jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Did they ever detail what happened, they kept saying nothing has been lost and they were ready to return the site, any minute now, I gave up looking after a few months assuming they'd had some sort of deletion accident they weren't prepared to confess.

IMO contributors deserve to know what happened still. I think there was a lot of agreement that a torrent backup should be made available so the responsibility for the OCAL community's work didn't have to rest with one (?) person who seemingly didn't have time to manage things.
Author seems to completely miss that SpaceX intends to produce fuel on Mars
Yeah it’s a shame they’re all quite expensive really and thus quite hard to try a few different ones longer term. A vertical mouse might also be worth investigating perhaps?

One thing I like about the MX Ergo is that it’s very easy to use reclined with it on your chest, which sounds odd but can be good when you’re just clicking about.
This is very cool! Does this produce a occurrence index by any chance? It would be neat to explore a word map of a video.
Time is also related to what you kept in your memory for a specific time frame.

You spend a week at work vs you spend the same week on a nice vacation making lots of new memories. Which one you'll feel took longer despite being the same?
Potato guns?
Some people want to do things in the afternoon. Maybe they like surfing. Tough to do when you get out at 5pm.. or you’re restricted to weekends.
> Amazon is a desirable and good job in the low-skill, low-wage world. The only people who think otherwise are rich 6-figure making degree holders.

So incredible that I'd find an authority on that right here in the HN comment section! Please tell me more about my opinion!

It's pretty close but I don't have a six figure salary and don't have a degree (but am getting one part time while I work.) 80% of my friends are grown adults working in the service industry, retail, and driving jobs with a few working in upper-level clerical jobs. My wife works in retail. Folks at work— mostly developers— are the exception rather than the rule in my life.

Not one single person I've spoken to about it considers working in a wage or independent contractor job at Amazon desirable. I know a few people that did work there and they quit because if you want to run yourself ragged under authoritarian management, at least UPS/a paving crew/a bar will compensate you well for it and probably give you decent career prospects.

Where I live, the $15/hr Amazon starts at is less than any McDonalds franchise pays entry-level openers and closers, less than you make as a prep cook, less than what you make working at CVS or Walgreens, less than what you make as a rideshare driver/delivery person. A impossibly cheap studio apartment— we're talking 200 square feet, probably not legal, in a crappy neighborhood— would take a minimum 70% of your take-home pay without considering health insurance or anything else besides taxes that might get deducted from your paycheck.

The estimated take-home is about 1/3 of the area's calculated AMI— the federal poverty level. You're so far into what constitutes low-income for public housing that the numbers on the city chart don't even go below 30%.

You're making the same exact mistake you're accusing people of here of making. There's a whole world happening outside of your own sphere of experience. No surer way to be consistently meaningfully wrong than assume nobody else knows what they're talking about.
You sir, are ascribing nuance where there is none.

Moderation's place is at the end agent. Period. I.e. it is the responsibility of people and end users to be aware of the actual physical world we share with others. To distort it is to do injustice to everyone.

I assure you. The poisoning of reality for "people's own good" leads to slippery slopes, and complete dysfunction and fraying around the edges which will always start targeted against undesirables, then be weaponized against everyone else by whomever happens to be in a position of power.

Either accept the world unfiltered, or don't try. Half efforts are doomed to abuse.
As a small dev, I do not care if data is lost and they stop storing the data/turn off machines. I am more concerned about the cost. I have had two cases.

1. Misconfigured software that we accidentally pushed into production and by the time we noticed it like an hour later we were $100s out. Luckily it was not in the 1000s other that would have sunk the business.
2. An old account of ours got hacked and people spun up like 50-100 servers and it happened overnight and we had a bill of $50k-$70k. Luckily Amazon wrote that off for us. Otherwise I have no clue how we would have ever paid that.

These are usually extraordinary cases, so even if there is a data loss or your servers are shut down, it is a better option than going down the hole with 10s of 1000s in charges.
After theamk's comment, I came to the conclusion that this project was and is a waste of time.

I have now produced an equivalent solution via a Bash script: https://github.com/d26900/Scripts/blob/main/setup.sh

My shortsightedness in this particular case, caused me to opt for a bad solution.

Nevertheless, thanks to the input I received here, I was able to correct this wrongheaded decision of mine.

Thanks again, I think I learned a valuable (life) lesson here.
I’m surprised that’s a design crtieria. Being able to calculate hashes quickly is advantageous.

