jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> so long as you can sell it and make money, you're providing value to the world as an entrepreneur

Totally! The only reason someone willfully gives you their hard earned money in exchange of something is because whatever this something is, they value it more than the cash.

> to me you're just a parasite maximizing profit by exploiting people's ignorance

Funny, because to me, people living off my tax money are the parasites! Getting something in exchange of nothing, just because they have a pulse and they're still breathing.

> Also holy fucking shit, you're condescending to someone for being "working class."

Well, yeah!! I mean, if you haven't made it yet, don't try to give me life lessons. Because all I can see is someone who's failed (or not succeeded yet), trying to pretend their principles are better than the cash I made - but then how comes their principles can't keep them fed and warm, while my cash does?

If it helps losers not feel too bad about their own failures, I can play along and pretend with them, but it shouldn't be taken too seriously, as that's giving very bad advice to the young and passionate people who browse HN.

That's where I draw the line: not giving wrong advice, the kind of advice you know that is wrong and won't lead to success, but is socially valued (social signaling, being politically correct and all that)

> Money can't buy class

I won't pretend to have any, as "class" is often a shorthand for being good at pretending to be what society wants you to be. I'm my own man, and I don't play nice with those who don't, and I don't care about their excuses of being born poor or whatever. No one is entitled to anything except opinions- and in my opinion, by not accepting reality as it is, you are condemning yourself to the working class.

But as long as you know it and it makes you happy, so be it! Who I am to suggest you live your life differently?
At that point why even show the masked emails at all? All you're doing is leaking people who use their own custom domains (e.g. XXXX@myname.com), and XXXX@gmail.com isn't going to help me know who that person is either.
So I guess the value would be to share the training parameters for GTP3, this is powerful tool/ model.. really hope will be used for better good.
This question reminds me of the excellent book STIFFED: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi. It's about work, what it is to be a man, how these things are changing and have changed, say in the 2nd half of 20th C. One of the most enlightening books I've read.

e.g. How many men in middle management (since 1960s or so, I guess) don't know what they are doing themselves, let alone can explain it to their kids. Boys not having a male role model, if they have no idea what their father does. etc
There is a very popular conception of slavery that is extremely ignorant of history and present reality which essentially implies slavery is something that white people invented to oppress darker skinned people. This popular myth also fails to acknowledge that there are more people living in slavery now than ever before in history.

I'm simply trying to dispel this naive, dangerously ignorant, ironically racist notion of slavery, so that people can hopefully have a greater understanding of human nature as a whole, and focus on fighting for people who are living in slavery right now, rather than just focusing on the legacy of slavery of 1 or 2 predominantly white nations from hundreds of years ago.
As an avid cyclist, I've noticed a couple of problems with bike accessories. First is looks. Folks have an idea of how a bike should look for a certain activity. Second is the huge variation in bike designs that make it hard to standardize attachments. A handlebar bag is likely to conflict with your controls, cables, light, and so forth.

Gone are the days when a single Wald basket would fit on any bike that wasn't a racing bike. And the bike was already ugly. And if the basket messed with your brakes, it didn't matter, because the brakes never really worked anyway.

For myself, I took a pair of worn out jeans, cut off one of the legs, sewed it into a bag, and attached it to my handlebar or saddele with a couple of old toe straps. Then again the whole bike was assembled from spare parts. ;-)
That's one way to view it, yes. And with unsound type systems, generally, that's the workflow. Your program is a proof that the interface can be implemented. The challenge is that sometimes the interface doesn't express much that's interesting and, with more sound type systems, your program might be correct but inexpressible.

> That's not a problem at all, as Python's type annotations and mypy clearly demonstrate

Gradual/Optional typing is a great way to solve the split needs, but I was making the argument for why people might not want to use static typing in python even though it's available.
You need to go very fast.
I was under the impression that the long-term effects of radiation and nuclear weapons weren't well known at the time of the Japanese surrender. If that's so, it is unlikely such concerns as you describe played much of a role.
But it's a mistake to assume that just because network signals are electrical, any electrician is automatically qualified to put a network together.

This can't be stressed enough, especially when running horizontal cabling through buildings. We've had issues in taking ownership of network infrastructure that was installed by "reliable" electricians.

Some advice: Make sure that you keep a decent bend radius on the connections and that you're able to sustain (near) peak transfer over the connection. Cable testers and certifiers add to the confidence that you've got a solid connection. Modern switches will also report on CRC errors and issues that come from physical layer problems.
I think the most important skill is learning how to gain access to zero-interest loans from the Federal Reserve.

This skill allows you to lend to your buddies who can purchase distressed businesses and properties for pennies on the dollar, which gives you and them the opportunity to make billions in profits while everybody else is suffering.

