jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Two quick misconceptions to call out for those less familiar with signed languages:

1. ASL is not just English with each word replaced with a sign. It's an incredibly complex language with different grammatical rules, some of which don't have English equivalents.

2. It's incredibly flexible. Many core grammar components will remain consistent, but often if you drive to another city, many words/signs will be different. But signers adapt to these changes quickly.

Those two things make this article all the more interesting, because it's a great example of how the flexibility and unique properties of ASL allows for adaptation in circumstances like these strange times.

Source: three years, almost a minor, in ASL in University. I'm no expert, but I truly enjoy the language.
I stand corrected. Much faster than a college student
I strongly disagree with the article, but:

Have a yubikey to connect to your jumphost(we called that access vm), then have a cronjob that will, every month, deploy ansible, generate a key pair on the accessvm and deploy those new key on accessible vms (ideally not your log collecting vm, that should be even more secured.).
Part of the point was that you have to be quite rich to be able to afford to spend 10,000 hours on something, you require other people to take up the slack of things you're not doing because you're practisting things, pay for lessons, drive you to practise.
This makes me envious of you Americans.

Here in Norway online shopping involves finding an online store that sells what you need (there's no site that sells everything, like Amazon, here), going through a cumbersome sign-up/payment process, paying a lot of money for the shipping costs, waiting several days and having to go to the post office unless the package is really small (or if you're willing to pay even more for premium shipping).

I really don't get why so many people here dislike the idea behind Dash Button. Buying essential shit isn't fun, it's a burden that needs to be done. I can't understand why removing the hassle of purchasing stuff like toilet paper and detergent is "dystopian consumer hell". Dystopian consumer hell is what we have here in Norway, where we need to physically go to the store and buy the same stuff over and over and over again.
This is spot on. Everyone thinks contractors make more, this is no longer the case. A lot of contractors I know personally are going fed because of the stability and job security.
Nobody needs colored keyboards. The keyboard color should just match the device it's made for.
Oh sorry, I think we have a miscommunication. What i mean is, doesn't compile Scale to java? So doesn't that prevent people from playing the game in their html5-enabled browser in case they don't have a java plugin or sth similar?
If you want a job at another cleared contractor. Getting out of this very siloed world is really hard, though. For a number of reasons, actually; nit being able to provide detail is just one of them.
You can get DNA from Ivory.

http://www.pnas.org/content/104/10/4228.full

Bioengineering wildlife products is something my start-up, Pembient, has been working on for a while now.
Will setting the about:config option to disable be preserved across browsers with firefox sync?
So you hold meetings in your personal workspace, and you do your individual work in meeting rooms. Clever.
Sure, I would love to press a button that will order things for me without seeing the price I'm going to pay ... oh wait, no, Amazon would love that, I wouldn't.

This is for people who don't care what things cost and that don't have children (children loooove pressing buttons!).
Not exactly sure what you mean here.. By super power I was referring to creativity, coding skills, ability to solve problems,etc.
I think the community is just getting started. People are figuring out what they want to use it for, and what it is best for, as the culture takes shape. Give it some time.

There's some great energy behind forrst - I have a lot of respect for Kyle, based on his mature stewardship, consistently friendly, positive attitude, and the care he has taken with the site.
So, because its one of your follow up questions, why do you feel the need to move to SF from NY?
Extremely high energy costs combined with low building costs might also make this feasible.

The scenario for this would be if the green houses grew themselves... which isn't utterly unimaginable.

Consider a red-wood sized tree/vine that gave high-protein fruit. Perhaps it would use just a bit of human-built scaffolding.
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There are a few threads about this:
http://searchyc.com/When+is+a+startup+no+longer+a+startup

The best answer I've seen to this question is "you are no longer a startup when the supplies cabinet is locked."
thanks for the references! i really appreciate you taking the time to reply to my question.

btw "Dreaming in Code" is the only one of those that I've read, and I don't think it's a good fit for my friend because it's basically the story of software project management gone awry ... hardly inspirational for someone aspiring to learn about the beauty of CS :)
He used to work at Yahoo. That's where I met him and while I never worked on a team with him, he seemed like a nice guy. Definitely smart, though his blog/writing style may come across as arrogant to some. I would have loved to end up on a team with him as I'm sure I could have learned a lot from him.
> that wasn't aggressively used by any would-be exploiters.

Doesn't matter. A response shouldn't be measured according to how widely a security hole was exploited, it should always be responded to with full information and transparency.
One problem with p+s vs slr I always had a problem with was "when to press the damn button". With p+s you have to press the button an absurdly long time before you want the picture taken, while with SLR it is closer to instant. This is a key step when dealing with situations where the right picture is bracketed (in time) by the wrong picture. This more than anything else is why I recommend moving to SLR fairly quickly for people.
Neat stuff!

