jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Project Hedgehog (http://projecthedgehog.com) was designed to address many of these complaints. The UI is almost completely keyboard-driven and fast, and stripped down to bare bones. It's a desktop app that runs on OS X and Windows. It has fast search dialog accessible with one keystroke.

Like OmniOutliner/Workflowy, though, it also is hierarchy-oriented, which I think is most natural for ordered tasks. It has a slight learning curve and the UI is very utilitarian, but it has drastically reduced the amount of stuff I have to keep in my head as I'm working.
In the first .com boom I worked for a company that had a 60 million funding round. By the time I left I decided not to bother exercising my options for pennies a share. The company never went public. None of the many people I knew working for startups at the time saw a dime of profit from their options either.

The stock I got from the much larger, already public company I worked for next turned out to be worth a nice chunk of change though.
The main one is number of flags. When anything gets over a certain number of flags, it shows up on a list that admins see. They decide either to kill it, mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing.
Cool stuff - I'm still a beginner of course but it won't be long before I'm deadlifting and squatting my own bodyweight (105 kgs).

I don't know about the discipline so much - it's so addictive I can't wait to get in the gym! But it's definitely helped me cope with a very trying two months personally and professionally.
I was wondering why it was dropping so much 2 days in a row... it went back up a bit today
You don’t need hope if you are pragmatic. Know your own weaknesses, and have a system for failing. It seems like that guy is maybe going through something in a shitty career, but it becomes a vicious cycle. You end up traumatized and gravitate toward similar abusive workplaces. Have seen that happen to many friends in this industry. Everyone has an upper limit of the political bs they can take at their workplace. That’s why I personally refuse to work at a place with too many h1b. IME management tend to be literal slavedrivers and suck all the fun out of SWE in those places.
What about Ordo notation, complexity theory, context free grammars, type theory, information theory and lambda calculus? Topics that are really important to Computer Science? :p
From the article: “The usual plan in education is to start with a broad, shallow focus, then gradually become more specialized. But I've done the opposite with my kids. I know I can count on their school to handle the broad, shallow part, so I take them deep."

I am with him on it. I witness this pattern in parents who seem to care about well rounded development of their kids. They keep their children constantly busy with a wide number of activities: on Monday the kid goes to dance lessons, on Tuesday they have English class, followed by drawing and music classes on Wednesday, etc. But round things cannot pierce and cut efficiently.

What if we focus on a single thing - that the kid shows some interest in - and encourage them to stick with it, focus on learning details and mastering the subject? Will it result in acquiring the skills and passion for diving deep into a chosen area, for exploring distant corners and intricate caves far from the crowds of tourists; not to be constantly lured by the songs of Sirens, that imprison people with generous dopamine shots of superficial excitement of shallow waters of something novel: a new flashy tech, another cool study subject, TV series, games, etc.
It is an arms race and it is the right time for the industry to use the growing fear and demand for security in the global population to make some extra $$$ (just seen from a purely economical point of view of course).

I agree that it is probably inevitable but there is also people who don't join the race and that is lifting my hopes.
In a typical PL context "effects" is always short for algebraic effects, and this article doesn't address those at all. Downvoted due to misleading title.
Is it possible you remember some of those German Monkey Island quotes? Do any of them work when translated back into English? I'm intrigued...
Watching in from the outside, what's been happening in UK politics for the last couple years seems crazy.

We used to look at the British political system as full of weird traditions and characters, but basically based on some shared "fair play" and regard for the rules.

It appears this has gone completely out of the window.

Maybe I'm idealising a past that never existed? Or the situation is not as dire as it seems?

Brit HNers, what do you think?
You seem to be misunderstanding many of my points. (Maybe that is because I am unclear.)

> A client can already arbitrarily get and set the cursor image for a given cursor name...

That is not what I am suggesting at all. My suggestion is: The client only specifies a monochrome cursor, possibly from a font; the server MAY substitute a (possibly animated) RGBA32 (or other colour type) image (for a font-based cursor) IF the user has enabled that feature in the server configuration file.

> Not sure why this requires a whole new protocol version...

Indeed, that is independent of the protocol. I just think it is more useful, is all.
How can a federal government site be copyrighted? And, copyrighted by a domain name nonetheless.

I worked on a project once with the national park service. Their Office of General Council or whatever its called didn't want to agree to make their metadata on https://npgallery.nps.gov available to use with a CC0 license for use in https://dp.la/ . Sure, the images might not have been taken by federal employees, but why try to assert copyright ownership in the metadata? Eventually they agreed for one collection, but they have lots of cool content on there from California parks we would like to put on https://calisphere.org .

