jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I opened the comments section to make a similar post. From the OP:

> The days when programmers opened up a blank file, named it index.php, and said, "time to start coding!" are over.

That is actually the only thing better about php than... well, pretty much any other option.

As for the rest of it... "lipstick on a pig"
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I have a background as a software engineer and am nowadays doing a lot of data engineering and data science work.
Calling what happened a "bug" is being quite charitable. Zoom set up a local web server that they failed to inform their users about. As mentioned in the article; their outrageous disregard for their users led to an actual FTC complaint.
It can only be joined from Desktop, though. Not on mobile, unfortunately. :(
From what I understand thos is what you need kubernetes database operators for. They configure the database cluster for you.
> Similarly, I have no idea why Equifax would have anything to say about Employment Risk.

If you got hired for any job worth doing at any point in the last decade, chances are high that among the various background checks, your employer also ran a credit check on you.

> a bail bondsman thing

Why wouldn't a bail bondsman care about your credit history?
Another, then. These fans are often the ones parroting the entirely incorrect "You have to have incidents and near misses in order to train it to do the right thing next time".

I've heard that way too often.
I'd like to know if some of these suggestions have some kind of scientific or at least anecdotal evidence.

Some sound pretty radical, but interesting (a whole day blindfolded?)

I can vouch for Number 41 (also number 64)... I had no TV for five years (got one as a gift, and still don't watch it), had no Internet for one of those five (much harder than no TV!), and I found out I really don't miss the news, and don't miss out on much important (I've missed on a transportation strike announcement a few times, or on the weather, but nothing serious).
Funnily enough, my own thoughts about Gruber becoming annoying recently (after reading him for years) is because Gruber has started commenting on things he doesn't understand the facts of

If you think he's annoying, stop reading what he posts?

There are a people pushing words around on the Internet that are outlandish or that others don't agree with. Thankfully, most of them don't result in hundreds of comments and discussions over their shortcomings.
"We are often learning at school to always finish a book even if we don't like it or we have some difficulties to read it."

could you elaborate on this?
Obama unveiled a plan in February to end the Orion spacecraft program and use private companies to launch US assets into orbit, for which he received copious amounts of criticism, from all sides. (He announced a scaled-back version in April that still relies primarily on private companies to provide transit to space.) That's what the parent is referring to — it's not just blind politicization of an irrelevant topic.
Srsly? You're surprised?
Is it just me or is that the worst possible tone to wake you up? Hope there are more options than that or a song... like the actual alarm tones already on the iPhone.
The value in this article is not in its particular facts. The real value comes from realizing that such corporate societal manipulation happens all the time to this day.
I think PureDarwin folks are working on this. http://www.puredarwin.org/downloads/xmas
That doesn't make any sense as an explanation for changes in the crime rate. If the quality descriptions were relative to each periods common expectations, then -- while it would still be desperately in need of support -- it would be a not-implausible conjecture as to a potential contributing factor to the effect it sought to explain. In absolute terms, is just a complete non-sequitur.
With what sort of Golden Hammer ?; )
Hi giuscri! I work as a developer at a large company (e.g., think Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, IBM, etc.).
That is not what the parent said. He said ask the owner.

Realtor couldn't care less, no wait, they have an incentive to lie. Comcast couldn't care less.

The owner does care, because they become liable if they misrepresent the property.

Never spend a ton of money without doing the leg work yourself. Don't trust other people, especially people who have zero incentive to be accurate or truthful.
Despite the title, I found the details regarding rodent brains and the kiss and spit mechanism much more engaging and convincing than the discussion of effects on humans.
I will think about this feature.
Viewing this as a branding exercise is missing the whole picture. UberPOOL and Lyft Line will revolutionize transportation by convincing drivers to pick up passengers during their commutes to and from work to pay their gas, maintenance, and then some. They'll convince riders to get in cars with strangers for prices that make owning more than one car in a household unreasonable, even in the suburbs.

Doing that requires far more people to get comfortable sharing small spaces with strangers. Profiles are a step in that direction.