Speeding up hashing by, what, a few orders of magnitude shouldn’t break your ≥ 128 bits of preimage protection, surely?
Make connections fast.
Even American citizens can be stripped of their basic rights after being convicted of a crime.
Great idea. To me, it's useless without an iPhone/iPad app though, looking forward to that.
Sounds exactly like Grey Goose. So many people swear by it thanks to the high price and marketing gimmicks that add perceived value, but put it in a blind taste test (even with a bunch of Grey Goose fanatics) and it gets blown away every time.

It's pretty sad how easily consumers can be fooled by cheap tricks like a frosted bottle and the words "made in France". They don't even need the help of alcohol to make poor decisions :p
I love Bonjour for this simple reason. Throw a Bonjour enabled printer on the network, and every mac in the joint will find it, set the drivers and you off. Window can do, if Bonjour is installed.

But I think Win 7 does a fairly decent job of doing this (without Bonjour) too. I don't know about network printers too. I don't use Windows much on the network.
Access Control

Right now anyone can modify a board at will (can be vandalized).
Expand your connections, learn, socialize...
What does poisoning the rivers or feeding people contaminated food have to do with banning people from Posting on a private forum.
It takes zero guts to ban a guy who is days away from becoming powerless. They should have done this years ago but were too afraid of retaliation from the White House. Wimps.
> Pre-2016 San Francisco used to be full of people with HUGE distrust of the USA intelligence apparatus,

Moxie, and probably a bunch others that I can't think of in 5 seconds. (Probably look at the staff list at EFF web page.)

> distrust of mainstream news,

I can guarantee you the next mainstream news article critical of adtech here on HN will have its normal share of knee-jerk cranks who justify not reading the article by lazy reference to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Affectation. So don't worry at all about that one.

> and strong convictions about free speech

Yes, those strong convictions have apparently been slipping, but it's across the board and for decades. If anyone has some sources that explain this trend I'd be interested in reading them.

> and open platforms

Oh, those. They're either stuck in the 90s because it's impossible to make them secure after the fact, or they are full of open research problems.

Counterexamples welcome.
He literally told people to stay peaceful...
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/8/2007116/-Pentagon-of...

As a reminder, the national guard in dc tear gassed an _actually_ peaceful group of protestors last summer so that Trump could take a photo op in front of a church. I wonder what the difference is between the two times?
People have been voicing their opinions - and continue to voice their opinions - on Twitter, Facebook etc. all day, there is really no censorship about information regarding the election, unless it's geared towards violence.

Go ahead, right now, make a Tweet and indicate that you think the 'election was stolen'.

Nobody will care.

So on the face of it, your first claim is obviously false.

The question is - given that you and I can both right now go on FB or Twitter and say almost anything we please, and you must know that, why are you writing what you're writing?
The official east German name for the Berlin Wall was "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall". This is what communism looks like. Call anything and everything you don't like fascist, and use the scaremongering to instate tyranny.
Same. If anything I was a bit surprised to see Twitter go there and read between the lines.

But that was my immediate first thought, and likely that of a large number of folks.
For what it's worth there's an article[1] from Craig Hockenberry. His servers were hit by massive amounts of traffic from China earlier this year, targeted (randomly?) at Iconfactory's website. The charts are quite impressive.

[1] http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
At least every 2nd C programmer working on a non-unix platform has been burned by this at least once.
It's like a 10ft deep pothole on Broadway that won't get fixed because traditionalists see it as a 'national monument'.
Because of the complexity of these issues, you should try to get an attorney that's both competent and local. So a simple Web search won't be that conclusive.

By the way, this sort of thing is very expensive.
> Also, SQL is the new NoSQL.
LOL :)

YeSQL (as presented by Kanye West)
There is a proposal for using _ or __ as a throwaway reusable identifier. Not sure what's the status though.
Only use -march=native if you're never-ever going to run the binary on another machine. This includes upgrading the processor or data rescue.
Reminds me of this: https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/data-science-is...

tl;dr Telemetry indicates ALSA is no longer used. Firefox removes ALSA. Said Firefox version reaches release. Audio completely stops working for all users of some distros...that were yanking out the Telemetry.
What has helped me most over the years is working in smaller companies, where you necessarily need to take on more responsabilities.

My first job ~2005 was at a small shop with like 4-5 people and around 20 physical servers under our control and the same amount on-premise with clients (mix of Windows Servers, Linux distros and BSDs). We did have a sys admin person, but he was only responsible for the servers themselves and the base configuration. Everything application related running on it was our responsilibity as developers.

And after that, in the following jobs and as a freelancer, there were I wide variety of things I had to ramp up on quickly. Different build processes, application monitoring, backups, different cloud providers, hidden costs, etc.

