jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do that as well, but I dread the moment I'll have to call support through no fault of my own and they'll ask me for the answers to some of these questions.
True, I just don’t get the impression that the author live in central american or sub-saharan africa. He might though, so yeah that’s a valid point.
This is an extremely reductive and uncharitable take on the conversations being had right now and calling it the "woke movement" shows you know what you're doing.

"Concrete" things like healthcare reform, voting reform, policing reform, tax reform, immigration reform, and women's rights have been front and center. You'd have to be looking through a very distorted lens to not see it.
> I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office

Informal communication, informal collaboration, a culture of apprenticeship. To the extent that the organization values these they are all served much better in person than remote.

All companies and all people are different. There isn't a one size fits all. But it's not like there are no benefits to in person.
I love the overall simplicity of your approach. Any chance of sharing your template rendering crate with us?
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It's much cheaper with a Network Railcard - 22.40 roundtrip. With all HEX tickets, you can use them in any direction (i.e., it's two unlimited one ways basically) and the first is good for 3 days, the second "return" one good for 30 days, so I usually keep a few active for regular trips. 11.20 each isn't bad at all vs Uber if you're time sensitive and already nearish to Paddington.
right, they make it sound like it was publicly available data, but it was data unintentionally made public.

Sort of like saying "people scraped publicly available information from our website" when someone grabs passwords from a public-facing MongoDB database without a password.
What prevents Rust(as a language) from being used to write UI? Qt is implemented in C++, which rust seems to aim to replace.

Rust seems like an excellent contender for the future.
Eckert accused von Neumann specifically of doing so that he could consult for IBM on the matter.

However, there is a problem with this: As I understand it, IBM wasn't that interested in computers at the time and actually stumbled into (electronic digital) computing by a government contract for replicating Whirlwind for the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE). On the other hand, Eckert also pointed out some interest shown repeatedly by von Neumann in bringing in commercial third parties into the project, so it may have been concerning any third party which may be interested in his consultancy, and this then became historically IBM.
The devx looks amazing. Would be so cool to have this for different languages.
“Farmers” of a certain type have known about myco for a long time. It’s old news. Root hair peptides and fancy adjuvants are hot right now.
Please re-read the parent more closely. What you are talking about has no bearing on the scenario presented. The parent said:

> Some people have imagined that Fuchsia's destiny is to replace Android, and some of them believe that's because Android is tainted by Java and Google will want to sidestep.

Whether or not Fuchsia can or might run Java or Kotlin apps, as you talk about, is not what this scenario is about. The apocalyptic scenario some believed about Fuchsia was that it existed as an OS that didn't need Java. If it can host & run Java or Kotlin apps? That might have had to go, that might have had to be cut. But Fuchsia could have survived.

Fuchsia is independent of Java and Kotlin. To run a Zircon kernel, to run a Fuchsia OS required no Java technologies. One maybe could/can use Java to write apps (having trouble stablishing this premise), but Java is not a dependency for this OS. With Fuchsia, Google could have given up Java, if they had to. What you @CameronNemo are talking about- the ability to use Java and Kotlin to write Fuchia apps, if true[1], is something that could have been sacrificed without affecting the rest of Fuchsia. I'd also point out that Fuchsia does not advertise Java or Kotlin support[2], regardless of whatever you may have heard, but it was at least once rumored of, so I can sympathize.

This is 99.9998% a conspiracy theory & in my estimation you'd have to be daft to think Fuchsia was only an escape hatch (there's a ton of great technical work breaking from Linux & more in it), but the "Fuchsia is only to escape Java if we have to" scenario sketched was at least technically plausible & sound, checked out. It has no Java dependencies.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2018/11/09/fuchsia-friday-java-borrow...

[2] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts
Don't know if it's still the case but last time I tried using Patreon, it was pretty annoying that I needed to make a new account when I wanted to make a second Patreon page for another project.
Wow that’s so amazing! I bet it was a bit like code golf trying to find appropriate words to fit in the space. It’d be funny if you had it all still around.
I feel like it would be much easier because there are bound to be underserved customers, especially on the solo operator/SMB end of the market.

There might be room for 100 small scale products tailored to specific use cases.
As far as I can tell, this entire thing could've been avoided by a competent HR department.
I only followed this from afar, but my understanding is that the defense did a terrific job and that's the main reason Pao lost. They were able to successfully paint her as someone who is very unpleasant to work with and not entirely honest either. Once her character was assassinated, it was easy to sway the jury against her.

