jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've seen good content on this blog before. This is so ridiculous, that combined with the fact that the author works for a competing consumer electronics company, I'd suggest deleting this post.

> they’re all killing themselves at the same place – at the Foxconn campus

There are dorms there. They'd really have to go out of their way to commit suicide somewhere else.

> Something deeper is happening that needs to be addressed.

The author doesn't know that something deeper is happening. He's just assuming it. And he conveniently ignored the part of the question where Jobs said that they're looking into it and have hired outside help. It is being addressed.
a wage laborer can choose an employer, but he cannot choose not to have one

This here is the underlying problem. The free, competitive market does not have barriers to exit.
Hadn't seen much posted about Rdio on HN yet. More invites for beta testers have been opened up today (I think) so I thought it would be an appropriate time to see some discussion from those that have used it.
I considered 80legs. The problem is that I don't want to do this for just one site. I may have dozens. I can run this off my own servers/bandwidth (which I already pay for) for much cheaper than using 80legs.

If 80legs was purely usage based and cheaper I probably would have used it.
Having just lived there for a couple years, I would argue that Ann Arbor has all the same issues as Austin: Strong nimbyism; general under-development of public infrastructure; a university that keeps the local government on a leash; absurd housing prices subsidized by student loans and tech workers; trademark 'hippie'/counterculture mentality that's increasingly marginalized; increasing presence of cookie-cutter chain establishments...
Whenever I get Windows-curious, the one thing holding me back is all the telemetry and privacy compromises I hear about on forums like HN. One thing I'd love to see in a "switch to Windows" list is a simple list of steps to harden the privacy characteristics of a fresh Windows 10 installation. I occasionally see automated solutions for this, but it's hard for me to judge the reliability and trustworthiness of such tools. A simple, clear list would be great.
"B Negative. Not just a blood group, a way of life."

-- Michael Leuning

https://cruciality.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/stone-age.jpg
Different snapping, at least to what I’m used to. The snapping Windows offers is half and full screen windows with a keypress (or dragging against a wall). Mac does offer something similar, but only for full screen/split-full-screen mode.
Don't use software that you don't control.
Is it like the 80s film with Kate capshaw
I remember studying this right near the beginning of freshman music theory in university. It's also at the beginning of a more than one basic music theory textbook.

We covered it more deeply (including, gasp, math) in a higher-level electronic music class.

It's probably true that many fine musicians won't think much about the mathematical side of music very often at all (practically speaking, this knowledge is not necessary to master an instrument), but certainly anyone who's gone through an academic music education will have covered it, quite possibly more than once.
Oh, you're right -- it has been ages since I've read about things like ABM intercept problems.

That does a great job of placing the accuracy problem in context: That's ~7 km/second, or perhaps a mile per eyeblink.
Because it was popular, especially in web-development-adjacent circles back then. And there weren’t many open-standard extensible general-purpose structured data formats. (There are a few more now, but still not that many.) JSON technically did exist (as a subset of JavaScript), but it wasn’t until Crockford named it that it became widely known.

And it’s not like XML has no good ideas in it either. You may disagree about the execution, but the idea of seamlessly mixing structured data defined by independent standards in a single document is pretty damn powerful.

Also, your example is rather strawman-ish: there is no point in using separate elements for individual coordinates, and anyone designing the format would know this. A more realistic example would have <path> contain an ordered sequence of <move-to x="..." y="..." /> and <line-to x="..." y="..." /> elements. (In fact, SVG already contains <line /> and <circle /> which use roughly this structure.)
Don't exclude the middle: they could be trying to get them filtered, and failing at doing so.

I can easily see a coworker having a "brilliant" idea about copyright mumbo jumbo and a bunch of people buying into it. People try things that don't work all the time.
Since this is HN I will point out that s-expressions are vastly superior:

(path (d (M 10 10) (H 90) (V 90) (H 10) (L 10 10)))
Yeah, stuff like this is why I only treat Ubuntu as a stepping stone.

I even tried to install Debian while I'm still not really used to Linux, but the graphics card immediately crapped itself on boot, so it will have to wait...
They have also defined SVG Tiny, which is basically SVG without CSS and scripting support. Which seems to be more or less what OP is calling for in the blog post. Why the need to reinvent the wheel? For once, we have massive industry-wide momentum behind a unified vector graphics format. It can be very hard to swim against that current.
Yes, see:

http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superh...
Because building your own square-shaped wheel is more fun than talking a walk over to your friendly neighborhood wheel store and buying a round one?
Facebook - Developer driven

Apple - Designer driven

Google - Data driven

Amazon - Testing driven

Zappos - Service driven

You could argue semantics on these, but it seems clear that they are all successful and yet all put the greatest focus in different areas.

