jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
i need a way to find 4-day, probably-ideally remote jobs

i want a simple TTD list that doesn't suck - i.e. it needs to have explosions, lots of explosions, not just stupid checkboxes that do a line-thru when i complete a task

i need a way to de-brainwash my parents from fox news (pipe dream, i know)

i need a way to engage politically, and a way for 'normal people' to do the same

i need a way to make friends as an adult

i need smart dumbbells (that don't suck) (they need to be normal but count reps like a fitness tracker counts steps)

i need a way to eat better/healthier/fewer calories

i need a carbon tax

i need universal health care

i need a civic engagement-type platform that morally compels people to participate/volunteer in activities that are potentially/probably political-ish in nature, but could also 'just' be about helping people

i need a way to not have to repeat the same answers to the same interview questions dozens or hundreds of times over an interview cycle

i need a way to truly understand big data/mapreduce (even tho mr is dying now)

i need a low code tool that doesn't suck in at least one or two truly-unacceptable ways (like, cost of running them for side projects being prohibitive)

i need a way to try to keep myself as unracist/unsexist/un*ist as possible

i need an ongoing guide to life, like a School of Life/Wear Sunscreen-type manifesto, that can attempt to give some shape to modern day life when so many norms and institutions are going away/crumbling

i need a 'MyAdProfile'-type platform that will show me only ads i'm really interested in, 'in market' for; possibly combine that with self-propaganda app for whatever you want yourself to believe - eating right, doing good, etc.
A fair point possibly, but given checkout/switching branches is probably just about the most common action when working with git repos, I'd hope people would notice that it's fast pretty quickly.
It can, but do you really believe is this what those apps are working on, or even that they could work without major rewrite? They are strongly tied to their mainframe environments.
> "The Americans, the FBI, the CIA and everything else, they were brilliant. I mean, I fell in love with America, because I've never been treated so well," he said. "Everybody there really looked after me. And they just thought, oh, it's this silly kid getting himself into trouble."

Hell ya. Imagine that happening in 2020.
Bingo! Thank you
No, of course not. This was a long time ago when things were much different. They are normal, good people who tried to do their best to have a safe and comfortable life.
I like PS in theory but the syntax and naming just absolutely kill me. What were they smoking when they named as simple an operation as delete "Remove-ChildItem"? And what's with all of the capital letters?

That's what happens I guess when the people designing it haven't actually used a CLI day to day much, because, well, they're using Windows.
I get the logic, but it still creates cognitive load to have to keep track of what a given cli utility supports
I really like using Onenote with notebook saved on skydrive, I have been able to have the native app on my windows machines and the webapp when I am on the go. Also, there is a really good looking WP7 app now (though I have used it yet)
I considered node as a platform for a desktop version. Unfortunately it doesn't run easily on Windows, which is a pretty big detractor for a game framework.

The iOS backend uses Spidermonkey which could easily be used in a desktop version. Another option would be to use V8 directly.
What's the use of this? I don't get the point.
You have a more charitable view of VCs than a number of us! But cynical commentary on ruthless VCs aside, I think "stopped believing in games" is probably accurate. Here's why.

The gaming biz had largely stepped away from PC platforms in favor of consoles and decreased piracy. PC based gaming had bifurcated into two major areas: casual games (Bejeweled) and server-based games (World of Warcraft), with the original gaming market being a rather beleaguered middle ground.

And various firms had tried to replicate success in these new areas. But as may be obvious, once WoW beat Everquest, nobody's been able to dethrone them. And casual games were... well, everywhere. Kongregate, MSN Games, Yahoo Games, Real Arcade, ad nauseum. No big differentiators. Easy to knock off. And not very lucrative without enormous scale.

