jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the general perspective of Bitcoin specifically around here meshes with the general stance on a lot of topics. Bitcoin is the 1.0 cryptocurrency. It was groundbreaking, but it has technological deficiencies that are/were being addressed by improvements in the general technology of cryptocurrencies. But the Bitcoin protocol itself has demonstrated to be impossible to modernize, as even the most trivial change like a block size increase is not taken up, so progress in this space is happening in the form of other cryptocurrencies. But there are a lot of people, including in the comments of HN, who have a big stake not in the technology or in cryptocurrencies in general but in Bitcoin specifically. They’re perfectly happy to see this area of technology stagnate and be held back by being forced to layer innovation over Bitcoin itself, as with the Lightning network, when much better solutions are available by moving on from Bitcoin.

So when I see someone advocating for Bitcoin specifically they come off as transparently self-serving and having no real interest in the technology. I see a lot of parallels to projects refusing to migrate off of Python 2, except in this case Bitcoin enthusiasts are compelled to actively evangelize the inferior technology instead of just sticking to it as the rest of the technology space moves along.
Yes, exactly. I love binary protocols/formats. Plain text formats are wasteful, and difficult (or at least annoying) to implement with any consistency. But you really do need a translation layer to make binary formats reasonable to work with as a developer. There are very good reasons why we prefer to work with text: we have a text input device on our computers, and our brains are chock full of words with firmly associated meanings. We don't have a binary input device, nor do we come preloaded with associations between, say, the number 4 and the concepts of "end" and "headers." (0x4 is END_HEADERS in HTTP/2.)

Once you have the tools in place, working with binary formats is as easy as working with plaintext ones.

Of course making these tools takes work. Not much work, but work. And it's the kind of work most people are allergic to: up-front investment for long-term gains. With text you get the instant gratification of all your tools working out of the box.

I don't think I'd go so far as to say that plain text is junk food, but it's close. It definitely clogs arteries. :)
Moving all jobs into a few cities and then extorting those who more there is how you get wage stagnation.
Interesting, mind if I shoot you an email? My family has a business in this space (residential side) and I'd love to chat more.
If every person has an "digital currency wallet" held at their normal bank as a pass through to the fed already, and let's say congress passes a bill pre-approving them to do a certain amount of stimulative distributions, they basically have a blank check. There would be no further approval needed for those distributions. It's even possible they would ask for this to be uncapped, essentially opening a new facility.

I think this structurally has less resistance than writing physical checks. What's the point of designing and implementing that system if they aren't going to be allowed to use it.
> Your point seems to be that parenting is hard so we can never publicly criticize any common parenting practices because it might hurt some parents' feeling.

I mean, parenting being hard is neither here or there. You said it is "hard" yourself. There are parents that think parenting is wonderful and can't see themselves do anything but raising kids.

> If I'm doing something harmful to my child, I want to know about it.

That's great, and it's exactly what I meant when I said I took issue w/ the "you" pronoun: wanting better for oneself is very very different than telling others what ought to be what.

Medical professionals are known to make recommendations based on probabilistic heuristics (i.e. 95% of cases with certain circumstances fall into the same bucket so they usually assume said bucket) and this is why celebrity doctors like Dr Mike say that it's important to build rapport and have an open dialogue with the physician, armed with all the knowledge you are able/willing to muster yourself.

The thing w/ online advice is that people seeking help on the internet are often already very apprehensive and vulnerable and having a flood of strangers on high horses passing judgment doesn't necessarily help. The irony is that if we're in "I did my research and know better than professionals" territory, then the problem is that everyone and their mothers also claim to have done "research" too and "how dare they question my self-acclaimed expert authority", and that type of thread derails real fast.

Many of these parents are well-meaning but are in fact woefully underprepared to effectively provide help that is clear cut among medical professionals (e.g. dealing w/ a fever), and they often are eager to offer quick takes on topics where the research is mixed, non-existent, poorly done and/or where it doesn't really really matter (stuff like optimization advice for parents worrying about late blooming in development milestones like potty training). And then there's topics like spanking, where it's pitchforks galore, and the signal-to-noise ratio is basically zero.
You really think the only reason they increased their labor costs by billions is because a now irrelevant populist from Vermont doesn't like rich people?
Well I'm asking since you work in the industry, how much does it cost to license e-ink technology?
Right...except for the tens of thousands of people with the 2011 machine experiencing heat related damage to the GPU.

Your study size of one doesn't 'go to show' anything at all regarding the MacBooks thermal performance. It shows that you yourself haven't experienced any issues but that's where it ends.

