jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What would work is finding a way to tax wealth instead of income. That would shut Warren Buffet up.
On what grounds are you affirming that this guy http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?page_id=2 is a mathematician?
In my experience, Coloradans are always looking for some justification as to why they live there - whether that's a "new center of tech", or "freedom to toke", or "Colorado NATIVE". I guess it's not enough that they simply enjoy it.
DDIA is an amazing book, but it's way, way too deep for any kind of interview. If you read DDIA cover to cover, you know what I mean.

DDIA is to system design, as a computer science textbook is to the algo interview.
10,000 of these are contracted to the UNHCR.

I've always found it curious; often innovations in the refugee arena would often be very welcome in other venues: camping, cheap structures, etc. These things are always priced really cheap, but we never see them really entering into the commercial market -- or when they do, they're always going for some kind of 2x the price scheme.

For example, these 188 sqft shelters would be great as a sheds, or workshops in affluent areas. Heck, I'd like to buy one for my parents to use as a storage shed on their property. Equivalent sized sheds (without solar power, or good design) run >$2000.

I see this all the time, nifty water purifiers, portable lights, radios, etc. There's some really interesting stuff being produced for refugees. Instead of crazy 2:1 schemes or whatever, why not just sell these on a 20% markup and donate the profit to buying more shelters? Or just sell them and push the price down due to the greater economies of scale?

The refugee space always seems so weird to me.
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That is another good point - having a passenger. Our Toyota has safety features prevent bringing up a keyboard (mainly for the gps to search for new locations while driving). The car needs to be stopped. For a solo driver this makes sense ... but I know my local area ... the only time I ever need this is when I'm on a roadtrip and usually the passenger is the one making the change. I want _more_ powerful interfaces and touch is fine for a passenger coordinating with the driver, even though a physical interface for the driver with better integration into apps would work better for that use case. One-size doesn't fit all.
After giving the same advice to my friends over and over again, I created https://101.finance. Would love feedback on it!
All of this worked fine for neigh on half a century. My fathers ‘77 Ford pickup had radio channel presets and basic audio fidelity controls.
I disagree. I get into modern cars and there are so many single-use buttons and dials that I need a 30-page manual to figure out what they do. Only to find out it's something I would use at most once-per-decade. Touchscreens make this simpler IF they are done correctly. Therein lies the problem; most car makers can't design a good UI if they tried, because they are just so incredibly bad at designing software.

The only exception is Tesla. Everyone I know who has actually tried driving one immediately changes their opinion about the touchscreen, because in the Tesla is actually works and doesn't feel like it was designed in 1995.

Other car makers need to get their shit together on software; stop outsourcing, and try actually giving a damn about your product for a change.
A couple things: 1. as I understand, GPT-x are trained on generic datasets. Why would anyone expect it could just be repurposed for a domain specific task, without additional fine tuning? Same as a lot of vision models are trained on Imagenet and then fine tuned for the application, but you would never expect that imagenet weights would just automatically perform whatever specific task you had.

2. Where would this chatbot ever be a good idea? Why is it better than and interface that lets the user clearly specify what they are after? Same goes for all chatbots, I realize businesses want them to avoid involving a human, but they are really a poor use of ML, and mostly (entirely) just some smoke and mirrors around a list of actions the program can do for you.
> At the point where you're being very choosy about the access modifiers on your classes, you probably thought about icon assets already.

You'd think, but many of the most popular apps accidentally ship these all the time. I think another comment mentioned that much of the code size seems to be coming from a code generation framework.
Yes, this is very true. Emergency funds will make your life so much less stressful.

I will say that his recommendation to buy in bulk is in some way an emergency fund (or an aspect of it) because you're saving money on things you know you'll buy in the future.

One thing I did when I lost a job was move some of my retirement account (roth IRA) to money market funds (from short term bonds). Basically moving some of the bond portion of my retirement from slightly risky to not risky/cash.

Roth IRAs let you pull out your contribution. This was basically to augment my emergency fund, just in case finding the right new job took longer than I thought. (I was lucky, it didn't, and I was able to convert the money market funds back to short term bonds).

Not a fan of pulling from retirement, but if I had to, better to take from the tax penalty free, stable portion of it.
GME had a market cap below $1B between April and November 2020[0], and somehow DFV could still make his posts.

The rules didn't say that the limit was $1B in September,[2] that was only added later.[1]

[0]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GME/gamestop/marke...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/about/rules

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200912192940/https://www.reddi...
That's weird, I don't remember consenting to mind reading.

