jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It may be profitable now, but don't forget that SpaceX has been going for 17 years, has raised well over a billion in VC funding to date, and Elon has put more than $100m of his own money in.

SpaceX is in absolutely no way whatsoever a company that Elon bootstrapped.
X has been going away for longer that the careers of most people on this site.
wmii has not been developed in the last five years, no wonder it's not going to be ported.
Maybe a renovation for a new grand opening?
Although improbable nothing surprises me anymore in this story.
You have a wrapper if you know what you are doing, that is shipped besides the binary.
tldr; because some vigilantes keep reporting them, and Instagram's content moderation team is massively inconsistent.
When you do everything right, and follow the platform rules, and still get banned after all your hard work

It's just a manner of time until this platform will fall.
Men dominate the physical sciences and mathematics, with the disparity growing as the subjects get more advanced. The notion that a 15-minute writing exercise can close this gap strains credulity.

For a hard-headed introduction to this subject, I recommend The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. Women and men have different cognitive strengths: on average, women are more verbally fluent and are better at inferring emotional states from facial expressions and body language, whereas men are better at spatial rotations and abstract reasoning. Women do better or worse on typically "male" tasks depending on the phase of their menstrual cycles and the corresponding levels of androgens ("male" hormones) in their bloodstreams. Patients undergoing male-to-female sex-change operations do progressively worse on "male" tasks and better on "female" ones as the estrogen therapy progresses, with the opposite effect in female-to-male patients. And so on. While the bell curves substantially overlap, the notion that men and women are cognitively identical is scientifically untenable.

Perhaps the continuing disparity in the abstract sciences points to discrimination against women in those subjects. And yet, women make up approximately 56% of college graduates, with men at 44%—a 12-point gap. I find it telling that virtually no one decries this disparity, nor infers from it a systemic anti-male bias in higher education.

The authors of these kinds of studies clearly want there to be no gender gap. (The results of this study could reasonably be described as "the 15-minute writing test that boosts female learning and suppresses male learning".) When the political biases of the researchers are so evident, it's difficult to trust the results.
My bad, didn't realize you were joking =]
I don't think I'm taking things too literally, although obviously I'm focusing on the negative impact, as per the original question.

1. Sorry, but the verse isn't 'try to get along with thy neighbour' or 'tolerate thy neighbour' it's love thy neighbour. I'm all for amicable and polite relations with people/strangers, but as far as i can tell the teaching really aspires to a sort of 'what would Jesus do?' level of care towards people wherever you find them.

2. I don't think putting others before yourself is a good idea, except in the case of close family or partners. Have faith in yourself, take opportunities where you find them, better yourself, don't feel bad about it - if you put others first you can't necessarily do those things, and whats more the others wont necessarily appreciate your action and/or see that it wasn't done in vain. Of course, you should still be honourable towards others.

3. Interior dialogue goes something like this - 'Well, what career should I choose? Medicine perhaps? Well, that makes lots of money, but I don't feel a natural calling for it. And since money isn't important, I ought to choose something else. I'll study English literature, which wont land me a high-paying job, but that's not what I care about.' Ten years later: 'Well writing isn't going to get me a job at all, so I'm not much different from an unskilled/uneducated member of the workforce. I feel I could achieve a lot and offer a lot to society, but now I'll just take a low paying office job. If I was a doctor, I could be having kids right now, buying a house, saving for their education, have long-term financial security and the ability to help other family members, going around the world on holiday having enriching experiences. Oh well.' Money gives you security and freedom, the idea of settling for the basic necessities is very dangerous IMO and not likely to lead to happiness.

4. Christianity at its core is about forgiveness, and in the end it leads to sacrificing justice for mercy, which leads to dysfunctional relationships or communities. Yeah 'nobody's perfect' is a good lesson but these teachings go further than that
No, you put your finger on the elephant in the room.

The "temporary password" is more like a yellow sticky note: it curls up and fall off your terminal after 3 days, but you can still find it on your desk(top) if you look around.

The scheme only works if the user did not write the password down and did not save a copy of the unencrypted document / web site.
I'll respond to all three:

1. This is an assertion. During 11+ years in academia, I saw no evidence that "typical" students were unhappy with quality of the education.

2. Yes, college costs a lot. We disagree on the reasons.

3. I agree that the incentives are biased toward research, but disagree that this leads to a poor student experience.

As for the $12k for 250 hours of instruction: yes, that's $50 an hour, per student. But you're not just paying the instructor of the course (believe me!) -- you're paying for the classroom, the building, the fancy new student center, the campus landscaping, the fountains, the climbing wall, the professors who are teaching dozens of other, very small courses, the laboratory space, the dormitories, the third-party software licenses, the women's softball team, etc.