I’m still trying to learn how to do this; if anybody has any information about what’s required, please reply.
Be sure not discount stress and emotion.
Half-life 2: Episode 2
...and programming and dozens of other things.
this appears to be an aggregatr for .MIL based news
" The problem in most western democracies is, that it is nearly impossible to enforce a law that is not accepted by the people"

It's not a bug, its a feature.

Seriously, the very idea of democracy is to only have laws accepted by the people.

So if there is no acceptance, there should be no law. Unless it is accepted to have emergency authorian rule, like in this case.
> I work on Google Cloud and with the Descartes Labs folks, we’ve even been skiing together in Taos

Do you want a medal?
In Bavaria we have these rules already a few days. They are quite acceptable. It leaves options to go jogging alone, to go out with the kids and have a chat with the neighbors over the street. 1.5m is IMHO a bit too close, but it seems the recommendation.

However, I live a villagers life. Wuhan is a huge city with much less public space. So I argue, it is not only democratic vs. Non democratic society but also depends on the location dramatically.
I have a hard time believing that this particular time off of work is going to lead to reduced stress, don’t you?

The stress isn’t typically so much caused by working, it’s caused by being in financial distress. I’ve had a few years with virtually no income. I’ve had to work 80 hours a week to provide for my family. I’m not saying my personal experience is particularly valid or applicable to the general population, but instinctively the times of my greatest stress and anxiety haven’t been the times I’ve worked hardest if that also meant I had enough income to buy groceries and pay rent.

It’s the times when no matter how hard you work you still fear for your financial security and worry where the next month’s rent payment is coming from... I’m generally “immune” to even extraordinary levels of at-work stress, but financial stress by far has been the worst anxiety (bordering on panic) I’ve ever felt.
I feel for this guy, I get that the post comes off as narcissistic and myopic but it seems that he genuinely put a lot of effort into something with good intentions and came away disappointed. Something just leaves me profoundly sad after reading it, and I'm actually going to seek out a copy of the 'balance of power' book.
In reality, American strength came from protection of two oceans, peaceful neighboring countries, and a rich amount of natural resources. Oil, timber, gas, sun, wind. America has plenty.

There was also the massive boom that WW2 gave the American economy. While other countries were rebuilding their infrastructure, America was able to capture markets with the revved up manufacturing that was built during the war.
It’s a counterpoint to a narrative that is (was?) widespread among American commentators, that the US rollout is uncommonly terrible because the country can’t work together.
It's a tradeoff. You might want to encapsulate database access and deal with objects instead of relations in most of your stack, which leads to these inefficient access patterns. Usually it doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you are probably doing something harmful like querying in a loop, n+1 etc.
You are not getting it right: he specifically excludes himself from the category of genius. What he bemoans is the languishing of his ideas and posits that, despite the several interests in them and efforts to fulfill said interests, the timing may be wrong for them to be taken up.
I still occasionally come across Delphi in use today, and even new projects are started using it as the core technology. It definitely wouldn't be my choice but it is interesting to see how productive people can be with this even now.
This whole "DISRUPTION AT 8 O'CLOCK!" economy seems out of whack. Bombastic headlines, vacuous promises… it's been the optimal strategy in business and media for a while, but now infecting the sciences apparently.

I wonder how long honest players can survive in this climate. AI Winter, where are you?
It’s interesting to me that people assume it’s lobbying, and not the fact that Americans are the most anti-tax people on the planet, creating a strong constituency for making tax filing difficult to increase public visibility of tax rates.

In the 2020 election, pretty much every ballot measure to increase taxes failed, including in blue states like Illinois and Colorado.

Other countries have lobbying too. What they don’t have is a huge population that hates taxes with a passion.
I'd be curious to know how success/failure metrics look after a few days of users. How many actually reach success?

Edit: I passed, barely.
Is this going to lead to the Motorola ROKR of cars?
Ever mistyped and then edited an email address in outlook?? That kind of error can persist a long long time...
The other name I associate with hydrogen is Toyota, and I feel like most of the recent news from them has involved batteries. In fact I think I saw something about a next generation battery coming soon that's supposed to be a big advance. So I would assume they are at least not putting all their bets on hydrogen.

