jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> What's the alternative supposed to be? Another CEO that has the absolute right to decide what goes on Facebook?

Why is this the only alternative? There are myriad ways to structure an organization, including many still being invented such as corporations chartered around long-term value.

An employee owned company is just one alternative, that while not without its problems, would likely produce better results for the world than the current situation.
The sibling comment has 4 of the 6 paragraphs in the article. Here's an archive of the original:

https://archive.fo/YRWuc
If this is their strategy it's incredibly silly.

1. The Steam Community Marketplace already exists.

2. Why is GameStop - a retail chain with an increasingly irrelevant brand - the right company to build a digital marketplace?

3. Why would developers and publishers participate in GameStop's marketplace - what would it offer them?

4. Gamers hate NFTs. Search that phrase.
Yeah, and a good level of “yup that makes sense, should work.” [crash] “wait what?!”
Noted, apologies. 1.6 is in beta and feature frozen, and it's certainly been the plan for a while to target 1.7.

I wouldn't sweat it tho - the 1.5-1.6 cycle has been pretty quick, and I'm sure as soon as the migrations work is ready and tested the Django core team will be pretty eager to push a 1.7 release.
Their dominance over Netscape scared a lot of people. "What if Microsoft comes in and gives everything away for free to keep the OS monopoly?" was a legit fear. Gates was simultaneously a product master, and very competitive. Sometime between then and now people stopped fearing them.

Maybe it was the delays in getting products out? Or false starts? Or that they just started playing nicer?

Nobody is close to unseating them on the desktop, but the excitement is everywhere else.
My grandmother (a Muslim) used to put some on my cuts when I was a kid. I started experimenting more recently. (Conveniently as I picked up mountain biking—no shortage of cuts!) It certainly seems like the cuts on which I apply some honey heal faster and scar less than the ones I leave as "control".
If this scandal has taught us anything, it's that the services you use don't matter.

You have to assume everything sent over HTTP(S) is insecure. If it cannot be MITMd now, it can be stored and decrypted later.

Even if you connect via more secure means, you cannot trust service providers to tell the truth about the data they collect or store.

In short, you can't trust anyone or anything anymore. Trust is a weakness.
I really pisses me off to that the US government is going to throw away our hegemony over the internet in exchange for a surveillance state.
"See? That's the thing with you plastics. You think everybody is in love with you when actually, everybody HATES you!"

s/plastics/Facebook
What kind of marketing did you do? Or just SEO on your own product haha
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

If he had just said "data" instead of computer.
Smart observations.

Yes, $99/mo does sound better

Cart would be included on most courses

There would most likely be restrictions on some courses - possibly offering higher tiers to lift restrictions.

Buddy pass is a great idea

Thanks.
What about user accounts where we can keep track of Fiddles, so we can organize them with tags and categories?
No offense and all (I'm a huge python guy) but... why? RST is a pretty god damn awful format. Markdown lacks a proper standard but that's really the only problem with it... I wish the python community would just adopt Markdown for good and stop trying so hard with rst.
We all need to feel useful and have a real mission for at least some of the time.

That doesn't have to come from w**k though. It's ok to have a job just to pay the bills and get your fulfilment from other parts of your life.
There were no penalties in USSR for doing half-assed job (unless someone died because of it, and even then not always). Everyone had a right to work. Even if you're fired (which almost didn't happen), you'll have another shitty job with the same shitty pay in no time.

No incentives for quality.
My grandfather doesn't ”use the internet", my grandmother uses email (not sure what else).
They do watch Netflix now via roku (they used to have a blockbuster subscription so they could go and pickup DVDs). Is that the internet?
Thanks. I'll cons this on to my list of parenthesis-free Lisps. The others were Lisp 2, CGOL, and Dylan. None of these was ever used much (AFAIK Lisp 2 was never even implemented).

Lisp doesn't really have its own syntax, as it borrows the syntax it uses (and needs) to enter data. Its parser is just the read function. The special characters, e.g. open parenthesis, quote, hash, etc. are (or can be implemented as) read macros. Read macros can be used to add syntactic sugar if you want to, but there's really no need.

And finally, the bad old days of self-indenting Lisp programs and counting parentheses are over. The editors used for Lisp (predominantly EMACS and variants) autoindent code and then you stop noticing the parentheses and it looks to you much like Python, except more powerful.
Thanks!

More feedback from my Firefox (Chrome appears ok): spacing between words is really large. Ticking off font-family (or having it just sans-serif) in developer tools seems to fix it.
Find a slow company. In some places you can get by on 4h/week remote, no one cares, they dont make enough tasks etc, all on a massive salary.
Remote support team in shifts.
It has usually zero responsibility as your shift ends since someone else is on duty, it can have enough compensation if you work for a long time for a US or a EU company. And after a while it's gets very repetitive since you are becoming very proficient in your domain.
If you don't have any aspirations of moving up the ladder, it can be also something you can be hired for even in older age.
Anything *agile related bullshit job will do, really.

