jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is actually quite a remarkable piece:

1. It gently mocks the investors who proclaim "bubble" as a way to bitch and moan over being caught in a price squeeze.

2. It lampoons the alarmist press accounts of the same "bubble" as a sort of guilt-ridden desire to atone for having so idiotically missed the real bubble of 2000.

3. It deprecates its own author in two splendid ways (swimming in the bubble froth of holding a worthless vp biz dev position while on the ascendancy and swimming in booze in the aftermath as the illusory fortune took wing and flew away).

4. It offers some sharp and pithy contrasts between what is in fact happening today (some over-excitement in select tech areas) and what happened in 2000 (spend, spend, spend and to hell with fundamentals), all of which in fact draws a sharp contrast between what was indisputably a bubble back then with what is (likely) not really one today.

5. And it does all the above with tongue heavily in cheek, right down to the very title ("blubble").

You can love or hate Mr. Arrington, and he is undoubtedly one who provokes strong reactions from others, but his work is anything but routine and, at times, it even soars.
I have no citation, but he did say things along those lines when I saw him at Portland State not even a month ago.
Because my ICE recreational vehicle doesn’t run on gas.
Please don't take this personally, but the fact that your code was N thousand lines doesn't mean the task is inherently an N-thousand line task.

Also, undertaking anything with XML in C is brave, kudos.
Get to a point where you are regularly using Teams/Skype/Slack to video chat, both one to one, and as a group/team - Anytime where you would go to someone's desk, have a video chat with them rather than IM.

Pay attention to the quiet ones, they might begin to feel lonely and as much as some people hate video chat, especially when it's not something you're used to, it really does help with the isolation.

It depends what kind of business you're in, however assuming something like software development, embrace tools like JIRA even more to track work and make sure people have things to do, and also aren't getting stuck on something without asking for help.

For people that don't normally remote work, picking up the phone or having a video chat can feel too intrusive or embarrassing - It's a stigma that needs to be removed.
I want to echo this point. I tried to write an implementation of an automata-based algorithm in Rust, and my main takeaway was that Rust really doesn't like linked lists. There is currently a popular book [1] that focuses entirely on how one would write such a thing.

That's not to say that it can't be done - I believe there's a crate implementing the same algorithm I was going for. But my main point is: if you see "systems programming" and think "oh, like C", then you are going to have a difficult time.

[1] https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
When companies have actual competitive value to offer, marketing is easier. I guess.
How frequently has your selection of web-framework ultimately been the limiting factor leading to a real-life performance bottleneck?

I've dealt with python scaling issues up to thousands of simultaneously active users and the performance bottlenecks have yet to boil down to the difference between which web-framework was used.

I agree there are certainly use-cases for a speedy python web-framework.

I am not sure I agree with refusing to abandon Python at all/high costs, and I question the value of Falcon for most of us. Since Falcon is well-suited to such a narrow band of use case(s), in most instances it contributes to the background noise of obscure web-frameworks.
I think it's a lot like the Microsoft Office problem: for a long time it was hard to get data out, everyone you knew was using it, and significant mindshare and investment had been built on top of the original solution.

OpenOffice proved that it's possible to break free, but change may come at a glacial pace.

Competitors need a push-button way to get data out of Facebook, they need to match most features, and they need to be free. And, they either have to convince 30 of your friends to switch, or make sure that you can still interact with them perfectly if they choose to stay on Facebook.
I think you should add app icon and/or some kind of logo on the website.

Now it's a bit confusing:

> Switch lets different people ...

And people start thinking: Switch? What is Switch?

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Take a look at: http://www.apple.com/ipad/
See? iPad. The biggest text on the page.

By the way Switch is a very cool name for an app so use it a lot :-)
I am extremely thankful that expertise in my hobbies are valuable; and there are a couple times where I really f'd up, and consequences could have been much worse than they were.
You mate with women while being drunk...

I don't think that's a good idea, either. In both cases, if you make a small mistake you might need to support it for the next couple of decades.
No, I don't have any formal statistics on defect rates and the occurrence of "else" and/or nested "if/else" constructs. I'll leave that to people who want to write papers and go to conferences. I'm more of a pragmatic person.

In fact, if I did present you with those statistics you should be even more wary because of the tendency of people to accept "research" without question. A good example is the "research" that has been done on pair-programming. The only conclusion I am able to reach from what I have read on the subject is that "it depends". Of course, I can interpret what has been published in ways that'll make the case both ways and mislead the uncritical reader to my liking :-).

