jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> They key to a strong culture is consistency from the top. The CEO's job is to make sure everyone on the management team is on the same page. If a senior leader wants to create their own unique culture for their part of the org, they can't be allowed to stay.

I love this entire thread and it resonates a lot with me. I, too, believe that there is not THE right company culture that will solve everybody’s problems. Many in the agile or “new work” camp seem to believe that their way is the ONLY way, for example.

Consistency is much more important than how the culture actually is.
If company still wants you to put in the same 40 hours, I’d suggest a 4 days on / 2 off work schedule. You work 9 hours a day 4 days in a row and then take 2 off

Over a leap year, you’ll have 36*61 hours which is 2196 hours, actually more than the 2080 hours most people work. If you work 8.5 hours a day, you’ll come in only 6 hours short of a 40 hours work week.

(I haven’t tried this myself and I didn’t come up with the idea, but it’s always been something that I thought would be cool to do)
I think you are confusing von Neumann with someone else, because that is not the case, at all. He grew up in a wealthy family which was ennobled by the emperor when he was 10 (hence the von), and spoke Hungarian natively. In childhood he was taught by governesses in numerous major European languages before going to a Christian school for the Hungarian elite, while receiving private tutoring from a renowned mathematician. Then he went to prestigious universities in Germany and Switzerland, before becoming the youngest Privatdozent in University of Berlin history.

The situation obviously rapidly changed in Europe, but Von Neumann left for Princeton before the 30s began. He grew up in a life of great privilege.
I also find myself at home with lisp syntax. However it would be very interesting to have a well-supported mainstream syntax regarding the accessibility of the runtime. Incidentally, this was the main stated goal: be more accessible to students and beginners. This could bring people to the racket environment, which would definitely be a win for OSS projects hosted on racket.
Apple doesn't know whatever requests you send. Apple only knows your IP address, whereas Google only knows the request content.
> Part of me thinks you can just boil those differences down to personality and politics

and the politics will be with people in the same community as them, that's the point.

public figures make themselves hard to contact outside of the organic backchannel of just being there when they were growing up. this has benefitted one group while the concerns of other groups are not able to be addressed in this way.

we don't have a system devoid of those things and now it will happen with different people represented by their own neighbor

I'm not advocating anything in this comment
Consider this:

In [1]: np.argmax(np.array([[1,2,3],[1,9,3],[1,2,3]]).flat)
Out[2]: 4
Probably not! I use it all the time without even thinking about it, but now that you mention it, I don't see others using it much if at all.
nushell does indeed work exactly like this.

You can check out the demo at https://www.nushell.sh/demo/
Thank you for this!

I had a TON of classic Jazz 78s from my grandfather - unfortunately I couldnt find a 78 player at the time for the life of me - and I gave them to a friend who was a really accomplished Jazz drummer in SF - one of my biggest regrets - but they were so heavy and I didnt have space for them when I moved...
Right now the product is built so that it is super easy for game publishers to use. There isn't 'yet' a way for end gamers to turn this on for their games.

Which games did you have in mind? There is a non-zero chance that it's already enabled.
> Google is highly invested Kotlin

I don't see what benefit of putting them on the board would give them, same thing with Rust, just because it's used on Android? Was a gold sponsorship not enough?

> Honestly I just don’t see it here.

You're not looking hard enough, they are bearing 'generous' gifts to these foundations, Example: OpenAI was all about openness weren't they?

But a big somebody bared a huge gift and so much for 'Open AI'.

Don't you think Google and others like them are doing the same thing such that they are getting you to use their products through their 'donations'?

> That doesn’t handwave legitimate complaints here and I don’t like Google have arbitrary outsized influence either but I don’t think that’s the case with these commuters/foundations

Again we shall see, but I am seeing this everywhere and I am not happy with the shift from community to corporation led open source projects. A sponsorship should be enough but they want more as always.
I picked up a M1 Mac Mini. I honestly cannot tell the difference between a native and a non-native app on this thing. The Rosetta 2 emulation is mind blowing.
I'd love it if you'd write something about what you learned through that process, what you tried that didn't work and so on. It's pretty significant that you couldn't make something good enough after two years and were driven all the way to Erlang. If that sounds skeptical, it isn't; I believe you, and that is what makes your remark enticing. I want to hear the story.
And it's worth noticing that many parts of the .NET framework have gone through horrible hiccups. I mean, while the C# language is great, it feels like every framework built around a .NET seems to be implemented and then dropped without substantial improvements about 3 years later. As a developer, nothing ever seems to get fixed. They get replaced, and the replacements bring a new learning curve and a suite of new bugs and problems, and these bugs can never be fixed for backwards-compatibility reasons.