Universities aren't cheap to run. The guy at the front of the classroom is only the start of the cost structure.
Anyone else think it's weird to use your Hacker News username to login? I know you're supposed to use different passwords for different locations, but this seems like an easy opportunity to do some social engineering to come up with a username/password list.
pligg is a good one.
I can definitely echo your feeling of lost potential in my earlier years. I too am a current college student and wish I could go tell my 15-year-old self to learn Python instead of spending most of my free time playing Counter-Strike.
> I have some extroverted friends who will not go to the grocery store unless someone goes with them

We did a teamwork exercise where they split the E's and I's. To both groups, they said that you have the next day off - tell us what you're going to do. The E's were going nuts with chartering a plane to Vegas, big party while all of the I's were going to do something alone, maybe even just catch up on laundry. The difference was shocking.

In another exercise, they had an E monitor a team of us I's on a logic puzzle. As the E later described, he was just basically watching us I's sit there and not say anything and then a few minutes later - we started talking. We won but the non-talking communication really weirded him out.
A lot of people in cities barely know their neighbors. Living rural you'll likely be part of a community where everyone knows everyone. I'm seven years in and going to town the other day took an extra hour just because I was chatting with people I ran into. In a city you are more anonymous.
Does Uber use event sourcing?
If they lose it all, they don't have anything left to play with and now society has some new destitutes to support. People losing everything imposes costs on everyone else, so it's in all of our interests to put up some guard rails.
Dangerous toward everything, really, not just software development
Following that model, the variety of crypto currencies is the next evolution. The game can now be played as a pure game, without the economic uncertainties that come with underlying companies. All that matters are the actions of the other gamers. The gamestop fiasco would be an incidence of that crypto market mentality bkeeding back into a market not designed to handle such games.
> I am very aware of what idiots will pay for brand names, but that has nothing to do with any sort of inherent or quantifiable value a product has. I think we, as a society, need to get better at calling people out for being beyond irresponsible with their money. A Supreme block logo slapped on a $1.00 Gildan cotton shirt does not add $99 of value

The ego of some people on HN never ceases to amaze me- especially when they still have a dayjob but feel ok to lecture entrepreneurs!

If you are able to spin it for $150, yeah, the logo DID add value - and not just $99, but an extra $50 of profit for you.

That's the base of business.

> Things like the meteoric rise and fall of things like Beanie Babies help illuminate this fact.

Ah, beanie babies and HN, a long love story :)

> You can pay $700 for a North Face Supreme jacket that can be purchased for $120 without the branding... but you’re an idiot for doing so.

Don't be so quick to dismiss the rationality of people purchasing these products.

Many people start companies this way, by noticing and exploiting a trend, and eventually stop working.

Your profile says "Attorney working in Child Welfare" - so you are working class.

Those of us retired thanks to stuff HN loves to mock (crypto, collectibles, whatever) believe the not rational people are those who can't unchain themselves from a job.

Many people won't take the time to explain you and will just downvote and move along. Personally, I think it's sad that most geeks are not business savy.
Marne and Manilla are two of the towns that offer free land in the US mentioned in the article.
We forget that nature is dynamic... having gotten used to seeing it as perpetual macro trends.

Where I live (dublin) we have a lot of urban foxes. There were there before, but over the last year their visibility and confidence has gone up hugely.

Foxes are ordinarily very shy and stealthy, so you don't see them often. There are always notable exceptions. Certain places where foxes drop stealth. The airport, for example. Both foxes (and somewhat paradoxically) hares around Dublin airport behave like seagulls. 5km away, they're ghosts.

Anyway... since covid, foxes have started behaving more like alley cats. I've seen them quarrel, hunt, walk 5 paces ahead of me on a sidewalk. Stealth doesn't seem to be a priority anymore.

I don't think post-covid foxes will be like pre covid foxes. Foxes have changed.
The Real ID is not a scam. The government will require it in order to use most public and private transportation soon.
I can get a static IPv4 address for a nominal fee with my residential account. My ISP also gives me a /56, so I have quite a few addresses to play with without a 'business account'.

So from where I'm standing IPv6 is not identical to IPv4.
What would you say are the prerequisites for this course? It looks interesting but I've never taken a Comp Arch course myself and worry I'll be too far out of depth.
While no system works exactly like models do, there is nothing magical about the economics of labor.

Free markets do not depend on equal information. Almost every single market has some level of asymmetric information, and yet markets function. Plus it's not like a lot of information is hidden by minimum wage employers, almost every single job description will include expected wages in the description. It's fairly easy to map a skill set to wage earning potential. The ability to negotiate is mostly affected by the ability of a company to find substitute labor.

