jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Has to be a joke, very crude website, can’t even afford a human to narrate the video.
I think it was a mistake to focus public health discussions around the finer details of work in progress research.

The ambiguities and unknowns have opened the door for fitness gurus and health product grifters to turn this into a sort of holy war. It’s sad to see how many people have been convinced they are “healthy” because they follow a couple out of context fragments of the overall health picture.

I know too many people who think they are doing everything right because they avoid gluten, or don’t eat dairy products, or minimize saturated fat. Yet they go on to consume excessive amounts of sugar, or drink copious amounts of alcohol, or eat 4000+ calories per day of their chosen healthy foods.
They certainly follow both. Require energy to run and give off heat energy as waste
I think the point was to note that shutting down manufacturing us no longer a useful way to prevent firearms from being made. They don't need to be 3D printed right now because there are factories. If all the factories shut down tomorrow, that wouldn't stop new guns from being produced.
Even smartphone demand slows down. And that's a device with daily utility with a 2-5 year life.

Seriously, I'm coming at this from a perspective of a country boy who went shooting 3-4 times a month as a teen, and earned a bounty for shooting pigeons on a farm. How much more demand can be filled for more guns the mostly sit around and gather dust? It's a market driven by ignorance and fear -- folks are treating these things as investments for a doomsday that will never come.

I'm not an anti-gun guy... I own two shotguns, a hunting rifle and a .22. What's the point of adding more? Pistols, AR-15 fetishization, etc aren't for me. What I have will probably be in great shape beyond my lifetime; if anything I might trade up if I got into skeet again.

Say you are right and no regulatory changes take place.... you're still going to have a cohort of old people who hit the gun hoarding profile start to die off and flood the secondary market with estate sales. My parents have a neighbor in the country that probably has >250 rifles, and there are way more people like that than the WW2/Korea generation that has mostly left us. What's the collector value of yet another AR-15 clone?
Cough cough, Remington, cough cough.
That's quite scary. I wonder if something like this is possible at Google or Microsoft or Yahoo. Even if multiple people need to approve that kind of access, it must be possible to socially overcome those barriers (via influence, bribery, etc.) if the right actors can be identified. It would be preferable to have control over this from the user-side.
Fair point, I just took the link title from the article, but your right, it should read DeviantART data compromised.
pure awesomeness! :)
I had another epiphany some years ago and it kind aligns with Zuckerbergs encouragements.

"Don't worry about it"

In the Design/UX community that I normally work in there is a tendency to not only identify the problems but blow them way out of proportions.

The smallest things like naming can be debated for hours.

Don't get me wrong. Naming and consistency is very important but it's not worth wasting an entire day solving when you could have used that day after the launch to figure out where the real problems where.

In Danish we have a term called fagidiot (very loosly translated into professional bias). If you have ever tried watching a war movie with a military buff and heard him complain about how unrealistic the explosion is or how a Baretta can't really shoot that fast you know what I mean.

We have a tendency to think that the world will come to an end if what we care about is not taken serious enough when in reality the world move on just fine and the problems we see as highly important we are the only one caring about.

After that I started realizing that pseudo problems aren't really worth spending your time on. If you want to build something great just go ahead and do it don't worry about the mistakes they are not the ones bringing you down.

What will bring you down though is to obsess over details that only you care about.
On the one hand I agree that there's a lot of complications on the non-tech side of things over there, but on the other I can't help thinking that many successful tech efforts had some non-trivial roadblocks to overcome, e.g. google (who needs another search engine?) and youtube (how are they possibly going to monetize that?) come to mind.
This is not a great password manager function; the reason is, losing your sha1sum password gives the attacker enough information to mount a very, very fast brute force attack against "strong_pass" as long as they know the "sitename".

A basic property of a password manager system should be that the loss of any password doesn't give attackers any information about other passwords; yours potentially concedes the "master secret" that animates all of them.
I think mirah is an interesting implementation of ruby like syntax on the jvm. I like the flow of ruby and to compile down to jvm bytecode should theoretically yield the performance of java. I think as with any language its growth is down to a few key factors like some interesting public projects, big names using it, library support and then a community forming behind it. Its all about use cases right?

Ruby for me was a web language that I took to scripting and then tried some server side work in, but I'm starting to see its limitations and overheads.

Rite while being an embeddable language and having a specific use case will most likely be this light weight barebones ruby that can be run in place of our existing web software, scaling up nicely. However thats just speculation.
Just downloaded and tried it out. I like it, it works well with our subversion repository here at work. One suggestion would be a menu option to allow the user to highlight a page on request (with a chosen syntax), if, for example, you had large chunks of code embedded in normal html.
You're someone who immediately disregards the content of the post of a user who recognizes the possible controversy of a statement.

