jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I’ve heard the Charity excuse a few times, and hope people look deeper.

Be it Billy Gates, Bezos, or one of the many Midwestern Financial Gurus—-their use of 901c3‘s are basically tax dodges.

Gates foundation gives back less than 1% of the wife’s fund to the nation that birthed him, and provided a comfy launching pad for that privileged life. (I get you need to help developing nations, but America is dying. I have never seen so many homeless.)

I don’t know Bezos charities, but if it’s related to his companies commercials in media, those are carefully selected to brainwash the masses. How much money did they spend so we knew their employees had soap to wash their hands this past year? And I guess Amazon warehouse workers chuckle fund was receiving hand sanitizer that looked like vodka bottles.

I see how Amazon is now worried about climate change now with his promise of electric vehicles, so he must be worried about something? Maybe he’s running short of tax write offs, and heavily federally subsided electric vehicles make sense fiscally? Not even taking into account the millions he will save on a depreciating asset? In a way, we are buying his gift to carbon neutrality? (I would bet in five years—he will take the Uber approach to deliveries more than he does now, even requiring workers to furnish their own electric vans). I could see the boys laughing over this at the catered hootenanny. It feels good to be a gangster bllly—huh?

I only know of a few charities that truly give back. Most of the big ones we all know through media are overfunded. I once heard there is a very popular children’s hospital who could operate for the next twenty years without another cent, even when taking into account inflation/tech costs.

I used to look up nonprofits on WayStar. They have now made looking at the free 1040’s complicated.

(Does anyone know of a truly selfless charity? I’ve always given Salvation Army a long rope. They have been feeding America’s hungry forever, and I know people who eat there.)
For people who understand french (or can use translation tool)

this is the only account back in 2019 of the events:

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/09/17/richard-sta...

It scores much higher to me on journalism than whatever came in US press.

It seems people in US don't value defending free speech, and tend to get offended easily due to taking things only on first degree.

In that frame, they should care more about defending the first amendment of their constitution, and try to get other degree when interpreting words they have negative reaction to.

I don't know how to solve the issue, but I've started trying tackling some of this in context of code of conducts affecting many sofware communities:

https://github.com/ContributorCovenant/contributor_covenant/...
I've got a real love/hate thing going on with Ferris. He seems like he's got a lot of confidence and has done a lot of neat stuff. But at the same time, I can't help but feel that he uses his life experiences as ammo wrapped in exaggeration to fire at us plebs so we'll buy his books. The 4HWW had some useful bits of knowledge in it, but there was much fluff that came in the form of Tim pimping his lifestyle.
That is a great article, atldev... thanks for the link. Although, it still leave me SOL. :(
I'd imagine that in the field you'd be wearing gloves a lot. That might be problematic with most touch screens.
A great many people (also known as "hard-gainers") will not gain any muscle whatsoever by exercising every day - let alone exercising for 4 hours every day.

If you're a hard-gainer (I am), you will need to:

* Do the right kinds of exercises (squats, deadlifts, bench press, pullups, inverted rows, etc)

* Rest enough in between sessions (2 days between sessions at least)

* Eat enough, including enough protein from a variety of sources

If you do those things, you will put on muscle no matter what your body type. Exercise 4 hours a day, and you will only put on muscle if you have awesome genetics.
Rebelling, maybe. If they were USA citizens (not to imply there aren't any; hell, we've got the Klan).

Invading, no. They are not a governing body.
same here :) this is great!
PBKDF2 also protects against entropy loss from repeated iteration, although that doesn't really matter unless you're using an unreasonably short hash.
Imagine if the authors of the bill of rights had not had the vision to append these 1400+ words to the Constitution?
I'm not much of an Apple/MacOS fan, but I do think I may get an M2 based laptop (esp the M2Pro when those become available). Didn't want to jump on the M1 bandwagon since it was still pretty new. Also by the time M2's are available maybe the Linux on M* Mac story will be better?
I could literally watch someone pick up a gun and shoot someone. Technically they're still innocent until a court of law says they're guilty. But as an individual I don't need to wait to think they're guilty.

The question is where do you draw the line as an individual.
> As a solo bootstrapped SaaS founder that literally relies on my app to pay my rent and food, I owe my sanity to Laravel

I’m in the same boat as you, and I couldn’t agree more. Your comment absolutely nails it.