I may be wrong though.
Its frustrating when it doesn't recommend something better. Every DB has tradeoffs if you choose something over Cassandra you have to give up something else.
I'm not sure that variable-rate plans would actually have cut demand all that much.

I mean, I agree variable rates could stop people running clothes dryers, close down industrial users and so on. But the remaining demand would be extremely price-inelastic; How much would you pay to stop your pipes bursting? $3000? $10,000? More?

So long as the amount of power being generated is less than the amount of power needed to prevent anyone's pipes freezing someone's pipes are going to freeze, and no amount of shuffling around who gets the power is going to change that fact.
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The paper seems to indicate that budesonide has an effect of increasing the effect of serotonin to induce aggregation of blood platelets, theorized to happen via the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor.

Bad layman, bad!
Probably not what you are looking for, but this: https://getfreewrite.com could be good for you.
I’ve encountered offshore devs that are actually quite good... they are by far the exception, but they also charge much more than the run of the mill folks that you’re likely to encounter.
I live in Ontario at the moment, which is a very regulated power market. I can only buy from one retailer. They in turn get charged a singular price from the generator. The government can mandate what that price is, which is lower at the moment because of Covid.

That stuff is great for me as a consumer. But selling power below the cost of production seems like a weird economic model. And you still pay for these reductions somehow. In Ontario, the government mandates a rebate (https://www.torontohydro.com/for-home/ontario-electricity-re...). But who pays for that rebate? The taxpayers! So you get a discount on your power, paid for from your income!

I'm not an 'all-in free market' guy. I do think regulation is required to constrain the free market to operate within certain parameters. But I also don't agree that all 'critical services' should be managed directly by the state. I remember that the state used to run the Telephone network in NZ, and it would take 6 weeks to get a new phone line. Why? Because there's a process, there's a queue, and there's no competition, so what else will you do? Stuff like that is a crappy experience.
Indeed. Not to mention investments in renewable energy.

According to this random website I found which claims to use data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics[0], electricity on average across the US costs 51.49% more in 2021 than in 2004. If that's true, Texans might actually be saving quite a bit.

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/Electricity/price-inflation/20...
Good article - it's a useful distinction whether you're building something to sell or something for fun.

One resource worth mentioning is: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228884866_MDA_A_For.... Working backwards from the desired kind of game you want to make based on the 8 categories this paper talks about (sensation, fantasy, narrative, challenge, fellowship, discovery, expression, submission/abnegation) can give you a clearer way of measuring success than whether you did a good job implementing whatever mechanic you thought of.

Another thing the article doesn't mention that I think can be valuable for software engineers is doing paper prototypes. As engineers, we often think about producing code as the only way to build prototypes, but sometimes you can get mileage from testing a game mechanic through much cheaper to produce paper prototypes of the game (or a part of the game).
> Though in my experience I was always so tired, it was generally a lower priority.

This. As new parents, we really have to make it a priority otherwise, in general, we're just constantly exhausted. Raising kids does really require a village.
Part of the problem is Variable Ratio Rewards, or random rewards. MMOs use them intentionally to get people addicted, but they're also inherent in social news sites.

Sometimes you find real gems, either in the articles or the discussions (on HN often the latter as much or more than the former), and sometimes just noise. But you never know which will turn up on the front page and when, so you keep checking back over and over.
4 time of 5 I got some icon :(
It got me thinking along the lines of "what is thought/intelligence/free will/nature of consciousness" etc.
I don't think I said anywhere that Google shouldn't do it because it's hard. I said they shouldn't do it because it's dangerous and because it's not the kind of problem they know how to solve.
It's strange but after Python I don't feel like I need/want to learn sth new.
I'm trying to toss up between learning Python or going completely functional with something like Haskell or Clojure.

the thing is I've spent most of my time reading up on the languages rather than doing it, I' think I'm suffering from language-analysis paralysis

My current language skillset is Java, Objective-C and a bit of Ruby although I wouldn't call myself an expert in any of them
Haskell. I know Scala and occasionally use it work (although my main project is still in Java: it's often difficult to mix languages at the same level in a project and for many reasons, I'd like to keep as few external dependencies for my project as possible) and great enjoy it. I also know OCaml and am doing some hobby projects in it. I've been a Lisp weenie for a long time now (Scheme, Common Lisp, recently Clojure both at work and in hobby projects).

