jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Apple doesn’t take any responsibility for websites. They moderate the App Store. Anything on the App Store is there with Apple’s blessing. That includes the content inside third party apps that is only created by its users.

Apple just don’t want to be associated with it.
Those are all very good ides!
I am at least and it's terribly exhausting. Need to pretend I care about the product, care about being perceived as a high output individual contributor etc. Need to pretend I'm good with people and generally cheery.

I am all of those things at work, but I need to say to myself "be all of these things" and consciously think about "ok how would or should the professional me act in this situation".

Maybe everyone does it to an extent, I don't know.

Professional life has certain expectations I find artificial and incomprehensible (multiple weird games going on behind the scenes etc) so I try to cope.

Weird rules like "every engineer is expected to take pride in their work and have their professional output be a matter of honor" and so on. My take is - "meh. You pay me. I write your high quality code. It's terribly important but also terribly tedious and boring. I really do not appreciate the hours I need to waste at my job but that's what it means to earn a living as a cog in a machine and I seem to be a pretty well performing cog".

Every programmer probably dreams of winning a lottery so they could focus on writing programs they find interesting and not just those that pay the bills.
A lot of human time is sacrificed to maintain passwords for different websites; having a one-click sign in option saves a lot of people the time and headache of having to deal with a compromised account or forgotten password years in the future.
I feel like you're fighting a different battle than the one that exists. One in which Manning uncovered and released targeted evidence of clear war crimes, instead of a bunch of unflattering information along with some evidence that was at best ambiguous and at most showed bad judgment on the part of some soldiers.
The government (at least, the US government) does not want to push this agenda. One key data point dating back to G.W. Bush is, NASA/NOAA actually built a satellite to measure one of the most important unknown variables in Earth's climate ("albedo" -- basically how "white" the surface of the Earth is when seen from space) but it has been stuck in a warehouse because the US administrations didn't want to launch it. It is finally getting to launch at the end of this month; but it was completed in 2001.

Individual scientists might be able to "prove" arbitrary points in the sense of baffling people with things they don't understand until they accept the scientist as authority. They could perhaps even "prove" in the sense of cooking up statistics to support an arbitrary point. But we're not talking about an individual scientist talking to an individual person.

What's instead happened is that a bunch of disparate scientists for disparate reasons have called attention to one central historical question (the trend of global average temperature); and a whole scientific research program has been created to investigate it involving lots of scientists at lots of institutions in lots of countries. That research program has confidently been able to conclude that those early scientists were wrong -- they predicted global cooling precipitating a new impending ice age -- and that instead we are going in precisely the opposite direction, and that the major causal force emerging in the models is a forcing term from CO2-emissions which have spiked dramatically.

This research program has also been able to identify several risk factors for runaway warming, which would be just as bad as runaway cooling. Slight warming and slight cooling are also both bad, mostly because the Earth is huge. So, I'm from a physics background and the basic problem is what we'd call "relaxation to equilibrium." If you imagine a massive boulder which is stationary and you dig a hole next to it so that it rolls somewhat to the side, there are a couple of concerns. Only one of those is whether there's an appreciable slope which will cause the boulder to roll uncontrollably downhill -- the "runaway warming" idea. But you can still get injured even if it doesn't roll very far, if you're in its way when it rolls -- and the bigger the boulder, the more momentum it will have to do that damage.

That's sort of a two-minute way to understand why slight warming/cooling can enhance tropical storms and send parts of the polar vortex out over the US midwest: the Earth has a new equilibrium point for all sorts of climate variables which were functions of the global temperature, and as things relax to this new equilibrium they will potentially cause large weather upsets simply because the Earth is big.
It's a P25W with 16 GB RAM and 3T SSD (I dual boot with a Steam-only Windows install). I don't care about the nvidia card in OpenBSD-- the Intel card works fine with xfce. I haven't figured out how to make the internal speakers work, but I use headphones pretty much exclusively anyway. Linux has trouble with the trackpad, and both the internal wired and wireless NICs fail to work under FreeBSD.

OpenBSD works quite well as a daily use OS.
So HN has gone from seeing Google's name on a PRISM slide, to assuming it's entirely an NSA outfit?

Apple was on one of those slides. I suppose they're an NSA front organization as well?
Sorry to pop the balloon, but the story is bogus.

It's false that the post was generated by GPT-3. The author admitted to writing the title and editing the intro. He also described the article body this way: "as unedited as possible"—in other words, edited. It's false that (as he originally claimed) only one commenter called the post as GPT-3, and false that (as he now claims—since the article says it and who else would have come up with that) all such comments were downvoted.