If you want to be carbon neutral, but quickly refuel, why hydrogen and not just synthetic hydrocarbons? What's the point of replacing all the infrastructure?
> make sure your data contains as many demographics as possible (not just race) from your actual patient population

By this you mean researchers should mirror their patient population as closely as possible (be it socioeconomic, gender, race etc) in whatever region they may operate in (which may not scale perfectly worldwide but will serve patients in that region well)?
> article [by @kelas is all about] how good he as at writing them

funny to see how this is still relevant.

i'm sorry to say, but anyone who read this ancient piece at least marginally past tl;dr would know that your conclusion can't be more false (must be due to my poor command of your language, sorry about that.)

i originally wrote this text in response to eponymous question on quora, which saw some unexpected gargantuan success with 100k+ views in the first year or something like that.

tj said "meow" under that quora answer, and disappeared for good - while i was left exposed to some really agitated tech bloggers who wanted an interview about how did i get so smart to figure out that the entire headless chicken called node community was just brutally duped.

no such interviews could be granted, but in wake of the story some people bothered to look for the clues in his gh activity - mostly frequency analysis of "his" commit logs in a galaxy of repos. this is why most tj's repos were promptly republished elsewhere after that.

bottomline: the article says that tj was a SCAM, so there's that.
It could work the opposite way: a firm might offer a long warranty to convince customers to purchase less inherently reliable automobiles. Sure it could be expensive six years from now, but in the meantime they're still in business.
There are rules for poll monitors. They have to follow specific rules and laws to participate. They cannot talk to workers. They can only ask questions to supervisors and inspectors only. They cannot be disruptive. I mean how would you like to be trying to count things and get interrupted by "poll monitors"?

That is what happened here. The GOP poll monitors kept on breaking the rules and acting like asses. And they were eventually kicked out, totally legally and according to the rules they signed up for. And the Democratic poll watchers clapped, which may be 'unseemly' but isn't proof of "elections irregularities".

The president, with the 1/4 billion he raised, the full support of the GOP and their allies and supporters _at every level of every government_ and with the backing of the federal government were unable to raise a lawsuit that could convince even judges appointed by Trump. If there was evidence of fraud that could sway the election they would have found it, period. They didn't, ergo it doesn't exist.

The reason people didn't have confidence in the most basic aspect of democracy is because they have been lied to endlessly. Without ANY knowledge of how the system works, they took these lies at their face value. Many things were done to assuage those concerns, and they dismissed the evidence out of hand.

For example, Georgia.... does paper ballots counted by optical tabulators. They did a by-hand recount. The hand-counted totals matched the machine tabulation. This totally rules out any computer or machine problems. But people STILL bring up the 'dominion changed the votes' lies.

And you are encouraging it with your irresponsible comment. You're feeding the lies, by encouraging a sense of 'uncertantity' when there is NOT uncertantity. The GOP Secretary of State in Georgia just presided over 2 elections which delivered major Democratic wins. Suggesting that he is 'on the take' just illustrates the sheer desperation of the losers of this election will take to cast any shadow of doubt on anyone if it comforts the sting of their loss, even as they know that their wild accusations will never have an end, and now resembles a literal witch hunt. When your cast of enemies has to grow to include the GOP leaders in the Senate, and the VP, both of who have endlessly protected Trump, then you really don't have reality on your side.
Agreed. Freedom of speech is very important to me, but I believe there's a big difference between an indivual speaking from their heart, and a corporation spewing nonsense.

Edit: To be clear, I don't think the solution is to silence an entity's publications. They do have the right to speak, but when they make unfounded accusations they shouldn't be surprised when they get sued to kindom come. We all have the right to speak, but the rest of us also have the right to defend ourselves and kick your fucking ass if you've misrepresented us with your speech in a public way, because that's libel.
"If he's as good as you are his telecommuting rates will be close to what yours are."

Sorry mate, but no. A developers rate factors in a number of things, including cost of living. A guy working from his home in Silicon Valley charges more than a guy sitting at home in Iowa or wherever (to make the same disposable income).

The guy in Iowa knows he can work for less, but still make more, in terms of disposable income. When it comes to foreign workers he can charge twice the going "local" rate and still cost way less than some guy living in the US.
Ever since Euclid listed (collected?) his axioms the march towards AI became inevitable. People don't realize how much AI "failures" have contriubted to computing, programming and society in general. Some examples include lisp, functional programming, garbage collection, object oriented programming and Walmart.
The advantage of physical presence with regards to job security is one of the points Chad Fowler makes in "My Job Went to India".

http://www.amazon.com/Job-Went-India-Pragmatic-Programmers/d...
Youngme Moon, in her book "Different", offers the idea that one should say Yes where others say No, and No where others say Yes to produce meaningful difference. Once you go this way, you iterate and improve on the ways you say Yes to accentuate the difference. There are similar suggestions in other recent books on differentiation (Moore's "Dealing with Darwin", for example)

Look at all the ways Clojure says Yes, where other lisps/languages have said no. Being a lisp, embracing the JVM, immutable by default and everywhere, first-class concurrent primitives -- clojure should probably say No if it compromises these core goals. It should say YES when it furthers these tenets.

