jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's the problem though, and for the record I fully agree with you;

It's enough of a third-rail-topic that I can't even respond to this with my normal account; we're already seeing enough attempts at crime-by-association (SSC and the latest accusations) that combined with an apparently welcome tendency to examine all past actions for transgression, even if I thought I had something to say that was currently within the overton window I'd be hesitant to put it on the internet because of how the winds seem to be blowing.

I _certainly_ would not speak negatively of any of these programs at work, that would be an excellent way to end my career (putting this bluntly, you have more leeway than a white man does in speaking up about these things at this juncture; but even that has limits, look at the diversity chief of Apple who was let go.)

I worry this becomes a vicious cycle. We're already past the point that many reasonable voices disengage out of fear, so there is very little pushback until this has gone far enough to become untenable. (And this shouldn't be taken as some right wing dogwhistle, there have been HN articles lately detailing papers showing that this fear is present across the spectrum; and it's somewhat emblemic that I need to clarify this point.)

We're watching the iron law of oligarchy played out in an ideology.
When our second was 15 minutes, we knew "This one is different." 22 years later, still true.
I wish I was more literate in these subjects, some of these terms - I am not familiar with such as `sma, rsi, macd, adx, bbands`
How is it validating? In an acquihire situation the company gets bought and then everything but the people is flushed down the toilet.

You used to be working on AI powered eye glasses that could tell when fruit is perfectly ripe but now you work on an in house travel expense system the Apple sales people use to log their Uber bills.
Double-click selects the word under the cursor (at least for me on Ubuntu). To get the cursor at the position, it's click-wait-click.
>Apple buys a company every three to four weeks

I would too.
You’re creating a situation where the only way they can increase profit is to increase total spend.
I think it is the fake "Agile" processes that michaelochurch is referring to, not the real one.
You should expect people to try to prove what they believe! I also find the "I found X safe to ignore at Y point because of Z" to be a rather poisonous take on processing other viewpoints. I'm sure you mean well with it but you come off as looking for excuses to be dismissive.
I think a lot of great work is very polarizing - in this case I think a lot of people who are used to a very different sort of hard sci-fi went into "Light" expecting it to be something that it's not.

It is not a novel about a world with rigorously defined and cataloged physical law, and it's certainly not about a protagonist's moral crusade against evil.

It's a novel (in my personal estimation) about the breathtaking and magical pace of the advance of technology, and how it amplifies all the great and awful things that make us human.
A roaring lion rampant is supposed to be menacing, but the British lion is a bit disney cartoonish. I don't know the symbolic meaning of the components of the coat of arms - it seems to have been through a lot of revisions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_coat_of_arms_of_the_Unite...

Also, I suggest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Dragon
I don’t think electric cars are about saving money. I never heard that as a selling point.

And aren’t electric cars all about large scale infrastructure change anyway, not individuals curbing CO2 emissions? Say we find a way to satisfy our electric energy needs mostly without producing any CO2 within the next, say, thirty years. If our streets at that point are still full with gasoline cars we will be unable to reduce their CO2 emissions quickly. We consequently need to change the cars we are driving. As far as I know all proposed ways of doing that – whether hydrogen or electric – require large scale infrastructure changes and development of the right technology. Things like that take time.

If we don’t want to have only gasoline cars on the streets I guess we should start rolling out the first alternatives, well, probably right about now.
These numbers are meaningless; the EPA had to make up some kind of methodology for assigning a "mpg" number to a car which isn't actually burning any gasoline at all.

In my opinion it should say "Infinity miles per gallon" on the electric side of the label. I'm guessing that half the reason they don't is because they have these CAFE "average MPG standards" which they want to force automakers to adhere to, and throwing infinities into the averages tend to mess things up.

I don't know why people are so down on the Volt -- I think it's an excellent piece of technology, and probably the way of the future. An electric car with a petrol-powered generator to keep you going after the batteries are flat is the best of both worlds -- you can burn zero fuel most days, but still drive a thousand miles in a day if you feel like it.
It's tied to computing power in the sense that one could run the app on multiple machines, or even multiple virtual machines, but it seems like you'd be doing an awful lot of work for a relatively minimal return.

It seems like it would be a lot easier to simply trade for bitcoins.
Sounds like a good backdrop for one of (the late) Tony Hillerman's novels.

It never ceases to amaze me at how brazenly we've screwed the native population of this country, and continue to do so. As a born US citizen, things like this always make me feel such shame.
It's a fully corrupt bloated bureaucracy, very few people love to click on stupid cookie popups. In a lot of countries the scumbags the people who elect the EU asshats don't even follow what the people they elected vote on.
DIY winemaking kits can actually make some pretty decent wines if you spend a bit of time and money getting proper equipment. Not a lot - $100 will get you a really, really good setup with two glass carboys for fermenting, siphons, thief and test jar, hydrometer, corker, etc.

