jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have had this happen numerous times, and the rapidity of the downvotes really makes me think it's an automated system -- that now that slowbans and hellbans are pretty widely known and rightly reviled, the mods just flag you and periodically you get a rapid downvote barrage. I guess it is supposed to make me feel insecure about my opinion or something.
The author's latest blog post says that exactly: "Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free" [0]

[0]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2636165
Hubski is an excellent, if small, aggregator. I buy into the philosophy that following quality users/posters yields better results than following a topic sorted by upvotes en masse. I know there is plenty of debate to be had there for some.

One thing to keep in mind with Hubski is that you do t need to look at it in terms chasing who posts the best links (as you define it). I find a better way can be to follow those that post the better comments, -this can yield a far more satisfying and consistent experience than any social aggregator I've used.

I think "follow user" approach also lends itself to maintaining quality as the site scales, although Hubski is too small right now to declare that to be the case definitively. Im curious to see hiw this pans out as the site continues to grow.

It's also come an impressive distance from a UI standpoint. Coded in arc, it started as a near clone of HN (though with its own mechanics right out of the gate).

It is worth wandering around if you're looking for a general interest community that isn't hellbent on growing at all if if it means sacrificing an ounce of what the founders believe makes the place worthwhile.
why wouldn't they let it hit the homepage? i'm sorta new here...
Yes, he bears some responsibility. His sociopathic employers, and his co-workers who bid conditions down to that level, also bear some responsibility.
Ships receiving key material for a deployment is how you get a John Walker spy ring situation. You are right that the military has some advantages regarding key distribution, but it’s still not a trivial task.
Are you creating the Election_Fraud_Evidence.doc file?
It's economies of scale versus companies being too large to manage
Node uses the Unicode functions so no need, but lots of tools in windows break (cmd.exe notably) so things like child processes don't work on long filepaths. You can actually watch `npm` write to files past the limit by using the Unicode functions, but trying to access them via child processes generally fails (and things like IDEs can't see them). The other problem is that using the longer paths turns of filepath expansion.

* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
1. Yeah, people seem to be copy-pasting incoherent difficult-to-read stuff everywhere.

2. No seriously though - what you've written touches on CS and completely ignores designing programs. You can be great at CS and still write crappy programs.

3. Though it's unlikely to have an industry-specific crash, recessions are inevitable and then people (competent or not) lose their jobs.

4. I guess my whole point is - even if these thing were true, so what? Each individual person has the choice to go into whichever field they like. Each person is also free to spend as much time and effort as they want on improving their CS and software-engineering skills. This knowledge isn't somehow exclusive to degree holders - there are so many free resources on CS and SWE. And as I mentioned, the degree doesn't guarantee that you'll be able to create good software.
The belief that somehow private companies make decisions “just fine” highlights the socio-cultural side.

It doesn't take much introspection to cite bleak moments from our collective North American histories that were socially acceptable, while being rather dubious ethically.

Smoking was once a “free choice” and desired, and came with it willful years of of ignorance of the influence of second hand smoke. If we dig deeper, we could spend much time discussing slavery and sufferage other such messes that, while abhorrent by today's standards, were perfect cultural fits during their respective reigns. And implicitly bound to private enterprise.

Private enterprise doesn't make any of his opinions dissolve, nor less relevant. On the contrary, as those cultural and ideological vantages are precisely why his points are relevant.
Here in Kerala github.com is up and running but gists.github.com returns "Connection interrupted"
So are people getting cancer more or less that they were in 1991?
Well,

Another way to consider this is that biologists have not pushed back hard enough to mathematicians in the sense of asking for some tools which would allow for just slurping up a vast amount of unstructured, unprocessed data and getting something out of it.

It is certainly true that mathematical modeling as it is done now currently will indeed only get you so far.

But spirit of math in conjunction with physics has been to create tools that allow leaps and bounds. If we want to follow that spirit, it seems appropriate to ask for tools to help with messy things that now can't easily be dealt with. It may not be possible but it seems worthwhile to go all the way to the brick wall and pound on it.
I feel like this trend will reverse itself when the current generation becomes nostalgic and realize they have nothing to pass on to their children.
This is good news. Unless of course you are currently dying of cancer.
Treatment for the most common solid tumours remains woefully inadequate, unless you compare it to even more woeful older therapies. Lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, these all remain horrible diseases, that result in an untimely and unpleasant death. We are replacing mortality with expensive morbidity that approaches death asymptotically. This produces a better looking survival curve, but is it actually better?
The concept of a valuation being overinflated for a company that's trading publicly is kind of hilarious.

