jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
All kinds of legitimate things are sold on Gumroad. I created BudgetSheet ( https://www.budgetsheet.net ), which I sell subscriptions to via Gumroad. It's ramping up slow, but this year it broke $1k ARR. My goal is to 3x that this year.

Income Proof: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wzatabooj5hocug/Screen%20Shot%2020...
They made money on the interchange fees from their debit cards, as many other similar services do now.
It's because bitcoin is a bankster coup, the cherry on top of an intentional devaluation of the USD as the world reserve currency since the 70's when modern China was created by normalizing trade relations with NATO-ally nations. This strategy will create the conditions which will lead to WW3. Alternatively, we could create an entropic crypto-currency that redistributes itself over a lifetime or 1.5, normalizing wealth inequality, obeying the laws of the natural universe and avoiding catastrophe, while unifying humankind under a common incentive, creating world peace. Choice is ours.
"For your security, conversation history isn't transferred to new linked devices." is my main grief with signal. I'd rather have a choice over the ability to move my history to a new device.
I think it is a joke.
Possibly something deliberately intended to make it's way to the front page, at which point it might transform into something more sinister?
Not important or useful so far as I can see.

Insufficiently shiny to be a new company trying to make a name for itself.
That depends entirely on whose perspective you use for the definition of need, which is the point of my original comment.
True, but when I uninstalled Adblock Edge, I gained almost a gigabyte of memory in Firefox. (I'm now using Ghostery to block ads. It isn't as effective but I'd rather reduce the memory footprint.)
Great pun, good idea, unfulfilled realization.

I'd like to see this become something cool. Don't cock it up
I once skipped the "simple programming exercise" part of the interview process for someone who was senior, and severely regretted it when it turned out he struggled with basic programming tasks.

He had a nice code sample (pre-github era).
First, thank you for providing a thought experiment that challenged my own beliefs on the topic. Something like that is rare.

Given the social climate surrounding the issue, it seemed appropriate to switch to a throwaway. I'll strive to keep the discussion interesting and thought-provoking.

I'd like to followup with you and get some insights. Thinking over your example leads me to conclude, "There is no such thing as what's 'acceptable,' only what's effective."

Do you feel that's true, or off the mark?
I feel your pain on coding questions which have nothing to do with the job, but this can be difficult.

We recently tried to identify such a question, with a scope such that the candidate should take about an hour and a half to complete - where complete also implies documentation, tests, etc. We couldn't find an appropriate question which would be something that would be highly indicative of the specific work they'd be doing that a) Didn't require a ton of domain knowledge (we don't expect people to have that domain knowledge coming in) or b) Would be too specific to particular technologies such as which ORM type library one is using, which type of DB, what libraries, etc.

Typically when I've seen examples of these questions where they are fully relevant they're in a space that's tightly defined - you're using say RoR, MySql, etc and candidates are expected to be proficient in those. That's not us.
At least we know robots will retire on the beach.
If anyone could explain the difference of this from something like GBTC (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBTC) I'd love to hear it!
I wonder how hard it was for them to restrain themselves from citing the debate around section 230 in this.

Because the reality is, this is exactly what 230 would mandate - to a much greater extent and much earlier than it is currently done.
I'd say it was mostly peaceful, especially compared to the riots.

Certainly didn't last as long, it cost less in property damage, less people died, and less neighborhoods burnt down.

Maybe we can ban both sides from social media and have no Twitter.
Ok, so who's going to accurately quarantine misinformation among the trillions of posts being made by billions of people? How many moderators does it take to do that effectively? Likely a few orders of magnitude more than facebook employs.

Anyways, no "public liberties" are unlimited. All are constrained where leaving them open creates significant harm or burdens other people's liberties. Even free speech and freedom of association.

People understood that once. "All my freedoms are absolute and who cares if society falls down with them" is a modern construct and it seems pretty plain to me that it's resulted in a lot of problems.
It's the equal protection amendment.

The meaning of it has been "stretched" a bit (at least from the pov of a textualist/originalist) to constitutionally justify civil rights laws applied to individuals/businesses, not just state governments.

So it's "true meaning" is often debated, but as I understand it:

If civil rights laws can be/ are interpreted to apply to individuals and businesses via the 14th (which they are), it's hard to also square that diversity of political opinion is not also protected, given that it's the ultimate civil right and we're a democratic-republic.

From wiki: "nor shall any State ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". It mandates that individuals in similar situations be treated equally by the law.
people are actively cheering and celebrating the woman who got shot yesterday.

it's really insane how people who claim they are champions for human right and diversity rapidly descend into the inhumanity that they themselves blame the very country for.

