jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If anyone is wondering about XN--PBT977C and XN--KPU716F, they are .珠宝 (Translated as .Jewelry) and .手表 (Translated as .Watch). I believe the latter means watch as in wristwatch, not watch as in watch a movie.
One thing westerners don't realize when they move to places like SriLanka is that they end up increasing the local prices. This happens in the US too, when Californians move to Texas and start paying more for properties (or rent). It is hard enough for people in developing countries to compete without foreigners moving in - with them, it becomes impossible.
It's so interesting reading these replies because I identified a lot of different sings that I thought would be good, but then reading yours, I see that every single one is in play for my dud job. I do think having a non technical boss is important though, so you can hand wave that you are doing some tech wizardry while really doing nothing
I don't know what qualifies as "amazing company" in your eyes (they're certainly cheap for what you get), but my experience was certainly very bad:

I rented a VPS from them experimentally for a month, then left to go on vacation thinking I had cancelled it, but I had not. They left it running for another month that I hadn't paid for, and then sent the bill for the extra month to collections, so that's presumably affecting my credit score now.

Sending a bill for a recurring service to collections rather than just canceling the service is trash-tier company behavior, IMO. I strongly recommend against using Hetzner.
I personally hope that the output ends up being systems that are good for individuals with their own dynamic lands at home, not just strong group collaboration. I know there are already people who have setups done in coordination with the Dynamic Land team.

I've visited dynamic land also, and the vision of this more tangible visible computation is bigger than the incarnation/progress last shown.

I'm a fan of Darklang's goals too. But I do think Dynamic Land is targeting more approachable, teachable, and communal computing. Darklang is going to be more for professionals making backends and doesn't target any user facing audio/visuals whatsoever. It could in the end of course, so I hope it does well as an effort too.
I respect your relentless honesty. Good luck
I just ran across Nexus UI, which appears to be a music focused UI. Neat (and useful) :-)
https://nexus-js.github.io/ui/
Wow this is fascinating just for the entertainment. Especially liked this one...

> I need an app that sends me a notification 90 seconds before the sun reaches the exact position in the sky where it reflects off my neighbor's windows and blinds me.

https://twitter.com/DanEngler/status/1379616188020318208
I have a lengthy background in hiit (specifically CrossFit). And I say this in the most polite way possible.

You're doing HIIT wrong if you cannot elevate your heart rate beyond 110 bpm. Whatever you're doing, there's a huge gap in the training programming/protocol.

Everyone suffers in CrossFit. Everyone.
Probably Hetzner.
Also worth mentioning that rebuilding on file system events is something that already existed in the JS space, and it's typically just called "watching". Even the compile-only-what-is-needed part already has established terminology (dead code elimination in the general case, and "tree-shaking" in the JS NIH case)

Tailwind clearly is trying to put some effort into marketing, but IMHO misusing established terms like this can backfire in the sense that it makes them look like they're out of their depth wrt compilation literature.
That's honestly the opposite of good design. It's hiding the complexity to make it seem easy for beginners, then slamming them with inscrutable error messages when they "don't use it right." It leads to a system with a deceptively gentle learning curve that requires you to suddenly learn everything all at once when you hit an issue.
low quality piece from the guardian perhaps

It does not capture the nuances, subjectivity, nor long-term process that results in new modes of work
Depends on the diff. If the diff is not aligned by bits a single bit offset might cause double the size, ie the full file to delete and a full file add.

>If you insist on using the "snapshot" abstraction

But its not insisted. Both abstractions are used as needed.
Could still be a problem if you are expecting hibernation to save you at 1% battery remaining.
Excellent question, I have not had the time to test it on my iPod Touch yet, so I am basically keeping my fingers crossed that it still runs ok. Has anyone tried loading this up on Android/IOS?
Think Stats is a very good book aimed at Python programmers who want a broad overview of practical statistical techniques: https://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html
How many FPS does it achieve on … is there an FPS standard (FPS) game for Mac GPU benchmarking?
This is basically a creationist argument - life is complex so someone must have pulled the strings. But given enough time all of that can randomly go exactly right.
Hvac Home Auditors and Hvac Load Calculator login tutorial. This tutorial show how easy to use EDS HVAC Software for Professional Home Energy Audit.
I’m not an expert at C code but it’s really nice to read redbean.c - lots of relatively small functions with great names. Good example to follow.
There are so many people responding with incredulity to the fact that pc laptop makers haven't come up with a good Trackpad, but to me the reason is evident in the first interaction you have with any pc laptop manufacturer. Show me a pc laptop website that isn't an absolute horrific fucking mess, then find me a product on that website that doesn't look like a stupid broken plastic box thing, and then maybe we can start talking about trackpads. These companies seemingly want people to buy arbitrary products off the shelf and NEVER return. I'll grant that there may be a few notable exceptions, probably Razer is one, but the rest are abominations.
They don't mention the other issue - Whatsapp and similar are, if anything, the worst form of social media. You have shallow conversations that dribble your attention away throughout your entire day, yet you have not gained any meaningful interaction.
Killing or imprisoning people for using a medicinal plant is crime against humanity. If it can be abused, then regulate it.

