jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An 'expert' and an 'intellectual' are different things. As a gathering of experts on startup and tech-related topics, HN is unmatched; people are very nice and volunteer lots of information. This is perhaps the upside of "nerdy" that Matt did not mention in his article. But I agree with him that HN is not intellectual. When the topic of discussion is beyond the expertise of almost anyone, the only way to make progress is to apply a certain amount of intellectualism -- to be tentative, questioning, critical, contemplative, nuanced. For a definition of intellect, I have always relied on Richard Hofstadter's formula, in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life:

Intellect [...] is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of mind. Whereas intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, adjust, intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes, imagines. Intelligence will seize the immediate meaning in a situation and evaluate it. Intellect evaluates evaluations, and looks for the meanings of situations as a whole. Intelligence can be praised as a quality in animals; intellect, being a unique manifestation of human dignity, is both praised and assailed as a quality in men. (Chapter 2, Section 1)
Which journals are you reading, can you share a URL to an ad? Also who is advertising?
I'd advise you to stay well away from Fiverr based on my past experiences (as a buyer, not a freelancer) especially for something as big as a custom web development project. It's been a few years since I've been on the site though so perhaps it's changed (but I doubt it). I haven't used either of the other two.

There are many proficient web developers who I'm sure could do a great job of whatever it is you are looking to build, and would be happy to build it to your specifications (like using Node for the backend).

I could be wrong, but I think it's likely that good independent web developers don't need to advertise because they probably already have full-time jobs or contract work via recruitment or word of mouth.

And I think that probably applies even more to good web dev agencies - they likely have enough work via word of mouth referrals and those little "Website made by Super Web Design" links in footers that they really don't need to advertise.
Bit of a click baity headline. Strongly worded terms for anxiety. And the depression could have been due to the entire pandemic and not necessarily the former illness.
look at the chart: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mobilecoin/

the integration with signal made the valuation of mobilecoint jump from around zero to 65$. I hope the signal team got some mobilecoins in return for the favor.
Obligatory SAP is terrible. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy
Sounds like the golden age of PHP.
The whole internet is like this. Everything is atrophying.

Remember personal websites and blogs? Barely anybody runs them anymore.

Archive Team is doing amazing work, and we need to support them.
You could try programming in the Caribbean. Nice beach shack, a couple of manuals and offline copy of stackoverflow perhaps....

I heard that Travis Kalanick coded the initial code base of Uber in Varkala beach in Kerala[1],[2].

[1] https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/guess-what-uber-ceo-tra...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varkala
In reddit.com/r/rivian I read that the likely plan is the rivian chargers will allow any ev to charge at j1772 (ac at 40-ish amps 220v or ~8kw or ~25 miles range added/hour) but only rivian's to charge at the max power, which should be > 150-200kw. Still useful for other poeple.
email and slack. I joke, but some fields really do work the computer more than others. My roommate is in design and was sent home with a workstation to do their 3d modelling. It sounds like he is playing starcraft for 8 hours a day, but that's the job. Nonstop clicking and clacking until he clocks out without a single pause.
Ironically, I knew you knew. Does that make me a super-pedant?
What, people don't like the sound of the swarms of killer 15 foot bees?
Seriously, they should filter that mess out - it's headache-inducing. Maybe put the with-vuvuzela sounds on the SAP audio channel.
This looks pretty cool.

However, if it's actually useful, why wasn't it invented layer as part of OpenGL / taught in standard graphics courses?

Given that OpenGL already has the 3D model, and has to redraw everything 30 or 60fps anyway, there's no performance hit to slightly change the camera angle.

What are the limitations / side effects of this technique that cause it to not be used in practice?
I think this misses a big point about the issue - Apple's "App" strategy is changing the way people access information from using web browsers towards using tightly controlled proprietary Apple approved apps (iTunes was just the start.) Google are in the information access business and are moving to protect that business because the iOS ecology threatens it's dominance.

The hardware issue is a red herring, it's all about who controls the information<->user interface.
Great idea, see you there!
> It didn’t look anything like an iPhone, nor like anything Apple would ever be interested in making. It looked like a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile phone — hardware keyboards and non-touch screens. ... What’s goofy is the idea that Google would do this — to aggressively change Android from a BlackBerry/Windows Mobile competitor into an iPhone competitor...

He's dividing phones into two categories here: BlackBerry/Windows Mobile-like phones and iPhone-like phones. This is a very questionable standpoint. It's like dividing tablets into Windows-like tablets and iPad-like tablets, and claiming that they're two separate markets.

