jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I concur. The accomplishments mentioned were of the "I was an exceptional high-school student" variety and hence don't necessarily inspire jealousy from an adult. Perhaps if he'd closed with "and now I'm a jet-setting playboy" I'd have been put off.
It would probably hurt FOSS in the short term, because it would essentially legalize not-for-profit copying — unlicensed copies of any proprietary software would be legal, and so we'd have well-curated and reputable repositories of AutoCAD, Microsoft Windows, OrCAD, Cisco IOS, and so on, perhaps even with enhancements and ports to new platforms. I imagine this is already the case in China.
Half (or more) of the problem with finding an answer is knowing what the question is. It was actually a very good article, in terms of framing and context setting, to help seed the discussion about what the question is. In that regard, it was very valuable.

Don't underestimate the value of a good question; and don't expect every informative article to spoon feed the reader the answers.
Interesting that they support importing VMware images - I was under the impression that EC2 used Xen.
"Sure, it's not apples for apples identical"

It's not even apples for oranges, it's apples for penises. Volume is hardly a good metric for valuation.
How would you prevent billionaires from moving to a tax haven, though? That is the big loophole that both billionaires and large corporations benefit from, that others don't have access to.
Most of that can be found for $8-15/lb at supermarkets here. I'm not sure how that compares to Trader Joe's since they don't support online shopping.
Can you convert Latex to Word (or ODT, etc.), perhaps with Pandoc, and then from that to epub (e.g. Google Docs allows you to download a Doc as an epub)?

Book looks interesting, btw!
Magic Mouse 2 is where the real improvement is. It's a joy to use, even though it's sharp edges really suck for prolonged use. Hopefully they fix that in the next iteration, also it's a bit too heavy.
personal opinion: absolute pain. everything is very complicated due to being connected to AAD and other services. lots of features but most of them useless. the legacy that they dragged along really is hindering.
Insofar as the government in China and the CCP are synonymous and have been for a long time, most people would regard approval of the government there as implicit approval of the CCP. It did show up as flagged for me.
I've considered doing this to make inlining of interactive components easier. Agree though that it seems like overkill.
I simply read it as hyperbole and facetious. It made me chuckle.
I think there's a difference between a parent saying, "You should consider the economic ROI of what you choose to study, the risk of success/failure, and what life it could lead to" vs. "be a lawyer". If your kid really wants to act then they can go to LA and learn what the best way to do that is.

I think parents bias to being risk-adverse in advice for their kids because they only experience the downside risk and little of the upside from potentially riskier paths. I think a good parent would communicate some of this, but that's not a skill everyone has.

A lot parents just don't know that much and are over confident (like most people) even if their intentions for their kid are good. Others leverage their power over their kids to force them into certain paths which isn't great either.
If history serves as an example, embarrassment doesn't necessarily spur improvement.

It could instead convince them it isn't a core offering, resulting in the decision to shut it down.
How did you convince sales person to sell for you and what enterprise software niche markets have lower barrier to entry or does this even matter at all? Where do you find enterprise customer leads to give the sales person? Adwords?
Steady now, that's my mother you're talking about...

I agree that context matters. That's why statistically the proposed solution isn't a solution. It doesn't really work in a way that address the serious issue because the serious issue is the sheer magnitude of the number of compromised systems.

To put it another way, if you have a Linux or Windows or BSD box why keep a potentially deeply compromised OSX installation around at all. The patch isn't going to unpwn a pwnd box. The hoops might insure the patch isn't compromised but in terms of system security the horse is out of the barn and all the way to the glue factory.

The only case where jumping through those hoops makes a difference is in the second best case. And that's statistically equivalent to the best case and preparing for the best case in regard to security goes by the name of "wishful thinking."
well, i use uber often and i'll say it out loud: fuck taxis.
I don't care. I used to use taxis and buses for anything else than commuting. I don't even need the later with the price of uberx.

uberx is cheaper, faster, more reliable.
cars are nicer, drivers are very professional, all the time.
uberx is always there for you, you don't need to wave at empty taxis that may or may not take you in, and wait 30min because you're not at the right place. uber is there in 5. always.

So yeah, fuck regular taxis. Sorry guys. You don't cut it anymore.
Especially problematic in disaster areas. If you go unprepared and get dysentery, then instead of help you are one more distressed person - a net negative 2 (or more) from real help.
I read that as 64 GB and thought that's not impressive for a server. Then I saw it was TB...
I always find gnumeric to be plenty powerful for doing any spreadsheet stuffs I need to do. No I don't get fancy, just mess with columns and formulae and statistical analysis.
I'm sorry for coming across as a dick, but the idea that you "wasted" time learning a framework that became obsolete is silly to me, and it seems to be a common sentiment.

