jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The UK has largely degenerated into an "entitled" society, and any veneer of sensibility and fairness has been stripped away with a vengeance.

Why should people do the right thing when they feel they have nothing in common with their fellow countrymen? It used to be the case that we had a strong shared national culture that enforced certain standards of behaviour, and thus one had a stake in maintaining these standards due to collective reciprocity, but we've been told for decades that said national culture is hateful and outdated and must be destroyed without any decent replacement. I cite Orwell:

'England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.'

'If the English people suffered for several years a real weakening of morale, so that the Fascist nations judged that they were ‘decadent’ and that it was safe to plunge into war, the intellectual sabotage from the Left was partly responsible.'

edit: yeah, suspected a dose of uncomfortable truth wouldn't go down easily.
You don't think having a parent with untreated depression is bad for child development?
The “other side” would be:

* My main activity most days involving physical presence with a group of peers.

* Conversations with coworkers not running through the fog of Zoom. Not ending most days shattered by Zoom fatigue.

* Real reasons to be away from the apartment, not just to exercise and buy things.

The “other side” has been kicked out from under me by the remote work partisans. I don’t see any path to having a life like that again while still being a software engineer. If present compensation packages hold then maybe I will be able to retire and pick up a low-paying but in-person career in 7-10 years. As long as I don’t go starting a family… if I do that then I’m pretty well locked into Zoom and nothing else all day every day forever.
When did “koan” become a synonym for “aphorism”?
I’m not going to pretend I lived through the hardships of low pay work like the author, but I have some idea of what they mean when they say their is a mental gap between the people who live a low pay life and those who have never had to experience that kind of existence.

I grew up in a well off household, but my Dad did one thing that in my opinion, made me very different from my brother. My Dad made me work, while my little brother always got to stay home and play video games as long as his grades were good.

My Dad was strict about money and demanded I needed to get a job if I wanted to buy things as a teenager.

My uncle was high up on a golf course and got me a job essentially working under the table for less than minimum wage. He was a nice man, but his kids who helped run the place must not have liked me very much. I got put in janitorial duty cleaning all manner of filth at the pro shop. All the jobs no one else would bother doing, I did it, cause I wasn’t going to make my parents who helped me get the job look bad. Cleaning the toilets was the worst, people do unspeakable things in public restrooms.

When I saw opportunities to get into software development as work instead, I took it. I was working a software job by the time I was 17 and still in high school. I didn’t want to clean up shit anymore.

I say this as context of me doing this low pay job as compared to my brother, who stayed home and was showered with gifts.

At the end of the day, I’m married with my own home, I make good money and provide for my family.

My brother has never worked more than a summer position his entire life, is highly educated, but completely unemployable. He constantly thinks the world is too hard and difficult and that working would be “too much” for his sensibilities.

He’s married to a woman now who does one of the author’s described high turn over jobs that are incredibly stressful/undesirable while he stays at home and lets her care for them both. They have no kids so my brother stays home and plays more and more video games.

People who live the “good life” are completely unaware of the reality many folks live to make ends meet and the troubles they go through for it. In my mind, I got a taste of what life can be like if you’re “nearer” the bottom. The dichotomy between my brother and I is very shocking to me.
No.

If you want a pet, get a puppy.

If you want eggs, go to the supermarket.
ah! nice! sorry about that, I will admit (although I think you already know), that I didn't initially read the contents of your page :)
Look at cost of living. I work in higher education on a small team, we typically train 3-6 interns per year in software engineering and programming with an emphasis on cloud and security. We see a lot of fresh grads enticed to large companies for 6 figure jobs, but they have troubles realizing the cost of living difference from even a heavy college town.

Total up your expected monthly bills (student loans, car payments, credit card debt) and compare the cost of housing where they want you to work. Check the commute times from 5-20 miles away -- is it a second job (10+ hours/week) to commute to work? Is this an acceptable QOL?

I moved out of the city to work at a university, I took a 20% pay cut, but gained an average 10 hours/week of free time and could afford a home 2400 sq ft home instead of sharing an 1200 sq foot apartment.

So where do you want to live? What commute time will you accept?

I'd figure those out before even applying places. After that, look at how the businesses treat their employees... And how their policies might impact QOL. Most businesses in northern Virginia only give 1.5-2 weeks paid vacation to entry level employees last I heard.
San Francisco has a a few backpack makers, some of which off a lifetime warranty, Mission Workshops for example.

As an hobbyists backpack maker, who has made backpacks with padding on vintage domestic sewing machines it could have been repaired with the know how.
https://metamate.io it's a semantic service bus, an api for everything in a sense
+1 on this, what did you make?
Your second point reminds me of the idea of "genes, memes, and machemes." Also seen the latter called temes.
Well, they don't (well, maybe a bit, if you believe the positive studies), but they're mandatory here - so, there's your market...
I can’t create an account. Just loads forever
That is problematic if your service is on 24/7 and new version clients have to talk to old version servers and vice versa.