If I was in America right now, I would get the hell out immediately. This is literally like watching the cultural revolution unfold step by step.
It's dubious. That wasn't the position that was overrun, and there were protesters both behind and in front of the police. That position likely needed to be abandoned, because being pressed upon on two sides is no bueno.

The bigger question is whether there was any deliberate decision to withhold necessary force --- in particular, whether the executive had any influence on the lack of Guard support or other measures not being taken.

A subsidiary question is whether there were any cops that were deliberately facilitating this. When so far outnumbered, 5-10 rogue police officers could make a huge difference in outcomes.
What exactly do you expect to learn from debating anti-semites, self-proclaimed Nazis, or people that are shouting “hang Mike Pence”? https://youtu.be/Fag0aC_M0_U

Today’s news:
Joe Biden condemned the rioters who stormed the Capitol as “a bunch of thugs,” “domestic terrorists” and “white supremacists.” The president-elect specifically called out the rioters who wore shirts saying “6MWE.” “6MWE” is an anti-Semitic phrase that stands for “Six million wasn’t enough,” referring to the six million Jewish people who were murdered during the Holocaust.

If you feel like we are where we are because we’re not listening to these people than you can count me out. I have absolutely nothing to learn from a white supremacist or someone inciting violence. And likewise, they have absolutely nothing to contribute to political discourse.
What kind of job was it, retail? Even that job is probably a luxury compared to, say, manufacturing. I don't think you'd have that much down time if you were working in a factory. You wouldn't be thinking a lot, since it's repetitive manual labor, but I'm sure you'd be pretty tired at the end of the day (physically, not mentally).
My wife has a PhD in nutrition and is also a registered dietitian. She's not on Hacker News, but she would agree with that statement.

The vast majority of Americans are chronically deficient in vitamin D, for example.

And many "Walmart-quality" supplements are so badly made that you gain no measurable benefit by taking them.
> Oh, and in the middle ages, it would be expected that all of the inside sleeves would be finished.

What does this mean, that the "inside sleeves" be "finished"? And is an "inside sleeve" different from an "outside sleeve"?
I've been currently running two blogs, one set up with WordPress.org, another one with Weebly.com . My Weebly blog attracts a great number of visitors daily, so if I make a decision to create a third blog, I'll definitely go with Weebly. Here is a comprehensive review on Weebly - http://www.webbuildersguide.com/website-builders-reviews/wee... .
I think that would encourage not getting raises.

You need some kind of title so people can feel responsible for career growth and so you can calibrate against other companies' pay at least; it doesn't need to control what kind of work you're allowed to do.
People keep mentioning the fingerprinting thing, but why is the web special in that aspect? A desktop app has access to a lot more than what the browser exposes. At least with the browser, if they try to access a file, they can’t. Desktop apps on Windows have pretty much free reign on the file system (see ransomware).

Sure, drive by ad tracking is easier with the web, but fingerprinting through desktop apps does exist.

Basically, why should I be forced to download a program that gets more access than a web app gets? Just so privacy advocates feel better about averting another privacy leak that can be prevented by browser permissions (like the webcam is)?

And as a developer, why should I be forced to learn Qt/GTK so I can do something like USB? And if I use Electron, I’m skewered by other developers for writing a bloated mess because I had no choice.
"Banning them from Reddit simply whisked them away to an even stronger self-reinforcing bubble."

Reddit might be a valid example of this since the forums in question are largely closed communities, denying them one forum moved them en-mass to another. On other platforms like Facebook and Twitter the ecosystem is different, de-platforming works! In the grand scheme of things the traffic at TheDonald.win just isn't very many American voters.
300-500k/yr total comp
Packing the court means specifically to expand the size of the court and fill it with partisan judges. Some people have been trying to redefine the term recently in order to create a false equivalency between what republicans have done and what democrats want to do.

>The most obvious change being that the republicans stop being the party of racists?

Democrats are the party of anti-white and anti-asian racists.
Twitter regularly locks the accounts of people that violate their policies. So probably, if they were violating Twitter policy with their tweets.

Given the large numbers of people involved you can probably find a Tweet that somebody twote that was a policy violation and didn't result in a lock.

What about that?
I am only interested in how you generating the images on backend?
The evidence which I described as ‘anecdotal’ starts a mere twenty or thirty years after Jesus’s death, and comes from sources who didn’t have any particular interest in promoting the Christian agenda. It seems that I may be unlikely to convince you, but if you’ve already got a strong opinion on this it might help to come at it from the other direction and start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory#No_independ... first.

