jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"orgy of soil destruction"
"allow contractors to rip their fields to shreds for the sake of a quick profit"
"This is what topples civilisations"
"macho commitment to destructive short-termism"

Sensationalist garbage. No farmer willingly treats their land like that, and I'd wager that even the average farmer knows more about soil science and biogeochemistry than Monbiot does. But they don't get sinecures to write clickbait garbage for biased rags.
maybe apple should just start charging those who reserve names. A real developer would be willing to pay $50/mo to keep their name reserved during the time it takes to release the app. A cyber squatter will go broke reserving 500 different names.
You've just demonstrated that you're not interested in a conversation.

Welcome to my killfile.
I'd say your dream is a good one, but it's going to take some serious work in design. Each of HN, StackOverflow, reddit, etc. have a unique feel to them, their own strengths and weaknesses. But none of them really do this right (or you wouldn't be asking). There are unsolved problems in making a monolithic programmer site while still keeping niche areas vibrant. I don't see any coding roadblocks.
I'm guessing that they also secured a credit line based on the pre-orders, so they have enough cash to pay for prototypes, raw materials, molds/tooling, etc...
Might want to check out http://forrst.com/

> Forrst is a community of passionate developers and designers focused on helping themselves and others get better at their craft, providing thoughtful critiques, and sharing their knowledge to build better applications and websites.
I understand the shortsightedness of Little Rock officials had more to do with FEDEX locating in Memphis than airport inadequacies.
Those officials are heir to the geniuses who allowed the University to be stolen away to the far northwest corner of the state.
I also met with this same woman who talked about both the stock price and firing people. She also said something to the effect of "just because you have a job now doesn't mean you will have one in six months" and made a comparison to players being traded in professional sports. I remember feeling very put off by her. I too did not understand what the point in this bit of bravado was. It sounds like it's her standard candidate speech though which is just weird. The other thing that put me out was the first person who interviewed wasn't wearing shoes and insisted on sitting indian style with his feet pointed out to wards me. I am no stranger to a casual work environment but that is just gross. Lastly on the way to a conference room on the second floor I walked a fair amount through the office and what was notable to me was that I didn't see anybody smiling or even anyone who looked like they might be enjoying what they are doing. Ultimately I didn't get an offer because the job turned out to be a different description than the one I had interviewed about on the phone. I think that says it all.
Ignoring benchmarking only deps, this crate has 10 direct dependencies and 60 in total. Through some of them are just internally split's of the same dependency, e.g.: pest, pest_derive, pest_generator, pest_meta. And some are build dependencies only.

So why is the lock file so big?

1. It also locks the test dependencies, i.e. the criterion benchmarking suite which is big and it's transitive dependencies (without it's ~750 lines in the lock file).

2. The lock file is human-readable formatted, because of this every "entry" takes at least 6 lines.

3. Each entry has one additional line per dependency, but dependencies are often shared internally (e.g. libc) so this can "bloat" the lock file without adding any additional dependency.
Agree entirely. You're going to have to migrate anyway. May as well migrate from a database that's easy to work with.
Diversity is like any characteristic, it has pros and cons.

It makes optimizing harder, add friction and augment costs.

But it also force evolution, and make a system more adapted and resiliant, healthier on the long run.

As usual, it depends, and intensity matters. Those questions don't have a definitive anwser, even cute ones like "just be nice to each others".

But regardless or whether we do need diveristy, it is promoted currently as the progressive point of view. If you go on social media and claim we don't want diversity, you will have a serious backslash. From the same persons that will ask autistic persons to behave like an average person. Hence my point on the dissonance.
I generally agree. But I am not sure that bringing in immigrants is a good way to make more 10x'ers, if you actually want to grow the domestic talent pool as opposed to just finding undervalued talent.

People choose careers for social reasons as well as for money. Adding a significant fraction of third world immigrants to a career lowers that career's prestige, meaning that talented natives who might have joined the field are less likely to, since they have options.

I would love to see a credible study on this, but intuitively I think it's likely that this effect could cancel out much of the net growth in the domestic talent pool that would otherwise have come from immigration.

Before anyone argues that this is morally wrong, remember, we're not worried about what SHOULD be true, just about how to increase participation of talent in the field, empirically.
From the article referenced (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-10-23-game-devs-w...)

> As we get deeper into the process we discover that things that sounded good on paper don't work in practice. Things that worked in prototype don't work in a fully textured and lit level. And then the folks providing money or distribution randomize and disrupt by demanding demos or screenshots at the most inconvenient times!"

That quote was listed as one of positive quotes for crunch, but it solidifies even more that the process is broken and/or better project management has to be done.
People commonly work against their own self interests. People commonly vote against their own self interests. People commonly do stupid things.
>Why do you need this tortured explanation when the obvious explanation is so much more ... obvious? People migrate away from housing crises.

