jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it would just be easier if someone "accidently" spilled coffee on it.
#startups (which is a bunch of hacker news readers.
> Why bring guns and zip ties if you're not there for violence?

Got it, so you have no evidence they were out for blood. It’s just a bad faith assumption on your part, ignoring that people often carry weapons for good faith reasons. Ignoring that no one was attacked with said guns except for the protestors.

It has not been proven that Sicknick was murdered. He died due to a blood clot that happened while he was on duty.
"Gabriel Sterling, a top Georgia election official, said Friday that election investigators had watched all the surveillance video from State Farm Arena in Atlanta, not just the 90 seconds Rudy Giuliani's legal team showed in a Georgia Senate subcommittee hearing, and they found that the "suitcases" were regular ballot boxes on wheels and the vote count was supervised until the end. Trump's team is "intentionally misleading the public about what happened at State Farm Arena on election night," Sterling said. "These aren't magical ballots."

You're wrong. The accusations are wrong. Our judges, some Trump appointees, said the accusations are baseless. Stop buying into bullshit because reality is uncomfortable.
> I am attacking your idea directly, not you.

This is why I don't talk politics, ever. You simply cannot attack a person's idea in politics, because their ideas are their identity. They will respond with the ferocity in which they would if someone were to physically attack them. While noble of you to try, it will fail. Every time.
True, but records aren't considered records if they're kept secret. Even if I could hold my breath for 25 minutes, Stig Severinsen would be considered as the best in the world at holding his breath until I publicly demonstrated that I could beat his time.
I think in the long run, the Internet lost. All the idiots that were content watching TV have migrated here. So much for the cool cyberspace future we were all dreaming about 20 years ago.
Reusing exam/written homework problems is unquestionably lax, I'd agree, but I do not think that professors should be writing new programming assignments each year.

I worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for intro programming classes at my school, and the amount of debugging (as that's what it is) that goes into designing a good assignment is extraordinary. We had a small collection of world-class teaching professors, and each time a new assignment was introduced, there were always problems. Some starter code didn't work for students A-E. Or a requirement was so ambiguous that solutions varied in a material way.

Like everything else, writing a really excellent assignment is an iterative process. After two or three offerings, you finally have something your users (ie, students) really value: an assignment that teaches well.

And to be honest, the presence of cheating on programming assignments never made any sense to me. It's so simple to detect plagiarism: you have the source right there (and a database of all previous submissions). I really do think that CS stands out among the classes for plagiarism because of how much easier it is to spot rather than an unusual incident rate.
>When my parents visited us earlier this year the very first thing my mother asked about on the way in from the airport was why so many of the houses looked like they were built out of cheap wood. Every place I've ever lived in Europe feels like a bomb shelter by comparison;

Houses in California are going to look less "solid" than houses elsewhere because houses elsewhere are often built out of brick or stone, materials that are vastly more likely to fail in an earthquake. Wood-frame, wood- or stucco-sided homes are common in California because they are much more likely to withstand earthquakes.
You found me out. It's all part of my evil plot to make HN'ers care about intellectual property. Curse you!
Right; and the people in the "What is a browser?" video [1] are not stupid; they're busy, have adapted very well to the extreme compartmentalization of 21st century Westernized life and knowledge, and are largely uninterested in what we know as computing. To invoke a central theme of "Paradox of the Active User" [2]: they're all experts in one field or another, and would make many a hacker here look like someone who doesn't know what something as supposedly generic as a "browser" is in their respective fields. That's far from "stupid".

You could replace a good 80% of the instances of "stupid" with "busy" in design discussions, and you'd end up with better discussions.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

[2] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/activeuserparadox.html
I was thinking more like 3 weeks.
"Humans are creatures of habit. If you reinforce a behavior, it will persist, and even spread to othercoworkers or users. You don't want to become the company-wide interface to answering the "is mysql down" question."

I think that was well said.

I believe it's one of the keys to be able to have fun working in a big company.
Reasonable audits of this type and scope typically take about a work week to complete?
Service Mesh really is about connectivity among all the service you are deploying in your architecture. Some of these services are going to be databases, some of them will be APIs, some of them will be caches and so on.

Once you have this underlying grid of services all connecting via a service mesh - in a reliable, secure and observable way - for some of these services you want to define governance and on-boarding rules, or you want to expose them externally as products that developer can consume and you then use an API GW to do those things.

In this regards, an API GW is just a service among the services you are running inside the service mesh.
At a previous job, I had a great setup: I had a drafting table but I set it up where the front was higher than the back - not dramatic, maybe only a couple of inches. That way my elbows could be on the desk but they weren’t forced at 90 degrees or pitch my wrists up. Basically my arms were slightly open more than 90 degrees and my wrists were always relaxed. I loved it. My new place just has a regular sit-stand desk and it’s been bothering me. I’m thinking of asking for a drafting table. I’ve never found a more comfortable arrangement. When I need to sit and think, I use a stool rather than lower the table. It works for me since I come from chemistry and we always had stools at the lab benches, so it just feels natural for me.
You're not answering me, but for that it is worth I sincerely hope you are right and I'm wrong.