It's worth exactly what it's trading for at any given moment, by definition!
Thank you, I will. Much appreciated. Anyone else I should read let me know.
i can tell you, unambiguously, that it has always been this fast. those tilesets are almost certainly statically cached and served at lightning speed with practically 0 overhead from some regionally located cdn server.

server load would have a statistically imperceptible impact here; never seen a google product roll out with scale-related issues, especially one as mature as their gmaps architecture was at the time of the GL switch.

EDIT: the image-based maps is a great example of the "Choose Boring Technology" thread [1]. the benefits of the GL maps, IMO, do not justify the enormous speed sacrifice, at least to the end users. i'm sure google's ultimate plan was/is to merge google earth and "3d/vr/augment all the things!", but for basic maps it is just terrible. i'm really sad about the whole situation because they really have great looking, readable tilesets, much better than OSM (even if less complete). sadly, they never did get the pixel-density-appropriate versions made for mobile devices and all the features looked tiny when implemented using their js maps api :(

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215
Corruption is always a way to make money - it's a time honored tradition. What I'm afraid we're seeing here is that if the corrupt individuals aren't sufficiently capable, they get caught.

What is going on that isn't being caught (or just as bad, being caught but not being punished because "important people" would be inconvenienced)?
Your mother doesn't need to understand it. I gave the technical details because this is Hacker News. Brokers need to make setup simpler, yes. But even today, logging in is as simple as typing =djacobs.
Humm... I am using gmail, I don't think I can that easely forge a fake....

However, I can fake an auto-responder easely...
Quick summary: PUT is idempotent, and should be used when you're sending the full text or properties of an item, or otherwise doing some where doing it a second time is harmless. POST is not, and should be used for requests like "increment this field" or "add a new sub-item to this parent item" where doing it twice will give a very different result than doing it once.
I would love to finally find something that i absolutely love to do and spend all my life doing it. I like programming, but it's more a means to an end. So i'd like to suggest that you find what you love to do.
That reminds me of Richard Feynman, who tried to keep a list of everything he didn't understand. Smart people pay more attention to what they don't know than what they do.
If the Zipcar analogy holds, then the company will own the apartments and there will be no permanent residents.
Sounds like an airbnb for workspaces :)
Uh, Chromium's open source, it could ask for FTP credentials and then upload them there...? There are any number of ways this could be done without giving any information to Google and only giving them to Chromium.

Am I missing something?
> Which can create nice issues, especially because stuff like Java is limited to UCS-2...

Not true. Java uses UTF-16, not UCS-2. There are no encoding representation issues.
For every analyst predicting a stock will go up there is one predicting the opposite. Guessing correct 50% of the time is probably an improvement to their past predictions. Till now using darts to pick stocks consistently outperforms these 'experts'.
The expectation (of the court, and the bank) was you get 6 years on the note, and 20 years on the mortgage. Now we have a novel theory where the court is finding it's actually a 6 years limit for the note and the mortgage.

The homeowner never made a single monthly payment on the mortgage, from the very first month they were in default. And now, the mortgage is effectively discharged. There's no question as to fact here, the homeowner is stealing the home.

The question is, is it lawful? It's appropriate for the court to express disgust when the law leads to blatantly bad outcomes.
What? I wasn't aware you needed to be irradiated just to enter into the US, even without planning to take any more flights. What is the rationale behind that?
>To put it simple: the spam button is for spam = unwanted mass mails

Spam is unsolicited. If you've signed up for a newsletter, or similar, then you've requested the messages.
No... engineers, like any other subset of people selected by profession, are a mix of creative/artistic and non creative/artistic people. And if you hire doing a huge selection pressure based on PHDs, ability to reply to strictly logical problems, and so forth, you are mounting a selective pressure that will get you with an environment where there are high logical skills but possibly deficiencies in other fields.
>Pretending that people sign up for these things is a tactic the spammers are using to discourage constructive discussion.

It was quite common back before RSS feeds and always on internet. One would have newsletters delivered to a MUA and then go offline to save precious minutes from your heady 14.4kbps connection costs.

People still do sign up for newsletters. But there is also a lot of spam masquerading as requested mail.
This is a complicated issue.

Whether intentional or not, one reason/consequence for gifted programs is they help public schools compete to keep upper income people in public schools and away from private options. However, within those schools it can create a very two tracked environment. One group of kids is invested in heavily, the other effectively warehoused.