Maybe the key is not that one emphasis is the best, but that it's important to have a priority and stick to it. It's the companies that let different groups with different priorities fight over things that are paralyzed.
me too! woot!
If I recall correctly, Embedly offered a patch to Reddit when Reddit open sourced everything that integrated Embedly.

I like this approach for their business model. Instead of pitching to companies about why they should use their service, they show them how they can be integrated.

Found the link: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-you...
mutt + imap + gmail = awesome.

There is just something about a simple plain text email interface with the power of an editor that makes life so much easier.
why avoiding c# kept you sane? It's an awesome language. Are you simply anti-msft?
If you're talking about why you don't do hash.update(salt) on every round, well it turns out that H(salt || H(H(H(H(H(H(password))))))) is just as strong as H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || H(salt || password))))))). So you don't add any security by doing that.

When working with cryptography, "why not also add" is really dangerous, because some times you get less secure systems after doing so. And other times you get no benefits from doing so.
People do dumb things. Even smart people. The journal entries by Ross almost seem affected to the point of contrivance though.. he wasn't communicating with anyone. Of course, it's likely they are his, but it still strikes me as very Hollywood-esque.
In hindsight, it is obvious that bicycle mechanics had a good chance because they succeeded and their design was more like a flying bicycle than a modern aircraft. However I am sure most other people thought it was only possible from groups with significant funding before the Wright brothers succeeded.

We don't know if a warp drive is practically possible, nor do we know how one would work. It may turn out that it is so easy that it can be done with a modest budget in a garage. To be clear, I am not saying this guy is on to something (probably isn't but I would be pleasantly surprised if he is). I simply object to the assumption that this type of discovery must come from a well-funded entity.
It's funny to look back on the cypherpunks list as kind of a fun cyber punk LARP and then a mere quarter century later, we really are living in a world where people live double lives as fugitives from privacy invading corporations, mass intelligence apparatus surveillance, political gangs infiltrating institutions, and navigate a domestic civil information war abetted by shadowy international forces, where even the tools we use to maintain some semblance of a private autonomy are suspected traps and honeypots, and there is an arms race on to defend civilization against drones and robots.

It's like we won't believe we live at the edge of a dystopia it until there are flying cars.
https://www.flippa.com is a marketplace for selling businesses/websites.
> If you watch TV at night, don't zoom ahead during the commercials with your DVR. Instead walk around or at least stand up during the show break.

Self-serving commercial advice from The Most Trusted Name In News.
Wow, that was ridiculously adjective laden writing. diabolic, dastardly, wicked.
Fun fact: depending where you are in Florida, you can shoot a wild boar on sight in a city during the day without a permit.

http://myfwc.com/conservation/you-conserve/assistnuisance-wi...

edit: grammar.
These projects have very different means and goals.
They also have very different governance, etc.

In any case, i'm still not sure what we are "considering" here.
It’s worth everyone knowing that there is a high proportion of neurodiverse people in our industry, relative to other industries and the general population.

The 2021 Stack Overflow Survey [0] puts ADHD at 8.51% (double the rate in the US [1]), and autism at 3.7% (about 1% globally [2]).

The point here is that, you all already work with people who have ADHD or are autistic. If your company isn’t doing right to retain us, your going to lose talent to those who do.

Small accommodations can go a very long way. Accomodations are personal, not everyone needs the same thing.

For example, I start my day at 10am. Easily managed accommodation, and now I get significantly better sleep. Everyone wins.

OP, I’d love to call out specific companies that are good at this, but I don’t really know.

[0] stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-demographics-m
[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/attention-deficit...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html
> Isn’t there a web designer out there who can create a better (yet simple) CSS for HN to use and donate it?

Lets hire the Reddit or (iirc) SlashDot designers for the re-design ;-)
> Web3 hasn't produced anything comparable

Yet; each of those companies burned through quite a bit of investment before they became profitable. You need to look at this space in ten years again. Web3 is just a marketing term that some people came up with in the last year or so. It takes longer than that for companies to become successful.

And BTW., that's your connection to the dot com bubble right there. That was web 1.0. This is web3. The tech is different. The investment behavior is the same level of idiocy.
I don't see how "More people have been to Russia than I have" can initially seem acceptable. I assume it's being parsed as something that makes sense, but what is that? "Many people have been to Russia, but I haven't" or what?
> That attitude among Haskell devs is one of the problems. The conviction that it is a fundamentally better way of programming and that anybody who chooses anything else for anything is a worse programmer certainly hampers its success.

This is not true in my experience; and I have been professionally writing Haskell for over a decade. It is well understood that Haskell is excellent for reasoning about program correctness, but rather poor for reasoning about program performance/efficiency, especially memory usage. What Haskell programmers might get frustrated about is less suitable tools used for domains for which Haskell would be an excellent fit (smart contracts?). There are many domains for which correctness and productivity are important, but performance/efficiency less so. Haskell is still much more performant than many dynamic languages are.

