jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For the first part, I understand now, and I think we are more or less on the same page. Although I think I come from a place of treating that commenter as expressing a valid concern, but making a generalization I wouldn't make. I think you're coming from a place of also disagreeing with that generalization, but using it to push back on the idea that there should be any concern of the kind addressed by the commenter. With that, I couldn't possibly disagree with you more.

As for the second part, there's a lot there. It's good that your personal anecdotes you don't know of anyone held captive, but I don't think that was the question, and again I feel like that's coming from a place of wanting to generally dispute that people should be concerned about the practice of holding relatives captive to punish dissent.

For the rest of it, this is exploring the possibility, illustrated through Cixin Liu in a hypothetical example, of what might happen if he ever hypothetically wanted to extricate himself from China. His international success brings with it questions relating to free expression in China, so I treat these conversations as not terribly surprising, and frankly quite necessary.

And again, I don't think there's a literal case that he wants to do this, but that wasn't the point, and your confusion there again seems like it's coming from a place of generally wanting to deny that there should be any concern with how China could conceivably take family members hostage to pressure expat dissidents. And again, I could not disagree with that more.
Disco. One person djs, everyone chooses the music and dances, or just chills.
You're losing me in this line of reasoning... I know quite well how iOS works.

The issue is, to make good software, you need users. If everyone is using iOS, there's no $/time/energy left for the others. To make progress with technology we can't be held hostage by our platforms, as Apple would have things.

This is about having both the developers and the users put on the same playing field, and moving forward. Not backwards, like we've been going for years now. Sure there's been some steps in good directions, but ask yourself honestly if technology is truly working for you? Or are you working for technology?
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/flor5z/please_sto...
I'm not entirely sure what my preference would be if the choice is between a bailout for both Boeing and the newly unemployed, or neither. Yes, I'd be angry. It would be an insult to my sense of justice. But in a choice between my sense of fairness and some kid's warm lunch, maybe the kid should get some food?

Which brings me to another criticism: This starts out as some appeal to bipartisan outrage. But really the core position is entirely identical to the Democrats' best-case scenario. The difference is just that the Democratic Party is (presumably) willing to make the sort of compromise I describe above.

Irregardless of these difference on the morality of such a trade-off, it appears just wrong, somehow, to treat the two parties with the same brush when the overlap with one of them is so large, and the entire problem is created by the other party's willingness to take hostage.
As luck would have it, I've spent much of the afternoon working on my orc rogue in nethack 3.7.0 via ssh on hardfought.org. Being elderly and self-sequestered from the plague has its rewards...
I would recommend learning Linux the way I did 15 or so years ago: get rid of other operating systems and use a more 'advanced' distribution (such as Arch or Gentoo). In my case, I fucked up my Windows install on a new laptop when I was 12. At that point, I was stuck and just decided to stick with Linux. It's remarkable how quickly you learn when you absolutely need to in order to use the computer.

My second piece of advice would be to learn C from this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

After finishing it and completing all the exercises, you should be ready to go learn anything else you want to.
I agree. And I should have chosen different words. What you say is pretty much what I wanted to express.

The original comment said, that with Python you run into scalability problems earlier than with C.

And I wanted to add, that with C you run into (solvable but hard) `scalability' problems in terms of effort needed to cope with algorithmic complexity, much sooner. And more clever algorithms are often the key to solving scalability problems.

(P.S. I do not like OOP, either. State is ugly.)
Wow, I wonder how much money that cost them. Lawyers aren't cheap.
In the Bible, Proverbs incessantly mocks those who lack wisdom, who are simply called fools. Like an illustration that fools instinctively repeat their mistakes like a dog comes back to lick up his own vomit. Nice.

Then comes this thought: "Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him."
Beautifully produced. Mostly healthy, intelligent recipes. Lovely "food porn" illustrations. I like that several ingredients recur in several recipes so there is an implicit nudge in the direction of good pantry management. This looks like a good "browser" book for anyone who cooks and a possibly quite good book for someone just getting started.

The discussions at the end about equipment and pantry could be expanded, although they fit the recipes given.

I feel like it could use more discussion of technique although writing about technique (rather than teaching through demonstration) is always tricky.

Perhaps I'm just reacting to current fads but I wish it included some discussion of sourcing of ingredients and had less emphasis on canned beans, canned tuna, etc. Canned lentils - seriously? Sheesh.

A quote that bugs me: "The tricky thing with this salad is that a whole tin of chickpeas can be quite a big eat. If you’re not super hungry feel free to ditch some of the chickpeas."

