jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> This guy isn't in charge, so he blames young people and assumes they are in charge.

What makes you think he's not "in charge"?

> Young people are just followers. They follow the money, they do what they're told, they adopt fashions in order to SURVIVE, not out of some kind of "strange entitlement."

If you are young and believe this, I am sad for you.

"Youth" (those in their 20's, for example) have some of the best kind of power - the unfettered kind. As a generalization/simplification, those in their 20's have fewer dedicated costs in their lives (rent and food at the least; car payment perhaps). That gives them the freedom to CHOOSE. That's the power of youth - choice. In youth, a person can choose to lift up and move. Can choose to quit - or stay at - a job because of principals. Can choose to change careers, become an expert in one field or a generalist in many. I won't go so far as to say all things are possible, but there are certainly many paths that could be traveled with relative (key part there - relative) ease.
As we get older, the dedicated costs (generally - there are certainly exceptions) go up. House payments. Kids. Medical expenses (personal and family). Income may (or may not) go up, but it's almost certain that key life options will decline. There are still choices to make and control of life to be had for sure, but they are not so numerous; the road does not web outward as it did in youth so much as it forks in minor directional changes.

So - if anyone out there is still in their youth (which is more a state of mind than physical being, mind), I suggest you try different things. Experiment with life. Follow your true passions and see where they lead. The author of this blog (and myself; and others) did that and it turned out that our passions would become an industry that would change the world. I only hope your passions (if you have the heart to chase them) will yield the same so that we can share in that. We can use this thing that we were around to see birthed to do so. Or something better if you prefer; but you'll need to make that happen because we're tired and just want to enjoy our time with our communal child as long as we can, please.
... as someone once said to me, never enter your PIN into anything other than a bank ATM, i.e., an ATM physically attached to a bank lobby.

While I agree with you, Krebs has documented several ways your ATM card can be skimmed even if you follow that advice:

Almost perfectly disguised skimmer on a Chase bank ATM:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/12/pro-grade-3d-printer-mad...

Skimmer on the vestibule door card reader:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/03/door-skimmer-hidden-came...
Well if it is like owning DNA, then it can't be patented, the Supreme Court has already taken and ruled on such cases (holding: genes are from nature and can't be patented)...but its not like owning DNA of someone and imagining having babies violating copyright laws won't make that anymore true.

Algorithms are already creating media of all kind (videos, articles, music) and that media is all subject to the same copyright protections as man-made media, replacing algorithm with AI (which seems to be the popular thing to do with SV startups these days, doesn't create Earth shattering facts the law hasn't seen, its just like when the blockchain believers thought DAO code was the law outside the jurisdiction of courts and regulators)
Ahhhh - you want a statically typed language. That's definitely not Julia, you're probably best off with Java there.
Or the whole collection at a 65% discount?
Can someone explain what these “speaking fees” Wall Street pays are really about? I doubt there’s any ROI so what is the point? They always seem about 100x of a reasonable rate.
As a game it seems to exercise the same parts of your brain.
It is literally “first” time, not every time. Thus if your worry is that you cannot do fast iterations in Julia where you plot multiple times, then your worries are misplaced.

Second, third, forth etc plots in Julia are fast. Likely faster than any of the competition as it is running highly optimized native code at that point.
logging into the same system and interacting with the same datasets through the same Notebook based UI

I don't think there's a good one size fits all UI that can be applied the different types of work that take place with data and consumption by users. This is evidenced in Databrick's own feature set which includes an integration with R Studio and Tableau to Databricks as a data source rather than a work environment.
It's not actually possible to do this though, it's up to the other side's lawyers to decide if they're going to sue you, and the answer is yes if they can afford it. You don't have a jury on hand to evaluate every patent that ever exists.

Besides that, engineers in large companies are told to explicitly not look up any patents so they won't be accused of willful infringement.
Thank you for telling me that losing control of my mental faculties is "selfish".

I'll keep that in mind when I'm not able to keep it in mind.

Glad you're having a nice time of it.
What about the people in PST who work outside of normal office hours? Should they be penalized because they are effectively working in a different time zone? Should those in different time zones that decide to work PST regular office hours be paid more?
Any good resources to share?
> Could people self-select what they "want" to be? Sure, but it's still predictive of something in that case.

Why would measuring self-selection be a good thing, why would that be a reason to use MBTI in your book, rather than a reason to avoid it? If it does measure self-selection, then what is the function or purpose of the test?
Structure is the memory
I can give some background on this, I immigrated from Russia to the US when I was 5 and I still have a ton of extended family that lives there.

Do I like Putin or what Russia is doing? Hell no. But at the same time I'm not going to saying anything negative in public about Russia. If I got on the Russian governments radar forget what they will do to me, I live in America, what will they do to my Grandmother, my uncles, my nieces, my cousins?