Ask yourself: at the time you used prototype.js, did it save time on the project?

If you answered Yes, then it was never a waste of time. Knowing prototype.js AND jQuery makes you a better developer: you learned the hard way that abusing prototypes can lead to hard-to-understand code. That can only be a good thing!
No I can concur. There's definitely something odd about this. I've actually booted up where I don't have network connectivity and it all works well; until it gets news of an update (after I connect to a network).
Yes, but just for fun.
Perhaps. Could it instead be 2 issues that are conflated? When it gets slow, have you rebooted without applying updates? Could be memory leaks, paging, misbehaving applications. Have you run Process Explorer (from sysinternals) [1] as Administrator when the slowness occurs? Windows 10 will also Suspend processes not in use rather than killing them which can eat up the pagefile.

[1] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysi...
Will happen the year linux starts dominating desktop.
That is really a loaded question.

ARM bigLITTLE exists to address different efficiencies that are exploited in different runtime states. Is big better than LITTLE? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

If there is no definitive answer within the heterogenous cores of a single ARM implementation, then how can it be compared to RISC-V?
I remember doing a POC using a Samsung device for NFC ticketing for BART back in 2004.
I'd say architecture fits in a bit differently here, due to the extremely high barriers to entry (you have to secure property AND fund the design AND fund the construction) compared to almost any other form of artistic expression. American society (and much of the rest of the world) has become more profit-focused over time, and buildings are a huge cost. Therefore, they've been increasingly designed to be purpose-built. Aesthetics cost money, and rarely serve the purpose of whoever is paying for the building.

If you funded the most talented architects alive to create works of beauty, I bet you'd get it.
Softbank would be stupid to list on the LSE.
Occasional page load failure while logged in? Pretty common. Complete or nearly complete failure for logged-in users? Happens sometimes. Completely down such that not even a logged-out user can read it? I'm not sure I've ever seen that.
I've been using Tally for a few months now, and my experience has been very positive so far. Coming from Google Forms, I really appreciate the modern UX, intuitive form builder, and built-in integrations.

I used Tally to conduct a survey of my Discord community with 68K members (48K MAU). The creation experience was smooth and the results were easy to parse. The free plan doesn't let me invite my team, but it was easy enough to hook up a Google Sheet they have access to, just like Google Forms.

More recently, I used Tally to create a landing page promoting the upcoming launch of my new website. I added an option to put your name and email to get notified when we launch. I also wanted these people to become the first subscribers to our newsletter, but the site isn't live yet. So, I hooked the form up to a Notion database[1] so I could just export a CSV when the newsletter is ready to go. It was easy, too! In Google Forms this would require writing my own integration with App Script.

I think it's cool that Tally is built by two people who are partners in both work and life. Their story resonated with me, so in addition to (so far) preferring Tally over Google Forms, I would love to support these people. It's not in the budget right now, but I plan to upgrade to Tally Pro and migrate my team very soon.

A note to the creators: I noticed you separated your blog from your help center, and I just wanted to say I really appreciate this change. It's much easier to read now! I love that you picked the Journal theme, too. One of my favorite Ghost themes. Good luck with the business, and keep up the great work!

1: I would have just hooked it up to a Google Sheet again, but since I'm evaluating the product I wanted to test other integrations.
I don't understand how you expect the question of what "x" is worth to be anything other than subjective.

It's like asking whether any other digital media subscription is worth it - my wife follows certain instructors and says she really enjoys the rides/classes - there is a certain element of "star power" in this space; the production values are excellent; the integration with the bike is top-notch.
Ah, the key piece is this statement:

> At checkout, the merchant will simply prompt the customer to hold their iPhone or Apple Watch to pay with Apple Pay, their contactless credit or debit card, or other digital wallet near the merchant’s iPhone, and the payment will be securely completed using NFC technology

The language is a bit verbose, but does look like it supports standard NFC based contactless also.
There's something a little creepy about saying there's nothing wrong with the American education system by only looking at those in the US of European descent and excluding all others.

Controlling for exogenous variables is "creepy"?

African Americans (and Asians) are excluded from comparison simply because Finland doesn't have them. Similarly, when comparing the US to Asian schools, the author excludes whites as well. The point here is to compare like to like.
who are the people "of US descent"?
Have you tried using this as an ssh terminal? Saw they have a bigger version too that also supports Bluetooth keyboards.

https://onyx-boox.com/shop/onyx-boox-m96-universe-97-inch-e-...

Something like this could be a very, very cool development setup for me. I'm interested if anyone has tried it and whether there are any downsides.
The article contains 2500 words and 3 photos.
Talk about a misleading title...
I like how "Apple's Worst Security Breach" ends up being a privacy issue with AT&T's website.