So we get a constant barrage of misstep boondoggles like Web Forms, Click Once Installers, Linq2SQL getting deprecated almost as soon as it was launched, etc. And with every step a larger pile of configuration and attributes that need to be added to get things to play nice with the OS.
Yep. WP should have been released much earlier.
Sorts easier? Not everyone in the us uses day first.
Meanwhile, down at NASDAQ: BUY BUY BUY!
So, are they getting rid of that company destroying stack ranking at last?

Or did Ballmer got into the 10% stack at last!?
Class C and Class A RV licenses do not require anything above a standard driver's license.

Disclaimer: I own an RV.
This may well be true. That doesn't make it any less sad.
I am guessing this is sarcasm but the mind boggles at how much progress could be made if more people went into science and engineering majors. Not just due to their increased direct contributions, but also the effect it would have on political discourse and culture. We could do a lot worse.
Two teaspoons of Taster's Choice. That's my perfect coffee. It's quick, affordable and gets the job done. Doesn't taste bad either.
We had bad experiences in the past with parts that were privately hosted. The problem is that people always are motivated for a while and then tend to move on after a few years because they have new interests. Having a server that's not depending on individuals in the team just works better in the long run.
Interesting project, and it looks well executed. I wonder whether Hank took a look at British narrowboats at all? The design constraints are very similar and there's a couple of centuries of experience to draw on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrowboat
What's the difference between 'VM' and 'Native with runtime'? (In the 'Execution' column)
I think Assembla does. I know it has sourcecontrol, forums (well messages), bugtrackers, and wiki. Not sure about Image Galleries and website hosting.
I must admit I have done that, however I never really extended it very far. I think I was just trying to animate really complex bar charts really quickly.
The story and much of the commentary I've seen on it seems misplaced because of a conflation of the descriptive vs. prescriptive nature of dictionaries.

The addition of this "figuratively" meaning to "literally" doesn't represent and endorsement of it. The dictionary is being descriptive of what is out there.

At the same time the statement "it’s okay to use literally to mean figuratively" seems to indicate that the author sees the dictionary as being prescriptive; that its appearance in the dictionary, ipso facto, "legitimizes" it.

The bottom line is: you still sound like an idiot using it in that way. Its description in the dictionary is not prescriptive of its usage.
Or maybe the NDA hasn't expired but he's misinterpreted the contract that he signed. Just like how some folks can admit they used to work for the CIA or special forces but are not allowed to talk about specific missions because they are still classified.
First of all I absolutely reject your claim that houses offer a priori simply a nicer place to live than flats. Sure there exists certain combinations of price point, geographic location and life situation where it holds, but it certainly isn't a given.

Secondly how are you going to build nice affordable houses for 1.4 billion people without sprawl. Are you suggesting completely giving up on urbanization and going back to having countless tiny villages?
> Possibly new diesels or car diesels aren't as toxic.

They aren't. That's the entire point of the article, hence "It is high time, America, to give diesels a better look."
Except the SQL part didn't work well.

If you want those same features, consider VoltDB. It makes different tradeoffs on what kinds of ops are fast, but has all of those features.

Essentially arbitrary two-key transactions are slower. Partition-friendly writes and global reads are faster. Global reads with real SQL can be orders of magnitude faster.
This is another good point. Some golf courses can be insanely expensive, which is part of the reason why the younger generation (18-34) is basically not playing golf.

Would probably need to have pricing tiers depending on the fanciness of the courses that you want to pay in order for the unit economics to work out.

Thanks for your feedback.
That's a very old article though. I'm quite sure this is no longer relevant. A friend of mine lost both his parents in Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 back in 2010 and I remember him telling me shortly afterwards he got very uncomfortable ads in Gmail about insurances and funeral services. In Dutch though, so it could be those keywords are not localized.
I'm ready for my 4x8 panels to be installed directly against wall studs, in lieu of drywall. Modern display resolution is jaw-dropping to me.
Some of the most troubled people I've known had very involved parents.
The specific commands that you have to run are listed right on the front page.

When you have lein installed, which involves grabbing the script and running it, then you simply run "lein new cryogen my-blog" and that's it. You now have your static site generator ready to go in the folder called "my-blog".

You got to the folder and run "lein ring server" to serve the site locally and watch for any changes you make. It's literally a 3 step process. Not sure what part of it you found off putting specifically.
I worked at a place like that once. The application was the definition of lava layers. It was my second gig so I hustled, got uo to speed fast, and really impressed my boss. Found the exact same situation, crap on crap, features that never worked, features that were sold but never implemented, hand rolled transaction framework, a real pile of sh*t. At a year went out and lined up another job then gave notice.

Long story short, and against my better judgement i stayed, for a 50% raise and a promotion.
One reason why bankers might become more dishonest after being primed to think about their jobs is that being a good banker, like being a good used-car salesman, often requires dishonesty.

