jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, yes, and I'm sure the other camp would have similar complaints about the quality of your camp's signatures and membership. This is how it always goes when people square off on emotional topics: Victory through decibels.
>Everyone's conflicting ideas

There is no reason why an absolute "don't ruin me financially" button can't be implemented in addition to everything you mention.

>There's no reasonable way to implement this.

Azure VS enterprise credits work this way. 150 hard cap with no credit card on the individual account.
What the hell good is a budget alert when you’ve launched 2000 high memory instances because your programmer screwed up?
It sounds like you’re assuming I’d want unqualified people to comment freely in an open debate, and also assuming that every biologist/chemist/virologist came to the same conclusion.

Those two assumptions don’t make sense to me, sorry.

I wanted to have heard from the biologists/chemists/virologists who had it right from the start. I don’t recall hearing all sides of the issue. Somebody out there surely saw this coming.
Ah yes those big companies have specialist "salespeople" whose job is berate the lower-ups and suck-up to the higher-ups trying to sell their overpriced crap
I think the very idea is reprehensible and strongly disagree with RMS, but I also don't think that talking about it is the same as doing it.
For me, a mixture of minimum doses of Ritalin & Modafinil helps (doctor prescribed).
Hard to say. My first instinct is probably not a whole lot. It's more or less conventional wisdom in the field that quantum computers are unlikely to be able to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. The argument for this conventional wisdom is heuristic (and certainly open to doubt, maybe most people are wrong), and it's in this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9701001 But in any case, it's one thing for something to be widely believed, and another thing to have hard evidence. People might respond quite dramatically to such evidence.
GWT + LLVM + Chrome Native Extensions...

You take Google GWT technology, apply it to Android applications or let them run as Chrome Native Extensions as more and more developers program for the Web/Chrome...

I feel like Google may have a plan in mind.
I'm sick of this argument. The Apple ecosystem is very closed but like it or not it has been a great business model.
Good point, but it's possible that he enjoyed the process somewhat. Recording 'I am sitting in a room' probably became a little tedious for Lucier as well, in all the time he spent from conceptualization until completion.

And even if he did not enjoy it at all, patio11 makes another good point about it being a better background story for the piece.
Except, just as with SPAM, clever SEO strategy can be far more than just best practices. The right ad-buys and keywords at the right time in certain businesses can generate extremely attractive CPA numbers compared to other methods of marketing.

Yes, it's a bit of evil mixed in with good - what marketing isn't, but but it can be extremely effective, especially if your business depends heavily on search engine ranking.

Convince the client you can bring them converted, spending customers at a CPA they'll like, without tarnishing their overall reputation, and you've got a winner.
When you don't understand a piece of art, do you say that you don't understand that the artist was trying to say... or do you say "I look down upon the artist."

I'm guessing you're a reasonable person and just say 'I don't get it, and don't care.' As opposed to the utterly unreasonable opinion espoused by the OP, in which instead of not caring, he looks down upon the artist.
I cannot help but think that these examples share a different commonality -- that they are war simulations where the winners in these examples were the ones who did not overextend and instead fortified or played a better numbers game. This is not marginal advantage; it is fortification and resource consolidation. I forget the word for it... where you are trying to reduce your opponent's resources before yours... but that resource management skill is what makes good players good. Viewed that way, what is really going on is much less mystical.
Now that we have mobile games, people have begun to experience "boredom at the train station" as pain, and "getting tired with old games" as pain too.

People will try harder to get themselves from pain back up to baseline than to get themselves from baseline to happiness. And once they reach happiness for long enough, that becomes the new baseline.
It's not ironic.

Calling somebody an asshole isn't a positional declaration. It does not say you are better or worse than them, just that they are an asshole. Presumably you have flaws as well. Everyone does.

Saying you look down on them, on the other hand, is a direct claim to superiority.
Why do you believe that it’s more likely for several factors to have roughly equal importance than for one factor to be the most important?

As an aside, the mistake in nutrition was simply that it wasn’t true. And it also wasn’t a “mistake,” it was a lie that the sugar industry paid to spread.
> Many industry observ­ers believe Schmidt contributed virtually nothing to the company, but he became a billionaire because of his superior grasp of business etiquette: “Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it,” he once said. Jeffrey Epstein, erstwhile dinner companion of Schmidt, Bill Gates, and seemingly every other member of this class, had a slightly different policy.