Quality "reporting" from Gawker, as usual.
> One, most so-called developers are bad, period, regardless of nationality.

True, unfortunately.

> Second, (...) the average years of experience is much lower.

That's easily addressable. Make your requirements clear. My outsourcer asks me what profile I want for every new hire on my team, advertises, interviews and tests, and gives me one or two resumes. I've been satisfied so far, but if I'd come back and said some guy isn't good enough, he would be replaced.

> Third, there's the language, cultural and distance obstacles

Language, again, is easy: no English, no hire. Cultural is the fun part, but that might just be me. Distance is workable. The US has South America, Europe has Eastern Europe and Near East. Africa should also be moving, but haven't had a chance to try working with anyone from there.

> And fourth, and possibly not least important factor: low prices mess up the quality-is-price signaling mechanism.

References can typically help here, but be prepared to build a relationship with a provider. You might get burned, but once you've got a mutually beneficial relationship, this goes away.
In my experience the best revenge is usually to live a happy life. If it was me, I'd use the $1M to do that. Even assuming he's completely non-materialistic, I find it hard to imagine there's nothing Perelman could spend the money on that would make him even a little happier.
Maybe not, but on the other hand you can do more than your comment hint at.

I should know, I currently run both Adblock and Flashblock.
No, but shortage of free quality apps is, IMO.
I'd love to see a benchmark of per dollar performance of Heroku vs. EC2. Heroku seems more expensive to me, but I may be wrong.
Here in Australia our communications minister has gone on the offensive against Google (widely presumed to be in retaliation for their opposition to his proposed internet filter), most recently claiming that they could have been stealing people's banking details...

(I'm honestly not sure if he's clueless or just deliberately fear-mongering)
if you've read Hughes' papers before, it's worth listening to the interview. Brings in his personality in a way that isn't conveyed well via the transcript.
I think it's because of who proposed it: the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, according to Wikipedia in the "51st State" article.

I like the arrangement, too, but I can see why its provenance might taint it in some eyes. That's unfortunate; it's a much more pleasant arrangement than the one we currently have.

I could also see people objecting to changing the US's hundred-odd-year tradition of having ugly and grating arrangements of stars. :) And the circular star arrangement _is_ something one tends to see flown by sinister US successor states like those in _Fallout_ and _Jericho_...
Pretty much all Windows programs support / in filenames.
The main issue is some cmd builtins like mkdir/cd/del which have weird parsing rules where every / is interpreted as starting a command-line switch, even if not preceded by a space.
But even there, you only need to use quotes (mkdir "c:/test") to suppress the interpretation as a switch and then you can use paths with slashes just fine in batch files.
I think I am experiencing FOMO with this NFT thing but no matter how much I look at it I have no interest what so ever in any of these. Very odd feeling...
That’s on you for not knowing hard drive manufacturers have always measured in base 10, not base 2. I have a 1 TB drive with 931 GiB of capacity. That due to Windows using base 2, not because I was “defrauded”.

That SD card you have? Base 10. Flash drive? Base 10. Hard drive? Base 10. SSD? Base 10. The only outlier here is RAM being base 2, but that’s because it’s in a grid, so 16 GB is easier to write than 17.18 GB.
I’ve argued that Gross Margin Dollars is more important than Gross Margin percent. Most business school grads are focused on the percent because it’s good for the stock price, when it’s the gross margin dollars which pays the light bill.

I worked an account where we made 60 points of margin on our base product, which we sold $50M/year. We then sold $100M of an add-on product at 25 points of margin. There were people arguing that we should stop selling the add-on product, until I pointed out that it contributed almost as much margin dollars as our primary, with almost no engineering effort.
We changed the URL from https://github.com/yuanming-hu/taichi to the project page.

Edit: whoops, it looks like this is a dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21135945

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19920552

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13325190 from 2017.
I make quite a bit too... but the average developer doesnt.. average US software dev salary is just $100k/year.
"The individual vote has been devalued by an order of magnitude." Well, that's true, if you think about an individual voting for a representative. But what do representatives do? They vote in the House. And no matter how you slice it, you can't make each individual's vote matter more in the House. If it matters more in electing a representative, then there are more representatives, and each representative's vote matters less in the House.
Also perf trace has a lower overheads than strace. I think Brendan Gregg has numbers somewhere.
It’s also not just about height. Sounds like there are other heath factors to be considered.

> The goal, according to the company, is to prevent the medical complications associated with achondroplasia, which include sleep apnea, hearing loss, and spinal problems.
This. I have an open consulting opportunity please email me to my HN user name at google’s mail service if interested.
And it's highly disturbing to me that people will defend these situations on this site. An alarming amount of HN commenters seem to believe that the cost of labor is a function of the money created by the labor. In other words, a job will only pay $X/hr because it creates $Y/hr in revenue where Y > X + some margin. They pretend that if Y goes up, then it brings X up and if X is low, then it means Y MUST be low as well. It has nothing to do with the greed of shareholders.

