jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been saying these same points since the day I learned about bitcoin. It is the perfect fraud for today's entitled grifter society. And it does not matter if bitcoin is not a fraud at it's core - our significant population of grifters in our society will convert it into a scam for their own purposes regardless of anyone's desires.
In the UK, it varies. At large companies, "IT" is roughly analogous to the US usage — think "The IT Crowd", for example. Amongst the general populace, it varies. Those who work at large companies might draw a distinction, for many it simply means "works on computers doing stuff I don't understand". It has very derogatory connotations in general. I spent a lot of time trying to correct people and always referred to myself as a Developer or, occasionally, Software Engineer, never "someone who works in IT".
Have you seen how prolific copyright infringement is in china.

Compile cyberpunk, stick a couple of new assets and a new name on it and sell ot for $5. I guarantee it would sell
disk space: nothing appropriate.
This is the opposite of what I was hoping for from the title, because I'm working in kind of the opposite environment: everyone is trusted, we don't need strong isolation, but multiplexing processes onto hardware is tricky (and currently handled mainly through ansible which feels pretty hacky).

Is anyone doing orchestration without containers? I'm working on the JVM so we already have well-isolated single-file deployables, but orchestrating which of them get run on which server is still significantly tricky. I'd love to be able to use the orchestration part of something like Kubernetes without having to worry about all the extra complexity of docker/containers.
I think it is a culture/approach thing.

Where I am, you have a job with a pay band. As time goes by you pretty much automatically go up the pay bands unless you have done something drastically poor. Once you hit the top, that's pretty much it.

"Performance planning" is universally seen as mostly for show, so that HR can say they are implementing best practice. If we didn't have to do it we'd breathe a sigh of relief.

Different horses on different courses.
>> I could also make very similar arguments about the AZ vaccine, as a younger person.

>How would that look?

You really can't see the parallel? "There's data coming in that suggests the AZ vaccine is deadly to a small but significant population, so while we wait for more data, we're going to halt its use".

>Content of the statements does. Check them with your favorite evolutionary biologist or virologist.

The onus is on the person making the statements to back them up. What you've said on the subject sounds very reasonable, but I can't find anywhere else.

As for your linked article on the British variant B117:

"Dr. Julian Tang, honorary associate professor and clinical virologist at the University of Leicester, said in a statement that he is "still not yet very convinced by these results" from the study."

Because they can't yet control for winter conditions affecting health.
And? rb and splay tree, not particularly fast.

Normally you would use a btree, just when you need pointer and iterator stability you'd need these slower pointer chasing ones. This is not even documented.
> Most of the elisp code you run is largely static. It does change

And JavaScript programs almost never change after a website is loaded. That has nothing to do with whether the programs are compiled.

> you only have to recompile a few files. The elisp isn't being JITed, it's being compiled into shared objects which are cached aggressively

You do not need any files to compile Elisp code, and you do not have to save the bytecode anywhere.

> Completely different kettle of fish.

What exactly is your definition of JIT? I think you might be confusing "JIT" with dynamic recompilation.

> ECL compiles to c.

Ok, and what do you think happens to C?
He really lost me at "lesser languages like C"
Lisp is a fantastic language and I enjoy it. But to say that C is somehow lesser is dismissing the very thing required to implement lisp itself. And that's the sort of thing which causes people to dismiss lisp evangelists as fundamentalists.
Email me brian@vueanalytics.co !
I don't think that's a fair interpretation of what was meant by that quote. I think the point was that PHP has been used to great effect, regardless of what shortcoming it may have.
> Hack is a spinoff of PHP. So yeah,they basically use PHP.

That's like saying applications written in C++ are "basically C" or Groovy is "basically Java."
Any pointers on how this works SixSimga?
As far as I understood the article, a student organization made a big fuzz about the abortion debate, prompting the organizers to cancel it. The way I see it, no rights were denied in doing so, and both the students and the author are and were exercising their right to free speech.

Although I don't fully agree with the post you responded to, no one was not allowing someone to speak.
Thanks for all the cool stuff mjl! You've given us some really nice code on top of a really nice system.
Actually this very rarely happens.

I a DNS server on my router which has zone that routes all ad hosting & other wanted stuff to an IP which is then rejected by the firewall.

I also have a transparent proxy rewriting all web pages removing IFRAMEs - this does ocassionally break things, but it's extremely rare to find a site that actually has a use for them other than serving ads.
If an obese person lost their emotional attachment to food and stopped eating unconsciously, I'd be surprised if they didn't drop to a healthy weight.

There's much, much, much more to it than this.
The simpler explanation is that the cluster running all developer-related sites is down. It doesn't always have to be a conspiracy .
They have regulated religion as well. Only certain religions can use, say, peyote in ceremonies. If tonight I get a vision that mandates I must use this chemical with my followers, I don't qualify.

