jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am really confused about oilshell. Is it ready for me to install and become my daily driver? What does it do better? Is the syntax different? It would be really nice to see code snippets on the front page like fish shell's website.

Even the "How is Oil different than bash or zsh?" section doesn't really tell me anything about it:

> Oil is taking shell seriously as a programming language, rather than treating it as a text-based UI that can be abused to write programs.
Re: masks, you need to remember that China pretty much shut down all exports of PPE to keep it for domestic use. There wasn’t much more the rest of the world could have done to follow that directive. Even those of us that did have some stockpiled were asked to donate them to hospitals. Masks were hard to come by for a while until a cottage industry popped up to create second-rate masks.
I think it's more of a cultural difference rather than government one. Korea and Taiwan are democracies and managed to control the pandemic as well. The US government has the authority to declare martial law, but doing so would completely undermine people's faith in the government.
> There is something different this time.

Do you know which are the 4 most expensive words in English? "This time it's different."
Are maps invented or discovered?
To be honest… civilisation – at least, the parts the can be described as “a political or social system founded on racism” – isn't that great.

If we just eliminated the government, eliminated all hierarchies larger than 100 people, eliminated all nations and laws and institutions… well, most of us would probably die very quickly. But that doesn't mean that what we have now is even in the top 20% of possible ways that civilisation could be.
Koans are a fairly well-known technique, and if you Google "<language> koans" you'll find something for most languages. I like it as a learning style.
Most of the negative reactions to Go aren't really to do with the language itself. They are more general feelings of frustration with our industry.

Part of the reason Go is so popular is because we place such a low value on education, training, and long term productivity, and a high value on getting things done quickly. In general our industry is focused on the short term, is fad driven, and is more than willing to turn on our own.

Go is a language created to win in this kind of environment. And because people hate the environment... they focus their animosity on the tools that are successful in our environment.
Yea, Dennis Ritchie is alive again!
http://xkcd.com/1497/
Accurate.
How about using another language to write php code? Without hesitation, the language would also be using one of the PHP frameworks/styles/approaches, which sucks. Could you advise me on this Haxe-to-PHP expedition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111742 ?
Also see non-NN topics in the field of AGI. NN is just the most popular mainstream approach lineage.
I thought refining of oil was mostly separating the different hydrocarbons- or can gasoline be used to make plastic?
It's true that petroleum is used in a lot of different industries, but the primary uses of petroleum are still energy production and transportation. Everything else happens because it's cheaper to use the byproducts of petroleum refinement than to dispose of them. If we weren't using petroleum for energy and transport, we wouldn't dig up oil just to make plastics--there are plenty of renewable starter materials that provide equally malleable organic compounds (soybeans, rubber, agricultural waste).
PoW provides significant economies of scale for those with lots of scale and makes mining with a single GPU a waste of time.
PoS doesn't offer much economies of scale at all as the main cost is the ETH, so it's much fairer to smaller validators.
A lot, actually. Google "hidden camera Airbnb"
... But they both had basically equivalent local counterparts
I really intended to ask for a fair comparison not just ammo for an argument. So thanks for this, my original comment was written poorly.

My experience with aluminum is not great. But I appreciate understanding the value/cost/benefits for different design decisions.

Something in programming that helps a lot is to know when to follow the crowd and when to buck the system.
> This "yOu cAn't mAkE nUmBeRS iLlEgAl" thing is one of the most annoying memes I've ever encountered.

If you take any reference to a concrete phenomenon - the extreme difficulty of policing private data storage and communications - and pigeonhole it into a simplistic caricature, then it's no wonder you see that everywhere?
It’s not. The null version won’t have methods like hasOwnProperty etc.

If it wasn’t clear, i was mentioning 2 ways of initializing, not that you should reassign immediately.
Jennycam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley
Yeah, I've used it on Chrome for half a year now. The news is that it's now available for Firefox.
Since you are resorting to ad hominem attacks without tackling the actual points, I am not going to dignify your post with an answer.
Seconded this in its entirety. Been to Laracon multiple times, use it for all my side projects (as well as startup). Has performed remarkably well and more consistently than any other experiences I've used
Of all of these, which is the most secure?
Back before the modern age it probably wasn’t uncommon for children/teens to see actual people having sex in front of them.

Also, sperm levels have been dropping for far longer than internet porn has been a thing. It stands to reason they might share a cause.

There isn’t a solution. You can’t block teens from viewing porn. The best thing you can do is educate them that (most) porn isn’t a reflection of what most sex is like, and to watch out for porn addiction.
BLM not being peaceful would be a good thing.
I'm reminded of Lincoln who was determined to burn America down to the ground to end slavery (and he did it literally in Georgia).

If you want radical change you need radical action.
The obvious answer is that lockdown made people more aware of their lack of exercise. Once lockdown starts to lift, people don't want it any more, they can go back to their gym instead.