The stuff they have up at Clemson has CC0 metadata, and the rights info for the content is pretty clearly marked https://openparksnetwork.org/about/opn-rights/
Maybe it has something to do with availability of sources? People at the company are more willing to talk now than before, when they were hoping to get rich from the IPO. And he's no longer the boss so it's less risky to talk about him.
One of his (and plato's) conclusions was roughly that excellence is not really possible without slavery facilitating. Some needed to be freed from stress of toil by laborers. It's very sad this fellow's father couldn't fund his further development.
I don't see what would make such a configuration option particularly difficult. Maybe file a bug report requesting it? The scaling difficulties are fundamentally a problem with XWayland so you're left with two problematic options.
The submitted URL has long since broken but you can see the page as it was by going to https://web.archive.org/web/20071109094843/http://ycombinato....
The way I read it, the legal system charges too much. It isn't the lawyer's problem that the legal system (according to parent's anecdote) requires $5K worth of legal services. DIY isn't even an option.

Besides, who cares how much parent makes? If people making those kind of fat stacks complain, how the hell is a barista supposed to get a lawyer?
No, the majority were ~innocent people. Although, as in any invasion, the distinction was blurry.

While the invasion was sold on the basis of terrorism and WMD, that was mostly bullshit. I mean, the US originally supported Saddam Hussein because he opposed communists supported by Russia. And it used Iraq in a proxy war against Iran, is also supported by Russia.

Basically, the US invaded Iraq because it had to invade somewhere after the 9/11 attacks. Saudi Arabia was the obvious suspect, given their funding of fundamentalist Islam generally, and Al-Qaeda specifically. Plus the fact that most of the attackers were Saudi.

But that was unworkable, for many reasons. Afghanistan was the other obvious target, but everyone knew that it would be a morass. Given Russia's experience, for example. Or Britain's, back in the day. Plus the fact that most of it had already been pounded into sand.

So Iraq was the perfect target. With lots of juicy stuff to destroy. And an ineffectual military.

Another goal was demonstrating US military hardware. Advertising, to increase sales.
Oh jeez. Out of curiosity I did a comparison against a gaming GPU. A GTX 1080 uses 200W of power for 9 TFLOPS, which is roughly 500x better performance per watt than a raspberry pi. Outside of the fun of it, and maybe a cheap way to prototype larger systems, I can't see a serious reason to make a raspi cluster.
> if you have candidates that have the same job with wildly different salaries

How do you classify something as the same job versus a different job though? Two developers may have roughly similar responsibilities but one may be much better than the other. And it would be reasonable to pay them more in those circumstances, but it's very hard to quantify that objectively.

Also, Google is a huge company so they can advertise 5 jobs at different levels and fill them all. Whereas smaller companies may want someone and not be too sure about what level they need: it may depend more on who they can get. They can't afford to be too picky.
AppImages are pretty great, when they actually exist for your applications. It is exceptionally disingenuous, however, to suggest that the existence of some AppImages invalidates the file hierarchy organization problems of any distro.

You might have been better to point out the existence of GoboLinux, but that is but one not very popular distro among many.
That would be awesome. Google's one of the few players with enough clout and reach to make a micropayments system that might actually work, or at least get enough users to see how it would work in practice and work through some of the theoretical hurdles.
I think this is extremely possible. During my research into Paleo (which has helped me tremendously, and I suggest anyone who has trouble keeping off the pounds, performing at work, or focusing in life to take a look at it), I've considered the possible link myself, but since I'm not a scientist I didn't have any way of looking into this.

However, one of Paleo's major goals is to eliminating inflammation, and Paleo, for a large number of people, have lessened or completely eliminated the symptoms of depression, and I've seriously considered that there has to be some sort of link.

Edit: Not sure why I'm getting downvoted here. n=1 experimental data may not be the best thing, but in the absence of studies like the one linked to, its all we have to go on.
Anecdata here - as a teen, I had depression. I would take ibuprofen a few times a day when it got really bad, it helped a lot. It would lift my mood from dulled, paralysing rumination to merely sad. I think I started doing it after reading a study like the one in the link.
It's a popular theory there are many different diseases that fall under the label 'depression', which is why patients often try multiple antidepressants until one works - perhaps this inflammatory one is just one of them.
> Natural transformations between functors gives you parametricity and "theorems for free"

Could you elaborate? This is something everyone always talks about but I've never really seen a proof/precise statement.
Netflix itself will do that if you rate movies.