All that is just what he publicly admitted. How much of the rest is also fake? People who try to game HN like he did, including with bogus accounts and fake votes, are not known for scruples. It seems that, having got busted in dishonest attempts to get attention on HN, he decided to get attention from journalists instead, and found one who didn't bother to check the other side of the story.
Angular had nothing to do with it. Them switching to TypeScript from AtScript was just de-fragmenting the JS-superset language space, which is a good thing. Hopefully TypeScript goes away when types arrive in JS.
Wasn't it only after the first year? That meant you could try it for free which is huge for adoption.
Also, if you want O(1) indexing by grapheme cluster you can get that with less memory overhead by precomputing a lookup table of the location in the string where you can find every k-th grapheme cluster, for some constant k >= 1. (This requires a single O(n) pass through the string to build the index, but you were always going to have do make at least one such pass through the string for other reasons.)
> Not that it doesn't take a great deal of effort and skill to achieve it, it just feels somehow "lesser".

Yeah, it does in a certain way. Say, I take a picture then send it so someone to make a "painting" of it. I does feel a bit "lesser".

Of course, depending on the trend in art, it may be that's the whole point of the piece -- to highlight that everything is just a copy of a copy and so on. Basically, it could be a deliberate part of the process like say https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbel...
what the...

no way they just kept an unencrypted private key on the cloud.
I really hope they hire more people to work on the Linux GPU drivers, and have the drivers ready and stable on launch, and not years later.

I've experienced the following issues on my laptop (Dell G5 SE):

* Crashes on suspend/resume. [1]

* Kernel warning on boot [2]

* It crashes for me without amdgpu.runpm=0 kernel config [3] (fixed?)

* Crashes when inserting and removing USB-C monitor (fixed?)

* The onboard GPU works, but the dedicated GPU crashes with vsync. (didn't test recently)

1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1222

2. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/912

3. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1304
>Over and over again we re-learn that the single proven way to distribute scarce resources is the free market.

No 'we' ( meaning the vast majority) do not relearn. The _never_ will.
No one will be charged with anything, maybe some pocket money will be offered to the family (maybe).

Either way, i found this topic kind of a "uneasy" to discuss in many industries, mostly because the glass houses.
Sorry, assuming you drink water still. does not read as assuming your water has unusual concentrations of Manganese. Even still, known heathrisks relate to breathing excesive Manganease as it's normally excreted though the gut not the urine.

Edit: If it's really bothering you. Ambient manganese concentrations in seawater have been reported to range from 0.4 to 10 μg/l (ATSDR, 2000), with an average of about 2 μg/l (Barceloux, 1999). Levels in fresh water typically range from 1 to 200 μg/l (Barceloux, 1999). ATSDR (2000) reported that a river water survey in the USA found dissolved manganese levels ranging from <11 to >51 μg/l. The United States Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Assessment Program has gathered limited data since 1991 on representative study basins around the USA. These data indicate a median manganese level of 16 μg/l in surface waters, with 99th-percentile concentrations of 400–800 μg/l (Leahy & Thompson, 1994; USGS, 2001). Higher levels in aerobic waters are usually associated with industrial pollution.. (http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/man...)

So, again there may be people that need to be consurned to it's less than 1% of the population and they can get buy by drinking bottled water if nothing else.
Having thought about it some more --

at one level you're right. Millions of dogs live off a handful of composite foodstuffs.

However, when you have millions of test subjects, you quickly discover what's missing and people won't sue you for wrongful death. You also have the advantage that if a peculiar deficiency emerges in a small part of the population, a vet will probably remedy it -- or the dog will get sick and die and nobody will be the wiser.

Finally, note that most dog foods are not really composed chemicals in the sense that Soylent proposes to be. They are usually processed food -- usually made of offcuts and mechanically recovered meat considered unsuitable for human consumption -- dried, ground, emulsified and then fortified with additives.

It's not really food replacement. It's food.
It was claimed that LSD had similar effects on alcoholism in the 50's
lowsrc was awesome. To conserve bandwidth I would often switch to lowsrc.

The new solution seem to be geared towards people running retina displays, without doing anything about progressive quality for people with low bandwidth.
This American Life

Edit: now I read web news. But still this is an excellent show.
nice series!
A green card is equivalent to Japanese permanent residence, which I don't have. (I would theoretically have been able to apply for it six months prior to leaving the day job, which would result in me getting it about a week prior to leaving the job, but the day job would have had to go to bat for me to get it and I thought telling them to go to bat then quitting would be discourteous. My odds of permanent residence prior to marrying a Japanese woman now are exactly equivalent to my odds of being featured on the front page of the Japanese economic newspaper, since any success in my business sufficient to justify one would justify the other.)
That's an apocryphal story, though. QWERTY was said to have been invented, actually, to make it easier for typewriter salesmen to type "TYPEWRITER", all from the top row.
Go out and start using it. Sure 2.8 was a major upgrade but everything improved with that update for the better. Martin's reply is key. He's completely behind making the language a real success.
While one of us was showering, the other was trying to get the booking, ironing, etc. I am often late to get ready in the mornings but on this occasion I could've set some sort of speed record. It was frantic.