I’m thinking of a scene from the (non-fiction) book Liar’s Poker where an investment bank finds itself stuck holding a bunch of bonds whose value is rapidly declining. Does the firm swallow the loss? Of course not! Management tells the sales team that priority #1 is unloading the low-quality bonds onto the bank’s gullible customers at an inflated price.

Another example that might hit closer-to-home here is that of equities analysts on Wall Street during the .com bubble who became unreasonably bullish on certain tech companies in order to gin up IPO business for their firms’ profitable mergers/acquisitions divisions.

In banking, the interests of the firm and the customer are often misaligned, and, well, it’s not the customer who's going to pay the banker’s bonus.
There is no such thing as fast enough.
> It's people turning to ideology instead of engaging with the actual complexity of the world.

As predicted in 1970:

'the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
The #1 misguided belief among the general population is how the Reinassance came to be. And that misguided belief has been driven by revisionism.

We are happy to talk about Ancient Greece, but when it comes to talking about the influence of the Umayyad Caliphate in Europe, then people quickly become aggressive and start saying "no, no, no, we don't talk about this here".

Why? because the Islamic civilization were our rivals and acknowledging that we owe them our modern lifestyle is highly taboo, especially among people with Conservative views.
> > This doesn't mean that research into decentralized & computationally-assured data storage techniques shouldn't be pursued.

> No, it doesn't, for one simple reason: blockchains is not the only such tech

Again, reiteration must be applied here: The standard single-shard reference-to-previous-block data structure that is the initial blockchain structure is non-conducive towards decentralized data storage. As stated beforehand:

> > The data structure of a typical blockchain that is regularly talked about (single-chain, no shard/web) definitely cannot store that level of data. In order to reach that level of data throughput, better data structures are required to do so.

> , and "computational assuredness" probably isn't really a requirement for this.

Towards the latter half of your statement, if computational assurance is not required, then standard trust-based storage solutions can be implemented instead.

HOWEVER (and it should be stressed with extreme emphasis on the word), in that scenario, concerns about the centralized nature of such a storage solution CANNOT be launched by critics: It was their criticism of decentralized storage solutions that caused the shift towards standard trust-based storage solutions, and thus they cannot criticize the move towards the latter. Otherwise, their criticism is not out of technical concern, but out of personal opinion.
I wouldn’t advise it. Did this once, ended up paying for an extra year of subscription when they came to collect.
Things will start "failing" from a user's perspective if you have to hit the disk for every transaction anyway (i.e. most requests will time out.)
Size your server properly and know the memory requirements of your application. That way you can guarantee that you will never hit swap.
I may be fundamentally misunderstanding something here, but doesn't turning off swap pretty much guarantee that things will start failing if you have a spike in memory usage? Assuming you have something like 256M of RAM (like many small VPSs) running at 170M means that a relatively small spike could cause things to start having memory errors. Is there some way to mitigate this, other than enabling swap?
Increasing testing requirements on what? I meant adding it to the browser (or the window manager/X/whatever), which would not require a massive effort to test. The websites themselves already have to support (at least) three modes of interaction if they want to have all main browsers supported (mouse, touch, keyboard).
The whole point of the tax is to discourage consumption. If Ms W. Queen can't afford the tax to feed concentrated diabetes inducer to her little angels, then good! Success!

Non-diet soda is almost as bad as cigarettes and we should tax the freaking hell out of it.
If time is money and you want easy configuration, spend the $200 on a VPS license for Litespeed. Since it can use the existing .htaccess and httpd.conf from apache, it really does take only 5 minutes to "upgrade" in most situations (and their support is 2nd to none).

But litespeed can get expensive for large installs so I don't blame people looking for free/opensource alternatives. All depends how much time you have and if you are building from scratch vs. upgrading an existing Apache install.

The great thing is, we have so MANY choices today compared to just 5-6 years ago, it's awesome.
So the default search engine is Bing. Interesting...
Lots of things are wrong with WebDAV, summed up as "many clients with different implementations/interpretations of the spec."

Related: Are there any decent WebDAV servers out there? I don't see any recent development being done on any.
Cool stuff.

Multiplatform is the difficult part.
Ultimately it depends what you want it for. I usually live in Asia so some info there follows...

.sg = low corp tax (first 3(?) years waived). someone else here mentioned capital gains scenario. stock market secrecy regime is designed for laundering burmese drug money. US lapdog. its boring as batshit... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...

.hk = low personal tax (none, unless resident >3 months/year). can open business and bank account within 2 hours (pay an agent). first world level of service. less US-friendly and more fun than .sg.