Also a very good point. I wasn't saying the covid restrictions factor was the only option.
Gotcha, will start doing. :)
OP, you should charge users a small amount ($24-50 a year), after a trial period. Keep it simple, free of ads and keep the timeline algorithm free.

I’m sure there are many who would love something like this and be willing to pay enough to cover costs and maybe generate a full time income for you. Good luck!!
The original Doom, yes. Even though it was barely playable on a 386 25 MHz.

The original Quake was barely playable on a 486 DX4 100 MHz, and was fine on a Pentium.
Here? I don't think you're going to see any.

And I think there's a legitimate use-case for people who feel that their favorite social networks are censored. Doesn't matter if the apps are full of garbage, that is what they want.
I haven't been able to find data like that to show if they are poor or wealthy.

I suspect poor is the only demographic not moving, which is a general migration rule. Moving costs $. Folks like Elon Musk moving to Texas probably brought significant numbers of wealthy folks with him.

Not to mention, when work from home became an option. The elites of california moved to texas. Perhaps it was poor people before, during covid that changed would be my guess.
I think you should go back and read over the thread and how your replies can be understood. You replied to someone saying that lying by omission is terrible advice, by saying omitting signing a non-binding unenforceable nocompete is not lying. Yes two levels up someone said the main issue is not enforceability but the uncertainty that it gives potential future employers.

So I unterstand you made the leap that the nocompete is unenforceable and therefore no binding. That's a pretty big leap and also ignores the point. Enforceability is typically a grey area and decided by the courts, and therefore there is a risk associated with violating the nocompete (for employee and new employer), and many employers might want to avoid it. If you were referring to the case where the nocompete is clearly illegal (e.g. you're in california), yes there is no uncertainty, but then there is also no issue about disclosing it, because there is no associated risk. In that case I don't understand what you were trying to add to the discussion?
Yes, it really is that simple. I am preoccupied by food in general and sushi in particular. Sorry that there is no deeper, allegorical reason for the pictures.
Really, dropbox is probably more secure than most complainers' computers; but when you say things like

- All transmission of file data occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL).
- All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256)

and this turns out to mean "file metadata may not be encrypted" and "all files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted with the same key (AES-256)"... well, people are going to call "snake oil".
That one is a quote from Ken Thompson, the inventor of (among much else), Unix and UTF-8. It is quoted in _Programming Pearls_, though -- I think, in the sequel rather than the original.
A bit of both. Technically I should have stuck the search engine and ad engines into the castle in the middle, but I ain't no designer and it seemed like too much hassle.
I can always find something good to watch at yui theatre http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/
A letter to the editor?
You definitely have time to work on a prototype, little by little. Product, product, product. Then work on your connections / traction / freaking out / loosing sleep.
I hope for a day, when posting links to geographically-limited sites like hulu on international forms, will be considered similar to posting links behind a pay-wall. - Bad form.
blueprints are pretty great and lower the barrier of entry for people (especially for like game jam stuff), but I do wish they would have a "here you can just write some Lua" block sometimes... kinda hard to do structured programming the times you kinda want it.

But the discoverability stuff along with loads of nice error checking are very nice.
I have been using the UX31E for some years now and Linux runs just fine. I got the laptop right when it came out and initially had to do some tweaking under Arch (mainly enable some newer features needed by the hardware), but all in all I am perfectly happy with the machine and its quality.
But increasing the memory duplexers is surely the solution to any hacking countermeasures.
Companies don't pay employees based on the performance of the company, but on the performance of the overall economy. They probably realised that although have done well in 2020 if wages in the broader economy have otherwise been stagnant and there is a surplus of individuals looking for jobs right now there is no reason to raise salaries.

I guess the question you need to ask is whether you believe your labour to be worth more, if so you could still personally push for a raise or start looking elsewhere. Personally I don't think it's reasonable to expect a company to pay you more than you're worth (especially in a larger company) just because they can. If you want to share in the financial success of a company the best option is to become a shareholder.
No idea why you are getting downvoted dor asking a hard question.

It's hard because we've barely made progress in every other facet of technological progress except computing. Our systems are fragile and not future proof. We haven't learned. We've gone from discovering the secrets of the natural world and modelling it to internet connected toasters in less than a century.

This is called decline.
Except that repeated violations of GDPR are a cause to increase the fine as per the text.

>When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to the following:

>(e) any relevant previous infringements by the controller or processor;
Couldn't agree more. There is a level of cultism around this prime minister and government that it's bordering on populism.
Yeah, they are mesmerising!
Vertical search continues to be Googles largest threat. New kinds of AI based vertical search experiences will lead the way.
If only businesses worked with this sort of mindset...we wouldn't be having near the wealth disparity and stagnant wage issues that are plaguing the world these days.

