jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
* Heretics of Dune

* Chapterhouse: Dune

* Lem's Cyberiad

* PKD's Ubik, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, and Martian Time-Slip

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

* The Illuminatus Trilogy
The intent was legitimate, a crime was genuinely believed to have been committed.
I was just about to badmouth his tool choices when I noticed that the post is from 2006.
Needs availability views based on tags. Really needs that.
Yes to this! Just by virtue of you asking this question means you are not the dumbest guy. You at least know you need to learn. Truly dumb guys...well...
No, absolutely not. It says in the article that this is not for platforms that completely "take over" the app. This change is for Objective-C applications that want/need to use Lua or other include languages for minor features, like how Tap Tap Revenge uses Lua for its immersive themes.
I like Hofstadter, and I like this piece, although I disagree with the thrust of it. Then again, I am not a woman.
Thinkpad without the touchpad, like on the ultraportables. It is like having a mouse right where you are typing.
Escalating around the problem isn't much of a solution, unfortunately.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm... seems pertinent.
Excellent, excellent, excellent! Reminds me of a tweet from yesterday (http://twitter.com/scottporad/status/15799876237):

quote from @benhuh, "culture is shorthand for the attitude people have at work".
We are doing all we can; no, I'm serious - this isn't a cookie cutter, "Here's $nice_boilerplate_response, now go away" thing. We are severely limited by law (both US and international) about shoving updates down people's throats when they don't want them. We are limited by law about what we can call a "Security Update", and what we cannot ... We have absolutely no control on what IT Admins decide for their corporation's intranet as well ... etc.

While it would be awesome to silently push down IE9 onto everyone, I unfortunately doubt that it is going to happen (I'm not a lawyer ...)
Vehicular homicide is already a thing bro.
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Yea but but... this one is different. It it... well... it deletes the messages automagically too! Well worth the billions, don't you think?
This is a classic fight or flight situation [0] where you are choosing flight.

There is no use being quiet at work. Everyone knows you are a junior so it's ok to act like one. Ask questions. Say "I don't know how to do this. Can you show me?" You'll find that even the "rock stars" don't know everything. It may be hard to ask those questions without feeling discomfort, embarrassment or even anger. Leverage those feelings to ask the hard questions. This might help alleviate some of the suffering you experience after work.

If none of that works then it's time to look for another job.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response
I would turn one switch on, walk into the other room and see which light turned on, then walk back into the first room, flip another switch, and go back and see which light was turned on.

When inevitably someone came to my desk and asked why I was violating procedure, I would say that my way was simpler and more efficient than the alternatives, and therefore saves the company time and money. I would then offer to change my behavior if they had a better solution to the problem.

This is a management problem, not a logic problem.
I have a globalization question. Where can I get data on which countries are spending money online, and which age groups are spending money online?
I wonder how many approaches to health that are considered "quacky" now will be mainstream in 15 years.
This sounds like hooey to me. I mean, fasting may trigger some survival/distress mode mechanisms, but do such triggers actually consist better health? All other things being equal, to the the extent that you can experimentally make all the other things equal in this case, would I have a higher overall white blood cell count after fasting than I had before fasting? Does fasting (starving?) weaken my immune system initially? To what extent? Is that extent recovered, and exceeded, by the new WBC production that wouldn't have been triggered otherwise? I'm comparing this, admittedly based on zero evidence, with the flight response. Adrenaline makes me run faster, but it doesn't make me a faster runner. That's how I mean when I say this sounds like hooey. Of course, I could be totally wrong, and I really have no basis to make this claim in the first place.
The "you only need 0.1% of people" is a fallacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358310.
This is a good reminder that the Tulsa Massacre occurred about 4 months earlier.
Not sure I get the reference. Apparently it's easy to end up in a position like the author, with a large (La)TeX manuscript that easily produce good pdf/PS, but mediocre to awful html/epub.

One option for getting help would be to open up everything to everyone - selling access to the source might be a way to retain some income while enlisting some help in conversion from volunteers (yes, we would first pay full price for the content, then volunteer to try conversion options to produce passable epub output).
I think the $500 figure is the number that AMZN pulled out of a hat, and I think it is a yearly number, not a monthly one.

That said, it sounds like you haven't dealt with the real world logistics of large groups of people. From both a practical and legal perspective, there is a lot to cover. The finances need to be kept up to date and audited. You mention, in jest, that you could bring all these people together for a dinner at that price. Getting 15 people to agree on a time and place for dinner is close to impossible if you've ever tried it. Nevermind getting a warehouse full of people to show up.