EDIT: Either I missed it the first time, or they added a big chunk to the article about Line. Regardless, the branding angle is far secondary to Line.
The two sites seem to have different sources, however - HIBP claims neither my email nor my phone number were involved in the FB leak, while the "Facebooked" site correctly identified that my number was tied to my name and other pieces of information.
Indeed, some cognitive disabilities are based in genetics; but those are usually quite obvious. The rest of us humans are pretty much the same. Young child’s brain is, by nature, like a sponge, and impressions received at an early age are extremely critical.
There’s quite a few samples of people doing crazy things with Cuda. Not sure if you can access this demonstration: https://discord.com/channels/608064116111966245/674410581326...

These are other demonstrations of DRGTK’s performance capabilities:
- https://twitter.com/Groteskly/status/1373668110482427906
- https://twitter.com/amirrajan/status/1361640855589842951
- https://twitter.com/amirrajan/status/1339575630187425792
> > If it's so easy, what's a good example of software that rides the line well?

> Firefox. Firefox is very easy to use as a non-technical user, and has a relatively high skill cap (used to be higher with XUL/XPCOM, but even now you can do useful things relatively easily with the WebExtensions model).

I wrote my original comment in Firefox. I don't think that any browser can meet the needs of both groups.

A very non-exhaustive list of Firefox issues for laymen:

* URLs are fundamentally frustrating for laymen. Full stop. If your browser exposes URLs, it's a phishing-filled, typo-squatted, and incredibly confusing experience for the average person. N.B. I am against recent efforts to "kill the URL", though I certainly empathize with the desire.

* If a site has an SSL cert, it gets a lock and says "connection secure", and if it doesn't then there's a scary security warning. There are millions of sites that are fine to browse read-only in http, and there are millions of scam sites available over https. Again, note that I am pro everyday encryption, my issue here is to do with asserting (in)security on only the axis of whether a CA issued a cert to that domain name.

* The browser extension permission model is not at all useful. Benevolent extensions that use exactly the common-sense permissions they need show a big scary list of permissions. Malicious extensions often show the exact same set of permissions as a benevolent one. Imagine if your toothbrush, dental floss, trashcan, shower curtain and shampoo required you to individually confirm to the cashier that you want to buy them because they require access to your bathroom. And then imagine your dental floss got an automatic update to record video of you in the shower and upload it to pornhub. It's absurd that we expect the average person to navigate this nonsense.

Meanwhile, here's a very non-exhaustive list of Firefox issues for power users. Most of these are issues I have myself.

* The old extensions API has been removed and the new one is much more restrictive in what it can accomplish. There's still not a download manager or tree-style tabs extension that checks all the boxes I want, even though they existed in the past.

* It comes bundled with Pocket and Mozilla have shown a willingness to automatically install literal ads. For a TV show that I've heard is about computer security!

* I installed a web clipper application to clip markdown. Except that it's not allowed to save files anywhere but my downloads folder, so if I want to clip straight to my notes archive I have to use a symlink.

* The browser extension permission model is not at all useful. Sound familiar? It's absurd that we expect even power users to navigate this nonsense.
Are you thinking of something like WMI?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/queryi...
The good news is that in my plan, you don't have to care. Unless you are the cfo of a company, or an accountant.
I don't understand why he just doesn't use Rust instead. The speed difference can't be that big.
Why would you write prose in a monospaced font?
It’s all good, I was just trolling ya’ll. No hard feelings :)

What I can offer you is a private email in the event you ever think you might need someone that gets it (could be years down the line or never). I won’t be shocked and I’ll listen, if you are not above that.
1.) Product Managers don't own the release schedule.

2.) Ah, organized crime, but none of it is ever reported. Lack data much? For an "industry" that supposedly values transparency, the total absence of data seems odd.

3.) Why are you telling me why I put scare quotes around the term "researcher"? I told you why. I'm not lying.
> The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack Linux.

No wonder people think "hacker" is a bad thing.
When we were taught an OO course, we had smalltalk first, and then we moved to C++. Professor enumerating all rules, ifs and buts was like an operator of a german machine gun that was mowing down wave after wave of good natured allied programmers. Or so it felt and classmates have conferred on my feelings.

C++ has too many rules and exceptions, while giving some sort of control to a genius - in hands of a good natured well meaning coder, it all goes to hell. That is so not in the beginning but in the long run.