I for instance have a 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and it will spin up and get ridiculously hot (too hot to touch) simply watching a 1080p flash video on YouTube. Not the greatest thermal design there with my study size of one :-)

What I will say though is that Apple seems to use the Aluminium case as a heat transfer device, so it purposefully gets hot to disapate heat. That's great until there is a fault with the solder being too thin to withstand the planned temperatures like is happening to the 2011 MacBooks with the discrete GPU.
What we need is not AutoCrapNG™, but sensible convergence of platforms so that we don't need to guess or go hunting for if <stdlib.h> exists or not.
You read that right. The author is part of a movement known as the "dark enlightenment".
> In general, Apple makes quality hardware. If it were otherwise, they wouldn't be able to charge so much.

Oh, so you have never heard of the power of Marketing and branding ?
Neverwet? Soylent?
Sure. But many languages have a standard way of defining what's a function declaration, what's a function definition, what's a type definition, what's a function parameter, what's a type parameter, what's a function call, what's a type instantiation; it doesn't really matter what the specifics are, what matters is that there are standard indicators that stand out from the code (and I think there is a sense in which []{} are a priori more visible in the middle of a paragraph than letters are).

Haskell doesn't seem to have that; any piece of Haskell code tends to look like a smooth surface of words separated by spaces. Function? Words separated by spaces. Type? Words separated by spaces. Instance? Words separated by spaces. There are no visual handles to latch onto, nothing to help you realise how this stream of words separated by spaces forms a tree structure (AST).
My x220 has air vents at the back, on the left side and several at the bottom of its base. Even when it heats up the temperature stays very much controlled.
Its a modified 4.2.1 android with a Chinese patched Google Play install.

I didn't like the samsung-esque install of their base, so I recompiled to what I liked.
I have to say that I am tempted by Go precisely because I see a lot of comments like yours, namely, it seems just to "work" in a very simple way. I find myself somewhat overwhelmed by the avalanche of new language opportunities I am supposed to invest time in. Most seem to have this huge kitbag of functionality and they seem to merge into each other making it quite confusing which I should go to, and with technologies such as the LLVM it seems to me we're only at the beginning of the new language storm, where every CS postgrad wants to create a new language that does everything. Go seems to have a very clear and unique proposition in this environment: sparsity. This seems to me to be a very good differentiator, and to the extent that the language were to move towards all the other languages and try to add features, I personally would be disappointed. This is not spoken at all as an expert in Golang, quite the opposite. I simply love the clean imperative aspect which Golang seems to have and is why I am very tempted to learn it.
Lisp is not an immutable language.

There's setf and setq for assigning; nconc, nsubst, and the destructive list operations; rplaca and rplacd; etc.

It's easy to write Lisp that doesn't mutate (let), or use constructs that hide it (dolist, dotimes, etc.), but mutable data has been in Lisp since the beginning.

That said, there are languages in the family that don't allows mutation, but they're a small minority.
I literally make all of my important purchases on subjective evidence. Whenever I'm considering an important purchase, I scour the Internet for anecdotal information. I've found that such anecdotes in large quantity are more reliable (and informative) than most of the available objective information.

More relevant to this conversation, Macs have a wide (and presumably well-deserved) reputation for quality, and Windows PCs have a wide (and presumably well-deserved) reputation for cheapness (both in the quality and cost contexts). Sure, that consumer Dell you bought might boast better specs, but these objective metrics do a bad job about predicting things like product quality or overall satisfaction.
I turn a small profit by buying broken dirtbikes and fixing them to sell. Working on a machine with my hands and not a keyboard is therapeutic.
Hi, another dev here. Thanks for sharing your views, I can see that subscription is a big pain point for you and I understand your frustration. There is always a trade-off when choosing between a subscription model versus a fixed price model and when looking at where we wanted to take the app, subscription made more sense to us. Thanks for taking the time to give the free trial a go despite your reservations. If you like it, we're happy, if not, we appreciate you taking the time to give it an evaluation and welcome any feedback you may have :)
What do you mean "you don't think" there is such a conspiratorial force? The article being discussed states explicitly that there is exactly such a force. You don't believe it? Then talk about the article. The situation being complex and your following it since the beginning are totally irrelevant.

(What I think is that the only thing these paid trolls cannot admit is that they are paid trolls. They can write anything, criticize Putin and such, but they cannot admit they exist.)
That is what I was thinking based off the title.
I’ve never understood why the police needs to lie. In Sweden, the police is not allowed to lie but may however withold information or ”speculate” how the circumstances and evidence will be interpreted at trial. The prosecutors still win 90% of cases.
Nope, same here. They used to have either one 5s ad or a skippable 20s+ ad. At some point they've started to roll two 5-10s ads back to back, or unskippable 10-30s ads, and only the 30s+ are skippable. The topmost video in the app is always an ad as well, in addition to all the text ads you mentioned. I get that video hosting costs beaucoup bucks but the amount of ads is getting ridiculous..