I don't know what they will do, and for that reason I cannot risk saying anything.

The same applies in places like Turkey, China, etc. Yeah you might not like what the govt there is doing, but at the same time you can't risk speaking up and having the blowback taken out on your family that still lives there.
by social contract, I mean it to refer to the same social contract we all use to agree that paper money and metal coins have value. Or that you cover your mouth when you sneeze. There doesn't have to be central authority here.

As mentioned in another thread, NFTs are like a certificate of authentication in the Art world. It represents the ownership of something. That's separate from the enjoyment of something.

The pleasure of owning something is now separate from the pleasure of enjoying something. NFTs address the pleasure of owning something, not the enjoyment of something.
I find this question confusing, because it’s always been somewhat about brand and word ownership. Like `mit.edu` or `ibm.com`.

DNS is quite literally all about names, it’s what the N stands for.

Can you give an example where name ownership was unimportant to folks using DNS?
You can use an incognito window.
I’m with you on “just” for “a few concepts”, but not for the marking:

Slide Rule for the Modern Day:

https://www.instructables.com/Slide-Rule-for-the-Modern-Day/

I mean, the “knowledge” of where the marks go is not the same as the “know-how” required to put them there ;-)
Absolutely! A starting point would be something like this to calculate total busy time per day:
SELECT sum(end - start) from events group by JULIANDAY(start)
Some extra aggregation and you could totally calculate your busy/free ratio

This is one of the queries I'm using to track a rolling average of how many times a week I've been cycling:
WITH recursive dates(day) AS
(
SELECT date($__unixepochfrom(), 'unixepoch')
UNION ALL
SELECT date(day, '+1 DAY')
FROM dates
WHERE day<date($__unixepochto(), 'unixepoch') )
SELECT day AS time,
(
SELECT count(DISTINCT julianday(start))
FROM events
WHERE summary = " Cycling"
AND start <= date(day, '+1 DAY')
AND start > date(day, '-7 DAY')) AS cycling,
FROM dates
ORDER BY day DESC

And yeah 100% admit the documentation is lacking. I'll be honest, I got to the 3 week mark of building and decided I need to validate the idea before putting any more work in.
Going to be adding some more pre-done queries like this as inspiration.
They’re not shipping. I just got a refund with a note that says I’m not a doctor and can’t have it.
Yes, but that usually lasts a lot longer. My stepdad had that and nearly died from it. Spent a long time in a ventilator and the remainder of his life in a wheelchair.
For better or for worse, he's been winning primaries in the past week.

There are 1700 Dem delegates remaining. Sanders needs 1000 to win.
Biden needs 700.

Sanders isn't going to be President.
This effort should be commended. However, I'm wondering, where are all the billionaires and corporations when the world needs them? I'm not even asking this flippantly. Seriously, how come they're not doing anything? Just for the past few months Bloomberg spent half a billion essentially to achieve nothing.

Couldn't he repeat the feat and build a few hospitals to help out his home state? Or his country? How about everyone else?
> Have you ever hooked a high-DPI laptop to a low-DPI second monitor? What a freaking headache that is.

Erm, yes, and on Windows 10 it works just fine.

> Say what you want about MacBook owners being brand snobs, but they never have to deal with this nonsense

Not true, I think Windows 10's high-DPI support is fantastic - yes, better than MacOS.

At home I have a landscape 3K monitor daisychained to a portrait 1980x1200 monitor, and it works flawlessly on Windows 10 with both my desktop and 2 work laptops. It works on MacOS, until it doesn't - it sometimes crashes when I switch between the MBP screen and the external screens.

I have a similar setup at the office, but with 2 portrait displays - I have the same issue with my MBP.

The only OS where I have to deal with this nonsense is MacOS.
> if you've got some cash to invest in the markets and a long time horizon to draw on it, this may be the money making opportunity of a generation.

If you think prices are dropping strictly because of covid-19 you're wildly misunderstanding the situation. If you buy now thinking it's low I am quite certain you will lose quite a lot of money.

~20% of the work force is unemployed or at reduced time right now. Goldman Sachs estimates we might see ~2 million people file for unemployment Monday. These are the most vulnerable parts of the population. They're going to lose health insurance, struggle to pay rent, struggle to eat... and we haven't even seen the pandemic warm up in the US yet.

Next will be people at companies whose stock just completely crashed losing their jobs. It will take a month, but when shares drop companies must act by increasing share holder value, which will mean letting people go.

All of this will have severe consequences for the national and global economy, consequences that will just start to be felt once people stop being sick. If this thing magically disappeared tonight you would probably still see a few of your favorite local restaurants disappear forever. And again, this is literally just the beginning.

