jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been there, Zach and I feel your pain. The furiously maddening aspect of the entire ordeal is just how little money you actually need to be free, and how the lack of that little bit of money can wreak havoc on your entire life and nervous system.

Oh what wonders could be conjured with a soothing $2500 per month trust fund deposit! How quickly things could move forward, with doubt and existential dread erased!

Sadly, we are just well educated serfs holding the arrogant pretense that we can become lords. We can, but its not going to be easy.

So I feel you, and I read what you wrote carefully and I sympathize so here is my advice.

I would suggest recalibrating your concept of what is old. 23 is incredibly young. Forget about what your friends are doing. Half those guys getting married and having kids young are wishing they were free like you are right now.

This experience will teach you some things, but what doesn't kill you doesn't necessarily make you stronger. More likely it causes burnout and the dwindling of your dendrites.

I wouldn't prolong it for romantic notions.

Consider pivoting towards becoming cowboy auxiliary engineering help for companies that already have revenue. You can retain your freedom and get much needed cash.

This is what I have done, and put my own product visions on hold. It is quite good. I retain my freedom and people send me large sums via paypal. It is a strategic retreat. Sometimes you advance ahead of your supply lines and strategy dictates a pause.

Also, ignore your guilt about not taking your girlfriend out more.

Don't move. I was living in a penthouse studio apartment in Boulder and I thought a move to Austin would be worth it to lower expenses. The time and stress of the move was is no way worth it.

Depending on where you live, sell your car. The faster you do this the better. It is the most expensive non critical thing that you own.

Think of the one thing you can do today to bring in $5000 and do that. Godspeed, you crazy bastard. You're probably just insane enough to pull this heist off and cheat your capitalist oppressors out of the smug satisfaction they have when you stay in your place.
If you're interested, take a look at my comment which is a nephew to your comment. Here is the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808616
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They are. New Iridium birds are going up with ADS-B receivers onboard, with the data relayed to the ground over the Iridium network.

http://www.aireon.com/AboutAireon/AnIridiumInnovation

Replacing orbiting equipment takes time and money.
I tried to look up the original research for the table of what the Fortune 500 are after, and there's something odd there. The paper was Cassel, R.N.; Kolstad, R. (1998). "The critical job-skills requirements for the 21st century: Living and working with people". Journal of Instructional Psychology 25 (3): 176–180..

JoIP is http://www.projectinnovation.biz/journal_of_instructional_ps..., published by 'Project Innovation, Inc'. There appear to be no archives, and patchy availability of paper abstracts online; so I checked the principal author - he's Dr Russell N Cassel - http://library.csusm.edu/about/rooms/cassel.asp ... who retired in 1974 to found...Project Innovation Inc.

While Dr Cassel's bona fides are not in doubt, you have to wonder about the level of peer review you get publishing in your own journal.

However the reason you'd need to see the original paper is that the Stanford work and Devlin's article are predicated on the assumption that the Fortune 500's priorities have changed, but the Stanford paper shows no figures and no confidence intervals from Cassel's paper, so was this just noise? Were the 1970 and 1998 studies even comparable?

Secondly, it's now 17 years since the second study - getting on for as much of a difference as there were between the two studies. If priorities are supposed to change so much over similar timescales, surely more recent evidence is required?
I would love to be able to cache websites to my server and access them in the event the site goes offline. I've tried a number of things like wget to "offline" a website and had mixed success. Does anyone know of a proven way to do something like this? (I'd even settle for no images a la google archive/cache but pulling images and scripts would be a huge win)

I'm younger but I can already see link-rot destroying my bookmarks. I now use (and pay) for pinboard.in however I'd like a way to do it myself. I've considered writing a chrome plugin to send url's I visit over to a process running on my server to archive it (with the ability to black/whitelist domains) but haven't found a way to do it yet the works reliably (I'd also probably need to send a copy of my cookies for auth sites).
I'm not sure I agree about the cannibalization. I see the web apps as more of a value-add than a full replacement for Office. I probably wouldn't want to use the Word web app to create an entire document (unless I had no choice), but it's super handy for making edits/fixes from a machine without Office.
There is generally a delay between patents being filed and issues. I've heard of a number of very long waits before.

(I'm not an expert at all.)
xml seems to be making a comeback in the shadows.
I don't quite buy it.
Go with Rails if you like Ruby, Rspec, rapid development and the nice ecosystem around it.
Most Rails apps are CRUD and don't really need streaming with websockets. Rails with stimulus is more than enough to create a good user experience, I don't see why you need to add the complexity of websockets.
The indent function tells you everything you need to know about yaml templating.