Also I have been keeping a "Today I Learned" journal, where I just put small comments and snippets. It is hardly ever any deep insight, but for the most part "to do x in framework y solution z worked". It is also mostly a write-only journal. Just writing things down helps a lot with memory.
If you allow two carriers to sell your phone, they are eventually going to compete on price, driving the price (and profit) down.

If Apple allowed both T-Mobile and AT&T to sell the iPhone for $199, people would make the comparison and see that AT&T has the better network (as scary as that sounds). T-Mobile would have to compete, and since it would cost billions to improve their network, their only real option is to sell the iPhone cheaper than the competition. so they offer the iPhone for $149. AT&T responds by lowering their price to $99 to compete with T-Mobile, and so on, and so on.

By restricting the iPhone to one carrier, Apple only has to compete with itself (when it releases a new version).
Your comment seems to imply that there is already a rich ecosystem of VMs in use, but there aren't really. Basically, there's the Java VM, which is bad for functional languages, and there's Mono, which is not really ideal for Scheme either, nor very popular except that it allows compatibility with .NET.

At any rate, I'm pretty sure PLT Scheme predates both Java and the CLI, so you'd be better off slagging Microsoft for their duplication.
I have a sneaky suspicion they might be pinging some switchboard with self-reported telephone numbers... and thus there could be some privacy blowback (mapping phone numbers to mobile IPs) or potential for phone-number impersonation (at least until you show your face) in FaceTime.
Those who do not believe the world is just, have a reason to live for: Lets make the world just!

I don't know whether or not that reasoning is based on some wiring in our brain..
Instagram is the new Flickr.
Having done both for a living, I would argue that Linux driver development is easier than web dev.

To do either well, you have to have a model in your head of what the entire stack is doing.

With Linux driver development, you have to have a much more accurate model of a much smaller stack compared to web dev.

Broad or deep? Specialist or Generalist? Some people are better at one than the other, but others will be the opposite.
Sure if that's what was said, but in this case, it wasn't.
> So, would it really matter if you are hiring someone who doesn't remember the difference between .call and .apply off the top of their head?

Though this posting has a lot of suggested questions, it's missing this: What should the interviewer be looking for in the answers?

In my experience interviewing candidates (not usually for dev roles), the "correct" answer isn't the only good answer. Sometimes "I don't know, but this is how I would find out" is just as valid -- and usually more telling.
This is EXTREMELY unreliable, not only is it's distance measurement way off (to be expected, BT wasn't designed as sonnar) but the app "forgets" your computer after being away for ~5 minutes. YES, I paid for pro and YES, I allowed it to run in the background. When I come back to my computer not only does it not unlock but the phone apps wants to walk me through pairing again.

Do not waste your time/money on this app. It may have a nice UI but it simply doesn't work!
I'd like to see more nuance to the argument.

What does 'nice' actually mean? It's famous for being a low-entropy word.

In fact not everyone agrees that Conway is 'nice', or that everything he does and says is good:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/09/eruption-over-sf-housing-an...

Or even:

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/12/09/ron-conway-twee...

So it matters whether or not Conway or anyone is a sociopath, because IMO the only useful definition of 'nice' is an inclusive one. The more inclusive, the better.

Being a charming marketer while benefiting yourself, your network, and primarily yourself and your network, doesn't make you nice, it makes you an exemplary professional.

There is a difference, and it's not a trivial one.
Qeorge, I also recommend Principles of Pricing by Vohra. I'm taking his class right now at Kellogg, fascinating stuff.

http://smile.amazon.com/Principles-Pricing-Analytical-Rakesh...
Google Analytics is already blocked by multiple ad blockers. Sorry, those users don't care if you want use 3rd party tracking software.
I enjoy debugging when I feel like I have some grasp on things. I hate it when I don't know where to look and don't have a good mental concept of the program in general.
Come on, I've been building websites professionally for the past 15 years and I don't think I would know how to "tune the kernel params".
I do build my blog as a static site and keep it on a serverless Firebase Hosting, so wouldn't need to though...
I doubt it, I can see Medium acquiring it for sure.
CZ has handled it's past mergers pretty well. I was pretty bummed with the Dan Wesson purchase, but overall I don't think much changed other than the logo.
Even in an CRM there should be checks on who can access what PII and when. There is a difference between "you are assigned 100 leads for the duration of lead qualification" and "you can yourself pick out leads (and can get access to their PII) out of any of the thousands of possible leads".
>I think personally I have a capacity of 55-60 focused hours, and some people might have more, maintainable indefinitely.