Scrum master, agile coach, what have you. SM certs are easy to get with minimal investment. A meeting here, some buzzwords there and compile the results regularly in lengthy confluence pages nobody will ever read. Automate much of it and maybe generate a graph or two to present during reviews.

OP will have to organise retros, groomings, etc. Invent ever changing formats. Remind everybody to stick to the rulez, but don't do much else. Keeps people on their toes. At minimal effort.

Have regular catch-ups with various people. They're essentially coffee breaks, but you pretend to be productive and maybe generate a protocol. Plus you get to suck up to all the important people.

Bonus points for regularly posting obnoxious agile methodology articles on your companies intranet or Linkedin.
That's the same with any stock, currency or crypto though. If you want to sell the whole market cap then it's worthless.
You are describing specifically "embedded junk" (which includes the M1, sorry Apple) not literally "anything ARM based". SBSA-compliant platforms boot with UEFI+ACPI, using fully generic DSDT descriptions for PCIe (ECAM) and USB (XHCI). Speaking of GPUs, quite common for them to have QEMU in firmware to run the x86-compiled EFI GOP driver straight from the card's ROM and get video output before the OS.
>> 1. Some people on disability need far more than any reasonable UBI would provide

> Is that due to medical needs? Because if so, that would seem to be a job not for UBI but for a proper medical system, which this country is also woefully lacking.

First of all, you suggested eliminating (among other things) medicaid in favor of UBI.

Secondly, define "medical needs" if you are mentally incapable of managing your life, then someone has to care for you in a non-medical manner. As an extreme case, there are people who, if you walk up to them and say "please give me all your money," they will ... give you all their money.
Agreed. People love socialism so much until they live inside a socialist country. They believe the mantra you will be able to receive without giving, everybody doing what they love, how better it will be spending time doing music or whatever you love doing.

UBI is only possible if you have taxes way higher than social-democracies in Europe with the current economy we have. The reality is that the economy will tank with UBI and taxes would be higher and higher.

Productive people like me will instantly move to a free country where UBI is not applied. That is where Universal in U comes. They want to force the entire world doing that, so people productive can't escape.

It is nothing new, it was done by the first Christians or communists promising the lala land. In Russia they promised people will do whatever they wanted with their time after people give in.

In reality the moment it was applied in Russia, forced labor was applied, and they took all your money and a terrible dictatorship followed.

In the first Christian communities, they will take all your money first, as you had to sell everything you had for entering the community. Then as St Paul said, the one that does not work does not eat, from the money they had already taken from you.

The experiment has been repeated so many times in the past only people that ignore History would love to repeat it.

Right now, UBI idea comes from the financial elite. They want all your wealth, your autonomy and the power that comes from it.
This was a matter of time.
The idea that it's forbidden to publish what your eyes can see and ears can hear, in public, is completely insane.

What is freedom of the press if not this?
Of course it's done for privacy. If Google created hashes for every single URL it crawled, the hash prefixes that are downloaded by clients would be enormously large, wasting multi gigabytes for on-device storage of these hash prefixes.
Was at a performance 20 years or so ago in Santa Barbara, wanted to go see him next month in Luxembourg. RIP.

https://www.philharmonie.lu/en/programm/chick-corea-vigilett...
"Ubuntu Server on Azure best practices guide.pdf"
I doubt many people don't like the Magic Keyboard because it's wireless, but rather because it has a different key feel. Although I have an A1243 at home and had a Magic Keyboard at the office and didn't feel like there was much of a difference between the two. If my A1243 failed for some reason, I'd probably just get one of those (since buying a mechanical keyboard with a Mac layout is impossible).
Forbes is worthless, post from another source
Do you have offline Gmail enabled? I think that has some weird side-effects. Also, you might try enabling multilogin if you haven't already.
The guys that made this seem to do a lot of "high-end" marketing, so I guess it doesn't get much better with big clients (http://www.scofieldedit.com/).

Really neat video though!
This is the same case.
Basically that I absolutely believe this is a bogus story, but my reasons for believing that aren't able to be shared due to direct involvement.

I don't expect other people to take that as evidence of anything (because who the hell am I), but thankfully, this isn't the kind of thing that has to be wondered about for eternity (if his claim is true, it should be able to be verified).

edit: Oh look, HD Moore just posted this link on Twitter about the guy who sent the original email: http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDS...
You're up against two challenges: Understanding functional programming, and understanding Scala's syntax. Without grounding in either, the solutions will look doubly opaque.