All misgivings noted, compilers gone to future and back. They help alot.

C has few rules, and whats more if you use UNIX / ISO convention there are very few ways you can go wrong. C++ is an ugly duckling of era of 586 type machines, when you have tried to do something in binary , efficiently and with a style and yet still was found wanting.

Explicit is always best, because you always refactor. Say what you mean, write what it does. This way its easier to read, and easier to coax it to do something else. In the end good coders achieve things by correcting few things here and there. If you have some sort magic that developer can't trust to be exactly what they expect it to be - they can't code with honestly and without fear. And fear as we know is a mind killer. So it is a catch 22.

I am totally 100% with Linus on that one.
Recommendations are super important IMHO. Digg tried this, but they ultimately failed because they lacked community. From my understanding the algorithm was pretty dope. I just can't spend more than 10 minutes on Digg without being frustrated at the content, so I haven't really used it much. BTW, hi mindcrime. :-)
Did working on Wall St give you the experience you needed to become one of the Great Old Ones?
I wish I had enough karma points to downvote you.
>they moved to Wordpress VIP due to downtime and security concerns

>Wordpress

>downtime...security concerns

Sounds well planned.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but if you want your site to be successful, you'll do the legwork of seeding it with the many existing blog posts about MongoDB. There are plenty of resources out there and blaming the "quite small" MongoDB community for the lack of links on your site is not really accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_settlement

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viatical_settlement
I have a pet theory about the apparent shortage of 'experienced engineers' in the midst of high unemployment.

Software development as we know is an inherently unstable activity - it's very hard to gauge how much a project will cost in time and money. Supposedly 50% of IT projects fail and 70% don't meet all their targets (or something catastrophic like that).

Well here's my theory. When you can't tell how much something will cost or even whether it's really possible, when there are no guarantees, the only thing that can comfort you is that your competition wont fair any better. To ensure this, you just need to employ the top programmers/architects. If you have people of the best calibre, you can rest easy, because if they can't deliver, nobody can.

Thus, companies looking to launch risky software ventures need what is by definition a scarce resource (the best developers). Unless the nature of software changes drastically, there will always be a shortage of the 'experienced engineers' necessary to placate the anxiety of this high risk business. Human expertise is finite, the capacity of software projects to fail is infinite.

(particularly if you're talking about launching web apps and new platforms and such... if you just need some simple engineering then not so much)
I have a similar issue. My attempt at a solution is to build a portfolio so compelling that employers will hire me for (mostly) remote work without qualms. Hopefully the market for developers is still strong when my portfolio is strong.

Failing that, I guess I'll move back to civilization.
I don't think there's one true set of weights - rather, I think it's a matter of personal preference (and, to a certain extent, the task at hand - maintainability is irrelevant for some tasks and vital for others).
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If this contest also rated by finger distance (one of vim's strengths), I'd propose qq and @q@@ instead of using the "a" register.
Has anyone looked at Pyke (http://pyke.sourceforge.net/)? It seems to combine some of the ideas from Prolog with the ability to use Python when necessary. We tried it and found it to work as advertised but the documentation was hard to navigate.
>teaching is quite a prestigious and reasonably well paid occupation

I'd put money on this being at least an order of magnitude more important than all the other factors put together.
Libertarians also point out that school spending has been rising over time with no corresponding rise in national test scores.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/chart-of-the-day-federal-ed-s...

I would be surprised if these international test scores showed any correlation to changing spending either.
I don't know if I'd advocate death, but he certainly "knew better." It's bad enough he spent more on one day than most Americans can earn in a lifetime, but for what ? Some ephemeral bullshit in exchange for lasting damage to the commons?
It's not nation states as a whole entering into a deal. It's the legislatures of nation states, most of whom have come from big business and will probably go back to business at some point, who are acting in self interest. They are giving our sovereignty away. IMHO.
That's very strange. According to wikipedia: "There are no longer any operational customs posts along either side of the border."[1] The last check I remember was in the 90's and I don't think it was a customs check, it was a military checkpoint.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland–United_King...
> So you've read ten articles this month from a publication which you don't think is worth paying for?