This isn't happening just because of an unfortunate natural disaster but because the US (and many other countries) have systematic vulnerabilities that make them unable to deal with a situation like this. The world after covid-19 dies down will be wildly different than today. This could very well be the end of US hegemony as we see countries like China, that can deal with these problems, start to rise to become the new global super power.

The best case is looking bad and the worst case is unimaginable. The idea that you can simply "buy at the bottom" and make it rich very wrong.
People were saying similar things about USA Today when it debuted in 1982. They were castigated for simplifying the news, relying on bullet points, etc.; but from the perspective of 2014 it looks like they were well ahead of their time (for better or worse.)
I like C#, I write a lot of it, but the claims of complexity regarding Scala are just so vastly overblown. Anyone who's a competent Java programmer and has an open mind (which is the nicest way I can think of to say "doesn't pee themselves when they see a lambda") can be a competent Scala programmer within a month of daily use. It's not that hard, the tooling today in IDEA is roughly Java-level in terms of quality, and the language itself steers you towards constructs that make doing the Right Thing fairly easy.
OP never said anything about quitting on the spot. The question was why would one go to work for such a company knowing, as one must these days, how vile that company is. Another facet to the question is why wouldn’t one look for and take another job after they realize how disgusting a company like Facebook is?
"72%[1] of republicans in the senate are insane apparently."

I never doubted it.
Right, that's the "perfectly" part.
> An example URL that is not friendly is:

> https://api.contoso.com/EWS/OData/Users('jdoe@microsoft.com'...

A well-deserved dig at the sharepoint API.
Chrome supports “managed mode” to override HPKP if it’s not done it will definitely complain when accessing google services with a different certificate.

That said afaik it’s only limited to some google services primarily those which are used for login and account management.
The RISC-V ISA is pretty awful for high-end designs. No competitive servers can be built with it.

Plenty of people seem to have been caught up in the hype of RISC-V taking over the world and doing everything, but that's never going to happen. The ISA is heavily optimized towards making very low-end devices very cheap. Like, don't think cellphone chips, think appliances. This is not a bad call, as it's the area where greenfield designs with cost advantage have the best chance to get market share. However, there is no path of extending the ISA that will make it competitive with ARM or x86 on high-end devices. The only way to do that is to design RISC-VI, that abandons most of the things that RISC-V what it is.
Mark my words. If this attempt at electrifying vehicles fails the non-serviceable batteries will be in the short list of reasons. There is no one giving an irrefutable reason they can’t be supported. Other than the manufacturers want an artificial push to replace vehicles like smartphones.

Edit-Ok found a slightly convincing argument. The battery pack in a Tesla 3 weighs 1000lbs. It’d require a swap station in order to support removing them. I still say it’s doable. It has to be supported if we want to avert catastrophic climate change.

This is a breakthrough that batteries need to get.
The short answer, they are not;

The long(er) answer? Mathematics are more limited, and thus, at least on the surface, provide a more rigid model.

Plus, we have about 4500 years worth of equations that we know to be accurate; not so true for C or any other programming language. Plus, we can model all the way down in mathematics, as it is more abstract in nature.

The long(est) answer? It's turtles all the way down.
> it doesn't fall in the police's jurisdiction.

Is this some private land where the Police cant go?

If you start talking about corruption then you cannot blame the tourists for littering, people will litter when they know there are not going to be any consequences.
The author's suggestion that service providers should make predictions is exactly what status updates aren't supposed to do.

Amazon's communication during this was on point. There's a line between tell me what's wrong and fix what's wrong and all of the author's suggestions on how to fix the "communication problem" are on the wrong side of that line.
I liked the Thank You card idea Kevin talked about and might have to start trying that myself.
Hi I've added a side-by-side view. Just click 'view source' and start typing.

http://holloway.github.io/doctored/

It's the first version so things will change and it's a bit buggy right now. Should stabilise in a couple of days, cheers :)
What about power and cooling costs?
Great, insightful discussion of the key problem with people building on top of AWS today - it does not solve all of your problems. You still have to have an operations strategy, a high-availability strategy and a disaster recovery strategy. All AWS does for you is save you the cost of racking and maintaining your own servers.
I've often wondered about why /> syntax doesn't work on some elements. Now I know.

Thanks!
This is a little off topic, but I _really_ like the discuss.atom.io forum platform. Snappy, intuitive, clean. There are a few visual subtleties that would make reading large blocks of text difficult, but seem well suited to the short lengths of most comments (text is #333333, lines are spaced extra far apart).

Looks like Jeff Atwood is still creating great products. I even felt a nostalgic whiff of his Microsoft infused sense of style (the <code> font-family is "Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, serif", in that order)
This looks really useful. I've played around with colormaps in a few visualization projects, but I've never made the time to learn about the various color packages.

What does this add to colormath and grapefruit?
SF was awash with money. I remember going out to some club that wasn't even particularly fancy, and there were limos pulling up to it.

