jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
you nailed it on the head. A large and growing number of people are going the tech path without going getting the traditional CS degree. CS students at least have internships and labs to build functional experience but this new market of developers don't have similar options.

You are setting the right expectation with 6 months of building stuff. It is surprising how many people graduate from codeacamedy thinking that coding is fun and easy when in reality, the path to becoming a developer (let alone a great one) is frustrating and painful at times. Our goal is to give all of these new developers the chance to built significant pieces of work and get the proper guidance when they need it with code reviews. No handholding (learning websites) or intimidation (open source) - just a safe environment to build and break things, while getting the feedback and portfolio to jumpstart a developer career.
For FreeBSD users: FreeBSD's make provides the value of -j through ${.MAKE.JOBS}
Is ADHD actually a neurodegenerative disorder, or is it a natural human variation? How do we know that ADHD hasn't always been a substantial portion of the population, and we've only recognized it once we developed modern civilization post-agrarian revolution where kids need to sit in classrooms for 6 hours a day and homework for 1-2 hrs a day. Or that mind numbing repetitive jobs were not something hunter-gathers evolved for?

I'd believe that these chemicals may be causing brain changes, but I am highly skeptical of the claims there's been massive increase in autism and ADHD.

Would a hunter-gatherer or nomadic society even recognize ADHD as abnormal? Or high functioning autism for that matter?
Great way to make your articles unciteable.
If you keep the existing rates on the first reasonable-amount-of-water amount of water per unit time and progressively charge more for every unit over that, you get as much savings without appearing to gouge anyone, rich or poor.
hmm closing on same day. template for the "closing" message seems same. even wording is similar. I smell something funky
https://etacts.com/ & https://emailoracle.com/ carry same message, word to word. Guess they both were run by the same people.
I don't think a lot of people can state what the problem is, that's part of the problem and part of why it persists.
so as a heavy maya user, the two things I've missed in blender are fine little QOL improvements and big systemic issues.

the collection of features in blender are second to none, and I've enjoyed learning them a lot, but I really wish some of the overall consistency of maya really keeps me away (same hotkeys across the entire app for one thing, multiple overlapping well thought out methods of interaction with systems... and of course "everything is a node" )

another thing that stands in the way is how easy maya is to understand as a beginning coder, every action is echoed perfectly in the script editor, easing the creation of code that simply does a series of action and anything more complicated is fairly simple. admittedly that's currently a MEL only advantage but I'm really hoping bifrost and other future maya extensions help that continue.

all that being said I'm heavily rooting for blender to succeed, both for spurring autodesk into adding some well needed features, and just to having another wonderful 3d package.
This is a "subtle" post. They link to https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/firefox-minimalist-logo

They are pointing out that some folk have noted that their logo is getting more and more stylistic and the fox bit might disappear. Some of the comments/memes about this are implying via the logo that FF is losing their way.

Good skills FF and that reminds me to get off my arse and ditch some other browsers. I moved from FF to Chrom{ium} wholesale a few (10+?) years back because "reasons" - probably compatibility. I used to use the old FF sync thing and it was a right old pain moving to the Google one but seemed the right thing to do at the time. Now I think I'll move back to FF again and keep my bookmarks etc to myself.

Then I'll migrate my firm and then my customers and my family of course. Browser sync data costs less than pence to manage (I have quite a lot of sites, storage and decent links to piss around with.)

Sorry, mind fart dump!

Using FF does not combat anything: it's a bloody web browser - no more or less. However the programmers behind FF are ostensibly quite keen on privacy and the like.
VTI has an expense ratio of 0.03% or 0.00003.

With free trading I can recreate the VTI portfolio for free. Do taxes and time cost more than 0.00003?

At $10M it costs $300. Depends on your portfolio?
Firefox continually makes it hard to stay a Firefox fan. I just can't go to Chrome, but seriously it gets harder every release.
Deeply dystopian sounding. Move all the manufacturing and workers off, leaving the planet to the company owners.
Anyone on iOS who wants to try this and got a WebGL 2.0 error

Settings> Safari > Advanced > Experimental Features > "WebGL 2.0"
Whats inherently power of two about them?

I have two PS/2 era drives that predate your "rebranding". One, 20MB (actual 21.3MB or 20.3MiB) has a CHS geometry 612x4x17. The other, 40MB (41.5MB or 39.5MiB) has a CHS geometry of 1038x2x39.

None of these values are powers of two (other than heads, because platters happen to have two sides)

I'd argue that all we're seeing here is the long, long tail of lazy shortcuts taken in the early-home-computer era. Not a truth, a lazy shortcut - that software took as convention and hardware didn't.
Whoa. That sounds like a pretty awfully built bot.
I recently implemented a site with a feature similar to the spinning-globe in the International section[1]: a video element overlapped by text in an adjacent element. I ran into a vexing problem in some browsers where the the text that intersected the video appeared somewhat degraded, as if it were a lighter weight than what was actually specified. In Firefox, only the text directly overlapping the video was affected. But in Safari all text in the entire intersecting div showed this effect, even that not over the video. AFAICT, this is some kind of compositor bug, but I haven't been able to dig up any decent information about it.