Take a look at Dhall as an alternative.
The reason I think about a Pocket Premium subscription. However I'd prefer paying 20$ a year with no perks (or let's say just the premium fonts) over paying 50$ for features I don't need.
I think this is what went wrong with k8s. I saw lots of interests from hobbyist, and people proposing k8s in small teams. It become often hear that "you do containers in production? use k8s!" That's just a big disappointment waiting to happen.
Look for wirecard
If it's stored as code it's going to be trivial to dump it to Json in the rear situations you need an application config to be read across languages.
Sample size: 300 across four countries.

There are 20 million college students in the US alone.

I don't think that is a large enough sample size.
If I buy gold and bury it in the back yard, try taxing that.
Just look at HN comment threads: Any truth that's inconvenient for the majority in the respective thread will be brainlessly downvoted. Killing the messenger is just as popular here (where all the smartest know-it-alls convene) as it is there (where all the ignoramuses reside).
> I don’t want to rate my driver. I want to be able to rely on a third party...

You sure can’t rely on the Uber, Lyft, Juno ratings. It’s 5 stars or bust. The social pressure on 5 stars is enormous.

Netflix moved to thumbs up, thumbs down. YouTube did the same, after showing a graph of the 5s and 1s:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/youtube-comes-to-a-5-star-...

I relentlessly give an average delivery or ride 3 stars, but feel bad every time. When the ride is quite good, 4 stars, and exceptional, 5 stars. Exceptional is the exception.

Three stars doesn’t make you a bad rider or a bad driver, just average. If it’s not the bulk of the ratings you give, you’re an unreliable rater and not helping the ratings anyway.
I envy you.

I am American. I live near, and teach at, a large state university -- which has closed for the spring semester and moved to online instruction.

This past Friday there was a house party across the street -- presumably all students. Usually I am very chill, but this time I called the cops.
The control group was much younger on average, so perhaps that explains why they didn't lose any patients.
The lunar TV system was fascinating in itself - narrow bandwidth forced the use of "slow scan" at about 10Hz. The conversion was done by having a long retention phospor TV and ... pointing a regular TV camera at it.
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As I said, they forgot to include Intel GPU patches at the start of the 5.5 kernel series[1], that's been resolved, I personally haven't seen it elsewhere, but of course incompatibilities happen.

1 - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
> The herd immunity plan was probably the most rational plan any government put forward.

It was rational in a parallel world free & infinite healthcare workers + ventilators.
Maybe. My partner and I (actually mostly my partner) did some more analysis. We scrape the search results of the keywords that matter to us 24x per day so we can keep track of how we're performing. Most of our products are in the top 5 for their primary keyword. What we've noticed in the last few days is that, when our products are shown, they are still top ranked, but our products are only being shown around 10% of the time (vs. basically 100% of the time normally). Upon digging in further, my partner realized that most of the product being shown for our keywords are A) not normally top ranked, and, B) all fulfilled by merchant (as opposed to fulfilled by Amazon). This would suggest that they really are capacity constrained and doing whatever they can to avoid shipping non-essentials.

Also, good luck out there. Our sales have been devastated. Hope you're doing better than us.
There is an extension to linearizability that takes General Relativity into account. Paywalled unfortunately: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-45174-8_...
I agree that whatever can be done in an eventually consistent fashion should be. For the rest, at least academia has an answer.

(I work at Cockroach Labs and gave an internal talk on this paper some time ago).
> (The dreaded Windows 3.1 "General Protection Fault" error made such frequent appearances that my boss, the company's CEO, took to saluting me with a sardonic "Salut, mon Général !" when he passed me in the hallway.)

Ouch!!
Perl as a language has "unless" as a keyword and a lot of people, who are not inexperienced with programming, have trouble using it at first. Some even rebel against its use and claim they hate it

So it is interesting that even similar seeming things can still require some time to internalise and comprehend
> Mozilla for example is going to force everyone to use CloudFlare as a Resolver

Do you have any evidence that they're going to force anyone to do that?
I'm sorry it came off as shaming.
The title originally posted on hacker news was reflective of my original comment. BBC did not use the term extinct in their headline, but in the bold preface of the article. I appreciate and expect esoteric language in hacker news. I suspect the audience here does as well.
There are plenty of uncontroversial polymaths in the 20th century alone - von Neumann (hopefully no need to list here), Chomsky (political science, linguistics, computer science), and Nabokov (literature, chess, entomology) come to mind quickly.

