jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My fiancee and I had this discussion too. In the end, we decided to forego engagement rings all together and just go with a nice set of tungsten carbide wedding bands.
I demoed an early version of this about a year ago. It had an intuitive UI that any biologist without programming experience could understand even back then.

The two main time-drains for synthetic biologists are 1) Lab work creating (which will be phased out when cheap synthesis gets going in 1-3years) and 2) designing the sequence (which this program helps automate). So the rate of progress in the field is definitely going to accelerate...
Even if Windows is your primary OS, there's no reason for the typical user to have to run Adobe Reader on a regular basis. Just use a nice lightweight viewer like PDF-XChange, Sumatra, or Foxit instead.

Windows is my primary OS, and I don't even have Adobe Reader installed.
I like the Google app's feature that transcribes spoken search requests and Stumbleupon's app that unifies the "go to semi-random page" experience. Creating a specialized browser that uses a clever mechanism to find content (as opposed to URLs, bookmarks, and an address bar) could be a great project.
GOOD. The dividend/payroll split trick that S-Corps play is a huge scam.

Normal people in normal jobs --- hell, ace (non-founder) devs at startups taking W2 wages --- have most of their income subject to payroll taxes (most notably FICA). These taxes are a significant chunk of all your withholdings.

However, if you and your partners own an S-Corp, you can choose to pay yourself not only in direct wages but also as cash distributions (think "profit sharing"). Unlike wages, distros are not subject to payroll taxes. You can skip out on your FICA payments for all the income you elect to pay as a distro.

In an LLC, all of a company principal's income is paid as distros (you can't formally be an LLC principal and take W2 wages). But that income is all subject to self-employment tax. It's only in the weird little blip between LLC and C-Corp that this tax avoidance trick exists.

There is no legitimate reason why an LLC principal should have to fully fund Medicare and Social Security, and a C-Corp director should have to fully fund Medicare and Social Security, but an S-Corp shareholder should be able to carve out some (or even most) of their income to avoid those taxes.

To my eyes, this is a loophole in the purest sense of the word, and I'd be happy to see them kill it.
it is somehow similar to YCombinator and is one of the results of Yahoo acquisition of Arabic portal Maktoob for around 140, million USD.
You've picked an odd subthread to take your stand in then, since that's explicitly the topic of the post you are replying to.
The way I read stories, most Buddhist monk find enlightenment working their ass off so that they have something to eat.

I feel your argument, ultimately there's entropy and I cannot provide any objective reason why exploring whole galaxy is better than being a bacteria.

But.. you also perfectly know the other side of your argument even when assuming comfortable living where everything you need is provided to you. If you are considerate about the nature and your surroundings, why would you use that electricity and waste your time when on the long run some being will die because of it and resources that you use can be used to help other beings, in whichever order you prioritize their existence.

The bud-hist monk is obsessively rearranging a small stream of water with some sticks until he thinks the flow is satisfying.

Not sure why I'm a Zen fighter today, but hey, if you see a drowning kid in front of you IRL and you're on your phone, then it's just a different kind of IRL.

What an awful example? I'm typing this bullshit exploring patterns within HN bubble where I could spend that time working and helping with that money some drowning child in another part of the planet.

But I didn't mean to focus on philanthropy (which is one of available activities when you have your basic needs satisfied). Reading, listening, music, I think all our great experiences have something to do with other beings. Some form of communication and recognizing unity.

So is exchanging info about the game with other players. That's comm unity, and that's great.

We have these "make me satisfied" buttons more readily available, which should sort itself out on the long run, but I think sometimes they are being pressed thinking that it's an elevator button or something.

Incidentally, the guy who created factorio is one of the most Buddhist-like guys I know (even when he's not meditating) and I played the game and loved it. I guess I just wanted to point out that I think you've used strawman to sell your philosophy, just like I did.
Such an odd comment you replied to. I'm not touching the slavery part, but I do lean toward the 'I did not choose my country'. I'm not one for blind allegiance, and personally get creeped out by watching all of the school children that have no true idea what a 'pledge of allegience' really means. I also do not believe a child should be able to enter into that type of agreement.
Sent you an email from alia AT splunk
ITT HN collectively learns what an "audit log" is.
The irony is that what they claim happened is instead what would have happened only if the case was resolved in the opposite direction. Everybody having to pay for API licenses for absolutely everything would be disastrous. The gridlock would be insane.
Why do you think that a lot more Americans end up in prison compared to say Norwegians ? Is it culture ?
Thanks, I'll check those out. Sorry to see you get downvoted.
To be honest, I haven't studied it in depth, but I think the point is that it's many factors or potential factors— it isn't a problem which is going to be solved by addressing just one aspect.
> The forcefull and quite frankly agressive way you denied ever having a problem with admiting mistakes makes me think that there might be something to this allegiation.