Better to use protobufs at this point.
”I really couldn't care less what is done with my non-functional corpse once I'm gone.”

This article isn’t about that case; it’s about what is done with amputated limbs of still living persons.
"Sorry, this Meetup is FULL." That's a real shame. At least I'll get a head start over at the Slaughtered Lamb though ;)
The plugins you were using before your break still work so I'm not sure you need to look for new plugins. Unless some of your plugins didn't satisfy you.

In which case you could list the offenders so that we try to come up with alternatives.

Anyway, there seems to be a consensus around youcompleteme+jedi, these days.

Welcome back.
Very nice, I was also very inspired by this guy's bus : http://steampunkworkshop.com/bus1.shtml which has a Victorian theme going on.

Converting school busses into RV's is quite a hobby, there are lots of them out there. But more importantly there are lots of good resources for not getting screwed in terms of buying a bus with 3M miles on it that needs a new engine or something. Also "filling up" is not for the faint of heart when you drive a bus.

Things I like about this conversion are the simplicity and ability to re-configure easily. Things that might be a challenge are stuff flying around when you turn corners and what not.
That is an epic-good blog post. Thank you!

"A good team, that listens to its customers, is going to find a good market and put together a good product for that market."

This is true. But, Andreeson is looking as an investor-- he invest once a team has settled on a market--- when it's oftentimes too late to change directions so radically. Ev did the sensible thing when Twitter was looking promising-- he effectively put Odeo on the shelf and started a fresh company with a fresh cap table.

A lot of founders don't have that option (after they've taken money) and are forced to pivot within their market. So a good team can be constrained by investment/inertia.
I find that 2 syllables is also extremely memorable. Just think how many companies don't use two syllables and imagine how memorable they are. There is a reason why many names don't go over just two.
"I'm experiencing a fatigue from reading articles/books/posts about great powers of Lisp and why Lisp is where it is today."

So am I. I wrote the essay because this idea has been banging in my head for some time and I had to let it out. The urgency shows in places. Elsewhere in this thread, others are pointing out that I don't know that much C. Guilty.

Another commenter's suspicion about the "we lost because we're so awesome" theme also has merit. I suppose that Lisp must have some intrinsic problems, but reading about the Lisp Machine period makes the language so enchanting.
>You can have a compiler that adds special syntax for doing this

To be fair, C's base syntax is obtuse enough to make any extended C compiler gratuitously difficult. It wouldn't take a genius, but it would take an unreasonable amount of time and pain.
I guarantee you that a halfway decent lawyer would still find a way to sue you and win. Any lawyer could find a way to sue you and the ensuing legal scuffle would consume more money than you made on the project.

Just one of many points they'd raise - once the client pays, that kill switch is still present and could be tripped by the developer, the developer's employer, a hacker, or accidentally.
Yeah. The people who are using Lua primarily in an embedded context (and thus have a lot of dependencies, such as threading & graphic libs, already chosen for them) have VERY different priorities than the people using Lua standalone. It pulls the community in two different (and occasionally opposed) directions, and the Lua team doesn't want to alienate either camp.

(On the balance, though, it's still one of my favorites.)
Maybe it's not even a tech legacy. Millions and soon billions of people have a larger internet footprint than before. They communicate with each other in far more intimate and elaborate ways. It's a cultural legacy.
In my experience (another school, another country), it was usually allowed to take a take-home exam together with others. The understanding was that the exams are sufficiently hard, that students smart enough to pass do not allow others to freeload and that working together with other smart students teaches important skills in addition to a better understanding of the subject.

The same goes for homework problem sets: me and two others would usually first solve them ourselves to the best of our ability and then compare answers, which was always an educational experience; the more so when no one had successfully solved the problem on their own or when it took someone a while to convince the other two their (identical) solutions were wrong.
i am not sure the author is very technical. for example, they also say "it’s typically an better long term idea to setup a dedicated domain or subdomain for your landing pages" where i think they mean server, or apache virtual host, or something. if your company is called foo and has a site foo.com it would be odd to place the landing page on another domain (eg bar.com).

[or i may be misunderstanding, of course]
More research is always nice, but you can get a long way with the two words I learned as a biological anthropology undergrad: dietary diversity.

Eating well isn't rocket science. Eat a wide range of foods. Then you'll very likely hit all the things you need, and not take on harmful amounts of the things you don't. Plus you'll get to enjoy the variety along the way.
Another BBC story mentioned that some airlines (but not Lufthansa) have a policy where there has to be two people in the cockpit at all times. When the pilot/co-pilot leaves another member of the crew takes their place.

