jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hi @bootload, I deeply appreciate your response. It's sometimes hard to read between the lines as English is not my native language.

I'll try to put some more light and perspective into how my previous work place 'ticked' and how I intended to outline my passage to OpenBSD in the article.

My previous workplace was a large corporation. I were literally on the clock accounting for every 0.25h of work I did. You were not allowed to touch a single line of code unless you had billed hours against that task (contract with a client, bug report from a client). This literally meant that doing comprehensive code reviews or reworking a particularly nasty part of the code was not possible. There was a 'process' for doing code reviews but it was so bureaucratic that going through the paper work you had to submit after one took 0.5h-2h but the time you had for a code review was counted as a percentage of the time it took someone to produce or alter the code. So if you reviewed a change that took 1h - you had 10 minutes to do the code review and all the alloted paperwork.

I don't want to speak about the quality of the code base in detail due to obvious reasons but I can assure you that people working on it are really experienced and know what they are doing. Most of the problems and the humongous technical debt is years of corporate culture. Did I mention that the banking system I worked on was born around 15 years ago?

During my 7 years at that job. I had the chance to refactor code once. In my first 3 months of working there since I was not yet on the 'clock'. When I was at my leaving period I was given a free hand and was took off the clock again. This allowed me to really look at the code, analyze potential problems and actually react on them. People that are still working on it don't have that privilege on a daily basis.

The stab at Linux was actually accidental :) I use Linux personally since late 90s. What I mostly pointed out was some of my bad hardware choices in the passage and how OpenBSD drives me more into actually diving into the code contrasted to all the years I solely used Linux.

You are correct that my 'evolution' towards tighter, smaller and correct implementations drew me towards OpenBSD. I think I had that feeling for a long time but hopefully you understand that it's not always in the hands of the programmer himself to call the shots and do things right. What I really loved though was auditing and removing a ton of cruft in one code base while OpenBSD did the same with LibreSSL :)

Hope this answers your question.
The article showed a postage stamp bearing Samuel Clemens' visage, but didn't include his relevant quote: "A classic is a book that everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read."
HTC desire. Extra advice. eBay.
Extra piece of advice. Buy a nexus one. Or galaxy s. The latter might be too expensive even on eBay but look hard. You might be surprised. I got my desire last year June (i think) for 400 dollars
Prototypes are, unfortunately, a bit convoluted in JavaScript. In Io[1], on the other hand, their beauty are readily apparent.

[1] http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html#Objects
I usually do, but then again, I don't have a TV or watch movies. It's a matter of choice.

It also depends on the writer and genre - for example, I could read several Terry Pratchett books in a week, but slug through a heavy novel.

I know I'm missing lots of good entertainment, but TV series, for instance, always seemed like a huge commitment of time for me.
Emphasis on backwards compatibility? IMHO not really.

It's not that -- I like frameworks precisely because there's a layer of abstraction between my code and the final output.

Using PHP as a web framework, without a higher-level of abstraction (like a PHP framework) is dangerous because backwards compatibility has to be preserved.

"echo" in PHP is like "print" in Python. It wouldn't make sense in either case to force escaping of HTML tags for such a low-level instruction. But people have been using it to output HTML content for years.
In Japan, pension outlays, right now, are more approximately 10% of GDP. In the US RIGHT NOW, pension outlays are approximately 6% of GDP.

As the ratio of earners to pensioners moves closer to 1:1, this % outlay is only going to get worse.

Am I trying to fool you?

[edited to remove pointless ad hominem]
I know what you mean. For me it was: "Hm. he wrote that with a good confidence. Which part of my knowledge is wrong or incomplete ?" :-) Kind of the same feeling when the significant other garbage-collects a pen you put on the table just a few minutes ago.
Yes. It's a way to artificially limit supply, to prop up wages for people on the inside. It's common to most "licensed" professions.
I deleted my Facebook account permanently about two years ago. I created a new one this Christmas for one very simple reason: I wanted to be able to use Messenger, because it's the only common denominator for my entire extended family.

Thankfully, it's completely possible to use only Messenger, but you need to jump through some hoops. Facebook will automatically enable your "normal" account, so you need to disable it (not delete it) to "keep" the Messenger functionality while closing your profile.

