jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And it's responsive!! Awesome. Reading HN on mobile has always been a pain.
>While Github is receiving a fair percentage of Baidu's traffic, though...

Yeah that's my thinking on it. They're being handed traffic, or more correctly having it thrown at them maliciously, which they could in turn redirect back at some point in the Chinese infrastructure.
This is a false dichotomy. Bill Gates made his fortune and then retired before becoming a philantropist. Steve Jobs was still hard at work on building his company until a few months before he died. Who knows what he would have done if he had been able to live long enough to have a retirement.
To be fair, hash-tags are used to categorize and group content on social media. HN does not implement this functionality. Essentially, the '#' serves no purpose on HN. Therefore, it is easy to see why people get bothered by it.
pilot consciousness issues

What a marvelously tame way of describing such a thing.
We are all very aware of it, but it's not easy to get out of it if the people that pay you measure you based on those metrics.
Open access is partially solving the problem though and imposing open access to all publicly funded research seems to me a good compromise.
How do you stop sanctions if you already follow the demands put in front of you? The reason the world isn't on the US side against Iran wholly as it were in the beginning of the sanctions is that Iran did live up to the demands.... and then the demands were changed. The US broke the deal, not the Iranians.
I've thought about this in terms of heroes and helpers, how we often have a hero worship problem in society and jobs, and how it's usually better to try instead to be a helper rather than a hero.
I highly doubt it. Microsoft embraced Linux because they knew Windows couldn't compete in the developer OS space. MacOS on the other hand is built on Unix and is already a very popular OS for developers.
Have we ever been in "charted" economic waters?
There's a lot of bad reporting happening in Los Angeles.

There were a lot of headlines recently about "0% ICU capacity", which led most readers to think there are no ICU beds when there have been about ~50 since mid-December.[1].

The issue is the County Health department set a target of keeping COVID cases to under 30% of an ICU, so when when it exceeds 30%, for each point above 30% they deduct 0.5% from capacity.

I'm not a doctor, so that could very well be an appropriate way to do it, but when it comes to newspapers communicating with the general public, it misinforms people. (And I'm really worried about when we do hit 0 ICU beds -- as we probably will -- that people will be confused and/or lose trust.)

[1] http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhs/1070348_DHSCOVID-19Das...
The idea that the alternative to copyright means artists working for free is an ideological conflation not even the wealthiest, most cynical person on earth could have dreamt up.
I'm curious why this hasn't been competed away. Short-term rates in Denmark are -0.6%. Couldn't banks just borrow short, write mortgages at 0% and pocket 60 basis points?

It's a little screwy, because you're getting paid the lenders instead of the borrowers. But it's still fundamentally no different than a bank that borrows at 2.5% and writes mortgages at 3% APR.
Nowhere do they talk about an operating system for the body. Nowhere on the page is your "not a vaccine" quote. The page is clear what they mean (even though it's marketing language): A common pattern of delivery system (="OS") that can be used for different mRNA sequences (=apps) for different vaccines. Which has always been a clear promise of RNA vaccines: being able to, compared to other methods, quickly design and make new vaccines when they become needed.
I definitely understand what you are saying. But I would rather compare families of 4 since that is close to the norm today. Houses are bigger, real estate is more expensive, shopping is not often walkable (in suburbia/rural areas). So for the stay at home parent they are stuck if you only have 1 car. This isn't very good for when the kids need to visit a doctor or the homemaker needs to shop for groceries, etc. We live in a much faster paced world. How many people come home from work today and put on slippers and a sweater. Then eat their dinner and read the paper or watch the news? The Norman Rockwell version of American life has mostly disappeared. The Joneses are fast, keeping up takes lots of time and money.
The newly wealthy are pretty fascinating. The closest i can think of in the US that would relate to them are professional athletes.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-arcadia-i...

I would suspect in the near future (5-10) years there will be lots of "Antoine Walker" stories coming out of china. The one way to easily go through all your money and have nothing to show for it is to live like a rockstar in the US.
They had 17 months, and their Twitter account was still posting at 9pm this evening.

If they gave two shits about our data (and it might include mine, it definitely includes my mum's), or if they were capable of a sensible helpful coherent response, they'd have done it 16.5 months ago.
Agreed, but, arguably, it is not the app which would trap you, but the file format.

