jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From what I understand, impeachment can also bar an individual from public office again.

I'm not clear on whether that means the vote could extend past January 20th and the end result is that it goes on his permanent record.
> A good example of that is political surveys, which are really hard because people don't answer their phones. But why don't people answer their phones? Because they're swamped with scams, political ads, and other spam.

But why should people answer political surveys? It's a waste of time similar to the other nuisance calls you mentioned.

Even if we assume all the other nuisance calls are eliminated, there's still no reason anyone should answer a political survey. It's a waste of their time and there is no way to ensure how this data will be used.
How do you know your dad wasn't always that person? Children tend to be pretty naive about their own parents. Children very rarely have a sophisticated understanding of issues such as politics and race, so they wouldn't even notice problematic aspects of their parents until they become adults themselves.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you should be a good fit for their team.
Yeah, but all theory is included :-)
No, you'd take a ceramic knife most likely. Much sharper, and still wouldn't be detected. I suspect the test is more for guns than knives.
He said that the networks seem to be concerned that the enormous revenue streams targeted at these dumb televisions will go away if they change the model. Schmidt disagrees. He thinks people will watch even more television if it’s augmented with the Internet.

I can't imagine why they'd be worried. It's not like other advertising driven revenue models that came online earlier have been getting ground down into pulp or anything.

The networks are in the business of selling advertising (and buying or producing content as advertising delivery vehicles). What's more, they get the lions share of the money spend on TV advertising - there aren't substantial amounts being bled off to intermediaries.

Google is in the business of selling advertising, but not content. And they are in the business of standing between the advertiser and the content producer and taking a hefty percentage of the dollars spent on advertising. And they've proven to be very adept at business.

A large amount of advantage major networks hold over even cable channels is their ability to deliver large audiences to ad buyers. Because everything is pretty manual and there is no big auction network or the like, an ad buyer can't easily purchase the same reach of say 5M households that the network provides by placing their ads on 1000 programs each with 5000 viewers.

Once it's just as easy or easier to reach your audience through many small programs, the money will start to flow away from big TV and into smaller productions. That money will allow the upstarts to increase production value, competing more effectively. And whatever money is still going to the major networks will be getting a substantial slice taken out by the intermediaries and their "value add".

But Eric Schmidt says it won't be a problem. I mean, they can trust google, right?
that's what I was thinking but I want to hear from someone that's worked with integrating facebook/twitter into their site.

also, does anyone know exactly how the integration would work? do the services set a variable to true once the update/tweet goes out that you can then go check to make sure the tweet went out or the status was updated?
Those are particularly interesting because they're asynchronous FPGAs -- they use local handshaking rather than a global clock to keep everything synchronized. That should make them easier to port to new, smaller process nodes, and they say it's responsible for their unusually high throughput.

Cool stuff, and all the more intriguing considering that Intel's getting involved.
Hi! It's nice about the degree, I'm also a dropout. One question: is fluent german necessary, or can a newcomer speak english and learn on the way? I'm quite good at learning languages, but I suppose I won't speak fluently in the next few months :)
I agree with what the OP is saying about Scotland, which is a crying shame, because Scotland was once what Silicon Valley is now - a hotbed of new ideas, entrepreneurs, and technological innovation.

Many of my friends here who work in IT are certainly talented and able, but are content to coast in relatively low-paid jobs in academia or some branch of government, or maybe a bank or insurance company. You are more likely to find local entrepreneurial spirit among car mechanics and taxi drivers.

The thing is they aren't even that happy with their jobs. They hate the petty bureaucracy, insane procedures and moronic policies. But they would never think of startups as an option.
I too like to have code from multiple logical sections of my projects visible on the same screen at times.

Splitting windows in vim works nicely for this purpose.
It depends on what you want to work on. There are problems that only get interesting at scale; people who are good at solving them will likely always be working square jobs, because square jobs willol haved the capital to misallocate and create said interesting-scale problems. There are also problems where there is no immediately obvious way to disrupt an existing market, many of which are fascinating. And there are many, many, many talented hackers whose risk appetite is such that they're happy to trade ev for security.

And then again, too, "talent" is too gnarled a word to be meaningful intercontextually. The "talents" that Schmidt is shopping for may very well be disjoint from those that pg seeks out.
Is there really widespread ageism, or can that be explained by there being 6x more programmers now that 20yrs ago, by the high pay allowing early retirement for those who want it, and by people with more experience self selecting away from "opportunities" which might succeed in attracting new grads who don't know their worth?

