jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Of course they are. People in the west couldn't even be arsed to wear a mask, the simplest thing one could do to at least show some social solidarity.

The kind of shit individualism has evolved into is ridiculous.
The rates are heavily dependent on the skillset. I.e. for people well-versed in the latest and "greatest" tech, it's typically 500-600 pounds per day, for everyone else it's 300-500.
The same thing is done with Social Security and Medicare in the US. I hate it when governments try to obfuscate things like this.
The offerings of DO and others are simpliar

That is the target, AWS you need a math degree to understand the billing and even then you will never know exactly what you will be billed until you are actually billed...

This is not the case with DO and Linode

Sure for a large enterprise that needs that complexity and flexiblity to squeeze every penny out it would not be a good fit

but for SMB work loads, it is great
Hey now you can’t tease a premise for a novel like that without telling us the title and author :)
Yes, and the iPod was just a Nomad with less space.

(The problem with talking about innovation is that the goalposts are so easily moved.)
As someone who has done driveby python work, how would I even know how to do that? Noob me found all sorts of howtos and getting started guides. Seemingly contradictory, mutual exclusive.

My (extended) team couldn't even get all the Pythonistas to agree on The One True Python Stack™.
I've been using WhatsApp without giving it contact access for a few years and it's possible but annoying. Since WhatsApp still shows you recent chats you don't have to type phone numbers each time, you just select from the list of recent chats. You also get to see people's WhatsApp profile photo so it's generally possible to know who you're talking to even though their username is their phone number. This works ok for me with around a dozen frequent WhatsApp contacts but I could see it breaking down if you have more than 20 frequent contacts.

> What if they previously didn’t have WhatsApp installed, but have since installed, so you also need to check again every time you want to message someone who formerly didn’t have WhatsApp.

Why is this important? I use WhatsApp instead of SMS for contacts who don't have (free) SMS or who want the extra security. It's pretty intentional. Why would I want to use WhatsApp with everyone? That concept seems aligned with Facebook's goals, not mine.
I'd describe the mid 2000s aesthetic as "Professional", while current trends are "Genuine". Snaps, stories, livestreams, and other volatile social media became chic because it would go away - you didn't have to rehearse your words, worry about lighting, or ensure your images are perfectly aligned.

I really dug this Reslash concept after seeing that grainy image of a classroom used as a background. It's something you just slap on because you're about to teach, but it isn't a painfully constructed "Knowledge Session" with a stock image-riddled Powerpoint deck.
This is the answer right here.
I remember post credits narration of a 1990s Dorling Kindersly video about a black car morph into an insect (both beetle) and she said this took 3 weeks just for a 3 second animation.
I love iTunes, both on Windows and on the Mac. It's reasonably fast on Windows (and very fast on Mac), it does a great job organizing my collection, it makes sharing and streaming between devices extremely easy (Mac, PC, Apple TV, iPhones etc.). It let's me easily subscribe to podcasts, shop for music, and sync with iOS.

I'm not aware of another media program that does half these things half as well. But feel free to enlighten me.
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i don't know how to do it but my parents and a good friend switched to conversations[0] because this is what I prefer.

I guess people are willing to switch if they care about you a lot. in other words, most won't.

[0] https://conversations.im/
I started out on ING Direct as well, but I stuck with it through the Capital One transition. Overall I'm still happy with the checking/savings account features, no maintenance fees etc. The mobile app/website is pretty good. However the "desktop" website is annoying as it's just a scaled up version of the mobile one, but it still gets the jobs done. Unfortunately they've removed the ability to easily add multiple savings accounts for budgeting, or at least I can't find a way to do it. Luckily I still have the ones I created back in the ING days.
Another example of a company could be Game Freak and Creatures, the developers of Pokémon. Though it is now created with a joint-venture like company "The Pokémon Company" that is owned mostly by those three companies, with Nintendo owning 32%.
> Surely, you have a process that you follow in your own work though?

Personally, no. I have spent enough time at enough organizations to simply adapt to whatever they do. But if I want to write some code I just do that. I might toss in testing or whatever for bigger projects, but it’s all ad hock.

Processes are about repeatability, but for personal projects you can customize based on more specific goals. If I want speed, accuracy, or whatever I am going do made different choices. I am even going to change things up based on whatever mood I am in at the time.
Of course it turns out hunter biden has been under criminal investigation for awhile.

But democratic controlled media and companies “fact checked it” so it was censored everywhere until election was over.
7 IS Vista, hastily rebranded and tweaked a bit.
How about if you gate-crash a rock concert, or jump the turnstile at a subway?
I agree that it is not linear. But can you agree that it does translate to some demand at cost > 0?