If a static site generator took as input, say, a collection of markdown files, with maybe some metadata in the filenames and directory structure, along with a single plaintext configuration file, it would be easy to move between different solutions, so it would be less configurable, than, say Jekyll, but easier to move to something else. I do not know if such a thing exists at the moment, but would be interested if someone does.
You could sell the MacBook and build a decent raspberrypi cluster with the money you make on it.
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this is better:

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follow along..
“Customer” is the small business that actually pays them revenue. So not true.
YAML is horrible, regardless of how its used ( unless for a flat <10 line configuration):

https://noyaml.com/
an existential threat to their business model

Nothing existential about it at all. It's an actual threat to Facebook's business model. And I'm OK with that.
My guess: given your set of data and browser history, to contact south american women is their best way to keep you engaged.

It could also be _you_ are the target for keep these ladies engaged. Who knows how many creepy psychological-mechanisms are behind their algorithms.
"We want to keep tracking the user without their knowledge and that entity is not allowing us - and its bad for us if we can't do it".

This is most stupidest hill to die on for a business. I am continuously amazed at how shortsighted Zuckerbeg is.
I've got a video here demonstrating seven different programming languages on a CP/M machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGWshrMZcCc
Not Facebook so what's your point?
The enemy of my enemy isnt my friend, but I might smile as they land a good punch.
Isn't one of the theories why there is more flu in winter than in summer that people spend more time indoors?
I use mine to run the CI/CD for my projects. I used minikube to setup a qemu-based k8s cluster.
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The public/private was...

If you want to influence people, attacking them in public isn't the best way to go about it. Do it privately, discuss your concerns etc etc. If you just go for the public 'you are doing it wrong' approach, you breed resentment & distrust. OTOH, a good rant in public sure can make you feel good even if it probably isn't going to sway your target to your side. Then again, that wasn't really the reason it was done, was it?

Or put another way... if you are going to rant, rant. Don't pretend like your public ranting at someone is an attempt to get them to agree with you. It is about making yourself feel better. If you need/want to convince someone to join your side of an argument, quiet diplomacy is going to be far more effective.
Here ya go mate, in one page:

http://tinyurl.com/hashcula

hashify allows style tags :-)
Same as iPod/iPhone/iPad/Facebook/Twitter/email killer. You can call yourself the iPad killer after you've killed the iPad.
I do agree. I reckon put forward the best job offer you can as the first offer.
Yes, another tidbit, UK barely avoided getting a German monarch by 2 years. Otherwise they may have ended with a Prussian on the throne
Can this be used to perform a high speed recovery from a pg_dump?
It's a nice idea, but far from the only implementation. sslh is nice as it doesn't need go, and is packaged for most distros: http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml
We are exploring this avenue with our Junior Software Engineer position and have had success in the past hiring less experienced but sharp and quick study engineers.

https://food52.com/jobs

I think the key is to keep a balance of experience within the team so there is mentorship available and to have clear expectations on both sides on ability, how fast one might learn, and the relationship to that and salary. Roughly speaking, if a junior engineer is willing to start at 60% the salary of an experienced engineer but grow by 10-20% a year, it works.
What you say is completely true. I say they will use that information to serve me ads and content that might be of interest to me. You say they will use it to control me? Explain this further, as I don't understand it.

Are we at a wall where, on my side I see advertising as some times beneficial (and some times not), and on your side you see advertising as a method of control through mind manipulation? Or are you talking about control through some other methods? Please explain more, it's intriguing to me.
Slightly off-topic, but not much: why don't smaller companies look into H1Bs? Despite me running a job-search site and being reasonably informed about the market, I can't do any dog-fooding. I can't apply for any of the listings unless it is some really big company.

Quite often, the reason I'm given is something along the lines of "the company is not big enough to bear the costs of sponsoring a H1B". I'm almost sure that $12k would be enough to cover all legal expenses of going through the visa sponsoring process, and it would benefit everyone in the battle for talent.
[Edit] I was repeating myself. See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463284
I might disagree with that. Back in India you won't find that many Mac users, many of the developers have Windows (even on their personal laptops).
May be this is because of high price, and may be because of easy availability of Pirated Windows.
I guess you never heard about the baby formula issues from a few years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
Use public key cryptography to encrypt a symmetric encryption key. Only those who the symmetric key is encrypted to can decrypt it, and in turn use it to decrypt the content. All existing infrastructure (ie, WoT) for distributing public keys can be used.

