jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
different languages tend to attract different personalities
eg. people from c/c++ are more conservatives and like to know the internals of everything..

Javascript(PHP?) tend to attract people who wants instant reward, without too much work..

to point out that a little more is easy to see that even here at HN.. when a new project come from c/c++/go etc..
the tools are more sophisticated and take more planning, labor and research to see the light.. so this kind of projects tend to endure a little bit more

on the other half javascripters launch are more fragmented and you see a lot of iterations over the same problems already solved by previous framework as just because its a matter of taste
combining the technologies one like most..

i cant say this for every developer of course, im sure there are people away from this pattern.. but its a just a feeling from the outside.. i come from other generation i guess.. ut when i was younger pascal, delphy and php were cool and just get things done..
i think its also a question of age.. when you are younger you are more pragmatic, and want everything fast and instant..
Javascript is that platform now.. the one who tends to call the younger and people who are starting programming..

this is not a critic, and not a bad thing at all.. its just more a general observation.. so excuse-me if i was unfair in anyway (thats the problem with generalizations though)

Well the problem with pragmatism its just that... people start doing things with a low critical thinking about the tool they are using..
they tend to experiment less with other languages and the different solutions those languages may point out..

so the problem pointed out by miguel de icaza over the callbacks.. they were spread all around in the code like if they were
the solution for everything.. or just _to get things done_

to be fair this is not _just_ a problem of javascript or another language.. its technology in general and the open source..

people should be more cooperative and less competitive.. why create a new blog engine just because you want to use another template system
and do not try to help the other project by adding the template system you like..

there are much of ego in technology today.. people want to be the new linus torvalds, or the new steve jobs..
but behind all of those big stars, and what they acomplished, there A LOT of people working in the same project
, all together.. so its the real spirit of cooperation behind it, even if they dont tkae the medals.. they deserve it
they are also the everyday heros

you can argue that this is may outside of the scope of this post.. but im trying to point what i think are the
real reasons, of why those things are happening.. and its not enough to look just at technology..
we need to take a look at the people behind it and how they move..

just my 2 dollars (because this comment its a little big for 2 cents)
Less informative than I hoped. Seems they're using the "nose" to drive readership in the sub-heading.

The earliest and strongest claim is that emoticon use varies like accents or dialects. He claims that the nose is associated with more conventionality or adult interests regardless of age, but doesn't disclose the strength of the association. Based on the call out of the nose in the subheading, I suspect it's primarily mentioned to make the article more interesting.

Relevant portion of article:

Schnoebelen has found that use of emoticons varies by geography, age, gender, and social class—just like dialects or regional accents. Friend groups fall into the habit of using certain emoticons, just as they develop their own slang. “You start using new emoticons, just like you start using different words, when you move outside your usual social circles,” said Schnoebelen. He discovered a divide, for instance, between people who include a hyphen to represent a nose in smiley faces— :-) — and people who use the shorter version without the hyphen. “The nose is associated with conventionality,” said Schnoebelen. People using a nose also tend to “spell words out completely. They use fewer abbreviations.” Twitter notoriously obscures demographic data, but according to Schnoebelen, “People who use no noses tend to be tweeting more about Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber. They have younger interests, younger concerns, whether or not they’re younger.”
> Sending humans sounds cool but we shouldn't go until it's as safe as commercial aviation then we can do it frequently.

That's almost asking for it never to happen at all. Air travel has a safety rate of 1 fatality per 2 billion passenger miles, making it one of the safest modes of transport out there. When Europeans first started exploring the Americas, the fatality rates were much higher, and people simply went in knowing that what they were doing was risky, but also fundamentally really cool.
I would categorize this as programmer-gore.
Defund the police does mean $0 for law enforcement though? The only people I've ever seen claim it doesn't are people that aren't claiming they want to defund police but do want to side with those who do. "They can't really mean that, you must have misunderstood." - nope.

Just like when I say repeal 230, I'm seriously saying get rid of the thing or at least rework it so people aren't being censored by non non govt but still very real monopolies on speech.
> learned about Göbekli Tepe and it blew my mind

It's also funny if you speak Turkish because it literally means "a hill with a belly".
doesn't the regulatory framework allow such changes though? afaik we aren't doing any phase 3 trials for the annual flu shot, or are we? (genuine question) But if we aren't, couldn't we just expand this to also take into account the Covid-shot?
Nvidia was founded by SUN people after all.
“The effort required to refute bullshit is at least an order of magnitude more than it is to produce it.”
I know there's lots of research papers out there talking about it but do you know if today's commercial microfluidics "lab on chip" devices use fluidics logic gates or is this still something that is still confined to academia?
Yes, but there’s nothing akin to the GIL in Rust/Tokio, so the potential impact of blocking is lower, and you can use spawn_blocking to move any blocking code (that you cannot eliminate) off the main worker threads that are polling futures, or use other techniques like run the blocking work on another standard thread and await on a channel for the result.
My comment was general, not to do with the article except for the title :)