On the contrary, tech hardware is constantly evolving. What's possible in 2010 wasn't possible in 2005, and what was possible in 2005 wasn't possible in 1995. In the past, it made sense to go with the benefits of a physical keyboard at the expense of screen real estate. Today, phones are extremely powerful, their screens run at high resolutions, carriers are more liberal, and mobile app developers abound. Google isn't switching markets to suddenly start competing with the iPhone; they're just keeping up with the times. Saying that Google should have "kept Android targeted at BlackBerry" is like saying the US should have focused on producing spears and arrows during the nuclear arms race.
I use OmmWriter which I find more soothing for my needs. It has also I believe improved my writing quite a lot.

The last year or so I have tried to remove noise that doesn't add anything. Only check mail and twitter a couple of times a day, only log into facebook if i recieve a mail about something happening there.

Recently I suggested to a friend to get a Kindle rather than an iPad (I have both) as I knew the iPad would just have him go back and forth between the browser and the books he is trying to read. The kindle for it's lack of cool apps and browsing is exactly doing the job of keeping me focused.

Which makes me think whether products in the future will diverge more than converge and instead be able to speak with each other through bluetooth or something.
> You say that peripheral vision is more impairing than lack of binocular disparity. But peripheral vision has zero impact on depth perception

Ah, but he didn't say "more impairing with respect to depth perception." He was talking about impairment in general. As in, the loss of peripheral vision that comes with having only one eye is probably a bigger deal than the loss of binocular depth perception that comes with having only one eye, because binocular depth perception doesn't confer that much of a perceptual advantage over the ability to process motion parallax.

That last part is certainly debatable, and really depends on the context. Your tennis example brings to mind the fact that binocular depth perception is really helpful for hunters (of many species), presumably because it gives them more precise depth information with less orthogonal movement. Wider peripheral vision is probably better for avoiding predators and other dangers. (I was just reading about animals with binocular 360 degree vision, after wondering why 360 degree vision wasn't more prevalent.)

For a modern human, which sort of visual impairment is more impairing likely depends a lot on lifestyle and environment.
This reminds me of a launch check list posted to HN long back. Link here: http://www.boxuk.com/blog/the-ultimate-website-launch-checkl....

That's still a good list and more usable because of its spreadsheetish look.
very visceral reaction there
That would make sense. You'd measure GDP, which is a gross figure. But making your life livable again doesn't help your net.

Just like if you feel you need bodyguards, are you as well off as someone who spends the same on something he doesn't feel compelled to buy?
Yes, this is factually correct - just Google around for Crimea language maps. While this is true of mainland Ukraine (multilingual), Crimea has a different history. It was Russian speakers from the Russian Empire who displaced Tatars (a Turkish language). There was never a significant Ukrainian speaking population in Crimea. Most Crimeans don't speak any Ukrainian.

Just because you don't agree with Russian politics doesn't change the facts about which languages are spoken:

* https://www.quora.com/Do-they-speak-Russian-or-Ukrainian-in-...
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea
* https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/they-spea...
I enjoyed reading this but here is a cautionary review of a project in the same field:

https://towardsdatascience.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-ma...

Discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21624907
"It's like listening to purity-ring wearing adolescent virgins talk about sex."

You're an ignorant jerk. Anyone who hasn't been caught won't think it's a big deal. Anyone sitting in jail because of it would disagree. Seriously, fuck off with your holier-than-though "adolescent virgins" schtick because some people don't want to just have a bender with illicit substances that aren't standardized.

This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with people who want to do shrooms or acid on a weekend, it's about people looking for therapeutic relief! I can't fathom the ignorance that leads to someone like you conflating medical treatment with nonchalant recreational drug use. They aren't the same, and I'm not looking to get high and have a fun weekend. I'm looking to relieve mental illness you ignorant ass.
Your ability to reason is tied a lot closer to your sense of self and humanity than your ability to run. If Usain Bolt became parapeligic he'd still be human, if Richard Stallman suffered brain death it'd be debatable whether he's still a person or a corpse being kept alive by machines.
> Above a certain threshold, it’s not a matter of resources or teacher quality.

Why would Baltimore parents want to send their kids to Montgomery County, if not for better teachers and more resources?
You got a bit of a bee in your bonnet about China judging from your comment history.
> Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated

Hard for me to empathize with this argument for his retirement. If we can't outrun a car, does that make running competitions pointless? The existence of AlphaGo doesn't diminish the triumph of being a number one human player in any way.
I don't think so. It looks like NginxTheWebServer is basically staying exactly as is... and NginxPlus is positioned more like a (probably cheaper) alternative to hardware load balancer with all the HA stuff already wired up.

I actually think this is quite a good way to fund nginx.
patio11: I was driving to work a few weeks ago, and heard a 'public service reminder' on the military radio station that broadcasts from the base in Vicenza: "try and remember appointments because missed appointments cost the army N zillion dollars a year" or something like that. There's the ultimate enterprise customer for you to land!

