jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> As my father always counselled me with regards to dating advice: "Don't come up with reasons for them being out of your league. Make them come up with them. Someday, someone -- perhaps someone surprising -- will say Yes."

Isn't this a line from "Shit My Dad Says"? https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays/status/4811790555

Maybe all fathers say the same thing.

More to the point, we're not afraid of BFEs because they may be "out of our league" and say no; if they said no right away we'd be fine.

We're afraid of BFEs because we fear they will absorb all of our time in endless email conversations, nitpicking, forms-filling, PDF-generating, phone calls, meetings, and eventually say no -- or even if this results in a sale it may not be worth it.

I'm not saying this is true -- I'm just trying to describe the fear. The OP clearly addresses most of those points by the way.
I add it to my list of hard-to-replicate-and-locate bugs then.
how's that, anybody try using it ?
Definitely yes. Them or others, whatever. And Not for every issues. But I want to ear about issues that have been worrying for a long time and/or annoyed a lot of people, or that are very complex and shady. And the only way to encourage communication about bugs is to congratulate people for their fixes/problem isolation.
Slightly off-topic, but I also find some of Apple's software workflow philosophies baffling. E.g., sometime back they got rid of the Save As button.

I was once playing around with editing a photo using Preview. I tried a crop etc. Eventually, I closed the app without committing to any of the edits (by Saving anything). Imagine my shock (and horror) when I discovered that the "playing around edits" I had done had all been permanently applied to my original image. Despite never having saved anything. All the edits were being applied in real-time, even if I was just trying something to see how it would look (without committing a save). So, they apparently have decided to even get rid of the Save button in some cases.
I used to play with the Dart language - really nice having a client and server project in one code base and in one language.

BTW, it seems odd that Dart is not supported server side on AppEngine. Sandboxing problem? You need to use a compute engine.
I wish I could agree with you.

But the interview process is such a time suck (not to mention that you have to nick out on your regular job which you can only do so many times for a half a day before they get wise) that by the time you are walking into an office for an interview, you've already made a non-trivial commitment. You can only repeat it a handful of times (assuming you have another job or are otherwise professionally engaged) before it becomes a real burden.

Now, if you are unemployed and you have a substantial financial cushion or can pick up enough 'anytime/anyplace' freelance work, sure, interview with 5 companies a week, take your time and be picky. But how many job seekers are in such an ideal position?
She is not even Indian. She is a Canadian.
I obviously over simplified it. The original muslim astronomers not only tested the greek model but several others using observational data and mathematical models.
>It's in fact illegal in most jurisdictions, including California.

IANAL, but AFAIK it's absolutely not illegal in California; what's illegal is preventing you from working for a competitor AFTER you quit.

I've never had a salary employment contract in California that DIDN'T say they owned everything I did in my off time, at least if I was working on something in a similar domain. The best contracts explicitly state that I can get an exemption, or that I can work on unrelated projects, but all have the clause.

If it's illegal, a lot of companies are breaking the law.
> But interest rates are at 0, so they can't drop anymore

Interest rates are not at zero [0], and interest rates, and their targets, can go negative. [1]

[0] target range is currently 0-0.25%, actual is 0.08%: https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/fed%20funds

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/negative-interest-rate-...
Especially when there is also centuries of past evidence that conflicts with this assertion
I have been using htmx in one project and I must say I’m very happy about it. Take some getting used to but it integrates well. This release fixes some of my biggest issues. Difficult to send different variables om different requests and the need for a form tag. Nice!

Thanks for your hard work I will give this release a try soon. :)
It seems like it's wrong that removing contributions would count as a contribution.
No. I post a bit on reddit and HN from time to time.
> False. There’s no hard limit on V, so you can arbitrarily high “M1V” with any M1.

There's definitely a limit on the number of transactions. V ~ N_transactions_per_day * M1.
With the fixed M1 you can up V only by upping N_transactions_per_day. Am I missing something?
I need a proper white paper before even considering the idea
It is a testament to the times that someone can be subject to a NYT hit job and be able to defend themselves so easily.
It's interesting that as a native Hebrew reader, while I _know_ that it doesn't have vowels, it doesn't feel like it when I'm reading. It dsnt rd lk nglsh wth th vwls rmvd t ll. First of all, you've got י and ו denoting i/ee, o and u/oo sounds in most words, א and ה for a word ending with a or ah, etc. But I guess it's mostly just my brain being trained in it.
Have you used other game engines? If not, I'd suggest you start by building games in a few different game engines so that you can develop good taste.
I can't see or control what information gets sent where. I don't know what gets logged and sent to Google. I refrain from using Google credentials on the phone in case that makes it harder for Google to correlate what happens on my phone with my activity on the web in general. I disable the location services in case that makes it more difficult for someone to watch my location and movements. I don't know if it helps because there is no way I know about to find out what is being logged or where it is being sent.