Laravel is a pleasure to work with. It takes care of 95% of everything I could ever need from a framework. And that last 5% is guaranteed to be covered by a high-quality community package. (Just look at Spatie, this is all just from one maintainer! https://spatie.be/open-source )

Some commenters in this thread seem to take issue with Laravel’s “artisan” approach… and yeah, sure. Maybe it’s a bit pretentious. But, whatever. They’ve earned it. Laravel, its ecosystem and community takes pride in being polished and professional — and rightly so.
And if 538 were consistently wrong, say wrong 80% of the time, then ~538's prediction gets you right 80% of the time. Win!
1. Plan to continue investing in index funds on a schedule
2. Watching myself for lifestyle creep. Would like enough reserves on hand that I’m not a cornered animal if I lose my job.
3. Building up separate savings (brokerage) for a house. Will pounce a little early if the housing bubble pops.
4. Applying some healthy skepticism toward “too good to be true” investment schemes
5. Unplugging from the click bait cycle to preserve my sanity
6. Staying heavily invested in tech stocks. They seem to just scale better over long time horizons, and I’m in it for the long haul.
We're already way beyond the carrying capacity of the planet, without fossil fuel inputs.

There are only two options:

1. Split more nuclei, fuse nuclei at +EROEI, and collect more photons.

2. 4 billion people starve to death.

Population control was a fun idea in the 1970s, but that ship has already sailed. We either experience mass die-offs, or we engineer our way out. Full stop.
Good luck collecting any statistics nowadays that are trusted by the entire population. Propaganda and lies have never been thicker than they are now, and it's coordinated worldwide.
It doesn't seem to show everywhere I've been. I put the whole folder in, about 2k files, and it only showed points near San Francisco even thought I've travelled with my phone to the East Coast many times this year.

Is there a limit on your plotting points? If so, I'd do a geographic sampling to get a good representation of my phone's life.
OK, let's say I decide to use Common Lisp. Then I have to decide what implementation to use. There isn't a default one like there is with Python or Ruby. Whichever one I choose, how can I know (and remember at this point I don't actually know CL) what libraries it has, what quality they are, whether there are libraries that work on other CLs but not this one, what debugging tools are available and what quaslity, whether it will work on the OS I use, whether it will work on the OS I will use in 5 years time (and I don't know what that will be), whether there are any other pitfalls with my choice, etc. For me to be sure I've made the right choice, I'd have to do weeks or months of research, including trying out the major varients.

Fuck that. If I do learn a Lisp it'll be Clojure, because there's only one implementation.
SICP claims "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute". If that's true, then a language's suitability for explanatory/conceptual purposes is its primary virtue. The right question to ask about a language is, what concepts does it help explain?
This sounds like a good idea, but as someone who runs a website, why wouldn't I say that it's an app even if it isn't?
How did you get tcl :-0?

No-one's even mentioned the DB, and it's a major DB system owned by a three-letter company...
Google bought 3 engineers, not a business that has relationships with vendors, that Skweal is acquiring. Not sure if you can solve social problems with more code.
> It’s what scientists like Charlotte de Keyzer, a pollination ecologist and doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, are starting to call “bee-washing.” It’s a take on the phrase “greenwashing,” a deceptive marketing technique advertising environmentally friendly products or services that really aren’t so friendly. Bee-washing, as de Keyzer defines it, is when “a product, service, or organization is advertised as being more ‘bee-friendly’ than it actually is.”

This "x"-washing scenario is tricky. There is a lot of money to be made by overstating claims, and it is often encouraged in the early days of any movement.

What can realistically be done to prevent this (or at least mitigate damage)? What are the success stories where people became suitably educated or corporations suitably regulated?
The entire question is about guilt, not prison. Being actually guilty is very different from being innocent.
Driverless printing has been "the future" for over a decade now (I remember hearing much about it back in 2006 or so), and a concept for two decades. Microsoft first filed the patent back in 1999 [0]. The only thing that's changed is the patent is now expired (as near as I can tell), thus opening the door a bit wider for adoption.

But, as with many things, "I'll believe it when I see it."

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6952831B1/en
If the average Gen Z / younger millennial is as incapable of using the English language to express his or her thoughts as Lepera is, I’m happy to forsake my younger brothers and sisters and join Team Boomer. The best reply to “OK, boomer”?