It is tough but this is def. a big problem with VC-backed companies who are always under pressure to make the most money whatever happens. Most of us would see 2800 layoffs as a failure but the VCs probably think it a success that they made the most of the market bubble and are now adjusting for a more realistic size/income.
I was interested in the significance of the plus for this flag. If anyone else was curious: from the manual, the + flag is for initial commands to less, so this is equivalent to running less and typing F.
> This makes no sense to me. 50% increase in performance can be compared to 50% increase in processing power to evaluate level of brute force-ness.

Computational complexity theory taught us that fundamental difficulty of solving specific types of problems does not always linearly scale with the size of the problems. I guess the same logic applies to the quality of the output?
can't I search for my phone number?
Except Python is a widely used language, and this is a simple service for end-users. You don't need to rewrite an app because they're shutting down cloud print.
I installed Lbuntu on an older ultra-portable machine, and while not extremely pretty the UI is extremely snappy -- and mostly resembles win 95. I do miss the ability to search for a program by name, but that is about it.
Same goes for Microsoft? Looking through https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/allproducts thats a real stretch.
Photoshop doesn't have a "put this person's face on this other person's shoulders"-button that anyone can use.

Creating convincing deepfake videos is still a lot of work, but a couple years ago altering one's face in live streams took also much more effort than pressing a button in a free mobile app.
OK, forget the implications of low-cost and convincing fake video footage for nefarious purposes. "Fake videos"—e.g., CGI—have been around forever! I don't suddenly think Star Wars is real because I saw a video of it.

At the end of the day, what cool tech for legitimate purposes! Hollywood VFX, training video or PR customization, etc. Nixon giving this speech is a cool look into "what-if", without the moral burden of someone trying to convince me that an alternate reality is the real one.
It used to be when apple came out with a fancy i/o, they would just give you the new port and take out something vestigial, keeping the half dozen other ports.

Now apple has wiped the laptop clean and introduced a port that they don't even support with their own product lines, despite it being the only port on a macbook pro for nearly 4 years.
44. It seems everyone loves taking these tests. For some of us it's a means of asserting 'I'm normal,' whereas others seem to take pleasure in 'being different.'

I dread these kinds of tests now, because after over a year of therapy, I can still tell the outcome, and I know nothing changed :-| Yet still, it fascinates me.

The Myers-Briggs test follows a similar style. I'm gonna assume that a great many people on HN are going to score INTP on that one… Just a hunch!
Yeah I disagree with the comparison of GPGPUs to specialized hardware. It’s more a distinction between hardware optimized for throughout of general highly parallel computations and hardware optimized for latency of highly serial computations.
But what if one doesn't remember the `apropos` command?
The goals are so ambitious that I think we have to be specific about we're talking about and specific about what won't work. (Because you haven't actually said anything about why it won't work.)

If their first goal is to restore some functionality to severely paralyzed people with less big/bulky and doesn't leave a hole (infection point) in your skull, what won't work about that? Is it the body rejecting the implant? Is it the wires breaking down or migrating out of where they're placed? What is it?
Mind cursors seems amazing but I believe it must be very quickly exhausting hence preventing useful adoption for the mainstream.
I hope this or related technology won't be used for cryptomining.
> I can still remember going to Kinkos with a friend’s copy of the real book in 1996 to make a copy of my own and get it spiral bound.

I was, around that time, a Kinko's employee, and the company got really sticky about copyright in the next couple of years, especially after the regional franchises were bought out, clamping down on the official unofficial nod-nod-wink-wink say-no-more policy. A lot of it was driven by photographers upset at people getting their event photos scanned for which the photographer kept the rights, and students duplicating textbooks or handouts, but it bled into nearly everything and was becoming a huge PITA. My understanding is that it got even stricter after the FedEx purchase, though I wasn't there at that point.
Hand-free high fidelity input
Arcane features that no-one uses should not be in the standard but in some sort of optional extension, and a feature that is not supported by all major compilers might as well not exist, since it cannot be used in a portable code base.
My country unfortunately doesn't fit that scenario. Here in the UAE there is no residential postal delivery, so if you want to receive letters you have them sent to a PO Box. Most people usually use their office's, but I have my own. That means you can reach me with simply:

PO Box XXXX
Dubai
UAE

For sending parcels to be delivered by a courier you can include a physical address, however most streets here don't have names (and even if they do people have no idea what they are) so people go by directions. Which means something like:

Flat XXXX
Building Name next to / opposite / near Landmark
Area Name

In most cases it's best to include a phone number so the courier can phone for directions if they get lost (without street names it's easy), and of course everyone requires a name even though I'm the only person living here and using this PO Box. That means my 'full address' ends up being:

Name Surname
Tel: 05XXXXXXXX
Flat XXXX, Building Name
Next To Landmark
Area Name
PO Box XXXX
Dubai
UAE

In most cases that never fully fits in the length of the fields, or they do something silly like requiring a postcode but limiting it to 5 digits (luckily my PO Box number is only 4 digits in length, but in reality they are [0-9]*). Anything I order from eBay has "NOTPROVIDED" on it as I left out an optional field they think should always be included :D

Edit: Area names have their own fun: There is a road going from one end of the country to the other which in Dubai is called Sheikh Zayed Road (it has a number and different names in other emirates :D), but that is also the name of an area along part of the road.
Do you have any thoughts on how the browser component here compares to something like Lynx [1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Like the poster above -- I don't think it's negative SEO either.

