jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How does that fit in with the conversation?
Ah, I missed that they didn't charge you on the more serious infraction.

I've only seen it go the one way in my experiences. It just seems so odd to me that a system with such power has such limited controls/protections, and such common mistakes and abuses.
The Batman thing is just the CD tracks bashed together into a single file. My guess is that task was dropped on some minimum wage intern, and that no-one with the title "engineer" or any serious experience with audio was involved.

Source: used to work for Peter Gabriel
There is also ongoing discussion and other work on something called "successor ML" (sML). See smlfamily.org for further information. Functional record update is one of the features contemplated.
Troubling.

I find it surprising^, that our "democratic norms" don't have much to say about dealing with certain things: how to prosecute investigators, investigate high officials and other such tricky tasks.

Troubling enough that the ACLU & a lawsuit to remove this person from a no fly list seems insufficient. That doesn't necessarily do much to make sure that presumption of innocence remains functional.

^no irony intended.
How does puppeteer compare with Playwright?
There seems to be a very large amount of outstanding coin that the founders just happen to control...
I assume the employee in charge of marketing gets paid, right? That spending money on it too!
Idea- Allow adding birthdays in alternate calendars. That would be a real differentiator from things like Google Calendar, which don't usually allow recurring events based on an alternate calendar. But a lot of people do celebrate birthdays based on other calendars, so when the main proposition is recurring events, it makes sense as a feature.
While those are useful. I've learned so much from watching more senior developers use their tools. The things you couldn't ask about because you didn't know it existed. Productivity hacks, IDE shortcuts, custom key mappings, codebase traversal, git commands/shortcuts.
isn't it Ctrl+L
What does the FBI offer for becoming an informant if you are a law abiding citizen?
Nitpick: you are comparing price where you should be comparing performance per dollar, or are you cherry-picking the wrong comparison?

My cherry-pick is where the AMD chip is 30% more expensive, but multi-threaded performance is 100% better in this example: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-11900K-vs-AMD-...

Edit: picking individual processors to compare (especially low volume ones) is often not useful when talking about how well a company is competing in the market.
"20 years now"

You mistyped. 200 years
in support of your example of not caring for hair color it is interesting to note that in japan, discrimination based on hair color does exist.
I like the framing of the weakness question far more than I was anticipating. It’s usually so lacking in context that it encourages bullshit answers (“my biggest weakness is I’m too dedicated to my work/too humble to take credit”, which isn’t just bullshit to the speaker but tells the interviewer nothing too). I got enough from the article that I felt prompted to be sincere about a very real weakness in my social and career performance just reading along, and would likely have been able to speak to it without too much discomfort.

(Specifically that I have a frankness/matter of factness that people often find offputting and make conflict resolution more difficult.)
Yeah, exactly. I passed N1 which requires ~2000 kanji, but I still frequently encounter words with kanji I haven’t encountered/don’t know the readings of.
Except he had a perfectly legitimate point there, as far as I understand, he just utterly botched the explanation.

There's a big difference between "is" and "was". Which is what he should have said. There were no semantic games in that particular statement, in stark contrast to some of the other things he said.
> We’re socially conditioned to believe that certain accents – Black accents, Southern accents, strong accents from non-native-English speakers – are indicators of low intelligence. This is bullshit; don’t fall for the trap.

Uh, what? Delete this
If we are playing with analogies, it’s like riding a horse and getting annoyed at the lack of horse lanes on the highway. Being a vegetarian is a perfectly valid alternative in the modern world. Probably easier being a vegetarian now than ever before. On the other hand a web without JS is for all intents and purposes obsolete technology. Not saying that it’s good or bad, just that such is the reality of things. It would be easier to convince people to ride horses instead of driving cars than to convince even a large majority of websites and we apps to stop using JS.
Job interviews are filters. Here you've identified this question as an excellent filter all by itself.
That would be tremendously unfair to working people in or around SF, especially those making $50k or less. That in itself isn't a reason not to raise a bunch of people out of poverty, but what evidence is there that homeless people would move out? One could just as easily argue that most would blow the money on drugs and/or wait around for next year's $50k. Also, is it really a good idea to defund all the programs that this $50k/person pays for in order to turn it into cash handouts? My understanding is that a majority of homeless people are homeless because of an inability to manage their finances and their life, whether we think that's any fault of their own or not. Handing out cash isn't going to fix these people's childhoods, drug addictions, etc. The real way to deal with homelessness is to address the core problems: a poor educational & economic outlook for both young and old, and a thriving underground economy for hard, addictive drugs. These two fuel homelessness, poverty, crime, and child abuse. Watch Mark Laita's Soft White Underbelly: much of this generation may be beyond hope, but the next generation might be helped before they arrive.
Actually, I think many DBAs would love a problem like this, because there is soo much room for optimization. You could make this thing run much faster.