This is the scheme I am using in git-annex's encryption. It allows a git repository to treat Amazon S3 as an encrypted git remote on which large files can be stored, rather than checking them into git directly.
Forwarded to my wife, who gets far too many headaches. Interesting concept, good luck.
I agree, but what you're saying is that teaching teaching is hard. And I think it is, for reasons I brought up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2360570
Totally. It works the same way: it's gotta be behind a pointer. Arc<str> would be a signature for a threadsafe interned string, for example.

use std::sync::Arc;

fn foobar(s: &str) -> Arc<str> {
Arc::from(s.to_string())
}

You almost always can only create these sorts of values by casting.
Seconded. I dislike a forced-subscription model, but I'm definitely onboard with this type of hybrid model.

Often times I go between jobs where a particular piece of software is no longer relevant to me, such as perhaps DataGrip from JetBrains. I occasionally have use for it again, but in general I'm no longer interacting with a rdbms anymore in my current role.

Thanks to the hybrid subscription model, I can stop paying for the tool but keep my last 'lifetime' version as long as I care to use it. And if I pick up a job in the future that makes heavy use of it, I can re-evaluate whether it's worth subscribing for another term to get updates.

In the same vain, I have an active sub for PyCharm (also from JetBrains) because as a Python dev, it makes a lot of sense for me to keep up with the new features as they continue to provide increasing value.
To their credit, they are explicit (in a footnote I believe) about equating Sun and Oracle.
> Income taxes shouldn’t exist in my opinion. The government can already tax consumption. Why do they need to bilk citizens out of both ends?

If you tax ONLY consumption, taxes will simply be passed on to the last mile which is consumers.
Might be difficult but will have a look
Yeah, and stop bombing the middle east, and close down some of the 800 (formal) military bases we have around the world. How about the Pentagon takes a 38% (450 bil) budget cut? Which isn't that drastic, it only takes us back a similar Pentagon Budget from 1997.
Wouldn't a hydrophobic surface attract oils?

(maybe that's only the case for chemical hydrophobicity rather than structural)
Pretty nihilistic argument as the same is true for everything else mentioned on HN.
> It will take some time, until facts like these about German history will be more wildly known, for example the liberal time of the 1920s.

Back when life was a cabaret?

> The NS era is just such a huge part of history lessons in school, militarism and just pure evil is by far the dominating notion of a German thinking about history.

When a whole generation still living had to stop one of the clearest Moral Lessons ever to grace the page of history, it takes a while to rebuild a more nuanced view. Granted.

However, it wasn't just that. The end of WWII is Year Zero for a lot of what we're still living with, from the Cold War to modern computing technology to the roads we in America drive on, because it was so destructive it erased the previous world in a way few things had.

> With the Euro crisis Germany finally stopped behaving like an awkward giant Switzerland and took some responsibility in the world again.

And isn't it interesting that when Europe begins to get unified, Germany is right there leading the way.
Competing with MS Office... The business acumen in dropbox seem like an all-time high.
May I recommend iron or copper pans? No sticking, can be used for your whole life. This new structure still looks nice.
Oh I read it.

Ireland's was the first colony, it's a matter of record and to this day protestant settlers descendants inhabit the north of the country. [1]

India's transition was not peaceful.

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the first colony
Yes. BASIC also had an awesome help system, where an eight year old could learn how to draw things on the screen without any teacher, even if they barely spoke English.
My priority list would be:
beanbags,
large flat tables that allows for pair programming,
non distracting but ever present ambient music,
easy to reach power outlets, good wifi signal,
cool art and space decorations(hey you are at 798 after all =)

p.s
I just moved to Beijing this year, is running my own start up out of an incubator on the west side, and loves 798. So pretty excited to read about this!
The difference between issuing passports and building a large-scale hospital is that only in the latter case is a large amount of money risked. It would be tricky to find a source of funding for a hospital that may not be able to operate due to a dispute over health law applicability.

From the perspective of anyone considering funding such a hospital, better to just locate in a nearby country, such as the hospital mentioned in the article that is being built in the Cayman Islands.
While your concerns have merit, the overall picture is not nearly so bleak.

