jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This article raises a question: how does one train their "fast" thinking? If someone reads this article and recalls all of the times that at least internally they passed a wrong judgement based on another's race, what can they do to prevent immediately thinking such things?

I don't much like this intuitive answer: if you're simply aware of your tendency to erroneously judge, you can consciously act against it. Is there any way to train the subconscious? The lack of time to consciously address racism in some situations could lead to mortality.

Awesome article; science is great.
You are referring to a web-based proxy.
Hey can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We ban accounts that keep doing this kind of thing. I don't want to ban you (I don't think your comments are particularly malicious) so if you would please fix this, that would be good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This imbalance between customers and corporations of how easily and quickly they can take your money but how long and difficult it is to get your money back (or stop giving them money) is one of the worst things in the world.
In some countries, taxis are so often criminal that tourists are warned to avoid them. In some less extreme places, drivers simply never use the meter and the passengers must negotiate every ride. Uber and its competitors have been wonderful for hailing rides in these places.
Paternalism? Call it that if you want -- just realize the word choice is loaded.

Consider also: It can be useful to think of this as 'save me from my worst habits' or 'let my rational, planning self setup some guardrails for my self-defeating self'.

Also, ask this: Is maximum freedom achieved by letting one act on their whims? Try defining freedom as 'the practical likelihood of achieving a goal' rather than 'the theoretical possibility' of doing so. What are the advantages of seeing freedom in such a light?

When can constraints lead to better outcomes?

Philosophers have a lot to say on these topics.

I suggest moving past latching onto only one word (paternalism) that, for many people, can shut down critical and diverse thinking. Look at many perspectives and soak in the complexities.
To be polite, this argument has never made any sense.

There is nothing to be gained from having everyone stay home unless you're a sadist and a stupid one at that. Imagine what this exercise of "power" has netted this imaginary Batman villain-- A civil rights revolution and a workers rights revolution, and commonplace acceptance of democratic socialism because people can see that our current economic system simply isn't working for them, and the groundwork for nationalized healthcare has been laid.

The powers that be want a society where nobody has any choice but to participate in a society that funnels wealth and power towards them. I'd argue they had much more of that before the lock-downs than after.

China is in a different situation. The CCP's value proposition has always been "You give up rights in return for security and economic prosperity." The absolute debacle of the pandemic has highlighted just how crappy this bargain is. The pandemic literally invalidates the entire idealogical foundation of the CCP.
It is funny how he appears, judging from his diagrams, to use "x+y" to mean AND, and "xy" to mean OR. This is a wholly self-consistent definition compatible with boolean algebra, but is the opposite to the convention since adopted.
It might be construed as defamation in Samsung's view, as they've repeatedly shown to be quite intolerant and litigious in the past, I have to warn that the author is treading on the deep end here.

A big part of Samsung's success is because of their insanely powerful and effective legal department. There's just no way their attorneys aren't reading semianalysis.
/pan in: grainy black and white pics of a gym

/play: soft bluegrass music

/narrate by Peter Coyote:

My Dearest Abigail,

For so long now, I have not seen your sweet face, nor any other at the gymnasium. I have tried mightily to dissolve the union of my membership, but to no avail. My biceps grow skinnier by the day from our long estrangement. Please, I pray for the day I can be released from this torment, this contract.

Most Sincerely Yours,
Ephraim Hill
I end up paying a year in advance, cash, to avoid giving gyms anything to work with
It's linear algebra will be the same speed as python/Julia (they both call to BLAS/LaPack). It's diffeq solvers will almost certainly be worse than Julia (Julia is SOTA there). Not sure about the rest of the functionality.
The problem is making assumptions about why people are experiencing certain emotions, or telling people they are wrong when they say, "I'm actually not angry"
Would someone tldr it?
Less on machines on more on basic concepts, may I recommend a physics site that is spiritually related to this website, in that it is also clear, simple, and in many ways a work of passion for teaching? http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/emcon.html#emcon
The peer comment posted a source that has lots of references.

Though most of them are tests in space, where I assume the thickness requirements would rule out grocery bags. I am curious how thick a layer of HDPE you would need on earth to make any notable difference.
I have one at work that does okay. If your project is based on cmake I can create the package very quickly, though most projects still don't create a cmake configuration file. If your project isn't cmake - well at best a day, and often I will spend weeks fighting your half baked build system that doesn't understand the common things I want to do. (in practice autotools projects have the options to cross compile but it doesn't actually work...)
> find a position that seems to involve a TON of manual work - automate all of it - and DO NOT TELL anyone

This reminds me the article "Now That's What I Call a Hacker" [1], where a guy left behind his automation scripts when switched companies, which revealed some extreme scripts, like:

> hangover.sh - another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling well/gonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am.