OCaml is a nice middle ground, lots of functional goodness and type safety with a much more predictable runtime.
I didn't use any tiling window manager so I don't really know what I'm missing. But I've come up with a system based on my own needs.

I use Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) and a few little Lua methods to do the following and it works perfectly:

- Resize windows

- Position windows around the screen

- Instantly jump between apps I frequently use (this is especially good, for example with option+1 I can focus on the browser, with option+2 I can focus on my text editor, no more cmd+tab)
i.e give me money and promotion.
FS2020 is CPU-bound at higher detail settings.

When FS2020 came out, I had an i9-9900K, 32 GB of RAM, and a GTX 1070. With the detail settings I run at (pretty high, and in 2560x1440), I was getting around 25 fps flying over NYC. The FPS display told me it was taking about 20 ms of CPU time per frame, meaning even with unlimited GPU power, I'd cap at 50 fps.

Sure enough, I upgraded to an RTX 3080, which has well over double the horsepower of my GTX 1070, and I only went to 40-45 fps flying over that same area with the same detail settings.

What kind of sucks about being CPU-bound is that it means nVidia's DLSS technology won't improve framerates at all. At best, they could create motion-smoothing to generate frames between rendered frames, similar to what a TV does, but doing so introduces latency, since the software needs to gather 2-3 frames (possibly more) to analyze for motion and generate intermediate frames. And of course, just like a TV, this could break down badly when the algorithm fails.
Good riddance , Netsuite is awful.
> (a) education, (b) buying a residence

Only up to some low limit. Netflix can deduct unlimited interest.
I do not care about details of US election laws. For what‘s worth, no, I do not believe communities should be able to inflate their voting population like that, but I have literally never heard of this topic ever being an issue anywhere else in the world. So that‘s like me asking „Do you think that it‘s fair that kids have free from school on carnival days“? You wouldn‘t care about this super-localized societal micro-issue either, assuming you‘re from the US and not Brazil.
Sell to corporations.
If they were all deployed, plus some similar retaliation, would that not lead to a global nuclear holocaust? Aside from just the initial destruction.
Not that I agree or disagree with you, but ISTM there are no literal feet on the moon for resources to be under, which removes much of the need for fighting. Why would a country go to war over the discovery of resources in one location when there is literally a whole moon remaining in which to find alternative sources for those resources?

I’m not a geologist but it just seems unlikely to me that the moons natural resources will be materially constrained in the next few hundred years.
IMO, settlements are a win for Amazon because no precedent gets set with a ruling.
That's Paradox the Publisher, not Paradox the Developer.
http://jeffrey.io/my-story.html

I intend to consolidate a lot of my writings at https://darklord.substack.com/
OK, but if "lower pay" is a main enticing tactic, don't be shocked when someone else in a cheaper locale makes them a "better" offer and they accept it.
It's astounding that merely noting that Charles Murray said something is enough to have the NY Times paint you as a racist.
I think most devs use rustup, not the distro supplied one.
>> is there any known promising projects besides libregpu?

I think the most useful thing right now would be a high quality version of the "easy" parts of a GPU. Basic scan out, possibly overlays, color space conversion, buffer handling. This would allow ANY open processor projects to have frame buffer graphics and run LLVMpipe for basic rendering and desktop compositing. This may be slow, but it is required for every open GPU project, while a SoC can live without the actual GPU for some applications.

IMHO, first thing first.
You can subscribe to the beta channel on the play store, too
A micromort shouldn’t be confused with a little death. They are very different.
I'm under the impression that campus police departments were mostly set up by late 1960's, and that is when they established their current ways of working.
Very cool! I love Madeon. How did you end up getting this gig?
https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/courses/COP4610/hoare.pdf
Delightful post!

I thought this was a link to Jacobin magazine, and asked myself: Can any good thing come out of Jacobin?

Probably not -- but this is something different.

Only thing - I would have named it "Embrace the Tedium!"
Personally I had grown out of that habit a semester or two before undergrad QM (though "Modern Physics" and "Experimental Physics" were another story...) but there were still some hangers on. Maybe 1-3 in a class of 20-25? Neither the norm nor unheard of. From that point on the statistics were probably about the same in grad school.
Also you disconnect email from other cloud services. So if you do something bad with your android app development you don't suddenly loose your email.

Or if you forgot to pay your apple card you don't loose access to the email etc.

I think diversification is valuable here.
You can bet they really don't care about that, they don't view the market that way. Wix is the Oracle of ... whatever you call the gnarly pile of garbage that their dev product is supposed to represent. They're pursuing technologically ignorant small businesses / organizations and intentionally seeking to trap them as much as possible (and you can bet they'll financially drain their captives in ever-worsening ways as time goes on).
https://soundcloud.com/privateeyenews/page-94-the-private-ey...