If so, that demonstrates that piracy represents some loss of potential income for the studios.
good debunking, thanks
I got it, but I'm particularly interested in reasoning behind this - not what is more appropriate, but why it is.
Government currencies have a concrete function - if you are legally required to pay taxes in it that gives it a very concrete value of being needed to operate legitimately in a country. That makes it very different from just faith even taking the most cynical possible view of governments - even if a complete collapse in faith would undermine it greatly.
It's too bad how Apple-centric these resolutions are.
Are these "web pages" all on the same website?

If so, using wget is a poor solution. I have not used wget in over a decade but as I recall it does not do HTTP pipelining; I could be wrong on that - please correct me.

I do recall with certainty that when wget was first written and disseminated in the 1990's, "webmasters" wanted to ban it. httpd's were not as resilient then as they are today, nor was bandwidth and hardware as inexpensive.

HTTP pipelining is a smarter alternative than burdening the remote host with thousands of consecutive or simultaneous connections.

Depending on the remote host's httpd settings, HTTP pipelining usually lets you make 100 or maybe more requests using a single connection. It can be acomplished with only a simple tcpclient like the original nc and the shell.

In any event, the line about a "distributed crawler" is spot on. Never understimate the power of marketing to suspend common sense.

Also, I find that I can often speed my scripts up a little by using exec in shell pipelines, e.g., util1 |exec util2 or exec util1 |exec util2.

There are other, better approaches besides using the builtin exec, but I will leave those for another day.
The point is you can have a record in DNS that says "never use HTTP" that protects clients who haven't yet seen HSTS, and you can use a TLSA-like SRV record to protect clients who haven't yet seen HPKP.

Another thing you're missing is that the CA system almost boils down to the integrity of DNS already, since you can get a CA to issue a basic certificate for a domain simply through weak ownership verification (i.e. if someone controls or MITMs your MX records/responses you're fucked).
Doh, yes. `print` rather than `puts` is also acceptable.
Economic growth and the resulting distribution of wealth / capital is not a zero sum game. So the fact that the top 1% owns more than the rest, is not a problem per sé. Who cares what 'they' own, if I / we can live happily, in wealth and in health. An opinion on the distribution of wealth (Piketty) is more political than economical.

But even on the more libertarian axis of the spectrum (for the US: conservative, for the rest of the world: liberal), it might be troubling.

'We' are working hard to eradicate poverty in all those countries attached to the 'global economy'. That is such a big plus in the lives of billions.

But for the already developed world it might be different. One of (my) principles to hold dear is the chance of improving oneself by studying, working hard, etc. The demise of the middle class in many developed countries, is an example. It seems to be getting harder for the many to work hard, own a house and save enough for retirement.

The rents paid to the winners in, say, the financial sector or modern internet are so disproportionate that they feel more like luck than skill. I don't have an answer of policy, because if you target that glut of wealth but end op hurting innovation, you hurt the billions as well.

But if (very big if) things like quantitative easing are stimulating the glut of cash flowing towards finance and venture capital, we might not be creating a very stable future where hard work and effort get rewarded with any notion of certainty. And that ís a problem for the world.
I did. I just haven't seen it. Ever. I've seen dogs. Nothing else. I used to see birds and snakes and big lizards a lot when I lived in Houston 15 years ago, but not really anywhere since (except in Venice Beach), and that obviously wasn't because of this ESA thing. It may have been a factor of who I was hanging out with and things I was doing.

I'm not endorsing people abusing the system...I'm endorsing chilling out about dogs in "human" spaces. I understand there are valid concerns. Some people are allergic, and that's a thing we should try to be respectful of, within reason (i.e. if someone is allergic and says so, maybe move them or the animal to another location within the space). Some dogs are poorly behaved. Owners should be expected to be responsible for inappropriate behavior.

Anyway, my point was mostly that no one bats an eye at children being everywhere humans go, even though children can be unruly, disruptive, destructive, smelly, and dangerous, animals too. I like dogs. I want to live in a world where dogs are treated with reasonable levels of respect and aren't excluded unnecessarily from their families lives. (Humans have this really weird/unique relationship with dogs. They need us in ways that no other animal does. Whether it was ethical to breed that need into them over thousands of generations is not a useful debate to have, since we can't undo it...but, I believe that comes with some kind of responsibility.)
GCC has multiple, rich ASTs that you can access by modifying (and freely distributing) the source, or you can build a plugin that access the AST through the API.