In retrospect, many polymaths look like an expert in only one field because they more or less invented it. (Chomsky synthesized computation and lingustics into computational linguistics; Helmhotz synthesized physics, medicine, psychology, and philosophy to help found modern psychophysics; Frege, Russell, and Whitehead synthesized logic and mathematics into, uh, mathematics.)

Another issue seems to be assuming that all or at least one of the fields is a science (or even a hard science), but this isn't the case. Paul Robeson has been cited as a polymath due to his contribution across several dramatic arts, law degree, his political activism, and football career.
Except it doesnt work, don't forget that endpoints ( *.google.com or other google subdomains) are hardcoded in the printer firmware out there.
I think the limiting factor for towing in EVs is just the ability to reject heat.
> I've never seen these constant blog posts on management & burn out for other high paying professions.

If you haven't, you haven't looked. There are plenty of postings and articles on burnout in the legal, medical/dental, and other professions.
Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17678758

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301766

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5757231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680722

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4430780

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3692055
Contact the regulators, perhaps? To me, allowing untrustworthy third-party scripts on a bank website sounds like a huge security risk.
I agree. The common definition of genius seems to be one who is imbalanced, but still produces something of value.
How does it compare with Java 9's sjavac (http://stackoverflow.com/a/26424760/750563)?

EDIT: I fully understand that this is a build tool for multiple languages. But its raison d'etre is speed. So I'm asking what techniques does Bazel use to accelerate builds and how do they differ from those used by sjavac, which is also designed to accelerate builds of huge projects?
The keyword here is "Enterprise" Python. The Enterprise is a place where you have "decision makers" which are often people who don't understand type systems, and have absolutely no incentive to do so.

Paypal is a large organization which needs to hire Python programmers. Everyone reading this now has a reminder that Python is popular at Paypal. We also know that endless PLT arguments are probably not common in the workplace.
>positive may not be the best term, but I think we are in agreement otherwise

I didn't think we were in agreement, which was why I commented.

My point was that bias generally has an overall negative effect, even when some biases appear to be positive (as you asserted). If you agree, but simply think that "positive" is not the best term, then I don't understand your original comment:

>Depending on what those biases are it could be a positive or negative effect.

That seemed to be your point, in summary, and I don't know what term you'd substitute for "positive" that would be qualitatively different, while not completely dismantling your premise.
I like the article, and I look forward to ES6 generators.

However, if someone want the compactness of the second example today, CoffeeScript is another alternative:

conn = undefined
r.connect().then (c) ->
conn = c
r.dbCreate('quake').run(conn)
.then ->
r.db('quake').tableCreate('quakes').run(conn)
.then ->
r.db('quake').table('quakes')
.indexCreate('geometry', geo: true).run(conn)
.then ->
r.db('quake').table('quakes')
.insert(r.http(feedUrl)('features')).run(conn)
.error (err) ->
console.log(err) if err.msg.indexOf('already exists') == -1
.finally ->
conn.close() if conn

(obviously the main benefits with generators aren't concise code, but since the article mentioned conciseness I thought I'd post the CoffeeScript equivalent)
Yeah me too, although I must say it's a quite interesting article.
I read this article a long time ago and I took it seriously. So instead of asking for address, postal/zip code, city, state/province, I just put up a big text area labeled "Full address" so that people have complete freedom about what to fill in.

80% of the users ended up only filling in their street address, not their postal/zip code, city and state/province, even though they're from countries where (most?) addresses satisfy that format.

We ended up reverting to the previous form where we explicitly asked for postal/zip code etc.
Looks like this is an IDE issue. When C# implemented lambdas almost 8 years ago, the initial debugging was a little confusing. But quickly VS was improved to support better integration. Just give some time for the IDEs to catch up.
Thanks for replying to a question not asked to you, with an answer that doesn't explain your position at all.
In case you were wondering, that adds up FAST. :)
Yeah, it'll be nice when the license actually reflects this. Until then I wouldn't build my business on it, ever.
Are there any privacy issues using this app? Streams won't load for me unless I disable VPN. I'm not sure if that's an issue with my VPN or simply this app (Twitter) blocking / throttling VPN in general. Anyone else notice this issue?
Which data and servers did you want deleted when you hit that cap? ;)

Although I do think a soft cap (preventing more Ec2 launches etc) would make a lot of sense.
Let me pause for a moment to let the class from this post wash over me.
I'm a C++ developer, and Rust looks very exciting to me. Maybe I'm optimistic, but Rust really looks like it can be a serious C++ contender in the long run.