I'm putting this article and what you just said together. Now I think it's reasonable to believe there are a lot of IT professionals doing this, they are just hidden, because there is no reason to share this kind of works experience, as it makes sense in the competitive side of the industry.

[1] https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-...
Why is it immoral? As long as the asked work gets done there's nothing wrong with splitting your time. How it any different from spending that time slacking off and working on hobbies, which could be monetized (ie art)
Yes, US disability and far too many government benefits are setup in a way that can actively discourage people from self improvement or trying harder.

Where are the fade outs, and the incentives that will reward you for getting off the system, rather then punish you? It's a subject for a different thread at a different time.
ProtonMail Calendar works fine now... give it a shot?
How about allocating a 'hotness' quotient to comments?

At the moment, a comment that's down-voted past zero becomes lighter. Perhaps very popular comments could be made more visible, or highlighted?

I think this kind of fuzzy indication of popularity might be a good compromise.
not done!

the font is still my browser's beautiful Serif (not overridden)
It's a good question. They've certainly reached the threshold of being a serious project, given the amount of press coverage they've received in the past.

The whole mess is an object lesson about the need to take non-development aspects of business seriously. They're trying to accept payments without reading the terms they agreed to. They're trying to run a web server while clearly not being experts on that (there's no need for a VPS or a dedicated server when their site is a perfect fit for something like Squarespace). If you can't afford to bring in an expert, you've really got to do the due diligence yourself, or it's bound to blow up in your face.
Sorry man, was helping somebody else. Call me now!
Yes for our sakes and purposes it shouldn't be, the program might actually be better than YC, but it does not really give a good impression of the firm and really drives home the "knock off" argument.
With donations you don't always get to allocate money in the most appropriate manner. The $50M could have been directed for construction only or it might have had a fixed split attached (e.g. 75% construction, 25% maintenance).
Since I can't see your score, and you can't see mine, I honestly have no idea at this point whether more people agree with you than with me. Or indeed if no-one cares at all.

When this thread is referenced to a week from now there is no way to see what sort of agreement occurred with either one of us. There are a bunch of "for" comments, and a bunch of "against" comments, but ultimately no resolution (that either of us can see.) So a plethora of "me too" postings occur to fill the void.

Of course the agreement in, and of itself, means nothing - as noted elsewhere popularity does not equal correctness, however it's a data point which exists, and in some cases is useful.
Praise steam all you want but WON was still superior for mp half life mods.

I still play an hl mod that has been around for years and 90% of the times a user is dropped is because of steam.
I'm assuming they're getting overwhelmed with traffic after being linked here and other high traffic properties. With only two volunteers on staff, there's only so much you can do. I am sure they are rapidly going to look into adding volunteers if the volume stays persistent (and/or hopefully grows even larger).
They're trying to stay relevant in the age of iOS and Android.
So we have this great cultural information separated merely by the great barrier wall of language.
I would like to take this time to send a huge "thank you" to all of these "power" posters for spending their time to contribute thoughtful incites on the topics we love here at HN. Happy Holidays!
The double "comprehension" loop is like a double nested "regular" loop here.
This is an attitude that some recruiting startups like us all to believe, but even as a naive and inexperienced 22 year old, I think it's dangerous. I've had a startup implode, and it's nasty in ways one never expects - joining a startup is one of the easiest ways to ruin a relationship. You may love the work you expect to do, but a startup will throw you curveballs until you are sick of them. If you are willing to take crummy compensation because you love the team, think about what happens when they have an opportunity to discard you like used tissue - if they don't think you're worth a decent equity stake, they probably won't hesitate to.

You have to ask yourself if you couldn't gain better experience by a) working for a big company b) going to grad school c) founding your own startup. There might be cases in which the underpaying startup job really is the best next-stage career advancer. Even if this is true, read any non-compete agreement very carefully. I've had people shove non-competes in my face before telling me what the company actually did (so I could not compete with the entire industry? No thanks).

I would also not go in assuming that the company will be the next Facebook. Find out how the founders and investors plan to exit, and decide if that's acceptable to you. Furthermore, make sure you can deal with failure.

I think going in with realistic expectations and a clear head is just as important to the startup one wishes to join. I suppose there are some startups (many in NYC) whose goal is to suck in naive techies and dump them when they burn out, but most probably want to build a real team. If you sign something based on unwritten expectations, you are setting up for resentment and conflict when those expectations go unmet.

