jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that bubbles only form to catastrophic sizes around the unregulated edges of markets.

e.g. If not for the ineffectual IPO regulation, the dot-com boom couldn't have built so much irrational exuberance. Similarly with nonexistent regulation of derivatives and the ratings thereof during the real-estate bubble. And also with Savings & Loans being deregulated in the late 80s, leading directly to that real estate disaster.
I hope you're prepared to pay quite a bit more for your schooling, then. My wife is a non-tenure-track PhD and she spends probably 6 hours preparing for each one-hour lecture. She must give eight unique lectures per week. That's 48 hours of prep before you count grading and creating assignments. And she's not even expected to research/publish like tenure-track faculty are.

For this, she gets paid less than 50K per year. If you could halve her workload, she could create better lectures and better assignments and grade with more detailed feedback. But then the university would have to hire two of her to teach the same number of students.
It's just not that important. I'm just one guy without a steady job, and even I can cough up $7/mo for a Micro account. I'd much much rather have GitHub's gorgeous interface than BitBucket's.

If your business can't afford $25/month, then you don't have a business.
You know, I almost feel like we are both saying "believe," but that we both mean something different.

When someone says "I really don't believe that," what I hear is, "I am certain that more of this story is false than true." Based on this post, though, that doesn't seem like what you're saying--it seems like you are just asserting that the story has just been modified to become a little bit "larger than life." For example, maybe in real life the tire iron didn't break, but in the Redditor's Magical-Love-Compassion-Universe, it snapped and the Mexican man's wife was on the road to get a new one just seconds later, still all smiles.

When it comes to stuff like that, I have what I would call "Schrodinger's belief" in those details. It's not that I believe or disbelieve; I simply wouldn't be surprised either way. Turns out the details were embellished? No shock there. Turns out it was patently true, through-and-through? Well that's just spiffy.

I was upset when I thought you were certain that the entire thing was fabricated. I didn't understand how anyone could come to possess a world-view that precluded the possibility of such a simple kindness. And, as we all know: Humans fear the unknown; Americans yell at it and accuse it of terrorism. So, to the extent that you were just saying "This seems embellished," I'm sorry I called you a spiritual terrorist.

When I re-read your OP now, I think I see what happened.

This was my thought process when I originally read it, and I bet the downvoters felt similarly:

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> That's a good story but a little over the top.

I can buy that. Obviously I'd like to believe it's 100% true, but everyone loves to embellish.

> If the author had dispensed with the $20 bill in the tamale the suspension of belief would have been a little more effective.

Wait, what? "Suspension of disbelief?" This guy doesn't believe the entire story... and it's because the Mexican wouldn't take the poster's money? That's crazy. I've turned down money after helping a stranger before; why wouldn't the good samaritan in the story? This guy is either crazy, misanthropic, racist, or a combination of all three. My disgust must be broadcast to the world... dear colkassad, who was foolish enough to be wrong on the internet, I downvote you with the fury of a thousand suns!

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Okay, maybe that last part was a little over the top. But the gist of it is: I think that when you explicated a potential embellishment that everyone else had ostensibly already accepted, they thought you were taking it one step further.

Or, I dunno. Maybe people were just pissed 'cause we're all optimistic hippies and you were harshing our rainbow love groove. The world may never know.

Thanks for continuing to explain yourself in the face of my opinionated ranting, by the way--I love Hacker News most of all for its tendency to nurture discussions like this.
Yeah, definitely agreed with you there. An eBook should simply be an extension of work you're already doing, not something you're generating just for cash. I get hives looking at other "WRITE EBOOKS NOW" eBooks because they advocate this whole "write it in 3 days, SEO it out the butt, make currency" approach. Not something I advocate at all.
The thing is: we're talking about Africa here, where trash is often enough either dumped somewhere or burned without any filters at all. Many Western trash burners are only operating because of old licenses, they would not pass inspections if constructed today ffs.

A solution that disposes of the plastic in a form that doesn't cause more harm while being more usable to the people is always the better thing to do.
Noob question: instead of using == except for True/False/None, what about just using == for all comparisons?
The amount of detail OSM has on Artis, the Amsterdam zoo, is insane.

Also, until quite recently (and maybe even still today) Google Map was terrible at bike routes in and around Amsterdam, whereas OSM was excellent at it. I remember how Google ignored major bike routes and tried to send you over highways or footpaths instead. Nowadays they just send you along bike paths next to major car thoroughfares, instead of sending you along the major bike thoroughfare that's discouraged for cars, running parallel to it.
I think that the Scala experience will get even better with Scala 3, tons of well thought refactorings for metaprogramming and typeclasses, among others. Also, looking forward to (optional) indentation based syntax.
Ray isn't the only one, the market is pricing in zero risk of tether collapsing. It trades at no discount to real dollars, anybody with a Coinbase account could convert pretty high volumes of tether to real dollars.