Yes, that's the "I'm pretty sure it's this without even attempting to replicate the result" possibility (and also probably the most likely).
Yes. Perhaps inventing a technology that would eliminate the need for slaves and selling it to the farmers at a price point below the cost of slaves.

Also, perhaps a salt farm that was operated by the homeless, set up as a social enterprise and branded as such. Since this seems to be a luxury item, the increased price and status could be desirable.
Legal documents definitely are copyrightable, and you'll occasionally see enforcement actions. I worked at a firm that represented a major insurance company in a IP/copyright action against another insurance company, claiming that the defendant blatantly copied several of its contracts. (I think our client prevailed.)

That being said, it's often difficult to get past the merger doctrine in copyright claims over legal doctrines. There are only so many ways to express a warranty clause or choice of law provision, so it's usually a strong defense.
tar c * > ../foo.tar; gzip ../foo.tar

(you don't need anything else)
Interesting, but on a quick test it looks like it changes UNIX-style line endings (LF) to Windows (CRLF).
I would say it is easier to shoot yourself in the foot with C than with Java or other managed runtimes.

PHP code can be as secure as anything else, in my experience, but the end state solution has to take into account the possible risks and mitigate them accordingly.

Putting it in another way, would you say it's more dangerous to have a DB and java appserver running on the same "server" or having a PHP application in one box in one network segment and a DB server in another box, different network segment and with different privileged credentials?
Rules, rules for everything.

Good article.
I wonder what kind of scale you would need to make this work? I'd be curious to see numbers on it, and whether or not it's feasible; definitely a great option if so!
I like to say if a pilot (person) starts firing bullets into the engines (eats too much) and crashes the plane (suffers the effects of ill health), then it's probably the pilot's fault for thinking the laws of physics don't apply to them. Unfortunately, our bodies aren't designed, and while they evolved many failsafes, it takes some conscious control not to mess them up.
This quote: "Russ: The most important thing I learned is that a successful programming language is about far more than the language itself."

and the article linked from that comment is why I think Go is posed to become dominant over other new languages like Rust.

Go's documentation, tutorials, videos, support, community - what forms the ecosystem, basically - is really the reason why I keep coming back to it.

The core language might not be super-exciting, and it might not be as fast as others, as elegant as others, as "powerful" as others, as feature-rich as others, but the overall experience is very, very pleasant.
Unfortunately, Lenovo makes the best trackpoint hands down. Dell and Toshiba both offer models with one (I believe HP used to, but not anymore). Dell doesn't offer a middle mouse button on the models I've seen, which makes the trackpoint hideously inconvenient for scrolling. Toshiba does, but the trackpoint just doesn't feel as good as on Lenovo models. Lenovo won't get any of my money anymore after Superfish, though.

The answer for me is to use the keyboard as much as possible. This is already possible in a large number of text editors, and there are a good number of browser add-ons that will allow you to control everything completely mouse-free.

edit: corrected some spelling
> Heck, it's not even all that clear how to do that just as a machine... nothing is coming to mind that does that today.

That's basically ash, think of a coal burning plant and how they deal with waste.

Or iron smelting, how they leave the waste slag behind.
We actually do something similar to this to make our application state (within limits) be reflected by the url and support navigation — both good things. The urls are horrible though and we're considering simply storing the state in a service and giving it a serial number (but this has its own issues).

I was hoping the article was proposing a better way of encoding Json as urls, e.g. using the characters that are allowed in place of curly braces etc and doing simple translation. E.g {"foo":"bar","baz":[]} becomes foo=bar&baz=&&
That's exactly my issue with this situation. Cloud computing has a lot of uses, but there are also things that don't need it, and yet it is being forced on them, because this is a hot business model.
Some people may think "Fed" means "US Government", but it's explicitly stated in the article that “The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate bitcoin in any way.”

It's just jurisdiction, and the Federal Reserve Chairwoman says they don't have it.

As for the rest of the government? Well, there's literally nothing they can't try to regulate.
I think the "anti-trafficking and anti-child exploitation efforts" stuff is MOSTLY bullshit cover words for other oppressive shit that harms victims and the most vulnerable.

But I personally agree with your thrust. i donate non-trivial amounts of MY money to organizations that support immigrant (including undocumented) communities, as well as my time, as well as participating in campaigns to eg get universities to not accept contracts to train ICE and CBP.