Of course, then you'd just be making a piece of shit work faster....
Also, every movie. And many software projects.
Yep, I got mine about a month ago.
In some states in the US, it's illegal to ask for id for a credit card purchase. In all states, the credit card companies don't like it. Here's a good set of google answers about the issue:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=71792

This is all to say, credit card processing is incredibly complicated. Here's another quote, directly from the federal government [1]:

"MasterCard wants to hear about merchants who break their rules. Send the name and address and an account of what happened to MasterCard International, c/o Radio City Station, P. O. Box 1288, New York, NY 10101. The merchant's bank will get a stiff letter, ordering it to investigate and bring the offending store into line - or pay a $2,000 fine.

Visa enforces the same rules as MasterCard. "When we hear about a violation, we ask the bank that signed the merchant to get together with the merchant and see that the practice is stopped," Visa representative states. To report a merchant, send a letter to the bank that issued your Visa card.

American Express also prohibits merchants from asking for IDs. "All a merchant is supposed to do is take an imprint, make sure the signature matches and swipe the card through the terminal, to get authorization."

[1] http://www.in.gov/dfi/2554.htm
Poor Alex. For the rest of his life anyone who googles his history will be reading about how he threatened his mother, attacked his father, and loved hardcore porn at 12 years old.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from an IT manager whose project was slowly going mushy. She assembled the team and told everyone they had to stop all work and "write some emergency documentation." I was working with another group a few cubes over and so had enough detachment to savor the phrase "emergency documentation" without personally wanting to leap from the nearest ledge. The "documentation culture" phrase from the article seems like the opposite-in-a-good-way strategy from "emergency documentation."
>can you point me to where I can get a dual Xeon 2.4 (=8 core) server for $40/month?

http://www.joesdatacenter.com/Dedicated_Servers.html

It's a dual Xeon 3.0 with 2G of RAM and it's $60.
> I guess, if they are democratic countries we have no choice but to hope that their citizens can prevent it from getting used;

There exist no country in the world where citizens have any say on nuclear weapon use. "Pseudo democracy" is the norm.
> It really is bad for the web to have this sort of user agent discrimination.

Eh, if the issue really was (as figured out below) that lynx doesn't support divs inside anchor tags, that seems like the best possible solution if you aren't going to drop lynx support altogether. Even IE6 allows that.

It just isn't worth trying to do progressive enhancement by tying everything into knots trying to keep the page strict html 4.
It makes pretty knife handles.
I saw it this morning via BBC - appreciate it's not the same article.

'Thanksgiving Four' say Google is punishing them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50554931
>Since at least 2016, the divide between the “working class” and the “elite” has been considered a defining issue in American (and Western) politics.

I watch a bit of US news (CNN et cetera) when travelling and almost never hear it defined in those terms. Based on what I've seen the debate is almost entirely framed in terms of the "middle class" and the elites.
Something Awful, too

[1] https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=11...
None of that is illegal. You can ask, but you can't discriminate.
Ifttt is a joke compared to Yahoo Pipes. It can only do a very limited number of pre-defined transformations and it’s only 2 steps.

Yahoo Pipes was basically programming with a UI.
> What are they going to do to him and his family if they find him?

then shame on the united states government for not protecting his identity
I wonder what happens the first time that there's a credible link to someone dying as a results of Wikileaks leaking a document.

It depends on who is doing the crediting, I suspect.

To ask the opposite loaded-question, [rhetoric]"what will happen the first time there's a credible link to someone's life being saved by a Wikileaks release?" (Perhaps someone being released from Guantanamo Bay when they wouldn't have otherwise been? What if Wikileaks catches child-molestors in high places?)[/rhetoric]

Back honest discussion... it's pretty hard to pin blame Wikileaks for any given event, though. If our supposedly democratic government has decided that secrecy will be standard operating procedure for law enforcement, that government still has the main job of protecting it's secret operatives. Wikileaks isn't a spy agency, they just take information that's there. Any good intelligence operation compartmentalizes information on a need-to-know basis. So if names of some operator are flying around, someone has screwed up long before Wikileaks appears on the scene. The good way of protecting the classified information is keeping it within an intelligence agency. Should free-speech be hobbled for those situations where the secret-keepers screw-up?