App permissions seem to be completely coarse-grained, and they all seem to need access to potentially huge amounts of personal data. I can't, so far as I know, disable their access to specific bits of data I don't want them to have; nor do I know of any mechanism for blacklisting or whitelisting access to specific internet hosts.

My Moto X decided a while back that it wanted to upgrade itself and started bringing up a nag screen at frequent intervals, interrupting whatever I was doing. There is no way I can discover to turn this off, and there is no way to decline the upgrade. It just kept nagging me, many times a day, for months. I can't disable this behavior; I can only choose between reduced functionality (getting interrupted mid-sentence and having to dismiss a dialog many times a day) or letting this remote server take over and install its software on my hardware.

In the end I feel like this device doesn't actually belong to me at all. It's more like a rental apartment: I can use it, and I can keep my stuff in it if I want to, but ultimately it belongs to the landlord; which in this case is a combination of Google, Motorola, and T-Mobile. The deal seems pretty clear: they get to decide what I am allowed to do with my phone, they get to decide where my information goes and who gets to see it, and I can either accept the deal or not use the phone. For the most part I have chosen the latter.
I find tipping culture really confusing. How is it that when your plumber saves the day and gets your leak fixed (saving you expensive flood restoration costs) you pay the price on the invoice, yet for a car ride from A to B it's worth paying 20% to 30% over the invoice price? Compare that to buying a new vehicle where, regardless of how knowledgeable and spectacular the salesperson is, you are considered to be getting a bad deal if you don't bargain to below invoice price.
...and if the publisher decides to effect new control over the DVDs I've already purchased? Is it theft that I do not return them?
Thanks! https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py

Results from a scan over some Gutenberg Project novels and Lord of the Rings at http://darius.livejournal.com/48525.html
A historic event for whom? The United States right? Social Media operates in 100+ countries. What happened in USA is historic for you maybe. Not for us. USA is not the World.

Regimes fall every now and then. Coup attempts happen all the time. I have never seen media or social media ban any Government account over it.

I guess Social Media has a different conscience for when regime change/coup-d'etat happens in say Iraq vs when it happens in USA.

What this has done is set a very bad precedent. The Big Tech is acting like Supranational Powers overriding what Elected Governments can and cannot do. Remember that the transfer of power hasn't completed yet. Trump is still the elected President of USA until 20th of January.

If Big Tech can do this to a sitting elected President, it can do it to anyone else. No Government in the World is safe from Big Tech censorship.
As a developer who's deeply tied into web technologies, I cannot help but grin at this post. Unfortunately, I know where this is going to lead, however. My mother visits a site that embeds WMV-based videos for her Russian TV shows. It was not until she purchased a new MacBook that I realized that this was the site she visits 90% of the time she's on the Internet. I thought installing Flip4Mac would solve her crisis, and it partially did, video and audio came in through Firefox as expected. With that said, seeking within the video does not work as naturally well as it does in IE. In fact, it doesn't work at all. The end result was I purchased my mother VMWare Fusion 3, a copy of Windows XP, and ended up having to tutor her on the usage of a virtual machine, the mechanics between how to seamlessly work with the two operating systems, etc. I still get daily tech support calls that eat up a lot of my personal time, now not only for the MacBook, but for VMWare Fusion, Windows XP and IE/Safari usage.

The web developer in me loathes IE for obvious reasons which will not be reiterated here for the billionth time. The son in me kind of wishes my mother just had a simple netbook running windows xp, IE, and nothing else.
> How is that the most reasonable approach?

The reasonable approach is to be overly cautious. A false sense of security is worse than no security at all.
You also have to manually add the kernel for that environment via:

({new_environment_name}) ...$ python -m ipykernel install --user --name {new_environment_name} --display-name "Python ({new environment display name})"

The env won't be accessible in jupyter (lab or notebook) until you do this step.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39604271/conda-environme...
A lot of money is in hedge funds through which it goes into businesses and commodities. So you have to see where the hedge funds have their money. I would guess that the wealthy have more money in hedge funds than positional goods like fine art. But this is speculation on both our parts.
That's messed up - really? Chrome covering up IE's mistakes??
I once had to use a method like this to detect adblock to specificially deny a somewhat intrusive ad from being displayed, as adblock screwed it up enough that it wouldn't close.
They're turning away everyone who doesn't have the appropriate badge. See https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/buyout-chevys-during-rsa... - "Who: Only BSidesSF, TrustyCon and "Expo Only" RSA Badge holders will be allowed in to eat".
The article doesn't explicitly say whether it is bulk Gallium Arsenide, or a quantum-well structure based on a sandwich of Gallium Arsenide and its crystalline alloys. Bizarre excitonic behavior in a quantum-well doesn't surprise me much, however in bulk it would be a remarkable phenomenon.