There are other exemptions too for religion, where they decide what a real religion is. I think, for instance, conscientious objectors needed to have an approved religion.

(There should be no freedom of religion explicitly; it just opens things up for abuse and silly interpretations. Freedom of speech, thought, assembly and so on should be more than enough to include religion.)
Intelligence agencies are basically drunks looking for their lost car keys under the street lamp, because that's where the light is.

"A bunch of useless wankers," I believe the British would say, if they cared enough to say anything.
Old style GDI+ apps that are incorrectly marked as being resolution aware even though they aren't is a bigger problem than programs not marking it at all. If it's not marked you get simple 2x scaling but if it's marked and not implemented properly anything can happen.

What is needed for this to work is a user setting to override the programs own preference. There is just too much legacy cruft that accidentally marked themselves as being resolution aware even if they're not. Or drop the old flag and create a new one called something like "really really resolution aware"
Re: OS X clipboard/pasteboard manager.

I've used ClipMenu [1] for years after using Jumpcut [2] as far back as 2003.

[1: http://www.clipmenu.com ]
[2: http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net ]
I'm using neither Eclipse, nor Studio for Android programming, but Emacs, believe it or not.

With Java Development Environment for Emacs, I even have that Eclipse-like (semi-)automatic import of Android packages, like TextView.

I wish I had the time to improve things like JDE's auto-import even more, but I've been too busy. Various people have blogged about their experiences developing Android in Emacs, they have some useful hints. I like it better than Studio and Eclipse myself, but people have different tastes.
There's only one appropriate response to this from browser vendors: add those sites with to the malicious site list so that they show the big "danger ahead" warning when you visit them.

This kind of social engineering approach to removing an extension is not significantly different from a browser exploit that achieves the same result.
Yeah, the set theory bit was kinda bull shit. It's really nothing like set theory other than the word "contains". And the "Mathematicians have seen that far" sounds like typical snake oil selling.
1+5+4=10 so that's not it.
if you meant 154x11=1694

1+6+9+4=20 so that's not it either.

By checking manually, it's 209.

19x11=209
2+0+9=11

The way you are doing doesn't seem correct even if what you said it's true, you aren't multiplying by 11.

I have no idea what the reasoning to prove the negative would be. I'd be interested to read it, if anyone knows.
The point of the story is not the actual problem that author had to solve, which we have been discussing (but again, its _hacker_ news, after all :-)), but basically to tell how interviewing experience, even at which you fail, prepare you for better.
NYC is a step-function of higher COL than just about anywhere else on the East Coast. Even compared Boston or DC. Taxes alone are high, around 6% total for New York State. Want to live in New York City? Great, that's an additional 3%. OK, so you don't want to live in New York City to avoid that 3%? Now you're looking at $600/month for your commute costs to spend 3 hours a day commuting.
Anyone know what a complete one of these lyres looks like?
podman indeed has many interesting features, but those features tend to have interesting bugs and limitations as well.
Because there's no point. A single server can push hundreds of Gbps of traffic already; using an ASIC would just make it less agile.
The one question I have is: what can I do here that I can not do with a messaging group?
> What about observability? Logging, monitoring, alerting? Security infrastructure, everything from setting up IAM with better security for both human and machine users, to vulnerability scanning, WAF, anti-DDoS, TLS certificates, DNS, edge caching/CDN...? Backups? Separate environments for development, staging, production, that stay consistent?

Stacktape does support 90% of these already.

> but it's not fully production ready

Yes, I agree it's not production ready for every use-case out there. But I truly believe it is for a majority of them.

I also believe that it's more production-ready than an average application that goes into production.

> Then you realize that you didn't actually solve your problem, you just made it harder, because the PaaS never exposes everything you actually need.

Stacktape is not exactly a "PaaS". Stacktape is a cloud development framework. It was designed to be flexible and extensible. Everything is "exposed" by default. It works on top of AWS Cloudformation. You can extend the CF template using native AWS Cloudformation, or override anything that Stacktape generates.

So basically, Stacktape gets you to production very fast, but isn't an obstacle when you need to scale and go "lower level".
Make it free for home/educational/personal use then, with liberal definitions of those terms, and keep on charging enterprises. Enterprise licensing is where the money is for a product like Office anyway, and those customers actually prefer having to pay for something over getting the same thing for free.

Meanwhile, all those people using the free version will be churning out lots of documents in Office file formats, adding to the value of having a copy of Office around. That in turn makes it more attractive to paying customers.
The Office Web Apps, as they were called before, have been free ever since they were released in 2009 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Web_Apps). They've just always been somewhat hidden inside Skydrive (which has also now been rebranded as Onedrive).