I think it's just an opportunistic person who saw an easy way to rank their own stuff by taking advantage of your hard work

Like you said -- they ranked higher in some cases (without doing any work besides copying you).
Inject the money somewhere else? UBI perhaps?
> Just look at the Nano cryptocurrency for example: 0 fees and <1 second transactions. You can send 0.00001 dollar or 9 billion to anyone in the world at any time. All you need is a phone.

Sounds great! But why can't we just use that technology to move our existing money around? Why do I have to trade my USD for NANO, transfer the NANO, and then trade the NANO back to USD at the other end?

Why wouldn't I simply engage with a bank that lets me use the same open-source technology to simply move the USD from one place to another? I don't want to become an investor in Nano just to transact any more than I want to buy PayPal shares to use PayPal.
I said "yes", but the function for weighting merit is not the fair, just one that you might hope for; the most meritorious person is the one that knows how to exploit and use the system to their advantage.
> Doctors and top lawyers are in the top 1%.

According to BLS, median physician salary doesn't quite make your list, at 208k. Median lawyer is more like 120k. And you are assuming there are two such wage earners per family here, which is probably the minority case. I know a few two doctor couples, by I know far more where the other career either doesn't exist or is much less lucrative.

Any way you cut it, top 1% of income, let alone wealth, doesn't look anything like a typical job and it doesn't do anyone (other than the very wealthy) favors to pretend otherwise.
It blew my mind when I found out that the Gouda cheese is not pronounced Goo-dah but actually a throaty “How-dah”.
> Here in the EU, credit card transaction fees are capped at 0,3%. So no shenanigans

This isn’t true. Interchange fees are capped at that rate, but that’s only one portion of the total transactional fee charged to merchants for processing card payments.
It depends on how inflation affects the business. A lot of value companies don’t really have pricing power, and will likely have to eat some of the inflation.

Edit: but yes. If we see inflation coming, it’s better to have a dollar now than a dollar in the future, so I guess that should favor value. Hm. Investing is tricky.
I like the idea, but a heads up - the typewriter on the homepage meant the copy kept jumping around when reading on my phone. It made it incredibly frustrating, I’d recommend pausing that on mobile or when it’s out of view.
I wondered if it might be linked to one of the nearby military bases (e.g. radar), but I misremembered where they are; RAF Alconbury is to the north of Cambridge instead.
I mean.....I have the top of the line LG CX TV and it can be updated from a USB stick. I honestly have no idea why you'd leave it unplugged though, the OS is super fast, starts up instantly and it has all the apps I need, plugging in another device just to watch Netflix seems super wasteful.
I think you chose the worse possible example to try to make your point.

Were you thinking of the US dollar?
IIRC Amazon has a few of them.

https://icannwiki.org/Amazon
Is there a summary of the changes made to OpenSSL?
A cheap home base + a van seems like a flexible option. You've got low overhead but the option to hit the road for on-location gigs or when the wanderlust kicks in. A co-housing arrangement might make the base more tractable.
Completely agree but the reality of it is, most people want to monetize but they cannot outside of ads or ebooks etc. Your drivel may only reach X number of people but when you are getting Y amount of readers, I guarantee you will look to find a way to monetize, because your time is money.

What about ads that have to adhere to a style guide of the website/blog? As it, the font styles, colours etc do not have to be exact match, but close enough that it would fit into the website. The other side of this is that Google has done this and so has Quora and sometimes it feels a little crappy that they do this.
That's certainly not the reason.

There are many really good Electron applications, Visual Studio Code being one of them.
Sorry to go off-topic, but is anyone else logged in to HN and experiencing very slow response times? Except for the times HN has gone down, I've never seen it take 5-10 seconds just to load the front page or any of the comment threads. I'm assuming it has something to do with so many users checking out this thread, which is pretty amazing for a Friday night.

(viewing HN in logged out mode is much faster thanks to the caching)
Elaborate.

1A says the government can't make a law abridging speech.

It doesn't say Twitter can't refuse to make posts submitted by X available to everyone who accesses their systems via the Internet.