So, why Haskell if I already know lots of other functional languages (both statically and dynamically typed ones)? Due to type classes and lazyness/purity by default. I still find myself thinking imperatively, or thinking at a lower functional level (e.g., just tail recursion and folds/map). I'd like to learn to think in a a lazy and purely functional way and Haskell seems to be a way to get there. Additionally, both Scala (with implicits and higher kindred types) and OCaml (since 3.12 with first class modules) do support type classes, but Haskell seems to be a good way to learn to use them. I've been thinking a great deal about type systems and type safe DSLs, presently working my way through TAPL. One particular field that interests me is the intersection of programming languages and systems: can we do user level systems programing in languages other than C; how can we safely "hint" a garbage collector to avoid memory pressure issues that happen frequently in memory intensive applications written in high level languages; can we use the type systems to ensure application-level code can sustain loss of consistency or availability (Google for CALM Conjecture for a dynamically typed Ruby DSL approach to this)?

Finally, Haskell is a great language in terms of forcing myself to think before I code (Yes, I should already be doing that): you may have a solution that may be short in terms of lines of code but takes hours to come up with. Why is this important? That's a great way of improving myself in other areas of programming: seeing which classes of algorithms solve a particular program, finding the simplest solution vs. one that comes to mind first.

[EDIT: Forgot to say that fun also plays a huge part of it. It's the reason I chose on the site (was the best one of those listed there: Haskell won't get you a job nor is there always a guarantee you'll be more productive with it, especially right away) and a perfectly legitimate one].
I've seen similar ranges advertised. It's probably worth noting that it's mostly the big financial firms that tend to offer this kind of money (£600+/day), and as well as the technical skills ig1 mentions, most positions also require real world experience working in their field. You are unlikely to jump from writing business admin software or games into financial modelling at that kind of money even if you've got a decade of programming experience and all the technical skills they can think of.

Also, keep in mind that these places are all based in London, so you have to factor in either relatively high accommodation costs or a significant amount of both time and money on the commute.

Also also, when you deal with these guys, you are usually not selling your services so much as your soul, because you aren't going to have much time and energy left to enjoy your off hours for as long as you're working there.

(I've been invited to work at these places but never taken them up on it, and having seen the effect it has had on some of my close friends, I have never regretted going a different way.)
Example that is even more silly:

Project A contains a generic collection. Project B contains an abstraction of objects with expiry times. Project C instantiates A's collection for B's objects.

Now assuming A implements the collection using linked lists and C uses A and B as black box, linked libraries, does anyone infringe on the patent?
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The advertising power comes from the Twitter userbase. Who will Uber be advertising to if they migrate the power users (mostly non-consumers) off Twitter?
I think it holds for work that's happening close to the metal. If you're working at the level where you're trying to fit all your data in the cache, then GC will get in the way of that.

For applications operating at a higher level, or where any calculation that's going on is taking up a trivial amount of CPU time compared to (say) waiting for the user, then the overhead of reference counting (and the mistakes that are associated with that) is probably not worth it.
I agree, but on the other hand, it sure seems like low-hanging fruit. If this could be applied to nearly all existing combustion engines simply by changing out a sparkplug, then it might not require all of us to go out and buy a new car just to meet emissions guidlines or achieve much better mileage.

Whether the car companies like the idea is a whole other question.
High cholesterol and hypertension here. Anyone want to give me a tl'dr?

The obvious and constant advice to date is: drink less alcohol, exercise more and eat less saturated fat.

Tackling all three at once is quite a challenge so it would be lovely if someone threw me a bone here. ;-)
Suggestion: Submit “We've tackled the (SVG?) provenance problem” to HN in the form of a blog post that expands on your reply.

Rigorous provenance is vital when it’s vital.
This is mostly a problem within the African-American community, and to a smaller extent the Latino community:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-majority-of-us-children-still...

Mom-only households are 43.9% for Blacks, 12.0% for Whites.

"In the words of Harvard’s Paul Peterson, “some programs actively discouraged marriage,” because “welfare assistance went to mothers so long as no male was boarding in the household… Marriage to an employed male, even one earning the minimum wage, placed at risk a mother’s economic well-being.” Infamous “man in the house” rules meant that welfare workers would randomly appear in homes to check and see if the mother was accurately reporting her family-status.

The benefits available were extremely generous. According to Peterson, it was “estimated that in 1975 a household head would have to earn $20,000 a year to have more resources than what could be obtained from Great Society programs.” In today’s dollars, that’s over $90,000 per year in earnings.

That may be a reason why, in 1964, only 7% of American children were born out of wedlock, compared to 40% today. As Jason Riley has noted, “the government paid mothers to keep fathers out of the home—and paid them well.”

https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-wel...