And yet alcohol is totally fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why should you be able to do whatever you want on it? This doesn't apply to many other products.
I suspect they meant "inferred from past behaviour" as opposed to say, exposed in a set of emails definitively proving intent & collusion (which would be slightly more clear cut and hard-hitting).
One thing I notice right away is that I wish there was some kind of description or context for some of these custom index things. Like why did the creator decide on this mix? What's the background? Otherwise they are just lists of stocks.
> my contract allows for unpaid overtime

Unless i was in serious financial trouble, or in a learning situation, i would never accept a contract that "allows for unpaid overtime".

Most of the companies i know don't allow for "paid free time", so why should i give away my time for free to increase profits for the company ?

The exception to this is of course "job salary", but i never accept those either unless i have a say in what exactly makes up the "job" part, and i usually tell the employer that "job salary" goes both ways, so if i'm done with my job Wednesday afternoon, i'll say "enjoy your weekend" and be back next monday. That's when we usually agree on paid overtime :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa#Criticism
On the upside, that's the one thing keeping Google from completely 100% owning the web as a platform.

Once you can install Blink on iOS, there is nothing left forcing program managers to keep "test on other browsers than Chrome" on their feature list, and even if Firefox would work fine, you'll get every single site requiring Chrome.
The French also disallow "franglais" - a mix of French and English - in media, in order to avoid polluting their language.

This seems like a par for the course from a nation that looked until the 1500s like it would be the dominant world power before it turned inward.
I know an ex-intelligence officer. He's been shot multiple times, and says that getting shot really hurts. I assume it was even worse than usual for him since he was in the field and couldn't quite waltz into the nearby hospital for treatment.

He also says getting shot is worse when you're running away from someone than when it takes you by surprise. He said some other things, but I don't really remember them.
I'm not convinced this is a real problem though. I don't think I've ever thought to myself "man, hitting this unsubscribe link is so annoying, I wish there was a better way!". Plus, why keep all of these emails in a label when you can just opt-out of them at the source?
Great work, I really like it! I'd suggest two minor changes:

1) Get it loading the remote Javascript asynchronously (e.g. http://friendlybit.com/js/lazy-loading-asyncronous-javascrip...)

2) Detect whether the page is hosted on http or https - you don't want to be the cause of errors in IE :)

I'd love it if you could post some usage figures a month from now, e.g. bandwidth costs and the power required to host widgets like this - it's something I don't have a clue about.
Fair enough. Peace be with you. And good luck in your work.
> "Or you burn out, get depressed and become much less successful and effective than you could be."

Only if you base your self worth on what you accomplish (which some people undoubtedtly do). Those who accept their inherent worth wouldn't be affected. I admit it's easier said than done sometimes.
A partial case study: In Wales ~100% of the population speak English. In the last UK census the numbers who responded that they could _speak_ any old Welsh, Cymraeg, was < 16%. In the city region I live in Cymraeg is at such low demand by parents that there are no secondary schools that use it (except as a subject, like you'd learn a foreign language). Excepting a handful of Patagonians and some ex-pat Welsh there is nowhere outside the country to speak Cymraeg and there is nowhere in the country that it is needed.

However, all primary school children are forced to use "incidental Welsh" in every single subject lesson. In my kids school there are Urdu, Mandarin, Swedish, Spanish speaking kids .. but none that speak Cymraeg at home as a domestic language.

Most people who can speak some Cymraeg can't write in it and aren't fluent. Of those that are fluent the majority 75-80% use English for emails and texts and social media (per a recent study by the Office of the Welsh Language Commissioner).

Yet still, all subjects in primary school are hobbled by backward looking misguided nationalism - at present rates the only kids who will use Cymraeg in a job post-school are those in the Welsh Language Commission.

It serves no useful purpose for the kids but it's treated as more important than maths, science, English, ...

Now, I've nothing against languages. I find them fascinating but in mainstream education languages should be taught first as a means of communication. If people want to learn them later so they can hide away and not talk to people from other cultures that's fine - but that's not what compulsory schooling should be about.