I went to a math and science magnet school. It was placed in a lower performing school. The magnet school had the effect of improving the average performance of the school while actually investing little in the communities that needed the most support. In a way it was a kind of school bussing and I got an exposure to more diversity in high school. OTOH it was clear there were two tracks at the school for the haves and the have nots.

Still, what is the alternative? For upper income people public schools exist in a marketplace competing with private schools. It also seems suboptimal to have them abandon the public schools (already happening due to Covid) and segregate themselves further into private schools.

In our school system they basically have kept gifted programs but let anyone opt into them. Maybe that’s a good option? I dunno.
I contest the "losing our civil liberties" not being important. If there is any issue that is actually important, it's that one.
Cool! I'd considering adding CMA-ES [1], which as far as I know is the gold standard for derivative free optimization.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA-ES
Would not a life vest have great value to them in that they can trade it to the person who doesn't have one for something the swimmer does want? At the end of the day, a dollar bill does nothing for me. Its only value is in that I can trade it (well I could burn a pile to start warm for a short while, but that is a value below rounding error).
Yup. I imagine it's similar to the inventory shortfalls ledger experienced a few years ago during the cryptocurrency price runup. I made a nice chunk of change placing bulk orders from Ledger, waiting a month for them to ship, and forwarding them to Amazon to resell.
I believe that’s exactly what they were suggesting :)
Why should any paperwork be required? If the student has good scores, put them in the G&T program. You can send the student home with a piece of paper informing the parent, but there's no need to make it opt-in.
That's the way people "get into it", as you need to be able to purchase bitcoin somehow, and atm, the easiest way is through a centralized exchange. There needs to be a level of trust when you are moving from a centralized system to a decentralized system.

But once you have your cyrpto, you can move it to your own wallet, or anywhere else you'd like. I can't do that with fiat currency.
So just have the client download the entire DB each time. Can’t be that many megabytes.
This is absolutely gorgeous. Doesn't work on my mobile device but well worth investigating on desktop. Fun for me since I used to have a hobby of making various polyhedra with unit origami [1]. Apparently it's an update from this older site. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Unit-Origami-Multidimensional-Tomoko-...

[2] https://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/myriahedral/
Feels a little to strong for something that provides deep value for a company and must be unique to your brand in order to truly differentiate yourself.
Going to take you up on this offer. We've been running Dokku in production for years; and have a few quirks which have resulted in us evaluating moving to k8s.
This is HN. If you are writing something, try to say something meaningful or don’t post at all.
If you have an expensive but not high dimensional problem you might want to try https://github.com/DLR-SC/sqpdfo .
It is based on Krigging, SQP and also handles constraints.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, and (related) please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying to avoid a hell of our own here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think there's a really big difference between legit staying up, as in not even laying down to rest for 48 hours and laying in bed with your eyes mostly closed for 6-8 hours at night while consciously knowing you're not sleeping.

Human bodies react very differently too.

I remember doing a tech related trip once where it was crazy schedules (up at ~6-7am and back in the hotel room at 9:30pm-10pm) for 3 nights and then waking up at 4:45am on the last day to catch a 6+ hour flight home (10 hours with lay overs) and arriving at home. That was with very limited travel experience and having to be video recorded / mic'd up for 6-8 hours a day to interact with multiple tech presentations. Basically very stressful for someone who never did any of that before and is generally not that outgoing.

I never really felt too tired in the moment and I know for sure I didn't sleep the first 2 nights and did get a few solid hours of real sleep on the 3rd night. Honestly I was pretty surprised at how well things turned out. I used to pull a lot of all nighters as a teenager playing video games. Usually by ~36 hours I felt some side effects like brain fog and being ridiculously tired but by the end of that stretch it was a way different (and worse) experience than that travel experience, or laying in bed for ~6-8 hours with my eyes closed at night but not sleeping for a few nights.
> Fifty years on, the last man is here, placidly enjoying his lockdown thanks to Zoom, Netflix and Uber Eats, totally comfortable with the prospect of a future controlled by artificial intelligence and big data. Perhaps we need a modern day Mishima to shock us out of our complacency.

Is this a real person? I don’t think I know anyone unconcerned by the future, no matter how much they may distract themselves with modern convenience, as the author describes. But maybe there are people who think everything is going just fine, and I don’t know them.
I’m on the fence but painfully with both feet on the ground. However it wouldn’t take stiff wind to knock me back on to the plain ol JS side.