Its happening on other sites in other ways as well (either dark patterns or vast amounts of ads) and it has gotten me to the point where I actively take pleasure in extracting the maximum value for me as customer (so blocking ads, using VPN to pay in rubles or rupees, etc) as most companies these days see you as nothing but entities to suck as much profit out of as possible, with no regard for a reasonable middle ground. Sucks for them, that's a two-way street.
>This has yet to be proven, and as you say, there’s reasons why it has yet to land. I give this one vitaliks sideways smiley face.

Yeah, the hundreds of cryptocurrencies using it isn't enough.
You know what? I’m not going to pay google to stop harassing me with ads. YouTube was actually usable as little as a month ago. I see so many ads now you’d think this was some sketchy app, but we’re talking about YouTube. How is the answer, “paying them $10/mo is worth it,” in the context of there being an ad problem an acceptable answer?
IIRC the configuration that allows hidden volumes is distinguishable from the basic configuration, so they could tell if there's the potential for a hidden drive to exist. If so, they could assume the hidden container exists and throw you in jail if you don't produce a password that unlocks one.

If the format schemes are indistinguishable that's good news.
ublock origin on desktop, youtube vanced on android.
Seconded. I've never seen a single one of the popups from the OP myself, which I thought was curious until the author mentioned they were using the Android app, whereas on mobile I only use Youtube from within Firefox, which is perfectly serviceable (and apparently less annoying).
What kind of people? Just gullible or something more specific?
I think the author is making a good point here, though overstating the case. Remember, plagiarism in academia isn’t just stealing an entire paper and claiming it’s yours. In my narrow sub field, probably the first three sentences of every paper’s introduction could be identical, but if I copied those from another paper that’s plagiarism. Likewise, if my paper built on a useful equation from another’s work, and I copied the explanation directly from that paper, it’s plagiarism. Yet as the author said, this does little disservice to the reader. These rules are more about properly maintaining an academic measure of merit.

But while this is a great point, we shouldn’t abandon the problem of plagiarism all together. Instead, just start with your moral system, say utilitarian or a Kantian ethic, and then put it to the test. For certain, some systems will find it intrinsically immortal regardless of the social context.
I, for one, welcome our new dancing robot overlords.
As I understand it, the new record types are “HTTPS” and “SVCB” (“service binding”). The SVCB record is a generic SRV-like thing, and HTTPS is like SVCB but with extra things which HTTPS needs.
It's too easy.
Remember also that Peng Shuai never disappeared.
So, among the slice of the population wealthy enough to own a home and have a difference of +$100K in equity vs a control group, there's a modest positive correlation of having at least one child.

That's not entirely rejecting that across Americans the curve could rise at the lower end of "prosperity" as well. Which, according to this study, it does and average number of children decreases almost perfectly steadily with increasing decile of lifetime earnings (see Table 2): https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~scholz/Research/Kids%20and%20Wealt...
Not sure why the downvotes, it is a legit risk for this business. Remember how one could convert analog SLR cameras to digital with some kits? It wasn't a success story...

EDIT: at least not for long.
So your entire argument is that nothing illegal was done? I don't think anyone claimed otherwise, so that doesn't contribute anything to the conversation.
https://archive.is/4PG7M
I also think there that among programmers there are an unusually large number of "self-teachers." How is CS taught? By giving a problem set and having you try it out yourself. These types of people tend to think that structured learning is bad.

But many other types of people learn better in a structured environment.
Boox exports to the US and violates GPL.
> And I should note that I can imagine various poverty-and-social-whatever issues D.C. might be facing, but they don't obviously apply to Rhode Island in the same way.

I don’t think this is true. Rhode Island has tremendous wealth disparity.

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180210/studies-inco...
Anecdotally yes, most small to medium sized CRUD apps do use either an ORM or a query builder so abstracted as to be effectively an ORM.
I can't imagine why you would use the nation's most-derided newspaper as a source when primary sources are at your fingertips. "Percent of general fund" is misleading to various degrees depending on the city. Some cities have dedicated taxes for police, some don't fund police from the general fund at all.

SF has a unified city/county government so the sheriff shows up in their budgets, as well as the courts and the rest of it. The whole category had a 2019-2020 budget of 1.72 billion. The SFPD alone was 692 million, so I don't know where the Chronicle came up with 606.

The number of households in San Francisco, according to the census, was 346k.
It's called a quarantine, it's been a thing for thousands of years, get a clue.
Could you please add an introductory write-up ? I am assuming that this has something to do with Google App engine , of which I know little. Your post could be a great starting point if you could elaborate upon your idea a wee bit more.
I support the FSF's overall philosophy, and they raise important privacy issues here, but the "control over our data" part is dated. Things improved a lot this year. I think the FriendFeed acquisition had a lot of influence. Thanks, Bret Taylor et al!
Irony? Much?
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Yet another option: http://skimreddit.com/http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/...