I really have no idea why, it seems sketchy.
Bitcoin transaction fees are currently around $8.

My credit card pays me 2% to use it.

No one wants to use the Bitcoin blockchain for average transactions.

No one is buying Bitcoin as anything other than a speculative investment right now.
The promotion progression is Officer -> Assistant Vice President -> Vice President -> Director -> ...
Hey -- I'm one of the people involved in vodo; would love to hear questions/comments from HN!
R's libraray support is far more complete. R has been the defacto standard for statistics research for over a decade. This means that someone has already written an R library to handle basically any type of statstical or probability application you care to imagine. Also, for much the same reasons, the documentation for R is much much better.
You don't need names, or even a list of crimes, for blanket pardons. Examples include Lincoln Civil War soldier pardons and Carter Vietnam draft dodger pardons.
That's great for you and your team, but looking at https://github.com/grapl-security/grapl it seems like your needs are pretty different from most web developers.
Completely possible, it i just very infuriating not knowing why.
No in app messaging. It uses the phone number to send a text or iMessage invite to your contact.

Clubhouse is presently invite only. So you have one tap invites.
Yes, you and I have spoken about this a few times over the years :) Glad to see the m68k work is still ongoing.

I too am pro getting Rust into gcc. We'll see how the effort goes.
Just like you buy the propaganda that whites are “oppressors enjoying systemic advantages”, so do other people buy in the same propaganda but lump in Asians as well (i.e. “people doing better than me”).
Yeah, it's wrong. 2 years out of let's say 40 would be 5%. 2/50 is 4%.

Also 8 hrs is closer to half one's waking hours so that's either another math error, or a mistaken inclusion of the word "waking" (actually he used "awake"), or he works part-time.
I use Windows and MacOS, and I wince every time either of them has an update.

For one, MS doesn't test updates anymore. You may get something pleasant like losing the ability to print, or having all your network cards vanish.

I had a stack of Mac Minis years ago that I used for various things. One update bricked half of them. I was able to fix them easily, but it should not have happened at all. I installed from scratch on one of them, and an update bricked it. I did nothing to the computer in between the fresh install and pressing the update button. Neat.

The bottom line is Apple and MS have long ago stopped caring about the quality of their products.
Sure, but neither does a lack of evidence mean that something isn't true. It's not science currently. But that doesn't mean it won't be (nor does it mean it will be).

I think you'd be surprised at how many scientific breakthroughs have come from individuals being bloody minded about things that everyone else thought were ridiculous. Science isn't just about testing hypothesis. The other part of it is about generating hypothesis to test. That part tends to be a lot more fluffy and subjective, but it's just as critical to the scientific process.
If you were to build the exact same helicopter here based on those parts what would be the cost vs what’s the device on Mars cost? Also, I know plenty of solid engineers who I could build one thing based on that, obviously not taking atmosphere and G-forces into account to get there.

Also Linus finally got his progeny to Mars. That’s a pretty cool accomplishment:

“What have you built?”

Well, I invented one of the most prolific operating systems the world has ever seen, but not just this world - there is a helicopter on Mars that is flying due to the seeds which I planted that day...”

What have you built?
'Not everyone is happy with the latest version of macOS' doesn't get clicks because I don't think there's a single OS update that everyone likes.
On the other hand public pressure from abroad does work , and since politics tends to run in families, their families are at risk anyway. I can tell from the experience of my country (greece) during the dictatorial regime 50 years ago. The greeks who were persecuted / emigrated to europe (France mostly) were very vocal about the (US-backed) regime and drew international condemnation, especially the high-profile ones. It certainly contributed to its eventual downfall a few years later, but importantly it helped the swift return of democracy, because there was already a group of people who were politically organized abroad.
So it's unjust when it happens to asian kids, but it's fair game when it happens to white kids? That feels backwards, if you ask me.
I disagree so much!

Math in physics (at least most of the physics I have done, which covers classical 19th century stuff mostly) is just a tool, if you can take a shortcut, take it! If you can approximate and cheat, do it! What matters in physics is the path from observation to modeling. Math is but a tool.

Now I agree that the math gets rather solid, but it's nothing compared to real math at an equivalent level.

I think my experience is particular because in France where I studied, you study both in parallel very intensively. So the math in physics always kind of seems trivial to you... But still my best physics teacher taught me that it was way more about the "feel and model" than the "exactly prove" that mathematics consists in.

