jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
According to world population on wikipedia it seems like more people live now than have died since year 1.
Yeah, I'd like to see the labor laws change. Some of the restrictions seem stupid. Although I also see how it was originally intended to prevent companies from keeping contractors like regular longterm employees but without benefits. Of course, that's not much different from the current situation.

Our company doesn't include contractors or consultants (both through vendors, never direct, like even typical contractors are brought in through a place like TCS) in our group activities. They also, have term limits of 3 years or less.
Sure, but that makes them far far worse world citizens than Tesla, a company that I have little love for.
YMMV (probably depends on the subset of the web that one visits) but I've had good luck with Wipr under Safari. Once in a while something slips through but it's generally ~99% as effective as uBO when it comes to visible ads. The difference is small enough that I'm not inclined to use a different browser.
It's like looking at the rings of a redwood tree. You can navigate all the way down to a Windows 3.1 form in some places.
I mean Iran threatens every month or so to literally bomb Israel off the map. Some countries are okay with that kind of rhetoric. In general, the US is not.
Laws change and there are also a bunch of other ways to get banned from your code on GH. And once that happens, you have nowhere to go.

Much easier to migrate to a Gitlab instance. And they know this! Which is why it's so fun to see Github dancing around these issues lately. Finally some healthy competition.

I'd love to know how many times MS have tried to buy Gitlab. :D
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Possibly - but if you move stuff around on the pages a bit then it certainly is legal.
It's could not care less.
I didn't mean it would be indistinguishable from all of those things (because it is an AGI and could act as any of those things if it wished), but rather that it would likely have to incorporate one or more of those things to spell better. I have a feeling sentiment analysis alone would be a pretty good next step for spelling/grammar-checking.
I would've avoided 'kkk' in the name.
Why this year? Was is due to his profile rising as a result of a Hollywood film?

Or, has he achieved things this year that exceed his performance over the past 5 years?
I saw this and I didn't understand what it is for or how it works.

If it runs on your server then how does it monitor my application? Is there an agent or something? Why is it better than running cron on (say) Google App Engine?

If it runs on my server, then exactly why would I want it? I think I can live with running every 5 minutes or 20 seconds instead of 7 minutes or 17 seconds.

So.. I just don't get it? Where can I read more (without registering)?
There's definitely hard-to-understand ("high level) physics and easier stuff, but the former shouldn't get extra breaks just because it's overcomplicated... It should be a detriment.
The picture of Mark on the cover of TIME makes him look like an alien.
I think you definitely make a good point, but I suspect the key differentiating factor for most customers switching to "fast casual" is simply the taste. There's no denying the ingredient quality is a lot better; the food is just more appealing. Eating Taco Bell for 10 years and then trying Chipotle is probably sufficient to convert most customers who can afford to eat at Chipotle a lot, regardless of health or sustainability impressions.
They did tread water. I'd go with 'middling'.
In the Islamic empire it was mostly due to the economic and political conditions that caused the decline of scientific study. However in the modern world, people of science generally view religious folks with distrust and they have the mindset that you can't be religious and a person of science yet historically most scientists were religious as well. Take Isaac Newton as an example who was a scientist and a theologian and had even written multiple literary works on the Bible.

With the moon sighting issue you presented this is similar in other countries too. However it isn't predominantly due to a distrust of science; sometimes certain scholars and groups will not adapt their rulings due to the fact that their parents and previous generations did this and they won't change not because they hate science.

The view in the UK on the moon-sighting debacle is that viewing the moon is necessary to commence the month as it was mentioned to the nearest meaning by the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) himself that we do not rely on calculations and the month is sometimes 29 and sometimes 30 (not 29 and a fraction of day as is the scientific view). The most correct and accepted view is that this isn't prohibiting or belittling astronomical calculations in deciding the month, rather it is a lessening of the burden to calculate and act upon exact calculations.

However the consensus is that astronomical calculations can be used to negate impossible viewings of the moon.
Indeed, I switched to Mac in 2004 because Linux was a horrible UX mess at that point. Mac was a great POSIX system with a consistent UI and major first-party apps.

Now Apple is becoming more and more unworkable to use as a unix system, and Linux is really much better now. Only gap is still first-party software unfortunately but luckily I don't really ever need stuff like photoshop and office personally.
This is Hacker News, so let's talk about this from a software development perspective.

This feels like solving a CI failure by just deleting the failing test.

If the entrance criteria are bad or biased, then by all means fix them. For example, Stuyvesant, perhaps the best high school in New York, offers free study materials and tutoring sessions, offers entrance exams on the weekends and after hours on weekdays, offers free shuttling to the test sites, and in general tries to make its entrance exam as fair as possible. And indeed, the majority of students there are poor and qualify for free lunch.