I've been making my own wines for years now. Occasionally I'll do a full from-scratch wine, but more often I buy a $40 kit from Midwest Supplies [0] that has all the components - grape juice concentrate, fruit essence, yeasts, kieselsol and chitosan, potassium metabisulfite as well as full detailed instructions. All you need is four gallons of distilled water. 28 days later, ~30 bottles pretty good wine! It won't win awards or anything, but it'll make a fantastic table wine and great for everyday meals.

The only downside is that you'll spend a bit of time cleaning and sterilizing things and you'll remember all the stuff you forgot from high school chemistry class. :)

[0] https://www.midwestsupplies.com/
Django + Postgres + HTMX by default.

Graduate to React if and only if required.
Given the success (inasmuch as one can call it that) they've had with drones, why bother with mounting a gun on a robot that can barely run for longer than an hour? Wouldn't a remotely-piloted/autonomous vehicle with guns mounted on it be much more efficient than a robot walking around on 2 legs?

I guess I just struggle with understanding how this changes anything.
Something is wrong with your calculations.

Average Heating Oil Usage-Based On Square Footage*

the size of your home can greatly affect your average home heating oil usage.

Below, we list down the estimated fuel consumption for every 1,000 square feet of space in relation to the average temperature outside:

10 degrees Fahrenheit: 3.27 gallons

20 degrees Fahrenheit: 2.67 gallons

30 degrees Fahrenheit: 2.07 gallons

40 degrees Fahrenheit: 1.47 gallons

50 degrees Fahrenheit: 0.87 gallons

In other words, if the average home in the US is at 2,687 square feet, you’d be using 5.56 gallons of oil in a 30-degree day. However, if you have a bigger home with, let’s say, a 3,500 square feet space, you’ll need around 3.5 times more heating oil than what’s listed above. The same goes if your home is smaller.

from https://www.myhomeenergyct.com/fuel/how-much-heating-oil-wil...
"Don't threaten us with a good time." -Europe
It's certainly better than the alternative in some places, which is zero internet. Look at how widespread "dumb phone" use is throughout Africa. Some incredible and empowering things can happen when unprivileged folks are given what we might consider outdated technologies.
Doesn't seem like a fair comparison of the language implementations, since Python is running on modern hardware, and BASIC isn't. It'd be more interesting to run a BASIC implementation from 80s on a modern CPU and compare that with Python today.

I'd be curious, also, to take an benchmark of a program written in C in 1980, and compare it to Python today. I wouldn't be surprised if the slow Python version ran faster, simply because of the faster CPU. This would completely contradict the author's point.
What are the main target markets of this investment? Africa and Southeastern Asia?
F11 your browser, open 'Starfield' from Demos, resize window to fullscreen, travel through space: http://i.imgur.com/twSrcy0.png
Reaching a bit?
Yeah this article really says nothing interesting about the languages. The BASIC timings are from 48K Atari 800 system and the Python timing are from some unknown modern system. Not sure what the point is...
You are probably right. I think they could have sent at least doctors and nurses to prepare for their own epidemic.
"- Last but probably very relevant: they have a completely different place of the elders in society. In Japan, the elders often live alone, sustain their life by themselves: it's a matter of proud. Even contact with their own kids is often sparse. Meaning, probably also lower risk of infection. "

The elderly in Japan are extremely active and are very well socialized with other elderly thanks to public transportation and compact cities. They are very independent and mobile. Considering that Japan never took active quarantine measures on a nationwide scale, it's honestly a mystery why Japan is an outlier.
If you want to know why, I recommend always brilliant Matt Levines's article "The Good Times for Airlines Are Over"
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/the-go...

As the article explains airlines taking money off the table is optimal solution for them.
It is insane that car companies can add whatever they want to make cars ever more dangerous.
Good advice 1 year too late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle#Uses_and_...

> The principle can be used to prove that any lossless compression algorithm, provided it makes some inputs smaller (as the name compression suggests), will also make some other inputs larger. Otherwise, the set of all input sequences up to a given length L could be mapped to the (much) smaller set of all sequences of length less than L without collisions (because the compression is lossless), a possibility which the pigeonhole principle excludes.
Augers.

http://www.aratri-trivelle.it/sito2009/eng/DettaglioProdotto...
Collecting this data on the general public should not be legal. If you are a suspect in an active investigation it is completely different, but you must be actively identified, you shouldn't be able to do what LA did and simply say "everyone is a suspect".

I think you have to take these technologies to their logical conclusion, because Moore's law will ultimately take it there. A camera recording every plate, everywhere it goes, stored for all time. That's not a database any people should allow their government to keep, warrant or not.