Also, I had a look at AR's home page, and was surprised by how much text there is. I have to assume that you've tested that and it works.
"Quote" does not work these days, it still presents results you with alternatives to the "Quote".
I actually did run comparison test for our client - regular product retargeting (a site that is very heavy on educational material) vs content retargeting (specific landing pages with content). The engagement level on content were off the charts (up to 90% download rate, TOS, Bounce Rate). So educating works far better. Only trouble is, you need email, which 95% of visitors are not ready to give you on first hit - that's why retargeting works so well here.
When I saw the title I thought that it'll be about Flickr. Do you know other businesses that underwent such transformation?
I've become so used to this practice in grocery stores that I "do that math" rather compulsively when I see such labels.

I'll admit that the average consumer won't bother, but it's really not hard:

8\3 is 2, that's pretty obvious. So you're buying three items for $2.xx each, so $6 is allocated, leaving $2 unaccounted for. Again, three things, so you're adding 1/3 of each remaining dollar to the individual price - 2x1/3 is 2/3 or .66.

$2.66 per item. It's really simple math, but again, the average consumer probably just can't be bothered to do it. Part of the problem is people who have just convinced themselves that math is "too hard."
"It doesn't have a library for efficient in-process access"

https://github.com/mojombo/grit
No comment on this specific scenario. I don't know you, and what do I know anyway? But it's so hard to distinguish 'determination' from 'stubbornness' that I've decided those labels are useless. No matter which you are, people will call you stubborn until you succeed.
We use each others wisdom all the time at the co-working facility I frequent.

I wouldn't call it bartering but knowledge transfer or "mentoring"
Sorry to post my own link, but all of these posts lately that have been getting on HN are starting to bother me. Hopefully some of you agree.
So does theft. ;)
I`m in a similar state for a few years already and don't think that it`s improving, but I`m trying different ways to help myself (like those - https://ivypanda.com/blog/how-to-rest-effectively/). Hope one day I would say that I`m not feeling burnout anymore.
Tadpole is a free tool that simply takes in user variables and generates a table of all the combinations of those variables. I found myself building these tables manually when specifying system behavior, so figured I'd build a nice little web app!
By default this feature is enabled in the Debug build mode only, so its perf impact isn't a concern in release builds. But that being said, the function call only happens in the error path, when returning an error from a function, right? Are you concerned about the perf of the error path? Maybe I'm not understanding something about your implementation. But yeah the way to be sure is to profile. When I get around to it I'll add a flag to allow enabling this feature in release builds and do some profiling.
“Prebellum” and “antebellum” are both ways of saying “before the war” in Latin. There is nothing wrong with the former term, other than its relative rarity. If you search you can find “prebellum” being used (in the same sense as “antebellum”, e.g. with reference to the US South before the 1860s) in various academic papers, newspaper articles, etc.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22prebellum%22&tbm=bks

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=prebellum
Fair enough; I suppose it’d be annoying for people to talk about “the Unix concept of cgroup namespaces” or something like that.

I had thought that you were directly responding to the original poster.
I obviously run pip as administrator... before replying you should try it yourself.
Until it's replicated authoritatively, no they haven't.

An in depth discussion from last time at The Reference Frame (guest blogger for those who don't like Lubos himself):

https://motls.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-delirium-over-berylli...
You’ve just listed off a dozen obsessive interests, and that’s the problem — you can’t have a dozen obsessive interests, there’s only enough room for one.

When I was twenty I could afford an obsessive interest in my studies. Now I’m in my late thirties I simply have too much going on.

On the upside, when I’m sixty (which is peak bus ticket collecting age) I can see how I will, finally free of the constraints of work and children, finally have time to obsess again. I hope I still have the mental agility to do it well, and that I don’t get sucked into some bus ticket vortex.
What's the difference between this and what Instart Logic has been doing for years now? https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra#purpose
I think a lot of people on this topic are misapplying their western ideas about governance where it doesn't make sense.

One-party states are very effective at implementing top-down rule, and pretty much none of them recognize a right to petition government for a redress of grievances. There's a completely different business environment when the government rule is no longer subject to debate. Corporations in the west have huge power to make political and social change, but this concept doesn't translate.

Apple is a capable enough company that they already understand the legal, social, and political environment they are subject to when doing business in China. Beijing doesn't have to 'pressure' Apple to make changes. Apple already knows what they can and can't do.

Global trade is an essential influence for the protection of human rights, but it's the definitely the long game. I think we'd be worse off as a world if we swing back towards isolationism again. An emoji is not the hill to die on here.
According to the OED, the Latin root of “marriage” is of uncertain origin. As far as I’m aware, there’s no known connection to Mars.
That always happens with people who voice their opinions on everything. There is always going to be a deal breaker.

We all have extremely conflicting opinions with others. You have to consider every issue and not the man so much.