But then, if the concrete issues that you can identify with the entrance criteria are resolved, but outcomes still aren't what you're looking for, guess what: now you have a great "unit test"! If you're red-green-refactoring your public policy to achieve equity, then surely a fair entrance exam for your advanced schooling is a good failing test. You can now implement other policies to try to see it go green. Maybe you can have free public pre-school, or pregnancy care packages with vitamins and other resources, or who knows what else. And then you can monitor your entrance exams a few years later and see if things are improving.
There are 2 paths:

1. Connect it, allow it to update, disconnect it. If any local “ads” pop up, do a factory reset which will wipe all the cached data.

2. Most devices allow you to update firmware from a file via USB. Just get the file which is only the firmware and update that way.
Any reason they wouldn't move the budget away from other services?
So here's what I fail to understand: why punish Whites? The students had nothing to do with the history of white vs black oppression in the United States. None of them were even here until well after the civil rights movement of the '60s and '70s. This sort of "diversity" is basically progressives being willing to be racist to Whites to compensate blacks for the past injustices, which is basically robbing Peter to pay Paul any way you look at it.
Big Sur updates are as bad as applying any patch to Windows Server 2016. But I agree, less of an issue given it attempts to auto update overnight.
Disclaimer: I'm no historian. But my guess is it's often not a simple cause. This is a lot like how, say, tech companies evolve.

For example is there a simple answer to why, say, HP isn't considered the most successful tech companies right now while it was at some point in time?

My guess is other groups of people learn from them and surpass them overtime. This can also be true even within a single company where one org used to be the most important one but over time another org brings in more money and becomes more important
The 'Nice White Parents' podcast is a deep dive on exactly these problems, which I thought was excellent. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...

My takeaway was that the kids getting into gifted programs are overwhelmingly the kids whose parents know how to get them into gifted programs, through combination of knowing the system and/or squeaking loud enough that their kids get placed. "Knowing the system" includes knowing that you have to start on applications to multiple schools perhaps a year or more in advance, for example. Kids are slotted into the gifted programs from a very young age, and then tend to accumulate early advantages which carry forward, again with strong advocacy from parents who know the system.

As a result, these programs have a lot more to do with extending class privilege than anything else, and class in the US has strong correlations with race.
1. Nearly every decision makes the simple stuff more complicated

2. Accepting thing #1 will make you a better programmer
Ah, it's a design element. I actually remember looking at that area and noticing the stitching and that the border looked nice, but to be honest my brain only saw a Levi's tag hanging there (it didn't look like a date). Also, there is no year. Anyway, mea culpa, I'll look harder next time.

Sure, it's 81 lines shorter, but I don't know what's going on there, either. Its one thing to express a method in an elegant fashion, but an entirely different thing to hide it off someplace, which is how I read what is happening here. I'm guessing there are some instance variables available afterwards? Plus, it's an additional dependency.

And yeah, I read the title "Why You Shouldn't Use Rails' Scaffolded Controllers" and "...the state of the art has moved on" to mean that what you were talking about was supposed to be better.
"DuckDuckGo doesn't log personally identifiable information (PII). We simply don't save it."

I wish there was some way to verify that this was actually true.

Right now online privacy is stuck in the "trust us" era. Plenty of companies have privacy policies, but (as far as I know) there's no way for their customers to verify that the privacy policy is actually being adhered to.

On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence of companies being untrustworthy, incompetent, or both when it comes to information they've collected about their customers and users.

Hopefully, one day we can move in to the era of "trust, but verify."
The book is not really about programming. It is more about thinking.
It's still deterministic; just not by you: by the kernel.
This stood out to me in the sustainability document:

> As noted last year, the IRS has opened an audit of the Mozilla Foundation. We do not yet have a good feel for how long this process will take or the overall scope of what will be involved.

With so much flagrant fraud and evasion dangled in front of our faces every day in the news, it's great to know this is how the IRS is allocating its resources.
PubNub Supports Mobile Phones.
All this comparison did for me was emphasize how TINY the amount of oil is that has been spilled vs. overall US consumption. Googling around indicates that US oil consumption is on the order of 20MM BBL/Day, so the 60K BBL/Day spewing into the gulf is about .3% of oil used per day. Shocking to think about.
I love how Apple 'markets' applications from the App Store they don't like.