I am also wary of what I call "dogmatic programming". Just because some "authority" says you should do something doesn't mean that it is correct or valid in other contexts. For instance something that is a good practice in Pascal might not be at all applicable in Lisp.

The concrete examples given in the blog posting may divert attention away from the main point I was trying to make about "red flags" and the need to stop and think. Indeed, most people who have commented on the posting (on Reddit and in email) seem to get hung up on the second, "cleaned up" form of the example given. My bad.
I think it might also have to do with the mental conditioning of Wikipedia, which is to say, you're not used to seeing ads on there, so the 'Appeal' is all the more apparent.

If that ad were on TechCrunch, I'd never have noticed it, but on the otherwise stark canvas of Wikipedia, it's all I can do to disregard it.
This is actually one of the first really positive reactions to Perl 6 I've seen so far. It seems quite nice indeed, but I have yet to really try it for myself.
Furthermore, I am seeing the security concerns, but I figure this is far from a practical attack

Perhaps it's a sign of the times that almost every discovery that could possibly be related to security in some way, does. I have a feeling that if this was a decade or two ago, the sentiment would be very different. ("Can you figure out what a computer thinks these images are?")

Also, the image labeled "baseball" immediately reminded me of a baseball...
Nah, it's snowing out there.
Wow. Pittsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and Providence are intense.

See also
- Midwest: http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/
- Southeast: http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/18/60yrssoutheast/
- Oklahoma + Texas: http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/09/60years/
You should try reading a good book.
Probably for the same reasons Flash and Dreamweaver aren't discussed at any particular length around these parts.
Also would love to get your quick feedback on my niche account. I have some great ideas to monetize it once it gets to some scale that I can share too. Email is gold.sethj@gmail.com
As a farmer, jerry rigging, fixing, etc. are major tenants of the job, but I still find myself drawn to making. I believe it is driven mostly by the desire of education. There's always something new to learn, and the maker movement has made those resources even more accessible.
Congress has been feeling a ton of heat since the big newspaper exposés of a few months ago. Plenty of people are pissed, irrespective of political party.

From the OP here:

Holder’s action comes as members of both parties in Congress are working together to craft legislation to overhaul civil asset forfeiture. Last Friday, Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with Reps. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) and John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), signed a letter calling on Holder to end Equitable Sharing.

Grassley praised Holder’s decision on Friday.

“We’re going to have a fairer justice system because of it,” Grassley said. “The rule of law ought to protect innocent people and civil asset forfeiture hurt a lot of people.”

He said he planned to continue pressing for legislative reforms.

“I commend the department for this step and look forward to working with them on comprehensive forfeiture reform that protects Americans’ property rights,” Sensenbrenner said. “Equitable sharing has become a tool too often used to bypass state law. Forfeitures should be targeted and must have appropriate procedural protections.”
Gimp is comparatively terrible at a higher level. 3D, vector, text, smart objects, adjustment layers, ... if you are in any industry that relies on Photoshop beyond basic usage, it's very difficult to be with second string alternatives. This is just how things are in the wild, but I find it baffling that this is still the case after so many years.
Technologically 1985-2015 seems a lot less than 55-85, video games are video games, digital networking is still digital networking, in different clothing but still. Especially if you watch Alan Kay talks showing how things in the 60s and 70s are still relevant .
> In court filings, the hospital and ABC do not dispute that they did not have consent from Mr. Chanko or his family, but they say the patient is not identifiable to the public. The network has asserted that because “NY Med” is produced by its news division, it is protected by the First Amendment. Lawyers for NewYork-Presbyterian have argued that the state does not recognize a common law right to privacy and that any privacy right Mr. Chanko did have ended upon his death. They say that the Chankos themselves are responsible for their loss of privacy.

If this isn't a massive HIPAA violation then it SHOULD Be. The fact his wife and likely others could identify him just proves that simply blurring out his face does not protect his privacy(!).

Blaming the family just makes me hate these people. They're profiting off of the misery and suffering of others (see the quote by the hospital PR guy earlier in the article), and it is wrong.

But the US is all about profit over people so this kind of thing is just a natural progression of what is already going on in all kinds of areas.

> The family did not know until the episode was broadcast that a camera was focusing on the closed door of the room where they had gathered and that audio of Dr. Schubl was being recorded.

That is got to be illegal, right..? If not that is super immoral.

These people have absolutely no conscience at all. The doctor should have their medical licence reviewed for serious ethical lapses.
> I think it'd be pretty painful to read although she knows the bulk of it.