“Okay, moron.”
Yet another Elasticsearch server wide open. This is going to make the flurry of open mongodb servers look trivial.
This one was posted a few minutes before but the other one has a better tile.
Your link itself says that it's not illegal, only that it is recommended that pedestrians don't walk in the middle of the road for their own safety.
>Can I do a GDPR request for the data about myself? How?

And send it where? It's unclear who owns this server
Wasn't this predicted from the times of Carl Sagan.
I remember seeing an episode in Cosmos which predicted water vapors evaporating from ice cracks.
Tumblr also helps send traffic to your website. This is great when first starting out. My first post on noahc.net went to the front page. I've started a few different blogs, but seeing a few thousand visitors from the front page kept my spirits high and makes me want to hit that again.
I was planning another post on that topic :) in a nutshell, we got H-1B visas. With a good attorney the paperwork is mostly tedium, but lots and lots of tedium. The process is very opaque and full of uncertainties.
I suppose it's Time's little tradition so they can name whoever they want, but I still feel like they missed the mark on this one.

Most people would admit that Facebook is a pretty interesting phenomenon. That a few hundred million people are at least shallowly engaging with people they haven't seen in years is pretty remarkable. But where I disagree with Time is that I don't think Zuckerberg was a particularly necessary ingredient. Facebook hit the scene as basically a cleaner, better designed MySpace. Zuckerberg's execution was spot on, but frankly, a lot of people could have done it. A large part of Facebook's success was being at the right place at the right time. And once the network effect kicked in, it pretty much drives itself.

Assange on the other hand has put his ass on the line and managed to embarrass and disgruntle some of the most powerful players on the planet - ostensibly in the name of transparency. The implications of his actions are that world super powers are having to reconsider many of their assumptions about diplomacy and security, and that the world's citizenry are having to ponder the value and risks of free speech. Or at least they should be...
I think it's interesting how different people view the same tasks as pleasant or unpleasant. I find breaking things, scaling infrastructure, and talking to (potential and current) customers vastly more pleasant than planning/managing development or writing code. Logistics (for moving bits, boxes, and people) is great fun too.

Recruiting is amazingly fun when you're not already under the gun for a specific position, because it's basically selling your idea and meeting someone new. It sucks if you're behind and need to hire a lot of people quickly, because you're going to have to make a lot of compromises you shouldn't be making, and you know it.

I'm sure there are people out there who enjoy admin, accounting, and immigration bureaucracy, but those people are not me.

Maybe figuring out what things your team enjoys (and presumably is good at doing) should inform what kind of product you build more than it usually does.
Great post, Martin. In chatting with other YC starrtups that had already launched, is this a common feeling?

The entrepreneurial mindset seems more geared toward building cool stuff, which makes the next stage of scaling/support much less fun.
Can you specify in more details what you think is the scale of Julian's impact? From media coverage it looks like the impact has been huge, but is it really? I am not against Julian, I would not object if they selected him instead of Mark, I am just not sure that until now the real impact (of Wikileaks) on how the world operates was that big.
He didn't publish an archive of secret governmental cables.
When I was sick over a summer, I wrote a lot. Not so anymore.
This is a popular (and increasing) trend in HN comments.
It depends to geolocation providers. Some providers are dummy-in-dummy-out. Other providers such as IP2Location required network routing confirmation for change requests. In this case, it is less likely to manipulate the location.
I like the idea of this, but I find the red outline to be jarring and well quite frankly ugly. I think a more visually pleasing way of showing new vs old comments would be to make the text of old comments a light shade of grey, and the new comments normal black. Similar to how a link will have a different color once it has been visited.
'cd -' go back to previous directory. Genius! How did I not know this?
In general separating vocational from academic studies is a good idea, even if we have to do it in the university environment. In practice, universities are conservative institutions ill-equipped to provide vocational education in software development; at least, mine is.

SE education seems geared towards churning out enterprise-type developers, and I guess there is a legitimate staffing need for enterprise-type developers in enterprise-type shops, but the CS-educated developer is perhaps a more important asset to cultivate, and the OP seemed to suggest that the CS-educated developer should go away entirely.
in that case I must learn me some C++
Most influential programming book - question answered on stackoverflow with some great answers:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...

