jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That was not intentional.

My point is simply that there are plenty of room for news it's just that the news organizations most probably need to focus much more as they can't maintain the overhead of covering more and more at the pace news are moving today.

It's not a natural law that newspapers have to cover both local, domestic and international news. This did make sense when the news industry was very different, but insisting that reality somehow seem to conform to their needs is in my opinion absurd (I am not saying you said that)

In my opinion news are fundamentally gossip, until it's verified, written up and if it's found important analyzed further.

The access to the actual news (plane went down in Hudson) is almost ever present which means that you don't have to staff up around the world just to be sure to catch what is going on.

There are so many areas that newspapers still seem to insist on keeping that it makes it impossible for them to get lean enough to make proper profit. And let's not forget that so many much smaller news sites are eating into their profit.

I like you enjoy well written articles, geopolitics and in depth analysis, but we are not the norm.

To most people what is going on around the corner is more important than what's going on in Iraq or Philadelphia.

That doesn't mean there isn't room for serious journalism. Just that it has to change it's scope.

Just my five cents of course.
Even if he suffered a loss (i.e. if the appreciation in the home value was not enough to offset his accumulated outflow of principal and interest) it probably would not be as much as he would have lost by renting.

Your scenario assumes that (1) he could rent the same or an equivalent property for much less of cash outflow than buying and (2) he could have invested the difference in some other asset that had a much higher return than appreciation of the condo.

If the amount the rental amount is about the same amount as the mortage payments then you are almost certainly going to be worse off renting than buying under average market conditions.
I should think that locking it in a drawer or carrying it with you are much more convenient and secure. For one thing, it isn't obviously visible.
You should check out http://ontwik.com
Exactly right. We're based out of Australia so it's horribly annoying to see so many cool startups that don't provide service to us down here. The majority of voice/sms startups these days use either Twilio or Tropo (including us) so that severely limits the cost or even use of a service for Australians.
Also, there is a long, demonstrable history of Wall Street analysts being flat-out liars. They've been caught pumping garbage that their own firms bet against so many times, one wonders why anyone listens to them at all.

Larry Page knows what he's doing. Wall Street is the only giant sucking sound.
Merging can't be totally automated. Merging requires "intelligence" whatever that means.
I remember that thing. I'd forgotten about the HP iPod though! The only cross-branded product from that era still thats really left is the Nike+ though.
parleys.com has a decent amount of videos, focusing mainly on java.
This is a nice library, but I don't think it's newsworthy enough to be listed on HN. I hope we don't see another listing when the library hits version 0.5.1.
Availability and pricing of things like Twilio is pretty variable outside of the US. Last I checked Twilio wasn't going to work for most SMS down here in NZ for example. Not sure about voice.
I totally disagree with espeed's comment.

Setting up Linux teaches system administration skills. Useful, but nothing to do with programming. Learning Emacs is fantastic (I'm a huge fan), but again — nothing to do with programming. For that matter, writing a blog engine should not be someone's first exposure to programming. Frameworks and web development should be simply banned for people who haven't yet written a Fibonacci sequence generator. Please don't waste your time learning how to integrate other people's services and APIs. You aren't ready for this yet.

Don't think about tools, think about concepts. Learn about how programs flow. Learn about data structures, the basics of algorithms, and recursion. Understand how and why programs are structured the way they are. This stuff isn't hard, and won't take more than a few weeks to learn. Then you should look around at tools and at the kinds of problems you want to solve. In the meanwhile, you'll only slow yourself down if you try to run (e.g., figure out why web frameworks work the way they work) before you can walk (e.g., understand functions).
Is this really standard practice for measuring the SLA? The contracts I've seen for a couple small businesses are generally per billable period.

Which always made sense to me. I pay you for 99.5% uptime this month. If you don't achieve it, then I get a discount, as simple as that. If your availability is below that, I don't pay full price for the billable period and then reconcile at the end of the year.

Any links or general advice on this topic anyone has I'd be pretty interested on finding out if there's a general consensus of it being done differently?
> The numbers at this size appear insignificant. How would one (say an engineer) convince "the management" that the extra 0.0475% of availability is worth the investment/expense?

In businesses where physical goods are sold to customers, "the management" is generally very motivated to avoid stock-out situations in which sales are lost due to lack of inventory (even if it's only a very small percentage.) The reason for this is because they are concerned about the potential loss of customer goodwill. It seems that the same applies in this situation.
This, in turn, reminds me of a long-shot theory about how the universe works that I sometimes ponder.