Personally I think she should, but of course I don't really know anything about her.

> Still 24, so that'd be really early for us

I don't think 24 is especially young. Maybe a drop younger than typical, but you seem to have good earning potential, and someone you love. What more do you need?

It has advantages too - you have more energy when young, and kids take a lot of work.

(Also don't forget you never know how long it will actually take.)

> But this issue is not something I'd ever want to use as a reason to have kids

It's not written permanently on them you know. Helping their parents is probably the best reason to have kids. "Why did you have me Dad?" "Because you make me happy."

What matters is how you raise them, not why they were born.
SOX is a pain but its not quite as bad as you make it seem and MS is a heavy user of OS software(and heavy contributor back to a few projects).
Established companies are no guarantee. If you rely on Visual Basic or FoxPro, then good luck to you. Oregon hardly had a good experience with Oracle. Much of IBM is doomed.

FOSS or proprietary to yourself are the only valid options.
But these are only tangentially related to the real-world in the sense that a over-a-century-old monopolist family & corporation has constructed systems to enrich themselves and requires maintenance on those systems to continue to extract ever more currency from their customers (or non-customers, aka 'market', as it may be).

Most people's conception of real-world problems would be more along the lines of making sure every human being has enough food to survive and thrive, has access to all the world's knowledge and educational materials, or is safe from violence.

But sure, I guess slightly more accurate estimates of retailer quarterlies (which are actually being kept track of in totality) and 'black-box' tinkering is somebody's real-world.
I have zero experience with parenthood. That said,

Raising kids for any reason other than "raising kids" strikes me as terrible advice. I'd be interested in hearing anecdotes of whether raising productivity by having kids is effective (let alone morally permissible).
Those are just implementation details, whether it's split out with a single company with different packages or different vendors entirely.

The basic offering is the same, everything for a bulk discount or pick and choose but you'll have to deal with putting it together.

It's not in the interest of any company to do both, they're separate models so they'll either focus on offering a big package deal or a smaller tighter service.
Geiser is great, but SLIME is much better mostly because Common Lisp was designed with interactive programming in mind(the condition system, the object system, dynamic variables ect. are all features that help with interactive programming). You get an almost smalltaskesque feeling with slime.
Well in the Netherlands it's 1800 euros a year for Dutch students, so that's not free but still very inexpensive.

(note that it's significantly more expensive for foreign students though)
Done! (Submitted title was "The manual for the first commercial transistor radio".)
Go back to my original assertion ("If you weren't devoutly religious, you didn't get the support from society you needed to do science.") You hear stranger stuff from your clergyman every Sunday. Do you hold him to the same standard of proof?
It really is. Even in IE11 there's a bunch of busted basics. The CustomEvent constructor is broken out of the box.

Edit: see details in post below.
'... The biggest danger in committing one or more years of your life to a startup is not that you won’t be as rich as you could be, but that if things go wrong you will have to re-enter the employment market with no observable career progression and the stigma of a failed business behind you. ...'

An observable cultural difference b/w Anglo cultures in the UK and Australia and the States. Not so in the US where you, 'fail to success' (by observation). An important point to consider why there are less startups. It's not for the lack of talent, but ultra-conservative business culture.
I actually came to Scala via F#. You can even find exact dates of those transitions in my stackoverflow history.

Scala and F# are sinilar enough to basically be the same language, though I found F# had a number of warts and idiosyncracies that made me move on to Scala. Scala didn't have all of these (though of course it had warts of its own!) and is what stuck with me for the long term
I do not have a GPS, most of my friends do. I notice something with everyone who has a GPS when I am with them: they cannot find their way back. They have to use the tool again.

Why am I saying this? I do not know whether these technologies are making people smarter or less smart. It certainly helps to have something that can help do the tasks you just would not be able to do on your own without much toiling, however I think a lot about the day when your AI enabled digital assistant makes every single decision for you.
the curse of causality you mean. it's hard to isolate the causes of things, but you have to do it, otherwise you don't know what works and you're drinking cow piss to prevent COVID or saying vaccines cause autism
You have me the exact content I needed to explain the leadership of my country.
No ethernet port, what a shame.

Imagine just a few mm thicker, but a dozen extra ports.
This is kind of interesting. Check figure C.2. The behavior of droplets depends on size, but they all either evaporate or fall to the ground within 4.5 seconds. Knowing this has made me feel better about better about walking a dozen feet behind somebody outside.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143281/
JuMP (https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl) for optimization is really nice and I don't think there is an equivalent this good in another language.
can I use this to host images, js files, a database file?
It was the best thing that happened to them, but also caused them to cede control to platform vendors.
Analog backward compatibility seems more complicated now.
I agree. But what are your thoughts on walking to a local pub?
Interestingly, european and US International keyboards have symbols on almost all those keys (the only one missing is ^ on CTRL). You never wonder.