This is some amazing mental gymnastics! You should get into politics!

Maybe Samsung does not have a problem about admitting mistakes. But a problem about admitting mistakes in their problem admitting mistakes procedures. It's always the meta-problems that get you!

Again, this above comment shows people can twist anything into anything and will just stick to what confirms their bias.
Bathrooms don't smell bad inherently. If there is good ventilation then any bad smells will go away within a few minutes because toilets are quite effective. If your bathroom always smells bad it could be a plumbing issue
Stallman is not a pragmatic guy. He picks all battles related to free software simultaneously.
Sum types are simpler, and harder to misuse, than the common alternatives (unions or dynamic typing).
Coinbase is currently trading on private markets at a 77 billion dollar valuation:

"Those shares in the largest crypto exchange in the U.S. are changing hands on the Nasdaq Private Market at $303 a piece, according to two people with knowledge of the auction. That implies a total company value of about $77 billion – greater than Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the owner of the New York Stock Exchange." (1).

It will be interesting to see how that translates to the public markets.

1. https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-valuation-nasdaq-private-m...
Could Coinbase have done an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise money for their investors and employees instead, where the coin tracks revenue or something?
Yes please. Get the news off of FB, everyone will benefit.

Replace it with discussions of random Wikipedia articles.
Maybe, but I feel like that was always part of the point of Coinbase, providing the bridge between those worlds, and for some, bringing a sense of legitimacy and security to the proceedings. It’s not surprising they would look for a conventional exit.
> a lot of the big gains for a particular coin are made before coinbase authorizes that coin

interesting observation. it seems to be the case for binance as well. i see coins gaining 20-30x before or right when it gets listed. perhaps “insider” trading right before a coin listing?

As for coin curation i suppose thats as a means to filter out scams.
Ironic… or inevitable? In many ways Coinbase is that Bitcoin wasn’t supposed to be: a centralised authority that is responsible for a ton of activity on the platform. Not that it matters that much but I’d argue Coinbase wasn’t in the “spirit” of crypto currencies from the start.

(but hey, I still used it! Couldn’t be bothered to work out how to buy Bitcoin a few years ago and they made it easy)
I've been mired in the vagaries of trademark law for a few weeks now, and based on my limited knowledge, there is no legal reason that a company with the trademark Zephoria would be able to prevent her from also using that name, if she were able to show that she had used it since 1998.

Part of obtaining a trademark is doing due diligence and finding out how the name is being used in public. That includes use that isn't trademarked, but is publicly visible.

This is a different matter, since it's about a username on a private service, but the principle still holds. Danah has no legal recourse in this instance, but it does show that Tumblr is acting hastily and, in my view, improperly, by just yanking her account away from her without notice, appeal, or recourse.
I'm all in for Delicious. I love it and support and want to see it alive and not rotting in Yahoo.

One thing I didn't understand though, is Joshua Schachter's reaction to the news by tweeting: "inbox asplode!" (https://twitter.com/joshu/status/63294731077160960)

Can someone explain?
I don't see any reason to fret over a word, it was never compared to human rights violation in the post and in the context they did disappear her from her chosen handle on the site which is just as much as removing her blog as it isn't linked to the other in any other way.
Is this weird ? :)

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=google&year_s...
Right, but if you travel there semi-frequently, it would be nice to not pay for it each time. Cheap relative to the airfare, but every bit helps.
I have no problems with whatever document app the HR team is using. If they send me a doc file, I will read the information contained therein. In creating a document the author puts in more work than the reader; so as long as the format is not too onerous the author should be able to choose whatever tool is convenient to him/her.

I hope that you agree that txt and pdf files are just as convenient formats to read as doc ones. IMHO it is irritating when someone insists that any document you send them should be in the format of the application they write documents with.

Furthermore, these are no absolutes. If the State asks me to send a document in doc format, I will. Despite pretenses, these companies (and HR depts) are not Republic of Greater Timbuktu really - so I will skip, thank you. :)
Yeah but WebAPI sucks :)
I think it will be partly true. Assuming Elon's Mars missions happen, it seems reasonable they'll need a vehicle at some point and I expect that vehicle will use some elements from the CyberTruck design.
The 16" was released three months ago. It will not be refreshed soon. The rumors you read around Apple’s releases are just click bait because these websites want to generate ad impressions.

Check https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#mac to see which device was released recently.
> “In a fast growing market, studios wanted to make it more difficult for competitors to poach talented programmers by keeping their identities hidden. This practice is why we don’t know exactly who conceived and programmed Aquaventure, along with many other titles from the early ’80s.”