But there is a consistent vocabulary that shows up in functional programming, things like: map, reduce, fold, take, lambda, etc. You also need to understand lazy data structures. Once you have those ideas under your belt, a lot of the early Euler solutions are fairly obvious, and will wind up looking essentially identical across languages.

None of this is very difficult on its own, especially for someone with actual development experience like yourself. Are there any specific answers that you find particularly confusing? I'd be happy to translate them into Python or pseudocode and explain what's going on -- I promise it's not as crazy as it looks.
It has to do with the laws the US places on exporting crypto.
I've never heard anything to the effect of some people being naturally immune to HIV. I've heard of people with much higher resistance than normal, but not immunity. Could you please provide a source? It seems to me that people who were naturally immune to HIV would provide a powerful tool to doctors researching potential cures, and thus would be major news.
I've just recently ported a python/Django site to c#/.NET. The switch was not done for performance reasons (or community for that matter) but as a consideration the .NET version was an order of magnitude faster on the same hardware without any effort to optimize.
There has only been one case; all the articles you remember reading (including this one) reference this one study.
Forget "Hello, World", Project Euler is the way to test drive a new programming language.
I think Taylor Swift said it best,

Remember: Fingerprint locks are convenient, but they discard your ability to "forget" or refuse to unlock a device. They remove consent.

[ source - https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity / https://imgur.com/a/1PDRJ / ]

Can anyone intent on downvoting explain what is factually wrong or misleading about the quote in the picture? Just because it's on a picture doesn't make it less valid.
He might be good with computers, but he sounds like your classic late teenage activist (not so clever):

"So you think it’s partly also about creating a male-only business network?

I’m not sure it’s anything so intentional, but it definitely has that effect. If you look at the top levels of any industry, you find just incredible levels of misogyny.

For one example we have good data on, the FBI taped the executives of a major US agribusiness company, ADM. And so we have, on tape, some of the incredibly offensive things these guys said. There’s no reason to believe other firms are any different."
When I entered KTH you needed top grades in all subjects to be admitted to engineering physics. Electrical engineering was probably not even the third hardest to enter.
Is that the new "theory"? Have you guys dropped the whole "O2 and CO2 levels" thing already?
I am not in the graphics space but I am quite familiar with tech business practices.

I think the chance you would be sued is near 100%. If you released and showed any market traction at all, you would immediately become a threat to the duopoly; they surely remember the rise of 3Dfx. Don’t bother arguing the merits of the patents because it would be a business decision, not a technical one—this is the kind of thing that’s decided at the C-level and then justified (or cautioned against) by the company’s legal team, not the other way around. Patents are merely leverage to effect the defense of the business, and you can be sure they’ll be used.
> I’d love to hear what the functional programming camp has to say about this problem, but I guess they are too busy with inventing yet another $20 term for a 5 cent concept

hA! Hit the nail on the head :P
You could conceive of a GUI as merely a projection of internal state. If you do, then a GUI could be a completely stateless layer that exists solely to render visual content parametrically.

I've been developing a convention in React over the last year that uses this idea and it's very very nice. I'm also trying to write a platform-agnostic UI language specifically for designers that makes this a first class concept.
Imagine if they just used an SSE or mixed-replace to update the plain html version in real-time when messages are received without JS. But we can’t have that (Google even unilaterally disabled mixed-replace in blink/Chrome/Chromium (except for continuing to support MJPEG) many, many years ago so no one else can do that either).
> based on expense reports

Don't expense anything from the state you are in.

Have everything shipped to an address in California and forwarded.

This is the snail mail version of a VPN, and I'm not sure why people are downvoting me on a hacker site. Hacking the world is what we do. This is how we stand up for our privacy. If you use VPNs at all in your online life to conceal your location there is no reason you can't invent a VPN for packages and mail as well.
This is true of all variable compensation components, regardless of being stock options, profit sharing or discretionary bonuses. You need to weight it by risk, which typically means zero real value and potentially a nice surprise.
The piston idea seems like a appealing design requiring minimal new technology. The plant is the same as existing pumped hydro plant, the weight can come from the native rock.

Using a rolling membrane for the seal is discussed at

https://heindl-energy.com/technical-concept/engineering-chal...

Naively that does seem plausible but it's a very large sheet of material to manufacture. What are your thoughts on that approach?
What's so wrong with FastMail?
It also automagically displays the text of the article in one page, despite the obnoxious effort of a site to require you to click through to multiple pages to read a single article.

As far as I can tell, the point of splitting an article into more than one page was just more ad exposure. So it's a double whammy: graying out and background the ads, and decreasing the number of ad-ridden pages one needs to read the article. Awesome in my book.
I also want to present the counter viewppoint - http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking...

Newspapers were dying because nobody wanted to pay for news, which they could get for free at Google News.
Newspapers were told to suck it up and instead move online - to an ad supported model.
No more ads.