Gosh I miss those days :)
> the scope of what stack overflow is supposed to do: answer questions to specific problems

Honestly people should read the manual then. That will give you the specific answer to your question. Stackoverflow wanted to replace other message/discussion boards in regards to programming. It's veered away from that purpose and IMHO has become cumbersome to use. If you have to worry more about how you word your question than the question itself is it worth asking there?
The problem I see is that if fewer companies are being funded early-stage today, then there will be fewer companies around to get later-stage funding tomorrow. One of the reasons we have so many companies getting later stage funding right now is that there was so much seed funding a few years back. If early-stage funding is starting to dry up, that may be a sign of other things to follow...
To further personalise the user feed.
That extra order of magnitude you pay in pricing you gain in response time.
A chat would be great! And a way to pick our team without creating a stack team, probably balance out the availble spots and restrict stacking.
FTP? People still use FTP??? That's a protocol from another era, was designed to work in a way that's not compliant with today's best practices. The only FTP server I have runs on a Raspberry Pi file-server I have at home. There's no firewall in that little gem running.

As for tools, well vim is my default editor so:

vim (really lots of plugins, themes, extension support, personal .rc, etc.) + tmux (tmuxinator for projects) + ssh (heavy user, I use sockets to keep the connection up, use keys-only access, fine-tune the algorithms I use, etc.).
Well done. Fun game.
You use heavy cream in macaroni cheese? Is that an American thing? I've only ever known it as a mixture of egg/cheese/milk/breadcrumb.

Maybe it's a British thing, we have a lot of traditions which date from the war - cornflour custard, eggy mac cheese, margarine, boiling hot tea...
Whenever I installed/used mosh (linux RPi/arm7 of FreeBSD x86) the CPU went crazy :-(
Is it really much of a mystery at all?

A lot of issues are met with the mindset of "It would never happen to me". Terrorists blowing something up make the front pages, so people think it might happen to them (even though the odds of it are tiny). Slow erosions of civil liberties usually do not make the front pages, so people don't pay much attention and assume that only bad people are going to be arrested, denied due process, shot, or otherwise the victim of a resulting injustice.

A lot of issues related to freedoms and civil rights also take second place to much more immediate practical concerns, particularly in an economic downturn, like whether your kid has a good school to go to, or whether your parent gets looked after properly at hospital. The old "It's the economy, stupid" line is as true in politics today as it ever was.

To be fair, it is also true in the West today that just as the risk of being a victim of terrorism is low, so the risk of being a victim of government abuse or incompetence in applying these anti-terrorism measures is also low. A rational and objective citizen looking at the practical reality right now might consider that neither issue is that significant and there really are much more important things to worry about.

The strongest arguments for promoting civil liberties and reducing government powers are generally those of equality (just because something bad is unlikely to happen to you, it doesn't mean it's unlikely to happen to someone equally innocent but in a less fortunate position) and long term risk (just because today's governments and security services and police forces don't routinely abuse these capabilities and legal powers on a wide scale, that does not mean tomorrow's won't, and history shows that the risk of such abuse is real and the consequences can be catastrophic).
The worst thing is that now people who scored high on this test because they learned their asses off -- maybe because their grades have been rather meh so far -- could feel that confessing is the rational thing to do.
The only ones I can think of that ended up like this way have some notable differences - for example, managed to actually go public first, etc.
Axis Communications who are the leaders in the network camera industry has their HQ in the small Swedish city, Lund.

Huawei decided to place a new R&D team which focuses on network cameras in the same building were the Axis HQ are located, in Lund.

EDIT: Source (in Swedish): https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.712002/huawei-kamerav...
So I bet they remove similar tweets by pols around other civil disobedience demos, right?

I think any neutral party will see a narrative that’s being set and an opposite narrative that’s being disallowed.

I cannot predict what the Biden admin will do, but it behooves the Biden admin to not let these outlets determine what narratives are allowed and which ones aren’t.

Biden is an old style liberal, if he ignores these orgs and let’s them set agendas, it’ll come to bite him (ala Red Guards vs PLA -I bet he’s old enough to recall that)
Perhaps you are right on regulation but it is not clear that it has moved either of the metrics you mentioned. Looking at unemployment there is no deviation from the established trend during Trump's years in office.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-une...

Wage growth is more complex. However, this too doesn't seem to be immediately correlated with Trump's policies.

> During Obama’s last four years in office the average weekly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers went up 4.9%

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/are-wages-rising-or-flat/
There is no attempted coup occurring at all. And it is not an insurrection. It's a protest.

When the left does it, even if they're hyper violent, it's called a peaceful protest. When the right does it, it's a coup and insurrection.

Yeah right.
You appear to be saying that property acquisitions are happening under some kind of duress on the seller's side. That's what I'm trying to get clarification on. I'm inclined to think that it's a deal between a buyer and a seller.