100 hours (2.5 weeks of labor) for lawyers to come to an agreement for the 1mm workers you cited? Not possible, especially with an adversary like amazon.

Email as communication? Maybe, but does it qualify for legal matters? Voting? Have you ever tried to send a million emails? There's a reason that there is an entire industry built around bulk emails.

A union is more like an independent HR office than anything else. Think of how many resources HR uses, and that gives you an idea of what a union needs
It doesn't even need to be someone who moved to the area who's grandfathered in to the cheap taxes: Families can share ownership of a property and retain it forever.

It's an insanely unfair system.
Come on dude, you gotta read like, the next sentence where it says these points are a summary of the details here:

https://plausible.io/blog/remove-google-analytics#its-owned-...

eg "It uses cookies so you must obtain consent to store cookies" GDPR prompts.

and

"According to Google: “you must ensure that certain disclosures are given to, and consents obtained from, end users in the European Economic Area along with the UK. If you fail to comply with this policy, we may limit or suspend your use of the Google product and/or terminate your agreement”."

Hyperlinking to more detail is a great thing to do when making an argument. If you're skeptical, follow the link and decide if it's really supporting evidence or you disagree. It's one way opinion writing can be vastly better in the age of hypertext than it was in the days of newsprint editorial.

I'm absolutely in favour of this kind of thing!

(Not a web guy, suspicious of goog, facebrick, but don't know enough to have a fully formed opinion on web analytics yet. Hyperlinked supported opinion is good.)
I think a general system could be designed such that most of the classifying work is done up front and also shop owners could opt-in or add additional rules to the algorithm. I think the 20% could be squeezed and solved a number of different ways especially in the name of the public.
It’s definitely easier today.

As a kid I got into programming in basic on my Acorn Archimedes because I had a book on basic. However I never got further than that because I didn’t have access to any more advanced programming books.

Now, all the information about it everything is available within a few minutes of searching.
Parler is bankrolled by Robert Mercer who absolutely has the network to get those kinds of endorsements.
One again, out of population who are responsible for 90% of deaths (and 10% of cases), more than 80% are vaccinated. Everyone else, like 25%. This got to result in disproportionate change in number of cases and number of deaths.
If only the language did anything at all to help you realize the wrong version is wrong and that this is somehow different.
The V8 team experimented with "Strong Mode" which was approximately this - a fast subset of JS [0]. The experiment was ended [1]

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk0qC4s_XNCLemj42FqfsRLp...

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/strengthen-js/c/ojj3TDxbHpQ/m/5E...
With a budget of much less than a $1 per person per year. Probably not.
Automatically copying tweets from Twitter to a competing service, without permission of either Twitter or the original tweet authors, sounds pretty dubious from a copyright standpoint. Especially since you'd also presumably be copying any images and videos attached to those tweets.
So computing power generates bitcoins? Is it ethical for me to use the 3 8-core machines at work I have to generate bitcoins for my personal use? What about my personal work machine?
Theres a small place down the road which has fuckloads of web companies, called Brighton...
Financially it could be, and i hope it is, a disaster. Insider trading is a thing. Saying one thing about privileged information in public while trading as though the opposite is true could well come back and bite him very, very hard.

Dumb. Corrupt. Doesn't matter how common crime is for it to be worth prosecuting.

If you did it on public info. Fine. Redistribution of wealth from those who did not to you for being faster. If you did on information you then lied about in public, in an official capacity. Rot in jail you crook.

Even if he "gets away with it" no sane individual would ever trust him with anything ever again.
I have given up even trying these days. Constant questions or meetings or chat messages, its utterly pointless in most places I have worked.
Didn't survive? The most popular desktop distro, Ubuntu, switched their DE from Unity to Gnome.
This is complete nonsence. Germany regularly uses riot police against civilains if they threaten public safety. In case of a pandemic there are several laws that would explicitly allow this. Also the current measures have overwhelming public support since people are seriously scared of becoming the next Italy.