I dont think the newspapers are the bad guy here.
We love Wal-Mart and Costco. They have the best prices on almost everything. We're not afraid to admit it; we think people who shop boutiques to buy the same things in fancier surroundings are stupid.

So you go to a walmart, see the elderly greeters at the door, feel sorry for them, then walk miles just to get the one thing and get back to the cashier to stand in a line...

vs.

You drive near a boutique, you get real personalized service, there's someone to help you all the time if you have any questions, the surrounding is a lot nicer, the whole process of buying that thing is much faster and much more comfortable.

Saying that people who shop boutiques to buy the same things are stupid just conveys a message that you are too constricted in your own scope of cheapness... And that's maybe a bit stupid.
I think most of these "sin" taxes are taxes first with a justification added later.

The cigarette tax may be morally justified as a way to reduce smoking and save lives. According to the CDC smokers tend to live around 14 years less than non smokers.

However, I've read that the justification that "smoking cost society money" is not factually correct. Premature deaths due to smoking tend to occur earlier and more rapidly and thus are cheaper than supporting someone into their old age followed by a long hospital stay before death.
There was a "Is swap necessary" discussion on lkml and kerneltrap[1] a while ago and iirc, someone in the know had said that the kernel does expect to have some swap to work with. So, I run all my machines with about 10M of swap space.

[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202
Evidence is always welcome by some people, even if you happen to get downvotes and indignant replies.

A hacker would probably view sexism institutionally. Institutions generally have gatekeepers. When the gatekeepers believe that your race/gender is inferior or unsuited to their workplace, then it's even harder to enter the institution, through no fault of your own.

(For example, if you're female, they may scrutinize you extra closely to find masculine traits like aggressiveness. Their reasoning may be that a certain "assertiveness" is important to survive in their masculine workplace.)

This sets up a feedback loop: your teachers may be more active in dissuading you from studying technical subjects, because they predict that gatekeepers will require you to jump a higher bar of skill and attitudes. Even when many of the gatekeepers relax, the news of this doesn't propagate instantly through the system -- there may be a lag before other parts of the system catch up.

I think this means there needs to be outreach to the public about how workplaces are wanting to improve. (If they are.)
Upgraded Safari on an XP machine this morning, from 4 to 5, and no restart was required. Also noticed that Apple have made the 'Install iTunes and friends' option opt-in now, which is nice
I think the event will include inline contents too, but there's no way to test it right now since it doesn't seems to be enabled in the the current release of Safari 5.
It depends on how high the tax is and how elastic the demand for soda is. If the soda tax isn't high enough than people will continue purchasing and pay the tax. An extra couple of cents on a can of soda likely won't change consumption and will only hurt the poor more.

I am guessing that the elasticity of soda is a lot higher than cigarettes so it would take a lot smaller of a tax to change behavior. And to be honest most sin taxes are really not there to change consumption they are their to make money because they know people will pay for it.

Look at the recent increase in the cigarette tax that is supposed to pay for S-Chip. They don't want smokers to smoke less, because that would reduce revenue and prevent them from paying for the program. They set the taxes at a level that will maximize revenue and not greatly affect consumption.

Update: I just read here http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/137417-wall-street-strateg... that the new england journal of medicine says that the price elasticity of demand for soda is -.8. What that means is that demand for soda is inelastic. This means that soda is just like any other sin tax. It is not meant to actually reduce consumption. It is meant to create revenue. Yes some people will consume less, but the vast majority will not consume less. So I hate to say it, but this isn't a tax for the health of the American public, but a tax for the wallet of government.
Some of those pictures give me vertigo, something I'm not normally sensitive to. That's on par with 'wetriffs'.
I heard they started issuing restricted stock units instead of options three years ago. They are rights to stock, like a risk-free, cost-free stock option. Now, allegedly, the twist is that they vest when the company becomes public.

In any case, the company presumably has a right of first refusal clause on their stock, which means that Facebook can match any stock buyer's offer themselves, or broker a trade to someone else instead. That's only in case of emergencies, though.

A lot of other companies did so around that time, since this was following the accounting standards change which required options to be expensed. If you're going to expense options, you might as well expense something more flexible.
More features for the win. I must admit I am not completely won over by the usability of this new feature. Integration intention feels a little weak compared to 'coverage', but hopefully that will be resolved over time.
One of the best, sorry, no THE best book I've ever read about computers. Period.

It's a really good book for the younger generations as well, you know those kids who never had to code assembler or learn C. :)
"E.g., something based on Javascript, with a fully dynamic remote IDE/editor (along the lines of SLIME)?"

What about WebOS? It will get you at least halfway there. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the reach that Android or iOS have. It's still fun to play with, though.
How many times do you mistakingly sms someone's landline, from your address book?
Email me and I'll get it to you.
If you talk with your child about this, sure, why not