jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Did anyone find the authors commits in glibc's repository? Would be nice to know what he really changed and when.
I monitored in live a similar poll that ran in /b/ around two years ago, maybe earlier.

There were several questions about mental health (medically diagnosed pathologies, suspected pathologies, ...).

The sex ratio was around 10 to 1.

All girls reported moderate to severe mental issues, whereas only 1 dude in 10 did.

:-/
I think the most surprising info in there is the fact that there seems to be a rather normal amount of homo- and bisexuals. You'd think the often hateful language towards such would mean there'd be fewer than normal.
Use Hide (Cmd-H) instead of Minimise (yellow button or Cmd-M) if you want a whole application out of view.

Use a utility like SizeUp or Divvy to let you quickly move/resize windows on to a grid using keyboard shortcuts.

Use 'mdfind -name foo.bar' for searching for files in Terminal.

Use Homebrew or MacPorts to install non-GUI software.

Use the handy search for menu bar items (Cmd-Shift-/ or Help > Search).

Give Safari a chance and don't immediately install Firefox/whatever.
Right, I see, that's a good quote. However, seeing as software developers always try to move common code into libraries and reuse it, wasn't it a bit naive to expect web apps to be any different?

I think the problems the article is talking about are more akin to library dependencies in desktop/server development rather than (more extensive) platform dependencies and the complexities of targeting multiple platforms.
Looks like the list is far too long for the automatic Google Charts URL to work since it goes over the API's limits. Bug in that Google Docs template, I guess. Try this:

https://www.google.com/chart?cht=bhs&chs=300x1000&ch...

EDIT: Actually, that chart is incomplete since the sheer number of items renders off of the image area. Awesome.
When I glanced over the schedule he had at Harvard, I thought it was from PHDComics.
It's just a thin veneer, actually. For instance, there are quite often threads with dudes dressed as women, and they receive a lot of attention and praise. There's also a decent number of gay threads, too. Even the furries have Fridays...

The culture isn't genuinely hateful, they're just trying to get a rise out of people. Besides, 'fag' is an affectionate term to a /b/tard...
> How do you even know it's a fact, except by some appeal to history?

Does nature create perfect humans? If your answer is anything but yes, then it's a fact that corruption is a part of nature, much like thunderstorms or a sun rise.

> But what reason do you have to say that it can't be solved?

Because it's inherent to our nature. Can you stop people from loving one another? Do you think that's possible? If your answer is anything but "Yes", then you have your answer on corruption. It's exactly the same thing. Trying to eliminate something that humans have been doing since our existence isn't something that can be solved with naive optimism.

The answer isn't to eliminate, but to mitigate and minimize its effects. It's very similar to the war on drugs. You're never going to stop people from doing drugs, so you work to minimize their usage - legalize it and regulate it so you can minimize the damage.
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Can Elon do something about this?
I work on a live document to keep track of:

* The minimal features that would make the project finished in my own eyes.

* The minimal features that would make the project interesting to others.

* The future features that I dream about.

* Articles/discussions that could spark new features.

My past self that wrote the document is my boss, my current self is the worker that tries to make his life easier and push the project thru the door by removing the extra load.

My boss wants me to work on the hardest tasks first, so these are finished before I lose momentum and we have a proof the project could work.

Now, I'm used to completely losing inspiration and getting burned out from long projects. I can focus on them for 3 months, then I'll get stuck and stare at the document the whole day, for days. At some point I'll understand there won't be any more progress so I just carefully backup the project and remove it. The feeling of removing a self imposed load is relaxing.

Months later the itch of working on that project could start again, or I might realize it's not worth. The important thing is that I won't be permanently burned out. I've finished many projects with long stops, I've learned why doing X was too difficult, I scrap the code from my frozen projects to speed up others.
Both of these investors mentioned have “ESG” policies where they will deliberately influence companies to act in certain political ways, rather than purely for the furtherance of the company.

Whether that’s good or bad is up for debate, but the Vangaurds of the world certainly have interests beyond buying and holding all the stocks.
From twitter as a user? They could provide that guidance to the ceo.

As a stock owner? No.
According to the linked Wikipedia article, the water department was under the authority of the elected mayor at the time, despite an emergency manager still involved in other affairs.