Not to say that specific instances of ageism don't exist or aren't a problem, but in the context of "planning for it in my career" I haven't seen evidence that would make malice more likely than other factors for tech's age distribution. Does that evidence exist?
I was imprecise, I guess, because I mean NEW Reddit is slower.
My cordless Dyson (V10 Animal, I think) is strong enough to get stuck to the carpet on the highest power setting. I won't use it past medium because I'm afraid that it will tear up the carpet.
The Wikipedia article cites that as being yet another myth, although it is disproven by evidence of belief in fan death long before the blackouts.
Just in case someone's looking for that macOS look and feel with the stability of the Linux Mint Cinnamon [1] desktop environment, here's how - https://youtu.be/DMs7DX3Um9E

[1] https://youtu.be/oFx_aMbN_NY?t=19
Block reward is now 6.25 btc, and fees reward is about 1.5 btc.

Every 4 years block reward halves, so in the next two halving block reward will be much less than fee reward, making it more and more irrelevant.

The 2140 is the date where it reaches 0, but it will be completely irrelevant in 12 years (3 more halving cycles).
> If the currency is collapsing, who’s going to trade Bitcoin for the collapsing currency?

Well, you'd probably find someone wanting to trade Bitcoin for goods, and as part of the transaction, someone else would end up using local currencies to buy those goods.

... Of course, in the general case, you're probably more likely to find someone who wants to trade USD for those goods.
I'm not the person you replied to, but to answer your second question myself, yes, I do. I have four desktop PCs (one for each of my family members including myself), a netbook, and a custom built router in my house. All run Linux except the router, which runs a flavor of BSD. The Linux computers use AMD graphics with the open source AMDGPU driver. No Windows PCs[0], no blob drivers. Works quite well in practice.

[0]: My work laptop runs Windows 10, because they issued it, administer it, and own it. I'm required to use their software baseline for working.
The bailouts are tragic as it undermines the natural garbage collection in democracy - bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is an incredible positive because it allows for the safe and sane dismantling of bad organizations.

The question is - how do we apply a mechanism like bankruptcy to government organizations?
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, React, Redux, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, mySQL, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS (Currently learning: Node.js, Express, MongoDB)

Resume: https://scottespinosa.com/pdfs/Resume_SEspinosa.pdf

Email: scottjames.espinosa@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottespinosa/

Currently freelancing with a healthcare start-up, but looking for a long-term position that supports learning and growth within the team. My goal is to help people while building and enhancing technology through code.
If you live in Mountain View (or the bay area for that matter) go to 99 Ranch. It's an asian supermarket that smells like fish due to their huge live seafood section. If you can get past the smell you will be able to buy fruits and vegetables for extremely low prices. I can't believe how low their prices are some times. It is by far cheaper than Costco, Farmers markets, Safeway, and Nob Hill (from my experience).
Can you explain how "a summary" would have failed to convey the same level of precision as "a précis" gives?
The "legacy" MBAs from the "shareholder value" age that was taught a lot of horrible stuff certainly don't help.
Cool. I have snagged one of the invite codes. Look forward to learning more about these features when you are done.
I think the meaning was more towards "12 eggs is ~= the price of 750ml of egg whites."
I've been working remote for a long time (both as a team member and as a founder, exec or team lead), hopefully you are joining a team that has at least done some remote work prior. The hardest time is when the team has never worked remote and has the majority of people working in an office together and you are solo or maybe 1 of just a couple of remote engineers. The danger there is how much communication you miss out on in those cases, which leads to resentment and struggles.

But some quick points, just my opinion here are things I'd recommend.

1. Make sure you talk to the team daily, at least one or two people. Even if it isn't necessarily about some specific work issue, just reach out to talk so they feel your presence.

2. Make sure you have defined work that you can accomplish in short timeframes at first. This helps build trust with the team. They'll most likely want that at first too, but in case they give you a task that might take 2 weeks, make sure you are daily giving updates even if they don't ask you to. Updates can even be in the form of checking in code daily with good commit messages. This is helpful because even if your direct manager or team knows you are doing well, if the team dynamics change or your manager changes there is demonstrable evidence you are productive.

3. Setup a space for you to work at home. You need a defined workspace and you need to make sure anyone who lives with you respects that when you are there at your computer or whatever, you are working and not to be needlessly interrupted. I really can't express how important this becomes. I have a wife and 2 kids still in the house, I have a dedicated office and close my door when I need to. This is for both the family and myself, that way they can carry on with normal life and not worry about bothering me, but it also means I don't feel distracted or interrupted all day long which can build resentment. With the kids out of school right now cause of Covid-19 it definitely can add to a bit of the chaos but having the defined space helps.