HN's downvoting system enables cowards to drown you out with impunity, without providing a rebuttal or alternative view. This is one area where Slashdot's system is so much better. (Note, one area. HN brings things to the table that Slashdot doesn't. So no, I'm not just "going to go to slashdot and leave HN" like some people just thought about saying).
And they remain straight people unrestricted by the status quo, arguing against removing restrictions on others on grounds that are naive at best, disingenuous at worst. Do you have a point?
This is a really good take on the (still unsolved IMO) problem, though I suspect it only makes sense to people who have experienced all the issues personally, since so many of them are "it gets really awkward with big programs" type problems.

He did miss out a pretty significant flaw of message busses - the producers and consumers of messages are completely decoupled, which makes debugging really annoying because you don't have anything like a stack trace. You just know that your component received a message, and good luck trying to figure out where it was sent from and why.

That's also a big problem with magical reactivity systems like Vue. Your stack trace is pretty much "yeah something changed somewhere so we're updating this component. Don't try and figure it out."
The legal and financial situations are quite different. WebMD is a US publishing company and Americans sue for everything so it has to be careful. The UK legal system makes it much harder to sue for dumb stuff and the NHS isn't going to be bankrupted being government owned.
A big part of Shantaram is how car accidents were punished by riot. Apparently crashing into pedestrians could get you and your passengers beaten to death by a mob. Any truth to this?
I think these topics are deeper than that, but the way they are presented and discussed in modern society is shallow. The arguments are caricatures and merely tactics in a game of argumentation. They are not good faith discussions about important subjects.
So much so that the lockdown actually saved more lives because people weren't dying on roads.
That is right, one can chose to accept any offer that works for them for whatever reason. If you have no leverage, you may need to accept an offer just to avoid being replaced by other people.

But, I am saying, that if you accept an offer that is based on what your employer thinks is an appropriate lifestyle for you, adjusted to the cost of living in your area, and not on the value of your work, that will immediately establish what I consider is a particularly inappropriate relationship between employer and employee. Of course this happens all the time for many reasons, but what we're seeing now is employers inventing and normalizing yet another, new tactic to deploy when trying to get you to accept less compensation. It's just another trick. But what's particularly insidious about this trick is that what they're doing is openly laying claim to your lifestyle by saying that: suppose you're a senior developer, you are entitled to organic groceries, whereas a junior developer is entitled to conventional produce, regardless of where you live, that's what you deserve. But that's wholly inappropriate: your compensation should depend on what you produce, and your lifestyle should be none of their business. If I want to move to Thailand or the middle of a field in Nebraska and save money, that's none of their business. There is no "objective" lifestyle that a senior developer should be entitled to. But that's this new trick they are trying to pull, and it's nothing short of disturbing and creepy.
Running email isn't expensive neither is breathing air while walking to work, but that misses the point. They had to build a product to make email less crazy that has real value and it takes massive effort and creativity.
Getting a rise per hour worked in law by leaving the big law firms is often "easy". My ex worked for one of the top lawfirms in London, and quickly realised their very high headline pay (straight out of uni into ~2x median UK pay, and increasing at far above average rates for 10+ years) gave the new graduates lower per-hour pay than their secretaries.

It was basically a death-march to see who'd stick it out long enough. Only a few would make partner anyway, so they needed to shed a lot of people to make their cost structure work, and so they'd work them into the ground and use who stays as the selection method at the lower end.
I used to make a living as a mastering engineer, where the job description is to make many tiny changes near or even beyond the threshold of perception, which when summed may add up to a perceptible whole.

How to do this? It's simple: isolate and magnify. Zoom in to where your senses become reliable, make a change informed by your knowledge and experience which you predict will be beneficial, then zoom out. You don't need "golden ears" to be effective: you need an understanding of your tools and techniques and an appreciation for how they affect the gestalt.

The human perceptual mechanism is prone to illusion, and unreliable for measuring and comparing fine detail — that's not what it's for. You won't go wrong if you think of it as primarily designed by evolution to model and identify threats: to hear a twig snap while ignoring the wind blowing, to perceive that hint of unusual movement by something vaguely alligator-shaped in your peripheral vision while ignoring the waves.

