jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> the sole goal of outrage to get more views and more ad revenue

How does outrage lead to more ad revenue? Who wants their brand advertised next to outrage? How many outraged people click on ads?
We're in bad shape. But that was quite true: yellow journalism is exactly the same as what we've got. History repeats.
The article directly addresses that question, saying it's highly unlikely because the viruses don't have the machinery to manufacture it.
That's true only when every car is a self driving car. In the interim, if only a subset of cars is running Level 3 autonomy, then including a quick acceleration into the adaptive cruise control is a good way to minimize these phantom traffic jams.
> Bitcoin is a way to hedge against central banks, sanctions, and global money transfer restrictions.

It's beautiful to have a technology that offers the choice to take back your money and branch off into a system where governments can't print money to finance their wars.
The WhatsApp app on my phone already has permissions to access my contacts, so presumably they're already on WhatsApp's servers - how would I go about removing this information before February 8th?
>We recently migrated our internal CLI tool from Node JS to Golang

Why? Out of things to do? Wanted to look productive?
Wire?
Well it does protect your from civil penalties for law and murder
Interestingly the language doesn’t define stack/heap allocated so sometimes there’s a compiler flag to put «stack arrays» on the heap, since implementations are free to choose anyway.
True, but collecting sexual photos of them and rating them may be.
Yes, at the time I was hired at Apple, my Intel colleagues were drug tested at hiring. I was not.

But I never saw any on-premises use of illegal drugs, and there were policies around the serving of alcohol.
Feel like left or right, most elected US officials are corporatists and not willing to bite (or even upset) the hand that feeds them. That said, the right is decidedly not in favor of stronger enforcement/regulation.

White-collar enforcement is at an all time low: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/trump-ove...
Facebook’s mantra of “Move Fast and Break Things” had a clear meaning: it is far more important to ship products and innovate — at the risk of introducing bugs — than it is to keep the current version of the software in perfect working order. Especially so when you win only by our growing your competitors.

“Bugs are tolerated as they are the price worth paying for a rapidly evolving code base, but you gotta fix ‘em” wouldn’t fit so neatly on a poster.

Ironic in a thread beseeching forgiveness for Element’s incompleteness.
> I think it makes more sense to use federated protocols after you've reached a certain critical mass of features and usability. Look how much Signal has improved in the last 6 months.

I agree with this, but I’m starting to worry if that time will ever come. I thought messaging apps had basically all the features they’d ever need years ago. But I was wrong. I use voice messages in signal and WhatsApp daily now. If it were up to me, we would have made a federation protocol years ago and these features would have to have been figured out through endless meetings in a standards process.
There's nothing wrong with buybacks, they're tax-friendly dividends. They shouldn't be shamed for returning value to shareholders which it seems you're implying.

What should be shamed is a tax code that differentiates dividends and buybacks.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit
It's refreshing to hear someone write well about some technology that has improved their lives. :)
My favorite professor was a mathematician who did her doctorate at Zürich in the 1940s. Needless to say, for most of her career she was the only woman in the department. With the advent of feminism she would get called up frequently by activists or journalists asking her to comment on all the obstacles she faced as a woman (a request she steadfastly rejected), and also on how to get girls into math. Her routine answer to the latter was that if anyone had tried to "get her into math" she would have promptly dropped math and taken up embroidery. But my favorite story was when the controversy hit about the talking Barbie who said "Math is hard." She was phoned up and asked what she had to say about this. Her response: "Barbie is right."
I will, but it's very disheartening, sadly...
Ah darn, would have loved to meetup with you Stavros, as a fellow Greek startupper. :) I'll let you know next time I'm in Greece.
perhaps your income would be more stratospheric if you hire fewer employees that compliment you and more that complement you :)
Git doesn't give you merges, it gives you merge conflicts. I find it similar to how Riak uses vector clocks (http://blog.basho.com/2010/01/29/why-vector-clocks-are-easy/). It knows enough to tell you there's a conflict, but requires you (or the app) to tell it which version is the right one.
Thanks for your informative response. Are you interested in a Lua wrapper?
What global lock? Are you talking about the index? There are options for writing the index to separate directories. You can write each blob/tree separately, build an index in a unique temporary directory, and then the commit.

Is there something else I'm missing?
Im with you dude. Music has a distinct meaning to me. I like to engage in the story, not consume passively.
good points, but i think for me, the absurdity comes from the fact that there's no correlation between digital format and hardcopy. am i being taxed for the conversion process?

i think amazon does a decent job for most of their ebooks are much less (up to 80%) less than the hardcopies, i'm sure in some ways it's promotional to get more kindle users, but at the same time it's also a better medium for them to sell books so the volume of books sold and the savings they achieve from not having any inventory allows them to price this competitively.

plus, not to mention, a consumer must think of the total costs associated with purchasing digital content, the viewer, whether it be computer or device.
The nice thing about Windows programs was that you knew how big the display was likely to be, and more recently, the scaling has gotten much better.