Of course I've driven in big cities. I agree that it's not great...which is why the solution is to make alternative options as viable as possible: walking, biking, transit. Then you don't have to drive in big cities, and more space on roads is freed up for those who do.

Cities are defined by their population density, and cars by their nature are geometrically inefficient. The solution is higher efficiency modes, not doubling down on something ill-suited to its environment.
Theres almost certainly a more direct route, but I learned most of these things (not really JCL) by learning HLASM from this resource:

http://csc.columbusstate.edu/woolbright/WOOLBRIG.htm
I notice that very few people that work in Manhattan actually live in Manhattan. Unless you're very young and happy to live with roommates, or are already loaded, or are making big bucks from a, say, high finance or FAANG SWE job, most people seem to be commuting in from NJ or the outer boroughs (Brooklyn and LIC are probably priced out too).
> At least for metadata, as of now, Signal seems to provide better guarantees than Matrix.

Agree here. Matrix servers log everything by default. If somebody cares about protecting metadata, I don't know why they'd choose Matrix over Signal.
I don’t like the click bait title, but the conclusion is interesting.
> I also think that this can be enlarged: all sorts of working meetings could be improved by people standing shoulder-to-shoulder at a table and pushing around tangible objects, with simple programming about how they'll interact.

I've worked at a company (~30 people) that used a physical kanban blackboard, with slips of paper and magnets.

The slips started out hand-written. Then someone made a printer. Then someone realized there was still too much information being held on Redmine. Then someone connected the printer with Redmine. Then we decided to keep the long descriptions in Redmine, but priorities and assignments on kanban. Then someone decided we need to keep ticket priorities and progress on Redmine as well, because computers are actually better when you need to sort and filter a mass of tickets. Then someone noticed it's difficult to locate either the physical representation of a ticket, or its copy on Redmine, to keep both in sync. Before I left, we were throwing around ideas like printing QR codes on the tickets, or using CV/OCR. The printer would also get jammed, the paper tickets got lost, we never had enough magnets, and I hate chalk.

We've had a very unusual (in my experience) policy of no remote / no WFH, I didn't mind but I wonder how much more of an obstacle it would have been if remote work was more common. It would certainly make zero sense in the pandemic world, but I didn't stick around long enough to find out.
>PSL is maintained by volunteers and there should be zero expectation of turnaround times on PR (and a respect for the labor burden shifted onto them by orgs using PSL as a bozofilter)

What is to stop Facebook from assigning an engineering team to act as volunteers so the turnaround time drops to zero?
That's great for the hour after the snowplow passes, but what about after that? Snow + ice on a bike is a pretty easy crash. Even a slow speed crash on a bike can break bones, unlike cars.
ouch burned... except that it isn't the thesis of my post, I just started it by hooking into your argument about education.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/stories.html
I'm not sure your comment is relevant to the discussion. The concept of species, when it involves sexual reproduction, is pretty straight-forward: mating produces fertile offspring.

Your remark is only relevant when nit-picking corner cases involving asexual reproduction, which I don't expect to be the case in Neanderthal-Human cross-breeding.
Do you understand how poor some people are?
OG thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207430
Typical worldview of a frog in a well.
We're using Go for our discrete sim as well as our optimization platform and I love it.

A lot of these samples of D are really enticing and I think I'm going to have to spend some time really digging in. I hope the toolchain is nice.
I have an iPhone because it is (for my needs) a better machine. I wear Nike running shoes because they fit me well and that gets me a safer workout.

Some things have functional advantages even if they also signal status. The working class has at least as much need for functionality as anyone else. A $400 phone vs a $200 one could easily be more useful to a poorer person than a richer one. Same with $100 vs $25 shoes.

My Seiko tells time as well as a Rolex (though not as well as an even cheaper quartz watch would). But even here, where status is definitely a factor, it’s not like the Rolex has no additional value: it has resale value, and aesthetic value.
The Chevy Spark EV was supposedly nearly as cheap after rebates, I think. But I believe it was discontinued, and I assume that means it probably was being produced at a loss, so it doesn't really count.
I agree, sometimes links posted on hacker news are just really old news
Actually saw this as well today:

http://txt2re.com

Although I like yours better for what I'm doing.

Edit: was originally posted here (with a bad title and subsequently ignored):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2449640
nice visually, but kinda crappy functionally.

that said I did find the ability to switch between models useful, since it lets you see just what gets changed visually between the C63 AMG and the regular C-Class, the M3 and 3-series, Base corvette and the Z06 etc.