So when investors heard "new game company" their usual inclination was "nope, next". And venture capital is a business that ultimately doesn't thrive on risk but instead on as close as they can get to the sure thing, which is why you see so many clones of any business that seems to be doing it right... latest trend being Groupon. VCs are looking for a reason to say no early so they can get back to looking for other opportunities, working with their existing portfolio companies, or the other things that occupy their time (public speaking, golf, etc). There could be fabulous opportunities in a business but they are often dismissed as "in the wrong space" - regardless of the success of that firm - if that space is out of vogue.
> It's called parody, and anyone with two brain cells to rub together gets it.

Or if you throw in a few more brain cells, it's called satire.
It's silly. That's why.
> Yet my connection is still being forced onto the new fibre? What for? That's just wasted expenditure.

That would be creating a baseline of availability. People would scream bloody murder if you were told "no we will not provide you with capability for the future as your current capability is fine for what you need it for now".
It looks like the banner is placed at the top of a div element with an id similar to "content" or at the top of the body.
Yep, that's it although the repository isn't up to date. I need to push a lot of changes.
You can subtract two pointers, but you can't add them.
If you're an employer reading this and thinking "how can i help make my company adhd friendly" then i highly recommend you check out the welfare pack from adhduk [1].

i had a chat with the ceo of the charity when i got diagnosed to see if i could help and he is one of the few people i've spoken to in the space that is actively considering adhd in the workplace.

my favourite parts are:

- before criticising timeliness, ask if timeliness is critical to the role. if it isn't, have a policy of flexible time, make it ok to make up lateness later. if it is, find ways to make it less so with scheduling and partnering

- hot desking / open offices: make provisions for people to have quiet and uninterrupted work environments. perhaps that is alternate office space, providing noise cancelling headphones.

- meeting timeliness: fully integrate calendar and reminder systems. for many with adhd something not in the calendar may aswell not exist.

there are loads more but most of the key point boil down to: stop immediately thinking that every time someone doesn't meet your expectations, that it's a personal failure of theirs. start considering how the environment (physical, social, technological, conceptual) might be an impediment to them. start questioning your assumptions around what is "actually" necessary for a role and what you think is necessary.

my personal addition to this is: lots of the ways in which i disappoint people ultimately derive from an innate fear of disappointing people. the irony is not lost on me. the answer, ive found, is to create for myself an environment in which a) my colleagues can separate their disappointment in my actions/ outcomes from me. b) where i can communicate my issues / worries as and when they arrive without fear.

my favourite one has been telling people that a particular task will be far to boring for me to do alone and being able to partner up with someone else to get it done. or that asking me to remember to do something in prep for a meeting is a bad idea and to either pop it straight into my calendar, do it now or make some time during the meeting to do it. that last one is basically the amazon meeting agenda policy where the start of every meeting is reading the notes for the meeting, it's adhd dream.

i am reminded to leave this caveat: yes, these are problems we all face, the questions is: do the problems cause a material impact on your life (lost jobs, failed relationships (love/friends), missed opportunities, states of being that you cant escape). the difference between having adhd and not is whether the problems cause disorder in your life currently, and have done so for much of your life.

1]: https://adhduk.co.uk/adhd-and-work/
Compile-time deadlock prevention very, very quickly begins butting up against Rice's theorem, unless you do something silly like having channels be the only way for threads to communicate. Even then, deadlock conditions are still perfectly possible and very common.
That doesn't really jive with my personal experience, which is that contributors really don't want the only path to career progress to be a transition to management. I saw this happen firsthand at a consulting company--the technical side was pushing for the split, not the current level of management.
It's a different thing to say "I value long term thinking" and acting that way, and rewarding long term thinking. It may be that people are simply too stupid to see that the ship is being hacked up for fuel, and thus they put their faith in the captain doing so.
it's the tension between the bean-counter side of the company (finance, top level management, marketing vis-a-vis timelines) versus the creative side of the company (design & development, R&D). One side requires rigid predictability to perform optimally and the other side flexibility and ambiguity. Where the line is drawn and expectations are set is a function of company culture, hence why bigger companies/enterprises tend to come down heavy on requiring estimates.