Slap on the wrist. If my job was to get you spinach, and I am an expert in that area, and I chose to use animal waste for fertilizer, shouldn't I be held responsible for giving people e-coli if I don't take standard precautions?
I try to remove common enhancing adverbs when writing emails at work. Removing "very," "definitely," "absolutely," etc. makes professional communication come across more authoritatively and clearly. I still use adverbs to be clear, but they need to communicate something specific that is otherwise hard to articulate.
Okay, honest question, other than this impossible-to-quantify symbolic value, did FSF make any meaningful contribution/impact over the past two decades? They kept preaching their maximalist philosophy which seems increasingly convincing almost no one; their old flagships kept chugging along, some (or the majority) of them gradually losing relevance, thanks in part to GPLv3; no new hotness is joining the GNU umbrella AFAIK; Savannah is completely irrelevant outside some GNU projects and is less usable than phpBB. Ironically, I guess the hostility of GPLv3 spurred the development and adoption of many permissive replacements, which is arguably an unintended contribution. And on the opposite end of people and companies wanting to be less permissive, they find even the least permissive GNU license inadequate, since they usually give zero shit about “freedom”, it’s financial contributions that they seek; so they’re moving to source available instead of copyleft.
Ventilation?
I find the comments in Slashdot very confusing so I never opened the site. I checked it right now and I still find the comments confusing, HN on the other is easy to understand.
You can install Linux on Windows PCs without even needing to developer unlock, doesn't that mean they're as open as Chroembooks. Not to mention things like if the battery goes completely dead on some Chromebooks, Linux is completely wiped along with the data and replaced by ChromeOS. Also have to press Ctrl-D past a vscary warning on every single boot on some Chromebooks or flash a new bios.

Can Mozilla make a Firefox for ChromeOS? How many Chromebooks that are being dumped in the education space are having Linux installed on them? Google has root on ChromeOS and the user doesn't. The whole purpose of them is to force the user into uploading all their data into Google's cloud. That's why even a $1400 machine has a paltry 64GB of storage but comes free with a few years of 1TB space on Google Drive.
I think it would be hilarious to see fictional "failed" historic YC apps, especially those that made it big in their time.
There was a funny comment that a lot of IBM's meetings are held on conference calls because they are so large and the organization so dispersed. How hard would it be that someone on that call never seemed to be in any office? ... :-)
I've reached a point where I needed to lift my head up from bootstrapping and see what else was on the horizon.

So, I spent a bit of time programming just for fun, and here's the result.

It turned out that someone else (Aza Raskin) had already done this, but thankfully I didn't discover it until I was finished: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/contextfreejs-algorithm-ink-...

Enjoy!
In my lifetime nearly every major environmental disaster, major war, and major economic crisis has been tied to oil.

Not ENERGY, but OIL.

American's (myself included) are too terrified of losing our cars or making oil unaffordable to demand reasonable regulation on the industry or investment in real alternative technologies.

This has nothing to do with global warming & C02. That's just the icing on the cake.
Another speculation is that Apple saw Google Voice as a platform threat of the same variety as Flash, where Apple's users would potentially become dependent on a 3rd party platform. Obviously, it would also ease migration from the iPhone. There are several plausible reasons that don't involve AT&T.

Separately, it's funny you should mention Skype and Facetime. The move with the Facetime 'open standard' seems aimed squarely at Skype, a shot across their bow, while Apple empowers them with iOS 4 multitasking support.

This is also interesting in the iPad. It had a mounting spot for a camera in the body, but shipped with it empty. Was the concession made to AT&T, who would offer a cheap data plan in exchange for refraining from giving the platform away to Skype? Was it simply that Apple needed more time to develop other plans in the VoIP voice/video space? Is it a form of coerced obsolescence? My guess is that Apple and AT&T (and other carrier partners) agreed to hold off on the camera until next year's 4G network model, as the wireless network could conceivably support widespread use of videoconferencing, making their offering much more competitive against Skype.
Soulless creatures. Hang-in there. Tables do turn
> Colt's main products are the AR-15 (introduced ~1963)

Colt didn't introduce the AR-15, either. That was ArmaLite, who then sold the rights to the design to Colt.
Qt has the issue of being written in C++, making bindings non-trivial: clasp and ECL can solve this in different ways. GTK bindings exist, but they aren't used all that much. There is a GUI standard, CLIM and an OSS implementation that's being actively worked on ( https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/ ), but it still needs a bit of work before it's in a good place.
i have first-hand witnessed design systems failures at some very large companies

in my experience at least (in existing large companies) its easy to get buy-in but very hard to pull off properly, even when the ceo is behind it.
Now how do I explain to my mom that her conspiracies do occur, the influential wealthy groups do exist and lobby governments, but that they have nothing to do with the independent data mining and data brokering companies which anyone can start right now
> the only thing that should be taxed is wealth

How would you value non-monetary assets? And let's say I hated someone, could I get a group of assessors to overvalue their house and put them into bankruptcy?
Interesting choice of words. I might consider invest in named engineers, is there EFT for them?
If I had the choice of losing my sense of taste for the rest of my life in exchange for being phycially-fit, I would do it in a heart beat.

There is so much more to life than tasting food, and a lot more exciting things in life become more accessible when you're physically-fit.

