jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
About two weeks ago, I started standing 100% of the time while working.

I'm at the computer maybe 9-10+ hours/day. So this has been essentially a complete change in my habits of physical movement/rest.

I do martial arts and some body work regularly, so I started out in what I considered to be good physical shape but it definitely has been ... challenging.

I think I'm getting closer to adjusted currently. When I began, there were times when my legs felt something like lead.
Not every law has a universal jurisdiction and applies to every possible party.

For example, the government has no right to privacy whilst we as individuals do.
How long before Groupon launches a social network or a search engine?
You spend more time looking for stuff to watch than
actually watching stuff.

Ever been to a video rental store? That's how it used to be done. Browsing through the collection and reading the synopsis on the back of the cassettes was a big part of the whole VHS rental experience. One video store where I grew up even gave out small bags of popcorn to eat while in the store.
They gave me a wrist-slap call when I used 2.x TB in a month. That was before I realized there was a 250GB limit on my unlimited plan...
Are you looking for a co-founder or just a partner?
"You mention that Emily White says Deals will be the first product that uses Credits for real goods (rather than virtual ones in games). You can’t use Credits to directly buy real goods. You can use Credits to buy Deals, and you get a voucher that you can print out and take to the merchant to redeem your deal. But you can’t use Credits to actually buy a real good. Might be confusing to some people."

Um, what?

Perhaps they are trying to avoid the Secret Service (ie, avoiding the idea that it is a currency)?

Still, what a hilariously confusing paragraph.
Couldn't the same be said of most medical findings? Should we verify all findings utilizing fully controlled testing on twins?
Mhh, this is weird. I didn't suggest that they tell me what to do but that they tell me about the derivative. From the status messages it appeared that things were getting better, albeit slowly, when in fact they kept getting worse and affected more machines 12 hours after the initial problem.
I thought I was big time when I bought a 9600 baud modem.
> Thank God we didn't have this sort of rubbish with gasoline engines.

Erm, we did actually.

One of the reasons for using the Turnpikes prior to about 1985 was that it guaranteed that you had gas stations at usefully spaced intervals. Someone who won the Turnpike contract had to run gas stations at some points where it wasn't profitable to do so simply to maintain the spacing.
The author mentions extended examples of Bitcoin operating exactly as intended as both a medium of exchange or value transfer that circumvents a failing fiat currency or geopolitical issues connected to economic instability, and as a store of value to decouple possible future purchase power needs from a bad / volatile fiat currency.

Then in the immediate next paragraph they assert, unmotivated and unsupported, that this makes Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme..

It baffles me the mental gymnastics people go through to criticize and dismiss cryptocurrency. Some people have just made up their minds against it, and even when they personally are writing paragraphs of examples of its legitimate, intended use, the confirmation bias that it can only mean “Bitcoin bad” is still so strong.
But all of this has it's rise and it's stagnation and bloat-fall.

What does a new flagship phone do better, compared to a 2year old one? A slightly better camera, maybe more storage space, and that's it. "Back in the days" we had phones with 9,10 7-segment displays, then single line lcd screens, multiline, graphical, color, touchscreens and smartphones (each step taking only a couple of years), and since then (so, the last ~5 years) not a lot of "new stuff", that would warrant buying a new phone (except the failing battery on the old one).

Websites have got massively bloated and slow, even on modernish computers, and show even less informations than they did in the past (fscking gallery pages). We've gone from text-only sites, to basic html (with images!), javascript, to 'web 2.0' with dynamic loading... to bloatware.

As mentioned... word has gone from a five, ten...ish megabytes to hundreds of megabytes while not offering much more compared to older versions. Yes, it's a bit more polished, some things are easier now... but not a lot. Going from text to graphical mode was a "revolution", but again, not a lot new after.

Even operating systems... what does windows 10 do, that windows 7 didn't?

I mean... we do get a new feature here and then, but the push to "make a new version" is stronger than the actual need for a new version.... not at first, but once the software gets mature enough, there's (almost) "nothing new to add".
To those who like me are not in the know, I think the parent comment is about an app that used to be called vigilante

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_(app)

> Citizen is a mobile app that sends users location-based safety alerts in real time.[1][2][3][4] It allows users to read updates about ongoing reports, broadcast live video, and leave comments.[1][2] The app uses radio antennas installed in major cities to monitor 911 communications,[5] with employees filtering the audio to generate alerts.[5] In March 2020, Citizen added the COVID-19 digital contact tracer SafePass. The app is currently available for iOS and Android devices[6] in 20 cities,[7] including New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, Baltimore, Los Angeles,[8] Philadelphia.[9] Detroit,[10] Indianapolis,[11] Phoenix,[12][13] Cincinnati,[14] Chicago, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Cleveland.[15]
Yes, this. And if I had read DFW and Lydia Davis as a 14 year old, I shudder to think how far I'd be ahead at understanding the complexities of being alive and knowing what to pursue and when. Those two authors did more for my emotional growth than just about anything.
> Magic was selected to win the space

What does that even _mean_?