Funny. Obviously this is going overboard with the facts but it makes a good point.
The US can spend any number of trillions, without affecting India and China emissions.
Please elaborate on why stopping c.c. isn't hard. I think it's very hard in terms of what we need to do out in the world, and very hard politically.
Cheers to this. When I took it I prepared for weeks. I fasted. I kept a journal during the experience. I had a plan. It wasn't just to "see stuff". I also always spaced experiences out 6 months, and I actually never took more than a single tab at once.
I'm waiting for Tornado to support Java 11+ before I jump on the bandwagon. It's getting closer[1], but it's still not production ready, from what I can tell.

[1]: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/issues/899
I'd say IntelliJ looks like it belongs on the platform it is run on - which I'll take any day over some over-designed cross-platform 'styling'.
hmm I didn't have to do #1 in the list when I was at Google, but I did 2,3,4 pretty much everyday. I guess this really depends on which team your coworker was in.
Works on iOS safari using reader mode.
As far as I'm concerned <a onClick="function('value')"> was bad because 'function' was a global variable reference.

I don't think that's the case for React though so I'm not sure if the GP saw some other drawbacks in it (apart from the aesthetic of separating logic from presentation.)
Do you know of any Java-OR mappers in the same spirit?
Yeah, I concur. My wife tried it out and wanted to do more, but it was all "in-app purchase this" and "in-app purchase that," and "you'll be tracked on our website," etc. All she wanted was to download a single app and use it. She didn't want all the crap that goes along with it because other people keeping lots of info about her stresses her out!
I'd have suggested Dell too, two years ago. Not anymore.

The build quality of Dell is not worth money against the likes of Lenovo Thinkpads which seem to never get old and are sturdy enough to last years.
Give the parents choice of schools so that they can adapt the education to correctly suit their child. Absolutely stop making educational decisions and policy based upon political choices. Just ... stop it. It is hurting all kids when this is done.

Give the parents free home internet if they cannot afford it. The boss tells me that this is a major problem even for the college prep high school where she teaches.

Provide support for parents and families who might need the extra support (homework checkins, tutoring, etc.) that parents may or may not provide. Boss tells me that some of the parents just don't care. Kids shouldn't suffer because of that.
> Resources spent on the advanced learning program could have been spent on

Segregating students who would fail to be engaged by mainstream coursework unless disproportionate effort and attention was focussed on them is “offering a better quality of education for the entire school.”
> Ms. Lindsay felt penalized for her attempt to negotiate.

From the employer's perspective I can understand not wanting to hire someone that has asked for more money if I can't grant the rise; they may continue seeking that higher wage and hold some resentment for not getting it in the first place.

From a the potential hire's perspective I wouldn't ask for more money if I was willing to work without them granting the rise. I would be opening myself up to feelings of resentment, and I would continue looking for an employer that could meet my wage demands.

This seems less like a penalty, and more like recognition by the employer that there's a valuation mismatch. Could someone that understands Kate's feelings explain them?
The biggest issue on W10 is that there's no way to even more windows from one workspace to another without several clicks, unlike most Linux implementations that have hot keys or dragging the icon around.
MUDs are great, and I think the gameplay of the best ones is still untouched by modern MMORPGs. Implementing new features, scripting new interactions, and so on takes much less work after all, being text based. You also have incredibly rich text descriptions, and the lore can get very deep as a result. Many hours of my youth were spent playing and hacking on various MUDs. I added MCCP to CircleMUD for example, and honed most of my C skills on MUD code bases.
>First are you sure that the cheapest 'beers' are actually 'beer'?

Yes, you can get some excellent beers for 30 cents in Czechia.
Chip art is a lot of fun! Years ago when I was working at a startup, we had a wooden statue in the office of a monkey holding a cell phone. Over time he was further accessorized with a hardhat and an official company badge. On one of our prototype tapeouts, we made a not-insignificant effort to render a proper photo of it onto the top layer metal.

The tricky thing was getting multiple colors (shades, really) using what amounts to a single color. Back then, we didn't have any fancy filters like "sketch mode" to turn it into a line drawing, and we were limited to some extent by process design rules for metal size, spacing, density, etc.

We ended up opening the image in GIMP, and converting it to grayscale, then true black and white (1-bit color) by upscaling and using some filter where it preserves the shades by setting the average density of black pixels in an area to match the shade of gray of the pixel in the original. Then we wrote a script that mapped black pixels to solid metal, and white pixels to empty space, on a grid in such a way that all Design Rules were met.

It wasn't a perfect result but I think it turned out alright! https://imgur.com/a/AkB10A0
Token-ring networks could have ruled the world. But IBM’s insistence on licensing fees made the equipment expensive compared to Ethernet.