Aside, how does language learning of itself improve problem solving?
The charcoal background made me think of Geckoboard (http://www.geckoboard.com/), but that's more of a dashboard metrics visualizer than a task list.
Yes, but someone who is paying in euros doesn't care what the price in dollars is, only what the cost in euros is. If yesterday $100 == 100 euros, but today $110 == 95 euros, then your $110 exported good now looks more attractive to people paying in euros, even though it's now more expensive at home.
I can totally relate to the statement: "If, like me, you'd rather eat glass than sit down to write some Java code in Eclipse, it would appear that you are out of luck when it comes to implementing your next project on Android." I've been attempting to educate myself about Android development for a side project. Dealing with Java has been an impediment, as my brain seems to grok scripting languages far more easily.
Ah, now I'm with you. I believe the high-end model does indeed have a USB connection though I would expect the software to be terrible
Then it becomes premeditated and with intent.
This really puts into words the problems I've seen working in startups.
As an average employee? Is your company VC funded?
Rust is already doomed. The amount of literature being published about either comparisons or compatibility with C is a strong indicator C is here to stay.
I am vegan and in general very aware how mainstream society marginalizes vegan choices, but this strikes me as both frivolous and damaging to the vegan cause more broadly.

It's a Burger King for god's sake - what do you expect? If you want the mainstream to embrace your values you don't want to damage the chances of increasing acceptance just because the ad copy wasn't a 100% accurate.
Pay scale for programmers at large organizations I'm aware of starts around $55K and tops out around $100K. And non-profits or small businesses pay even less.

I browse job ads on indeed frequently and see offerings in the $40-50K range for IT positions in the NYC area.

What do people think that offshore employees of an American IT company are paid? I haven't any definite figures for places I've worked, but I have gotten the impression from Indian job ads that $10K/year is in the ballpark. Why would a typical company pay more than five times that for US-based employees?
> but there's no downside to removal of contamination, so they'd likely support it given the choice.

There may be a downside, if the cost of compliance is too high and the business decides to stop offering the product.
In many states the DMV allows you to register to vote while obtaining your drivers license (or other state ID card).
Maintaining such a website in a way that everyone involved thought was fair would be hard, but at least it's somewhat simplified if you restrict posts to only members of congress.

If some third party wants to mirror the site and let ordinary citizens post comments on their mirror, they could do that.
Nouveau works great with Sway. Users make a choice to use proprietary drivers, they aren't forced into it. They can buy more freedom-respecting hardware, too. It's a choice to reward Nvidia's behavior, and consequently that choice alienates them from our userbase.
I promise I'll charge just as much as American developers. No, really ;)
they sift through all of that crap to find the few good stories

Any market selling anything operates in the same exact way -- producers filter out the bad to find the good that they want to sell, and consumers filter further from there.
As someone who runs an IT department and has tested these things pretty extensively this article is uninformed. To address his points...

On Resentment: No IT department in their right mind acts because "users might resent us if we don't". You try to make the users as happy as possible but resentment is part of the job. Because people discover cool things all the time that just aren't feasible given a corporate environment (web based office suites are the perfect example of something users want and I'd love to implement but since the data privacy guarantees aren't what they need to be it can't be done).

On Functionality: So far we've found the iPad doesn't present many functionality gains. The approach I've taken is a "try before you buy" strategy. Which is I have an iPad that I lend to people who want one. In order to get it they have to give me their laptops. Then after a week if they want to keep the iPad in place of their laptop I let them. Thus far no one's kept the iPad. Mainly because it lacks a full version of office and it lacks Flash.

That's not to say there aren't uses. We've deployed 5 iPads at this point to people who just needed to view their data using Box.Net. But those were people who didn't already have a laptop and we still get complaints about the iPad's limited functionality (even ofter loading the full iWork suite)

To drive home the point let me quickly address his individual scenarios...

Constant Connectivity: Users who need this are better served with smartphones. Constant Connectivity doesn't help if the person chooses to leave the iPad in their car because they don't want to carry it around.

Data Access: This is the only point I agree with

form-based data entry: In our tests a person who can type 80 wpm drops to 13 on an iPad. So unless those forms are really, really short this isn't a valid point (though I've been testing a Motorola Xoom because it has Voice Recognition accessible in every app and the results are promising)

simple note taking: Again see the previous point. The notes better be very short.

Presentations: Even though the amount of work to transfer a presentation to an iPad is reasonably small it's still more work than unplugging your laptop, shutting the clamshell and carrying it to the conference room. Plus, in my experience most people finish their presentations about 30 seconds before the meeting anyway.
In the article, he was justifying maxing out the laptop with 'future-proofing' it so that he could go longer before needing to buy a new one.
FWIW, I believe the idea is to segment the network so you are sharing your bandwidth, but not your "home network."

A closer analogy would be letting strangers use the outhouse on your property, but not letting them in the house.

The router used by Numericable here in France offers a "guest WiFi" connection out of the box. It is not enabled by default, mind you, but it is available nonetheless.
Whew, no. Not like that anyway. You sound young and you're putting way too much effort into wanting this to be true, and what ain't assumptions and baseless assertions is parody. I can't think of any way that anybody could be offended by this as criticism. Am I supposed to rank DHH against Matt Dillon?