If we want this to improve, the simplest solution is to unlink being a single parent from getting extra welfare or preferential access to social housing. If we want to go even further, we could unlink welfare from having children at all, and just offer child tax credits instead and universal access to family planning.
I got the screenshot from one of the deposed mods, who has been around since 2012 (I'm one of the earliest sub members FWIW, but never a mod), he was part of the last cohort of "good ones" following the deposing of the sub founder. This person certainly is not a friend, I'd generally struggle to befriend the kind of personality attracted to Reddit's system of moderation, and especially not after already witnessing the many concealed knives.

Hopefully this also answers the question of why you haven't seen it before.

Is any of this unexpected? Not at all, it's Reddit, this is structural. That's why I find the actions and encouragement from the admins far more interesting.
Say whatever you want but don't play the trick of just asserting there is consensus behind your opinion.

There is extremely little consensus regarding inflation right now and because we are in uncharted territory monetarily and in terms of debt levels both public and private, and the consequences(and data) of that can take years to show up(frequently slowly and then all at once) almost everything is speculation, not data driven.

So no, there is not broad consensus that we can just pull some levers and send inflation wherever we want, not even close.
I thought this was going to be about salary discrepancies between people with different physical characteristics.

Someone should study that.
Should we legalize drunk driving, and address the problem by trying to solve alcoholism?
On a similar topic, 10 years ago, a couple of friends and I led a replantation drive in a 2 acre patch of land (a portion of a larger degraded area slated for replantation with the help of the government and NGOs) near a dried up lake in India.

Instead of the usual mass mono culture plantations that are cost effective and easily doable, we decided to do something different. Here's a couple of things we did:

1. Use native species
2. Instead of a blanket plantation of rows of trees, landscape a more natural habitat. This included, a dense canopy, a meadow and some sparce shrubbery all on different areas of the lot.
3. Include plants that provide food and shelter for native fauna, even if the plants weren't native.
4. Landscape a little to allow for water retention
5. Focus on soil improvement in the beginning

We did a few more things to ensure high survival rate, but that's probably not of interest. The results were amazing. Our section was the one with the most promising results. Our lot grew like a natural habitat in the 2nd and 3rd year in a way that you'd never feel that this was a barren piece of land. And eventually, some of the species started spreading to the nearby lots as well. The other lots didn't do so well, some of them had survival rate of about 30-40%, but a lot of them ended up more like less than 10%. Mind you, we are talking about 40C+ summer temperatures.
I noticed some weird results too. The first thing I searched was “dead bird”[1]. There are 2 results, one of which is correct, but the script and descriptions are flipped. The first result has the script for the correct strip but links to a different script which matches the description, and vice versa for the other result.

[1] http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
You really want to go back to the days before evidence based medicine? Really?

Nobody is "denying anything that doesn't have clinical trial can be good." Hardly. It is more like "these people say this is good, now lets prove it." Do we nees more medicinal research? Yes. Is there a billion things we don't understand or know yet? Yes. That doesn't mean we don't learn.
> I have no idea to this day how macs became the premier development environment.

s/macs/python
s/development environment/scripting language
I think it’s worth distinguishing the CCP and ‘China’.

It’s unclear what the threshold for ‘controlled’ means.

Apple for example won’t offend the CCP because of their manufacturing dependence, and market access.

Epic is 40% owned by Tencent, which clearly gives the CCP a huge influence and a board seat, but not likely at the level of a company based in China.
What have they got to lose?

30% cut of app store, icloud, apple+ TV, Safari users, Maps users, Incremental Market Share.

Realistically lots of people could end up preferring Linux over MacOS, why risk it?
The seattle shared use was always temporary iirc. The buses were a reliability problem for the trains, impacting on time performance. But what led to the exclusive use was going to shorter inter train timing where there’s simply not enough time to wait for buses to clear the train platforms between arrivals.
In practice, since people can afford to pay $1738 USD per month, they bid up the price of the same house to =FV(0.03/12;10*12;-1738) or 243 000 USD.
Historically, there hasn't been a lot of correlation here.

I agree with your logic - it seemingly would make sense.
I've got two 2015 Mac Book pros kickin' around my house and they're amazing. Add in the M1 Air I just picked up and it looks like my perceptions are a bit colored by skipping that 4-year Mac Book dark era.
Oh, I see. Well that’s super lame. This requires a great deal of cooperation on Microsoft’s part.
Oh my gosh, I love that their graphic [0] skips 2019 to make it seem like they haven't taken two years.

That's disingenuous if I've ever seen it.

[0]: https://c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/...