The modern trend towards tiny screens that have to be scrolled in order to fit any usable amount of data in, and the various different scroll / UI paradigms means that you can technically have something that most of humanity could have access to, but most users aren't likely to be happy.
Two words: SILICON VALLEY. Plus a lot of incest with Stanford grad students and young Stanford professors.
To every Haskellers here:

I'm happy to announce [Z.Haskell](http://z.haskell.world/) project, It's available on Hackage and very much usable now, the document is also pretty adequate.

To recap the document from Z.Haskell, Z.Haskell provides:

+ Array, vector(array slice), sorting, searching

+ Text based UTF-8, basic Unicode manipulating, regex

+ FFI utilities

+ Fast parsing and building monad

+ JSON encoding and decoding

+ IO resource management, resource pool

+ File system operations

+ Network: DNS, TCP, UDP and IPC

+ Buffered input and output

+ Process management

+ Environment settings

+ High performance logger

+ High performance low-resolution timer

The project's goal is not to compete with the base, but to provide an alternative engineering toolkit, which is more suitable for writing practical network/storage services. Similar to [netty](https://netty.io/) for java or [nodejs](https://nodejs.org/) for javascript. Welcome to join Z.Haskell if you have a similar use case. Currently, we're heading with the following roadmap:

+ Crypto library based on [botan](https://github.com/ZHaskell/z-botan).

+ TLS network stack.

+ HTTP framework.

+ Distributed system algorithms.

Happy hacking!
Z.Haskell Contributors
So, "Flash video is sadly unfriendly" to your welcoming little iPad? And the Mac needed its own proprietary browser, because others were so unfriendly. Talk about a reality distortion field....
HWGA - here we go again
My experience with Disney resorts is limited to an evening spent on my company's nickel while at a conference. With that said, I could see that Disney sweats the details of entertainment in myriad ways to make the visit easy and pleasant for people. I left my jacket in one of their restaurants, called them when I got back home, and they had an entire streamlined system just for dealing with lost items. My jacket was at my doorstep the next day.
Please don't respond rudely, even if another commenter is mistaken.
April 2019. See link below for context.

To your point: being anti-Zuck in public is a transparent ploy for attention if you're not anti-Zuck in private.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/roger-mcnamee-facebook...
Perhaps they should just rename it to something more generic like "video-dl", but then again I suspect its primary use is for YouTube and the other sites are just "extras" it grew over time.
Reddit also messes with numbers followed by periods at the start of lines. It doesn't convert them to roman numerals, but it does infer from their presence that you are trying to make a numbered list, and it apparently also assumes that you have no idea how to count, so it renumbers the list for you.

This regularly screws up posts in /r/chess. Someone might post something like this:

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4
5.O-O gxf3 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Qxf3 Bc5+
8.Kh1 d6 9.c3 Nc6 10.d4 Nxd4 11.cxd4 Bxd4
12.Bxf4 Nf6 13.Bg5 Rg8 14.Qh5+ Rg6

and Reddit changes it to this:

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4
2.O-O gxf3 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Qxf3 Bc5+
3.Kh1 d6 9.c3 Nc6 10.d4 Nxd4 11.cxd4 Bxd4
4.Bxf4 Nf6 13.Bg5 Rg8 14.Qh5+ Rg6
Good to see more thru-hikers on HN! I just thru-hiked in 2019

I could imagine there are trails in southern Utah and northern Arizona that might be heavily cairned
Great article but way too short. Could have read much more for sure. Will have to check out the book.
I think the title was just being light-hearted.
While we really should just ask the original author to explain, my interpretation is:
younger employees are more likely to simply acquiesce to unreasonable demands like short notice for working late. Or working to prove themselves bc they lack confidence.

Older workers have gained the confidence to ask for what they are worth. Employers do not appreciate this. They may have a more efficient way of working or may not have a singular definition of self (work == my identity) and obligations like family outside of work.
It’s not trivial to do, but compiling plots into your sysimg might actually fix that
> But calling specific implementations (like Bitcoin or Ethereum) a failure when people are paying thousands of dollars each block to use it is pretty bold.

And people were willing to pay hundreds of dollars for plush toys with the appropriate tags preserved in plastic. Bubbles are a thing, and the crowd can be wrong. To pretend otherwise is silly.

More fundamentally, the original promise of Bitcoin was that it would act like a currency. It has failed at this. You can tell because all of the advocates have shifted over from “money of the future” to “it’s a store of value”; a subtle admission that it’s not actually functioning like a currency.
Me too not to go all four yorkshire man here, but I can remember when you would have to write your own plotting programs in Fortran and then wait for the pen plotter to slowly draw your plot.