But, they absolutely do not think in these terms...it's "exploit every dollar possible and pay us at the top and our shareholders every penny we scrape, to hell with anyone not like us."
Actual physical books are still pretty good; I can't speak for other countries, but the county in the UK I live in (as is common in all UK counties, I believe) will fetch books for you from anywhere else in the county for fifty pence a pop, and if they haven't got it in county the inter-library loans turn out to be astonishingly fast and remarkably good value.

I have requested some quite obtuse books over the past year and they've managed them all so far; coming from the British Library in London, a university maths library in Leeds, a university library in Exeter, somewhere I couldn't even tell where it came from, and so on. If you like reading, and you don't absolutely need the convenience of the book weighing very little and being quite small (i.e. an eReader of some kind - I'm a fan of old Sony models), physical books from a national library network are still really good.
On the other hand, every time this topic comes up here or elsewhere, the majority of stories are positive, with a few horror stories (fewer than I'd expect for such an intense experience).

'Survivorship bias' is a misleading term for what you intend to imply, because those who have had a bad LSD experience are no less capable of sharing their intense experience except in the most extreme cases (i.e. when they didn't, in fact, survive). Personally, if I had such an intensely bad experience I'd be quite willing to share it so that others can avoid it. That is just not reflected the balance of stories I read though.
The .vmdk file you get after running gunzip on the downloaded file is a virtual hard drive.
When you create a new VM in VirtualBox, it asks if you want to create a new virtual hard drive or use an existing one. Select the one downloaded.
It's a lot to expect graceful degradation when we can't even get cross browser support (looking at you whatsapp).

I think it far more likely to get a super basic alternative, almost a raw data version. Sadly the main driver for this is SEO rather than accessibility for disabled users.
There's also the In Memory Columnar Store [0, 1] by Konstantin Knizhnik, if anyone's interested.

[0]: http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/events/643.en.html

[1]: http://www.garret.ru/imcs/user_guide.html
Unions crippled print manufacturing?

Not amazing technological progress (from photographic plates thru composite color), long term decline of high margin markets (books, mags, news), and costs of production approaching zero?

Where exactly do you think print manufacturing would be today, minus unions?
There's currently a pretty good chance Rudd will be out at the next election. Somebody needs to shanghai Tony Abbott into committing his party to abolishing the great firewall if it wins.

update: Looks like Abbott is maintaining strategic ambiguity on the issue as recently as yesterday: http://www.zdnet.com.au/abbott-drawn-into-filter-debate-3393...

"I just don't know enough about it at this stage to have an opinion on that," he said, which decodes as "I don't know whether it's an election-winning or election-losing issue for me yet". People need to start agitating now to convince him.
From linus's post - "And the best way to avoid communication is to have some "culture" - which is just another way to say "collection of rules that don't even need to be written down/spoken, since people are aware of it". Sure, we obviously have a lot of documentation about how things are supposed to be done, but exactly as with any regular human culture, documentationis kind of secondary."
He seems to suggest that sticking C keeps the focus on attracting people who like to build things. There are surely very productive programmers who use c++ and other newer languages but sometimes embracing new developments means opening the door to people who are just following fads. Just as an example - the kernel has managed to avoid the following developments - uml, xml etc. Not saying that uml and xml dont have their legitimate uses, but sometimes keeping things bare and simple has the effect of keeping posers out. As a sidenote, I dont seem to recollect any recent groundbreaking progress in languages for systems level programming (singularity from microsoft might be an exception). At some point people were trying things like oberon, lisp machines, but I dont seem to recall any new developments which explore dynamically different ways of building computer systems. For better or for worse we seem to have settled on a local optima of c and unix based systems.
I like it, but one thing I noticed if if you select a starting date, it doesnt automatically set the return date to the next day. So if you select a date some time in the future you have to scroll twice
Hmmm, let's see...

If we really wanted to, we could make a very nice livelihood doing contract programming/consulting for let's say $100 per hour. That's roughly $200,000 per year. Not bad. Over 40 years, with compound interest, conservative investments, and a reasonable lifestyle, that adds up to, well a lot!

So why would anyone in that position take so much time away from earning to work on a side project, prototype, or startup? There could be many reasons, but the two biggest I can think of are:

- We work on something that pays nothing now because we have to. We don't ever want to wonder what would have been if we didn't.

- We invest time we can never get back in the possibility of a big pay day. That may or may not ever happen, but unlike OP, this is one lottery we're willing to play because it's more than luck; we do have significant influence on the outcome.
That depends on your starting location, from Newark it shows Denver just fine.
This is great and I've been looking for something like this for a long time.