I don't think Activision did that. I remember David Crane's name on Activision newsletters and maybe instruction manuals, too. Then of course there is the first Easter Egg ever - Warren Robinett's hidden name in "Adventure", but that supports this statement rather than refutes it.
It seems like a pretty good one. To truly answer the large question you need to answer smaller ones like "do citizens have opportunities aside from crime"? That seems relevant to how "free" a country is.
The 14" is larger than the 13" Pro it replaces. It's about the same size as the 13" Pro before that, i.e. the one that still had USB type A ports.
My current job uses slack (and zoom for outside or very large meetings). It works quite well actually, even on Linux.
Wow really? That’s surprising for some reason. Here in Australia that’s super common, RFID is in every card you can think of.

If I go to the farmers market on the weekend, they all accept cash or tap-to-pay with a Square tap-only reader, and that’s it.
I had the same experience. When I got the DTK I couldn't believe it was running almost everything in emulation and was going to sell for about $500. And that wasn't even an M1.

Exploring all of its unique nooks and crannies has definitely taken me back too!
Don't you mean a couple dozen times per day?
slack is not an ucc product. (zoom is tough) (ucc also includes "legacy" phone)
What would you guess the preferred filesystem would be when this gets implemented? Btrfs?
1. Not true if that link replaced one that said http via an automatic process. Such as HTTPS Everywhere or a search engine doing the wrong thing.

2. Certificate errors are much more confusing than a failure to connect.
Oh boy, cue the haters. I'd like to address a few things that JSON API gets right, and where it fails horrendously (just in time for 1.0!)

The good:

- It opens a path for standardized tooling among API clients. Rather than having a whole mess of JSON-over-HTTP clients with a hard-coded understanding of the particular API, one could theoretically use a hypertext client to interact with any API using this standard.

- It establishes a baseline of what an API server must implement.

The bad:

- It tries to control not just the media type, but the protocol (HTTP) and server implementation. This is problematic because it dictates how your server must implement its routes, and is tightly coupled with HTTP.

- It tries to be very prescriptive, but it cannot cover all edge cases without being exhaustive. This comes at a heavy burden for implementers to get every part of the specification correct. Despite this, some extremely basic features are missing, such as providing an index document so that a client can enter the API knowing only a single entry point (as it stands now, clients must have a priori knowledge of what resources exist on the server).

The ugly:

- Since so many parts of the base specification are optional MAYs, and there is no prescribed mechanism for feature detection, there is no way to figure out if a server supports a particular feature of this spec without trying to do something and failing.

- The spec has made many breaking changes on the road to 1.0 (as other commenters have mentioned, and there is still room for breaking changes).

At this point, I think that this project gained traction due to the clout of the original authors (Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik) and the promise of no-more-bikeshedding, though I would argue that the bikeshedding has just shifted from particular APIs to the spec. Disclosure: I authored and maintained some libraries that implement this spec, and authored another media type for hypertext APIs.
Will Larson’s blog and now book answers this question very well:

https://staffeng.com/
Anyone know how I can write an AWS Lambda in PureScript? Do I just need a JS wrapper and then call my compiled PureScript from that?
>the rebound over the following months.

This is an assumption that some people might say is unreasonable. There have been many times in the past where the rebound takes years.

Although, one might be able to make the case that the political winds have changed to ensure the rebound happened in months. But it’s still a riskier assumption than assuming a rebound in a few years.
A three to five percent success rate applied to a large population will produce "many many" winners. This is true.
I always wonder how people can fight tooth and nail for something small and local like their neighborhood to never change and then once there is a global phenomenon that is directly threatening the culture of every human on the planet they don't give a damn.

How is your neighborhood supposed to stay the same if the planet is getting hotter over time? It might only be 1°C right now but since nobody really cares we are likely to head to something less reasonable like 4°C and that will definitively impact culture.
I think that for the serious cases of unexpected misfortunes, an insurance is a compressor where all population events are the whole signal and individuals make the peaks (well sometimes many a person are in the same event):

For the subset of people that would need an insurance without knowledge that could prevent that, the consequences should be distributed among all people. (Sure, there are exceptions if taking too big a risk.)

And personally I feel most medical issues and school should be paid by the state as it would be too unfortunate if an individual should face alone the consequences -- and possibly couldn't afford for an insurance, or is likely not to buy it because has other monetary issues.
> So right now you could literally break into someone's home, knock them unconscious, and then steal their laptop, but yet still get more jail time for "hacking" into their laptop than any of the previous crimes.

Can you provide some examples? And not sentencing guidelines or what the prosecutors asked for; actual sentence lengths that were actually served by people convicted solely of computer crimes vs. time served for breaking and entering and assault and battery and theft.
You can judge distance from individual, over-bright dots? It's a well-known extremely difficult task for humans.