I'm relatively young, and not that overweight, but the last 40 pounds or so are going to be the hardest, and the most fulfilling to lose.
The assumption being made here is that the labels are fixed categories, immutable and the same from person to person; and yet we know that's not always the case. It seems to me that we have the capability of deriving labels from experience, but don't (especially in the case of the colour-blind) all have the same experiences. I know there has been a fair amount of research on colour names in cross-cultural contexts and that for the most part there is a pretty clear similarity between the colour names employed in different cultures, but that not all cultures distinguish between blue and green for instance.
At any given point, half of workers are contemplating leaving.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/27/47percent-of-workers-are-con...

The typical office worker spends a half hour searching for new jobs at work every day.

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...

I’m not sure this is a revolution or just that plenty of people have no real attachment to their employer.
This is, these days, how reporters go about finding reputable news sources to tell their stories to. Investigative journalism has always been a smaller niche than we like to imagine.

It was always the case that stories filter up to journalists. Social media is just a new way of doing that. We have an idea that journalists waited by the phone for tips and then latched on to one, but that was actually always rare.

The best way for them to boost the signal is to (ugh, I hate saying this) trend on Twitter, and then the journalists will come to you. It's ugly, but it's not all that much different from what new media have always done.
Are you volunteering to write the YAML for it? =)
Should be pretty much trivial! Exercise left to the reader.
you're not joking: https://github.com/privacycg/private-click-measurement/issue...

>Who will vet such a list continuously at a global scale?
>Apple should.
>Apple created this issue in the first place. The need for multi-tenant websites to add themselves to the PSL exists only because of the PCM design decision to limit measurement to registrable domains. The urgency exists because Apple's planned ATT enforcement.
Would you say that the experience of the average cis gender white man is as unique as that of the average cis gender black woman?

Or that the average cis gender white man would have the experiences required to have the perspective of the average cis gender black woman?
Watch Office Space. It's funny, but it's really based on a lot of truth.
> Well, now don't keep us in suspense! What was his job?
How did he get it?

Abridged version: ~1970s Germany, vocational training as welder, employed at Hoesch (later ThyssenKrupp), well-paid factory job.
He later lost his position due to automation, became depressed and was placed into a "Sozialbetrieb" (this can mean many things. In this case it's a workshop meant for the disabled to ensure means to participate in the workforce. Big firms like ThyssenKrupp have to have such an offering by law).

Well turns out, there wasn't all that much to do there so he could listen to the radio and nap or the like (thanks social democrats). Today he's getting a pretty good pension (unfairly one might say, especially in the face of Germany's pressured pension system).

His situation is definitely an anomaly even in sort-of socio-economically egalitarian Germany, but he's thriving :) Note: He's a very different sort of person than I am or the typical HN user presumably is.

> The next time we (all) might have a chance to get close to ancient levels of "dolce far niente" for a majority of people, is probably in a post-scarcity society with fully autonomous robot assistants

There's plenty of nuance in the space between mass-precarity and mass-decadence. It's a question of societal will and organisation to enable common guaranteed standards of living (I know this is heresy in the US). It's definitely possible already, though it may come with its own set of problems regarding e.g. fair distribution of welfare or disincentivising self-improvement to some degree, that may have to be kept in check via other means.

In modern times essentially all of the important battles that kept humanity in the dirt have been won (think antibiotics, fertilizer, energy, machinery, communication, logistics).

Everything that comes now is restrained not by lack of knowledge or technology but by human psychology, behavior, politics and social dynamics.
In the Scientific American article also currently linked on the front page a scientist & professor* at an Italian university is quoted as saying something along the lines of “this is probably an error in the theoretical calculation”. Would this be what the professor was referring to?

Edit: I’m not entirely sure whether they’re a professor, but here’s the exact quote

> “My feeling is that there’s nothing new under the sun,” says Tommaso Dorigo, an experimental physicist at the University of Padua in Italy, who was also not involved with the new study. “I think that this is still more likely to be a theoretical miscalculation.... But it is certainly the most important thing that we have to look into presently.”
Both styles have their merits. That's why we have both adversarial debates as well as collaborative panel discussions.
Ok. Yes my point is not that you can't find efficient ways around the limitations, but my fear is that you end up with a system that is less ergonomic in the end.
I've tried it at the past and "get it" but that doesn't mean i "agree with it" - to me immediate mode GUIs are the graphical equivalent to...

Running = -1
WHILE Running
PRINT "1) Add record"
IF HasRecords THEN
PRINT "2) Delete record"
PRINT "3) Edit record"
END IF
PRINT "H) Help"
PRINT "X) Exit"
INPUT "Choice: ", I$
IF I$="1" THEN AddRecord
IF (I$="2") AND HasRecords THEN DeleteRecord
IF (I$="3") AND HasRecords THEN EditRecord
IF I$="H" THEN ShowHelp
IF I$="X" THEN Running = 0
WEND

...which, sure, it is ridiculously simple (like imguis) but it can very quickly become unwieldy the more you ask from your user interface. There is a reason why UIs moved beyond that.
>but they do not address the larger question of whether/why racists/sexists find his blog appealing.