As for FB as a social network, I don't know. I'll echo the sentiment in the currently top voted comment here: nobody I know uses it that way anymore, except the oldest ones in my family. Looking at it cynically, I guess it makes sense that the generation that are the least resilient to online disinformation are also the last ones to jump ship.
Sincere question: How can an outsider like myself believe that Facebook is actually working to "fix the negatives of FB"? This is the same company that, in 2016, let Russian accounts pay for campaign ads in the US in rubles, according to Congressional testimony.

Facebook said they'd prevent such errors in the future by creating an election oversight board. Despite the fact that they had four years to prepare, their oversight board took their first case... on December 1st, 2020, conveniently after the presidential election was over--and hundreds of millions of ad dollars were spent.

I'm sure that Facebook has teams working on privacy and good governance. This is basically a public relations spend for them. Their business model is collecting as much data on people as they possibly can and then selling ads based on that data. The idea that "overall the intention and effort is there" seems laughable at best.

But, as someone who seems to be an insider, do you have any information you could share that contradicts that narrative?

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/358102-franken-blasts-...

https://news.yahoo.com/facebooks-oversight-board-announces-1...
> My Bing using experience was extremely bad for all non-tech

Do you mean it's good for tech searches? That would be good news, because those are pretty much the only searches DDG uniformly performs badly on, for me - the only searches where I know that a `!g` would improve the results significantly. Perhaps it should be a `!b` instead now, I'll try it out.
not the same person, but I think "better" in this context means "something that more people would prefer over the alternative due to having self-reported higher levels of enjoyment and lower levels of stress, which makes you want to use the tool more".
Medical boards are at the specialty level, so there is no equivalent. An OB is not going to have to answer primary care questions, for example. They'll all be very specialized.

Futhermore, you actually practice for several years prior to taking your boards, at which point you submit a representative subset of your cases from actual work, and a bunch of folks toward the end of their career grill you on them, then decide if you pass.
>But Bob isn't getting the tax bill, which is my point. The tax bill is going to Famous Writer, who is most certainly going to contest the bill, and will probably win. Now the IRS doesn't get their money, so they are not satisfied.

Why would it go to Famous Writer? I skimmed the article and it only say the author on the product page is Famous Writer. If Famous Writer wrote it, but then signed over all the rights to Bob's Books LLC, then Famous Writer would be the author, but all the proceeds/tax bills will go to Bob's Books LLC.

As for why bother impersonating Famous Writer in the first place? Probably because an unheard of author selling $500,000 worth of books for $500/each would be suspicious, but if he was famous it would be less so.
The dirty relationship between life and entropy could be "hoard as much energy as possible, multiply and feel free to waste energy for fun."
It looks like low-discrepancy sequences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence) might be applicable for your quasi-Monte Carlo sampling of the scattering.
How so? What if it stopped a block away from you and pretended to be a ZipCar?
> but this test has a Gaussian assumption, not a Poisson assumption.

In practice the Gaussian assumption might not be too badly abused (at least for Twitter) since the Poisson distribution approaches the Gaussian when lambda is large.
Do you work with retailers directly for local ads or an adsense-type site? You do $1k/mo for this?
I'd argue the tuning of the guitar makes it remarkably ergonomic and flexible. Guitar players take it for granted how you can play the same chord all up and down the neck. If a shape is clumsy for you, there are many others you can try to get the same chord, but I think the shapes in general are designed pretty well for the hand once you develop your finger muscles and flexibility. There is a lot of logic baked into the guitar's fretboard layout.
I think instead of saying it's relaxed, I would describe it as very local?

Folks work pretty hard in Caribbean, but when I was there (a fair while ago), I also worked dang hard. But you absolutely felt like you were in a bubble. You really could imagine that Israel and the Palestinians would have an intifada / war and no one would notice.

You drank after work with the folks you worked with (in west this is a no no for many good reasons), you ate larger group meals, you spent a lot more time outside. I'm just spitballing some impressions. Some of this was efficiency, (group meals are more cost effective?) etc.

There is also an attitude difference. There is a story (probably made up - please fill in correct details) that a group "conquered" one of the islands (maybe Saba?). They took over whatever building, raised whatever flag. And everyone just ignored them. They eventually left.

One thing that's an adjustment is ignoring the rules if they are silly - no one thinks anything of it. And yes, in part because of corruption and rent seeking there are some silly rules so maybe you have to.