You also must have seen a different speech by Merkel than I have. There is pretty much universal agreement that it was very good. She also never said her decisions would be "without alternative". This is a deliberately misleading quotation that right-wingers love to use against her.
Part of it is also the research workforce composition. Research students are increasingly people without other good options or who feel like they need to do it for status reasons. It is a form of low paid labour that they take in preference to working low status jobs, or moving away from where they are currently living. Of course it is hard for them to take on bold projects, they are too busy trying to survive and ultimately aren’t that interested in the material. The recent protests from UCSC students saying they can’t afford the rent, and the constant blog posts from long suffering adjuncts are classic examples of this - why would anyone put up with these ridiculous arrangements? PIs don’t care about this stuff, they need warm bodies to churn out papers, and the pay is so low it doesn’t matter. This transition is enabled by the massive expansion of university footprint, staffing and student count.

The higher degree has become the current generation’s desperate attempt to show they are making progress after the boomers.
They sure can’t move ipadOS devs to iPad since XCode is not supported on it.
An anecdote of my own: I am in my mid 30s and can run a 46 minute 10k and I have had what you describe twice in my life, both times probably caused by the flu. One of the times I had to get penicillin for the pneumonia the other time it resolved itself. You should not underestimate the influenza it can be pretty nasty for your lungs too.
It would all be put on the credit card, like the $23 trillion we owe at the moment. Might be another, let’s say, $4 trillion.

The only ways to get out of that number are defaulting on the debts, which would greatly harm pension plans and other countries, or inflate our way out it, which could easily lead to hyperinflation, which would ruin pension plans and the world economy.
Evacuation orders are given almost a week ahead of hurricanes now. Updated building codes after Andrew have made wind almost a non-issue for houses built in the last 20 years. Expanded flood zones have forced more houses to be built above the 100 year flood line. Local utility lines have mostly been moved underground to avoid wind and falling trees. The last time we received hurricane force winds we didn’t even lose cable.

Clearly we have learned nothing from hurricanes.
I mean, probably because storage IS cheap. Why do I want the hassle and overhead of this kind of compression if I can just spend a few dollars and double my current storage?
Yeah they call it "native advertising" now.
#5dbe64
I flagged this for being wholly inappropriate and insulting. Denigrating someone else's belief system is not appreciated here.
People make this argument every time something quietly critical fails or doesn't work the way they want it to. As a recent example, look at the completely false FUD about ICANN "seizing domains"; there were nearly instant calls for an "open, decentralized" DNS.

It's almost as if these proposed solutions wait for the slightest problem to occur, then everybody rushes to pitch a Tor utopia.

I personally would greatly fear a decentralized system like Skype, for many reasons. Peer-to-peer anything comes with its own truckload of problems, and would do more harm here than good (as with the DNS).
That's the same reason I stick with vim and a relatively vanilla vimrc. I know that I can ssh into almost any machine and be productive. GNU screen, vim and bash mean I can get work done.
What I thought was interesting:

* The information about Anklyosing Spondylitis. I know someone who has it.

* The low-income workers flushing their medications that they legitimately need because they are afraid of getting arrested, being forced to pay thousands to retain a lawyer, etc.

* The fact that if the DA says they have "reason to believe" you are going to sell your legally prescribed medication, you aren't even allowed to say that your doctor prescribed it or why you need it for medical reasons in your defense. So you essentially aren't allowed to defend yourself at all, which means you are all but guaranteed to go to prison based on the flimsiest of accusations.
This article gratifies my intellectual curiosity. Current drug policies stifle innovation here and abroad. I work with students in SSDP who would make great hackers, but they are stigmatized from even trying to apply for computing jobs at many places due to fears of random drug tests and past drug convictions.

Granted, what would be more appropriate to Hacker News would be articles about Dr. Shulgin, arguably the greatest drug hacker of all time.
Tesla is deeply invested in self driving technology. He discussed the importance of data in the project, and he believes that Tesla is collecting 20x more data than any other player. He also believes that driverless will be more than 100x safer than humans fairly soon.
I saw an article on Techdirt about this, which presented a dissenting view. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191122/00412943432/sacha...
For what it's worth, the principle objection I have to the Marxist position on wage and profit is the redefinition of the term "exploitation".

It muddies the argument because it enables a circular argument whereby the transaction of employment can be labelled as exploitative, where it's easy to defend against the claim of exploitation if the original definition of the word is preserved.