4. Define reasonable work hours and do not keep working all the time. It is so easy to fall into over working simply because you think of a solution at 8pm and are like damn let me just try it out etc. I still do that sometimes but if I do I make sure I take that time back the next day or as soon as possible. Keep a schedule. I like to do something in the morning outside the house before I start working, just helps me get focused.

5. Over communicate, if you think you are communicating well, you aren't communicating enough. I personally have struggled at times with this myself, even recently.

6. Make sure you do some of the calls as video so that you get "face time" and you are not just some random voice on the other end of a phone call.

I've posted other notes on remote work a few times recently on HN, you can always check the prior posts because many people had good advice.
Could you expand on the reasoning behind your comments a bit more—specifically why this is bad for APIs?

I’m sure the OP and plenty of others would appreciate it.
also noteworthy, is that this wasn't just a 'marketing deal' per se but an "enterprise partnership"

The Mercedes F1 team runs its business on BB hardware and software.

"The Mercedes F1 Team uses more than 200 BlackBerrys including Blackberry Z10s, Q10s, Z30s and Passports. It's these along with BlackBerry Enterprise Sever 10 (BES10) which seem integral to the day-to-day running of the business."
Often in interviews Lee Kuan Yew was quick to point out that Asian cultures were inherently different to their Western counterparts, therefore what worked in one place would not necessarily work in the other.

As a thought exercise, I do sometimes wonder what would happen if gum was banned in New York City or London?
I've been funding my Paypal account through bank transfers for as long as I can remember now. It is not linked directly to my debit card/bank account. This makes it impossible for any credit card fraud to happen, or for me to lose any money if any of my online accounts are breached.

It also does not depend on me having a credit card. Which I do not, because I do not require one and having one would add a fee to my account.

The best solution is iDeal, but sadly that is a national thing.
By creatures I mean anything living. Bacteria, plant, animal, etc.

I think even regular GMO technology probably still is affected by radiation (cosmic radiation and sun) and breeding - I doubt every single grain of corn is genetically manufactured once you can just let it naturally breed.

Not to mention radiation is a great and cheap way to rid of some pests really fast, but tell that to any organic food lover and they'll get defensive.
Slap a fat QR code next to the license plate to donate bitcoins. The future is nigh! ;)
Because there seem to be some people that have seen similar projects: Is there like a website for such cool conversions of vehicles and other places into living spaces?
I'm white, not religious, had a car spray painted with maltese crosses and puerile jokes.

We stopped and chatted for a few minutes on the border from Russia to Kaz, and they let us go on their way. No in-depth search, no bribes, no nothing. Oh, and they take their border security seriously - they just don't do security theatre.
Just because popular hosting companies are not using Solaris zones, that does not mean there are not large Zones-based deployments elsewhere in the industry. Particularly, some major corporations (including banks and telcos) are using Zones in their production Solaris environments. These turn out to be particularly large deployments, with hundreds of machines in data centers across the US.

These users do not broadcast their use of Zones, but having worked with them, they certainly do exist.

*Used to work at Sun on a project related to Zones and ZFS.
The first-parameter convention only works for application errors and errors from libraries that also follow the convention. Everything else, including the JS runtime, throws exceptions whether we like it or not. So either you have to make sure that your code never triggers any of those—which is a pretty tall order—or put try/catches around everything, even if your own code doesn't throw any exceptions. That's more than a bit harder to manage—if you do it correctly, there are so many try-catch blocks that the rest of the code almost gets drowned out by them. In my observation, most people deal with this by sacrificing a certain amount of error safety in order to make the code more tractable.

It seems like the kind of problem that is better dealt with by a compiler.
There hasn't been any discussion on the git mailing list about setting up email subscriptions, as far as I have followed the conversation. The idea was only really floated a week or two ago, so the publication is really in its infancy, though similar things have been done before to an extent.

I think it is a great idea, just needs someone to put it together probably! I'll raise an issue about it if one doesn't already exist.
>I think Go is posed to become dominant over other new languages like Rust.

I agree that complete documentation, good stdlib, intuitive build/package system, and friendly community are part of a language's success. But how does Rust fail at those compared to go, considering it hasn't released 1.0 stable?
Battery life is in the writeup. Also you say the 2015 MBA is "way more" powerful. I don't see evidence of this anywhere especially since this Asus seems comparable to a 2014 Macbook Air. I wasn't even trying to "compare" this Asus to any Apple offerings, but rather just saying if you want a Windows machine with the portability of the new Macbook but without some of the compromises, this seems like a good choice.

Also my current laptop is a 2015 Macbook Pro so your anti-Apple bias argument is out of place too.
You wrote "influenced a lot of JavaScript standards people." Please name two.