Talking with other C++11/C++14 users here, the general feeling is that, yes, C++ is a good language because of the performance you can get out of it and some of the nice features that have been added, but the language carries around a lot of cruft that is unavoidable due to its age and maturity.

C++ has always been an expert's language. These days it's the expert's expert language++. There are no shortages of landmines and gotchas in the C++ landscape.

Modern C++ is a new language, and it really does help, but for the first time there's another language that can actually fill those same shoes.

A really big deal that isn't really addressed by golang is the fact that you can produce shared libraries with rust, and call them from existing C/C++ programs through a C interface. That's a really big deal in places with a lot of legacy code.

Another big deal (from the scientific computing POV) is the lack of garbage collection. Yes, GC is helpful, but replacing C++ means squeezing every last bit of performance out of your hardware. Rust does not sacrifice in this regard.

I really hope that Rust has a bright future. It's almost like "C++ done right", but I would stray away from such a label since someone might Linus you and say, "there's no way to do C++ right".

I also view golang as the successor to Python. It's faster, modern, addresses concurrency, and makes things easier for developers. It takes a strongly opinionated stance, and that's exactly the right choice for many problem domains.

Python, unfortunately, is dead to me. The GIL is a deal-breaker, and even though we have lots of Python code in production, I can definitely see a future where Python is phased out in favor of something like golang.

Basically, I'm bullish on Rust + Golang, neutral on C++, and slightly bearish on Python/Ruby-like languages that do not address the concurrency problem.
Distracts from core business, lock in with employees could be an issue, risk if housing market drops away, etc.

Same reason many big businesses contract out cleaning and similar services rather than have dedicated staff performing those functions.
I'm unsure what I'm supposed to be seeing here. I zoom in to London, there's plenty of green-ish.

I can click a borough, it alone becomes green-ish. I click another, that becomes purple. I have no indication what these colors are supposed to be or if something is supposed to happen?

https://i.imgur.com/zYisbCx.png
As I remember, they were written on a cellphone and sent out to subscribers that way as well.
I remember hearing years and years ago that the reward for meeting an impossible deadline is that your next assignment has an even more impossible deadline.
Why do you expect that?

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were both rebuilt, cancer levels in those cities in people conceived after the bombs is indistinguishable from places that weren’t nuked: https://k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki
When i was young, one of the only "real" computer books my local public library had was on vrml. I still remember it quite fondly.
There's a trend where a nuclear attack on Russia is being encouraged as a response to invading Ukraine? Or am I misreading your first sentence?
A regular static site shouldn't be a problem on a C2D with 4GB, and it shouldn't be swapping either (unless you're doing more than web hosting on that machine). I'm assuming you're literally serving static pages and not running much server-side.

Many people host static sites on 1GB SBCs and 1GB/1T VMs with no issues, and you can make do with even less.

Update: I tried some tests on my secondary server, which is likely slower than your C2D (AMD G-T48E). I simply ran ApacheBench on the Proxmox Backup Server web interface login page since that's the only web service I have running on it. The two machines were connected over Gigabit LAN and HTTPS was used.

This is 1000 requests at a time for a total of 5000 requests. While it was running I was able to make a connection to the login page in my browser as well (it took six seconds to load, but it loaded). I think I did the test properly but let me know if I should try something else; it's been a while since I've done this kind of stuff.

~$ ab -n 5000 -c 1000 https://<PBS server>:8007/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $>
...
Benchmarking <PBS server> (be patient)
...
Finished 5000 requests
...
Server Software:
...
SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1.2,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,2048,256
Server Temp Key: X25519 253 bits
...
Document Path: /
Document Length: 1940 bytes
Concurrency Level: 1000
Time taken for tests: 34.274 seconds
Complete requests: 5000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 10215000 bytes
HTML transferred: 9700000 bytes
Requests per second: 145.88 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 6854.761 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 6.855 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 291.06 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 21 2863 2225.0 2535 10907
Processing: 98 3275 1836.3 3142 10434
Waiting: 1 3275 1836.4 3142 10434
Total: 118 6138 3078.9 5655 12545

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 5655
66% 6733
75% 6965
80% 7569
90% 12324
95% 12469
98% 12504
99% 12517
100% 12545 (longest request)
Same here! Very happy with their free service, and they do support 2FA.

UI is minimal and gets everything done