And thank you for the exchange.
From the article, Newton had room for more than one.
I've used a Microsoft split keyboard for 20 years.

I try to keep my mouse over the numpad on the keyboard so I don't have to swing the shoulder as much, and try to use keyboard shortcuts.

I have an adjustable height chair with a footrest under the desk so that my eyes line up with the top 10th of the monitor.

I also use a stand/sit desk when I can get one. At home I have a monitor arm that lets me stand, but it's a pain to move the keyboard and such so I don't do it much.
Yeah but “communism was never tried” ;)
Were the Jews, gays, gypsies spared and privileged because of their race, and carried on living as if nothing bad is going on, turning a blind eye to the atrocities?

Rather the opposite.

You're trying to make the "looking the other way" citizens into victims...
> You have an obligation to do the best that you can. Yeah, it's hard. Yeah, it's stressful. Like it or not, that's what you signed up for. So step up.

I'm not downvoting you but I strongly disagree. You have an obligation to do an adequate job of this. I think it's also important not to become a slave to the idea that you must always do more because it's "supposed to be hard." Doing a great job of raising kids doesn't have to be a grueling slog, and I suspect that people who think it does aren't doing as good a job as they think they are.
That still doesn't make it genocide. To be clear, it makes it sickeningly evil, but insofar as distinctions matter, it isn't genocide.

Genocide implies the intent of erasing a people from existence. Simply detaining them and subjecting them to torture -- however horrible that may be -- is insufficient to meet the definition. A better argument would be that of forced sterilization, but then you'd have to show that this is both systematic and done with the intent of erasing an ethnic group.

To be clear: we must take a stand against China's behavior, but we should also label it correctly.
Cassandra doesn't require Zookeeper
Tennis players can't choose their brand of tennis balls either. So it's only a small step to enforce the type of racket or any equipment which can cast doubt on fairness.
> They don't make the air fresher, they mask bad odors

I read a little while ago there are some which just add scent to mask the smell, but others have a doughnut shaped molecule which captures the smelly molecule. It doesn't 'clean' as such and does nothing to stop the source of the smell though so perhaps calling it masking is correct.

I don't know enough about the specific science of cyclodextrin, I've put a couple of links below.

https://www.direct365.co.uk/blog/how-air-fresheners-work/
> The key to odour eliminating air fresheners is a molecule called cyclodextrin. This is a donut shaped molecule suspended in a water carrier. Due to cyclodextrin’s hydrophobic interior, it attracts the odour molecules in the air. As the water dries, the molecules on the interior of the cyclodextrin are encapsulated inside, therefore reducing their volatility and minimising their smell.

https://helix.northwestern.edu/blog/2015/06/take-whiff-chemi...
> When you spray Febreze the hydrophobic cavity of the β-cyclodextrin traps these volatile, odor causing molecules, preventing the molecules from binding to the odor receptors in your nose
For all the hate nodejs gets, it solved the software packaging problem. That is the sole reason npm ecosystem is so big.

I have to say that it probably isn't a fare comparison because python is much older than nodejs. Python package management might very well have been state of the art in 1995.
I try to explain this to people all the time, especially on topics like panpsychism.

Is the universe conscious? Well, parts of it certainly are! And those parts are learning about itself as a whole.
> IDK if it would have been better or worse. Civil wars tend to leave a very toxic legacy.

Had it done so, it's very likely that the USSR would have intervened.
Completely misleading title and this is basically an ad:

(* Links to Vultr contain my referral code, which means that if you choose to subscribe to Vultr after you clicked on that link, it will earn me a small commission.)

host yourself means - running on your own hardware
There are two ways of doing it. Get the title then do the job, or do the job then get the title.

To be a "product owner", own the product.

The link[0] is a reply to someone who wanted "more interesting work". It starts with links to support the pointers given at the bottom of that post.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26654251
Yes, I thought this was a (somewhat cruel) joke as well when I got the error…
I wish there was an open-source solution something like this or similar to Readme.com but better than Redocly
It's not clear to me, and I'm sure folks here would know. It seems possible that the ARM IPO could end up raising quite a bit less than the Nvidia deal. Couldn't Nvidia buy a majority of ARM shares on the open market, at a discount, with no regulatory oversight?
I guess it's because it's not a new study and was discussed over and over again even here on hackernews and most of the study got dismissed after peer reviews. It's bad science and even worse journalism.
This is written in Rust!
I suspect 3D CAD is one area where GUI will always win. As far as I know big companies and militaries and cities and all the rest use GUI.