I think you hit the nail on the head about it being a personal situation. I'm the type of person that has trouble relaxing when things are not "complete" and I have the capacity to go deep and lose myself when working. As a result, I've had no problem with getting 8+ hours of focus time in a workday. I'm able to either find a quiet spot in the office and/or put on my headphones and block out the world to get stuff done. I derive huge satisfaction from being able to do that. Since moving to management, my time is much more meeting-heavy, but when time is available, I've been able to go deep and still get 20+ hours of deep focus a week.

Fast forward to WFH, and I'm having performance issues for the first time in my 20+ year career. Instead of quick hallway conversations that are over and done and held on an ad-hoc basis, meetings have to be scheduled or work done in longer-running messaging threads. On top of that, having a teenager with ADHD struggling through school is a constant source of interruption, and I'm lucky to get 8 hours of focused time in a week. I'm miserable and will be the first one back when my office opens.
Armies and police are fallible even when facing a known threat. There's a trial going on in the American senate right now about that...
If you're looking for a machine-readable vector graphics format that has an SVG-like imaging model, there is such a format already: AI4

AI4 stands for Adobe Illustrator 4.0. Gnuplot and Mathematica can produce AI4 files. Most vector graphics programs can open AI4 files too.

Here's the documentation:
http://www.idea2ic.com/File_Formats/Adobe%20Illustrator%20Fi...
Modern America is an anomaly in a different sense: AFAIK it's the only country with a constitution that guarantees the right to bear arms.
The problem is that the law is not all that capable of distinguishing this. It requires making a determination of intent, which is always blurry. Moreover, police officers will almost certainly claim that they were listening to music for personal reasons rather than trying to intimidate constitutionally protected filming -- and the courts will give them enormous amounts of deference because of their position.
Would you rather the police be aggressive? I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate it if someone showed up at your place of work and harassed you for no good reason other than Internet clout.
I also have something similar and I just say leave it alone, I'm quite interested in plan9 right now.
I do php and have done php. The code I've worked on hasn't used a framework. I tend to like using the templating engines (twig/smarty) to separate my html from my logic.

I also find by separating the logic into classes it becomes much easier to test.

Zend and Symfony make resuable components that you can use without using their whole framework. The fact that frameworks exist with the same name as the components makes looking up documentation on these hard
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What keeps people from chopping down the trees and using them for firewood -- why many areas of northern Africa became deforested in the first place?
> It makes hiding money a lot easier

Does it really? Bitcoin by design records every transaction forever globally.

The only reason it would be easier that it is easier to program compared to banking APIs. I am not convinced by stuff like Darksend [0] so far.

[0] https://www.dashpay.io/about/what-is-dash/darksend/
I don't see how that will help.

Wouldn't it be harder to try to get a good picture of the chip in such an angle that you could read the etching?

I assume this angle will most likely be "from the top", such that it basically turns into a scanner, and then it's easier to do it with an actual scanner.
I don't think anything in this article implied that they were living above their means.
I was thinking the same. They could set it up with a tripod and couple of lights like this [0].

[0] http://globalflyfisher.com/gallery/digitizing/setup.jpg
Thank you for your response. I haven't actually heard any complaints about promotion. Most of the noise I've heard has to do with firing, namely that less-tenured managers feel pressure to get rid of a higher percentage of their team members than managers that have a lot of years and political capital built-up in the company.

However I suppose that it stands to reason that perhaps that phenomena is due to the fact that greener managers may have greener engineers working under them who are perhaps more prone to mistakes or may not be a good fit.
"Stronger drinks, larger portions on your side items, extra samples."

I'd be interested to hear where exactly you'd want to draw the line to bribery.

Also, i'm pretty sure that the mechanisms of being a regular are working just as well in countries without a tipping tradition. (I live in a sometimes-tip country and I have experienced the best service in a neighboring no-tip country)
I think the analogy to your example is to have conducted a larger trial where the dose was given under different weather conditions, or in the case of the real vaccine vary the timing of the 2nd dose. I agree, if experts agree the likelihood that 1 dose is effective and the likelihood of it being ineffective is low, we should do what will save the most lives. This is an emergency.
Ooh I didn’t know about that Ubiquiti strip. I must admit that I didn’t even look about for existing solutions (honestly I just wanted to finally have a use for these plugs I had lying about).
Peter Attia's The Drive podcast had a guest from Fda vaccine approval committee member on covid-19 vaccines. You should listen for more insights.
Why is that funny? The point is that they're less effective at blocking than uBlock Origin, not that they're useless.
I am Romanian.
I don't think there is an "ongoing verbal, legal and sometimes physical harassment of the Hungarian minority". There were isolated conflicts, mainly artificially perpetuated by radicals for (pretty small) political gains.
Also, the Hungarian minority political party (UDMR) is currently a part of the government coalition (not the first time it happens).