Yes they have money. Can they execute using it? Who the hell knows? Can they execute better than some kids whose uncle gave them £20,000? Maybe, or maybe they'll piss it up against the wall on some stylish offices and seats.
Then the market maker has to give the option holder the shares.
The framework laptop is 16mm thick and 1.5kg. Those are the dimensions of a ThinkPad T480 and its successors. (As in, the framework laptop is not as thin or as light as you're assuming -- it's "standard" laptop size, not Ultrabook)
> Trackpad vs keyboard

¿Por que no los dos? Seriously, I wasn't talking about replacing my keyboard with a trackpad. They are different devices with different purposes and are intended to be used together.
Try reading carefully.
It's we don't know how to fix and just wait until it will disappear.
>Your point is only correct if you replace the word "most" with "my." The fact that trackpads are hugely popular indicates that your needs are not typical, and you should not impose your choices upon others with different needs.

But Apple trackpads are not hugely popular, they have a fraction (~10%, likely less) of the global market. Does the fact that non-Apple computers are hugely popular indicate that the needs of Apple trackpad fans are not typical, and they should not extol their virtues to others?

> Show me a better multi-purpose input device that I can use to rotate objects on a screen. Or zoom into a specific object without affecting other objects on a screen. Or configure to have multiple hotspots that when tapped can trigger events or macros.

I’ve previously used a normal Apple mouse and keyboard to do all of these things in Adobe Photoshoshop and Illustrator on macOS and subsequently a random BestBuy mouse and ancient Compaq keyboard to do them in Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender on GNU (with xdotool for hot corners, which I’m counting as close enough to tapping hotspots). A graphics tablet would only work better.

> Again, trackpads aren't your thing. Good for you. Other people love them, and millions of people get real work done on them each day.

Again, non-Apple trackpads don’t seem to be your thing. Good for you. The majority of trackpad users use them every day.
To be clear, I’m not asking anyone to accept my “authority”, which as you rightly point out, is nonexistent as a random anonymous person on the internet. I’m not claiming to be an expert on child psychology, but I do have some knowledge of statistics and research methods, so I can read the abstract of a study and know, at minimum, if its methodology renders it worthless BS, scientifically speaking.

But, ultimately, the experts are divided on this issue, and the research is available for anyone to look into on their own. I gave my interpretation. Anyone else is free to give theirs. People can make up their own minds.

My experience is that it’s usually the sleep training people who handwave away
the research, relying instead on appeals to convention (in the US) or emotional lectures about “shaming” the poor, helpless parents. But again, people can decide for themselves.

Also, for the record, I’m in the group that loves being a parent. It’s my favorite thing in the world and brings me joy every single day. It has been hard at times, but that never reduced my enjoyment.
When it comes to math at least, I think the key is finding the balance between symbolic and lexical representation. Some ideas are far to "wordy" to not use symbols. Some ideas have far to much depth to just explain with symbols. But using words to explain symbols? Very good in my experience during my math degree.
I'm waiting for automatic code optimization. Write the code going from an input to an output however you like, show the computer your input and output, have it rewrite the most optimal (and probably very weird looking) code possible to go from your supplied input to your supplied output, and reap the efficiency rewards to mastering a stack of arcane low level code reference books without spending the thousands of hours of your precious and limited free time to do so. That would be a huge leap imo.
Yeah, but that also serves the purpose of making us encourage our workplaces to use GitHub, and they pay for it.
totally agree, I just reposted this here because I thought this article at LWN gave a lot more details than the previous ones.
Focusing on Java may very well be shortsighted on the part of today's college-level technology educators, but it's what exists today. If you have a problem with that, you'd have to take your concerns up with the people who run the Computer Science AP exam (the College Board) and university CS departments.

We're not trying to overturn the ancien regime here, we're just trying to make something available for kids who may not have access to computer science education of any kind (which is the case at a vast number of US high schools). When questions on Scheme are added to the advanced placement exam in computer science, we'll cover that too.
Thank you! I've been using virtualenv+pip, conda+pip and a few other virtualenv wrappers lately, and never heard of pipx!
Office 365 (or Microsoft 365 or whatever they want to call it today) is also good value. ~$5/month gives you more or less the same as Google where it comes to email/calendar and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage. It can go even cheaper at ~$2/month for just basic email (on the "Kiosk" plan) if you don't need cloud storage and just need hosted e-mail.