I do note that Stripe's page isn't exhibiting this issue, but don't see anything that appears to be a workaround or otherwise unconventional.

Anyone have any color on this? Is this a font-specific rendering issue, e.g. so Stripe's fonts don't exhibit this problem? Or perhaps the presence of a background image on the li tags forces the compositor to behave? TIA!

[1] https://stripe.com/connect#international
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>but I think "insulting OEMs" is one of the good things he did.

Agree with this statement. OEMs is also the one of the reasons why Android gets a bad rep. Android doesn't suck, it just gets thrown into incompatible and low spec'd devices and when the lag starts rolling in, people blame the OS. I guess this is one of those unavoidable quirks of being an OS vendor and having no say in the hardware. Atleast in Microsofts case, if they wanted, they could get restrict their OS from being installed on an under spec'd device but would Google be able to do the same, especially in light of Android's openness?
I find your reasoning that the terrorist "would never admit" anything about the real chemicals. If he used ammonium nitrate, he can easily say "I was using some fertilizer in my garden". If he used gunpowder, he can say "I was at the shooting range earlier", or "I was setting off fireworks with friends last night". If neither of those are what they found, they're still normal-sounding excuses that a person might give. He can give a long list of innocuous chemicals with those thrown in, and you won't have any way of distinguishing his story from that of an innocent person.

But if the terrorist hasn't thought this far ahead, then his excuse is probably not going to be very good. Tell a person exactly what you found, and you might catch the terrorist off guard and be able to tell that they're lying from the weird excuse, while a normal person will either say "I don't know where that would have come from", or would actually have a plausible excuse.

It's still not a very useful question even in that latter case, but it's marginally more useful if you actually name the chemical.
> Arabica is a species of coffee

I forgot to mention that I drink Italian arabica coffee which is usually is grown in South America.

Thanks for the tip on East African coffees. I'll look for it in my next buy! :)
Your comment inspired this thought: Imagine a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script that localizes web pages: converts dates, times, currencies, separators to the user's preference. :)

Google Chrome will translate web page languages, which is a much more difficult problem.
Yours/google's definition of scale is very narrow, which was my point. Google only looks at scale from a software point of view. While that may work with search, there are many industries where you must scale with humans, such as door to door sales. Google's insistence on their narrow vision of scale may have a lot to do with why they find it hard to make in roads with their local strategy or say google checkout. Meanwhile paypal has little problem hiring more people to provide phone support to tens of millions of customers. Google isn't special. In fact, they don't even have tens of millions of customers for most of the products that require such type of support. Sounds too much like premature scaling and overthinking on google's part.
I think a lot of us are missing the big picture; thankfully not Tgebbs (see comment 22).
sure. i definitely will. that is a interesting way to mask your email. will suggest this to my prof and see what he says.
The Social Network, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Sneakers.
I'm still writing it, but my plan is, have all communication between Lua and everything else go through NSNotifications, to enforce the idea that the game logic (I'm writing a game) should be in Lua and the animations / etc. in ObjC. If you'd like to look at the bridge, it's here:

https://github.com/randrews/ballmaze/blob/master/Ballmaze/Lu...
This says nothing about the capital and talent misallocation that bubbles cost. That opportunity cost is invisible, but something we on Hacker News are paying the price for.
Wine appreciation depends on your experience. If you haven't been exposed to the higher end, you won't miss it and should be perfectly happy with everyday brands (like Charles Shaw). The more exploring you do, however, the more you'll appreciate the higher end. Music is probably a good analogy: the majority of people are fine with mainstream radio content, while the more 'hardcore' tend to be into eccentric stuff.
I've come down to a rule for wine - price correlates well with value in the $15-$25 per bottle range, you get what you pay for. Outside of that it seems random. Two-Buck chuck is pretty good, especially for $2. I've also had expensive wine > $50 which was, in my opinion terrible.

(This is for store bought wine, for restaurants multiply prices by 2 to 4).
The difference is that vodka is by definition nearly flavorless.
I don't get it.

Excuse the analogy but are you staying that if someone plans a protest in my Minecraft server, and the protest turns violent - I can be held to blame for that?
I’m not a politician, but I’m guessing: yes.