A third party site would have an incredibly difficult time providing better recommendations than Netflix itself. They offered extremely large cash prizes to anyone who could come up with better results, and the winners were only able to eek out ~10% improvements (which Netflix then adopted). http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard
I was very fortunate that my father was a real estate broker, although he is no longer around I gained some really good tricks for my real estate purchase. First off, scout the areas you want to live. A lot of times real estate isn't listed on the local RMLS site (or if it is, might be incorrect information). Second strategy get a tax plot map. Look for property owners who are out of state and send them a offer letters. Craigslist, Zillow alert and other sites have been pretty helpful for leads as well. Third, pay attention to what other properties are selling. If everyone in the neighborhood is selling, there has to be a reason. Buy where nobody wants to sell. Finally, out of pure luck I bought my property on auction.com and was the final bidder without even looking at the property (there are ways to back out of a deal, my dad told me all the tricks :). The property information just happen to be wrong, it was the wrong zoning, address, acreage, etc. This was probably because it was in the holiday season. The Realtor assigned to the property didn't know anything about it. Because I did a title search before placing my bid, I knew more about it then they did! And because I scouted the area well, I knew approximately what I was expecting. I also knew that buying property during the holiday season (thanksgiving to new years) is the best possible time as far as I can tell. Generally home values go up in the summer and down in the winter. I also played the 2008 recession, but values didn't go down as much as I expected, but it helped. And no I didn't buy a property way out in nowhere, I'm about 20 minutes away from the Redwood Forest, 45 minutes from the coast, and 30 miles away from a Home Depo/Walmart. Regretfully, the nearest Trader Joe's is over an hour and a half away. :)
There used to be a site called YMDB, I believe, which let you list your top 20 favorite movies, and then would let you see the lists of, and interact with others who had many of the same movies on their lists.

I was often amazed at how some people who loved many of the same movies I loved also loved some movies I hated. So it wasn't a perfect means of finding enjoyable movies, but it did suggest some interesting possiblities.

Anyone know whatever happened to YMDB and whether there's any other sites like it?
Nice work! I did something like this recently in Ionic framework, released it open source and deployed it to the Google Play Store: https://github.com/brentvatne/flix - essentially it allows you to flick through movies as you would people on Tinder, and shows the IMDB rating and a description along with each one. It also allows you to filter by IMDB rating and genre etc.
Yes, I remember this. It had Netscape Livewire (I think that's what it was called?) that let you write very PHP-like server-side JS.

(It was terribly unstable, by the way.)
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I save up my reputation so I can spend it on threads like this ;)
Maybe not, but the people you need to worry about would.
Is there any treaty the entire globe has agreed on? Sure, overall corporate tax revenues would go up but not enough to make up for the money a small country stands to make by not signing and becoming a tax haven.

This is just an excuse to not pass strong controls preventing local companies from moving their money overseas. Start taxing companies based on where their employees and executives live, not which mailbox they stuff money into.
Let’s talk about this “demonstrated ability to steer public opinion and unilaterally steer elections”. I believe you have fallen into an intentional conflation of ideas here. Social media as private platform with terms of use that other people promote on, versus the social media company acting with their own political agenda. Those thongs are not the same.

We’ve seen many disinformation campaigns proliferate on FB, Reddit, 4chan, Twitter, et al, but with the notable exception of 4chan, these campaigns are promoted the company’s executives, but rather amplified through algorithms developed to promote time on site. Zuck only cares about money. He doesn’t care if it’s coming from cooking tips, flat earth memes, or a 6 hour expose videos about how satanic pedophile aliens are eating children in the basement of the Alamo. It is the users posting the misinformation that are attempting to manipulate elections by utilizing a third party’s engagement promoting algorithms and platform. This distinction is very important, but gets intentionally muddied. FB isn’t manipulating the election, as much as Simone trying to manipulate an election are being stymied.

Furthermore, when we actually examine the claims of “censorship” they end up falling apart pretty quickly. It will be a clear cut TOS violation, by a person that unfailingly has had a long history of getting passes for TOS violations. Which makes me wonder, why were they getting so many extra chances. (Case in point: Alex Jones and YouTube.)

You also have the same people screaming about how they’re being censored, regularly appearing as the most shared pages on FB.[0] When you dig into even more, there’s nothing there.[1]

So what is going on here? It’s a replay of the 70s and 80s. Newspapers are dead, and so the “liberal media elite” canard (and we know it is a canard, because Bill Kristol and Rich Bond have admitted it.[3]) needs a new target. And just like then, if it doesn’t have a particular political bent, its “unfair”. And you know what? The whining is working again.[2]