Almost no companies in the first world are monopsonies, this is just flat wrong. Almost all real world monopsonies are based on government procurement. The classic example being government purchasing of military equipment due to civilian bans on ownership. (the government is the only one who can buy a fighter jet)

My economic freedom is dependent on the decisions I can make, not the amount of money in my pocket. By raising the minimum wage you are removing the ability to sell my labor at a rate lower than the minimum wage. This limits my economic freedom.

The real affects of a minimum wage increase are not uniform. As stated above, more experienced minimum wage workers benefit to the detriment of less experienced minimum wage workers. Some people will benefit, but the data shows that most people will be worse off in terms of take home pay.

This article is garbage. The conclusion it comes to is not based on any relevant data contained within the article and has not made any persuasive argument to back up their claims. There is no analysis in the article, just stating a bunch of facts and hoping that people don't understand correlation and causation.

The reason why I point to Card & Kruger is due to the fact that every single justification for the raising of the minimum wage is hinged on the validity of that paper. The paper is wrong and it's causing our most vulnerable populations to live in poverty.
Newer git (as of 2.23) has a built in "switch" command, which is not compatible with legit switch (the latter does stash/unstash on switch, which the built in does not).

Legit users beware.
An FM receiver is the first thing in every GRC tutorial. I just wish there was something useful that one can receive with one of these standard $15 RTL-SDR receivers that isn't super complicated or FM radio.
If the workers aren't getting it in their paycheck it is not a wage increase. It is simply another tax, neither the employer nor the employee benefit from it so who exactly is this benefit for?
For anyone who was suddenly terrified that there's a vast array of very specific and weirdly-named CSS properties on the horizon, fear not - this is something entirely different. This is actually a low-level API for drawing things with CSS, and the funny property names are just what the developers have chosen for these experiments. Check out the link at the bottom of each experiment to see the real code, eg. this one for the "avatar polygons": https://css-houdini.rocks/posts/avatar-polygons/paint.js
This makes me wonder. If we could have all of the SPA and frontend framework overcomplication and the ability to make four asynchronous loading screens to load what could be rendered server side as an HTML table with a navbar instead - if we had all of that technological progress two decades ago, would we have seen what benefits it would give over minimalist design, if any?

Sometimes it feels like the web of yore was so simple to use and free of unnecessary bloat simply because that was as far as the technology had progressed at that point. React didn't exist and the browser was limited from a technical perspective so the best people could manage was some clever CSS hacks to cobble together something mildly attractive. It might have taken a while to render even those simple pages on computers of the time, so back then those pages might have hit a performance ceiling of some kind.

Maybe as more and more features get added to a piece of technology, there's some kind of default instinct that some people have to always fully exercise all of it even if it's not at all necessary. Simply because you can do more with it that you couldn't do years ago, there's some assumption that it's just better for some vague reason. It's easier to overcomplicate when everyone else is doing it also, so as to not get left behind.

Then everyone who doesn't have knowledge about web technologies in the like get used to it, and people's expectations change so this "new Web" becomes the new standard for them and start enjoying it in some Stockholm syndrome manner - or not, and the product managers mistakenly come to this conclusion from useless KPIs like "time spent on our website" which will obviously increase dramatically if it takes orders of magnitude more CPU cycles just to render the first few words of an article's headline.

I'm only speculating though.

Personally, as someone with a headless server running Docker, it pains me to no end I can't browse Docker Hub with elinks.
Yes, with the amount of post on HN, mostly of them just not reach the front page because the "newest" window is not long enough for people to read it. I usually try a few times to check if the link is interesting or not. Sorry for any inconvenience :)
If I understand correctly, I think the problem with your second example is that you should avoid checking for `True` with something like `if isFile` but instead `if isFile is True`. That would solve this specific problem (and is also slightly more efficient because no implicit boolean conversion is performed).
The 737 Max fiasco to me is a sign that yes, this is how engineering should work.

For example, a well engineered plane allows the pilots to control the fuel flow to engines, but also does not allow pilots to dump fuel into the passenger compartment. Much engineering goes into, how to isolate the toxic chemicals of fuel or other fluids/gases away from the passenger compartment. So you have freedom, but you also have constraints.

Likewise, a well engineered plane probably should allow pilots to fly the plane according to their needs, rather than overriding their inputs as they fight to point the nose up while the plane decides that no you really want the nose down right now. Of course the pilots should've disengaged MCAS, but in a crisis it's bad engineering to force operators to remember which unhelpful/murderous system needs to be disabled in order to avoid catastrophe. The system took too much agency away from the operators, and violated the principle as espoused by that comment you're quoting.
I think that's a great goal to have (I'm pro anarchy and for the dismantlement of all governments) but I don't like spending all this energy just for it.