15 minutes in, Private Eye has been covering LTN's for a couple of years now
I think nowadays there are a lot of people that only built SPAs and never have used a framework such as Rails or Django, and that's a pity. They are missing a perfectly valid and productive way of shipping quality software.
Interesting, I thought it was just me who had to overcome negative connotations to subtraction and division. It is only in the last 15 years that I learned to treat all arithmetic neutrally.
Traditional jobs guarantee a wage for those 8 hours. Most on-demand services guarantee nothing. I'm glad DoorDash at least guarantees an hourly wage in some markets.
There should be a button you can press to make a librarian (or a recording of a librarian) say, "Shhhh!", and/or tut disapprovingly.
One thing we know about a picture is it is ONE tiny, tiny moment :) Literally one frame out of tens of thousands.

That is why you can grab a picture of almost anybody "seemingly" checking out another random person on the street ... when in fact all that happened in reality is natural movement of the head a few degrees.
I tried to run it in Firefox 4.0 and Chrome 10.0.648.204, but in both cases it returned an alert with the message, "This website requires WebGL. Try running Chrome 9+ or Firefox 4+".
Way too many ads! And like @flippyhead I feel the design is lacking.
Who doesn't get it?
just an FYI: I recorded this video as a compendium to a June 2009 cover story on YC. That article is here

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-start-up-guru-y-com...
Germany has (or had) a system where you could work 3 days and get paid for 3.5 days. The government chipped in the extra, I believe.

I think the idea was to encourage more part-time workers so the unemployment rate would drop. And for a couple intending to have a single member working, it would encourage both to work part-time instead.
The title is general, but your post question is extremely specific. You should change the title.
0% down is very rare in the US among total housing ownership. The average person is required to put down 15%-20%. Even during the bubble it represented a very small portion of all housing and lasted for only a few years.

Home equity is about 55-56% in the US for the entire housing market (owner occupied) and has continued to climb since the lows of the post bubble bust.
So if I understand the appeal of Haxe, it's basically a high level language that compiles down to other languages?
Neither! Chariot racing was a popular sport from Homeric Greece (≈01200 BCE, during the heyday of the military chariot itself) through to Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, and Byzantium until at least 00600 CE, for instance, and that's neither "purely ceremonial" nor "transportation". I think the closest modern analogy is horseback riding, which is done almost entirely for recreational and ceremonial purposes nowadays, but is a popular hobby among the wealthy and the rural.

But, unlike horseback riding, chariots were never a practical means of long-distance travel. They have no suspension, they have no seats, they have no cargo space, and they don't stay level. At any time period, if you're traveling all day in a chariot, it's because the chariot is in one place and you want it to be somewhere else, perhaps for a battle or a race. If you and the driver just wanted to get there yourselves, you'd just ride the horses and leave the chariot back home in the stable.
Hmmm no android option. But there is a pc option?
There's Knuth's TeX Book and METAFONT Book, and his Stanford GraphBase book. There's also his collection of papers, Literate Programming (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0937073806/ref=dbs_a_def_r...).

Knuth has an LP web page (https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html), but it looks like the examples are out of date.

Probably more useful is http://www.literateprogramming.com/; the CWEB Tool page has some examples and the PDF Articles page has ... articles.

Here's an intro from Knuth: http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf

And then there's Physically Based Rendering at http://www.pbr-book.org/.
The enjoyment of the piece is not scarce. The ownership of it is not. They use to be one in the same. Today, they are not.
You can "lobotomise" one with something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877363 which truly dumbs it down.

(The referred article seems to have disappeared, but the archive saves:
http://web.archive.org/web/20190511065920/http://redlightgre... )
My primary home is a campervan (Promaster 2500). I travel to places and then I rent a house or apartment for a few months to bring some stability to my life. Then I move onto the next place. It is lovely. I can't think of any other way to live.
I'm going to suggest a hypothetical. Let's ignore any personality test specifics just to generalize.

Ok, so I have a candidate for a position, who shows +5% to "conscientiousness". What does that mean, practically, for me as an employer? It means exactly nothing, because that trait is so vague as to be ... meaningless. (That's just the start of the problems with these tests.)

Even if it M-B (or whatever) is a repeatable effect it has no value as a predictor of performance of a single individual. In aggregate, maybe... (but also no, see the wiki).

It's just people playing Management Consultant extracting money from Management.
On a side note my ISP blocked Notion a few weeks ago and I could not figure out why it was "down".

Apparently Cox didn't like that the .so domain is used for Somalia and they were getting Somalian email scams so they blocked Notion for it too? Was a little frustrating to lose all the docs for the company for a while.