I can see where if many people depend on a company, some need to prevent arbitrary cutoffs of service is needed if the service is needed for life--such as heating, food, ER service, etc. Twitter is not needed for basic survival.
That was almost 3 decades before the Million Man March, and a completely different organization.
It's also filled with Zoom transcripts.
> I also said that nuclear war was also on the table.

I think since he cowered so hard during his concession, he's done playing tough guy. He'll hand out medals and pardons and then run away.

I can't believe how much like "Animal Farm" this whole thing played out. Almost verbatim with the constant attempts to scapegoat Snowball/Antifa.

Although given that 80% of republicans think the election was stolen (and 40% of the population), this is just the start. I don't think Civil War is an exaggeration any longer, unless the Biden admin clamps down on the armed insurrection boiling over in the reddest parts of the country.
That's a bad idea, because you are cementing power. It would be hard for contenders to get into office. The incumbents already have a bigger platform they can leverage.

I was also getting at the fact, that Twitter, being a private company or not, basically became infrastructure and was thinking about how it should behave, whether that would be enforced by laws or not.
That's just an excuse. I suspect the actual reason for banning him is for hundreds of tweets he made during the last four years for which a normal user would be banned, but he was protected against banning for "public interest" (read: additional traffic to Twitter). These two tweets are just a lame excuse. It would be better if they were honest about the reasons for the ban. But let's be real - no matter what he tweeted now at the end of his presidency he would be banned on Jan 20th. They just sped up the decision a little bit because of what happened few days ago.
I find This whole "incitement to violence is bad" thing to be nonsensical.

Political speech is practically always incitement to violence:

According to Weber, the state is a "human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." [1]

And political discussions are about what the state should do (executive decisions, laws, etc), that is, in which cases it should coerce people, who should it coerce, and what should it do with the result of that coercion (e.g. taxes). Coercion ultimately leads to violence if the coerced individual doesn't surrender.

So, I can't take this "incitement to violence is bad" thing seriously. Because if they truly believed that, then all political speech should be banned.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/state-monopoly-on-violence
How exactly is TheDonald.win "sheer nasty"? Give some examples. I've perused that site and there's a lot of outrage at how the President has been treated, true, but I don't see much nasty.

Then again, free speech can seem ugly, when you're used to a carefully curated kind of controlled speech.
not intending to start an apple-vs-msft flamewar, but this has been a solved problem on the mac since forever. is the experience that bad on windows laptops that you don't want a big trackpad? genuine question.
Are you satisfied with the status quo in California, or do you think we can do better?
It is. Offshore telemarketing - no more fake localized names and accents, just hire a person who understands spoken english and install the MidwestFemale 3.68 module.
A md or org file in the project would be enough for me.
I read a book in high school called The Alliance that discussed pervasive digital surveillance in a dystopia. I think it's this one: http://www.amazon.com/Alliance-Gerald-Lund/dp/0875791603 . It starts slowly but gets better as I recall.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907211. Sorry about that, I'll do something about it later on.
Then the reference counting is not properly implemented, otherwise reference count would be greater than zero.
You need to have at least 6 figures to deal with the "float" problem (7 or 8 figures if you're successful)

What's your modeling look like here? They capture payment on day 0, are sent an ACH from Stripe on day 2, and physically have it in the bank on day 3~5. The worst possible credit terms they'll have with vendors is "We put it on our Amex on day 0, are invoiced by Amex on day 15, and pay the invoice on day 22." That lasts until they can tell without-loss-of-generality 1800Flowers "We did 100k with you last month. Give us 30 day net on a rolling monthly basis. [+]" My back-of-envelope math suggests they have ~15 days of float at present and will have ~40 days once they have direct relationships with suppliers.

They're almost certainly generating tremendous positive cash flow, limited only by their ability to generate transactions.

[+] That will not be the only ask in that conversation, believe me. I'd take pertinent note that 1800Flowers has fat, fat margins and is willing to pay affiliates 25% commissions, then ask them for their top-tier affiliate offer. Who benefits from that discount? Magic, because they're selecting for price-insensitive customers. If 1800Flowers doesn't want to play ball, you just update your CS docs to say "Our preferred flower vendor is $EMPLOYS_SANE_BD_TEAM."
But you don't necessarily have an up to date copy. If you had a local mirror, you could queue collective commits until the github server becomes available again.
To be fair, if json being 50% slower means your whole program is slower, even if other parts are faster, generally means that your bottlenecks are in serializing/unserializing and not in the VM, so we have really nothing to work with here :-)
It's not the Javascript, it's the analytics. Or to the extent that it IS Javascript, it's because the analytics is implemented by loading a one-byte Javascript source consisting only of a newline.
Removing bugs is a special case of increasing productivity.
I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying.

They're using git, don't they? Obviously you miss the web interface to issues, pull requests, etc; but if you don't have git repositories distributed in your own infrastructure you're doing it wrong.