Whether or not that is something you can and should address is of course one of the main issues here. The NYT would like if you only quote, welcome, converse, engage with people who are 100% correct and approved in all their views. If you disagree with that then there is also not much to explain. Sometimes unpleasant people like to read good blogs, and sometimes unpleasant people say insightful things that you might want to incorporate in your blogpost. Such is life.
I'm asking them to. Let's see if they do :)
True more or less everywhere in the world, and does not make attempts to apply it in a different direction any better.
However, schools should never treat stupid and intelligent children the same. Not everyone is cut out to be a rocket surgeon. But your argument means that we should hold back all future rocket surgeons and bring them to a lower level of privilege, i.e. dumb them down. This is neither in the interest of the children (stupid as well as intelligent ones) nor is it in the interest of society. We do need rocket surgeons...

I agree that this can be a difficult balance to strike. But I think it's also important to keep the door open for children who mature a bit later. Stamping someone as "not gifted" by excluding them from a "gifted" group sure seems like it would cause problems, especially for younger children. Of course it's a difficult practical problem to solve; to give every child challenges on their current level.

Also, while there are surely variations in intelligence that are "from birth", I do not know how that compares to all the variations caused by different educational privileges; having parents that have a lot of time to read for/with the child etc. It sort of comes down to "equality vs. equity" I suppose - and that is not a simple question.
Random tech from the 1920s

<a href="https://youtu.be/tcV1EYSUQME">1920, Tesla Valve.</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/WR-FfL5Nf6Y?t=52">1921, Megola, Radial engine motorcycle.</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/gjsR4ZI92L8">1921 American LaFrance Fire Truck</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/YpIYZELsvYs">1925 Thomann antique bicycle</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/HPo8cLc56ac">1925 Lanz Tractor</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/YqGaEM9sjVg">Mechanical Television 1926</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/dwPRGFN-TVA">1929 - A Giant Flying Boat</a><br>
I might be missing your point, but I repeated the steps I mentioned in Ubuntu and have success. No middle click pasting though, just the OS X/Windows/everyone else standard of either context menu pasting or Ctrl+V. I recorded it too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZl3gTzqyKA

What am I missing?
http://www.thegrocerygame.com/ has a system designed to help you sort through the coupon 'game'. Apparently, grocery goods typically go through a 12 week cycle of being the most discounted to not being discounted at all (this involves tracking manufacturer coupons AND grocery store coupons and timing the overlaps).

My mom did this for a family of 8 which cut grocery expenses in half. I'm not sure if it will scale down to 1-3 people effectively though.
I just wrote it as a proof of concept during a weekend hackathon but people really liked it so it was spared from the bit bucket.

I started out working on a similar feature for my own VBX platform (OtherNum.com) but once Jeff showed me OpenVBX I immediately ported all my "plugins" over including my integration with Chirbit.com and MyCaption.com.

I wrote more about the impact OpenVBX had on my startup OtherNum on my tumblr: http://tumblr.gleep.org/

Ultimately, the 4square piece is a tiny piece of the OpenVBX world but I think what it shows is the potential to integrate your phone infrastructure with the world around it.
As someone just getting started with my own small tech company I find this quite alarming. I particularly find the technical cluelessness of senator Conroy the most disturbing thing. With technical absolutes that the filter will be ineffectual and easily bypassed and an impediment to broadband speeds it seems to be just ignored and the technological costs are treated as malleable when they're not. My main fear is that when this is found to not be effective protecting children or stemming child porn it won't be removed, rather will be extended and creep deeper and deeper into our infrastructure.

It just means whenever I look for hosting, internet services etc it means I'm already deliberately using services not based in Aus which I think will be a long term trend and detriment to the technology industry here. Just adding latency to any service as it has an extra few hops through the filter is a cost I wouldn't expect customers to bare.

The impact on Australia's technical reputation I think is the major thing. Previously travelling a bit and being involved in a US-AUS acquisition; Australians tended to be pretty well respected technologically, and with this, I fear that we're going to have that reputation quashed and look like luddites.

I plan on writing a series of letters to the ministers and chronicling the results if anyone's interested. I also encourage any other fellow aussies to do the same. Here's some good tips on writing letters to parliamentarians and get a good chance of reply http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/lobby.html and this one for the more subversive http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/dont-waste-your-time-was...
And it would be good if the transformers / grids were able to detect and self isolate during this kind of electrical weather.

Far better to have to go manually restart a safed transformer than have to replace a destroyed one.