What of the driver engineer who doesn't know how to install a video card? You may be surprised at how many "Level 0" people know a language much more than they know computers in general.

Put it this way, if your answer to "what exactly is an average webapp?" is something like "you know what I mean," chances are the argument is a non-starter.
According to Anandtech, at least the new 13",15",17" when ordered with an SSD builtin have TRIM support. 3rd party drives are not supported. I don't know about the Airs though -- He alludes to it in another article, but I can't find definitive proof.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4205/the-macbook-pro-review-13...
First, do you have JavaScript enabled?

If you type "about:config" in the location bar, and you search for a key called "webgl.disabled", is that true?

You may also have old drivers for your video card - though pretty much all the drivers in the past few years have OpenGL.
Look at the problem your company has and determine how common it is in other companies. In your free time, build a solution to said problem. Your current company could be come your first customer.
Why do you think so many startups have a private beta? You don't know whether you get in and that makes you want to try it out.

Glitch also does this fantastically well with their playtest weekends. They don't tell you in advance when they are, so if you want to participate you need keep an eye on them via twitter or the site itself at all time.
I guess it depends on the environment. In a startup, you need results and vision. Even if it costs millions to clean up the mess, you need to get version one out the door. Technical debt is still an issue (sloppy code can cause bugs, and make it harder to iterate), but you don't need the code to be as clean as humanly possible.

In a more stable environment, dirty code will almost certainly come back to haunt you, or your successor. It's not worth 1 man-year to clean up 1 man-year of work, just so you could your job done a little faster. Besider, the pointy-haired manager will push you to speed up, even if it causes more problems later.
Practical chances of having something done affects the sense of "urgency to do it".

Even more urgent than colonization is the achievement of immortality, but I don't see people urging to achieve it for the same reason, i.e they think it's not practically achievable.
The limit is on disk-only tables (due to Dets using 32-bit file offsets). The limit of on-memory tables is 16 exabytes on 64-bit systems.
Mike Nifong, the prosecutor in the Duke Lacrosse case was eventually disbarred and faces multi-million dollar lawsuits (which he will lose almost certainly). Although I think that is more the exception. Prosecutors face almost no downside to corruption.
It seems to me what is most urgent is what is possible now ('the Adjacent Possible')

IMO that is:

Supporting the Seasteaders and Charter Cities;
supporting the further development of nuclear technology (all potential forms of fusion and fission);
supporting the development of new forms of propulsion technology (e.g. plasma drives).
It'd work on any domain you like, but you need to run it on your own system.

I bet this could be used to write some very interesting Javascript-aware crawlers/scrapers.
We can't really - that's one of the major concerns with our model. We've already encountered a few occurrences of this and are working through it carefully (don't want to piss off our early users!)
Sympathy or not, these things happen.
What alternative institutions?
That's true, but in general, if you need to fire employees regularly, then your hiring process is broken.

The way I look at it is that it's far too easy to fire people in the US, and this also leads to pathologies.
This is an excellent response and I wish it was a bit higher up for people to see.

My only retort to your points would be that much of what you've described is still in nascent stages or at best, early go-live. I'm rooting hard for Ethereum to get ahead of some of these problems, but with all the noise in the community the last few years, it's difficult to determine what is actually legitimate and what is simply being oversold.

My hope is that the Defi boom will continue it drive attention and resources to the space that will help to realize some of this potential. Despite that, at the moment I still can't help but be a skeptic myself.
D does this as a library i.e. just add parallel to your foreach aggregate.

As to languages built around this, there are quite a few, e.g. Intel have Data Parallel C++
Cool, I hadn't realized that distinction in terminology. Thanks for pointing it out! :)
I think the forums are one of the site's greatest assets, actually. But there does exist a certain culture there in which absolutely everything is debated into oblivion, even long past the point where such a discussion stops being useful for answering the question at hand.
He is closer to Aristotle than modern scientists and engineers. That is create formulas to represent the world without checking how the world works at all.
If we're looking at how to do detection right in IT systems, the physical world example you give doesn't really apply all that well. First the environment is different and second threat detection in IT infra is a multi-stage process involving probabilities on each stage. You can't cut the wire and disable them all from one spot. (or you can if you slice the cable, but then you cut your access too - and a bunch of other collateral...)
I was looking for this comment before posting. Thank you.
AMD stopped building these in 2016 and Amazon hired away most of the AMD team that worked on this chip.
This kind of thing why I browse with javascript and CSS blocked.
This is just insulting I don’t like the people on Trumps side however nobody that loves software and freedom should be in favour of corporations doing this honestly how did hackernews got filled with bootlickers baffles me