Seems like a sensible idea with hindsight.
The author is Alon Zakai, creator of emscripten, and the article is quite old (2013) when there was a somewhat heated debate whether a byte code format would be better for the web instead of Javascript, with the byte code fans having fairly theoretical reasons (basically: 'because it is the right way to do it and Javascript sucks anyway'), instead Alon went ahead and demonstrated that in reality the more pragmatic solution to compile to JS has no disadvantages compared to byte code, and you don't need to add a whole new language engine to browsers (like Google PNaCl does), but (in the case of asm.js) only fairly minor modifications to existing JS engines, and you keep full compatibility (but lower performance) with old JS engines.

Interestingly, emscripten now also supports an interpreted byte code mode (called emterpreter), which stores code in a byte code format, and runs this inside an JS interpreter(!). The reason for this was quicker startup time for large scripts, but (my own speculation!) it might also be a path to a future byte code distribution format if there are indeed any other practical advantages.

Another interesting point is that Safari actually has now an LLVM based compilation layer in their Javascript engine, so it's coming together from both sides with LLVM being the glue (emscripten's front end is also LLVM).
There is something soothing to me about grocery shopping. Everyone I've said this to thinks I'm nuts, though.
I have been using http://tempmail.de for a while. Its not blocked by any websites (From the ones that I have tried registering with. They are quite a few) And the best part is that you don't need to register an account to use the mailbox. You just need to visit the website and would be presented with a mailbox. You may get as many mailbox you need, by opening it in Private Window, every time.
Good to see PHP slowly improving, although I haven't used it for years now.

On a side note, does anyone know why Drupal 8 is apparently so absurdly slow? I know it's not entirely fair to compare against D7 as it's still technically "under development" but it just seems insane to take that much of a performance hit for nicer OOP semantics...
I wonder, how far are we from completely pilotless flights?

Perhaps the numbers don't yet justify proper investment in this area, but we have to be getting pretty close to at least thinking about it seriously now.
But then how long would it take to break open the door in this case? I haven't read about the time between when the descent was set in, the pilot returning and realizing he was locked out - I'm sure someone that deliberately wants to crash the plane can do so within a minute (dump fuel, start a nosedive at max speed and start spinning, etc). You can't break open a door when your plane is upside-down.
That much text at that font size? Really?
For someone like me, a European interested in doing startups, this is very interesting. Depending on controlled foreign company (tax) laws this might mean Russia will become a zero tax jurisdiction for business owners with income from patents, licenses, domain names, ecommerce etc. If these sources of income belong to companies in countries with zero corporate tax.

Edit: Russia does not (at the moment) have CFC laws. It may be time to learn russian...
The verbal narrative seems like a pretty exhaustive way to go. With something like OmniGraffle (or something like it) and a few accompanying paragraphs, you could describe the interaction a lot more clearly.

Also, I think it's a good idea to invite feedback. i.e. "Here's the spec, but it's flexible. As you read and develop, be noisy if you have some ideas that could make it better."

A lot of the commenters here are advocating "give devs a vague description of goals and turn them loose". I think that's a pretty bad idea unless the product/problem is a simple/obvious one to solve OR unless the the developer has a good understanding of the market.

But even if the dev is a young superstar who has NO empathy for the customer of your revolutionary manhole cover design workflow software, you should be open to feedback.
Framework independence
Is it encrypted? Where is the technical info?
Is this not a clone of based.cooking?
I have one of Oscar Vermeulen's PiDP-11 replicas, and the SimH simulator contained within has a virtual paper tape reader and punch. It would be pretty straightforward to hook up something like this as the reader.

Punching tape, on the other hand, seems to be pretty much impossible in the modern age. 8-bit paper tape punches never come up for sale on eBay or any other vintage computer site I've seen. And I'm not sure how feasible it is to fabricate one with a 3D printer- the real punches are like sewing machines- with thousands of little parts with timing and cams and all. Has anyone seen a DIY paper tape punch?
Dylan16807's comment about

> If you replace speed limits with "go a safe speed"...

sounded to me like a suggestion that speed limits could be abolished in favour of a "use your judgement" rule, which I don't think is a sensible idea.
Because there was a discussion about a stripped windows 10 iso yesterday with a link to the China Government Edition. It's the Hackernews cycle of lazy ass karma farming.
I would be wary of any of Russia’s military capability claims.
I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I am chomping at the bit to get back into the office.

I'm a Senior SWE. I've got ADHD. Work from home has been *catastrophic* for me. I don't have the ability to focus. I have no space in my home where I can work distraction-free, and no ability to create a space separate from my family. From home I can slack off for an hour... or two... or days, and nobody notices because my projects don't have deliverables that are measured in less than weeks. So I end up spending way too much time on non-work things and then berate myself for it afterwards. And then I do the same thing the next day.