A small subset of people with an impeccable ability to work with 3d stuff in their mind might be more productive in code... till they have to collaborate with others who can't compute a chain of 3 rotations mentally.
Fyi, if you add a + to the end of any bitly URL, you'll see stats about the link. (Logged in users can set it to private but most times they don't)
more like the 1910s. Taiwan was fully electrified with flush toilets everywhere even before the U.S.
The repeated recommendation to use a drug which has not been properly tested by the president of the most powerful nation on this planet seems inappropriate to me.
which makes perfect sense because among the assumptions of free market economics which are required to make the invisible hand do its work is "perfect information": buyers and sellers share perfect information about conditions, costs, markets, supply, demand, etc.

and still there will be bullwhips because the future contains uncertainties like "when is the next coronavirus outbreak?"

Silicon Valley operates on secrets (what do Google Amazon and Facebook do with your data? anything that is not simply further stacking the deck against you?) the elimination of which is the direction reform minded people should go with regulations.
There is a good reason for that. If they only gave to banks in need, giving tells people that that bank is in trouble. And nobody would do business with the ones identified which guarantees that they are in trouble.

But they lent to everyone, and every bank knew that every other bank was good. Which meant that they all did business with each other.

However the eye-popping sums were misleading since these were short term loans. In fact that USA officially made $15.3 billion in profit off of TARP. (Which was about breakeven if you consider inflation.)

There are also many sets of numbers going around. For example TARP originally was supposed to be $700 billion, but only $475 billion was authorized, we spent $426.4 billion and got $441.7 billion back. The $15.3 billion profit that we made is very close to break-even when you consider inflation.
I believe this is part of a DDOS-mitigation method. It's not that anyone wants to do it. Rather, it's a survival mechanism.
May 2006: "National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: Implementation Plan", US Department of Homeland Security

https://books.google.com/books?id=4rnZeV0YhvUC&pg=PA171&dq=%...
Having used Kotlin, I’m now actively switching to Go. I find it much more enjoyable to write. But this is also highly personal opinion. I feel seriously lost in Kotlin’s documentation. Go is a joy to me.
The Beer Distribution Game is one of the touchstone examples for introductions to Systems Dynamics, a field pioneered at MIT with direct roots in control theory. PID controllers are not news in that part of the world.

A major insight of the field is that lags due to accumulation create wildly unexpected behaviours in systems that humans try to control. Many automated systems struggle too.
reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669084
- You live somewhere warm enough to bike year-round.
If the theoretical prediction can't be calculated until the experiment is done that motivates the choices of what and what not to approximate, is it really a prediction?
I see a ham sandwich under fruit?
No fucking stories about how grandma used to make this dish before Poland was invaded and the entire history thereafter before we even get to the ingredients!

I'm am down!
Somewhat unrelated: Why are so many people are using Zoom for user testing? WTF?! What is the point of things like live collaboration if people are just going to screen share.

Are people having problems with sharing their projects with clients or something?

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I'll say something since one of the worst things is putting a ton of work into something and getting crickets.

There's clearly a lot of effort put into this. Really like things like clearly outlining a scenario, and external links. Not enough people remember that the web is supposed to be interconnected and build on other resources. I especially like that it's not just one site, but a variety of sources like videos as well as articles.

But I don't understand why this is presented as a series of "challenges". It works much better as a reference that I can use to stay up-to-date with the industry. I am not actually going to sit down and do "exercises" to make mock survey questions. That kind of stuff is useless without context of a real job with real parameters, real requirements, real people you can ask to clarify their goals.

The website as a whole is an excellent resource for ui/ux. Definitely bookmarking. And I hope you continue to push out good content like this because it'll make a central authority in a pretty big field.

Also, I am really curious what the other countries were in your survey. Because that was the largest group of people. Is it mostly from asia or something?
This is a great post. I just posted an Ask HN about part time tech jobs, especially jobs with extremely low hours requirements. From time to time I find that local businesses sometimes need some in house tech stuff and will pay you on an ongoing basis for coming in a couple of times a week or remoting in to fix problems, etc. And this kind of mirrors what other people are saying - finding places that are using tech tangentially but don't really know what they're doing. The stress is way less. The issue I've run into with this is that a lot of these places are basically Stockholm Syndrome'd into using MS Office suite and various old school products that honestly have so many crazy bugs at the end of the day, and have changed so much over the years they're not really getting out of it what they did to begin with. It can be frustrating to have a place that is so locked into these tools and not open to growing, so in my experience even if it's low hours/minimal work, if you're maintaining something that's broken and hard to automate (MS Office bugging out) it gets really frustrating and less personally satisfying.