You're defining marketing to include the definition of the word 'ban'. It's rather silly IMO.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Michael+Jordan+Height
Or you could try his Wikipedia page, NBA profile, or any reputable bio of him produced, ever.
Same here. It was 400+ before moving to London DC from the one in US.
I know it will never happen but if I could have a native full featured bash or zsh environment on Windows I would switch back in a heartbeat. And no, Cygwin is not a replacement.
The additional rules are normally from valid considerations, e.g.:

* Whether its ok to stop temporarily depends on how busy the road is.

* The parking spots are on a major road that has a lot of traffic from commuters - you need the extra lane at certain times.

* The parking spots are near a school or other attraction that has predictable bursts of parking demand.

You can resolve some of this by being overly restrictive about parking, but that's a suboptimal solution. If the parking spots are near businesses then I can guarantee that there will be lobby groups very unhappy with the suboptimal solution.
This is exactly my situation too. When it was time for a new laptop, the windows machines with nice screens were way more than a MacBook pro. So far I can't say I'm in love with it. I don't think it's as stable as my windows 7 computers are that I work on for my dayjob. (I can't even remember the last time I needed to reboot or froze up on my windows 7 boxes.)
If you want a framework with immutability you should probably just use https://github.com/Raynos/mercury as it gets rid of React's unnecessary component state.
The legitimacy of the US, like all other states, ultimately derives from the successful application of force against other states.
I really like Go but have always missed generics.
Wondering if some kind soul would fork Go, add generics and see how that fares.
If you have an Android tablet, AdBlock runs very well in FireFox for Android.
Getting an official sounding domain is a bit beyond fair use.
They talk about ensuring that open source works on the machine, anyone else concerned if they will try to inhibit close source software? Like this whole shitstorm around GCC?
Yes, but they _can_ vfork, and you should be using vfork anyway when all you're going to do after fork is exec.
/r/Conspiracy was right. Hot damn.
Regarding this line: "The shaking motion was entirely involuntary, and I couldn’t force my limbs to be still, no matter how hard I concentrated."

... I think that's adrenaline. Fight or flight instinct. Next time, ask your doctor about beta blockers, or ask your bartender about a double-shot of liquor.
metadata is what they are looking at now. they collect everything else so they can look at it later when they break the encryption
I would argue that the desire to censor is the result of its effectiveness in maintaining existing power structures.
It seems like I'm saying this a lot lately on HN: Better than the worst is not good enough.

Most especially, better than the fucking Nazis is not good enough.

Tyranny does not happen overnight, and it's helped along by people like you who scoff and say "oh, it's not that bad really" until it's too late. "First they came for the Communists..."
Most sunglasses are intended to reflect or absorb UV. As you can see in the OP, gold is only good at absorbing IR, which the atmosphere (and clouds and trees) do a decent job of absorbing when we are at ground-level. The gold would be more style than function for non-astronautical activities.
I guess so, the app is simply a middleware and if you check the source code it is basically a fetch to the discord api url with the specific json it needs.

But personally I made it for two reasons: no need to know the discord webhook api (a long alphanumeric url) nor the json required, so I can use it wherever I want without having to remember almost anything; and as a url to be able to use it from any internet-connected thing, not only with curl, even the browser if you want.
I tell you how we find them: We are looking for an entropy source.

It may be in fact the meaning of live for humans to dissipate energy (Got this idea here: https://www.amazon.com/What-Your-Dangerous-Idea-Unthinkable/... )

It could also be an argument for bitcoin if criticized for too high energy consumption.
You sure can do; plan many screen sharing, with camera-on zoom calls during the workday (even just adhoc as a surprise!), log keystrokes/random screenshots, check visited domains and get 'performance' analytics from git commits. There are all kinds of ways to make people unproductive, but have management feel like they did everything in their power to make sure everyone was working every paid second of the day.
> 1.14bn in revenue on 193bn in trading volume: thats 60bps on every dollar traded. These are insane fees ripe for disruption.

They know really well, that best business during gold rush is to sell shovels.
I'm curious why you'd actually want to go through the pain of using a programming language to do this. I think there's a reason why this isn't popular -- video editing is insanely hard if you want something non trivial, and basically doing this in a programming language is sort of doing Assembly compared to doing C#.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453783 and marked it off-topic.
It's a very good means for some attributes of a language (I've done a handful in 3 or 4 languages), but it doesn't tend to exercise any object-like behaviors or give you any idea of how the language helps you manage complexity. Lots and lots and lots of practice with arrays and core math libraries, a smallish chunk with strings and even less file IO, but not a whole lot else. The utility of PE for language testing / fluency drops off dramatically after a short while, and starts being almost exclusively about the algorithms, which translate almost identically across similar language types.
Take me to the cleaner. Go after everything I own. Leave me with no karma. Fight.
It's not getting people to bring their wallets that's the problem, it's getting them to open them
Niche venues cater to specialists in an area. Even in specialized areas there is more output than an expert can keep up with, and these smaller venues generally perform valuable filtering as well.