You can use it on any post (not just AMAs) by adding their URL in front or clicking their bookmarklet.
How does this compare/contrast with Privacy Badger?
Thanks for those links. While the earlier versions for Safari (like v0.8.2.0, found here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/117) work well on Safari 5, these new versions on your Safari link do not. They crash the browser during installation.
Not to be trite, but as they say, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Especially considering the sentences immediately after the "there is no evidence..." statement, I'd be wary. I might just be jaded and they're really just trying to be forthcoming and helpful, but all that CYA-type-speak after that line makes me at least a little bit dubious that they're revealing all the details just yet.
These malicious actions have also had an impact on your ability to enjoy...

Interesting. Is it not fair to also say the negligent actions that made these malicious ones possible had an impact?

I'm completely sick of the way these press releases sound.
I think what "Up" succeeded was even more significant than that: they took animation into the affective territory of live-action movies. Frankly, I don't even really remember the voices.

Making cartoons (which I sincerely believe 3D has been) has been one-upmanship of technology that pretty much builds its own history in lockstep, but to combine that with writing and the animation choices for something that can bring a tear to the eye of an adult is truly great work. The first act of "Up" really is a landmark to me.
Clickable: http://secpie.com/toys.jpg

I found a picture that shares two of your items:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veloopity/210755456/
We're working on fixing that now. It should be back up very soon!

Edit: It's back. Thanks for the patience.
Maybe something about only allow one child and what not. That seems pretty communist to me.
The comment bothers me beyond just the use of hashtag. You are mixing the ideologies of a person along with a company which to me is not very intelligent. While he may be the face of a company and direct their strategy he is ultimately answering to the shareholders. What he does in his personal life is mostly irrelevant as long as Apple is profitable.

Adding the hashtag at the end of what you are trying to communicate puts salt on the wound as lyke w tottally cud write like whateves and you'd understand but lyke its not cool, ya know? #whatisdecorum
As Sysky said, edgee is not a medium length text post (did you even click on the link?). It is a new concept, a new format altogether where you can link and connect different media items with your own thoughts. We want to lower the barrier to entry for people. You can request an invite on edgee.com and try it out yourself
If expanded enough, you could easily arrive at the Wikipedia of data structures. A place where, without the cludge of libraries, you could dive into a topic on data structures, apply search refinement until you find a structure that seems like the best match for what you want, and then implement.

Even better if at the top of code I could just put:

Language c++

Use OpenData (BarnesHutt BubbleSort SVD)

If only these people would tie in with the Computer Language Benchmarks Game so that you would have a feedback mechanism to improve All algorithms (not just the CBG subset) and a natural way to meta rate algorithm implementations vs one another as well as task groups (like "sorting") or languages as a whole.
You should read it again :)
It requires no lawsuits to lose patents
As written, if you make blog posts saying their patents are crap, you've lost.

(and the other provisions are not defensive, they don't require you sue facebook to lose patents)
I'd like more information (I'm in the market for a service like yours at the moment, so this isn't just a ShowHN feedback).

Is it pure mobile app? Web too? Do you just design the View in MVVM/MVC? What languages and platforms do you use? Do you deal with web service integration? How do you communicate with customers? How do you structure and provide timelines for a job? Can you give some specifics about what your contracts are like?
IMO, it's not a CS background that does that. It's empathy, it's putting somebody else's concerns on the level of or even (gasp!) above your own, and that's in pretty short supply around here. Empathy is often confused for cheap populism--because populism is always cheap, I guess--and gets that middlebrow dismissal that's so common in tech.
“What did we do before Google?”

“We wondered about stupid stuff all day until we forgot about it.”

http://www.absurdnotions.org/an20031223.gif

(From http://www.absurdnotions.org/page112.html)
Cool, this is great feedback. I'll check out Stephen Few's work too -- thanks for reading and caring!
By finding meaning in the meaningless... I like to give myself purpose or pretend I have one. In 2020, I began a project and turned it into a book, collecting the stories and gaining insight into the lives of 530 women from every country in the entire world. And well, it is now historical to have done it. Is it so meaningless to get a perspective of what life is like for a woman living in that country? You can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its women. Looking back on this project in 2120, a hundred years from now, will it have been so meaningless? Or will the way these women describe their lives be exactly the same? https://mylifeasawomanproject.com
Yeah, same here. I've used HE tunnels and DNS for close to a decade myself and have zero complaints about the free public service they provide.
Makes me wonder if you could do it on a Cortex-M!