs of a tutorial that covers Flask development.
> But then those same guys are allowed to trade options.

You act as if they are allowed to so symmetrically. I'm pretty sure they can only *buy* options, in which case there is no "extra" risk outside of what they paid up front.

Why would you hinder that from a false risk/margin perspective, if not but just to block the little guy.
I think falling for the Science as religion trap is a bad choice in the long run.

Why not Math as a religion, dumb down complex problems, if it's wrong for the common Joe, it's okay cause he wouldn't understand it anyway.. not a good strategy.. I think if Science has a knowledge management problem, that should be addressed rather than dumbing down of things for public consumption.
I’m not trying to defend the USSR but afaik the USSR failed because of Gorbachev lowered the amount of power of the state. I’m also pretty sure Holdimor was anti-Ukrainian state management holding wheat from them and less about its economic system.

China did have a huge famine due to state powers making the wrong choice.

I can’t speak about wheat production but I don’t think it has much to do with bringing people out of poverty if the state is still able to provide for its citizens.
So the issue is, you want some sort of bindings rather than directly invoking the Java API. I'm curious, isn't that the sort of thing macros are supposedly good at - could the bindings not be auto generated to a large extent?
I am not a developer. I am simply someone who is fascinated by creating software and websites. I remember taking a HTML/CSS class in high school 12+ years ago and it was one of the most fun classes i've ever taken. Didn't really know i could make a career out of it at the time, but i wish i did.
With that said, i love visiting websites that are pure HTML/CSS. They are fast to load and easy to read.
< The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
There is a lot mathematicians out there and these kind of statements are not helping.
Von Neumann work was actually concentrated around a small set of ideas (the study of measure/probability). Most of his work is related to that. Even the Von Neumann algebras were in his interpretation, representation measures.
You can also argue that he was pushing further already existing ideas(way further...). In contrast Einstein was creating brand new theory.
Von Neumann was a great mathematician and for sure genius. But he was not by any means unparalleled.
Absolutely. For example, it's very easy to work hard writing and make very little. (Writing in the technical space can be valuable but it's mostly by boosting reputation and therefore the ability to make money through other routes.)

Ditto for music and many other things that often fall into the category of things that lots of talented people are happy to do for free.
This is a terrible answer. Have you ever worked in consulting? It couldn’t be further from what OP states they’re looking for.
I need a secure way to control my smart home, please integrate everything that is needed!

Oh and i need a secure key for my car.

If you had time, i need password manager within my messenger too.

A secure todo list would be great.

Not everything you can include into ONE app should be included.
Aren't you and your wife sharing responsibility equally or proportionally at least? It is unfair for one partner to bear the brunt of stress and the other to thrive. Sounds like some compromises need to be made here.
Yes, it is also police brutality, that is correct. The people fighting the police (many of whom are police themselves, and whom some police are collaborating with) also just attempted a violent coup. So they all suck. And surprisingly, Donald Trump managed to support all of the ones doing the systematic violence AND the ones attempting violent coups.

So really, yes, it all around sucks, and we need to fix a lot. But some people are clearly hurting more than helping! Maybe when they’re gone, we can finally focus on fixing these longstanding systemic problems rather than arguing about a man-child.
That's why Twitter is such a toxic site. The greatest incentive is to create outrage and agreement or disagreement, and it's on a descending scale from there. "Quality content" is pretty far down the list, and of course the format makes quality content even harder.
So what?

Every platform has them. They get reported and removed.

Fortunately we don't have to use company stores. I use Gab in the Web browser.
Don't engage with the trolls!

It's a bad faith argument you're arguing against, which I'm sure you see, just want to call it out.
The problem is there's evidence should you choose to see it, constitutional unlawfulness & just cause on an unprecedented scale to at least demand a thorough discovery stage in the courts, which never happened.

The way to kill the fraud narrative is by debating those raising the charge, actually hearing the cases in court instead of tossing them on procedural grounds and allowing full audits, signature matches in Fulton for example.

If you listen to the full phone call from which the carefully picked snippet you refer to was lifted Trumps moral compass seems far better than the shifty and obstructionist Georgia Secretary of State to me - Raffensberger has no explanation for simple charges and whimpers when reminded of the requests he has been actively ignoring [1].

It does not exactly scream "innocent" to anyone with half a conscience. Nor did the threatening and doxxing of children that occured during the certification of the Michigan electors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trump-be...
I respectfully disagree. To put this straight, I am all in on free speech (which is one of our basic rights). Entirely independent on whether I agree with the content or not. However, at some point most countries realized that it is not okay to speak some things. Most of these things essentially revolve around planning to kill people, or violently fighting results of fair elections.