Further, it doesn't seem coincidental to me that the main justification for government secrecy is stopping victimless crimes and intervening in foreign conflicts. How many people have been killed as a result of this? (countless) What are people going to do about this?
The fact that they haven't leads me to believe their case against him isn't quite as airtight as you believe.

I'm not sure whether he's broken any US laws or not. He did not, after all, leak the information, he merely publicised it after someone else (Bradley Manning, apparently) leaked it. Wikipedia mentions no warrants out for his arrest apart from the rape one, for which he's apparently right now "under arrest in absentia" in Sweden.

Bradley Manning, of course, remains in solitary at Quantico pending court martial -- he most certainly broke some laws.
i think you don't look outside your own "boxeola" too much. no all development is done by a) clueless team that passes the software on to b) quality assurance + bughunters. relying on or assuming that someone else will take care of eventual loose ends is a very bad and ignorant approach to creating software, and in my soon 15 years of experience as a european programmer this is thankfully no where near the majority of cases.
The problem is, Skype is (as of my knowledge) really the only available, actively developed, cross-platform client offering both audio and video connections, let alone being free software. If you abandon Skype, you either have to abandon video-phoning with friends on other platforms or you have to change platforms yourself. As sad it is, there simply is no working free substitute for Skype right now.
Interesting that November 2008 is missing.
Could we call it something more descriptive than "cablegate?" Its also not a scandal in the same way as Watergate - much more in line with the likes of the "Pentagon Papers". Perhaps a similarly descriptive hashtag, like #wikileakscables or #wikileaksdiplomaticcables if you're not bound by 140 characters.

But please - let's raise the level of discourse from sensationalist "Action News" by refusing to use pidgeonhole phrases and instead call things accurately.
The municipality can set the rent. I know of cases where:
- it's high to have lower taxes for the rich for no reason, making private schools very competitive because they can just change building.
- it's zero, making it very hard for a good private school to compete because they can't never get the rent to zero on the open market.

Both these are bad in different ways.
I changed school at senior high (private to private). My pre senior high school sucked (though not too much), due to too hard academic lessons, the time too long and activities outside school time was almost non existed.

My senior high was the opposite.
Thanks for your suggestion. But are these functionalities not better implemented on a desktop computer? A mobile phone is limited in compute capability but very portable, so it easy to use it for occasional situation like when traveling, or when you only need a security camera for a short time and do not want to invest much.
Reported figures happened in the past though, it's the future cash flows which affect the price of a company and no one knows what those cash flows will be exactly, not even the company itself.
This was one of the things that made me switch over to Debian. Back then I could download a 50MB mini.iso, then get on my installation. Now I have to download some huge file and use an installer that does not give me much control, also has bad documentation.
This reminds me of the tree diagrams I wrote during the Term Rewriting Systems course at the Vrije Universiteit [1].

Functional programming really started to resonate with me at that time. Properties like confluence were very useful to understand distributed systems algorithms later on, and e.g. how eventual consistency plays out.

[1] The teacher was awesome too. If you'd like to learn more about term rewriting systems, go take a peek at his slides http://joerg.endrullis.de/teaching/#trs (Note, just noticed that they are behind a password. A gentle email will probably get you the slides though :)
The author claims that "the corporation schools can reduce salaries, teacher density, resource staff."

Though that claim makes me wonder how these schools attract students. The "independent students" and their parents must not be too happy with the municipal schools if understaffed private schools are an appealing alternative.
Is there good or bad voting? I think democracy is about representing interests, if a number of people have an interest that is against the interest of someone else, does that make it wrong or bad? yeah I mean bad from your interest point of view, but not from a global point of view

I think the woke culture is a bit flawed, because if there is something that is objectively bad, and something that is objectively good, why even have democracy at all? Let's just put there the sun king and move on?
The most generous reading would probably be something like he wished he were shooting for other planets, in stead of cities with people in.

Dunno whether to buy that, but at least doesn't feel totally implausible.
You're right, that was my bias! In therapy at least you also look at the current circumstances as you're patterns of behaviour that one learned in the past hold true today as well.
If I'm to be 100% honest - I have no idea and thus I'm looking slightly to stand on the shoulders of the giants, who most likely know better than I do. Neurodiversity is... diverse. I could probably write a book about my experiences and they wouldn't match the next person with ADHD (at least not completely).

Describing the "perfect" organization for me that would probably be company that allowed me to switch between projects and technologies quickly while having "cleanup crew" in form of QA or an introvert who would be happy when not bothered.