And not that long before that you would print the results out and manually plot them on graph paper.
of course it's going to vary, but yes.

I don't know if the new development model of "hit release date and fix everything after we sell the DLC" has made this better or worse.
> no one is paying $500k for a fucking space station made out of pixels and stored on Oracle RAC.

Since you're so well upvoted, I guess a lot of people agree with this, so I want to respond to be sure people aren't dismissing this sort of purchase without being logical about it.

I'm certainly not paying $500,000 for a virtual good like this, but this kind of statement is a bit broad and (I feel) narrow-sighted.

There are currently large online communities paying thousands a month to keep their virtual play worlds alive (e.g. larger gaming communities in Second Life). It's not hard to imagine someone acquiring virtual real estate at very high prices. Certainly I know of many investors doing it to the tune of tens of thousands. Just like landlords, those buyers are regaining their money by renting out portions of it to tenants, virtual good shopkeepers, special in-game events, etc. This is absolutely without question happening right now in many virtual settings and has been for years.

As such, virtual land can be a true investment, regardless of the number of "pixels" it contains. I'm not saying I think it's a good investment, but to dismiss the market entirely as worthless is a narrow-sighted decision without understanding that there are true economic forces at work, and that business-people do their math and seem quite willing to make large payments they expect to recoup (just as with real property).

Further, some could have said the same quote about websites and look foolish today:

> no one is paying $500k for a fucking virtual magazine made out of pixels and stored on a Wordpress server.

> no one is paying $500k for a fucking virtual name stored on a DNS server.

Virtual and digital items are going to be more and more important in our lives. They will continue to be valuable. Bet on it.

Even beyond the business implications, the comment and reaction surprises me. I don't see people reacting with the same shock about buying a $500,000 work of art, memorabilia, or antique. Clearly things can be of exceptional value based on the amount of time involved in creating it, the amount of sentimental value it holds, or the level of beauty/quality it has.

It's entirely fair to think high-priced virtual goods are a bad investment or to be skeptical of their worth, but to be severely dismissive of them is an act of ignorance and not giving them the (small?) respect they deserve simply as an economic factor in our lives and our children's lives.
Are you sure about that? Type 1 diabetes means you shouldn't be able to produce insulin at all.
If We Ran the World, Coverity, Julep here in Seattle, Netflix
I am shocked that you're still clinging to this argument. You are suggesting that officially sanctioned NYC cab drivers should be allowed to not give rides to people based on race and destination (extrapolate to any service provider be allowed to discriminate against anyone for any reason). The fact that you're claiming racism (and any other subjective thing about a rider) solves harms caused by inefficiency in the NYC cab industry is morally repugnant.

I don't appreciate how you've bastardized my argument and then really eloquently explained yours. But that doesn't matter because your argument is a wash.

Maybe the system is inefficient, maybe it's not. The law came out of people not offering rides based on race and destination. What is the point of a subjectively offered city service with no viable alternative?

I know you think you understand the system, but why do you claim to know the system is inefficient and does more harm to both consumers and cab drivers? Is it based on this article? The comments? Have you done or read studies on effects of official city taxis and how their destination rules impact the citizens and drivers?

I doubt you have. So this is my argument You're trying to impose what you think (with likely not enough information) on an entire industry and all of its consumers. If the industry was so terrible towards cab drivers, then the industry would change because no one would be a cab driver. But there are still more people willing to drive a cab than there are medallions available so this horrible injustice your claiming doesn't seem to impact drivers as much as you wish it did.

If there was a law that made my industry so inefficient it harmed me and my customers so much and benefited my boss to an outrageous extent then I would show my disapproval by changing industries (either permanently or temporarily via a strike). That is how changes to the status quo are made in a market. Reducing demand so suppliers have to change their offer.
Can you not see the disparity between spending allocation changes, and the real actual risks, when comparing air travel vs road travel?
wow, a government run program out of money? What a surprise (:-O <= this is my shocked face). The problem is that they aren't running it like a corporation, because they feel they have a monopoly.

As an example, a few summers ago, the USPS internet gateway went down. It took them over a month to get it back up and running properly. For over a month, anyone running a website could not get correct rates (If it could connect to the servers at all).

If this was a private company, they would have lost a ton of customers.
When they said "a non-western population", they didn't mean "all non-western populations".

Rice has been a staple for a long time historically speaking. But on the evolutionary time scale, rice's cultivation is insignificant.
You're conflating two very different things. Lots of people have security clearances and still work for private-sector companies (contractors). They just work on government contracts, sometimes in addition to traditional commercial work.