Every kitchen has waste and nearly every kitchen compromises on ingredients but that quote makes me shudder. I suppose if you're moving from heating up frozen french bread pizzas to a cuisine as in this book that's a large positive step so I shouldn't find too much fault here. Still, a little discussion of buying dried legumes and cooking up batches ahead for use in several dishes would be nice.

Perhaps it needs a sequel :-)
Why wait for articles to be written? Why not do it yourself?

We built http://letsfreckle.com for "free" -- did all the work ourselves, while consulting.

If you're really passionate, you'll find a way. Sure, it would have been nice to have foregone the "while consulting" part, and done nothing but focus on our product all day long... but nobody was handing us a free lunch. So we did it, the way we could do it, without any particular hardship except being tired and annoyed.

EDIT: fixed tense. Living in a non-English-speaking country is wreaking havoc with my grammar.
I like the javascript solution because humans can just copy and paste while most bots are not that sophisticated to parse and run the javascript yet.
Hyderabad/IN/No Remote/Full time

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sealab 2021 is where its at
I suspect that AWS is 'losing money' on this in the same way that Apple are 'losing money' on their high Street retail shops.

Working at a place with AWS enterprise support by contrast, for the second occasion, I would suggest that many of the places paying $15kpm don't cost that to support.
This is awful¹, I love it!

Thumbing through the code made me wonder what the zsh(my normal shell) implementation feels like, and I think it is fair to say your code is easier to wrap your head around than the documentation for floats in zsh.

FWIW - and given that you've only shown Windows timings - on my Linux box hyperfine shows:

Summary
'./faster_e_demo.sh 15' ran
1.78 ± 0.16 times faster than './slower_e_demo.sh 15'

I expected the speeds to be closer because of the differences with subshells on Windows and Linux, but the distance still surprised me.

¹ https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/contranym - choose one
I've been looking for a book that balances technical rigor with real-world application, and more importantly, is fun to read. This looks promising - adding it to my reading list!
Finally peace in our time!
If there is leakage, I wonder how long it would be before the data could not be recoverable? Could one transplant the platters and 're-charge' the Helium? Or just somehow recharge the old disk? Because unless / until we get some cheap lots-of-bit storage, all the 'stuff' we're generating will not be, in effect, archivable. Is this right?
> Was that in recommendation adding business value and not being hourly labor or something else?

A combination usually, with benefits to the client too:

- Client + contractor aren't both wasting time with micromanagement that could be put into adding business value instead.

- Contractor is incentivised to work smarter, finish tasks quicker and keep the business goal in mind.

- Client can budget because they know the final price.

- Contractor is happier and less stressed because they're not being micromanaged.

These are all flipped with hourly.

Fixed price will be horrible for the contractor if they're not charging enough and controlling scope creep though, but with hourly the client is taking the business risk instead.
"Helicopter parenting" and "smothering" are not the only alternatives to self-serving, self-absorbed neglect.

Throwing your hands up because something is hard and there are no obvious answers is not a recipe for doing a good job at... anything.
You could take the entire defense budget, and the defense budget from every other country in the world, and you would be less than 50% of the funding you would need for a single year of Medicare for all. The US spends about $3.6 trillion per year on health care. I have no idea what UBI might cost, but I know we don’t have the tax revenues to get even close.

Maybe the money printer can go brrrr a little bit faster.
I've seen github count jquery other libs as javascript several times. There's no real solution to this as far as I can tell, since JS libs just can't be required like other libs.
As you wrote in your other comment that was downvoted,

>The fact the US President goes on a big motorcade is what allows the Dutch prime minister to promenade himself on a bike ;-)

I compare it to how certain cities in the US and elsewhere declare themselves to be "nuclear-free zones". They have the luxury of performing such virtue signaling because other places aren't nuclear-free.
>>Health insurance and seatbelts are comparable concepts, that is what the seat belt comment was about.

A mandate to have health insurance is orders of magnitude more impactful on the unwilling than a mandate to wear a seatbelt. But because of some commonality in the principle behind both mandates, you believe a person must accept the latter if they accept the former, to be morally consistent.

>>Hence back to the earlier point, people aren’t anti-libertarian but rather find much of what is espoused in the name of libertarianism is too absurd to take seriously.