Absolute downsides as well no question. But I wonder if the folks not on internet just don't care as much about what someone said to someone as the rest of us.
I remember visiting SFBA in 2014 or so, a friend worked in PayPal said they used mesos, kubernetes was a baby project with a lot of hype. It sure seemed mesos had won back then, and the fact that kubernetes caught up, surpassed and then succeeded so wildly would have never crossed my mind.
If round-up was a medical drug, it at least would have restrictions for use on a farm
For most of its life there was. People used to pay to absolve themselves of sin, and reduce the years they were going to stay in purgatory.
Is there a choice in inkjet printers that will provide you with a list of 3rd party ink suppliers, and perhaps even encourage use of recycled inks from 3rd parties? If so, how would people know about that until after they'd 'voted with their wallet' and purchased the product?
>Google is trying to commoditize hardware

This frequent meme is restated by people who don't know what commoditize means. The Android ecosystem is anything but a commoditized market.
Bah..I was expecting this to be about DuckDuckGo - the only search engine that actually returns better results than Google.
Before you take a position in a stock you should research the stock to find out what it is worth.

If a share is worth more than the current price you should buy it. If it worth less than the current price you should short sell it.

If you don't short sell, then half of your research is wasted.
This is sound advice for any startup, not just 1-person shops. Wish I could upvote a couple more times.
I just read it completely differently, so much so that I wondered if the interpretation had a particular cultural bias. But we're both American so ya got me :)
My single biggest takeaway from watching it was that there is no "sustainable industrial fishing" despite every political advocacy group stating that as a bullet point "eat sustainable fish" to helping biodiversity and fish stocks.

Basically unless the a dude has a fishing rod and is catching his own dinner it's unsustainable.

Those boys over at impossbile burger better be whipping up some fish substitutes because I think the future of the fishing industry will look like what the British fishing industry is going through with Brexit right now -- a sudden collapse.
> It's just more natural to "see" things that you move.

This is the fallacy of logos.

When I was learning about files and filesystems, the GUI had not even been invented. It is certainly not natural to me to conceive of file operations as cartoons moving around on a TV screen.

What's happening here is you're mistaking what you may have first learned for what is normal or natural. That it seems normal or natural to you is an inherent property of your experience, not an inherent property of file manipulation.
It's hardly a bug, just a bad interaction.

I would argue that the bug is implicitly pressing Control. Control is not a layer modifier.
The problem is not that your donations will go to other things but including Firefox. The problem is that there is no way for the money of your donations to end up in funding Firefox development. Mozilla Foundation money does not flow towards Firefox corporation.
That's kind of sad though, since that type of issue is really valuable if the project is under active development.
Today I thought I was learning I’m older than emacs, but learned I’m only barely younger and that’s just fine for me.
How is the x86 performance on say windows and linux?
This line in httpd.conf:

listen on * port 8080

allows easily find such "hidden" service on the Internet using shodan and similar services.
I am very nitpicky, but I also understand the frustration of dealing with nitpicking.

Having a common linter saves a lot of trouble.

For everything else, I explicitly "prefer but don't insist". It's up to my colleagues to decide if the feedback is important.
I think there's some confusion here. This topic is about developers selling apps via the Shopify App Store, not about how much you pay Shopify to run an online ecommerce store.

Shopify charge a monthly fee for their online ecommmerce stores, and they don't take a 20% cut for that.
I think you just see something like "one site - many people writing - no global review".

The article you link seems to be syndicated from "Press Association" (??) and was probably added by a scientifically illiterate journalist, editor or somesuch.

The OP here was written by actual scientists who have a blog-type of thing on TheGuardian.com.
Most of the standard stuff in homebrew is available in bottled form.

Which isn't to say Homebrew doesn't have its problems— setting up your own bottling infrastructure is difficult/impossible, and basic stuff like caching dependencies isn't there (cf. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/27457).
It's the trolley problem, but now in real life. Also, you're not helping, you just use this crisis to further your own goals: to paint the EU in a negative light.

And it's not like you weren't warned about this before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266468

Flagging both your comments.
I miss being able to focus on things... you can do a lot of other things while caring for young children... the one thing you can't do is focus on something, because you always need to keep one eye on the kids, and are continually having to stop what you are doing to do something for them, and have to always be watching they don't do something dangerous.