I couldn't open it and asks for a login account with Medium.
If you're interested in AWS, you can have a look at their Reference Architectures [1] where you can find many example for different use cases.
For most AWS products there are also non-provider specific solutions [2]. I would try to be aware of that too.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/reference-architectures/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314973
I've never once had difficulty reporting a security vulnerability to Apple.

For that matter, I've never seen any of my friends in /r/netsec have difficulty either.

Slow to respond? Perhaps, if they receive many reports. Outright ignore or invalidate real flaws? Never seen it.

Do you have a data point to back this up?
If we are talking about the same thing (https://www.btsync.com/en/faq/)

Then they explicitely state that they store the data on their own servers. Is there another btsync?

EDIT:

Actually rereading it states they allocate space on their servers which sounds like they store data on their servers but I suppose it's also possible they might not.
IMHO, you cannot charge 5$ for, what I would call, "a dedicated HN browser".

Do people charge 5$ for reddit clients?

BTW, in your webpage, slides are broken.
Don't forget, at least in the 1st world, far fewer people die from infectious diseases and accidents than they used to, but they still die, so increases in cancer rates (if they exist) can be explained without there being any specific environmental or lifestyle causes.
I was a "online sales director" for a small chain of new and used cars for about a year.

Never buy a car new unless you have to. If you're buying the car new you shouldn't focus on the purchase price, but the value for your trade in and your APR.

Most used car sales generally only brought in $1,000-$3,000 in profit. The dishonesty in the business doesn't revolve around the pricing, it's in the details of the cars. Salesmen will lie about resale values, maintenance records, previous owners and so on.

My advice is to identify 2-3 cars you'd like and then buy that car with 30K-50K miles on it no more than 3-4 years old. You'll still be able to get a low APR, and you'll have cashed in on a car that will hold it's resell value better than a brand new car.
No good reason at all. Removed it.
>the decline of freedom and privacy ...1984

I'm not sure privacy in the sense of computers knowing what you're up to and freedom correlate positively. The societies with a lot of tech, eg the US, UK, EU etc are fairly free, the societies where you get killed for saying the wrong thing or having the wrong belief such as N Korea or the Islamic state are pretty low tech. I'm optimistic that computer tech will work against 1984 like systems of which I guess N Korea would be closest to in the real world.
Where can I read the record of the results of future predictions made by social scientists?
HTML and XHTML 'compatibility' for older versions of IE. IE6 couldn't parse application/html+xml MIME type and broke layouts. <br /> fixed that issue.
> If we can regulate them, so can the government.

Even if we can't, the government still can if it really wants to. They can still demand access to the software, the wallets, and they can fine or imprison people.
You get paid in Norway to do a PhD. I got paid more then than having a job in the industry in my native country.
Never heard of Chocolat before - but it is a very attractive OS X app!
Ya, it seems to be the same as in France then: PhD students here have a real work contract and a student status (which comes as anywhere with many advantages). However we have mostly 3 years long PhDs, and the teaching hours are limited.

The law actually states the minimum salary for a PhD student. It is approximately 1650€ "brut" (before social taxes) which amounts to 1350€ "net" (what you actually get each month). If you have a "mission d'enseignement" (teaching hours), which is not mandatory, then you have to be teaching for 64 hours per years (that is not counting the time you spend preparing for the course or the time spent correcting students assignments of course) and should not occupy more than 1/6 of your working time. Your salary is then 2000€ "brut", which amounts 1650€ "net".

Public PhD funding almost always stays at this level of salary. However you can be paid more than this, for instance if you are paid on a project grant money or if you are in CIFRE (which means you are paid by a company for which you have to spend a defined part of your time, this is often but not always incompatible with having a "mission d'enseignement"). But then your a lot less free to do whatever you want (since the project or the company mst of the time have strongly fixed goals).
No, I get coffee from the same guy who used to supply Peter Falk.
I like new releases. It's like a brand new ubuntu with better feature and everything. A release is an event.
this is a pretty entertaining story, especially for the following:

Gates and Allen thought they could process the traffic data cheaper and faster than the local companies. They recruited classmates to manually read the hole-patterns in the paper tape and transcribe the data onto computer cards. Gates then used a computer at the University of Washington to produce the traffic flow charts.

cheaper and faster indeed!
WebKit most probably did not have any influence here, but was mentioned because WebKit in the past, like "Cocoa/Objective-C" in this instance, is being used elsewhere. Hence, Apple's technologies are influencing adoption in the industry (yes, gnustep is not from Apple but for the most part, Cocoa is a distinctively Apple technology).
'gem -r -d search' works pretty well.
So nobody has ever shrunk clothes before? Or ruined whites? Or mixed ammonia and bleach to clean a floor?
Are you sure you didn't have the tasting, rather than the tour?