The best employers/clients I ever had were the ones who had the silent "I sit and cut all the loose things" type of person, that allowed us to have perfect synergy, as I was frontman dealing with meetings, arguing on architecture doing the high-level designs and they were working on things that I missed (and there were plenty). I always - however - made sure they got recognition, both directly (assuring that if it wasn't for them I would progress at all) and in team environment.

Thus I think that if someone would be able to recognize traits that come with ADHD they would both help me feel better about stuff and could also juice more out of me (which I personally love, since I thrive in hard, legacy code with hundreds of engineering and business problems and IT is something I choose very consciously). This also comes with the fact, that someone has to recognize downtime and help me manage it, as ADHD is prone to obsessions and burnout, thus I quite often end up working 12h at 8h job while forgetting to go for lunch.

In summary - while I don't know it's either company that knows what they're doing and have a specialists for that, or company that would like to work with ADHD people.
It sort of make sense for Nvidia's shareholders. The initial offering for ARM was only worth $38.5bn, which was already expensive due to SoftBank initial purchase price and not wanting for a loss. But at Nvidia's peak this deal was worth "$87bn". For a company that makes less than $2B in revenue and at best ~$300M in Operating Income. Remember this isn't something you can buy and milk the crap out of other market players. "Not a very British way of doing business" is A Direct Quote from ARM. ( Edit: Because of perceptual licensing agreement, for those unaware of how ARM business model works )

It didn't make sense how ARM was worth $22bn in 2016 on LSE, that has a PE100+ when I cant see how it could double its Net profit in the next 10 years, with a saner valuation of P/E 50. It make even less sense to me when Softbank bought it for $32bn. Didn't make any sense when Nvidia want it for $38.5bn, and later at $50bn+.

Now we are back to square one, how many investors, in the open market are willing to buy ARM's stock at a valuation of, let say the same $32bn as Softbank initially paid? Roughly P/E 100, assuming they managed to grow ARM business from 2018 at ~$220M operating income to $300M in 2021. I much rather bet on Intel if I had the money.

And of course many on HN will think ARM is worthless because the future is going to be the Riscy Silver Bullet.

Disclosures: I do not currently hold any stocks or Mutual Funds, Indexes and other financial instrument.
It depends how it goes to zero. US is a significant importer from China. If they go to zero through enforcement of produce-or-import-at-zero laws, it would also push China to improve or lose lots of business.
The census you link is from the current admin and I was shocked to see it written that way. I don't think it's right or normal at all and I don't agree that this was standard practice prior to this admin.
It’s a function of the relative amounts of housing and jobs in the inner city. People talk about building more houses as the solution to high prices, however escalating demand and long commutes are driven by increasing office space.
Darwin for M1 is not open source currently I think.
I remember the Hacker News I used to love from 2008. Are we really at a place where someone is trying to build another corral / gatekeeper for yet another "exclusive" group? It used to be using the word "exclusive" on HN would get you laughed at. Hacker news was about Hacking Things. Oh how I miss the pre bubble BS.
I first read of a similar idea 7 years ago in a piece by Marshall Brain.

http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm

Skip down to "Capitalism Supersized" for the meat of the idea. It is one of those experiments I would love to see in reality, as I believe I would still be inventing and trying to better myself and the lives of those around me without having to worry about that pesky "job" thing. Though, the main risk I see isn't the people blowing their money, but the inflation and greed this would cause.
It's not explicitly stated in the article, but in the tweet that started it all[1], he mentioned it was a Mac Pro, rather than a laptop. So that's somewhat less likely to be stolen than a laptop that is taken out of the house regularly.

That said, I agree with you, and I hope it's at least encrypted.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/6035374438621184
Good point. I would only say that in the long term, the parents' and kids' alienation from the system as a whole is partly the fault of the system. A lot of schools in working class areas SUCK -- everybody knows it and feels stuck with it, so why would they feel like they should play along with the teachers when they call?

Really, I just want to be able to fire the sucky teachers and administrators. I am really a downright socialist (with free enterprise a necessary evil that must be vigorously contained); I hate to be arguing against unions.
Chrome’s sync does more and more all the time. What does Firefox Sync do for you? Genuinely curious.
Reading the article, it sounds like they already have some version of the basic income guarantee already in place. According to the article, Nicole Gray (the subject of the article) already subsists on government provided income.

Currently, if you want to avoid work and take advantage of income support, you must navigate an unpleasant bureaucracy and perhaps endure suffer feelings of shame. If you get a job instead, you can avoid this unpleasantness. This is an incentive for work. The only thing that the proposal seems to add to the table is removing this incentive for work.

Why would we want to do that?
give them a fish... and they can start thinking.

One cannot think with an empty stomach