Personally, I don’t really think it matters much either way (the events of a few decades being much less influential than the following two millennia of activities by people who did believe he existed), so I default to taking the word of people who’ve actually studied the matter in depth; but as he was one of several Roman-era Messiah claimants wandering around (we know of at least two others, and there were probably more whose names never made it into the histories we have) it seems reasonable that the group which happened to catch on would have also originally coalesced around an actual person.
This however does not make both sides the same.
My understanding was that the RISC-V encoding used lengths as decoded in e.g. [0], whereas AArch64 is uniformly 32 bits per instruction; is this incorrect?

[0]: https://www.embarcados.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RIS...
I think you have to consider the matter from a Bayesian perspective before just labeling it as "for paranoid loons". If I behaved this way in my environment, I would pretty much be being a paranoid loon. On the other hand, if I were riding the New York subways every day, it would be nice if there were at least a few civilians keeping an eye out for things. (Not everybody, though; that's a recipe for hundreds of false positives.) There are other people who aren't being paranoid loons, like researchers who use animals; for them this is a real concern.
A potentially bigger issue: what if the erosion damage is too great at or below the point of intersection?
+1 for the macros, -1 for a powerful text editor. Keep it simple.
According to Google:

In addition, we may serve ads based on your interests. As you browse websites that have partnered with us or Google sites using the DoubleClick cookie, such as YouTube, Google may place the DoubleClick cookie in your browser to understand the types of pages visited or content that you viewed. Based on this information, Google associates your browser with relevant interest categories and uses these categories to show interest-based ads.

But you can opt-out of Google's behavioral targeting:

http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
or here.... if you don't want to go through itunes -
http://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-steve-jobs-onstage-full...
San Francisco, CA

Metamoki.com https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/metamoki/gamesoftwareengineer/...

We're hiring (two) generalist software engineers who love to work on games.

We're self-funded (think Valve)... so no VCs or Boards to force the wrong incentives (like hire too many people too quickly or subsequent layoffs). We believe in work-life balance (leave at 5-6pm) yet our team accomplishes monumental projects in short timespans (minimal overhead = maximal productivity). If you want to build fun projects without bureaucracy, this is the place to be.

We run lean, employ various Agile techniques, and utilize continuous deployment. No telecommuters please.

HNers can email me at van@metamoki.com for referral (and cut in line) or for more information.
Eh. Do you email ideas? Someone could read those, too.
(I submitted this link, and I should add that I'm not the author.)

I think the commenters who write about distinguishing learning vocab from digging deeper into understanding etymology ( eg skermes, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439131 ) have hit the nail on the head (translate that one!). At that point, learning vocab, whatever the language, becomes more fun for me.

Back to the cooking thing though...

I'm surprised that most comments I see so far are about the language, because what drew me to the article in the first place is the author's connection between the Chinese language and Chinese cooking with non-specialised tools, and how that contrasts with western cooking.

I think both Chinese and 'western' cooking tools have specialized, though interestingly in opposite directions. The Chinese specialization towards one wok, one cleaver, one chopping board (prep hygiene, anyone?), chopsticks (and food cut and cooked to size) and green tea minimizes the toolset.

The 'Western' way specializes in a different way: specialize the tool to what's being cooked and eaten - a fish pan, a medium sized knife to prep, a fish knife to eat, and white rather than red wine.

I'm not saying one is better than the other - I'll happily eat both Chinese or western food (or any other) if you're cooking for me! ... I'm just interested in studying the differences and similarities.

Disclosure: I'm Chinese.
But to be fair his arguments against dropping out mostly didn't have to do with Thiel.
I noticed and actually went to your web site. Had never heard of you guys before. Good job.
It's already happening. You can download all of geocities if you like, for example.

As technology advances the cost of keeping around old content gets cheaper.

Personally I'd like to see this problem tackled head-on, with some sort of bit-torrent like web that was capable of distributing and persisting application logic to end-users as well as just static content. However, I recognize that's a big problem with a lot of fundamental difficulties that have not been solved even theoretically yet.
I love stories like this. There are times when it seems there is no hope and the world is against you, but if you continue to push forward in the face of that adversity you just might find the help you need from an entirely unexpected source.

Is that the opposite of a "black swan" event? Maybe call it the golden swan haha.
He's just pointing out that a big project will have bugs and he's right. That's not a matter of opinion. Not much fuzz testing has been done on OpenBSD since the early 2000s. When Theo did fuzz test back then, he found bugs. He claims to have found two just now while doing the audit in the crypto code. Code has bugs. Large projects have many bugs.
People will pay for anything apparently. This idea is not even original. Try again here http://www.lastpicstanding.com/
I use something vaguely similar for my passwords, but with Russian instead of spanish/german.

Fun fact: the password based on Russian transliteration that looks NOTHING like any English word I've seen (imagine "cexuqakr3") trips the linux "too close to dictionary word!" warning while a less secure password that's based on two english words (imagine "bellykitten13") doesn't.
I was thinking about writing a few apps for Shopify, so this might just push me over the edge.