I don’t see a reason why most mainstream politicians need to distance them self from this platform in light of this. I’m sure most main stream politicians do not associate them self with the type of rhetoric that got Trump kicked form the platform, and are fine with continuing to use it.
The mainstream media refuses to take them seriously? Fox News’ ad revenues beg to differ.
Surely there is an important difference between just not conceding and actively campaigning false allegations of voter fraud.
maybe deplatforming politicians (all of them, no matter their role) it's not a bad thing.

there's an entire industry devoted to collect and spread their words, they certainly don't need twitter to be heard.
>Does anybody have a solution to the bigger underlying question of de-platforming and censorship on online platforms?

Well as far as politics is concerned.. the US Government (and other governments) should make their own twitter like platforms which every active representative has an account, and ANYTHING (barring pure illegal) can be posted.

It doesn't even need to have an actual user base, it can just be somewhere to go to see what your politician is thinking.

In terms of the average person? There is no solution for one that is owned by a corporation. An offshoot of the above is the government could make a social media site that is covered under "free speech that the government cannot take away" and anything not blatantly illegal can be posted/said. I would not advocate for this though.. I think we have plenty of options.

But the one for politicians only is something that should be seriously considered.
I hate the guy, but TBH when I saw the tweet I just thought "Little baby can't even muster up some courage to show up, and he's throwing more tantrum... par for the course for him."

But now as I write this, I do realize, he didn't need to announce his no-show 12 days beforehand, he can just quietly not show up on the day, so this tweet does seem to be more of a signal to... well, incredibly, it's a signal for the members of his cult that they can attack the inauguration!
Did anyone really think that twins were the same right down to each individual gene? Just seems intuitive that there'd be some slight differences between identical twins.
This was my exact initial reaction.

However, suppose that Bill Clinton, George Bush, or Barack Obama had declined to attend the inauguration of there predecessors. That would surely trigger a crisis worthy of de-platforming. We’ve become somewhat numb to this sort of thing.

I guess my second draft would have said, “We’ve allowed DJT a platform because he is the President of the United States. In light of all that he has said on Twitter over the last 10+ years, though, he is guilty of inciting hate and violence among his followers. [Cite myriad tweets and cases.] We were going to wait until he left office to suspend his account. In light of his most recent tweets indicating that he would not attend the inauguration, we think it prudent to move up this timeline...”
They're all called taxis for the most part.

'Black cab' specifically refers to the famous London cars that have a particular shape.

I agree. Black cabs are hailed though, that's the point. You don't call a black cab, that's not how they work. That's what private hire (e.g. Uber) is for.

WRT buses: almost everywhere in the UK is request stop, or at least I wouldn't rely on just expecting the driver to guess.

There might be ten different buses stopping at your stop for example, so it's inefficient to just stop anyway, unless someone is already getting off.
You are getting good replies, but the main answer is... nobody knows (and you aren't alone). There are so many little reasons for slower modern computers, but it seems to come down to increased complexity and, I guess, entropy? It's frustrating.
> With that being said: compiling for an hour is a huge hassle for reviewers.

Can't they just set it to run then go to lunch? Seems like a non-issue.
Could you expand on the relation of that fact to the topic of minimum wage? Is $15/hr above or below Detroit minimum wage?
That's because the state is putting money in its rainy day fund for whenever the next recession/depression shows up.

Always running the government lean means that service cuts will be much worse during hard times because there's no money saved up.
And he even allows payment by bitcoin! I can't imagine who would want to host images without being traceable...
Because people can't live much of a life on less. This is especially true of health care which in places is free at some level of poverty and ruinously expensive at other levels. At some points working harder actually earns you greater poverty.
US has been pretty open to immigration at some points, and relatively closed at others. For the most of last 250 years, it has been mostly closed to non-white immigration, for example. With the exception of black Americans, the current racial and ethnic diversity in the US is a rather recent phenomenon.
I’ve been talking to Tim Zheng on and off for the past few months and I’m constantly amazed at the progress ZenProspect is making in sales. His engineering background prompts him to analyze their success very closely‚ and I believe it also makes him great at explaining it to fellow engineers such as myself. Sales can be such a complicated beast, I think a lot of technical founders could benefit from Tim’s outlook.
This is probably the best YC interview post I've read.

I really appreciated there was no tone of, "I got rejected by YC, now I need to prove I'm better than YC"; that's irrelevant. Its very matter of fact, poignant, and very representative of how YC interviews play out.
>> It's kind of a long story as to why,

I'm also interested in this story.

This is one case where not seeing vote counts encourages me to write a comment that doesn't add value. Voting up the other 2 replies wouldn't be that useful. Would it?
To save space, you were supposed to use the "l" (lower-case "L"). I'm sure there's a good article about it, but all google found on a first try was this metafilter thread:

http://ask.metafilter.com/46743/Royal-typewriter-missing-key...
I can't believe you're not getting more upvotes for this, it had me laughing pretty hard.
I really can relate. What is holding me back from starting to work on something or learning for a subject I'm not interested in (for college), is the fact that I'm afraid to fail/not complete/not understand. But the thing is after I start and work through the problems I tell myself, why haven't I started earlier?