In other words, profit generation as it comes from an employer/employee relationship is Exploitative but not exploitative.
The GP didn't say it was about the fall of Rome, and nothing in the post suggests to me it was intended to be understood that way.
Under the California Coastal Act, everything below the mean high tide line is public. But that's not the issue here; the issue is getting access to this beach.
The title of this article is a little off-putting - I almost skipped it because it sounded so pretentious. The actual post is interesting, well-sourced, and insightful. I think it's more fun to try to find technical solutions to problems, but the author is almost certainly right that focusing on basic human productivity factors is much higher leverage.
> Wrong.

Sure, we can say that there has been some benefit to the middle class in the West through reduced price on some of the goods but certainly not on big bill items such as housing and education. It's great that I can buy a cheap jacket and keep some of my income, it sucks that my housing expanses went from 1/5 to 1/2 of my income (as an example).

Overall an American worker who lost his well paying manufacturing job and replaced it with a job at walmart lost massively.

Elephant Chart I think tells the whole story[1].

1. https://avc.com/2016/08/elephant-chart/
This does happen, and it gets messy (to the point of murders).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/21/public-l...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/wilks-brothers-frackin...
Not only doable, but rather efficient. Delimited continuations are superior to undelimited ones in every way.
While I like this idea, I think supporting a full x86-64 instruction set for high-performance applications, from scratch, is likely years out. This company will need a 10-year runway to see any market impact.
Steve Jobs created many things and also destroyed a many. One of them is the openness of platforms and another is what I'd call delightful complexity. Simplicity is not always a joy and lot of overjealous wanna-be-Jobs seem to forget about that. I do want all those buttons and choices in my music app that let's me be expressive and opiniated about my taste. And I definitely want generics!

A bigger issue is that a many times simplicity for you is not simplicity for others. This often comes back to haunt you in software design. You might think that complex design is not good for you and you may strive to simplify internals even though it might make life awkward for users of your creation. I feel a lot of such decisions have been made in designing Go. Overjealous pursuit of simplicity has led its designer to keep compiler less complex, internally beutiful and work of art but at the expense of external usability for its users. This article captures the sentiment pretty well.
It's not that uncommon. The stadia subreddit mods are all Google employees as well, for example. I agree it's not an ideal setup.
Not really a luxury good since salaries are extremally high in DK. The tax was a barrier several years ago, but nowadays it's not a big deal.
In short, it's a difference in kind, not degree, and that 100% merits a different word.

I propose we just say we're "feeling down" to describe "situational depression".
>Given this scheme, how would you distribute a security patch? Is each user of the library supposed to re-compile against the patched library?

No, this is the responsibility of the server which distributes binaries to users via the package manager.
Is the tax advantage really that clear cut? You can deduct business expenses but there's self-employment tax and in some places business taxes (like the Unincorporated Business Tax in NYC) that can really add up.
Most recovery companies will take your money again. I personally think they are the same set of people that run all of them, seems like an unending cycle and its too sad. The most crazy thing about the whole internet thing is how you can clone a website to make it look like the real one, I discovered so many people fell into this kind of scams. The only recovery company I know that works is assetsrepo dot com, I have been to their physical address to meet them before and the good thing about them is that they will let you know if they can handle your case or not. So they will not just take your money when they already know they wont help you out.
Shielding is useful, but there's a lot of other things you can do as well.
>>i have some great website ideas and want to apply to YC after my senior year. but my question is,

Just start building your websites now, it will become clear what you need to work on. You should probably give a good amount of thought to what technologies you want to start learning in the web dev space, ruby, java, asp.net?... so many choices so little time...
Perhaps the shift in perspective threatens to demonstrate to people that they are not really individuals after all, or that if they are, being so isn't really all that meaningful. The scale of digitized social interaction shows conclusively that are "just another brick in the wall", or just droplets in the vast river of human life.

The threat this has to the ego is countered by posting thoughts to social networks in an increasingly obsessive manner. "I post therefore I am."
Why should you hire for diversity instead of just trying to hire the best? Isn't the goal to eliminate racial and ethnic discrimination rather than change its focus?
IfByPhone's conferencing does this, they call it "Smart Conference". Love it, nobody joins the call late. Freaks people out. Some even tell the group, "Hi, this is Joe, sorry I can't talk right now, I need to jump on call." "Um, Joe, you're on it."

PS. IfByPhone offers an API for it too:

http://public.ifbyphone.com/about/press/ifbyphone-announces-...
I think that's the point: Browsers don't bother to validate HTML, but they have to validate XHTML to know whether to pitch a fit about errors as required by the spec.