I can't think of how many times someone has come to me with a computer problem, or I've gone to a vendor/support chat with a problem that hasn't worked dozens or hundreds of times. Then suddenly, with the guru there, whether it is me or someone else, suddenly the problem evaporates.

I've found myself wondering if this wasn't some illusion, but an actual artifact of the nature of the universe. Think about it: if noob's problems everywhere were actually the universe not letting their shit work, there would be no one to ever notice it; because when the expert comes in and fixes it, it is magic to the noob anyway, and the expert is 100% used to mundanes not having their stuff work for any given reason.
Would love tags/categories for startups (eg mobile) and the ability to follow tags
Both systems have a constant: massive government subsidies that distort the true supply, demand, and economic ROI for the good. There could not have been a housing bubble without Fannie and Freddie, the FHA, and the protected-by-regulation class of bond ratings agencies.

Similarly, there would not be an education bubble without federal loan guarantees -- certainly they have escalated cost of college, and most of the shady for-profit colleges thrive on student subsidies.
> Companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Rackspace use GPLv3 software routinely in their "commercial" settings.

True. But they don't use GPL libraries as part of their strategic code base, especially if that code base is then "distributed" to their clients.

I also use GPL software and I'm happy with it. Linux is a good example. But I can't put my main software application under the GPL.

Don't box me as a "GPL-hater", because I'm not. I'm just providing a viewpoint that library authors might not have considered.
It doesn't reduce the demand for high-end jobs, it might reduce the demand for the currently large variety of high-end jobs.

I agree with you, but I had to read that sentence three times to realize that.

I think what we agree on, is that a lot of white-collar jobs which often require higher education, are actually fairly easily automated.

A few white-collar jobs however would require strong AI to automate.

But perhaps we don't agree that the first one is "a lot" and the second relatively "few"?
Fair enough, but having something built in to Dropbox for people who value convenience wouldn't prevent anyone from using solutions like ecryptfs as well.
Is it a 4-day holiday in Norway too?! Opera Support Forums have been sketchy for hours and if they won't come back until Tuesday, I'm SOL with my Opera problems.
dude... that dude is 64?!?!?! he looks like he's 84. dude must of had a tough life.

while it sucks that he wants to restrict access, i can see where he is coming from if this was a private beach to begin with and the original owner allowed the public to use it. it also says in the article that the original owner would charge for parking so that strengthens his case.

can't hate on a dude from wanting to do with what is rightfully his.
WeWork is a prime example of why this is nothing like 1998. The street did not allow a hyper-inflated company to go public, they spoke, got the CEO fired, blocked the IPO, and are more or less dictating that they become "profitable" before any news of the having an IPO comes out...
> However one defines the working class, it has scarcely any political agency in the current system and no apparent means for acquiring any.

Revolutions don't happen when people feel that they have political agency in the status quo system. And if people don't have actual agency, the outlets which provide the illusion of agency eventually fail.
I've been writing Clojure lately but I'm a greybeard (literally) Vi/Vim user. vim-fireplace is nice but I can't help wonder if I'm losing something by not using Emacs. At the same time, Clojure is so wonderfully different from the other languages I know that I don't feel like I have the cycles to learn a new editor at the same time I'm learning a new language. Then again, maybe that's the best time to learn Emacs?
I believe that most HE algorithms (CKKS included) use some random noise, which means you cant infer equality. It's still "malleable", but not to the extent that you assert.
TBH, I think it's worse than it was with IE6. Targeting just IE was annoying, but, even so, 20 years ago, I could use BeOS as my primary desktop OS, and Net+ was a decent enough browser. Nowadays, the bar to successfully render a modern JavaScript-heavy website is so high that even Microsoft couldn't successfully maintain their own independent rendering engine, and is shifting over to Google's.

Anyone who has heard of the phrase "embrace, extend, extinguish" should be at least a little bit uncomfortable with this situation. For example, it implies that any potential alternative OS needs to be able to compile Chromium (or, as what can only be seen as a second-class substitute nowadays, Gecko) before it can really be viable. If you're the kind of person who likes a free, open and competitive software landscape, that's a looming threat.
CS teachers should check out the PRIMM model of teaching CS. Predictions is the first stage.

https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/cser/2017/09/01/primm-a-structured-a...
No, the article explains that Warren and Sanders are popular among exactly the professional class and that this is their natural electorate. Which it is.

Sanders’s left-wing challenge to Clinton found significant support among educated, relatively affluent voters, especially younger ones (similar to Obama’s). As one 2016 Vox headline put it, “Bernie Sand­ers’s base isn’t the working class. It’s young people.”32 Within any given age group, the article explained, higher-income voters were actually more likely to support Sanders.