Anyway shoot me a mail, maybe we can help each other out and create something great!
Why are last names and company names always printed so microscopic? Most of the time I actually care more what company someone is with than what their first name is.
I've had a VPS on prgmr.com up for months now with no problems. I mostly knew what I was doing, so I didn't have any need for support questions, but it basically does what I expected it to do well.
I didn't learn fortran in university, but I did have to learn it for a job. It's still THE language for scientific computing. So in any job in or adjacent to scientific computing, you're bound to run into fortran.
You're talking about scalability. The point is that it would have been possible to scale investments based on the the growth of GDP. What was done however, is financing the things you mentioned with debt (debt == future taxes). Debt should not be necessary in my opinion.

Furthermore, I'm irritated by how little impact digitalization of bureaucracy had during the past 30 years. Normally this should have meant decrease in taxes or decrease in debt but instead debt increased. My assumption is that this is because of an decrease in state overhead and state investment efficiency.
>What advantage is there to having a bulk operation vs many operations?

For one, having it be transactional.

>With HTTP2 you can send a ton of requests in parallel.

That's orthogonal. And they still have a cost (in time and size of transfer).
The only place I’ve ever seen human feces on a public street is in SF and I’ve been to every major US city.

Are you not looking then? SF isn't even the only place in the Bay Area I've seen shit on the sidewalk.
The average lecturer was managing a class, but now they need to prescreen individuals for experiences that make them too weak for normal classes?

Just about 10 years ago cutting edge therapists were implanting false memories of childhood trauma.. If someone does not seem to need a therapist based on actual behavior then I don't think schools should be inviting lecturers to create pre-screening based on students reactions to trigger warnings, etc.

Bad ideas like every lecturer learning pop psychology "safety" and then reading tea leaves to tell people under their authority to get help is how you create a generation with psychological problems.
The Palm Pre was one of my favourite phones I’ve ever owned, that awful little plastic feeling keyboard and sharp bottom aside.

WebOS was very well designed, and IMHO only suffered due to underpowered hardware.

I’ve always wanted to do something with it’s leftovers.
How much of the discussion is the open question vs the actual problem?

e.g. "Pete Buttigieg has a AA voter problem" vs. his actually having that problem (which is not conclusive)

The solution to this is usually some overwhelming action to not only mitigate but change the momentum of discussion.
How would that work? Take a picture of the picture and hash it? Wouldn't that just make the picture you took the source of entropy not the physical one?
So are the Xeons. But AMD's latest generation was a bigger change than Intel's latest update.
I can't even read the article for more than a few seconds because I get redirected to one of those full page "Your computer has a virus" ads that won't let you hit the back button.
Holy shit, the internet is crazy, this is amazing!

It brings back lots of memories...games were so good back then!
You could use tmux and script it. This way, you would not actually have workspaces open, but instead reduced startup time.
We have decided that it is not enough for us to work to protect the world from snoops and censors; we must also stand up to protect one another from harassment.

And with that, they've moved from being a dumb pipe to being a force for censorship. Way to go folks. :(

The big problem we see with the internet, and basically any sort of truly open point-to-point communication system that is truly unbiased, is that means that people are able to talk to whomever they want.

True, free, and open communication, with all that that implies.

Personally, I think the only technological solution to this is to make it expensive enough to send messages that people won't just go and harass for the lulz. One could even imagine a system where, perhaps using some kind of bitcoin analogue, additional traffic to a user becomes increasingly "expensive" unless given specific rebates by the recipient--in effect, the more messages a user gets, the more expensive it is to message them, unless they give you permission to do so.

As for non-tech solutions, people need to come to terms with the fact that others may say terrible and hurtful things to them, and they need to have the fortitude to deal with it or ignore it (and that's not easy, but it's essential if you want to be a responsible adult that encourages freedom in today's world).
Wtf does that mean for a math textbook? Cringey word problems of the form "if 7 people are racist, and the number of racist people double every 2 years, how many after 6 years?" Like its kind of hard to figure out what that means concretely.
Is it fair to say that RIM is dead in the same sense that Paul claimed that Microsoft was dead, namely that nobody fears RIM and that their influence over the tech landscape is minimal?
"hey, look, my idea has an internal logical consistencyyy.."
Yep. And we were trying to encourage the client to let their developers go home too.

I've been handing out free kool-aid samples pretty much since that first project.
> "None of the K-series CPUs support VT-d. For some reason, VT-d and overclocking are not compatible."

No, compatible usually implies there's a technological or engineering justification. This is pure marketing. And the Devils Canyon update to Haswell introduced some -K parts that have VT-d.

Edit: And support likewise implies that even if it's not a purely technical issue, that there's at least some tradeoff. Enabling virtualization has a price to the consumer, but doesn't cost Intel anything extra.