Token-ring was faster: 16 Mbps with no collisions, vs Ethernet’s 10 Mbps in a perfect world... but in reality it was slower when accounting for collisons and retries. No so with token ring.

If IBM had licensed the tech without fees, hardware would have been competitive to Ethernet and today we’d all be using 1 Gbps token ring in our homes.

But now I’d be surprised if a token-ring driver even exists for Windows 10 or MacOS.
Per-capita is great and all but two things:

1. There’s 3x as many people in China as the US but the US emits about 2x as much per capita as China (and decreasing!). So it isn’t that far off in per capita terms. What will the talking point be once that changes?

2. When it comes to pollution it absolutely does matter who the largest overall polluter is. If the world were two countries and one was responsible for 90% of carbon emissions and the other was responsible for 10% at a higher per capita rate, who would it make more sense to go after first?

This is really where climate alarmists lose me. Too many contradictory policies. Harass the US, who has both a declining birth rate and declining CO2 emissions while giving a pass to other countries who are exploding in population and total emissions. And don’t even get me started on how we in the west are told to have fewer children but are simultaneously told that we must import enormous numbers of third world immigrants, who by the way will have their carbon footprint boosted dramatically.
Now there's a great reason to remain single.
GNOME 3.34, which the article attributes most of the speed increase to, has been available on Fedora for a while already.

But I wouldn't think that running GNOME on "old hardware" is a good idea anyway. Except for very generous interpretations of "old".
God help us. How many kids? How's the deductible?
Sort of. AFAIK it's listening with a dedicated circuit that only recognizes the specific word, not with a general-purpose listening device.

Again, how is this different from a smartphone that will wake up when you say "Hey Siri" ?
One of my favourite things about rsync.net is the support: you seem to get access to an engineer (or at least someone that knows what they are talking about) immediately.
Are you talking about establishing a thriving colony on Mars, or just a visit?
The installation would be much easier, if they used a package manager.
An American billionaire or (billionaires) sitting on a completely undefended island somewhere...

Don't you think that would be a magnet to just about every terrorist organization in the world? Not to mention if it is anywhere near East Africa I would image a few boat loads of real pirates turning up pretty quickly - even in a lot of what would look like safer neighborhoods I would expect you would start getting a lot of attention from organized crime and other very scary people.
Or Daemon & Freedom
Photoshop is a cross-platform app. They can't use Mac features if there's no guarantee that they'll be able to provide a pixel-perfect matching rendering on Windows, or vice versa.

This is a very practical concern because PSDs are regularly opened and edited by users who may not be on the same platform as the original creator. (For example, a designer creates a document on Windows, then sends it to a print house where they need to open it on a Mac.)
Interesting. I'd wage a guess that making it hospitable would at least be easier than colonizing Mars.
I deleted my previous comment shortly after posting because I realized that you're right, this would be definitely useful. I haven't noticed that you already managed to reply to it.
I am not sure to understand what you mean by "scaling up size", would you mind to elaborate?

On the other hand...

>> it becomes more efficient to have your crank/windmill/whatever turn an electric generator that then drives an electric motor.

Efficiency is not an absolute property of systems, but it depends on the variable that you are seeking to optimize. If you talk about energy efficiency alone, this is a really bad idea. First you use the crank to turn the chemical energy of the meal you just had into mechanical energy, then you turn this into electric energy by using the generator, then the generator powers a motor to turn that one back to mechanic energy. Every step of the process has a conversion factor < 100%, and besides that, every step of the chain has leeks in it. The longer and more complex the process, the less efficient. Period.

Now, if you need a steady source of mechanic energy, but you have just a sporadic one, this begins to make sense. You connect your sporadic crank/windmill/whatever to a generator, the generator to a battery, and feed the motor from the battery... and you get a small steady flow out of a big but unreliable one. But it all depends of what you are trying to optimize for in the first place.
Good call Paras. Updated.
I use it on okdork and appsumo. Personally it helps me find the keywords that convert the best.
> Does anyone know if there is a reason Intel hasn't just acquired ARM?

Intel had an ARM license and got rid of it, which suggests that Intel doesn't think that ARM is worth the trouble.
Regarding non-JavaScript frameworks:
We are considering other languages (Java especially, given our implementation). Technically, we can add any Java code and run it directly, however there are security issues with this approach. So these frameworks need to be hand-picked and ported with security in mind.