But I'm still not personally inclined to boycott github over relatively small ICE contracts. I assume almost any company is going to have contracts with entities I consider immoral. That's just living in society. You have to pick your battles, and to me this one isn't it, although I respect those who want to make it such. Doing software development without interacting with any companies who have contracts with entities I consider immoral is probably impossible. I personally consider any contract with US DoD equally indefensible morally, and it's just not realistic to avoid business with companies with DoD contracts. But I assume I could find such contracts among github competitors too.

I/my employer currently only use free github though.

Although if I worked for a company, I'd be trying to figure out how to advocate internally to get them to stop -- avoiding working for a company with DoD contracts has been part of my own personal career choices.

I assume Apple, Google, and Amazon definitely have contracts with morally indefensible entities, especially government agencies, including ICE/CBP/DHS -- I still use AWS, and most of y'all do too right? If people boycotting github over ICE contracts are not boycotting AWS, have you thought about why or why not? I'm not assuming you can't have a good reason, just curious if you've thought about it and what it is. i don't totally understand why github has become the posterboy for this, when they seem pretty typical and probably far from worst, when compared with say AWS.

While the company I work for uses github, we don't pay for it; we DO pay for AWS, which also has ICE contracts...
Here is a cartoon that pretty much sums up where I suspect the author of this article is: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/25/ea/6f/25ea6fd2546b3f007af4...

To be precise, they are in the top four panels, not the bottom five.
Iranian leadership has referred to Israelis as "so-called humans"; has demanded a "final solution" to Israel; has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened, including hosting a Holocaust denial conference; has referred to Israel as a "cancerous tumor" to be destroyed; ...

You don't have to look hard to find this stuff. These aren't mistranslations or misunderstandings. A lot of these translations were done by the Iranian Republic themselves in press releases!

These are less subtle than Trump's dog whistles about "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" — which was bad enough. These are obvious, repeated, consistent statements and actions.
Right, sprinkling #if's across a dozen downstream codebases sucks.

Consider an analogy to shell-scripting -- there are different shells ("bash", "dash", "zsh") which have substantial overlap (insofar as they largely support traditional POSIX). Someone writing a script/program can target a specific flavor ("#!/usr/bin/env bash") and get more features, or they can write conservative code and let downstream policy determine the shell ("#!/bin/sh"). General-purpose distros (like Debian/Redhat) don't seem to have a problem with supporting them side-by-side.

I'm more than a little rusty on the mechanics of dependency-management in C... but shouldn't it allow some analogous arrangement where an app either (a) signals a requirement for a specific implementation or (b) signals ambivalence/deference (and limits itself to common APIs).

(This, of course, only makes sense if the developers of LibreSSL/OpenSSL and of the distros believe that it's better to coexist+compete than to consolidate. The tenor of the LWN article seems to convey a XOR mentality, but if both projects have independently healthy teams, then... maybe they prefer friendly coopetition...)
Youtube delivers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6A0_uxyvs&t=4m32s
Eerie indeed. Time to rethink my free will.

It’s interesting, that study was 10 years ago. I haven’t heard of non-nicotine compounds becoming a part of the therapy since then. But what also happened in those 10 years was nicotine vaporizers took off, and a lot of people traded smoking for those. Wonder what the study would have found if it had nicotine puffs in addition to de-nic tobacco and sham puffs.
But if they are limited the same radiated power (an important caveat placed on the "free for all", in the form of a class license) the MIMO system will be able to get more power focused on its receiver, and within that spatial region overpower the omnidirectional interferer. The omnidirectional transmitter will lose more by not being MIMO than the MIMO system will lose from the interference.

MIMO isn't expensive these days with the availability of integrated chip sets, and the cost is only dropping. It will get to the point where apart from broadcasters no one runs a non-MIMO system because the cost of not being MIMO (loss of channel capacity) will exceed the cost of the MIMO hardware.
The primary and visible HN Mod:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang
You certainly don't have to be anointed™ or have worked at any particular companies.

I'd say the two most urgent roles we're looking for now are:
* Site reliability engineers
* Software engineers, including backend and frontend

If you do something else, like design, product management, or data science, feel free to send me an email anyway — I'm certainly happy to check around and see what's needed!
> I see...

No, you don't see. You are just being casually snarky.
>The answer is that we are using it: as a store of value

Money serves no purpose beyond a convenient means for economic transactions and paying taxes. There is no magic behind it, nor is it meant to be a long term store of value. It has to turn over to be useful. So if you're holding Bitcoin as a store of value (relative to what?) then there is no point comparing it to money.

There's also a difference between "saving" and "hoarding".
Funny, it reminded me more of the episode "Be Right Back".
You can choose not to frequent the bar in question. Another bar could (freely) choose not to permit smoking. I'd go there instead.
People used to look at me weird when I explained how I was paranoid that someone was routing all of my conversations between multiple people, in an effort to cluster intelligence and intellectual contributions without any participant knowing what they were contributing to.