What I encountered when denouncing mandates that turned unvaccinated people into second class citizens is people using our society's acceptance of sanitary permits for restaurants as justification for such mandates. It is a rejection, on principle, of the right to one's own person, property and liberty. For that reason, I conclude anti-libertarianism animates laws that violate the right to private property, bodily autonomy, and personal freedom, whether that be mandatory minimum restaurant safety standards, the Income Tax Act, vaccine mandates or lockdowns.

>>Seat belts and 3 months of Shanghai style quarantines are way different.

Of course they're way different. But the former opens the door to the latter, because there is no hard principle to prevent the latter when you accept the principle that justifies the former. That is how Canada ended up confining 150,000 elderly people in their room for over a year. There was no principled reason not to confine innocent people for the greater good, so once the cost-benefit analysis determined it was the correct policy, the restriction was imposed.

You only oppose "3 months of Shanghai style quarantines" because you view the restrictions as being disproportionate to the public benefit they produce. Not because you oppose restrictions limiting personal autonomy on principle.
Typically everything on wikipedia must have a source where the information comes from.
In fairness to rust, compiler speed has gotten a lot better. Can't speak for every crate though..
Rust definitely loves a good zer0ver, for better and worse.
I’m 40! Agree, loss of spatial awareness, walking from one room into another and suddenly not knowing where I was. It’s like I just woke up. Took a while to finally slowly go away.
How is moving them to another state helping anything? All it does is make their nights colder.
You understand it is all on YouTube right? What is your next claim, that it is a cinematic production of some sort?

You can see the IDF soldiers harassing people in the checkpoints, catcalling the women and giving nicknames to people.

The objective seems to be to put as many obstructions to normal life as possible, so people just give up and move somewhere else.

Harass people until they protest, and once they protest just shoot them all. Starting by the paramedics.

Harass people in every form possible. Harass the fishermen with artillery shots, make people spend 4 hours every day in checkpoints, kill the olive trees, sabotage the water towers so they have a putrid smell, demolish the schools, send people to some kangaroo court and seize their property, burn children with white phosphorous, etc.

Why does Israel have so many armored bulldozers? (D9) What are they for? We all know what they are for.

I respect the Jewish people and the Jewish faith, I am part Jew myself although not religious. But what Israel is either doing or allowing to happen is not the way.
"And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."[1]

1. https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
I will add here that my biggest disagreement is treating a website hosting platform as some sort of proprietary content. I understand if they don't provide an export of their theme. I understand if they don't want to provide an export in some nice-to-use format. IANAL, but not allowing any sort of export at all should be illegal. At a minimum, someone should be able to email Wix support and get a CSV of the data _they created_ on the platform.

The owner of the website is the copyright holder of the user generated content. The fact that they would have to go and copy/paste their own work, download their own images, etc. in order to move to a different provider absolutely cements my position to actively warn people in my sphere of influence to avoid Wix like a plague. The gall of a company to exploit the OSS parts of the web and to only take & take without ever giving is gross.
'powercfg /lastwake' (in Windows) will tell what woke it up.
Alternate: they bungle computer evidence just as much but society hasn’t caught up to their ineptitude yet.
This is just my personal philosophy. I think it all comes down to whether you feel recognition and respect for your work.

This recognition comes from yourself, your direct peers, your superiors, your subordinates, your customers, your friends, and your family. If any one group thinks lowly of what you do it has a strong effect. If all of them think that way it would be very distressing.

The only way anything matters is as it relates to recognition from any of those groups. Your own background and the people around you have a tremendous effect what works and what doesn't.

For example, a financial planner who made $5 million last year might be thrown into depression if they were reduced to doing taxes for middle-class clients for $50,000 per year. But a junior college graduate from a poor background might be filled with importance to have that opportunity. Likewise being praised by a Nobel laureate would probably be much different than being praised by your barber who thinks your app is cool.

So, figure out what would make you respect yourself. Work for someone who respects you and has customers that respect what they do. Have peers that respect you. And hire subordinates that respect you. Surround yourself with people whose respect is meaningful and earn it. Respect can come in the form of money, but any one form of respect can get negated if the others are lacking. It sounds egocentric to type it out, but I think that's what we really want at the end of the day.
I'm not sure I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that it was security through obscurity. Maybe it was an incredible error where editing resources didn't have any type of authorization and no authentication based on the article.
Yeah, I was in a hurry as I was writing it and my brain got ahead of my typing and I completely forgot to add this line after my quotation of the author:

> Then he goes on to do exactly that throughout the rest of the article.

Yes it somewhat contradicts my assertion that there's no way to tldr it, but good tldr's usually condense not just the author's thesis but some of the most pertinent details as well. But in this case that is very difficult, at best.
> I signed up thinking Flattr was a way for people to pay me who hate paypal.