The debate hinges on a very subtle point: GCC does not commit to keeping the plugin API nor the AST structure stable between releases, making it difficult to maintain any software that relies on a specific shape of the plugin API or the ASTs.
It was such an amazing system and it's unbelievable that this was published in 1963. Too bad it took more than 3 decades before it made it into people's homes.

Anyone finding this interesting might find Bill Buxton's timeline of devices interesting too: http://www.billbuxton.com/inputTimeline.html
This is what I want too. I imagine I could learn what I want to learn about 20x faster with such a game.

BTW if you want to collaborate together to spec out the game we want maybe someone who already understands the relevant theory can help create such a game.

I want to start with questions like:

- create a voltage divider to do ___

- what value of resistor is needed to bias the transistor properly to start oscillation? (would show the rest of the context)

- choose three components to create a low pass filter

- which transistor would work with this oscillator circuit? (multiple choice)

- why doesn't the LED in this circuit light?

There are thousands of simple questions/exercises that would (I think) pave the way for slightly more complex questions... it would be such a fun game :)
"Your lunchtime is exactly 29 minutes. You are fired on the spot if you take a 31 minute lunch as that messes with the planning capabilities of the system."

This is meant to describe "a large shipping warehouse in the US ... (think Amazon)" logistics system. Is this actually in any meaningful way true? If so, I'm disgusted, naive and disappointed.
Paypal Micropayments is 5% and 5 cents.

That said, strongly consider anything you can do which pushes your average transaction value up above ~$20 or so. This is partly due to decreasing the bite of transaction fees but mostly because building a business on $1.50 transactions is really, really, really, really hard when Steve Jobs has not already arranged a captive audience with credit cards on file.

One of the traditional solutions in e.g. social games is selling a virtual currency in $10, $20, $50, etc increments and then using the virtual currency to effect small-value payments. For example, $10 gets you 7 dragon eggs, $20 gets you 15 (one bonus egg!) The thing you were thinking of selling for $1.50 now costs 1 dragon egg. This both helps you get your average purchase up, saves your processing costs, and also increases transaction volume by not having people feel like they're being asked for $1.50 on a frequent basis. (The fact that $10 doesn't divide evenly by 7 is not accidental.)
Good luck with this project! As a (ex?)scientist, the problem I remember is looking if there is a mature-enough library and still in active development/support. (Usually there are many, but only a few actually useful.)

A few other ways to go is to scan arXiv for citations of software, https://pypi.python.org/pypi for scientific packages, etc.
Funny, I once asked the same question about pure mathematics, and got similar answers. In the end I decided pure math wasn't the best bang for buck in terms of benefit to humanity, and decided to work on other things.

When it comes to Haskell, there is a big problem that the people best qualified to speak on the matter have invested a lot of time in Haskell, and therefore are subject to biases associated with their investment in the field.

For one thing, I would ask what programs use Haskell. The only major project I'm aware of is xmonad. This should tell you something about how practical Haskell is.

On the other hand, you may learn something from Haskell. I studied Haskell because I believe there are much better languages out there, and in order to find them we need to understand and improve on the theoretically most advanced languages (i.e. dependently typed languages) and learning Haskell was the best starting point. If this is not your goal, I actually doubt another 6 months of Haskell will help your day to day programming.

Also, what have you managed to learn in the past 6 months? And how were you studying? I found Learn you a Haskell to be the best introduction.
I recently purchased this book, along with three different kits that supplied all the tools and components I would need to carry out the experiments for roughly the first two thirds of the book (total cost: around 300 dollars, I know I could have gotten most of this stuff cheaper but such is life). My experience was...mixed. The book did a great job explaining some of the basic principles of electronics but these kind of cookbook tutorials don't seem to work as well as say a book that will teach you everything you need to know about Ruby programming. Eventually you will need to start from hard theoretic principles in order to design your own circuits.

I've come to the realization that you need to pull from a bunch of different sources to get a good enough background in the domain of electrons to start building a project you want to see realized, and that mastery in this domain is probably a journey that can be measured in decades.
For example in the first few sentences he started referring to Maxwell's equations in very familiar terms (something like "we all know about Maxwell's equations already...")

This, incidentally, is exactly like going to MIT.
Don't you need to be rooted to modify your hosts file on Android?
"The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power. Moreover, passionate intensity can serve as a substitute for the confidence born of proficiency and the possession of power. A workingman sure of his skill goes leisurely about his job, and accomplishes much though he works as if at play. On the other hand, the workingman who is without confidence attacks his work as if he is saving the world, and he must do it if he is to get anything done."

-- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
Oh, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
It seems that it interchanges "productive" with "writing clean code".