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign more explicitly appeals to the professional class, both in form and content.
The creation of the Language Server Protocol has changed this kind of thing considerably. Any editor now is able to use goto definition, goto reference, rename, etc for a variety of languages (assuming they have a plugin LSP client). I've been using one in NeoVim for a while for JavaScript and it works pretty good.
Time to invest in a stick-on sliding webcam cover. Fortunately, terrorists would never think of such a thing.
I grew up on BBSes, USENET, email, LKML FFS! I really don't get people who make provably false claims that online culture doesn't work.
My criticism of k8s is it's an absolutely batshit level of complexity[0] that somehow still fails to provide extremely basic functionality out-of-the-box (unless paired with a whole cloud provider ecosystem, but then why not just skip k8s and use ECS???). I don't think k8s solves real problems most developers face, but it does keep all these folks[1] getting paid, so I can see why they'd advocate for it.

Nomad is vastly superior in every way except for mindshare; Elastic Beanstalk or Dokku is superior for most normal-people use cases.

[0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/

[1] https://landscape.cncf.io/
I believe that there's a strong bias, and women have to jump though it (as a man I feel strong sexual bias in my dating life, and do my best to accept it and jump through those hoops).

But exaggerations can lead to hating the other sex, which is always detrimental to the end result. The tips themselves were great, it's just important for the author to stay professional.
Eh, your post reminds me of this

https://xkcd.com/927/

If the points you brought up were simple, it is much more likely they would already be solved. The problem with these things listed is there is a massive amount of complexity in the edge cases.
My father (RIP) got his Masters degree in CS-EE from MIT in 1972, almost 50 years ago.
> - resumable tasks - I want to sit down and work, not sit down and figure out what to do

I've found this indeed helps me get back to productivity. But at the same time, if I know what exactly needs to be done, it would be hard for myself to stop until it's finished. And that's when multi-day coding binge happens, followed by a few days of fatigue and low productivity. Kind a of a catch-22 for me...I wonder if there's anyway to be moderate about it.
Really interested as to why its using Jest-like assertions rather than just Jest itself?

It is possible, for instance, to extend the runner with an extra set of matcher that are out there & available to Jest?
Once been using Dendron after a brief flirtation with logseq.

I take notes for personal reasons and at work.

I mingle TODO items with journal notes using a daily journal format. I log important events, daily trivia, and TODO items.

The key is that these lists be reviewed (easy with Dendron, just use a vs code search).

Calendar items go in Google calendar. I tried using a good old agenda book for that and other solutions but it is just easier and I have a nice phone app that creates alarms from calendar entries, so that's handy (AM Droid).
For me programming is more like a Mandelbrot set.
The fact is that we won't break the bonds of earth with NASA. Decades of bureaucracy and budget cutting has left them as little more than another government agency that exists solely to expand and maintain it's own budget. I'm 29 years old. So is the space shuttle program. It's completely unacceptable that we are taking 30 year old vehicles to space. Would you trust a 30 year old sedan on a cross country road trip? I wouldn't. And now, the program is being discontinued with nothing ready to replace it. We are going to have to rely on Russia until we can get our next rocket operational. If the men who created the Apollo program were told that one day we'd rely on the Russians for our space travel, they'd laugh you out of the room. Also, why haven't we been to the Moon in nearly 40 years? Is there nothing worth exploring left on the entire thing? Thank(insert deity here) that companies like Space X are taking up the slack. It's unfortunate that NASA has fallen so far, but it has.
The Neo4j release naming scheme is cute: <Swedish city> <Swedish noun>.

Kiruna = http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Stol = Chair
See the health supplement business for how well this regulatory approach has worked in practice.
These estimates are time spent *thinking* about programming. The average dev doesn't get to code a full 8 hours per day. On average from WakaTime data, devs spend only 1-2 hours per day actually typing code. With 261 working days per year, that would take 26 years to reach 10,000 hours.

For example, the total combined hours spent programming the wakatime.com website over the last 7 years was 4,035 hours.

10,000 hours assumes an 8 hour workday. For coding time like WakaTime measures (actual hands on keyboard time), the goal should be 2,000 hours.
I did do analytical "sample" work for a company that took me two weeks. They were thankful for the work but did not hire me. I published it on my website and they were not very amused.