Besides, government will stop all of this before we get to anarchy, if we want anarchy (or even moving in that direction, instead of the opposite as we're doing now) we need to get there politically.

Any government can say at any time: "Everyone holding cryptocurrency is a terrorist and will be persecuted" and use their monopoly on violence to enforce it.

Incidentally, that's the reason I never invested in BTC (and missed out on this generation inequality wealth transfer).
Another relevant comparison is, how much power and other resources are used by all the financial institutions that perform a similar function to the Bitcoin network for storage and transfer of fiat currencies?
They're often not literally grey. You're kit-bashing for form rather than aesthetics. As such you need some ability to differentiate things. Similarly there's a minimum amount of FX feedback and UI you also need to make a game understandable.
> We have so many more important and urgent problems to take care of.

Fortunately, with 7.8 billion people alive today, we have some capacity for multitasking.
Amazon.de was sold-out around February-March 2020 and never really recovered. Currently there's only third party sellers which sell FFP2 masks in there.

But masks are widely available in pharmacies and specialized stores. I'd try to find a store selling occupational safety items if I were you.
The point of getting rich from the prediction is to have the money to create the change, not idiotically growing vegetables on your apartment roof, thinking that your building's roof contains 40m2 of arable land per occupant.

Generally people use futures markets to mitigate risk. Therefore if you believe that oil is mispriced you can use a futures contract to mitigate the effects you have with regard to peak oil (increased prices). Similarly, those who may be affected by rising sea levels (coastal areas) can trade risk with those who will be insulated (inland areas).

The reason why environmentalists don't use these markets to put their money where there mouth is, is because they are much better at scaring people than predicting the future. Hence, if Greenpeace were to buy the futures contracts reflecting its peak oil predictions it would likely lose a lot of money that could better be spent scaring people and collecting membership dues. Greenpeace's expertise is fear mongering, not making accurate predictions with regard to the future price of oil, or climate. If it had such an ability it would have more than enough money to fund its operations, and would not have people on the street collecting money and talking about global warming / peak oil.

Most rational people know that we will eventually see peak oil and that prices will gradually rise making alternative forms of energy more economical in comparison. Buying expensive local food now is a waste of money, it's better to save that money in an interest bearing account and use it in the future when local and non-local food equalize in price. (Note: Shipping an apple across a continent actually uses less gas than to drive it home, note never let a locavore know this, it ruins their girl-meets-tractor fantasies of urban farming.)

See the Simon-Erhlich wager for examples of environmental stupidity with regard to economics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
Wow, thats has to be intentional right? its just a standard list
Also, it's legal.
thanks, i fixed that ;)
You should look into Appcelerator Titanium (http://www.appcelerator.com/) and PhoneGap (http://www.phonegap.com/). They allow you to build native mobile apps using HTML/JavaScript, by exposing device specific API's (camera, location, address book etc.) to JavaScript.

There's an excellent review and comparison between the two, on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1482586/comparison-betwee...
Are macros are inherently evil? If you had a convention (e.g. only capitalised words in macros, none in your program propper) then they could exist safely. Perhaps a good DSL could sit on top of C macros to shield developers from the syntax. Are there any good preprocessors that do this?
I think I missed something. Why can't you use node for SSE?
I think incognito mode is more to not let trace on your laptop than on the websites you are visiting.
I'm not really pro or con on a fallback... but I wonder why is google and cloudflare being picked here? Are the public DNS servers not allowed to be used? I mean, if privacy is being used as an argument, wouldn't you not want to use corporate controlled dns servers?

Personally, I'd rather it not work, so I can diagnose it and fix it correctly, rather than being blind to the problem, but that's the anti-grandma response not particularly cachet in today's world (which I get, I have a grandma too).
I think they say “Ask app not to track” because, if they say “Make app not track you” or something similar, they open themselves to huge lawsuits if (much more likely when) any app turns out to keep tracking users.
According to recent articles I’ve read this may not be the case. Apparently at least one organization has accused NSO of doing the unlawful accessing.

Standby while I look for a source.
Half of this is ok advice, the other half highly opinionated (and wrong in my opinion).
This is actually kind of a fun interview question. How would you use a single file to deploy your entire application?
Losing maps would be worse than search.
Seems very unlikely they'd follow through with their threats, not like ASD are hacking them.
Have you tried to bring this up with FastMail support as well? Maybe they can put some pressure on their end on DigitalOcean and Linode?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee60DLk0-bU
And a few years ago some guy was able to buy google.com for a few minutes or hours, I don't quite recall.
I don’t get the impression that neither women nor smaller cars are more likely to be struck. It’s just that men are more likely to drive bigger cars, where the impact is less likely to cause major damage.