It was weird and distorted, and I got the heck out of there and haven't looked back since.
I am an engineer. Being five years removed from undergrad, the most valuable parts of college were not electives in mechanics or control theory. They were the professors I interacted with, the football games I attended in the student section, the liberal arts and writing classes I was required to take, and the friends I made.
OK. 50 or 60 percent of U.S. high school graduates in 2009 went directly to college. What percentage of those do you think are studying academic subjects because they feel the subjects are "enriching their life"? 20%? 10%? 5%? 2%?

The American 18-year-old is not a demographic in which you find many philosophers.
You may want to check out the great comment by alanh here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1403749

This explains how vendor prefixes fit into the standards process.
Well 'bcvi --install server' is pretty simple and that's a one-time setup cost which survives disconnects and reboots.

But yes, of course you can do the same stuff with sshfs and if that's your preferred tool you should definitely use that.
Yet that has nothing to do with fragmentation. If Android's applications to fail to invoke and include one another, at worst, that's just the same as the iPhone.
I wish your comment was a fact. But Apple is a business and they have business interests when it comes to these outsider platforms.

My understanding is that Apple doesnt allow Java ,Silverlight , Qt or any of those, because these platforms could gradually in-signify the need for a walled garden of apps. App Store is a real cash cow with a lot of potential and Apple clearly doesnt want to purge it off(and that is a good business move.)

IMHO, the same even applies to html5. Apple runs huge campaigns and invests in Safari development to make sure that webkit could gradually insignify the need for a plugin to run interactive content. But try running most of these html5 apps on an iphone/ipad.The rendering framerate is very low and is almost not usable. While native apps run real good, the discrimination against webkit could be that Apple is purposefully delaying the iDevice users' dependency on web apps .

I believe Apple's all-control policy is more of a business move than a security related one
Yes. The people you meet, the connections you make, the overall experience is all worth it. As with everything in life it's relative.
It could be sending you a false A record. You wouldn’t want to cache that; it could enable a MITM attack! Better check with the gTLD servers. But that means another round-trip-time delay.

If the nameserver you're connecting to is doing things like that, this is a problem for all your traffic, not just traffic that relies on SRV records.
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This is the problem with the US's "at will" employment. It affects white collar tech employees too. If you could only be fired for stated misbehaviour (like in the EU), this wouldn't have been possible.
I wonder why set -eu is not the default setting.
The founders can't see the talented people who didn't even bother applying for a job at the company, and the talented people who instinctivly ignore "start-ups".
This is the correct url: https://youtu.be/gjaH2iuoYWE
Care to cite any stats supporting your assertion that a maximum of 2% of the population would die? During periods where the healthcare system has been overloaded the mortality rates have been many multiples of that during times when healthcare is provided at an appropriate level.

What’s more, do you have any reasonable figures to suggest why letting a percentage or more of the population die unnecessarily, consigning even larger numbers to long-term health problems and so forth is somehow a good choice?
Fine. Escalation is sometimes necessary - otherwise one can be intimidated.
> and add DC and Puerto Rico as new states

Is there a good argument against this? Apart from “but my side will lose power”.
While I agree it should provide free speech (that's another discussion though), it never has provided such a platform.
> The biggest thing that I’ve seen in the news haven’t come from lies but from removal of context.

Also, it will be interesting is which "news" outlets label this as riots and which label it as protests.
The rare case where Hacker News's URL normalization has extra benefits!
I love Scala. But arguing with intellectuals who HAVE to use these feature just because they can is a struggle I hate dealing with.
I used to say turbo tax wasn't that bad, and that free filing was easy if you just ignored their promises to save you money if you upgraded.

Last year however I got all the way to the end of the process where they revealed I made too much and had to pay. That felt extremely unethical, as the information required to come to that conclusion was available far earlier in the process.

And yet what am I going to do but use turbo tax again. The perceived risk and effort of using a non-automated system to fill them out doesn't seem worth the cost.
> Buy / bribe miners to have a constant 50% attack even if they lose billions / tens of billions of dollars

(This is a genuine question, I'm not nearly as well-read on this as I should be) What would this achieve, and whom would benefit?

My naïve assumption would be that coordinated, deliberate (over-)regulating of cryptocurrencies and/or attempting to manipulate prices lower might be a) much cheaper, and b) much more effective.

If you bring enough political pressure to bear on any particular international financial flow, it takes quite a lot of (political!) effort to stand up to that.

Look at what happened between the US and Iran re: the reintroduction of sanctions; then look at the response from France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.[0][1]

Can Bitcoin and its backers (yet?) muster sufficient political muscle to respond if there's a coordinated political attack?

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?re...
[1] https://ecfr.eu/article/commentary_trading_with_iran_special...