Also, droplets in physics (whether in the water, or in the nucleus) exhibit 'surface tension' effects - basically energy dynamics between volume and surface area. If that was the case here it would make this phenomenon very interesting indeed.
because it increases terms for people who have drunken brawls? because it puts time limits on people getting shit face drunk before having said brawls?
Tried to replicate it on Firefox on Android with no luck. I tried with data, wifi, uBlock enabled/disabled, etc.
Paving probably won't be good for the micro-plastic pollution problem. That plastic problem is probably harder to solve. Each one big piece of plastic problem becomes myriad small piece of plastic problems.
> Solutions such as Kubernetes tout the benefits of zero-downtime deployments

To be fair, these features of k8s are nice to have. Is there a similar tool for running single node (i.e. ec2) instances that offers zero-downtime deploys? One way you could do it is run a EKS cluster with a single ec2 node running your single-node setup. You could get the benefits of k8s while still running the simple single-node arch
Sustainability.

The M2 is growing because interest rates are dropping. But interest rates are at 0, so they can't drop anymore. So there is reason to believe that we can not sustain our current trajectory any longer.
The peak of women's representation in computing was ~33% in the early 1980s. Not that much higher than the ~20% we see today. And many of these women in early computing not because it was their first choice, but because the jobs they wanted weren't open to women. Mary Allen Wilkes, for example, wanted to be a trial lawyer but went into computing because no firm she contacted would let women be trial lawyers [1]. This isn't unique to the US, but part of a broader trend of more gender equality being associated with lower rates of women in STEM fields [2].

1. From Clive Thompson's "Coders" chapter 2.

2. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
Things are difficult to price. Your expenses probably are increasing and I believe you but I know there is bias in my expense calculations. For example, I need a new car. It will be a lot more in sticker price than real cost of previous car. However total cost of ownership if I look all the way out to 2030+ or later will be lower than previous car. This is one of the problems with pricing healthcare. It's out of control expensive but also morbidity and age adjusted disability keeps getting lower.

Edit: The land problem is a thing also difficult to capture since amortized across entire country. Moreover, it's not Singapore in the USA, the land price problem points to various inefficiencies rather some kind of intrinsic supply/real value problem.
It is this, but there's a twist.

Presume a person with assets sees information like this and in combination with other factors causes them to agree a dramatic market pullback (on the scale of last year's but worse) is likely and soon.

The next logical step would be to enjoy all of the gains so far and sell out from the risk of the drop, and even after a nominal loss of value rebuy.

What I've seen is rather than deal with what that might require, people will present the above argument. They may refer you to 1973's "A Random Walk down Wall Street," or bring up capital gains taxes.

But what they will not do is confront the cognitive dissonance they're feeling between their own sense that something is wrong with the market and that they are in a position to take great advantage of a drop but will not.
Here's the S&P 500 in "real money" that is, gold, over the past century: https://www.macrotrends.net/1437/sp500-to-gold-ratio-chart

I was looking at that earlier today to try to get a feel for if the stock market is really at record highs, or if it's just the Dollar and other major currencies that are just at record lows.

Note, that massive crash on the chart after 1971 is the US abandoning the gold standard (where you could exchange US dollars with the government for a fixed amount of gold) and the massive devaluing of the US dollar, and massive surge in the price of gold that followed.

But I thought the most interesting part is it clearly shows we're not at 2000 bubble levels right now. Which it looks like we are if you just look at the dollar denominated stock market value.
I have continued to publish and never have I been instructed to make the papers be open access. No one is enforcing that mandate. The research I've been a part of is wholly funded by the taxpayer and papers that I published after the mandate continue to not be freely available.
In a curved spacetime Pi could easily be 4.0.

Pi is an idealised approximation of a certain kind of curvature in a certain kind of spacetime. Pi appears to have infinite precision only if you assume the curvature and the spacetime are perfectly smooth and have infinite resolution.

Given there's a Planck limit, it's unlikely the universe really is perfectly smooth. So Pi in the real universe is not very likely to have infinite precision.

That's where the concept of Pi as a Platonic example of mathematical perfection trips over the reality of physics as a messy thing where traditional math structures can only ever provide approximate descriptions.

Beyond a certain level of detail Other Stuff is happening, and you can't assume smoothness or infinite precision.