One thing that I had some minimal success with is reaching out randomly to non profits and asking them if they need any help, say with Word Press or something like that. Non profits are really big on the lower salary stuff and will probably be super grateful that you're able to do anything VS the janky/expensive setup they have currently. The cool thing about this too is you can look up non profits that you support and so it's more personal meaning than fixing some cursed CSS bug on Random Big Tech SAAS startup. I figure you may be able to work part time at a couple of these and have it add up?

Another thing is checking craiglist computer gigs. I've found interesting stuff there, most people don't think to look.

My hours have to be really limited so these options work for me less, but maybe they help you!
As a particle physicist (no longer working in the field, sadly), this is one of the more exciting results in a long time. Muon g-2 has been there, in some form of another for debate and model building, for many years (taken somewhat seriously for 15+?), waiting for better statistics and confirmation. At over 4 sigma this is much more compelling than it has ever been, and the best potential sign of new (non-Standard Model) physics.

I'm not current on what models people like to explain this result, but it has been factored in (or ignored if you didn't trust it) in particle physics model building and phenomenology for years. This result makes it much more serious and something I imagine all new physics models (say for dark matter or other collider predictions or tensions in data) will be using.

Whether or not anything interesting is predicted, theoretically, from this remains to be seen. I don't know off hand if it signals anything in particular, as the big ideas, like supersymmetry, are a bit removed from current collider experiments and aren't necessarily tied to g-2 if I remember correctly.
I want to be a fly on the wall at one of the pitch meetings where Wix execs thought “this will definitely work in our favour”.
I have been happy with Axios, for both their depth and competency of reporting.

sidebar: I have found that in the presence of skilled and worthwhile journalism, my bias about bias just melts away.
Video of it in action here (?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIiTfdqCUIY
Since Apple's core product is hardware, and Microsoft's core product is an OS (at least in this case), it makes sense they would each want to commoditize the other.

So "Yes, for good reason" is the answer to your question.
If you're going to replace signs, how expensive would it be to just have one that changes from "Parking" to "No Parking" on a timer? My city already has similar signs for intersections that become no-left-turn when kids are around.
Unfortunately, some idiotic companies actually do use non-standard domain names.

For example, my Citi credit card uses "accountonline.com" as the login page. With things like that, "googledrive.com" seems less suspicious.

So to anyone building for the web: please use a single, canonical domain name!
It works by stereoscopy. There maybe something "holographic" in the math used to compute what to show each eye, but there is no projection of light into space to form holographic images that people can walk around.
Sorry, I meant to say, "impossible to completely understand them."
I wonder how they can reconcile the name "Spartan" with built in note taking, social sharing, Cortana, and webpage overlay drawing.
I was going to support the new 3doodler project after their launch email calling in for support, and then I saw that I needed my credit card at the payment step. I figured, they could reach their goal without me anyway...
So happy about this. Hated having to pay through Amazon.
No combos :-(
This is how people think of Math class:

"Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes on the board, and we copy them or transpose them into a different key. We have to make sure to get the clefs and key signatures right, and our teacher is very picky about making sure we fill in our quarter-notes completely.
One time we had a chromatic scale problem and I did it right, but the teacher gave me no credit because I had the stems pointing the wrong way."
yes, it's bad; not just bad, it's borderline insane, given the resources they have to make something awesome.

there are no fewer than 4 different APIs and endpoints to do the same thing, each with strange feature omissions / quirks and differing names for the same variables (sometimes just case). there is a separate sign-up for each service, with all-new verification; it's like they absorbed 10 different competing payment services, kept their original APIs and rapidly churned each of them into some additional shitty branded product. what's worse is that FPS was the best option as it could do what you wanted, how you wanted without being forced into a specific UI/pipeline.

now FPS is being discontinued [1] and everyone is being shoved into the widget-only "Login and Pay with Amazon"

if anyone knows of a way to retain the "leave-to-log-in -> select funds source -> come-back-with-token" process, please let me know. we're trying to keep our UI the same for all payment processors/methods, this widget requirement is not going to work for us.

[1] https://payments.amazon.com/help/201626250
the video is titled "iPhone 3GS 4.0 GM Jailbreak" - I don't think the guy filming is actually trying to conceal any information. The guy who posted the story did, however, jump the gun and talk about the iPhone 4 when he should be talking about iOS 4.
Risking permanent damage to a baby so you can enjoy a party seems incredibly selfish.
Has anyone done any studies on the number of people who click on mobile ads by mistake?

Based on my experience and observation of others it seems to occur fairly regularly.

(Also, I know my 4yo clicks on in-game ads by mistake all the time on my iPod, and I know I'm not the only parent who has discovered the miracle of iPhone/iPod gaming for kids.)
Good luck if you bury the way to order your product in your contact page.