Yes, the stdlib docs need some love. I've tried assorted approaches to rousing interest, and now consider it a dead end. A handful of people have done a terrific job in improving what was a once worse situation, and everyone who uses Ruby should be grateful to them, but there's much more to be done.

Still, you can get often excellent help on ruby-talk or #ruby-lang on freenode.

I feel your pain about available info being Rails-centric; I don't know what the answer there is. Careful Googling perhaps. " -Rails" is your friend.

I like having multiple libraries for things. I ask around, get some advice, maybe try some out, and life is good. Really, it's not a big deal.

And Drb is really sweet, and fun to play with.

"I think Ruby is a really neat language but the Ruby community needs to stop confusing people who want to try it out."

Actually, it's various individuals expressing their own opinions. Take it all with a grain of salt.

BTW, if you decide to dig fully into Ruby and have questions, feel free to drop me an E-mail. My addy is in my HN profile.
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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

- Edwin Land

http://startupquote.com/post/1687346049
Some more links on Bill Browder:

Bill Browder at Stanford GSB (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84MsRuC-1l8

An investment gets trapped in Kremlin’s vise (2008)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/world/europe/24kremlin.htm

The savage irony of William Browder (2007)
http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2007/06/the_savage_irony_of_w...

Bill Browder's Russian Odyssey (2006)
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0611/feature_browd...
Your IP is in more danger when sending your designs to China for cheap fab, but is safer when going with more expensive local options (PCBTrain, for example).

It's all about trust.
This is why the whole debate is whether being forced to reveal a piece of information in your mind (aka the pass phrase) is testimonial in nature. Yes, the court may well be able to demand the evidence, but they cannot require you to testify against yourself.
No one asked for constant nag screens.

edit: HN won't let me make any more replies.

I don't know why people are fine with someone accusing me of entitlement with no basis, while me calling them out on it with a level of civility they did not deserve is out of bounds.

I don't understand this place. This is ridiculous.
It looks great nonetheless.
It's not about runtime performance. It's about how well you can actually assess your code by matching small and well-defined inputs to small and well-defined outputs.

LeetCode / CS101 problems are almost always like that. In the real world, it's also useful to separate out any tricky "policy" logic into nicely testable pure functions. But you are still going to have a bunch of side-effect munging left over, and unit testing is terrible at that. Tests that only assess their own mocks are a waste of time.
Have you had luck winning any referrals into the companies? Often that is the best way to find work, unless you are in a location where your network is limited.

If you are someone who is not good at networking and hence finding referrals is hard, there perhaps other things you can look at.

After spending about 9 years working for myself, I decided to go back to work for others. I was in a completely new country, and hence zero network. Strategy I used was just find 5 employers and figure out what exactly they are looking for. Be very knowledgeable about their culture, tech, people, and work. Having (some) sales background was quite useful, as doing research on prospects was a known quantity.

I used a copy writer to help me write my resume and 5 different cover letters which target these companies. All of them were a great match for me. Out of 5, I was able to get technical tasks for 5. Successfully complete it for 4.[1] Land interviews, pair programming sessions with all. I rejected two companies, and got offers from other 2.

If you are dealing with external recruiters, remember it is in their best interest for you to land the job. So ask them lot of questions on what to expect in the interviews. See if they can connect you with someone who has gone through the interview process or better yet is hired by the company.

If internal interviewer, then you can still ask lot of question. Specific questions like which skills do you expect me to demonstrate during the process? Is there any specific background reading about the interview process you can point me to?

Glassdoor also often has lot of interesting information on interview questions and process at large companies.

And do not worry about rejections. I know it feels really bad, but sometimes you have to see that they are rejecting you because you are not a match for them. And hence they are not a match for you. Creator of homebrew was rejected by google in a technical interview. :) Sometimes companies value one type of technical knowledge (say abstract/theory), and you might value different type (getting things done).

[1] The company where I failed technical task - reasoning was too many comments in the code and checked in generated files in git. Hardly something I personally would have worried about as an interviewer, but again everyone has different criteria. I have seen people give bad reviews for programming tests because formatting was un-java like, or overuse of the final keyword.
The underlying substrate on which bits register has mass but do they?
You’re right. PeerTube is sort of what I was imagining. Thank you for mentioning it.