We don't know a whole lot about the Other Stuff yet. One reason is that math was built to work with smooth functions with infinite precision, and there's no equivalent math that describes the lumps of whatever spacetime is made of, or the relationships between the lumps.
Key management is pretty primitive. It would be nice if SSH integrated better with PGP/GPG. I recently spent too much time messing with monkeysphere, keychain, gpg-agent, gpgsm etc. trying to use GPG derived keys for SSH. While I could cobble something together I didn't feel that it was a solution I could recommend to others as a general "best practice" because it involved too much installing and configuring and was still somewhat brittle (eg. providing key names to gpg-agent in my .bashrc file).
Turning them into generators would have broken a lot of existing code, though, so it's reasonable to leave them until a major version change.
Rather, these are the kind of small, obviously-useful changes that should have come immediately in 3.0, giving people some encouragement to switch.
(Author here.) It's a thing I am trying to do right now: 50% for data science freelancing (which I enjoy a lot nonetheless), and 50% for my own musings and self-development, without any restrictions (whether technical, scientific or educational).

It's clearly better financially than academic jobs _and_ I am not restricted by grant topics & timelines or a place.

I am just curious what can go wrong? (I.e. I don't know personally anyone living this way.)
I’m actually using MEGA like this, I sync my home folder to MEGA and all devices. Really useful.
Maybe what we really need is an increase in VC's?

Possibly grant resident status to anyone (with lot of money of course... after all, it's only the exceptional we are talking about here) who wants to fund and run a VC company? Because there are lots of great programmers who simply can't get funding.

I wonder how PG would feel about that?
There's a pretty big difference between increasing the money supply by loaning money, borrowing from the fed at the discount window, and creating money out of thin air to use however you'd like.
75% of Harvest is remote and we're almost always looking for more great folks. Nearly all of our development team is remote.

https://www.getharvest.com/careers

https://www.getharvest.com/made-on-earth
What if the qualities that make a drug dealer are economic, but the qualities that make a GREAT drug dealer may be a mix of environment and genes?

If you want the most amazing, ruthless, and efficient black market for drugs, you must have the largest possible number of drug dealers participating in the system, so the most talented and motivated drug dealers have the opportunity to be the best they can be.

The author of this post is missing some of Graham's core arguments, and it makes me want to go back and reread the original essay. Perhaps it is PG's fault for conflating concepts, as people seem to be raising valid points (startups should be able to hire great programmers if they would just pay more) while missing that the core thesis is undeniable: if there are more programmers participating, more greatness will emerge.

It is probably not even linear. If you track the history of martial arts proficiency, the ones that are in fashion seem to produce a higher overall average of ability, with the "greats" in that martial art always arising when many many people are participating in that art, and there is a rich ecosystem that supports learning and competition. i.e. Judo in the 1970s, or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in the early 2000s.

I see this anecdotally and in published research, where pockets of artists, writers, and musicians have created a wildly disproportionate amount of forward looking work when there are many of them in the same area creating all at once.

Even if startups paid more, it would not significantly increase the total number of great programmers. Google, Apple, and Facebook already DO pay "more" and I think these companies are in exactly the same boat as the startup in the essay - they would happily keep hiring as many great programmers as they can find.

If that is true, the number of jobs available to great programmers is not proved to be finite.
One quick thing: it's sort of annoying to have to mouse over the questions to see if they have responses or not. Try leaving the "View Responses" link displayed.
Exactly. Flash might be proprietary as well, but at least Adobe takes the time to write a binary plugin for Linux.
This is not a fallacy. Fallacies are mistakes in logic. This 'Just World Fallacy' is a cognative bias, if anything.
Some reported that video worked in Chrome without QuickTime. I couldn’t reproduce that myself.

– edit: Ah, I saw your response to my other comment. Thanks! That’s idiotic of Apple, then. I have to say, though, that I would care a lot more if Apple were YouTube or the New York Times. As is I don’t plan on consuming a whole lot of content on their website.
5.0.0.1 is the version of the repository -- it's a development version that should not be considered stable.
It does do browser sniffing, it works on his ubuntu because he's using firefox with the mplayer plugin that can read h264.
That's up to the linux packagers. It took them a while to settle on "plt-scheme" in the past, so it will probably take some time now too.
Does the other 'very large tech company' do this at their developer conferences ?

http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/schedule.html

Have a look at the program guide and let me know ...
I'm really hoping they get off the ground, their mentality is the right one ("please drive demand to us so we can keep on upgrading capacity").
I think the GDrive cancellation in particular highlights a real problem at Google: the tendency to have a much clearer idea of what they want users to be doing than of what users want to do.

Generic cloud storage could be a great bridge between the way the vast majority of people are used to working with data (as files) and the plethora of online services that can make that data useful in (to the user) unforeseen ways. But because the Google future is so dazzling, it's not enough to step into it. One must leap.
There's also no reason a coffee cup can't be used as a pointer, but the physical affordance doesn't work well.

The Wii pointer worked because it had the right shape to be held in a hand and pointed. If this new leaked picture is the actual controller, how are you supposed to hold it in one hand and point? Or are you going to use two hands now?