And for the USIans out there, it means you can buy key caps with the symbols on them, from european caps sellers. They'll have both the abbreviation (alt or cmd) and the symbol.
This appears to have been fixed.
I think any money they might have saved by not keeping a backup may now have been negated single handedly by this HN discussion.
You live in the Bay area?

Up here in Mass, I tend to see Android devices being carried by unpleasant, street hoodlum types, which I guess to be a consequence of and reinforce the "iPhone knockoff" image associated with them.
I'll catch it on the rebound for $1K
https://teamblind.com
I don't have medical advice for you (not a doctor), but if you need assistance breathing you should call a doctor immediately. Hopefully, we'll get more guidance as we learn from what is working.
Guess: declining iq is measurement issues or simply globalization (people move around). Fertility rates seem to do ok where there is an ambition to keep them up e.g with long tax funded parental leave. Taiwan seems like it’s got the “Japan sickness”.
I am absolutely certain that the OP is correct, I don’t dispute it

But telling somebody who is managing a 40-people firm facing 20x revenue drop that “it might work out as well as the Black Death did” is... kind of missing the whole point, to be perfectly accurate.
Study Microservices based architecture. It should give you a good start.
My half joke is the optimizations slow down compilers. So people then try to make the compilers faster by increasing the levels of optimization. Which means they have to work harder. So they are slower.
Seems like multi-processing is already better than Python, which is a hot mess. For things that you'd actually need multi-processing in, say, deep learning - like preparing and loading and then saving data, Python is difficult to use.
And if you have to run something on windows, you are doomed.

I wrote a custom data pipeline for huge HDF5 files for some ai thing, which was a headache in linux but doable. Then it had to run on windows and I just wanted to kill myself.

Doing the same in Julia or even Matlab was easy, and faster.

And python is supposed to be easy to use :<
https://www.wired.com/story/life360-location-tracking-famili...

>Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance.

I think apps which allow parents to monitor their kids and invade their privacy are bad for humanity.
Anyone know what's the minimum size of the compiled JS now? Is there any way Scala.js can produce code as compact as BuckleScript/ReasonML in the future?

I like Scala's syntax but the last time I tried Scala.js, the output was several hundred kb for something slightly more than a Hello World -- it used some List and Seq functions. I'd bet the comparable ReasonML output would likely be in tens of kb (including List and Array functions from Belt).
Seems there is still hope for Google.
Few more actions like that and maybe they will start behaving like a company and not like an ideological echo chamber.
Node-RED seems to be the best alternative which is successful and good enough these days. It's selfhosted, and it seems combining it with home assistent seems also very popular to get the best of it.
Yeah I remember using it as a CORS proxy, it allowed me to put together a full client side music app (tracks source was not very legal) but tags, similar tracks/artists etc were pulled from lastfm and allowed to quickly build a decent playlist.
Note that as Moore's law is dying, FPGAs and custom silicon will become more important. In many scenarios, there is no use to a 1-year project to design custom silicon when within 1 year, a new CPU generation is being released that's double as fast. However, if that interval is 3 or 4 years or even longer, it suddenly becomes feasible.
It’s much easier to add and remove training wheels than mess with an integrated part of the design.
Imagine not being able to imagine something as simple as what most European cities have already figured out, which is to put the bike lane between parked cars and the pedestrian sidewalk.
I'm on manjaro and its miserably broken (recent aero laptop)
Ben Krasnow built his electron scanning microscope back in 2011. I never expected to see that one upped.
https://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2011/03/diy-scanning-electro...
All of the English-speaking areas listed on that page use a period as a decimal separator.

Interestingly, Canada uses both characters as decimal separators, but English always uses a period, and French always uses a comma. That's probably also why Canada also uses a space as a thousands separator, not a comma like the US.
No worries. Usually they are the same. The terms are probably interchangeable. The point I was trying to make is that the gateway does not necessarily have to be a pre-packaged router with a difficult-to-manage, complex configuration. It can be the computer over which the user feels she has the most control.
Fiber to the hydrogel.
I don't think a bike with the pedals removed is equivalent to a balance bike. The height matters right?
Right, often the actual thing isn't so complex but sifting through all the abstractions people created over it is.