"my brain hasn't collapsed from the inrush of poorly filtered information"
Of course not. However, you are either wasting a ton of time or you are using some other indirect method to decide what papers are useful to read. I'd love to hear if you think your personal approach to filtering non-reviewed content is superior to relying on peer review.
Thats how I read the entire blog post...A recruitment effort.
It's true. It seems strange to me that there hasn't been any innovation in the way we organize files in a long time, especially with the trend towards touch-based interfaces and focus on user experience.
Any reasons why not? It ticks all the boxes for me: https://threema.ch/en/
By most accounts Gödel lived an anxious, unhappy life. He died, basically, from paranoia.

Not to say that von Neumann lived a happy life — he sounds like a bit of an asshole — but I wonder whether Gödel would have traded his achievements for less isolation and a less tortured existence?
You also can't be sure it's a zero-effect.
After which Amazon moves to Panama, Luxembourg, Dublin or Amsterdam. Or a combination thereof.

Even if you fix taxes on national level, you aren't going to catch multinationals. They keep moving just behind that inevitable race to the bottom.
I used "monopolize" loosely, sure. Maybe they don't entirely, but they clearly want to.

(And don't they? How much of b2c ecommerce are they? - how has the pandemic affected their share? You seem to have readier access to that data than I do!)
Agile coach. 100%. It's not about managing people, but neither is it tech related.
No, the fact is simply that the law frequently criminalizes those activities which encourage or generate demand for criminal activity. Hence secondary or inchoate offenses exist (like various forms of accessory, solicitation, conspiracy, attempt) as well as specific crimes that relate to knowingly dealing in the profits of crime.

The law doesn't criminalize dealing in stolen goods because those goods are physical in nature and receiving them perpetuates the inability of their actual owner to enjoy them. That is a red herring of your own introduction.

It does so because allowing easy disposal of stolen property to third parties who stand to profit from it encourages theft.
I love this question for its honesty. Frankly if I had a job I just needed technical competence on without much thought, I'd probably hire you. Our 1-on-1's would be brief and probably just be you demoing whatever hobby it is you alluded to. As long as you can crank out some decent code, I don't see a reason why a person who needs some quality work done shouldn't at least give your desired arrangement a chance.

Unfortunately right now I do need product focused engineers, but in this case you wouldn't want to work for me anyways :-)

This is also a great thought exercise, what jobs would be good for you? Thinking on it a bit, I think the following could work:

1. Scrum team member at an all remote company on one of their lesser products. If you work fast then you can probably do it in a few hours each day.

2. Maybe a small consultancy where you work on a contractual basis just completing tickets?

3. Government. A small city council style place where you specify you need remote work and then probably the workload is minimal? I don't like the idea of being a burden on a government when there are perfectly dysfunctional companies you can find this with, it feels somewhat undemocratic, but in a pinch this might do?

4. A niche field? Maybe take up COBOL? Then you can specify the hours you work and if the patches are minimal you can fly through them?

Ultimately the thing that might get you to this arrangement fastest is being really good at your job, so you can fly though the work. So perhaps doubling down on one field and becoming a domain expert is the path to this arrangement?

These are all speculations, and hopefully they help you on your path to your desired role. Good luck!
I've spent several hours happily playing those with my fiancee over the last few years, and probably still spent about as much as a single round in a pub in London.
20 years ago, I shipped a Ruby/SDL powered quiz game to a network of Windows NT4-powered games cabinets in pubs. They had 64MB RAM and the jerky animation due to garbage collection pauses ATE ME ALIVE for about 6 months.

What's changed in Ruby since then to make smooth animation possible?
wait, there's a windows version?
I recall many users telling me swift would be the new python and that it would take over the machine learning domain.
Sargent also did amazing watercolors of landscapes and various non-portrait scenes.

Some examples: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/sargent_watercolo...

I think his skill really comes through in that work. It shows the economy of his brush strokes.
Raw EDK2 doesn't really need variables at all (in fact if you use it as a coreboot payload, persistentce is not implemented whatsoever, at least as of.. some time ago).

Various crap bolted on by AMI and the OEMs… well, YMMV – remember these laptops where someone did rm -rf with mounted efivarfs on Linux and that bricked it because it just refused to boot without the variables :D