Maybe Flattr should do that as well. For example they could extend the service so that you could put a button on your website which when someone presses it, it pays a fixed amount from their website to yours, which could be used as an easy-to-use micropayment scheme allowing people to pay for content.
You have to be a bit more clear. What exactly will the OS be used for: Desktop or server use? The answers may vary depending on that.
What is the market like for paid WordPress plugins? I recently developed my first WordPress plugin and was under the impression that the price point for just about anything is 0 from all the expectations built around the ecosystem. I think it's great that you're charging though.

Since this is not open source, is this listed in the WordPress.org directory?
They don't reign supreme for sitting on your sofa with your family. You wouldn't expect the average grandmother to feel comfortable using an iPad to control a game. The Wii was focussed on the whole family being included. Also, four people sitting on a sofa staring at individual screens isn't the most sociable either.
C is not strongly typed.

In general, when someone is talking about strong typing, they are talking about silent failure for unintuitive or ambiguous constructs. For example, if the expression

x = '1' + 1

results in an error, you are probably using a strongly-typed language. In C, this is equivalent to

x = 32;

In javascript you get

x = '11'

In PHP you get

x = 2

These are examples of weak typing.
I believe one of the reasons given was that it was a partially funded liability that would become the state's financial burden in a few years.
But if you add a hardware randomizer for switching times, you guard against all software security issues, not just this one.
"Meiga" does not mean "Witch" in Portuguese, it means a "gentle woman".
About 20 years ago I was having a quiet pint with a friend and he casually says "I wish I was passionate about something". It always stuck with me, still haven't found anything I'd consider I'm passionate about, still looking though!
Very common in almost many stores in the US, Large companies like Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, sell them

Plus in many places you can bring in Change to a CoinStar can convert your coins to a Visa Gift card
Markdeep is a great project and supports a lot of impressive features. TeXMe on the other hand takes a minimalist approach.

There are some fundamental differences between the two tools. For example, in Markdeep, the user input goes into the <body> element whereas in TeXMe the user input goes into the <textarea> element. The choice of <textarea> element was made in TeXMe to make Markdown rendering more robust. Copy-pasting a valid Markdown code into Markdeep may not always render correctly without further editing. By the way, TeXMe also supports content in <body> as an optional feature.

Further, Markdeep does not care about conforming to the CommonMark spec whereas TeXMe does. If you care about CommonMark spec, TeXMe is a good choice. However, if you need additional features like tables, diagrams, etc., Markdeep is a good choice.

For a detailed comparison of the two tools, please see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18314175.
A DC grid is likely better nowadays, but we're stuck with the historic AC grid. Most of the problems DC faced back in the war of currents have been solved by solid state technology.
Huh, I was half-way to creating something in the same vein, while trying to use Git as the "world-state synchronization protocol" for a distributed MOO. Back to the (much-simplified) drawing-board :)
I'm only guessing here, not being an engineer or a mathematician, but... wouldn't that be rather dependent on what kind of engineering you're getting into?
It's incredibly slow in Chrome 9 unless I'm in the canvas display.
Thank you, there are definitely advantages and disadvantages to being a single founder (avoiding founder drama is an advantage, for sure). I'm glad you've managed to work things out for you, after all is said and done, I don't think there's anything people like us would enjoy more than running a startup, even if it's not wildly successful.
If the BB platform wasn't a hunk of junk I would probably agree, it is creating an unfair playing field. The reality is, the blackberry dev tools are not equal, they are terrible and the reason we do not build for BB is not because we're evil and do not like them, its because they do not provide the tools to run a profitable business on their sub-par platform.

To be fair, the iOS and Android platforms are far from perfect, but they have enough user facing features that consumers like that they gain significant distribution and allows companies to build apps at a profit.

BB need to build better products, maybe then they will see people want to work with them. This is just a CEO who doesn't get it complaining because he isn't smart enough to fix the problem he was hired to solve.
Why does it have to be lithium technology? The reason electric cars use it is because of energy density (weight savings). For home use, weight is completely irrelevant. You could use much safer lead acid batteries (sealed/AGM) and rig your own inverter setup. This is also a lot easier to maintain over time, as you can scale up/down and swap individual batteries as required.
Just-in-time not so smart now eh?
Unfortunately that would be a large paycut for me and it would also cost a lot of stability. I wasn't making up the $500/hr figure; that's what I would actually need for this to be worth considering switching to.