.cn = low chance anyone will come looking at your balance. basically no tax. nice forex trajectory for CNY at the moment. only way to really do business in china. possible to convert inbound international SWIFT xfers to EUR/USD/RMB cash, even without a bank account, with any foreign 'id' document. online banking is crap. foreign banks are barred from providing most services despite china signing to the contrary when joining the WTO. ~impossible to process card not present credit card transactions. its bladerunner meets monkey magic meets the land of opportunity. taobao is a big win if you ever do hardware sourcing.

other countries in Asia tend to lack decent english or infrastructure, but may provide interesting fringe benefits (eg. IIRC Philippines gives you permanent in/out visa with a property purchase, has lots of good english speakers, though they recently dropped their relative bank secrecy to US pressure)
Nice! Please do alert us when it appears on github. I'm sure there will be interest.

EDIT: In fact if you can announce your github id now/soon people can start watching in earnest.
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Yeah. And our blog is usually blocked too, actually even in France. Some entreprise firewalls block our blog, some antivirus firewall too cause we mix NSFW content with programming in our articles. Well, I guess when the big guys start blocking you, you are probably doing something right :)
Yes, happened to my iMac. The good folks at the Genius Bar ended up replacing my entire computer w/ a Haswell one.
Looks like a count-down timer for New Year's day, and with the month counter gone awry because of the inverted logic of trying to count down to a day in the past.
IIRC, the father's, not the mother's age is correlated with the prevalence of autism.
ah thanks. hard to me to find laymen articles on this (interest prompted on an ATI daughter card failure on an '09 iMac), so always interesting to find out more.
While you can never be certain that WhatsApp uses e2e encryption without a proper source code review but you can do the following to atleast check it on your side by doing the following.
1. Install Charles webproxy
2. Configure your device to decrypt the https traffic of whatsapp ( install the ssl certificate and configure proxy)
2.5 Enable ssl proxy for whatsapp.
3. Monitor whatsapp's traffic using charles web proxy.
4. If you can see random encrypted text somewhere in the request or response they are using e2e encryption.

I'll try it tomorrow might even write about it here or somewhere depending on the results.
> Huh? Literally everybody grasps this. This the most widely accepted mainstream narrative about the economy right now on the internet.

> Hell, you can't throw a rock at the Wall Street Journal (conservative) or the New York Times (liberal) without hitting a sentence that mentions wealth inequality brought on by fed policy. For further evidence, your comment has been upvoted to the top because everybody on HN believes the same thing as you.

You just named three institutions that cater to highly educated people. I don’t think much of this is understood by a huge portion of the general population. I’m not talking down about people who didn’t get a higher education (I didn’t finish mine). I’m just pointing out that this is a pretty weak argument for “everybody”.

Edit: a word, a punctuation
This looks... really cool. Good luck! I love the concept of an open game development platform , and especially the automatic multiplayer. I hope this succeeds.
Even when Scala is used more or less like python?
Sounds similar to CouchDB's approach, but I've never used that either.
With the resources they had (almost nothing) in the stilted, moribund economy of the Soviet Bloc, cloning the Apple II is quite an incredible technical achievement.
Oh, that's very interesting. Thanks!
No, the oil shocks of the 1970s were short term disruptions which unsettled things, but the big durable change was the major tax burden shift under Reagan.
The standard argument is that it turns out appointed elites doing this works fairly well (they quite often block bad legislation), in principle partly because they don't have to pander directly to the electorate. I don't think it's an optimal system, but I can't deny it does have some advantages of this sort.

The concern with changing it is that you could simply make things worse, even if on the surface more meritocratic. For instance, if it just ended up filled with the same career politicians as the commons and just agreed with everything they said. Of course it could end up better as well, in principle, but I'm not sure the government could be trusted to implement things that way.
Yes, like, for example, victims of human trafficking. It's not the same as paying off a student loan though.
This is extremely handy for .NET devs (myself included). Great work.

P.S.: is there anyway of using it for private repositories?
> the country does have the advantage of being run like a corporation

This thinking has been used to "justify" many totalitarian regimes and is almost universally wrong (trans on time, etc). It turns out that establishing property rights, workers rights, class mobility, democratic institutions where people can rightfully petition their government, etc gets results. For example, in the West we had things like the EPA and other agencies so we didn't have this problem. Why does your ultra-efficient Chinese "corporation" not have these things yet? They're literally decades late and this small token act (Just shutting down plants literally in the city limits) looks more like the corrupt face-saving moves that define the Chinese communist party.

Not to mention, that a lot of top-down decrees in China look good on paper, but end up being implemented by corrupt local governments. Yes, its impressive the CCP can say "Built a city here by next year," but its done with massive building code violations, cheap concrete, and scary safety and pollution violations. A lot of these cities are falling apart only a few years after being built or are just one moderate earthquake away from disaster.