You wrote "The same is actually happening to the unique features of Dart such as typing and SIMD and better modules." My reply: no, yes (thanks to bottom-up work by John McCutchan, not "Dart people" plural -- there you go again), and nope. Any types for ES7/2016 or beyond are likely to be based on TypeScript, Flow, and V8's SoundScript experiment, not on Dart. Modules in ES6 have no relation to Dart modules/packages.

Really, "exaggeration" doesn't being to capture the false overreach of your first comment, and walking back from it to vague "everything's influencing JS" isn't helping.

Apart from SIMD, Google by investing in Dart at cost to JS (recreated V8 team; replace-not-embrace strategy for ~5 years) missed out on uplifting ES6 to have bignums and other things that would materially aid correctness and performance of dart2js, which is now the only way forward for Dart in browsers.

I hate playing Cassandra, but the good news is that Troy didn't fall: JS prevailed, at some unnecessary cost, and as predicted. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982949 et seq.
Well that's a very simple problem to fix, the "-" operator still works, so you can exclude stackoverflow easily, or use the "site:" operator to force the result to come from apple.

You can even setup those parameters as custom search engines in Chrome so you don't have to repeat yourself every time.
Panorama and Casetext are both solid.
Is this separate from the line item about support (best effort / no SLA purchased)?

And if it's separate, in what sense does enterprise purchasing use "maintenance"? Software updates?
Retinal scans are out, iris scans are in. If I remember correctly, beyond the age of 5 the iris banding pattern remains the same. Retinal scans get tripped up by things like pregnancy and other health issues. I'd never use it for a password though, as there are commercial products that perform iris scans at a distance of several meters on non cooperative subjects. The first thing I thought of when I saw the product, sort of a virtual turnstile, was Snowcrash and the surreptitious collection of biometric information for eventual sale on the black market.
Exactly, there's no reason to keep the referer. But deprecation is necessary, so that the tons of websites that (wrongly) rely on the referer can adapt.
"Canvas" was already taken at the time these APIs were becoming popular.
That's a depreciating item, perhaps rapidly so, now that more and more users aren't people who were alive during the dotcom boom.
I already mentioned multiple above.
Verizon, as part of their ownership of Yahoo and AOL, controls a significant proportion of email inboxes. There is quite a lot of strategic value in that. They've been particularly bad, from my perspective, in terms of allowing our emails to get through, but I shudder at the thought of email being under 90% control by Google.
There is a ruling class, and there is an underclass. There used to be a middle class, but that has been squeezed out of existence. In the ruling class, typical income is above $1M. If there were still a middle class, it would be between there and $300K, but their number is demographically negligible.

It has been the great triumph of the effort to eliminate the middle class that an overwhelming majority of the underclass do not know they are; and firmly believe they are, as their grandparents were, middle-class. A mark of that success is that instead of resenting having been driven out of the middle class, people resent learning that they are not in it.
That settlement is still coming from one individual's budget within the company. Even though the settlement amount is not material for a company the size of Amazon, it will be material to that one employee, who may even be fired herself (e.g. if she is in HR), so the incentive structure of the individuals within the Amazon hive mind will still be impacted.
Oh, I wouldn’t start that downfall during Marissa Meyer’s reign of error.

Remember when Yahoo hired a CEO who lied about having a CS degree?

https://money.cnn.com/2012/05/13/technology/yahoo-ceo-out/in...
Thanks, delta encoding stumped me a bit because the relevant git documentation was a bit ambiguous.

Maybe I’ll implement this tonight.
It seems unnecessarily exposed to an event affecting Marco's home - fire, burglary, natural disaster etc. It would appear more prudent to back up to a cloud location. Either, as he mentions, S3, or a VPS somewhere.
curl -L -s --max-time 2 http://checkip.dyndns.org | egrep -o -m 1 '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' I<3 dyndns.org (nor iracional)
Objection. The kid may have improved specifically in his ability to score well on a specific standardized test, and in no other way. And meanwhile, the process that delivered that superficial improvement could have immeasurably harmed other students who might have otherwise genuinely excelled.
Street view is there in Maps on iOS. There is an icon that looks like a person on the details of any push pin or the current location pointer. Touch it, and you zoom into street view.
I'm always in favor of better standardized tests -- who isn't? -- but one handy thing about value-added modeling is that if you use the same flawed tests, you should get similar outcomes: if a kid is in the 10th percentile of his class when he starts his sophomore year and the 20th when he ends, as measured by similar tests, then he's progressed.
I like to see the street I'm walking down with an arrow pointing me where I need to go.

The iPhone can't do this at present because street view and walking directions are two separate things.