Enjoy wine, or that Stradivarius recording, accepting that you might be fooling yourself. Even if you might be wrong about the wine or the Strad, you know for absolute certain whether it is making you happy! Leave it to the critics to claim perceptual accuracy they don't possess and to risk being exposed.
The infamous internet argument that is "calling out negative things is a negative itself". "You just have to go meta, and you will see it's all the same." "Everything is relative/subjective"

These type of generic arguments bring nothing valuable to the discussion table. These arguments are used to shut down conversation in a very self-aggrandizing manner.
> a fairly benign adversary

Given the Snowden leaks and everyone's experience with what Facebook etc. do with our data, I wouldn't call that a "benign" adversary at all. Besides, even if Signal itself is benign, someone who manages to hack the Signal infrastructure might not be.

> The alternative to using SGX in these situations is to hand over the data in the clear to Signal servers.

This is not correct. The alternative would be to tell users to choose a passphrase with enough entropy. In that case, SGX wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately, they didn't do that, so now a lot of users have chosen a short PIN and their data will be compromised should SGX ever fail to live up to its promises. (This is what I meant by "Signal PIN UI fuckup" – the word "PIN" alone suggests choosing a short number over a long passphrase.)
How do you think a foreign country X focused, US-denominated, ETF would perform during something like this, if the target country had a stable balance sheet? I've thought this would be a decent hedge (though difficult now that everything is global/intertwined), but love to hear the downside risk.
I'm not sure why you say "arrived". People have always been fired for arrests at some companies. Twitch is basically their employer, so it's not much different here.

Whether it should be allowed or not by law can be a different discussion, but we don't have to pretend that this is new
The price isn't even that bad, but it produces so much more packaging waste than cooking from scratch. We enjoyed the recipes, the price was good enough, but our recycling load doubled or more.
At the opposite end, I am doing something of value and not making money at it. How do you do something of value and also make money? (And not elicit this kind of criticism -- is it even possible to make money without someone bitching you are doing it wrong and making the world a worse place?)

I have been considering starting an "Ask HN" post but my posts of that sort get little or no response. I am in desperate need of money, getting myself and my sons well when the world says it cannot be done has all come out of my pocket and my pockets aren't deep. I'm deeply in debt and cash flow in recent months has been very ugly. What I am doing is both cheaper and more effective than conventional medicine and some people are benefiting from the information on my website(s) but it isn't paying me anything. It feels incredibly unfair because if I were going the conventional medicine route, the costs would be a great deal higher but much of it would be covered by state aid, federal aid, insurance, etc. So I would get all kinds of "support" and money thrown at my problems for staying sick and getting sicker and sicker until I qualified for disability. But get myself well? On your own b*tch. I have estimated that medical care for people in the US with my condition runs around $3 billion/year. An article I saw recently would put it at roughly $1.5 billion/year. I think that's low, but it's still a lot. There is a recession on. I think I have something of value to offer. But how do you monetize something of value? Maybe this guy is helping folks pay the bills so they can keep offering something of value. Is that such a bad thing? I have often considered yanking my websites because they make no money. People seem to find value in them yet I'm not making anything. I resent that. Why should I benefit others and cut my throat to do so?
With torrent sites existing, the real value of music recordings is zero dollars.

Another way to look at Spotify is actually trying to recover some of this money for artists.
Meanwhile, I left a Haskell job for a Go job.

Language isn’t the be-all end-all of a software project. I’ll take a well maintained and well documented Java codebase over a write-only Haskell codebase with more lines of language extension imports than lines of comments.

Software developers who only look for jobs always in That One Language freak me out.
Your memory is good. The bug to port FB's HipHopVM to aarch64 was raised in 2013[1]

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-aarch64/+bug/1099824
We are hiring F# developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30165023
Tor generally doesn't work on Google services.
The fact is, making home alcohol is super easy. Yeast is omnipresent, and are happy to eat basically any sugar. Wild yeast won't get you alcohol concentrations in the 15-20% like commercial yeasts will, but can easily go up to 8-12%. Apples, grape juice, honey + raisins will all easily make you hard cider, wine, and mead, respectively. If you have a freezer, you can even use freeze distillation to increase the ABV. Banning all ingredients that could be made into alcohol is completely impractical.
It's been months for years
There were also the car number-plates. Out here in Romania having a 3-digit car-number plate meant you most probably were part of the nomenklatura (the local one, if you had a county-specific number-plate, the national one if your number-plate was from Bucharest). The "normal" people had 4-digit number-plates, while the great majority of people had no car at all. Quite interesting.
Changing the icon would make it significantly harder for me to scan and find what I'm trying to run. I worry that it'd be abused with a POTD concept or some such nonsense.

A tighter implementation would be a limited amount over overlay that was configurable -- like the alert # but with more control. The important point being that the underlying icon that I scan for still being available.