Regarding your counterpoint, I disagree. It's not about ProtonMail claims of encryption or security or anything, it's just that their business model is to be selling hosted e-mail services and not advertising, and they have no incentive (nor the technical expertise in-house) to read your e-mails for advertising purposes. Furthermore, ProtonMail and all these other services only get a part of your data, so even if they do use your data nefariously, it's better for each one to misuse a separate chunk of it than for one entity to have all of it.
I'm not saying its necessary or otherwise. I'm saying that it's here and getting rid of it will not be easy.

Another example you might be familiar with if you're American, the US healthcare system, especially the private insurance system.

How is getting rid of it going? :-)
The QALY metric they mention is exactly what I had in mind, actually, very cool.

Wealth won't get you better care, or faster care, or different in the NHS. That's the point I was making, and your article supports that position.

> "You'd have to go elsewhere and on your own dime for expensive treatments."

[In a single payer system there's nowhere else to go.] (retracted)
Just sounds like radically heightened synaesthesia and sensory sensitivity. With a bit of focus you can start seeing the colors floating in the air she's talking about. Stare at a wall. Focus only on the vision itself, the image rendered to your consciousness if you will. Focus on the grain/noise/vibration in it. Try to "amplify" it as much as possible. Look at the patterns that form. There's gonna be some color here and there. Amplify again, rinse and repeat. If you're lucky other senses will follow.
When I first "discovered" it I felt very similar to the person in the video. Pretty curious if it is indeed a similar experience.
Excellent question about the laws. I've looked into the RV lifestyle and I concluded that large class A motorhomes are pretty much limited to being semi-permanently parked in RV parks - with the occasional overnight at places like Wal-Mart when traveling. The exception being in more rural areas where no one cares if you boondock. However, don't let the cheap price of this bus fool you - it would be an expensive lifestyle.

In the SF Bay Area, it will probably cost a minimum of $600 per month to rent a lot. For about $200 more you could rent a room in an apartment with other housemates. Getting further out of the metropolitan area (about a 3 hour drive) an RV lot is going to run in the range of $300 per month.

RV lots are a luxury, not necessarily a way to live cheaply. For dirt cheap living, look into urban boondocking in a van or small RV or look at buying cheap rural land and parking something like this bus on it permanently (in impoverished parts of the country that setup could cost about $10,000).

This is a brilliant project - I really like the wide open feel - something you rarely see in a Class A motorhome (which is what this should be compared to). However, you would need something stronger than translucent screens to make this a go. You would need screen that block out all light and most heat flow. Otherwise, this thing is going to be hell to heat or cool, but honestly, that's a minor issue. The translucent screens look nice, but I am betting something completely opaque would be more efficient and hence a lot more useful. But on a temperate day that near-panaromic view would be amazing and something you don't see in class A motorhomes.
The idea of "assortative mating" is covered in depth in
http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Markets-Inequality-Remaking-A...
I have no affiliation with the book, I just read it recently and thought someone might be interested in the topic.
This coming from a man caught plagiarizing his work. People won't stop getting liberal arts degrees, but we need to make sure that more people (specifically, those who might not go to college or drop out) get into these types of programs. Some people don't like writing book reviews and are more technical in nature. They just don't think higher ed is for them because they don't want to go into these liberal arts classes.
The quoted lines do not state that the mortgage became exorbitant because the value of the price dropped -- you're reading that into it.

On the other hand, a lot of people bought houses on 3-5 year fixed interest mortgages during the housing bubble, on the grounds they expected to be able to resell or refinance when the fixed interest rate expired and the mortgage suddenly got a lot more expensive and -- because their properties were now underwater -- they could not sell or refinance.

Back in the days when people just paid their mortgages, real estate was seen as a safe but boring investment, and interest rates were at 5-6% (2-3% above inflation).

It's a bit rich when a mortgage lender lends money to a high risk customer and takes out insurance on their defaulting or the property losing value (PMI) and charges the customer for that insurance and then gets annoyed if the customer walks away from the wreckage.
This is a cultural problem which I believe stems from US police and border guard recruiting have a leave from the US arm service. Many of these employees our training and have experience as in occupying force in a foreign country Where is the citizens are at least a threat, if not explicitly the enemy. Individuals hired from the arm forces bringing this mentality with them and skip spread throughout the organizations where they work.
> I wonder if there's a middle ground;

I hope that McCLIM (https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/) can some day fill that role, or a project that is similar to McCLIM.

I cannot imagine a better way of interacting with a computer than to have objects that can be manipulated both interactively and with Lisp code. Emacs is already close to that ideal, but I think we could do even better.
Diffend allows you to manage the risks that come with using open-source third party dependencies by providing malware detecting security scanning and a risk management platform for your Ruby dependencies.

https://diffend.io/
There are loads of cases of hyper-inflation, which means that the currency's real-world value decreases.