(I don't mean bean-counter pejoratively; the world needs order and predictability just as much as it needs creativity).
> If your threat model DOES include US intelligence agencies, you shouldn't use almost any mainstream browser, most protocols (including https://), social media (including HN), etc...

No, you can simply use Qubes OS and use whatever software you want in disposable VMs and perhaps have several identities. It works for me (or so I hope).
Scaling with satisfactory security is never trivial.
Parent says 60hr / month
Perhaps. Were they received by all participants? How were they interpreted?

These are humans, not robots.
> A multiply in GF(2^8) is just a single multiplication lookup. 256 x 256 == 64kB lookup table. I'm not sure how much faster you can get than a single 8-bit lookup on a table small enough to fit in a typical CPU's cache.

64 KB often won’t fit in L1 cache anyway.

> A GF(2^4) multiply would be a single multiplication lookup 16 x 16 or 256 byte (0.25kB) lookup table. Very, very tiny, probably no faster than the GF(2^8) lookup.

Or you can do three operations using a single 16 x 16 x 16 x 16 lookup table, and introduce fewer data dependencies into your CPU pipeline.

The operations work on half as many bits, but complete three times as many steps. Sounds like a win to me.

> I expect that 8-bit bytes is actually faster for modern computers than 4-bit nibbles. Even if you are using a severely shortened / punctured code, there are strong benefits to sticking with 8-bit bytes on a modern computer.

You keep saying this. I understand how CPUs are byte-addressed. When you operate on smaller sizes, you have to do packing / unpacking. If your CPU core spends most of its time doing table lookups, then a little bit of packing / unpacking is nearly free, since your ALUs are otherwise fairly idle, assuming you have a couple registers free.
Hence, all modern advice pushes towards easy hardware wallets with an UX-enforced physical paper backup.
Gumroad should have been Patreon.

Sahil Lavingia is so much more respectful of creators than Jack Conte.
The security is being reworked and rethought and https would most likely be implemented soon. We've looked into it already so it's not entirely new to us.
Note Arthur Clarke's story, The Star: http://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
I am pretty sure that I tried Feedly in the post-"Oh no, Google Reader is going away!" panic everyone else using the service was in at the time, and could not replicate the feel. The Old Reader was the closest alternative I found among the several I tried, but soon afterwards Inoreader appeared, and I've been extremely happy on it ever since. (If only Inoreader would correctly open the comment link and not the original article in the HN RSS feed.)
> This isn't about security

kccqzy's comment was clearly referring to security.
Web extension created while in treatment because why not. First try so if it breaks anything - sorry.
Mainly seems to work.
Chrome version in 'Pending Review'...see how long that takes...
Also available:
Boris Johnson: Adject Failure
> selling $10 bills for $8.

The classic "We lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume" approach.
How do various mail clients talk to their respective backends? I.e. what does iOS Mail use to talk to iCloud? The GMail iOS app speaks a bespoke binary protocol to Google's servers, not IMAP.
I'm really glad YC is taking a clear stand against China.

I also understand why they are not further ruffling any feathers by phrasing their "update" as such.

It is also a bit disappointing from a patriotic standpoint that the general public reaction to this update is that people are _sad_ YC is withdrawing. Given how much we have all benefited from our nation's world-class innovation economy here, we should at least pay the piper.
Of all the free services to kill, this one really hurts. I just got my parents migrated to using Cloud Print with their Chromebooks and iStuff. As I am providing the usual family-plan IT advice from several timezones away, Cloud Print solved the biggest headache of getting their current project printed to their house or office from wherever they are (or me, if I am helping them). Supporting local printers was a time sink, and remote printing is the logical complement to cloud applications. It seems shortsighted to give it up when there is no real competition in this space AFAICT.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but Google Chrome is available on Linux and is available on pretty much any distro I've tried (and has been for many years).