That said for some reason you haven't applied this to Audi(i.e. A4/S4)
It's very interesting. It's a work in progress, but the canvas looks good. One of the huge problems with buying a new car is the sheer amount of "comparison data" available. It's near impossilbe for someone to make a good decision (good according to "How we Decide" & "Happiness Hypothesis") with more than 5-6 variables.
I like the fact that it only presents one very simple dimension of choice so far. Now, if you can figure out a way to not overwhelm a buyer, and keep the choices low, by eliminating vehicles of the wrong color etc from a search, it really would be new-car research that doesn't suck :)
This is a perfect timing for promotion of Playbook and BB security. I am sure RIM will miss the opportunity though.
actually, i think the author does understand this and in the case of stackoverflow, i think he's obliquely making the case that many of the effects could otherwise be achieved with css without creating the performance and memory hits you might get from using $().

in most cases, js performance is a non issue, but when it is, it's interesting to see how and where you can optimize, which is really what his add-on (again, obliquely the real point of the post) seems to target.
I think picking jQuery as an example wasn't the best choice since it probably is already cached for sites that use google's or other popular CDNs. This is true for StackOverflow (one of the examples in the article).

The main point of the article still stands though. Closure and similar tools make a lot of sense because they can reduce the size of js quite a bit. Especially for huge apps that require several libraries but only use parts of them it can make a huge difference.
Flash is a delivery wrapper (and is often used to deliver h.264; I don't believe Adobe has announced any plans to support WebM) - the thing being discussed here is the format for the video itself...
Can someone with knowledge or experience on the subject explain how the "2+1"[0] road is better than a standard 3-lane highway?

[0] FTA "Building 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) of "2+1" roads—where each lane of traffic takes turns to use a middle lane for overtaking—is reckoned to have saved around 145 lives over the first decade of Vision Zero"
I bet things haven't changed as much as you think. It was probably pretty rare back then to find the right person working for the right boss. And it's equally rare today.

And I would disagree with the second point. I've hired a few guys right out of school with no experience, but I recognized they had the right attitude. It's about 50% effective, but when it works out, it's great.
Do you know why Uber wasn't invented in Spain? Because it is illegal. People giving rides for money have existed always and they've been punished because they were breaking the law.

Now they're telling us it is "disruptive" to make crime more organized? Hey, we've got this nice app in order to receive your illegal service in an easy, trackable and convenient way.

I'm not saying it should be illegal. I'm saying it is illegal. There's a huge difference. I'm all in for an open taxi market as a side business to cheap public transportation like we have in most places in Europe.
Just came here to post that same comment (http://www.economist.com/comment/2312452#comment-2312452).

While it's surprising the Economist failed to mention this maybe the UK's and Sweden's approaches are actually not that different? We have lots of speed bumps, traffic calming techniques, cameras, average speed checks, high vis signing, smart roadside warning stuff, railings at many pedestrian crossings etc. Most modern cars you can buy now come with beeping alerts if you don't plug your belt in and our drink driving rules are tough and enforced.

Also, depending on where in the UK you live, it's difficult to drive at a speed that could do any serious damage due to the horrendous congestion! Whenever I'm on the M6 I seem to spend most of the time stationary :/

Anecdotal Edit: I also think there's a difference in driving mentality/culture between British drivers and those from some other EU countries e.g. France. I lived there for 5 years and noticed that drivers there were much more willing to overtake on blind bends (which used to scare the shit out of me) and much less inclined to make way for other road users merging. Their attitude to driving seemed a lot more focused on their individual needs rather than the collective. My French girlfriend (who now lives with me here in the UK) agrees FWIW.
As an aside, the bicycle roads in the Netherlands are extremely well-organized. The U.S. and other countries should borrow this format for inter- and intracity cycling. Most U.S. bicycle paths are like road signs in rural Germany: few and far between or hidden behind an overgrown hedge.
Narrow roads are actually one of the best things you can do to increase road safety. People naturally want to slow down on narrow roads and speed up on broad ones.
I don't think the difficulty of getting a driver's license has that much to do with it as one would expect. In fact, sometimes you'll see the opposite result.