Remarkably, our GPS failed and we were relying on remembering a Google Maps view of the path we needed to take onto and off of the freeway. Fluked that too.
Where did the $1000 figure come from? Currently, their stock is hovering around $324, so an increase of $676 would be extremely unusual. 2011 will probably see a MacBook Pro refresh, a new iPad, and possibly a new iPhone. There could also be a completely new product introduced. If their stock would hit $1000, they would need a proportional increase in revenue and profits.

Given how Apple is already breaking sales records every quarter and experiencing strong demand, their stock will undoubtably rise. An increase of >200% over the course of a year is, however, unlikely.
Speaking partially from experience, I think people just get tired after a while... It's a lot of work to run a startup and a lot of the fun stuff in the beginning just gets not-so-fun after a few years.

I caught a post on HN a day or so ago about the varying states of "uninformed optimism" and "informed pessimism" (before eventual despair or "informed optimism") and I think that just about perfectly sums it up.

My startup of nearly five years just recently turned down a serious acquisition offer in the final stages because the deal wasn't right (unrealistic earn-outs, long-term employment contracts, nasty non-competes, etc.). The only reason we were really considering it in the first place is because we were tired of having to compete on limited resources (we bootstrapped it entirely and have never taken on financing or debt - in hindsight maybe not the best idea).

Like anything else, it also helps to have a long-term goal in mind, and having a clear exit strategy from the very beginning is often a great way to set your eyes on some sort of prize. I find few entrepreneurs nowadays who are really looking for a lifestyle business only. Most that I come across are the serial entrepreneur type.
I understand that there is a lot of people out there that see this as the easiest way to get something out there ASAP but for any real business -- the 'platform' is an utter joke
I think working with one "no hope" startup is good. I've worked with exactly one, and that's what I expect to leave it at.

I've also worked with four "has hope" startups (aka I take some cash) and the lessons there are huge.

The startups you describe are "no hope" startups. Try to find one that has users, growth and money. You'll dig it and learn a lot.
Work for a startup, then. I guess any startup will warmly welcome a good developer. The fact that you don't know the language is no obstacle at all. In at most one month, you'll be almost as proficient in Rails as you are in .NET now.
Official link to the extension:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr4853enr/pdf/BILLS-11...

SEC. 760. TEMPORARY EXCLUSION OF 100 PERCENT OF GAIN ON CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESS STOCK.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (4) of section 1202(a) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2011’’ and inserting ‘‘January
1, 2012’’, and
(2) by inserting ‘‘AND 2011’’ after ‘‘2010’’ in the heading
thereof.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section
shall apply to stock acquired after December 31, 2010
"Nice things about working for someone else's startup for a while: (a) you're not as overworked or underpaid as they are [1]; (b) you have less of your ego invested so you might sleep better; (c) you'll learn to see the world from the startup perspective; (d) you get a taste of the startup lifestyle, which will help you know if you're cut out for it; (e) you'll meet a bunch of other people who enjoy startups"

If you have your own startup, you can do all of these..except in the end, if the company gets bought out or it really takes off, you will get more than a sliver of the pie.

All startups in my area have horrible pay+small equity in the company. The problem I have is that someone else is making all of the final decisions. After 2 years, they could run the company into the ground and I will get nothing out of it except experience, which I can get in many other fulfilling ways. If I'm going to be forced to live a frugal life, it will be because of my own startup.
I find more often than not, that "abrupt and to-the-point" is mistaken for "rude and offensive". A FOSS community is a meritocracy, and there's a lot of people who stroll in with a lot of talk, nothing to back it up. The few that show up with code and/or data are often received very well.

People with the aptitude to become community or project leaders often like a good debate (OK, sometimes it seems like an argument), and will often provoke it, if only to see how well the point can be defended. When the chips are down though, rational decisions based on facts is what wins.

I may not be as gruff as some of the more infamous names around, but I will often argue a point, as well as play devil's advocate, just to see how the debate plays out. I learn a lot that way, whether I'm correct or not.

[Edit] Re:Linus
I agree that Linus' reply was a rude, and perhaps I've been desensitized to this over time, and let it slide too often. My comment however, was meant for the more general case to which I replied.
This is some good news for once.
There is a tendency to believe that the companies which are doing well right now have 'won' in some sense. We need to understand that this is the state of affairs right now. There is a non-trivial possibility that Facebook/Google etc become lumbering giants just like MSFT.
http://www.technikatlas.de/~ta3/patente/patente.htm

> Die Grenzen seiner Technik sah Kemper im wirtschaftlich Energieeinsatz eines entsprechenden Fahrzeugs, das nach seinen Vorstellungen Geschwindigkeiten bis zu 1000 km/h erreichen sollten. Seine Überlegungen führten ihn 1938 dazu, Magnetschwebefahrzeuge in einem geschlossenen Röhrensystem verkehren zu lassen und diese Röhren fast luftleer zu pumpen: wo keine Luft ist, braucht auch kein Luftwiderstand überwunden zu werden (DRP 707 032).