Yes, both is happening on the Internet for ages, and yes, it will always happen, no matter what. But the radicalization of the past years culminated in the events of the last days. We can either tolerate that and wait until these actions destroy our democracies (this effect is called the "Paradox of Tolerance"; if you don't know it, look it up), or carefully act against it.

Asking Parler to moderate content to not call for violence and putting an end to spreading lies about the election result is legitimate and in the interest of all of us, it is such a careful act. Now Parler has the choice to become a platform for conservative thinkers and opionions - or a platform of hate fueling violence against "others". Blocking the former would be grave mistake, as you say yourself. As for blocking the later, I think I made my point clear.

Over & out, unless you make a really good counter argument.
So what exactly is your threshold before Google should be allowed remove a social media platform from their app store?
Is the 4004 the only 4-bit CPU chip ever made? It would be neat to see an introductory digital electronics course around eventually designing one on an FPGA. It's just simple enough to stay interesting, not getting tiring like implementing a i8080 might be.
You may be able to with cars.
Massive amounts of effort were poured into these historical operating systems and now they are obsolete. But obsolescence does not diminish the craftsmanship, skill, and ingenuity that went into their development. By admiring what the developers accomplished, you are allowing the legacy to live on.

I admit I have a soft spot for software that didn't stand the test of time. I was once on a team that developed a product that was killed in favor of another product. Reading the history of Windows Longhorn (and how much effort was thrown away), I felt a connection with these developers who no doubt felt similar disappointment.
How are text files gpu hostile?
I'd like to see some decent analysis of which places, US or otherwise, are expected to weather climate change well.
Yes but it’s still a real problem. My mother resigned from her union-job after a too long career.

It paid well, and allowed me to go to college with no debt.

But it absolutely drained her. It was terrible toward the end.

She was a nurse. Nursing is a profession that can be greatly improved, but the unions don’t seem too interest in that.

They are much better at getting better pay and benefits.
> Rust code is significantly more readable.

You should put down the Rust kool-aid. Rust is incredibly hard to read due to its sigil and abbreviation heaviness.
Their motto was "Find the dependencies -- and eliminate them."
Mining is wasteful but in principle proof of work can be largely replaced by proof of stake, dramatically lowering the energy costs.
> Therefore it's important to me that you not get downvoted. So I'm trying to help you get listened to, by telling you why I find myself wanting to reach for the downvote button—but the things you say are important enough that they deserve being engaged with, even if the manner in which you say it is frustrating.

Well, I appreciate that, thanks. I also appreciate that you decided to engage in actual honest discussion.
Their solution would probably be to conduct SWAT raids and roadblocks to find stolen property, continuing the trend of constitutionally questionable practices.
i'm in pdx too -- you're right on all counts. cargo pants ftw :) the problem with fashion is when my crappy cargo pants or vest go from $$ to $$$+
10 bucks says the lesson learned will be "remember kids, always set -u (and other good ideas, like set -e, set -o pipefail, and personally I like set -o posix but you'll need to give up process substitution for that)."
> I've often thought there would be an awesome opportunity in there to make a hilarious app that catches cheaters during the music round of Pub Quiz.

The best pub quizzes dim the lights so that smartphone cheats beam forth their sneakiness.
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The rest of the articles in that issue are brilliant as well, and the ads really took me back!
This article was a nice advert for the poster's game... that's about it.
I think a lot of what makes something that seems like it is work to one person actually enjoyable to another is purely environmental.

For example- I knew from an early age that I liked tinkering around on computers. However when I got to college, I found programming monotonous and boring. When I worked as a software engineer for a large boring company I hated it even more. To the point that I actually quit and switched careers.

Then, a few years later I discovered Ruby on Rails and development on a new Mac. These seemingly small changes to a new environment rekindled my love of computers to a point that I spent nearly every weekend for three years teaching myself Rails. I remember one weekend I flew to a bachelor party in New Orleans and all the way there I read a book on Rails. It wasn't work anymore, but a hobby that I truly loved.

This is not to say that everyone is cut out to be or will enjoy being a programmer with just the right tools. However I think a lot of people take a first glance at something and give up on it without having a comprehensive understanding of the reality of doing the work in an ideal environment. To this day it annoys the hell out of me when non-technical friends ask me questions about coding as if it is some awful task that has to be done- "Why would you ever want to do that?" These people never actually have tried it so they don't know what is actually involved or whether they might actually enjoy it.
Sure, that's definitely fair.

The F35 has been badly politicized, but it has also been the victim of an absolute shitload of criticism from people who want it to be something it was never intended to be and are unhappy that the F22 was cancelled early.

If it were just that Colonel Berke liked the plane, it would be one thing. He really explains it in detail in the video. I'll admit I wasn't quite sold on the the plane years ago, but once I saw this video it pretty thoroughly changed my mind.

I realize the video is a bit long, and I almost never post links to videos -- but this one is well worth the watch.