This line of thinking is what leads to managers firing the entire IT team because they don't generate revenue, and then panicking when the email server crashes.
Outside of a small percentage of tech workers in a small number of coastal cities, no one gets athlete level salaries. In much of "flyover country" the typical software developer makes mid five figures while other tech workers make even less.
"Your mind" completely ignores non US-cultures, so "your mind" needs to expand a bit.

Pretending like a man in Iran or Russia can come out as gay and be safe isn't going to change the immutable fact that a gay man in either of those two countries is in serious danger simply by being a gay man.
I'm amazed at the variety of emulations/ports of various OSes to Mach:

VMS on Mach: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=964616 - There's a PS version of this floating around, too.

MS-DOS on Mach: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/doc/ab...

I'm never sure whether NeXTStep counted as BSD running on top of Mach, or if NeXT built it in to Mach.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8151147
Maybe, no, yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699791

For most things they'll probably be safer than the average human driver. But then they'll fail in weird ways that humans would never do and somebody will die when their automatic car drives them through the back of their house because of some weird one-off weather condition and people will get scared of them.
The Weissman score comment's Weissman score would be improved by merely linking to an earlier instance of the Weissman score comment.
As a Linux user, this works for me.

It's great to use a service that doesn't support Linux in a way that's even better than using a desktop client.

They've mentioned Evernote, so I will too. I think that the web app design is _a lot_ better designed than their desktop app (at least on the Windows platform). So, I've just created a shortcut for the web app as an application (using Chrome Apps) in my Linux system and I'm good to go!
It's maddeningly difficult to distinguish those thin lines in oneself. I've been working on that for years and it takes all the self-awareness I have. This makes me happy that HN is small (by internet standards) because how do you scale self-awarness? It seems almost an oxymoron.

Your comment brings this out because some subset of "outrageous, silly, inflammatory, false, fake" is right on the cusp, and making those calls (to moderate or not to moderate?) puts tremendous pressure on one's own feelings and beliefs. What helps one do it neutrally is self-awareness, but that is the scarcest thing there is. It takes a decade of hard work to distill a bit more. (Edit: and I'm not claiming to have much; just that it's needed.)

I'm uncomfortable with the "false" / "fake" end of your spectrum because we don't have a truth meter. Who am I to decide what's true or false or "mis" or "dis" for anybody else? I'm not taking on that karma, thanks.

"Inflammatory" is easier to work with because it's about predictable community effects and one can moderate for community cohesion. Moderating that way ends up excluding truths that the community can't withstand, but such truths probably exist for any community. Groups may even be defined by what they exclude. We can try to stretch those limits but there's only so much elasticity available.

I blanched when I read "Moderation is the normal business activity of ensuring that your customers like using your product" in the OP, but actually that's basically saying moderation is about community cohesion and I can't disagree. But the secret agenda, on HN at least, is to stretch it.
> And yet alcohol is totally fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

since this is Malaysia it needs a disclaimer: "except for Muslims"

I would also not drink in certain places like Kelantan and Terengganu[1] even as a non-Muslim otherwise the locals might get really upset :)

One colleague got caught carrying weed into KL int airport from NZ (< 3gramm) in '97 for personal consumption (the idiot). He was supposed to go offshore with us (work on oil-rigs). Instead he spent 5 nights in prison. Our office (a large US diving company) sent their local lawyer to pay a bribe and get him back to work. It was a minor inconvenience that could have ended really badly.

If you ever get yourself arrested in such a country make sure to contact a lawyer. Avoid contacting your embassy as the first step (which often escalates situations in ways the country is supposed to "act tough".) Better yet don't smuggle drugs (even if it's just weed)

[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/liquor-control-bill-h... which reads:

> Muslims are barred from drinking alcohol. Non-Muslims do not face any curbs but some local governments discourage the sale of alcohol in neighbourhoods that are predominantly Muslim. In the states of Kelantan and Terengganu, alcohol bans are enforced in places like hotels, but non-Muslim establishments like Chinese restaurants and sundry shops are pretty much left alone.
Lots of countries have laws that are abhorrent to us. Death penalty for weed, death penalty for being gay, etc.
'build.js', 'deploy.js'. Makefiles if you want to scale.
YAML isn't a programming language. The fact that it's often abused to be one is not the fault of the syntax.
> No better fix for those low stakes than being on call.

I prefer a company with a strong tech culture: code review, thinkg long-term (marathons instead of sprints) and design systems with architecture-first on mind (instead of feature-first), automated testing, QA people, don't deploy on Fridays...