This is nothing new, per se, just a launcher page that lets you directly access each of the web apps instead of having to launch the apps from inside Skydrive's file explorer.
If SecureRandom was simply "pull bytes from urandom" on Linux and "pull bytes from CryptGenRandom" on Windows, I wouldn't care enough to argue. But it's not. It's not even "pull bytes from urandom" on Linux; depending on the specific details of your platform, it can be dramatically different than that.

I'm absolutely not recommending that people write their own version of SecureRandom; I'm advising the opposite. Avoid userspace CSPRNGs. Use the system CSPRNG.
There was no FDIC in 1849, so fair enough point. No deposits were insured. :)

But people generally didn't realize how problematic that was except in financial panics and runs on banks. To wit, there was a big panic in 1873, not long after these coins were ostensibly buried. But that was well after these coins were minted, which makes their near-mint, quasi-uncirculated condition a bit hard to reconcile. I suppose it's possible the burier had them in tin cans (or some other receptacle) for decades, and buried them in the 1870s.

At any rate, banks were around and thriving during the Gold Rush, and San Francisco was in many ways the most progressive financial hub in the US, rivaling NYC. To whatever extent someone had $27,000 in those days, he probably would have banked it. Unless he'd come into it very recently, or under suspicious circumstances, or had just withdrawn it prior to burying it. It's certainly possible this person was a bank robber, though the more likely explanation is an unbanked or bank-panicked individual.
"Old Man's War" by John Scalzi

"Hyperion" by Dan Simmons
The wholly owned subsidiary of Bell, yes.

It's looking more likely that the Yukon Government will run their own fiber from Whitehorse->Skagway to tap into the fiber backbone there, cutting out Northwestel.
Yes. This is why so many are fleeing California and the bay area. This and taxes were probably the 2 biggest motivations for me to move out of the SF bay area.
If we see inflation coming, it's complicated for value vs. growth. On one hand, value benefits because they are usually more debt-laden companies and the debt is debased more over the years, which is generally good for value.

On the other hand, if interest rates are the same (basically 0; dollar now is only better if you can immediately gain interest on it), then inflation isn't great for value because the growth companies have most of their dollars to be made in the future where it's inflation-adjusted.
I don't think it's that "Each race only looks out for their own kind" - but I think there's a lot of people that feel excluded and want someone of their own kind on boards to make sure that they aren't continually excluded.

I won't comment on what's fair (who am I but a drop?). But I think that's the viewpoint.
True, but that's a uniquely Bitcoin problem, and it's one of the many reasons Bitcoin is not fit for purpose.
I wonder how fast the debris it kicks up off ( and digs out of ) the asphalt will be moving.
While JSON is far from perfect it is a lingua franca; humans and computers all over the world are very familiar with it. I think this is one of reasons for the growing popularity of the glTF format for 3D models, which also has a binary variant.
Copyright laws have statutory damages.

Having friends over isn't public performance. Having a window open incidentally isn't public performance.
> I read a few books about writing skills

Mind sharing the titles?
What a terrible article.

tl;dr: I emailed some dude with the same name as a guy in the email. He replied that he didn't know what I was talking about.
Stallman is just anti-cloud and has been for a while. Here's one quote from a year and a half ago...

"Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's Web server, you're defenseless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software," he said.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10054253-92.html#ixzz18A8a3...

So really he'd never support anything that isn't local
Is there any way to do "JFK to SFO to ORD to JFK"?
It's been enabled on my basic google apps account for a couple of weeks.

Unfortunately, recipients see "sent by foo@example.com on behalf of bar@example.com" which doesn't look too professional when dealing with customers.
My take was he was saying to use these techniques exactly when the "facts are in his favor," or at least when he is pretty sure the other side is just bluffing. He does say, near the end, If you have clearly done someone wrong, then you deserve to pay for it. I’m not writing this to help assholes.
A bit strange though when comparing the pie chart with the other graphs.
I appreciate your warning. It seems worth keeping in mind.

Your "eat only before midnight diet" (which I've never heard of) is related to what I expected to read when I saw the title of the article. I thought this article was going to be about which twelve hours were the best for eating and staying slim.

I strongly suspect that if they followed up this "constrain all your meals to 12 of the 24 hour day and fast the other 12", with tests that compared results of different 12-hour segments, they would end up finding that eating during segments containing lots of daylight, such as 7am-7pm, would be superior to 12-hour segments with a lot of darkness, such as 4pm-4am.

I hope they do this followup, and if my folk-wisdom-derived speculation is correct, then "eat your last meal before X:00pm" wouldn't be a diet, per se, but a sensible constraint to include in any reasonable diet.
Presumably their "assertion or other action" could cover things like the patents stack exchange too? If they make one of those common terrible patents, and you point out prior art somewhere public like that, you'd seem to lose all these licenses.
I think a much better title would have been "Why We Shouldn't Force Women To Code". Some women have an aptitude, and do well, and that's terrific. An analogy is the number of men who're good at interpretive dance.