Take that, therapy. Yes, the paranoia was somewhat imaginative, but it was an exaggeration of something that actually can be mechanized. The people I explained this to didn't believe me that you could create chat streams this way.
>Well, if I remember correctly, all the Winkelvii Bitcoins were bought for under $70, I'd say the average price is around $35-40, so no

I read far too many investing sites. Whenever a run-up and crash occurs in some fad stock, the proponents of said stock never seem to lose money. They always seem to be "still in the green". Amazing, really.
You are not alone. According to reports, many IT businesses relying on stable internet connection have moved away from China Mainland to other countries of Asia like Singapore.

The problem is, government doesn't actually care. They see political stability as the top priority. To achieve it, they are willing to sacrifice foreign business chances.
Only ~32m of ~190m USA Facebook accounts were in this leak. The US is surprisingly poorly represented-- a good thing!
We've also had similar travel requirements for other diseases for decades without issue. Want to hop on an international flight in the late 1940s? Better have your smallpox vaccine recorded!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_requirements_for_i...
> Overall Rust appears to be fulfilling one of its original design goals: allowing us to write more concurrent code safely. Both WebRender and Stylo are very large and pervasively multi-threaded, but have had minimal threading issues. What issues we did find were mistakes in the implementations of low-level and explicitly unsafe multithreading abstractions — and those mistakes were simple to fix.

> This is in contrast to many of our C++ races, which often involved things being randomly accessed on different threads with unclear semantics, necessitating non-trivial refactorings of the code.
I really want to tell my company that the key to keeping me happy is our lack of communication, and I would know why they would jeopardize that by having me return to an office.
> but "Culture" is often code for any number of implicit biases in a workplace

I'm old. Tell me about it. I am not a "cultural fit" in companies, these days.

So I am doing my own thing. I'm extremely fortunate, in being able to do this.

I'm also never going into an office, or relocating, again.
Hospitalizations will determine how truly close we are to what is ‘effective heard immunity’, Since we have no easy way of measuring at scale t-cell body immunity.
It's not just the scripts. There is an offsite server need to be setup, and maybe paid to keep it reliably running for the long term.

Sounds too much ado for nothing compared to use free private repos on GitHub / GitLab.
That cycle is how capitalism works, for any good which requires a large capital investment for financial returns that drop whenever there's excessive competition in the market. Historically, we've seen it with textiles, railroads, steamboats, automobiles, office parks, farm crops, telecoms, and airlines. If we actually got space travel and viable renewable energy, we'd almost certainly see it with them as well.

No, it's not pleasant for the people who are laid off or businesses that fail. But basically the entire financial industry has evolved to smooth out the peaks and valleys of this cycle, providing the capital to get the boom started and then recycling the carcasses of overcapacity into productive uses when the boom ends. It's business as usual for a capitalist economy.
> Most people consider a move to a new apartment in the same city inconvenient.

This is a good point. But finding out that your employer is so nasty that they use your visa status as a bargaining chip, can be even more inconvenient.
And I wrote Myrddin[0] for the goal of seeing what C would be if I was reimagining it with the benefit of hindsight.

[0]http://eigenstate.org/myrddin
I also highly doubt MS / Amazon / etc who want unlimited H1Bs would be paying these great programmers 100x or 1000x times their average programmers. Especially since they are not doing that right now.

That implies either "average" programmers are being overpaid by a lot, or that great programmers are being taken advantage of. I highly doubt its the former, so hurrah for industry.
For those downvoting, here's a quick summary:

4:00 - Middle-aged white guys at a conference to figure out how to sell fear by turning agile into a "noun"

5:00 - Make agile more difficult-sounding with lots of terms so you can manipulate companies out of time and money

6:00 - Sell unnecessary roles like "scrum-master" to further manipulate companies out of time and money

8:00 - Agile plot to mock developers who don’t “fall” for the previous manipulations.

But again, the tone changes after the first fifteen minutes, so I intended that comment for those who would watch the first few minutes and think that it's just someone invested in making fun of "Agile" the whole time.
My software didn't take off as either an opensource project or a business, so when we folded, the former customers would have been left high and dry anyway. "Fortunately", the reason for the final fold was that the last customer left, so at the final hour the set of former customer was empty.

The work lives on as a github repo that nobody cares about.
I'm not upset about it today, I learned a lot, but that's how it is.

Btw. it's:

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb
Frame it between two pieces of glass. More complicated if you want it on the wall, but a hinge shouldn't be too tricky.