Translation: the limits of his invention Kemper saw in the economical use of energy for such a vehicle, which should according to his ideas reach a speed of 1000 km / hour. In 1938 he concluded that these magnet trains should travel in a closed tube system which should be almost without air. Where is no air, there is no aerodynamic drag. Deutsches Reich Patent 707 032
Right, but it seems like such a policy would be additive rather than subtractive. In other words, it would not prevent people from voicing their opinions, it would merely force them to include other opinions alongside their own.

You're right that such a policy isn't really feasible in terms of real-world implementation. But I do worry that the Internet has problems with polarization and filter-bubbling, and I appreciate suggestions for trying to mitigate those issues.
First, cool of you to talk about your situation. My 2 cents: salaries seem high even if all in SF. I think it's reasonable to go with reduced salaries at seed stage. If there's concern, include full salaries in offer pending fundraising/revenue. Cash is extremely valuable. The first few people need to bear down. As you say, they're working for the challenge and the promise, not the money.
Shiny things they used to put un-ripped MP3's on.
the way i see it, companies are a just feature of the entrepreneurial life.
This is only effective if you are prepared to put up when they call your bluff.

Two more points:

1) It's almost impossible for people to not be emotional when someone is threatening them with a lawsuit and that's why it's always better to have your lawyer communicate on your behalf.

2) The part I do agree with is (which he didn't say, but it came through loud and clear) DO NOT be a pussy when someone threatens you. And, DO NOT ignore them. If they are crazy or being irrational, a logical response from you won't help. If they found a lawyer dumb enough to represent them, you need to be ready to bring out the full nuclear assault in your response.

I've been sued before, named in other people's suits, threatened hundreds (literally) of times with suits and while I often take his approach, I'm ready to put up if I have to. And I've learned that if I put up, you better be prepared for the full nuclear response that I will dole out. Once I'm being sued or named in a lawsuit, the handshakes are gone and only the swords remain. I will drag every email, text message, conversation, witness you have ever dealt with related to the matter.

Of course, if I'm in the wrong, I'll settle immediately. And I hope I never have someone so upset with me over something legitimate that they feel a lawsuit is their best recourse. To date, I've never been sued over anything legitimate and I've never lost a suit against me. The other party has always either settled, withdrawn their complaint, or never moved to a full-blown lawsuit.
cool, this has been available to google apps premier accounts for a while, I wonder if this means they'll make it free for the basic google apps accounts too (the only place where this would be of use to me).
At my first serious job, I wrote part of the interface for an embedded product. Because we were a tiny company I helped assemble, shrink wrap and finally ship them. My Aha moment was when they finally left the warehouse and that real people would depend on our stuff. It integrated their security systems and has to work, real people would be affected by my work.
It does go both ways, though. I'm a software developer/consultant and am sympathetic to the video but lets look at from the other side.

Most pro level consulting teams work open ended time and materials contracts. There's very good reasons for this, but this definitely gets abused to deliver a project that was never expected to come in on budget. It also exposes the client to the effects of bad management or other incompetence without a lot of redress.

Imagine if you were buying a hamburger and they told you that because they burned the first one you're going to have to pay double.

The hard bargaining can go both ways too. I've included what I considered ridiculous rates in a first draft of a proposal (to give me room to negotiate) only to have them often accepted without a blink. In fact, I'm quite sure not having a standard rate card has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of extra money over the years.

It sounds to me like the creator of the video probably does fixed price bidding, at least in part. In my experience that's never a good idea or worth doing - even if you can manage it OK (extremely unlikely) you end up alienating the customer by having to be so anal about scope creep.

If you have a contract where's the after the fact negotiation come from anyway? Are they really willing to say then sue me?
"it's too hard to coordinate all of these efforts."

3 MILLION people have access to the docs Bradley Manning leaked. ONE leaked it. I think you're overstating the difficulty of coordinating activities.
Even if they memorize these rules by heart it doesn't change the fact that many companies are setup to marginalize workers to be easily replaceable. Chances are your opinions really don't matter at all. I've worked with enough people who take this approach to realize it ends up being insulting more than anything else. I actually prefer a realistic employer/employee relationship instead of making a whole act out of being a "good manager" which changes absolutely nothing in the end. Chances are the "good manager" has their hands tied from above. Don't get me wrong -- there's value to having a pleasant constructive relationship but this management style tends to lead to a lot of bad two-faced exchanges and wastes a lot of time in my experience.
What specifically separates Glenn Greenwald from all the other talking heads except for your own personal political view? I mean, he's pretty much the definition of a pundit.