I'm glad they quoted the 2012 USA v Jones GPS tracking case, because this is exactly the same thing with an even lower cost per vehicle tracked. Ultimately I want Congress to pass a law putting limits on the data retention, but obviously that's not going to happen any time soon.
This strikes me as a bit cringe worthy, though perhaps it's my puritanical modesty. I like Sama, but putting up significantly more than the national average household income to make a point reminds everyone just how little the money matters.
Successful social businesses have a big moat in the form of network effects. If it were any easier to cross the social-networking moat, Facebook would not have paid $19 billion for Whatsapp. Attracting and retaining users is hard.

The numbers needed to match Facebook are big. The fact that Whatsapp, Viber, Line, etc are even able to approach those numbers speaks volumes: they have succeeded in executing on their businesses, and there is demand in the market for solid messaging products that evidently the incumbents have not been able to fill. Buying out a (exceptionally successful) startup before it becomes a potential competitor makes total sense.
"Nobody loses" - of course they do. Apple protect users from themselves by making it hard to install dodgy software on their phones.

For ever alleged power user who wants to do something different there are probably 100 users for will be burnt because they don't understand that your root enabled device and other app source is a massive attack vector.

We're years into the iPhone, you knew what you were buying. Apple have spent years selling the iPhone as safe, what you propose is turning all the marketing into misconceptions for users when they think Vlad's warez site can't ruin their device.
>Why is that not a thing yet?

Seems sort of like crowd-sourcing data that would be used to infringe on the freedoms and happiness of people without restraint beyond "did the payment clear?"

Count me out, thanks.
In retrospect I agree that this quote isn't particularly racist by itself. But it at least represents a discriminatory attitude towards Indians-as-programmers, which the count of net up-votes suggests is happily endorsed by people in general, presumably many of whom do work in the field and do propagate this attitude in real life, even if silently.

I also agree that the race card is overused and in general any assertions made under it are not falsifiable. But the flip side is that real racism is easy to qualify with a rote disclaimer ("I know many smart Indian programmers personally"). That doesn't decrease the sting of the isolated snide remark which was almost but not quite racist.

I believe that the number of outsourcing successes is not as low as is portrayed in online forums, perhaps because those involved tend to be less vocal about it.

My point is related to what you seem to say in the last line: people need to be able to discuss outsourcing or anything else without some being able to get away with saying 'Indians suck at programming'.
So if that was a key which allowed the NSA access to the communication that was otherwise unreachable to it, it's not a backdoor to the computer, just to the communication, and therefore you deny it to be a backdoor at all? Or do we just play the game of the "proper" names? How can we call the key which allows the access to the encrypted communication? Wikipeda calls that a backdoor too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
You may or may not be surprised to know that PHP supports it natively.

php5 -r 'echo idate("B");'

http://php.net/manual/en/function.idate.php
Not surprising from MS - that was a feature in C# 1 and it immediately made me angry at every language that doesn't support it.
That "another microbenchmark" seems to have some unnecessary overhead vs the Lua one? I don't like it. The Language shootout is better: let anybody implement the task anyway he likes, so long the results are the same, and compare that.
Does anyone know what kind of encryption was used on those drives that were taken from Miranda at Heathrow? Is it feasible to break that in this little time? That seems to be the angle here, that that info was on those drives. At least that's my wild stab in the dark.
Right on target. I'm from Poland and I can definitely relate to problems described by Maro (although we seem to have fared better than Hungary in the long run).

Everybody thought that re-establishing Democracy (with a capital D, to signify a pervasive culture of democracy along with ethics, not just a political system) would take several years. It turns out it might take generations.

The worst part is that people are used to subsidized life and instead of DOING something they expect the government will provide.
I actually enjoyed this writing style and I'm glad he shared his thoughts - I found what he had to say interesting.

I think I enjoyed it for the very reason you didn't.
woah, hbo stands for quality miniseries. this will certainly be good.
Why should we assume that? Unschooled does not mean uneducated and it sure as shit doesn't mean unskilled. There are more and more people who hold the belief that the age of apprenticeship, of transiting from novice through journeyman to professional entirely through entirely on the job training, is over, but that belief is false as can be. There are many, many people making bank earning as much as 4 year science and technical degree holders are earning who hold nothing more advanced than a HS diploma, and sometimes not even that.