You have no size to compare, because the glow is larger than the headlight itself. You have large distances, so your parallax is minimal, and isn't very accurate anyway. It's dark, so on highways you frequently don't have any known references to compare against (like road width or car size). The closest you get is the distance between headlights and occlusion, which is unknown on any random vehicle and on more widely-spaced vehicles.
"The two allocate a few moments to check-in on Foursquare or snap a quick picture, but then put their phones away."

This doesn't sound like behaviour of two people who are trying to shun technology; the situation sounds more a akin to a couple of alcoholics who'll look the other way whilst self-medicating.
I would say that you should join a big company while you're still trying to figure out your ass from a hole in the ground. People mature at different rates and if you've come out of school and need a few years to figure life out, all the reasons pointed out in the article are quite valid. Mostly it's no different than an extension of going to school. And if it's as soul-sucking as you indicate, that will provide even more motivation to take what you know and make a hasty exit when the timing is right.

Best of all... while you're still young and dumb enough to abuse your body and get away with it, you can put in your 8 hours at the big company, come home, and put in another 8 hours at your own startup before life and its varied responsibilities catch up with you. And the whole "cash" thing shouldn't be overlooked either. While it's great to have a ramen-profitable startup, nobody should literally live on ramen.
Humanity is lazy, not stupid, I agree... (surprisingly enough)

Something needs to be done, I agree...

Aside from my web plugin proposal, what would you imagine happening?

(not to discount your other points...)
You get a point for using an asterism.
They expect, and I totally hope, that with Omicron the threat of Covid will decrease to manageable proportions. We have no real basis for such hopes other than things don't look too bad at the moment. But a whole lot of the world is still unvaccinated so there's lots of naive hosts for the virus to try again.

People are still dying, still suffering from Long Covid. Hospitals are still screwed up and man, are the health professionals burned out. Independent of your political views, it would be prudent to stfu and do whatever you can to keep the health pros on the job as we need them going back to the stuff they did in 2019.
I suppose? Replace "file" with "non nested folder" and you get the same result. An html doc + 2-3 javascript files isn't a nightmare to deal with.
A bunch of software supports S3, especially backup software. It's nice to have something standard to use.
I hope the redesigned MBA doesn't have a fan and has the same crazy long battery life. The only improvement on battery life I see is making it even better. The M1 MBA is just that good.
… or under the influence of some substance, or a health event, or voluntary or involuntary distraction, or …
We have around 38,000 deaths a year on US roads. We already accept significant risk to maintain the status quo.

Sensible legislation is needed to balance innovation and safety for self driving cars on public roads, but not zero. We don’t even accept zero pedestrian hit and run deaths yet…

California, Texas, and Michigan legislators have already bought in to the benefits that these companies will bring.
The issue is whether it's actually "central rot" or not. That's not an objective statement. It depends on your point of view. If you're putting your customers first, you have to look at if from their point of view.

Startup thinking is that you never have enough users, so you have to appeal to a lot of new users or you die. Companies selling consumer products are similar - you have to convince a lot of new customers every year. But that's not where Java is. It's going to last as long as COBOL and Fortran and C++. Making small, careful changes and paying attention to migration costs so you don't leave people behind will work fine.

For a business with many large, satisfied, long term customers, the software can survive as long as they're willing to pay maintenance. The userbase may slowly fade, but the customers they have aren't going to be too quick to move if things are working. If anything, disruptive changes will make them move away faster since they're forced to do something, so why not do a rewrite that's bigger impact?

Making migration easy is not "stagnant", it's good customer service, allowing old code to be modernized a bit. If you know the real cost of upgrades, a more dramatic change may not be worth it.

And for those of us doing new projects, well, there are a lot of other shiny toys to play with. We don't have to disrupt everything.
Extremely impressive demo. This is how a Show HN for a front-end library should always be: take me straight to a demo of the coolest part.

What exactly makes this so fast? I'm not familiar enough with JS/CSS to know from the code. The 200-element sticks demo was by far the smoothest animation I have ever seen for that many elements.
I don't think it's fair to blame the political situation of the middle east on technology. It contributed, sure, but how much would have happened anyway? And how many other factors are at play?
Funny that everybody was guessing Paris or Frankfurt and Amsterdam won.
> We can afford to lose the last few minutes of work without anyone getting yelled at. Some modern virtualization technologies do help a lot in this regard. Running bare metal you need to be a little more careful.

Can you say more about how (and which) modern virtualization technologies help? RTO is something I've never found a happy to, since piecing together any missing data is painful, but avoiding a clustered DB setup (or the cost of Aurora) is always welcome.