I’m currently “rewriting” a vue.js app for the sole reason that we’ve just lost a senior dev who was the only one who could stomach the thing. We’ve taken on two juniors in his place and there is absolutely no way they would be able to dig into this thing.

The process has been quite enjoyable and we’re just about at feature parity at 1/10
LOC. And the juniors are quite keen at picking up typescript and lots of other useful things along the way.

Had they just been dumped into the vue pool, things would have turned out much differently.

I await the day a few months from now when they “discover” this new thing called vue and want to rewrite the entire thing!
I appreciate your sharing your experience, but please don't take HN threads further into flamewar even when the other person responds badly. That just leads to a downward spiral, which we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree with your last point the most - while most things are not innovative on their own, sometimes the implementation in itself is innovative. For example, YouTube might not be innovative for simply allowing only video uploads, but is is arguably an innovation in that it can handle 500 hours of video uploaded every minute[0] and does so profitably (well, maybe [1]). Amazon also definitely didn’t innovate on any concept with Amazon.com, but they did build AWS which started with the on-demand hardware/software space and opened the doors to thousands of startups that might actually be using AWS to push innovative products.

0: https://blog.youtube/press/

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/google-still-isnt-telling-us...
Common lisp too
Do what do attribute to the gains? Adaptive clipping? Or $$$ spent on NAS??
Yes now I remember the time changing too! That was so much fun.

Another fun thing I now remember was to turn the dampening on the Taxi’s suspension to a positive value, so if you even gave them the smallest possible knock they would gradually start to wobble like a jelly and then start bouncing and bouncing until they were leaping up higher than buildings.
Probably, it's very unfortunate for Facebook and Google that "big tech" has become a political boogyman of both the left and the right.
Check out the Wikipedia page on living fossils: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil

There are a number of species alive today that existed in a similar form when the dinosaurs were alive.
The problem with nation-states is that if you want a nation to have just one people, you need to cleanse it of all the others. The old empires could be more humane in ways.
It's answered here:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/49912204/23567
I'm not insinuating anything lmao. You are adding a bunch of loaded terms like conspiracy because you can't just enjoy the position you are in. Again, enjoy it while you have it!
Python is pretty deep too once you start digging with stuff like dir(), and various other introspection libraries.
Looks like the real issue is lack of cleaning the dust once a year.

Apple normally 'does not mind' if you open the case. Obviously you have to know what you are doing, hence the special screws. If you know what you are doing, you'll find where to spend $1 to get the correct screw driver.
Oh. I was going to say it started with The Love Boat. They always had three plots, driven by three regulars combined with new actors playing guests on the cruise ship. They (sometimes) tied them together in the end, loosely.

In my family we call shows like that "Love Boat Plots"
Your article is unbelievably arrogant. You should have been honest, not dishonest. These aren't everyday hassles, these are hassles you have selected to promote Haskell.
It's building recognisable brand, and that too a fairly good one. Historically it's been quite easy for companies that do this to raise margins. This is a company barely 4 years old and quite nearly a household name in asian countries.

Additionally when manufacturing electronics, input components decrease in price so there is a natural tendency for their margins to increase even if they keep their pricing consistent.
Jeff Atwood stated in 2007 that any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScrip. Thats what we have today.
Thank you. I get anxious around people. For example, every time I get out of the house I have to prepare mentally. Going to the market store I have to go through possible scenarios in my head. It’s been like that as long as I can remember. I’ve learned to deal with it over the years, but it’s there.

That’s why becoming political or engaged in the community is difficult but I like the idea and will try to find some way.
Your kids will be grateful that you sacrificed yourself in a job you didn't like to give them a chance. Others have already told you: your situation is bad, but a part of this bad is that you see it worse. It's difficult to tell the realism bits from the defeatism ones. If in doubt, try to err on the side of optimism.
Having just watched this it seems like TikTok is working to solve what is a real problem for our society.

https://youtu.be/ymaWq5yZIYM
Where are you located? I just finished a job search with about the same experience as you in SF and 50 applications submitted makes me think that you might not be approaching this the best way possible, assuming you are in a tech location.

It seems like you went for quantity instead of quality. The opposite seemed to work well for me (personally, not trying to say its the only way).

I'd be happy to chat more, feel free to reach out. my email is my username at gmail.
Check out search results for "Taishō democracy".
But how would I know it's going to do that? I'm gonna delete the http:// if I've already got an http:// on the clipboard because I can't be sure it behaves unlike every other text box I'm used to using.