If not, I'm confused, since the tour is $225, and then the wines are said to be nearly as much as the meal, so with tip, that would put it just about at $500 a person. Even with zero wine, it'd be $270 with service.

Also, I may spontaneously combust with envy.
Yes, especially if you had Mike Koss's Enigma simulator: http://startpad.org/blog/diving-android-development-the-pock...
The linked schematic says the sail uses LCDs around the outer edge to change attitude. I can guess roughly how that works but can anyone explain it in detail?
It's hard to say. DrudgeReport and Craigslist seem to be getting on ok, but I personally would use okcupid.com over plentyoffish.com because the design is so kick-ass. I think if the functionality and usability of two sites is equal, a good design can give one the clear edge. We're visual creatures, and even a website can have increased perceived value with a shiny new coat of paint.
Whether you consider the developers a customer of Apple paying for distribution, or a supplier to Apple who takes a cut, is ultimately a semantic distinction. But the conflict of interest it creates — that Apple retains a monopoly on how software is distributed to a device that you ostensibly “own” and sets rates to optimize for their own gain - is the case regardless of the semantics we use.

(I’m not entirely opposed to this arrangement; I’m typing this on my iPhone. But I bought it knowing and accepting that I’m partly the product)
I know there have been reports of low sales of the mini but I'm hoping that Apple continues to make new ones for at least 1-2 more cycles before giving up. The mini isn't for me (I use a Max) but with the recent release of the SE2 I have to assume some people just weren't ready to upgrade (like you). One thing Apple needs to understand is just because a product line isn't a smashing success doesn't mean it's not needed to provide options for all their customers.

Similar to how they let the Mac line languish for a while because it wasn't their top seller without realizing if they sleep on that segment it will hurt the iPhone in the long run.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing!

Quotes from this article:

"But even many grown-ups enjoy [animation in North Korea] because it is one of the rare television programs in the North free of political messages"

"Actually most researchers estimate that almost half of the households in the North have television sets. It's just another common misconception about the North to think that only the rich get to watch television. There are also many animated films released in theatres."
I'll email you tomorrow when I have access to a computer. I'll be sure to check out your app too. Thanks --
Why would anybody want to spend their life lengthening a a virtual progress bar in an online game? I don't know, but there it is.
This also means that we can't necessarily derive what is good for X by what has generally happened with X. Or by genetic reasons either. If it's cyclical, it's cyclical both ways.
Thank you for the link. From your experience did you notice any immediate correlation between the sectors or any time delay? If there is some time delay, it might be a key feature to notice for short term trading, sounds right?
Second hand color calbration sensor is $100-$150, that's a professional quality one. And with the calibration taking 3 minutes every few weeks (if one is punctual) it seems that you want an Apple monitor because it's an Apple monitor and not because its color reproduction is good.
I suspect even more that nothing will actually happen. People know there's risk in running torrent sites, they bet the ad revenue will outweigh it and eventually they lose.
> Take a look at tag distros on stack overflow. Java is by far and away the most tagged language.

I'm not so sure that being popular on an "I don't get it" kind of site is a good thing.
Related : are they replaceable?
The reporter doesn't seem to understand that Google search is a search engine not some sort of recommendation engine - the results should only be influenced by relevance imv.
A book I would really like which I haven't heard of before.
And you weren't tempted to take some money off the table when your $100 investment hit $100,000, $500,000, $1M, $2M? Or are you saying you've lost the key?
I disagree with this: there's a genuine difference between non-productive assets like bitcoin (and gold) and productive ones like companies.

> Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

> Let’s now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world’s most profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1 trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

> ...

> A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops – and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be. Exxon Mobil will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its owners and will also hold assets worth many more trillions (and, remember, you get 16 Exxons). The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything. You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond.

--Warren Buffett https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf

(emphasis added in the final paragraph)
Within Finder Preferences there is a dropdown that asks you when performing a search whether to use global or current directory.