Agilent is not great either. They interviewed me for 6 month and implemented some of my ideas. (In fact, I got the job, out of 500 applicants, but then they axed the job and hired nobody)
Pinkerton is the union-busting company of choice for Amazon. Amazon has its own very expansive security apparatus.
Do note that there is also plenty of pork/corruption in China. Massive amounts. We just understand the US pork/corruption better because we can read English-language news sources.
Coming from a household where only 1 parent had a college degree, growing up in a less affluent town within a highly affluent county, and being best friends with a member of a much more well-to-do town/family has given me some interesting opportunities to see these effects at work.

First and foremost, I don't understand the paragraph decrying successful people pairing off and breeding, we should be happy that there's some form of survival of the fittest still impacting the breeding of homo-sapiens.

Having said that, I don't think the success of well-to-do kids is about smarts; intelligence can truly be found across the board. The well-to-do kids understand early on the stakes of the game and they have the opportunity to learn the industries and occupations that afford a better lifestyle. They mostly gain these insights because they see their parent's careers and the careers of their parent's friends and have a chance to understand where the more lucrative opportunities are.

When I spoke with peers from my own town, most had no clue what they wanted to do and many were seeking out occupations with low ceilings (social work, teaching, etc). When I spoke to peers from my friend's town, most knew they wanted to get into sales or engineering or law or medicine. I think this is ultimately the biggest difference between upper and lower class upbringings and I'm still waiting for a concise study along these exact parameters.
In Indiana, a lot people said "sweeper" and they "sweeped" the room with it.
Right and it seems unlikely that either license change happened with consent from all contributors up to that point, so as the project doesn't have a CLA and the copyright of the individual contributions remains with their original author, those relicensing weren't legal.
Twitter is totally optional.

I’ve quit multiple times, for years at a time.

Returning is always completely jarring - like learning a language that’s 100% slang.

Nobody cares if you’re not there and you’re not going to be quizzed about it later.

The first time I quit, it was a year before even 1 of my followers even reached out to say, “hey haven’t seen you on Twitter in a while, let’s grab a beer”.
It's not even "will" at this point. That's exactly what's already happening. Various providers are already artificially restricting the capacity available to traffic from services like Netflix or YouTube. Meanwhile the company's own streaming video services are extremely fast, of course.
Our government has always been plutocratic.

> The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.

-- James Madison, the architect of our Constitution
To take the other side of that argument, as someone who has seen hundreds of resumes and interviewed hundreds of developers in the past, you do have a challenge in front of you to overcome the "never had a real coding job" stigma. Focus on your strengths when selling yourself (like, being a totally awesome rock star developer who can tackle any challenge).

The stigma is real and you can't fight it on those terms. But you've got other qualities that people want, and you can "win" those interviews if you can get that point across. Make your resume scream "rock star coder".
Great link, thank you for sharing. This is pretty much what I was looking for.
> Our Expansion Card system makes adapters a thing of the past, letting you choose exactly the ports you want and which side of the notebook you want them on

PC Card, is that you? Long time no see.
How does a law that limits the government ruin America? Or specifically, how does a law limiting the use of surveillance footage by police ruin America? Why would it require a constitutional amendment? I honestly don't understand your reaction.

To be clear, I am only talking about laws that limit the gov't.
Initiating an SSH connection takes 300ms on my LAN.

If it's taking you several seconds then you probably have a reverse DNS problem. (By default, the SSH server looks up the reverse DNS of the client when it connects.)
See my comment above, this sets the body { font-size 1px; }, and that's what Firefox is using to determine how fast to scroll.
Just look up the syntax for extending classes for the preprocessor of your choice. This is such an important part of the preprocessors that it'll usually be on the landing page for the documentation (sometimes above the fold).

I'd recommend SCSS if you're just getting started.
"...happened to be at the right place at the right time and was good enough."

Sounds like almost every successful startup, too.

Starting out as just "good enough" is fine. Improvements will happen over time. It is short-sighted to look at where we are today and believe it to be the end of the story.
There is no such thing as an "anonymous closure". There are only anonymous functions which may or may not create a closure. Early LISPs either had no way of creating closures, or did so through some sort of function or other mechanism. It wasn't until Scheme came around that lexical closures really became a thing in Lisp world.

Perl and PHP both have closures. In fact, Perl is closer to Scheme/Lisp than most languages (at least Perl doesn't screw up scoping like JavaScript, replace first-class functions with second-class-bastardizations like Ruby, or do whatever Python thinks it's doing with lambda... ugh)
Free people not being able to match the pace of people desperately trying to free themselves from wage slavery doesn't strike me as a great justification of wage slavery.

Not that I agree with the premise that capitalism is what drives people to produce things to begin with.