I really miss daycare.
Space shuttle insulating tiles are not made of aerogel.
I see posts attacking the messenger quite often whenever someone points out yet another cryptocurrency scam. Can you respond to the actual content of the thread?
Not saying it ought not to be that way, but the EU isn't known for their bureaucratic efficiency.
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I notice the same thing with Ruby's 'unless'. I think it has to do with the mapping of English to programming. Sort of like the fact that 'or' can be inclusive or exclusive.
"we don't have time for that. You're a rockstar. Make it happen".
However, something like the HackRF can - and while not cheap (~$300), it's still accessible.
I've thought about this just the other day. Most people here would probably agree that teaching kids to code in school would be pretty cool (never mind the usefulness of that for a second). I think one mistake we all make is imagine a world in which everybody can and enjoys writing code as a result of that. That makes no sense at all. A lot of people would probably hate it, and even more obvious, most people would just forget. I've learned latin in school (don't do that). Equus means horse, that's what I remember.

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BTW: We need higher-level languages on top of maths (that are not general purpose programming languages) so that people can talk about complex processes and what not.
Microsoft has another active & mature project aimed at simplifying concurrency heavy applications. Its called TPL DataFlow [1].

It gives you simple & intuitive primitives which you can use to build higher level abstractions (one of them is actor model)

1. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh228603(v=vs.110)....
Woah woah, cheer up bro.

I'm probably exactly who you're talking to in this post, but man, lose the self-hating melodrama. You're just making excuses for yourself.

Pick what you want to do. Imagine you did it, and everything went wrong. Imagine the absolute worse case scenario. Is it that bad? I bet it's not. So go for it.
Of course it's too early to know for sure, but judging from the superb quality of Paul Hegarty's previous iOS programming courses, this course will probably become the best learning resource for wannabe iOS developers.
There were also a ton of stuff on xs4all.nl
> determined by ... political processes

Part of which is playing out here where people of privilege are working out a story that allows them to displace an older population dependent on rent control so that they can get that housing.
"Industrial Microbes" has a concept that really excites me, I'd have loved to help them develop that idea for IndieBio Ireland.

It's non-obvious ideas like "Why not use natural gas instead of refined sugar?" that are going to make Biotech explode in coming years..while simultaneously putting fossil fuels to more productive or even sequestering use than burning them!
I can't speak for the other person, but I think I have a similar perspective. I don't like big corporations, I think many smaller businesses are better. For one, if only a couple companies exist then you don't have many choices. For another, working as, what previous generations might've called a wage slave, feels very soul crushing. I think society would be freer and people would be happier working for smaller companies that they owned and had bigger impacts in. On top of all that, a few big companies means concentrated power and that means a few rich folks can leverage their power to political ends to get more riches and more power etc.

"Tax the rich" sounds kind of like a good idea at first but then you take into account the point about how the rich have lawyers, lobbyists, and accountants. Rich people and companies already figure out how to subvert tax laws. Why wouldn't they figure out how to subvert the new laws they are clamoring for too?

Put another way, is Bezos supporting this law because he wants to be worth less?

I'd prefer we solve things more directly. Break up big business via anti-trust. Stop businesses from buying one another. Rather than raising taxes let's just simplify the tax code so it's automatic and there is minimal ambiguity or flexibility for creative tax accounting. Let's bring legal cases on all the questionable tax strategies big companies are engaging in. Raising taxes to hope we catch the big guys doesn't seem like a smart plan to me. It seems more likely they'll dodge the increase and smaller companies will get hit with it.
Molly de Blanc, whoever she is, is a bully. Plain and simple. These are textbook bully tactics practised by children in schools everywhere. You learn where people's weaknesses are and you prod. You learn where the boundaries are and stay just on the right side of authority to avoid being in trouble yourself.
1) People will self identify as anything. I worked for a survey agency. We had many people identify as an Apache Attack Helicopter on surveys. Played havok with the statistics.

2) Any company doing this is just asking for a discrimination lawsuit. Just because Google can show your ads only to single straight white men does not mean you should let them. Has no one stayed awake during diversity training at these companies?
If you still have the references would you mind sharing links?
Agreed, this is absolute insanity and people can't see it from the weeds.
To withdraw money from another account they will definitely require you to prove control of the account either using Plaid or by depositing a few cents and asking you what they are.
Wasn’t downloading contacts from gmail standard for bootstrapping social networks? I know Facebook did that and I’m fairly certain Snapchat and Twitter did too. This doesn’t excuse it, but I generally recall this as being sort of a standard onboarding process in ‘07 or so.
Nice more liquidity for puts and hedging tools, and getting institutions to list smaller contracts

I think retail would love physical delivery over cash delivery