And for volume mixer this exists:
https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

I have to say it really doesn't seem like you spent much effort trying to actually fix your issues.
I must admit that I never understood what these particular examples had to do with Lisp being such a great programing language given that you can implement exactly the same logic in basically any programing language, including for instance C (although you'd have to cheat a bit for the `deriv` function, admittedly):

#include <stdio.h>

#define DX 0.0001

#define DERIV(_f) float deriv_##_f(float x) { return (_f(x + DX) - _f(x)) / DX; }

float cube(float x) { return x * x * x; }

DERIV(cube)

int main(void) {
printf("%f\n", deriv_cube(2));
printf("%f\n", deriv_cube(3));
printf("%f\n", deriv_cube(4));
}

Any language supporting closures or generics could get rid of the unsexy DERIV macro.

What sets Lisp apart is its "code as data" approach which lets the coder write incredibly powerful macro (and also incredibly hard to understand code). The rest can easily be emulated in other languages.

I do like this naive approach mind you, there's a certain Zen to be found reimplementing these mathematical concepts from first principles, I just really fail to see what makes Lisp so remarkable in this context.
> Everything is getting slower and slower, and nobody cares.

It really depends. The latest crop of games I’ve played (Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk) loads way faster than games from a few years back (aforementioned GTA-V, Shadow Warrior 2…).

This is also on the same machine, so it’s not the hardware that makes it faster.
EIP1559 and ETH2 will kill miners, hopefully, and I have no sympathy. Miners can go to hell.
A pypi release with improved warnings for destructive queries may be good.

BTW thanks for pgcli. It's helped me a lot lately.
The funny thing is that if they really tried to combat the privilege - the rich families connected to the ruling class - the privilege would combat them into the ground, so they wisely chose a weak opponent that vaguely resembles the rich (common skin color).
This seems like the perfect type of error which is caught by autocorrect. Do you have it enabled?
> Do all non-optical network cards have a similar analog circuit as well? Is this generally the transceiver chip on the card?

Even optical cards have this kind of circuitry in the PHY chip. While the SFP module usually contains surprising amount of logic, most of it has to do with configuration and testing and in the end it is just an pair of LEDs with configurable analog amplifiers.

On the other hand for modern ethernet over TP (1Gbps and up) the analog interface circuitry is significantly more complex (and power hungry), because calling the thing baseband (the "base" in "1000-base-T") somewhat stretches the definition of the word. It uses various line coding and signal processing tricks to squeeze all the bandwith out of the wire.
Hello! Thank you so much for the feedback, those are some perfectly valid points.

I'm the creator of Githubbuddy and am currently a student at Turing which is a code school based out of Denver, CO. I agree that the main "Sign In" page is pretty lacking right now. I will work on adding some more information to that and making the README a little more clear.
Yeah, I could believe aliens would have ciphers that mix add, modulo, xor, etc. in some way, but the choices we use in designs do seem to be somewhat random among a large set of possible decisions (though I could be wrong, and it would be really cool to know if there was a "natural" cipher that ought to be universally "discovered", based on how physics, mathematics and computation generally works in this universe). Or at least a class of ciphers where some decisions like constants can be arbitrary without affecting security or efficiency.

Take the polynomial in GCM mode. I'm no expert on this, but I believe it's chosen to be somewhat "awkward", but I'm not sure if it was really the only choice out there. SHA1 I think, and other constructions, sometimes have "nothing up my sleeve" numbers in places like the digits the square roots of small integers and whatnot, but they're just arbitrarily chosen so as not to be suspicious to others. But those are just constants. What about designs? E.g. AES rounds: if you still did the operations or rounds but in a slightly different order, or added/removed some other operation somewhere, I imagine there are many combinations where this will be just fine. I really have no idea if it's chosen completely optimally. It certainly seems different to RSA and Diffie-Hellman which, aside from the padding perhaps, I think are naturally destined to be discovered due to their close relation to group theory and primes.
The new HHKB with the USB-C port does not have any secondary USB ports anymore, I keep my work Yubikey in that so I can’t upgrade to the new model.
Also, high temperature cooking with extra virgin olive oil.
I think this can be distilled as "most tech folk are extremely bad at valuing each business use case separately."

Tech folks: That's a business use case

Business users: This is something I do 500x a day, this I do 10x a day, this I do once a month

PMs are supposed to be the ones to do this work, but they tend to be technically clueless and blinded by project timeline spreadsheets.

BAs usually don't take the time to actually ask the user "Why are you doing this?" and get all the nuances.
This video on "Vegetable Oils: The Unknown Story" provides interesting story about the war on fat in the US, by the author of the book "The Big Fat Surprise" [1][2].

According to the author, she was about to name her book "The Big Fat Lie", but eventually decided against it.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2UnOryQiIY

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/14...