PHP is ugly but can be productive. Haskell is beautiful, but well, I know a lot of people encharmed by it, but no-one productive (i.e. delivering products quickly; it's not the same as solving pure, mathematical problems).
>So please stop needlessly injecting your speculation and biases into the comments here, please only put forward arguments which are consistent with the well-established facts as we know them. Thanks.

What a truly strange thing to say.

"I elect myself thread moderator!"

Let's not act like needless comments and speculation don't have the potential to add to a topic of discussion, they do.
Sure, no doubt. Even hip big companies like Google and Apple require/recommend/suggest a college degree for technical jobs. I don't think it's a bad hiring heuristic, as completion of a college degree does suggest an amount of knowledge and perseverence to complete a goal.

Really, in HN-related industries, unless you are unwaveringly committed to working for a startup or going into business for yourself, the work possibilities that would render a college degree as desireable-for-employment probably vastly outnumber work possibilities for which a degree has absolutely no use whatsoever.

On the flip side, I don't think a degree should be viewed as a guaranteed ticket of entry to employment. If there's a hundred or a thousand people applying for the job, and half of them do have a college degree, you still have to stand out somehow or another. It might be as simple as having solid writing skills, or an agreeable personality at the interview. But the degree alone may not suffice.
They suggest addressing the Flash vulnerability by installing the prerelease 10.1 version, which "does not appear to be vulnerable".

But the first step of installing 10.1 (on Windows and MacOS) is to run an uninstaller, also available on the download page:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Perhaps the prudent should stop after that uninstall step, for safety from other future exploits, as well.
Spreading it out just makes everyone feel the burden. I feel bad for the genuinely disadvantaged like everyone else. I dropped out of college and worked my ass off to live in a nice neighborhood. I'd prefer to live around people with a similar drive. I would also prefer to not have my tax dollars used to move possible criminals into my neighborhood.
I don't actually think this is that bad of an idea. The issue with NFTs so far is that the content they represent is almost wholly useless: would you prefer an intangible ape, or a randomized pixelated nerd? By attaching them to tangible objects, they at least do something. You could make an Alfa Romeo Yacht Club that forces you to sign in with your wallet, and then parses all the info from your vehicle into the system to let you compare stats, share data with others, hell, even set up a leaderboard for furthest driven, etc.

There's still technical problems to be solved here (what kind of blockchain are they using? what kind of data is recorded? what kind of data is visible to others?), but I think this is a step in the right direction that's bound to be torn to shreds by people who want to dunk on BAYC and it's equally useless kin. Time will tell if others catch on, I suppose.
> The Banach-Tarski paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox) changes the _volume_ of the objects. That’s requires some of the prices to be immeasurable.

It changes the volume by a discretionary amount; you can create two spheres of the same size as the original sphere, or 500 spheres of the same size as the original sphere, or you can create one sphere of double the radius [= four times the size] of the original sphere.

I see no reason to believe that you couldn't also make one cube of equal volume to the original sphere?
Thank you for digging that up for me. The more I understand myself the better I'm able to adapt.
Not to distract from your point ... this page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_polling_for_United_... suggests the value was always between 40-50%

... however I assume you meant "reputable polls", not Polish people :)
Yeah, those. I basically never see them anymore. There was a short time where they seemed pretty common, but I honestly only remember seeing one once in the last two years, at a farmers' market booth. All the vendors I frequent that used to use that have either upgraded to the full-function $300 Square terminal, or moved to using other solutions like Toast or Clover.
This is a great argument for Monero. It is much easier to launder money on a privacy-oriented blockchain.
I think this is the most wonderful part of Lisp. Specifically its homoiconicity, or the fact that the syntax of the program is the program, and yet the syntax (as far as linebreaks, indentation, spaces vs tabs, etc) is completely irrelevant to the meaning of the code.

Ostensibly you could craft a future where what is on disk is not what the user is actually editing - a-la the virtual DOM. And on read/save the developer's preference is used to transform the syntax into their ideal shape. This is trivial in a Lisp, but not so easy in other languages.
> In reality, crypto's true purpose is a moving target, so it can never be criticized because that's not what crypto is really about.

Bitcoin is a tool. Like hammer or a shotgun. You can use it whatever way you want. There is no centrally defined "purpose".
A smart way of promoting their One/Sky Drive?
estimation through linear techniques don't work on non linear problems.
Else, if I have X users, tell me the formula to guess my IP transit bill when the number of users double?

If you have it, you are a genius.
http://www.businessinsider.com/report-mtgox-subpoenaed-by-us...
is more informative
Thank you for elevating our level of discourse a bit :-)
+1 for "Django deployment best practices".
I think the opposite is true since 2000.