Any ideas/hints on how they'll expand the API? There are a few different calls I wish were there.
> There should be an option for deleting many objects.

What about fetching many objects or creating many objects or updating many objects?
Politics would work a lot better if everything was out in the open.
With both in one editor, did you mean both Markdow and WYSIWIG in the same editor simultaneously, at the same moment in time, at different parts in the editor?

Otherwise, ProseMirror supports both WYSIWIG and Markdown, and toggling between those two modes. Look:

https://prosemirror.net/examples/markdown/
Only slightly worse:

https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a1edfced5820d0fa07/mast...
Yes, you're right, which is why when I lived in the city I lived away from neighborhoods where that kind of stuff happened, when that activity came to my neighborhood I moved out of the city. The city didn't seem to want to move the drug dealers and users, so I had to move myself.
Delivery by courier (FedEx, Purolator, etc) often requires a "contact number" for the recipient.
Ironically, the site loads google-analytics.com.

- - - -

> The idea of the captured city requires an adversarial view of a city’s inhabitants

Maybe by definition, but consider the Peelian Principles : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles

> The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in these principles is commonly known as policing by consent ...

> In this model of policing, police officers are regarded as citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the implicit consent of those fellow citizens. "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so.

I think that these systems are more-or-less inevitable (they're happening already) and the big problem is making them self-reflexive: if we can police ourselves we can at least have a kinder, gentler tyranny of Mrs. Grundy.
There's a risk that Instant won't enhance the search experience for most users significantly, but it won't make it worse. That's not much of a risk.
The fact there have been no data leaks should tell you more then some anonymous sources
> The Covid bailout last year was about $60,000 per tax payer (https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/). How much of your $60,000 did you see?

My stonks went up by way more than $60k (that figure is completely wrong and inflated anyway), so I saw plenty of it.

I'm sorry, were you fishing for a different answer?
Ctrl-T and start typing is much faster than mousing the cursor up to the URL bar
An excessively over powered military with a bloated budget can definitely use some crumbling
> Many government positions do not give you a right to strike.

That may be true in other countries. In Canada, our Federal government employees are part of a union that comprises 200,000 employees.

The rest of what you wrote is a very American perspective on public service, unions, and payroll structures that is almost entirely irrelevant to a discussion of Canadian government agencies.

As for your last paragraph, it's easy to imagine firefighters and police officers going on strike, because they do (at least here). So do our bus drivers and other critical employees; it's just done in a way that affects people, but with plans in place to reduce impacts to safety.
And the words "Real Time" find yet another meaning..
I agree. Hours spent and performs are not synonymous.
> In daily life, I don't see many ads.

Clearly advertising works, so some people must be exposed and influenced by it. This product is useful for those people.

Do you have a reason to believe that you are less exposed or influenced than the average person?

(I can't find a way to phrase it in a non-jerkish way, but it's actually a genuine question)
Maybe I'm missing something, but what kind of units are "foot pounds per square inch"? That's definitely not a pressure...
Definitely, but I also think that one of their most important roles is policy advocacy. Most voters aren't technologically educated, so there are few lobbying counterweights to the tech industry, which will naturally lead to entrenchment of the industry incumbents at the expense of privacy and freedom.
It seems like you could say that about any sufficiently powerful construct. Sharper knives require better judgment to be used safely.

This is why we often give novices rules of thumb like "don't use macros" or "don't use goto." I've seen some people criticize this practice, but I think it's actually a good thing; when you're just starting out, you don't know when these things are really called for. Working under some constraints simplifies things.

With experience, you learn the pain points well enough to outgrow those rules and use macros/goto/whatever when called for.
There were so many other stories this year bigger than both Facebook and Wikileaks.

What about the engineers who stopped the BP oil well? (Or it could negative about the engineers that screwed up the BP oil well?

Or Healthcare Reform? I know Republicans love to hate her but can anyone deny Nancy Pelosi's impact on passing that law? It will have the biggest long term effect on American's lives of anything that happened this year.
Someone should give the PR Team at Facebook a big fat bonus for making this happen for 2010.
I've seen this issue too on my Nexus 4. Rebooting fixes the problem, at least temporarily.

Since I had just used the OTA updates for stock 5.0 and 5.0.1, another redditor suggested that I do a factory wipe. I haven't seen the problem recur yet, but it has only been a couple days.

Because of this and other problems (random crashes), if I see any issue again, then I'll downgrade to 4.4.4. My typical uptime for that release was measured in months, and for 5.0.1 the uptime is measured in days. I've been severely disappointed with this release. I don't see how the new look and feel provides any significant usability benefit.