Other people work for the government directly, and most of these people (that I've known) also have security clearances, although there are some government jobs that probably don't require one. Why people work directly for the government I have no idea -- good pension plan, I guess? Doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

But government contracting can be good work and good money IMO. There's more paperwork and overhead than straight commercial work, but you sometimes get to solve weird/unique problems too.

In some areas (DC) there is a big pay difference depending on what level of security clearance you have. Someone with TS/SCI can expect to make very good money, on top of whatever their experience and education would dictate, as a result of holding the clearance. This is because there are some projects which require people with those clearances, and for the highest clearances it's a relatively small pool of people (they're expensive).

However I'll agree with you on the market being inefficient. The labor market very rarely is, however. The natural tendency of people to not want to move around all the time ensures a certain amount of inefficiency, before you even involve the government.
I get the point, and agree with it somewhat. However, this truly seems like a perfect example of treating the symptom while ignoring the cause.

Since this is all theoretical, wouldn't it make more sense to just stop governments from stealing the wealth of the people through the hidden 'inflation tax?'
and if we could get some feedback from you, the following would be helpful -- current height/weight, your average daily diet (meals, meal times, snacks, everything)
Good catch, thank you. The email address was unknown in this realm, but still could easily be connected to me with a little research. Took your advice and created one. Thank you.
May I suggest creating a throwaway Gmail account for this purpose and removing your real email address in order to prevent your employer from finding this via a trivial Google search?
I do believe life is a good deal of weighing risks and taking them at a period of time. Jumping right off to freelancing would be too uncertain at the moment. Bills come to around $1,500/mo. Freelancing at the moment generates around $900-$1200/mo. But I currently only have the bandwidth to handle 1 or 2 projects per month.

On the rebellion side I would not feel ethical doing so. I don't want this guy's business to crash and burn. It does honestly provide a solution to a need in the industry and the product is of high quality. As much as I sometimes wish I was, I'm not that much of a dick to cause trouble. (Plus there may be some movement there of a lawsuit or something that would make me overly nervous.) I do have a feeling however that me leaving this company will have a snowball effect on the others there.
No "what job?" option?
Technical accuracy alert... from the article on integrated source control:

> (which work like Time Machine, as Time Machine is based on Subversion)

I'd never have guessed.
The point of omnipresent surveillance is to be proactive and prevent threats before they arise. There is no way to measure its success. If you oppose it, pick a better reason to base your argument on.
> but I don't regard that as evidence of the superiority of 64-bit, rather I regard that as a failing of the x86 architecture.

Can you say me why that is the case?
It does (see the specs).

But it has only 8MB RAM (that's MB, not GB).
HN discourages religious debates.

Seriously though a Mac is obviously the best way to go. That or you could justfind an IDE you like and don't worry about the OS. Learning your way around a new operating system is probably overkill if you just want to dabble in a new language as long as your current system supports it well.
Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli once dismissed a muddled analysis of a physics problem saying, "It's not right. It's not even wrong."
http://news.ycombinator.com/ask for queries to the HN community
Why the need to do anything? Do you think the NSA, etc. cares about you? They don't.
Refer to Microsoft's reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee861528%28v=...

Also, use the Object Browser in the Macro Editor to browse the list of available objects, methods, and properties. If you need more information on a particular object, search MSDN. E.g.,

https://www.google.com/search?q=worksheet+object+site%3Amsdn...
A healthier approach is to have a separate non-Emacs app that can do symbolic integration, which can be run seamlessly from within Emacs.

Otherwise, with all its extensions Emacs starts giving the impression of an Apple-like walled garden, which is not a good comparison for a free software, no?
>that's something for a school exam and not job interview for someone with verifiable credentials

The problem is the "verifiable credentials" vary widely in rigor. There is no analogous standardizing and credentialing body like their is in medical fields. So the "basics" need to be tested repeatedly at every new interview. The solution is to have an analogous standardizing body, but people in this field seem to be reflexively against it.
Both of these are bad for pagination - if the dataset isn't read-only. If the search criteria matches 100 rows at the time of the request, you may want to page through those matches, even if, by the time the client (human or machine) gets to page three, the query matches 80 or 110 rows - or worse, if the query still matches 100 rows, but not all of them are the same as the original 100!

You would normally capture such state by using cursors.
Actually Google (and Wikipedia et al) enabled an even more evolved form of bullshit.

The kind were people with shallow (or none) knowledge of a topic check some reference source they half understand and try to pass of as experts in the subject matter...

At least with reference books you had to own them in the first place and get into the trouble to locate a reference in their index etc.

Now any bozo can check an obscure lemma in a matter of seconds and pretend he knows what he's talking about in an online discussion (and often offline), going back to check more details in the process any time his bluff is close to be discovered.