MacOS uses this in a number of places to identify download, symlinks and the like.
ISPs and other services often give customers customername.isp.net... - I do this, customers get username.xen.prgmr.com, while prgmr.com is for official business stuff. most of the stuff on something.xen.prgmr.com has absolutely nothing to do with prgmr.com, other than paying me eight bucks a month or what have you, so marking a something.xen.prgmr.com link with 'prgmr.com' would give people the wrong idea.
It would be nice if named groups were supported.
Something like: (?P<protocol>https)
Being captured like: protocol: https instead of 1: https

Nice work!! :)
So you can imagine a project for which Node and Erlang are valid solutions?

I see your argument for language vs framework, I just don't think it matters. Erlang already has a concurrency solution, and it's baked into the language. NodeJS is a solution to concurrency for a language that doesn't have one. I see comparing the two as valid because the question we are discussing how to solve the problem of performing concurrent work.
This doesn't articulate your point at all. What simple solutions are you referring to? systrace? "Don't install ports"?
It's like preaching the gospel.
Here's a nicer one. http://radian.org/notebook/startup-process
So from reading the article, what McKinsey needs to now do is to hire McKinsey to make the difficult decisions, and "rightsize" the company.
> You could do the same for C64 basic but that was all peeks/pokes

That was my beef with C64 BASIC. Once you start peeking and poking in order to do anything interesting, are you really programming in BASIC?
Which regions do you mean?
I actually have made it a point of order to try and pick up all literate programs in book form that I can. This one, is particularly dense, and big. So I have not made too much progress. :(

I have made better progress in the MP3 book. Which, I have enjoyed. Same for the Stanford Graphbase.

It is frustrating, as I am not a fan of c, all told. And I have not found any lisp literate programs. If you know of any, I'd be very interested.
Everyone is talking around in circles here about what truth means and how journalists should handle bias. Truth in terms of journalism means, is this a story made of facts that would benefit the average citizen without regard to physical and social factors vs is this a story that skews or withholds facts for the benefit of a small group of elites with an outsized influence.
It's unfortunate that Funnelweb itself wasn't written in a literate style!
I really have to shamelessly plug my marketplace - https://vendiapp.com here. This is exactly why we started this with the goal of helping other marketplaces as well to completely protect its users. We believe marketplaces must start becoming more responsible and accountable for the transactions that they facilitate.

We are currently focussed on the verification of electronic products. But our goal is to verify listings in all verticals with a high risk of fraud.
Well, that or people might actually like the artworks. With a few exceptions, a photograph of a painting is not going to give you even an approximation of the experience of the real thing. Start with scale, and use your imagination from there.
The "central authority" is the blockchain, which is decentralized because no one controls it.

> a limited edition skin in a game needs the central authority to make it usable in the game. So why do they need blockchain?

Why do you need a central authority to make it usable? I believe anyone can check the ownership of an NFT on the blockchain. You would just need to cross-check a player's game account against their blockchain address.

> a blockchain piece of data is accessible to all, so why pay for it?

It is accessible to everyone, but only owned by one person.
I recommend Hong Kong.

There's a lot of people on nomadforum.io/ that will have first-hand experience on this FYI.
Some real in depth analysis there.
I would argue that if "reasonably competent" means "gets in accidents less frequently and has fewer moving violations", the "idiot" in the minivan is very likely more competent than the joy rider. Also one person's scenic route is another person's shortest route, or maybe only route.
It would also fix the problem of people who race on public roads under the impression of being good drivers.

Their families would miss them, tough.
I joined a CU in Utah in 2009 and have lived in California for a number of years. I've been able to get 2 car loans through them, a personal loan, and a credit card after being a non-resident of Utah. They've treated me well. The only thing I think people may have trouble with is home loans. I think those are pretty geographically tied.
> Think about the quality of their hardware products.

I thought about their butterfly keyboards and didn't want to think further.
Considering it's well known Jobs would ask in interviews how many times a candidate had done LSD, I doubt they're particularly worried about recreational drug use.
Here's another sample with the same model+vocoder, this time reading from a Wikipedia article:
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-726556259/q-learning-wavegrad-...
Hey Marc,

I'm not as cynical as notretarded, but I do wonder how you'll eventually make money. It can't be cheap to manually edit 1,000+ resumes weekly, so it does make me wonder what the end goal is and what the paid services will look like. Maybe some AI/data play?

Your blueprint to good technical resumes is super useful though-- I run a technical interview course and mentor quite a number of software engineers, will definitely share out.

I used to use the ladders all the time when looking for jobs, so thanks for creating that service too.
I'm actually a fan of the HP Z600 Workstations. You can get dual-processor six-core Xeons, and unlike the Mac Pro, you can start with one CPU (and pick up a second one at a later time).

The case is pretty well-designed, and it's quiet.
Dropbox won't sell user data.