South Africa has one of the toughest driving tests (the K53). Not to mention that even applying and qualifying for one is an ordeal on its own. And yet, the fatality rate is around 32 per 100k. If you make it too hard for people to obtain a license, they'll get one illegally. If you make the test too hard, they'll do the same. If you make the test impractical, it becomes worthless.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/world/africa/30license.htm...
It's surprisingly effective passive advertising.
I really am just curious if anyone has got a solution to educate kids who normally wouldn't receive an education with computers at all.
High School Counselor Logic (in California):
if (Mexican) {
schedule({shop: true,
math: true,
esl: true,
APEuroHistory: false
}
);
}
I've always thought could you compress english text easily by getting the top X number of words/phrases and then using rarely used ascii letters/ combinations to represent those words. Then extending this concept for the remainding words using the most commonly used word groups (eg -ight)

I've been too way too busy (cough.. lazy) to test this idea
Got a Dell with an integrated GPU as well as a GTX1660. The laptop's display is hooked to the igpu, the HDMI to the GTX. Problems that have happened with Linux, in no particular order:

* Bumblebee/Optimus is a pain in the ass to install

* Performance on the second screen with Optimus is dreadful (sub 30Hz refresh rate)

* Being an NVidia card, I have the choice between Nouveau which can only put it into its low power state (which fucks me over when I need to use the Android emulator), or the proprietary nvidia ones which are, well, shit.

* Putting the laptop to sleep with an external display connected is a sure way to have it crash when it starts back up.

* Just kidding it doesn't actually go to sleep, the GPU stays on and runs like crazy.

I would _love_ to be running Debian on this machine. Sadly, the state of some things on Linux makes it impossible for me.

My emergency laptop, an 8 year old low end HP with a broken keyboard is still happily running along with Debian though.
what do I do apart from searching on the internet?

On a real UNIX like HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, FreeBSD or illumos (and any of its distributions), you'd run catman -w as root only once for the lifetime of the system, then run:

man -k "disk space"

and then you'd search for SEE ALSO with "/", eventually you'd run into df(1), under the very bad presumption that it isn't the first hit.

EXAMPLE (Solaris 10, identical for illumos / SmartOS)
> man -k "disk space"
cfsadmin cfsadmin (1m) - administer disk space used for caching file systems with the Cache File-System (CacheFS)
df df (1b) - display status of disk space on file systems
df_ufs df_ufs (1m) - report free disk space on ufs file systems
snmpdf snmpdf (1m) - get a listing of disk space usage on a remote machine by means of SNMP
space space (4) - disk space requirement file
df df (1) - report file system disk space usage
df df (1gnu) - report file system disk space usage

...on a real UNIX, manual pages are THE resource, they are very comprehensive because they were written by professional documentation departments, respectively professional technical writers in those departments working with the actual engineers who developed the software.

The manual page system on a real UNIX is designed to locate exactly the type of information you would be looking for quickly, efficiently and most importantly, consistently.

It's GNU/Linux manual pages that are utter garbage, ergo switch to a system like SmartOS and never look back.
I don’t understand the point this article is trying to make.

Yes, Apple execs thought that iMessage exclusivity would help them. Perhaps it did a little but the app still connects seamlessly to android users via sms. I never think when contacting someone, “oh wait, do they have an iPhone?”

As for imessage-specific features (iMessage App Store, cash, imessage for businesses etc): they have pretty limited use. And in fact Apple’s choice inhibits some of them (like iChat to your business) which seems like an own goal.

More importantly, Whatsapp has crushed most of the messaging apps, imessage included. Apple doesn’t seem to care or try to block it.

So what offense, exactly has been committed?
Know the major reasons behind the poor vue.js application performance and get the correct solution how to fix the Vue.js app performance issue with pro optimization tips.
They were not YouTube-approved scientists, and DeSantis is not a YouTube-approved governor.

As a private entity, Youtube is allowed to censor people they don't like for any reason they wish. Just like they are allowed (and do) promote channels and Youtubers supportive of their political ideologies.

Anyone who disagrees is free to start their own Youtube.
He's not asking why it's hard to port linux to M1 (and it's never been easy either, even before M1), but why people in this thread have hesitations about linux on laptop in general.
Aligned not in terms of getting work done, but in terms of social bonding, right? That does make sense.
Every single laptop my company bought me in the last 10 years (3+) had kernel/driver issues, especially with Ubuntu, since the kernel version was usually lower than that from other distros, like Fedora.

This includes mostly graphics driver issues (either simply Nvidia, or hybrids, or some exotic protocols such as DisplayLink), but also touchpad, power/suspend issues (e.g. wake-up failure), lack of fingerprint or smartcard reader drivers... Without mentioning certain manufacturers forcing you to use Windows simply to update docking station firmware drivers (like Dell does).

I still favor Linux whenever I can, but there is a real issue in several models, especially bleeding-edge powerful laptops from brands favored by businesses. Linux certification does improve things, but it often omits "optional" components such as fingerprint readers.

Overall, about 1-2 years after the new laptop model has been released, almost everything works fine, but when you're among the first users, some amount of time will be spent in forums trying to find solutions and workarounds for such issues.