Almost all such jobs involve significant amounts of manual labor, so that world tends to be rather disjoint from the world of college education and office jobs so there is definitely a lack of visibility from one world into the next. But that world does very much exist. The guys fixing your car, mowing your company's lawn, catching your seafood, transporting your food and goods in trucks or moving it off the dock, resurfacing the asphalt on your street, putting up sheetrock in the new housing development down the road, assembling your cars, sometimes even the guy working in the deli section at your grocery store, they may be making much more than you previously thought.
Nice thing about those roads, as long as we secure them, we own them.
Good model. We can address the regulatory obstacles. We are in the process of forming an independent international ethics committee - review board addressing requirements of US, Europe and Australian authorities.
Our interest is in harmless diagnostic analyzers and test kits.
"Designed by Interplay in 1996"

My memory is hazy but I thought that the game was only published by Interplay. It was actually designed and developed by Black Isle (most of its former members are now at Obsidian).

There is also a big price for Fallout's complexity and freedom, that isn't mentioned: bugs. Both Fallout 1 & 2 were very buggy. This just isn't acceptable on console games (not to mention that hard drives aren't standard on all consoles), which helps explain the lack of freedom in modern video games.
Go for it. I think Zerigo is about as good as any other similar service out there. I have used their DNS and their hosting and I have never had a problem with either one.
Only strings are 1-indexed in Pascal, all other forms of lists (both array of and object based lists) are 0-indexed. It is rather confusing.

It may be my limited English, but I don't entirely understand what he means by 'case-for-visibility'.
I suspect you are coming from the same background as me, where "coffee" means espresso. I need to keep reminding myself when reading these discussions that for most people in the US plain "coffee" means brew or drip type. (I'm Puerto Rican BTW, where most households use a moka pot[1] that produces coffee very similar in strength to espresso.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot
Yeoman is fantastic...I used it several months ago when deciding (foolishly, in retrospect) to learn both CoffeeScript and AngularJS at the same time while making an app. I had never put the effort into setting up grunt tasks manually...so working with automated building and testing were things I never had while developing with JS (which you can take to mean that my past work with JS has been mostly trivial).

Besides just being a great package overall, Yeoman really helped me appreciate how what seem like trivial niceties -- the speed of auto-build vs. stopping and restarting the local server and hitting Refresh -- can really make the difference between gradually losing interest because of the accumulation of small inconveniences and actually enjoying the development process enough to finish a project.
The first thought I had was "because of Harvard Business School." Irony.
Everyone, successful or not (however you choose to define that), walks a different path in life to get where they are. Our experiences in total shape the persons that we are, the way we approach problems, the way we create, and the way we interact with others. The author, with the benefit of knowing where she is, is reflecting on the other roads - some perhaps shorter, faster - she could have taken to get there.

What I take away from her post is that if you are ambitious in your career (like she seems to be), it is important to understand the realities of your major / concentration. For those that have passions in humanities and other non-"hard" majors, pursue your dream as long as you can accept the statistical likelihoods for your career post-graduation.
Pidgin also supports off the record chatting, for the truly paranoid.
I disagree completely about 'what you can make'. This only applies to a few extremely qualified positions in the workforce.

The large majority of jobs, while they do require a level of intellect, which may be at times large, are nowadays less dependent on individual thought and more about being able to follow processes and procedures, to the point where the skills themselves are mere commodities and original thought is not needed unless we're talking about the higher echelons of a company.

I can't find the NYT article on the matter, but I can describe my experience as a systems administrator:
While in theory Unix sysadmins are highly qualified people who should be thinking independently, I left the line of work largely because of the extreme tediousness and lack of independence.

- 90% of the tasks that had to be done were extremely trivial but their automation had already been maximized (adding users in heterogenous systems, altering filesystems, touching files and installing software)

- Most nontrivial errors were deferred to support lines. Decisions on how to proceed with most "important" issues were left up to project executives and people with no technical qualifications.

- Most change issues were managed through tickets which had a list of steps to follow to the implementer. Most of the work there consisted of chasing the proper approvers so that I could do the work for them on time.

What was left was a highly predictable, boring system where all the originality and intelligence was made at the procedure level, and we were expected to follow procedure at all times, even when it was not necessarily the best choice.

Corporations do not generally want an inspired rank-and-file. Intelligent individuals want to question and are willing to make mistakes, and this clashes with organizations that want to automate what cannot be automated at a fundamental level. My skill set was reduced to just knowing the commands and locations to do stuff; creative problem determination was discarding as being dangerous and disrupting, and even though there were a hundred different ways to improve processes, the bureaucracy to do that made it an incovenience that I was not willing to put up with.

Thankfully I left that position for places that did require much deeper through and rewarded creativity, but the reality is that a large chunk of work simply doesn't require that; some jobs have a ceiling as to how productive one can be, and IMO, the current trend of making everything dependent on processes doesn't help in bringing the best out of people.

Think about this on retail jobs and food services: interaction with the customers is scripted at incredibly deep levels with little margin for the person to make his or her best judgement. The problem is that not everyone is in a condition to leave and operate their own establishment or find better positions, so we have a large mass of people whose skills are being purposely underutilized.