I probably sound overly pessimistic now, but I don't mean to be. Joining a startup can be a great opportunity in innumerable ways. I still intend to launch, even after some of the worst months of my life. Many of my friends who shared this sentiment no longer do. I think some had naive expectations about the lifestyle, how quickly we'd all be rolling in money, and what being an "entrepreneur" would look like to the rest of the world.
Firefox 4 is very fast for this demo.
Also, Greenland is missing :)
I've taken Mandarin in school for three years and I can tell you that regardless of Chinese being the 'new language of the internet', Chinese websites are like entering a whole new world. Everything from the design to ads are completely different from what you'd expect on an English site.
Unless garage has a special mitigation against this, usually performance gets much worse in large clusters as the filesystem fills up. As files are added and deleted, it struggles to keep nodes exactly balanced and a growing percentage of nodes will be full and unavailable for new writes.

So in a high throughput system, you may notice a soft performance degradation before actually running out of space.

If you aren't performance sensitive or don't have high write throughput, you might not notice. This is definitely something you should be forecasting and alerting on so you can acquire and add capacity or delete old data.

If you really don't like the idea of everything falling over at the same time, you could use multiple clusters or come up with a quota system (e.g. disable workload X if it's using more than Y TiB).
Go to definition in libraries is different than basic go to definition
Zoom will soon follow the rest of the silicon valley companies in finding ways to invest in military technology, use lobbying power to earn big dollar government contracts, and monetize its access to biometric data. Unless it has already done that.
My 20 year old Ford has a backup ECU unit inside its ECU and secondary programs if the ECU itself or half of the ignition or fuel transport fried, or the engine is heated beyond control (coolant loss, etc.).

I had to use at least one of these modes twice during the ownership of my car, too. My ignition coil's one output went dead, twice. Once overnight, once during driving at highway speeds. In both cases I went to where I need to go safely, because the car knew what to do, and the facilities to do so.

These features are written in the user manual as fine prints, but they're not sales points. Nobody advertised these to me.

Tesla is selling an autonomous, connected car with enough electronics to fly a small plane, and they rightfully add redundancies inside it. That's great, that's the way it should be. Then they're removing a redundancy feature which might save lives even if it's rarely used.

It's akin to MCAS system. "It doesn't change the behavior, so the pilots don't need to know". We know how well it went.
For me it also renders like this on Chrome/Windows: https://i.imgur.com/HCJTpfA.png

Really nice diagrams nevertheless
I would guess his position is: Don't mess with people that routinely murder your civilians, if they get angry. Like Iran's ayatollahs.

Not unreasonable, but here we talk about that murderous regime with nuclear weapons, too... :-(
Can you justify your declarations?
Their interactions with open source communities have been so hamfisted I would be surprised if they even realized the danger this creates for their other projects. They dropped a product with ballooning development costs. What this means for dynamic community efforts with competing interests is likely lost on the Oracle suits.
Stock price only starts to matter when a company needs access to more cash than it can generate through sales.

Google is currently in a position where they cannot easily continue to increase sales by spending their (enormous) cash reserves.

Letting the stock tank a little now reduces the perceptual gap between stock valuation and actual earnings.

If that gap is not reduced stock continues to climb while sales growth remains stagnant with the result that, even when engineering investment starts to reflect in sales, unrealistic growth expectations becomes more and more difficult to maintain.

I wouldn't be surprised if Larry Page becomes more communicative when/if he can pull off a Steve Jobs and get Google's product development pipeline to the point where the company can reliably maintain sales growth.

Right now, boosting investor confidence can only work against him in the long run.
Obviously a good start -- but most modules are fed with static data. Including the project sizes, etc. Would be great if one could f.ex. just pull this from Jira/Greenhopper/whathaveyou
>I have a little secret for you: Git can't be made to have eventual consistency

David Roundy, the initial author of darcs, seems to disagree on this. From https://github.com/droundy/iolaus :
> I realized that the semantics of git are actually not nearly so far from those of darcs as I had previously thought. In particular, if we view each commit as describing a patch in its "primitive context" (to use darcs-speak), then there is basically a one-to-one mapping from darcs' semantics to a git repository.
> The US military contracts out to private firms for almost everything.

Not necessarily for highly classified projects.

I can see a NSA or CIA internal group organizing. I imagine some projects can be compartmentalized and organized to run like a small startup with a handful of hand-picked individuals having a narrowly focused goal.
I think the comparison between the open source community and terrorism is a bit of a stretch, even ignoring the provocative implication that open source is somehow an act of violence against software development. Mainly, terrorists are necessarily adversarial, whereas the open source community doesn't have to be. I think a more apt comparison would be the police, or even government in general, and the community they serve. People tend to be happier, and more work gets done, when the government listens to and reacts to the concerns of its constituency, than when it doesn't. So it goes for open source.
Probably not what you're after but the computer history museum videos are great:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory
I wish I could up vote this more. I've tried LaTeX a few times and I think the reason I don't go back more often is because I have to install it and remember how to compile. This makes it much easier to get your feet wet.
The context was the differences in tax rates, not taxes as a whole. You can support the concept of taxation while considering the State takes more than it should from certain groups.
I wonder how much rhino/elephant tusk powder sold is actually from the said animal. Seems like a really tough thing to authenticate and an excellent return for the counterfeiter.
It's like seatbelts - I don't know what the legislation is where you are, but over here (Australia), they are very much mandatory. The fine for not wearing your seatbelt is quite hefty.