Being in the office gives me an externally-imposed structure that I just don't have the capability to impose on myself. I had the freedom to pick a few days here and there to WFH as needed, so I understand and can occasionally use the benefits. I also miss out on the serendipitous conversations. I know that a lot of people discount this as hand-waviness, but my team's culture around texting is disruptive in a way that I used to avoid in person. I felt like I had a much better handle on things in the office.

My spouse runs her own company, and she has a free office, so I've been using that twice a week, and I make sure to medicate these days to make the most of them. But my output is still significantly lower than when I was in office. And I don't want to move to every day medication for a variety of reasons.

I've read the comments suggesting that middle management thinks that their perceived impact is threatened in a work from home environment, but I am clearly not in that demographic. My work is either writing design docs and getting approval, leading a team to build these designs, or getting my hands dirty with the code itself.

I don't care if other people work from home, as long as I'm not completely alone in the office. I just need the structure back.

I feel like a junky who just needs "one more" whiteboard fix.
Is the Podman CLI both command-compatible and flag-compatible with the Docker CLI?

If it is, or if there were a command translation layer to transform docker cli stanzas to the podman equivalent, I'd love to dump and forget about docker forever.

Please keep pushing Team Podman! Self-respecting nerds everywhere are rooting for (and counting on) you!
I guess you will laugh harder, at the guy trying to get it to work on Psion 3a.
Currently there's no license, but looking to add one ASAP.

Your project looks really cool, but unfortunately I'd be looking to limit distribution of the software for profit. GPL seems like it'd be the most appropriate, but I'm by no means an expert on this stuff.
Just guessing but they might be referring to their first datacenter in Fremont. No idea if it is even still around but their first DC was a hot mess. The newer one which is likely the one you are in was a night and day difference. The newer one had redundant power and networking and was built professionally. I say newer but this was a long time ago.
I wonder if telecommuting like many are doing right now trumps everything.
You might want to consider if there’s a way to discover that without triggering the candidate’s imposter syndrome. Your script above reads like Tom Cruise trying to get Colonel Jessup to admit he ordered the code red. All that’s missing is the candidate breaking at the end and screaming “YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DEBUG SQL”.
Does this allow you to shoot the water gun, or is it recognizing pigeons in an automated way and firing?
Location: Singapore

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Swift, Git, AWS, Nodejs, React+Redux, Ruby On Rails, Linux, SaltStack, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, Sidekiq, MongoDB, Airflow, RabbitMQ

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0078rtk94vy3il/cv.pdf?dl=0

Email: bob.f.cao@gmail.com
> Cons: Playing with the Stress demos (especially #2) really shows the slowdowns and downsides to using a JS based engine. At 450 boxes (+ 4 bounding walls), it runs at 20fps on my Macbook and thats with a lot of jitter and overlap. Not as fun.

Have you tried enabling sleeping? Even most AAA games don't actually have even remotely close to that number of bodies active in a game at once. Sure, the engines can handle it, but having a stack of bodies like the stress demos is the absolute worst case, as you normally have to resolve a chain of contacts, in this case a few hundred, iteratively. Most physics engines also benefit hugely from multithreading, something which JS doesn't provide.

> I wish I could see a physics engine using WebGL and GPU acceleration for the web. This one is a great start if the author were to take it further and implement some of the logic with shaders.

That was tried on PC and consoles and most game developers are going back to using the CPU for physics calculation, and using the GPU for rendering. Using WebGL with this particular demo shouldn't increase the performance if the bottleneck is the physics simulation.
Mercola is certainly not a credible source
Seems like quite a weird priority for GitHub to dedicate resources into creating Yet Another Text Editor.

I don't know, I can't see how this is a priority for them...
I think the 'designers block' part was just my attempt to find a good title. Since this mainly relates to colour, and was aimed at people who are not necessarily experienced designers, it may not have been the best choice!
This is a response to the fame discussions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2040483
Home ownership doesn't assist in establishing fiscal stability. It's a symptom of financial health, not a cause. At best, it's an affectation in the absence of investment properties.

Savings for the purpose of establishing flexibility and stability is more important. The fact that it happens to increase net worth is immaterial. Giving them a CD they couldn't touch would increase their net worth without improving their circumstances.

You can't leap to telling people that buying a house is gambling. They won't understand it and they'll reject the statement out of hand because you didn't build them up to that conclusion.

That's what my post was doing.

You write/live/travel/socialize/eat/drive/ride/swim/bike/code/dream/learn/read/play for the journey, not for the pithy conclusion.
It's not actually single user mode but autologin, that is why the stolen computer user was still using the same browser and keychain as he didn't have access to admin rights.