He's the way he is. I agree with him in many points. In some very impopular issues I agree with him (not the "inside job" thing though). What I wouldn't do is come out in lectures with that kind of stuff. Political correctness is sadly a need when you stamp your real name on something.

Now, I think the FSF is right about basically every single point it's active on. That's what matters to me. I agree it's approach might be sometimes lacking, and I think RMS himself should step down and go back to writing software. Which is why I donate to the EFF instead, and I think it's pretty awesome.
I mean, why isn't a company rep here to respond?
txs, I was just pointing out that money can be used for good or evil. And he chose to use it for good. You can always do the right thing in a hypothetical situation, but you never know until you face the real situation.
He was really a language hacker. Most people looked at his writing as most programmers look at Lisp. Ignoring some syntax facilities and abusing on others he could convey meaning as nobody else.

While most writers use syntax conventions to communicate as clearly as possible, Saramago adulterated syntax to communicate on a different level.

At first it's frustrating, and his lack of respect for most of the conventions or beliefs may throw you off, but then you understand he mastered writing expression as few to transmit his thoughts.

His writing is a landmark for me as an example of Portuguese language use. While I envy and admire English simplicity, Saramago's work remembers me why it is a privilege to be born as a native Portuguese speaker.

I also would like to speak/write better English, no disrespect intended.
I haven't read much about this, but I don't see how AT&T can justify charging you for the base station hardware as well as its continued use. If using the device does not use any of their services or network and is ONLY between your cell phone and ISP, what benefit does AT&T bring that warrants them charging you for using two goods/services (the micro-cell base station and your ISP's bandwidth) that you have already paid for?

This is a classic bait and switch, as far as I can tell.
I disagree. People's preferences should get some deference, but not ultimate deference. I don't have to accommodate Prince's claim that his name is properly written as a graphical symbol, for example. It's perfectly fine to tell him to pick a name that isn't a graphical symbol.

Between countries, I think generally the right approach is to use the country's naming customs, and adapt foreign names to them, to the extent reasonably possible. In Greece, for example, it's customary to transliterate people's names into the Greek alphabet, especially if the source is going to be read by Greeks (newspapers, etc.). The person known as "George Bush" in the United States is more commonly referred to in Greece as "Τζωρτζ Μπους", for example--- despite it being a rather ugly transliteration in this case, due to a bunch of the consonants not existing in Greek.

Are you really arguing that this Dr. Yamashita (or Mr. Bush) can tell them they can't use their own alphabet in their own country, because that's not how he likes his name written?
Those things are all bad, but Wikileaks still publishes raw data from whistleblowers to the public. The other stuff is, as you said, a sideshow; it doesn't detract from their primary function. The only thing that would make actual-Wikileaks evil is if they didn't publish information that didn't agree with their agenda. But I suspect that if a whistleblower gave information to Wikileaks which then went unpublished, they'd find some other way to get the information out there.
Looks like gmail is in the works: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/issues/detail?id=37#c0
In reality nobody cares why Lamo turned the guy in.

I care very much about whether Manning was a troubled, irresponsible loser who leaked out of rebellion or desire for attention, or a responsible citizen who carefully leaked material that he felt needed to see the light of day, for the public good. Lamo's characterization of how Manning contacted him and acted in their conversations is the primary non-government source for the former characterization.
There are many species of bats and I'm pretty sure dolphins use echo-location too.

And I was thinking of the definition of "natural" as something made with a certain degree of consciousness. For example, politics are natural, but political parties are man-made. Being paranoid is natural. Religion is not.
10.5) Ask for an insurance. If they end up not buying after your agreement, they should pay you x% if the acquisition price.
The danger is that they might offer less variability, in both directions.
If properly motivated SaaS companies can switch from one cloud provider to another (AWS <-> GCP <-> Azure), a far more technically difficult operation, it’s eminently possible to switch off Shopify. It’s far from cheap or easy so the business may decide it’s not worth the time or money, but far more difficult technical migrations have happened. Be aware of your options - if Shopify decided to raise the price they charge 10x, would you really just roll over and pay it because it’s “absolutely prohibitive” to move of them? 100x? Your branding is your own, and Shopify does not control that - you do. I’m not saying you should move off Shopify for the fun of it, just that alternatives exist.
> I don't know what it means to live in a "right to work" state. I assume that means that everyone has a right to reasonably paid employment?

It's the opposite! It means you can be fired for any reason whatsoever.
Equal grounding would be that no one is in a union, or that the employees are in a union, and the companies are in a union of their own. So Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc all get to form their union to negotiate with Big Labour.

Its not fair that Walmart and Amazon must compete against each other to buy labor but the sellers of labor can form a cartel protected by the federal government.
https://archive.is/ryo6d