Here's the worst I've ever heard of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe

Yes, you read that right:

"However, Zimbabwe's peak month of inflation is estimated at 79.6 billion percent month-on-month, 89.7 sextillion percent year-on-year in mid-November 2008."

I recall interviews with government employees, who were quitting in droves. The Government wasn't keeping up with inflation, so at the end of 2 weeks, your check was basically worthless.

The place was falling apart.

People would run to the bank, cash pay checks, and buy STUFF. Anything. Anything physical. TVs, couches, bikes, blenders, ANYTHING. In one interview, a woman's living room was filled with random pieces of furniture, stacked to the ceiling, and a TV.

To trade. For barter.

Because even an hour later, that paycheck was worth so much less.

Madness.
If it's just a few companies doing it the 20% cut means you will probably lose many of the top performers, especially the younger ones who are more willing and able to put in more effort for more money. If it's most companies doing it then you'll probably see an overall drop in morale and those top performers or people who'd rather have the 100% might actually deliver even less than the 80%. Keep in mind that the costs of living don't go down proportionally, if anything some bills might even go up after spending that extra day in your own home.
> Singapore-upon-Thames

what does this mean?
LinkedIn taught me, back in 2005, to never link my address book to anything. This has been so helpful because any time an app wants to do anything with my address book, I assume that they will do the dumbest, most embarrassing thing possible.

Also, I used to have the “I don’t care if people see what I do setting” turned on, because why not. Then LinkedIn started emailing people because I moused over their post and stuff. Some contact emailed me to ask what I needed from her and it was so weird. And the email it sent her was super incorrect and stupid and said something like “Prepend wants to get back in touch with you.”
Except high income earners can choose to invest a much higher percentage of their income.

I can invest 80% or more of my take home pay if I choose to live frugally. Somebody close to minimum wage can probably get somewhere closer to 10%, which would come at greater personal sacrifice.

Agreed that more people should participate in investing and there's an educational/behavioral component, but recent government interventions have been excessive and basically amount to inflation of asset prices.

Dropping interest rates helps people purchase a home "today", but home prices quickly appreciate such that the carrying cost of the home is exactly the same as before, just priced higher and weighted more towards principal payments.
I agree that it's rude/hostile but I dont think it's unique. I've been to about 20 countries and a certain country-not-country, including all the larger Asian ones, and most border crossings are benign with guards just barely glancing at your passport and waving you through.

The only bad experiences Ive had were in Canada and Australia, maybe it's an Anglo thing? In Canada I got asked several times if I was really me, where my parents were from since I insisted I was American(Hispanic), and asked to show other ID. In Australia you dont even talk to the border guard normally, you just scan and are let in. However, an agent still came up to me while I was collecting bags and took me to another room where they went through my stuff and asked a bunch of questions and went through my phone also asking if Im really me.

In the US, out of dozens of entries Ive had just one rude enough to stand out. Anecdotally east coast airports ask me more questions than west coast. So out of my own personal experience, having been to Europe, Latin America and Asia, I'd say Anglo speaking borders are the worst for me(I wont say English-speaking because Singapore's border agents were all smiles).

PS- Everything I described is from before covid. Can't believe it's been over a year, I barely remember being able to fly anywhere every few months...
I am certainly willing to provide references for the facts contained within this post. Could you provide a list of things that, after your own research finding contradictory information, you think need references or further clarification?

What specifically do you believe is false, bullshit, or falsehoods? Can you please engage the discussion by providing counterpoints and information of your own?
I disagree with the author's points. AT&T doesn't care how integrated a mobile device is into their customers lives. All they care about is the money the customers pay them. And the more customers they have, the more money they make. However, instead of building a robust mobile infrastructure that can support all users, they try to cram as many low-usage customers they can on their outdated network.

Alienate one network "hog" and you'll find 49 others who will pay the same amount of money for a fraction of the usage. And for all the users they lose, they'll recoup millions in overcharging.

I love how customer satisfaction is one of AT&T's most important goals...
I've been working on this for the past 3 months. I'm a self taught coder and data scientist, and I wanted an easier way for people to get into the field.

I chose to teach python because it's easier to learn than R, and can be used for more than just data science.

It doesn't have much advanced content yet, but I'm working on it.

I've been really excited by the response by users so far, and I'd love to hear any feedback or questions.
What's the point of non-commercial GPL? I'm not a hard line copyleft guy, but I don't understand why you would make something "open source" when its really freeware.
Talking to a lot of people at conferences and similar events, rebasing against the target branch before merging is pretty uncommon. Few people think a clean history is that important.

Personally I think, rebase + auto-squash/auto-fixit makes the history a lot easier when it's time to look back. It just happens so rarely I wonder if it's really worth the effort I expend on it.