The only thing it needs now is to allow you to better refine the time period (e.g. only weekend trips, or only two weeks in October, etc). As it is now, it's great for people with a month or more off of vacation, but doesn't quite do it for the rest of us yet.
The 2020 COVID relief wasn’t as much argued on Keynesian stimulus terms as, say, the 2009 ARRA stimulus, but more as disaster relief.
https://kn100.me/turning-upnp-off/ I've written a follow up, which you may find interesting.
No, that would "solidify the status quo" and be a sign of white supremacy. You don't want to be a white supremacist, do you, citizen?
Recently, I bought a laptop with the purpose of installing Linux on it. It came with Windows 10 installed that I had to remove so I had the chance to see how much punishment it could take before it crashed.

As Microsoft has seen fit to make Windows 10's junky annoyances uninstallable, the only option was to install the hard disk in an operational Linux machine so I could surgically remove any program or section that I wanted to. Without the hindrance of a live Windows, it was dead easy to not only remove all the bloatware I could find but also various services, the browser and media player, etc.

It amazed me how solid and hardy Windows 10 was; in fact, even after I'd severely hacked it about I never actually managed to kill it (clearly I could have by deleting essential kernel DLLs etc. but there'd be no point in doing that). The fact is Windows 10 continued to work with huge parts of it missing to the extent that the program was hardly recognizable and it did so in ways that were never possible with XP or Win 7 (yes, I've tried the same exercise with them way back).

I cannot say the approach that I took was very systematic—it wasn't, and except for some brief notes taken as I deleted stuff I didn't document the exercise, after all my aim was to remove Windows 10 and replace it with Linux so any further delay would have been unproductive.

However, the exercise proved to me that wholesale hacking and patching of Windows 10 was not only possible but also that removing some parts of it were comparatively easy (especially the bloatware)—and due to its solidity it's likely that Windows 10 is the best candidate/version of Windows to attempt it with. Given the massive amounts of inbuilt spyware, forced upgrades and heaps of useless bloatware in Win 10, there are rich pickings for those who wish to experiment (just don't try it on your only working machine).

Given my easy success in what was hardly a concerted effort, I'm surprised we've heard so little from those more dedicated and knowledgeable than I am and I'm wondering why it's so (perhaps people are too scared of MS if they publish the fact or they're frightened that if they announce their findings then MS will patch ways around them).

I'd be most interested in hearing any accounts from anyone who has had success especially if they are successfully running a patched Windows 10 sans bloatware and spyware.

I'll finish by saying we need to put the Windows 10 problem into perspective. The last Win 10 ISO I downloaded was an incredible 7GB or thereabouts—as I found out much to my annoyance and chagrin when I first tried unsuccessfully to load it onto a DVD. I would suggest that in anyone's language that 7GB for what is essentially a file-loader program is excessive in the extreme. I recall around the time that Mark Russinovich joined Microsoft that he said that the essential core Windows programs were only about 50MB in size. Even allowing for a multitude of additional drivers and essentially utilities, it really begs the question what all those other gigabytes are actually used for.
The burnout was due to a series of serious external issues that impacted a service I worked on, and not having enough resources on my team to keep up. I left the job to focus on my mental health and recover from that.

Since then, I decided to build a personal site/art project (link in bio) and yeah, months struggling to finish and excessive perfectionism. Not excessive judgment once I got to some kind of finish line though, I’m super proud of what I started and excited about stuff I plan to do with it in the future.

Now I’m just focused on getting back on track financially. I’m not broke but have some pretty severe trauma response to the possibility having spent years earlier in life in poverty. Makes it hard to think about much else until I’ve got a bit of cushion again.
Unsurprisingly money is still needed to pay for development and hosting costs, and Brian Acton's loan won't last forever.
Personally I don’t understand why so many people are blaming Hwang and Archegos. He lost his own money and the money of the banks who gave him leverage _without_ a proper risk assessment. I haven’t seen any claims that Hwang lied to the banks and it’s the banks’ job to do due diligence and apply sane risk management practices.
> Also younger people get Long Covid at higher rates.

We do not have a definition for "long covid", let alone enough information to make such a claim.

At best, this is blatant speculation, at worst, it's completely false. The best data for long-term sequelae of Covid indicate that it correlates with disease severity, which itself correlates (strongly) with age.
That does it. Bye-bye Hacker News.
I don't think this is a helpful article.

Given this amount of money, it is pretty much impossible to spend it and be able to answer the question "is this the absolute best way to spend the money?" with an honest & confident "yes."

It's good to try and think of more efficient or better uses of the money, but solving the problems around some of the world's most persistent ailments is quite a good use, in my opinion.