Sure, you can argue that it's a bit nanny-state (and I know in certain countries, that's not a very popular stance), but it's also a bit of public health/safety.

Yes, sure, it's not as convenient wearing a seatbelt all the time, or wearing a helmet all the time, but over here, where we have government healthcare, it would probably cost them additional money if they had to cover potentially preventable accidents.

Also, I don't disagree that head accidents aren't the most common bike injury.

However, think about it - you graze your knees, or you break your arm - they're painful but not usually life threatening.

You hit your head, get a concussion, suffer some kind of brain damage - you are very much screwed.

Guy at my church, his brother in law is a cyclist. He got attacked by magpies, fell off and suffered a head injury. He can't work at the moment, and is in rehab at home.

Sure, the chance may be low, but do you really want to take it?

I would glad take a grazed knee over a head injury any day of the year. Hence why helmets are mandatory here, and not say, knee guards.

And if the government if funding your healthcare, you can bet it costs them a pretty dime to care for you for the rest of your life, if you were to suffer a disability from a head injury.
Early-stage founders should not expect an hourly rate or salary. That does NOT insinuate anything about "not much being offered" when the OP clearly states the willingness to be equitable.
While we're pulling reasons out of the air, I think that the difference in wages betwen '85 and today is /clearly/ because of Saturn's wobble.
I still say we need the 99 cent coin.
My inner libertarian is unable to comprehend the confusion of ideas that allows the purchase of a 55" HDTV et cetera without ~six months of rent in the bank.

My inner liberal fires back with the complete, utter and deplorable lack of financial education and hence literacy in this country which is at the very least a partial cause of the most recent subprime financial kablooie.

My inner conspiracy theorist mutters something about that being awfully profitable for those able and willing to profit from said illiteracy.
I feel like that at some point we're going to need something like subreddits to help the community along.
Granted it's a one of the most used software on my laptop, it's definitely not at the "never once not met my expectations" level. I don't think I have super high expectations either... I want soft-wrap to happen properly. I could go on with list of needs but it's pointless.

I've given up hope that there will be ever an update and learnt to live with v1.x. However, that's just settling. As soon as I find something better, I'm gone. I bought Espresso with the hope that supporting that would encourage a lot of development but MacRabbit has been pretty slow on the improvement side as well (as shown by the sparsity on their blog http://macrabbit.com/blog/) so I've had to make do with TM since it feels better and more natural than Espresso for now.

Ahhrrgg <sigh>
Not exactly programming, but more about cracking

"cracking is like sex with a prostitute, you have to get in, take all the goodies and get out without leaving a trace."

EDIT: spelling mistake
I am not too familiar with Erlang, but I am very familiar with Python and C++. And you put Erlang between Python and C++ by verbosity, so I made my conclusions accordingly.
Also, synchronization and locking (with mutexes) are not the only approach to parallelization in C++. You can immutable objects, futures and other high level concepts. But Erlang has to be really nice for the stuff it was designed for, I have no doubts about that.
Grin - but you'll remember it the next time someone mentions needing a venue, won't you?
really interesting how cloud and managed services are slowly making their way to enterprise security
Don't forget Mussolini's novel _The Cardinal's Mistress_! In fairness, he did have experience in newspapers, so it is possible he wrote some of it himself.

Mao wrote poetry. A friend who claimed to know such things told me that this poetry was pretty bad.
Almost as bad as calling a search engine google.com.
Totally agree with you.

Concerned about the whole slew of companies that are in this bucket - Groupon, livingsocial, fb, twitter, zynga, automattic, digg, etc... which had known public founder cash out.

It is interesting to see VCs cashing out as well http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/19/accel-facebook-chunks-of-st...
Other big players in this space not mentioned in the TC article are:
Reverbnation Gigfinder: http://blog.reverbnation.com/2010/06/15/gig-finder-the-large...

Foursquare Venues project (with some layer on top - hint, hint): http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/03/14/1up-the-importance-of-...

Indie On the Move: http://www.indieonthemove.com/

Venuetastic - YC's "Ebay for venues," and taking a cue from AirBnB.

These guys are positioning to be the Ebay of transportation: http://www.uship.com/