I won't get into the battle of whether physiological/neural differences matter, though I think there's something there. The fact is that despite plenty of encouragement, women tend not to like math, physical science, and computer science on average.

@gus_massa: Having 30% female math professors is great, but it still means 70% are male.
Makes me wonder if this might be put to more productive use. Like, convincing people that they don't habitually talk during movies thus making them stop?
From here: http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-day-in-the-life-of-...

> Musk splits his time between his two companies. He's at SpaceX's LA-based headquarters on Monday and Thursday, then he heads to Tesla (in the Bay Area) on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Friday he splits time between both. Tesla Design has offices in the same office park as SpaceX.

He lives in LA, so the schedule makes sense in that he flies LA -> SF Tuesday AM and then SF -> LA Thursday night.
"well, this term is basically zero, so we'll just remove it" and then she'd pull her hair in frustration, like "how can you just do that? how is it still valid?"

I've tried to teach friends with that hangup and found it difficult. Those people weren't good at math, though. I feel like with mathematicians, you should just be able to explain with limits.
The very first thing I thought to do when I saw the app was to widen my window (to 2000px or so) so that I wouldn't have to scroll to see all the available blocks.

But the block selector doesn't resize with the window. Please could you fix that?
Northeast USA, near Boston. CCC has the most amazing talks of any hacker conference I know of. Every year I watch about 24-48 hours of CCC videos. I would watch more, but I don't speak German. Actually, I'm still seeding all the English videos from last year over bittorrent. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=7688f1c3fdb544de90...
Being what, exactly?
Of course its inefficient. Thats the tradeoff.

I guess servers are terrible computers too because you can’t carry them in your pocket?

Or phones are terrible computers because they can only stay powered for a day or two?

Blockchain is horribly inefficient in almost every regard. But thats the trade off.
Why not use prefers-color-scheme [0]?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
its 7 degrees over the recommended upper limit per regulations. Linus Tech Tips highly recommends it, its not scalding hot and I wouldn't call it "Uncomfortably hot".

It gets toasty if you run long workloads.
> cannot turn into all-knowing teachers in a day, this is very difficult.

This is a key point, many parents simply can't teach material say 10 up because it's been 20-30 years since they did that material or they are not academically minded in the first place.

My partner and I have split it between us as much as we can, I take the math, science and history, she takes English and the other subjects - that mostly works but that's because I am as many of us on here are a geek.

I don't know that many of my friends would understand well enough to teach their kids.
Calligra is an old project made as part of the KDE desktop.
The original goal of KDE was to implement all applications used typically on a desktop computer to make an unified and user friendly desktop experience.
An office suite fits into this goal.
> So rather than compete in the job market based on your skill set and what value they bring to a company, you should instead focus on not starting a family and living as cheaply as possible in order to make yourself attractive to companies. I'm sure employers would love for you to center your life around making yourself as cheap to hire as possible, but from the point of view of the employee it sounds extremely unhealthy.

Maybe. I got into this market because i was able to apply at a much cheaper position, beating out other more skilled employees. I levered my lower pay to offset my lack of history in the market. Were there more skilled people applying? Definitely. Did they apply at a higher rate? Definitely.

Sure if you wanted to go to extremes you should live as cheaply as possible. But you could say that about anything. Instead, live how you want to live and expect to deal with that cost of living. You said it yourself, "skill set and what value they bring". What value you bring to a company is relative to what they pay you. If you cost $500k/y but your skillset is that of a junior engineer, do you honestly think your value is the same of a similar junior engineer working for $100k/y? Unlikely.

If you want to live in a city you are simply required to make more money than someone living in a rural environment. If i have a huge mortgage i can't work at walmart. I need to make more. These are all relative values based on COL, how much you spend, etc. This shouldn't be a controversial statement, in my view.

Mind you i'm very liberal. I believe in worker rights. But forcing everyone to be paid for insanely high COL SF rates seems bonkers. Absolute bonkers.
That’s not how it works, at all. This is dismissive of a number of facts:

- power dynamics in the workplace and culture (often those who raise these issues are punished not taken seriously and protected adequately)[0]

- when someone is reporting this kind of behavior their professional aspirations can and often are[1] hampered or damaged regardless of the outcome of any investigation. Backlash is common and frankly unacceptable

- Chris Sacca himself admitted to sexist behavior[2]

Given all this, I don’t think this is outlandish at all. In fact the odds of getting the correct eyes on a report of harassment is often so hard the only thing left often is whistleblower or public opinion to motivate something being done about and that is a sad untenable state of affairs

[0]: https://diginomica.com/how-can-companies-tackle-tech-sectors...

[1]: https://hbr.org/2020/05/why-sexual-harassment-programs-backf...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/03/chris-sacca-and-dave-mcclure...