If you feel selling to Chinese nationals presents a national security issue, then you could be more clear about that.
The fact the overworked staff still somehow make it run doesn't mean it isn't and hasn't been overwhelmed for years
I still remember programming it. Rushmore used bitsets to speed searches or filters, and that speed went from walking to the speed of light.
This is almost a natural law of wealth. When you have significant capital, you can do things like loan it out with interest, leverage it into getting loans to build more capital, etc.

If one assumes that the wealthy are using their money to buy commodities and selling those commodities with the expectation of getting their initial money back plus some delta, then it becomes fairly trivial to demonstrate that the more money you start with the more money gets concentrated around you.

For example, I could leverage my current house to purchase a rental property in my city and rent it at a profit. Over time I'd pay down my loans and the value of my two homes would increase. I could then leverage two properties to purchase more or larger rental properties. My wealth would increase because I had sufficient wealth to begin with.
If Dyson had to choose one product to keep making, but discontinue all others, it should be the V11 vacuum. Runs forever and cleans very well. All their other shit can kick rocks.
They actually do. But your definition of “fundamentally different” may be fundamentally different than mine.
> I know last time I seriously considered testing it out in my workflow, it was kind of crazy that I had to have a separate machine (VM or real) just to run container images...

Why does that seem 'kind of crazy' to you? A container is really just a namespaced Linux process, so … you either need a running Linux kernel or a good-enough emulation thereof.

What seems kind of crazy to me is that so many folks who are deploying on Linux develop on macOS. That's not a dig against macOS, but one against the inevitable pains which arise when developing in one environment and deploying in another. Even though I much prefer a Linux environment, it would seem similarly crazy to develop on Linux and deploy on Windows or macOS. Heck, I think it is kind of crazy to develop on Ubuntu and deploy on Debian, and they are generally very very close!
Agreed. I published a video course through Packt and the whole experience was absolutely awful.
Really off topic, but I'm rather impressed you were able to get up and running so fast. Did you have a ton of experience in this space ? Did you have to raise funding ?
Congrats! and thank you to the entire Rust team.
From my experience, I would liken LSD to peanuts. The vast majority of people out there can have a handful of peanuts with no problems. They may like the flavor or not but it won't cause long term harm. A small percentage are allergic and will have a reaction to peanuts ranging from mild sickness to death. LSD is similar, a small percentage of people will have problems mentally with LSD. It might last just a little while, it might cause (or trigger) life long problems. If you are unsure, take a tiny dose, maybe a 1/4 hit and see what happens. Or better yet, take a tiny dose of psilocybin mushrooms as they are the easiest to come down quickly from. Just eat a meal and you will be mostly down in about 45 minutes.

The other thing I discovered was once the paranoia starts to invade every trip consistently, you have learned all there is to learn and it's time to move on. I was annoyed with the paranoia and tried to work through it, though I was somewhat successful, LSD was just not that much fun anymore...
No, you are not in the slightest bit ignorant.

I guess it's like the OLPC thingy .. while I agree everyone should have access to a computer and the world of information .. clean water, basic drugs and a society that allows free expression is way more important. Anything else just distracts from those basic rights (as I see it anyhow).
It does division fine. Pre-filling would definitely be handy though.
Your point being?

Electric cars need larger scale infrastructure changes beyond simply changing the cars or providing charging infrastructure but everyone always knew that.
No idea. Type "sysctl -a | grep slow" and see what knobs the kernel offers.
It's going to be difficult, but that goes for nearly any endeavor, in my experience. That being said, I'm not sure whether attention to detail is an innate skill, or something that has been honed to a keen edge by repeated failures. I know that most of the things that I do while programming that could be described as detail-oriented are more the result of the experience of getting burned by a particular edge case than anything else.

If a reference can possibly be null, check it before you use it.

When comparing things like URLs and URIs that are supposed to be functionally equivalent regardless of case, use a case-insensitive comparison like string.equals("a", "A", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) or even "a".ToUpper()=="A".ToUpper(), rather than the default "a"=="A".

The Javascript === vs == shitshow.

Floating point equality without an epsilon value.

Remembering to put in the # or . prefix when trying to select an element by id or class in css/jQuery selectors.

Understanding when database calls are actually triggered using your ORM of choice.

Using thread-safe containers when collections can be modified on one thread while they are being iterated over on another.

Treating rm -rf with extreme care.

After you run into an embarrassing bug that makes you look incompetent because you failed to account properly for these things, you develop a certain amount of OCD about it and internalize the checks. At least you should, or else you just end up making the same mistakes over and over. Of course, things can always fail in new and unexpected ways, so you are always adding to your corpus of fail.

As a last note, an incredibly help for me has been using static analysis tools that are built into tools like Resharper, Webstorm, IntelliJ, (basically anything made by JetBrains), Javascript linters, etc. You can offload a lot of the burden of correctness checking for the more trivial errors and gotchas to the machine, and focus on higher-level issues.