Not directly related, but here's a huge list of freely available programming books:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
Ah yes, I keep saying "GUI" when I suppose I actually mean "look & feel".
Macro-like languages (WordBasic comes to mind) are the "omigod please god get me out of this mess!" prayers - usually used in times of stress or need, deployed quickly and messily, and forgotten until needed again.
I use "foo | random -f -" but I omitted that for the sake of brevity, hoping it would be taken as a generic name for a script/program that shuffled lines for illustrative purposes. I personally use textproc/rl for shuffling lines, as it's faster than stock random(6).
Interesting, I was unaware that it was shown there was an electronic, general purpose computer that predated the ENIAC.
FWIW, the Office Ribbon scales UI pretty well (considering how much stuff is on there). I haven't tried it, but I imagine that it's just another tab on the ribbon.

Bonus points if the tab only shows up when you're working on a document saved to Google Docs.
The only two metrics that really matter are: 1) Cash on Hand 2) Monthly Burn.

Until a business is cash flow positive, the above two metrics are the most important things that need to be managed.

PS For an awesome startup budget / dashboard tool - check out 60mo.com It's simple, beautiful and the UI focuses on cash remaining
Plug and Play Tech Center is supposed to be opening a branch office here, but nothing concrete has happened AFAIK.
I think this is the problem. The downcycle for the semi industry should of came around 2-3 years ago. The issue is that never came and the industry is growing at an even more ridiculous rate. The semi industry is single handed buying a good chunk of the OEM equipment space these past 3 years. Just get a THK rail quote and look at awe at the one year+ lead time.
Twitter lists are a good way to regain control of your timeline.

Create lists and unfollow everyone. This way you only get the content you want.
I wish I had skipped the first part and just asked the question. Silly me.
I've heard that sort of thing before.

My point is, that when you consider that sort of explanation, and let's suppose it vaguely seems to make intuitive sense, then what about the things/particles that don't act like that?

If the explanation of "A" doesn't distinguish between "A" and "not A" then it isn't in fact an explanation.
Let’s get out definitions straight - nomen est after all omen!

Central planning in this context means that the state by using its police and army will hinder free people from trying to satisfy market demand as expressed by price.

Instead a committee appointed by politicians would decide what should be produced and at what price it should be sold.

That a company plans the best they can to satisfy demand is not what we mean when we say _central_ planning
You're right, I checked old emails.

The 1000 character password issue was something different: we check new passwords against most common passwords (a long list) in the browser before submitting and checking long passwords frooze the browser. The algorihm tries too many substring matches.
Where is the growth? The Federal Reserve pumping easy money into the economy doesn’t count. The author completely missed the point as to why capital is misallocated. True growth is when productivity increases, prices fall, and capital investment increases.

It’s easy to sell 10 dollar bills for 8 dollars a piece. In what world is that considered growth?
And this is why I refuse to use any npm or similar code. Period.
From the linked man page:

"Reads from the /dev/full device will return characters."

Literally two spaces between "return" and "characters". There has to be a specific result, even if it's random/garbage characters.
tldr; the dead salmon false positive fMRI criticism study. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction"
I wish they would clean up the honeypots that keep adding people. I report and block about a dozen fake accounts that add me with an account created within 30 days.

I know 1 guy who actually fell for a honeypot, even sent her money. Its gotta be profitable for scammers with as bad as its getting.
I don't understand what Bruce Schneier means by this quote. Several fully homomorphic encryption schemes have been proposed and implemented. "True" doesn't have a technical meaning in this context, so it's unclear what's he means by that phrase. Perhaps that he believes it will never be fast enough for general computations? Or perhaps he's referring to the fact that schemes don’t allow conditionals?
Hopefully this turns out to be more Wing Commander, and less Strike Commander.
I don't think anyone expected Manning to be found innocent. But it will be quite telling whether he is eventually pardoned.

The most worrisome aspect to me is that the administration does not appear to be remotely open to pardoning either Manning or Snowden, while at the same time ignoring the abuses each revealed.

Before this happened, I would have expected the response to be more measured and would have expected there to be some kind of review/investigation of the crimes revealed by the leaks in tandem with attempts to punish the whistleblower... then later after the investigation a possible pardon.

That we are not seeing this happen makes me wonder if I am wrong about the degree to which we have the rule of law in the US.
I don't want to sound pedant, but as per the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Profit is not human nature, until you abandon actually senseful definitions of profit. People selling their labour at a market price by definition cannot make profit, meaning that the vast majority of people don't make a profit, so how can it be claimed that it is human nature?

Human nature is to sometimes, with a ton of exceptions, maximize resources and utility. This does not mean maximizing profit, unless you redefine profit to be a meaningless word.