I don't use it enough to really understand Yegge's gripes, but the best move for clojure is probably to make these things possible as libraries if it doesn't want to embrace it in the core, and iterate on the core so that it's the only possible choice when you are in the situation that requires it.
I couldn't agree more. I look at the multitude of apps that have been developed for facebook, and I can't help but think that the original facebook product that exploded like a virus was much different than what we see today. Remember the original facebook? Maybe you weren't in college and didn't have access. It was a much simpler model than what you see today.

I look at facebook and am sometimes overwhelmed by how cluttered it can be. I always thought facebook was a response to myspace, which had become a mess (in my opinion). I think facebook is going down that road--at which point do apps have a negative return on the user experience? Too many bells and whistles can cause a tool, site, application to loose its functionality.

If this begins to happen, facebook is likely going to cut off these unnecessary appendages, and I don't think they will face the same legal issues microsoft did. It may not be tomorrow or even in the next decade. But at some point, this is a very real threat.

If you're building something that you want to last, avoid dependence and take a hard look at what life lines your business depends on.

Final thought: remember why you used google over yahoo? It was the blank, white space. Simple. And it was better. Lead with a useful product and simple design, and the users will come.
Btw, how popular is Lips? Learning languages is fun, but can you get a job knowing only Lisp ?
It would only show the history of my iPad and not my iPhone. Neither backup is encrypted so I'm not sure why it was having a problem. It looks interesting, but it's hardly worth the sensationalism that it's currently receiving.
Because the numbers aren't the same.

In a given year, the number of taxi jobs is pretty much fixed. The number of Uber (or generally, non-regulated) drivers is not.
Not sure if intentional, but it reads rather like Glamorama.
Neat stuff. It's a sensor that measures actual evapotranspiration in the field, which is essentially how fast the leaves are losing water. This can be very useful in deciding how much irrigation is needed so that the plants are not unduly water stressed. The link to their website in the article turns out to be broken, but it leads to https://www.tuletechnologies.com/.

There were a number of interesting things in their FAQ that weren't mentioned in the article. The main one that jumped out is that contrary to the article, the cost is not $1500 per sensor, but is a $1500 per season subscription, with the use of the sensor being included. That's an interesting model. And I greatly admire that they are being so clear about pricing on their site.

Also from the FAQ:

How do we know it works?

We use a recent innovation in atmospheric science from the
University of California at Davis to measure Actual ET.
This innovation was validated against lysimetry and eddy
covariance. From a technical perspective, Tule uses the
Surface Renewal method to measure how much water vapor the
wind is carrying away from the field. If you’d like a more
in depth look at the technology, please let us know.

Yes, I'd like to know. Perhaps some details or links could be posted here?
Back in 2010? You mean this isn't still the case?
I get what they are doing, and I would probably handle it the same way, but I think it is perfectly ok for them to place some blame here as their downtime WAS because aws was down technically. I think they took it too far by taking 100% of the blame. I'm on heroku's side, I don't think it was fair to themselves to take 100% pf the blame.
I'd always thought [PDF] was a warning about a direct link to a PDF--some people don't like having PDFs download or open without warning.
For example "void glutDisplayFunc( void (func)(void) ):"

ffi.cdef[[
void glutDisplayFunc(void (func)(void));
]]

glut = ffi.load( "glut.dll/so/dylib/etc" )
glut.glutDisplayFunc( you_cant_put_lua_callback_function_here )

There are probably some ways using coroutines (as Mike explained), or later if luajit allows libffi to build the trampoline (but Mike said that right now luajit -> C -> luajit would not work for the same luajit context). But maybe a different context would work, and luajit can create different luajit context using itself through the FFI.

All this as altnernative to the natural lua "C" binding way described in the article.

Right now everything I'm doing is without any such binding. It's purely experimental right now.

I've also did some small port of the zile editor (lua version) to directly use curses (curses.dll) instead of bindings

github.com/malkia/luajit-zile

the curses.dll is not there yet.
Even if PSN didn't collect any financial information a breach of usernames and passwords is a big deal. As the Gawker hack has shown us, people tend to use the same usernames and passwords across many different websites. You can argue that this is the user's fault, but it doesn't matter. They'll still blame you when their bank account gets hacked.

In this case, though, there are indications that financial data was disclosed. PSN (just like Steam and XBox Live) collects financial data to allow for online game purchases. Disclosure of that information is quite a serious matter. Yeah, the "kids" playing might not care about their PSN account, but the parents who enter credit card information to buy their kids games sure will.

A poorly made argument does not automatically render the conclusion false.
From the comments: "It is discouraging for many large companies who have invested large sums of money in buying legislators to pass the laws they need to generate large profits to have these laws upended by some random judge.
It is easy enough to buy the executive and legislative branches of government but the judicial branch is more difficult. This looks like a creative way of bridging this gap and preserving profits."

Score one for those who viewing the state as a rent-seeking entity focused on dividing the spoils...