0: https://mobile.twitter.com/facebookstop10
1: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/918520692/facebook-keeps-data...
2: https://mashable.com/article/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-conser...
3: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/general/news/2005/05...
But Wine is not a Simulator !
Someone smarter than I am should draw parallels from this to modern social justice movements.
Yeah but we're worse today. On top of all the impending doom we have vastly superior weapons of mass distraction in our hands and every computer/phone screen. Our attention spans have decreased.
What are the requirements that need it to have no database?
No, Simpsons wasn't first. See the movie "Being there" with Peter Sellers - the wealthy but aged and ill king-maker in this imagined U.S. gets regular blood infusions of 'young blood'.
Put your right hand fingers on a piano, on C-D-E-F-G, thumb on C. Now your 2nd finger is on the 2nd, 3rd is on the 3rd, 4th is on the 4th, 5th is on the 5th. I wouldn't say that makes "no sense" exactly.
Is this the kind of thing that can be added to youtube-dl? Are they pretty open to adding new sites?
You need to dissipate the heat into something. In empty space it's -273 but still very difficult to keep cool.
A good question is if a local workforce drawn from major hubs of civilization doesn't add value why are tech companies paying so much for it now?
I hope you'll excuse me for phrasing it this way, but it would not be a punishment only because a punishment is a lawful injury, and your "Republic Act" is decidedly unlawful: by interfering with the royals' persons, property, privacy, &c, without any clear finding of wrong-doing on their part, the act is offensive to the common law, the ECHR law, and other fancy international law. (Good legal scholarship has shown us in recent years that most of the ideas in the ECHR and other international conventions are derived from the English common law, a rich tradition of which you should be proud.)

I am no fan of the royals and other nobles and look forward to the day when they all work for a living and wear seat belts like regular people. Yet, we must acknowledge that rule of law means law for the bad, the useless, and the rich. The ends don't justify the means.
Is it not obvious, common sense and proven that masks stop you from spreading the virus if you have it and don't know yet? Are there still people unaware of that? Out of curiosity, where do you live?

And you should tell frontline medical personnel that masks don't protect them, they'll be glad your non-conformist ultra intelligent mind managed to figure it out.
> Youtube frequently delists music videos.

I think you mean companies/YouTubers themselves - YT doesn't remove regular videos on their own very often. The content being deleted is still a problem and reason to save it though - many externalities might be reason for the uploader to remove videos (legal, purging a Google account, etc).
> But the effect is still that any changes up-file will be always reflected down-file? If so, I don't care how it's implemented (given it's fast enough and doesn't break), the semantics is the point.

Yes, I was just bringing this up because it means that various things can be significantly faster, causing you to experience less latency than you normally would by re-running a whole file.

As to the rest of your most, I agree it'd be interesting to see a more quick and dirty solution. It appears that everyone who has the know-how to do this wants to 'do it right', so on the public facing side there's very little visible progress.

> It's been worked on for as long as I've known of Julia. AFAIK there's still absolutely zero logic on caching compilations of "end-user-stuff" (as opposed to stuff like package precompilation)

This is not really true. E.g. there's PackageCompiler.jl which does sysimage based caching and works quite well (at the expense of slow compilation and large binaries), and briefly there was StaticCompiler.jl which did good small binary compilation but then bitrotted quite fast.

All of our CPU compliation stuff is built using a small binary, static, AOT compiler (currently hosted in GPUCompiler.jl) and it's quite reliable. There's active work being done to make this work on the CPU again (basically a modern version of StaticCompiler.jl). So while I feel your frustration that this has been 'coming soon!' for a long time, progress has been made. The new compiler hooks for version 1.6 are partially designed to make this whole process less hacky and easier to iterate on.
It wouldn't be equally likely since the lab is a single source. It's normal for caves and pig farms and such to spread diseases like this - usually it's new kinds of flu but sometimes it's worse.

To me it seems like the lab escape story has only developed because of journalist brain. It's convenient if you'll only accept a narrative that involves blaming a human and not a natural system.

Anyway, the story doesn't seem to be developing in that direction:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/health/who-mission-china-intl...

I like how the WHO investigator calls the original patient "dull and normal".
In Firefox, you can automatically strip utm[0], but even more fun - there's a utm poisoner for Chrome[1] that replaces the values with garbage.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/au-revoir-utm...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/utm-mangler/ngddln...
It isn't simple because federal law forces the union to represent non members still. Free riding is good for free riders. It's bad for people who pay for it.
> spending all their energy working for corporates,

Without corporates, we'd be spending all our energy working on subsistence farms. No thanks.
The year of the linux laptop?
That is an entirely different can of worms :)
Hey, you're the author! I just wanted to thank you for writing this. I saw it yesterday, actually, and it set me off on an adventure: you mentioned seaborn, so I went and learned that (it's beautiful), which mentioned xarray (http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/) which is the generalized solution to the problem you mention!

I'm a bit skeptical, but, xarray's demos are very impressive. They do all kinds of geospatial modeling on ocean salinity, ozone, etc, and the data model seems general enough to create beautiful plots automatically (for various reasons, but mostly because of what you were saying in your post: simplicity enforced by constraints).

I'd love your thoughts on xarray, since it was such a serendipitous discovery in relation to your post. (If you're not impressed with xarray, then that's probably a useful signal that perhaps it's a step in the wrong direction on the ladder of complexity.) But either way, thanks for reminding me that "the solution is elegance, not a battalion of special cases."