Regarding on how fast the server-side JavaScript is catching on: http://persvr.org/Page/Persevere
The US is is geographically larger than Europe, has a comparable number of people, and is arguably as diverse.

Yes, it looks like we speak the same language, but the diversity in "American" is at least as broad as the difference between the middle of "American" and "received English". (Yes, I'm aware that there's a lot of diversity in UK English.)

Yes, Americans mostly watch the same TV, but our exports and castoffs are not unknown in Europe.
Ah difficult..
It kind of depends how that slider would move..

I like basic / normal / pro, but sometimes I like the slider.
Assembla, and others do this:
They provide a couple of packages, and a 'metered' package, where you pay for what you use.
Other factors have to be considered as well. The wealthy or super-wealthy (individuals or companies) are usually more mobile. A middle-class, working individual, with a mortgage, is pinned down to a greater degree. It also depends on the mobility of capital goods. If you have big, hard-to-move infrastructure, you are pinned down. "Patriotic" millionaires notwithstanding, turning the screw on the rich and mobile may just mean more capital flight. Screwing the heavy industries would just discourage investment in that sector (i.e. Detroit).
The president and the opposing party's presidential nominee should have the ability to communicate with the American people on social media platforms. Removing this access is dangerous. Trump is horrible and the correct remedy is removing him from office (then banning his accounts). But while he is the president (or the nominee from the other party) needs the ability to communicate with unhindered. I realize this isn't the law and tech companies are currently within their right to remove Trump. I think this needs to change.
I can't tell you what to build, but I can help you my own experience.

How to find product ideas?

Good to know:

You can't come up with a 100% original idea.

Take inspiration from other products and fix the bad things in them:

- UI/UX

- Add or reduce features.

- Change the target customer.

How to find products to copy?

1) Marketplaces:

Go to Envato, Chrome store, AppSumo, App Store, etc and find products with a lot of downloads but a low rating.

Read the reviews carefully and extract the pain points.

2) Stories:

You can find problems, ideas, and markets by reading other product stories.

3) PH, IH, HN, Betalist, etc:

If you are looking for product ideas, make sure to follow these websites:

- Product Hunt.

- Hacker News.

- IndieHackers.

- Beta list.

4) Freelancing:

Working as a freelancer will let you know people's needs and their pain points.

- You can find some tasks that can be easily automated.

- Softwares they are using.

- Plugins ideas.

What if you don't want to work as a freelancer?

5) Spy on freelancers:

Browsing Upwork, Guru, Fiverr, etc will let you know what businesses are looking for.

It's a great way to find tasks that can be automated.
Tech companies shouldn't be the ones policing.

The good thing I see though is, that he can't "enrich" himself from the followers gained as a president.
> For a search engine, the more traffic you get the better results you can give

Lately I have been noticing the opposite trend. Google search relevance is going downhil for me. I'm not sure when that started but I noticed it in 2019-ish last two years. Youtube search is so bad (note: I have history disabled), I rely on Google to search YouTube.

Playing cat and mouse with SEO seems to have taken its toll. I find myself going to DDG and Bing a few times a week. Before it was only Google.

> For a social network, Facebook buy out any potential competition when it's gaining traction to further solidify their monopoly.

Maybe, but each of those competitors is essentially a fad, and Facebook forcing WhatsApp users to login via Facebook, to me seems more like desperate move, than anything else.

I agree those acquisitions are IMO problematic, but I am not sure if they are strengthening Facebook, or killing it with a thousand cuts.
I don’t know about that. I’ve seen three local communities here migrate over in the last few days. The reason they did that was due to a couple of vocal members. That includes my wife’s company, the school parents group and the local cycling club all of whom are about as technically aware as a potato (I end up doing most of their out of band IT support)

I suspect it’s a little more complicated though. Some of the WhatsApp groups are quite fatiguing to belong to due to politics and quite frankly unbearable individuals and this allows people to have an excuse to exit them without having half of your contact list trying to get hold of you and drag you back in again.

As for features, absolutely no one I have seen locally here use anything other than basic use cases that signal supports.

Me, I just uninstalled it. I’m going to see if I need to replace it. It appears after all that everyone I need to talk to so far uses iMessage.
If you work for APS, then you ought to be aware that APS is quite exceptional if it pays editors for overseeing the peer-review process. I am fortunate to work in a field where our main journals are still issued by non-profit learned societies, not gigantic corporations like Elsevier, and still the only people who get paid are the proofreaders and typesetters – the editors and peer reviewers have to work for free.