Yes, many times over. e.g. Hackernews, reddit, facebook, etc....
I wrote software to handle this a long time ago never got off the ground www.foldertrack.com
It's the investment to reward ratio. 5 pages read = x reward (amusement of some sort, be intellectual, comedy, suspense etc). 1 minute of reddit, Jon Stewart show, or HBO episode may provide as much.
You expect to read freshly dried and scanned Ukrainian government documents in English?
It seems apparent to me that 'regulation' in this context is actually a contract. Discussions are already occurring, and code is already being written to implement more distributed contracts between parties and systems. Once that's in place, you won't need the 'government' to 'regulate' anything. Not that they could, if they tried. It'll self regulate, based on an a priori set of rules that prevent a pool of power from operating in a way that hurts others by taking their things.
It would be interesting to see lisp adoption coming not as a language but as a serialization format. It seems fairly easy to implement and every language would then have at least the AST part of lisp.
Ooh. That's a great anecdote. Thanks for sharing!
An Islamic marriage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Islam) is between a man and the wali of a woman, who gives her to the husband to be his wife, NOT a contract between the two members of the marriage. A wali is a "guardian" of a women. (or really, owner)

She needs consent from her wali. Pakistan can just say "did your wali sign off on this? Nope? Well that's not a valid divorce."

There's no actual legal recourse for not accepting legal agreements made in other states. Hell, many states in the US don't recognize legal (homosexual) marriages from other states.
> Your overall net worth is not what makes you happy, it’s the CHANGE in net worth (up).

Two unfunded assumptions that seem to be based on your own experience.

Here's another, based on my own experience: a component of what makes you happy is to not have to worry about money at all, either because you live a lifestyle that require little of it, or because you have enough that a 50% change in wealth has zero impact on your life.
Sure, and they are the one that makes the least money :)
Yep, indeed. Most of my head scratch moments with big code bases aren't about anything as technical as types. It's not as if knowing the types would have made me realize what the code actually does, which is the main hurdle.
Be careful when you ask "Why don't any sites...". At least one site does have this option: http://ourdoings.com/
There's a few JS libraries that allows you to basically have the same functionality, example: https://github.com/futurepress/epubjs-reader/
Why did you immediately jump into questioning the validity of their use of the word harassment? Do you have any reason at all to doubt their claims?
CPLDs also have the advantage of being non volatile. That can make your circuit simpler as you just add a socket and use an external programmer. FPGAs require external storage and more.
Both of those are on the list, here it is sorted by name:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-100-iranian-film...
> I want to be the one in control of my screen, not some random website.

That's not really an option, though. You'd have to separate text and media from the website, split it apart, and configure it separately, as most websites just have everything without any color management.

If these shitty websites with full contrast would at least set a colorspace for their images, so I could take the color profile of a cheap 2004 LCD as default for unmanaged media and text, I'd at least avoid the painful situation.
Sorry thank's for correcting
i was here for both, what happened then wasn't anywhere near as severe or prolonged.
> The fact that you're trying to assert your point of view over the people

What? I'm sorry but we're talking way past each other and seem to be having two different conversations here. I'm inquiring about the usage of "harassment" from the authors of the proposed change, and you take it as I'm "asserting my point of view"?

Please do try to spread flame somewhere else but not here. I'm now done trying to explain myself to you.
But isn't that how it always goes? Things that were once avant-garde become “standard” and the next avant-garde has to be something different again. The same thing cannot stay avant-garde forever.
I never saw the original Real Book. I bought the New Real Book from Shel Music and it seems pretty good? (I mostly don't play jazz and bought it out of curiosity.)

For beginners I recommend starting with The Real Easy Book which has some simpler tunes, mostly blues-based.
The government can require collateral, or equity with liquidation preferences, that's totally fine by me. I thought the issue raised by parent poster was why companies require so much debt for their operations, and the answer is, of course, that it makes perfect sense in most scenarios other than global pandemic and shutdown of everything.
Apparently in my school district it is estimated to be between 20-35% of students.
> Personally, I think what C++ offers is the same as Rust.

I see this pretty often and don't understand where this idea originates from. We have huge amounts of evidence to the contrary[1], that is generated by developers who likely have more experience with parallelism and memory than anyone in this comments section ("likely"). If the ultimate pedigree don't get it right, keeping in mind that they never have (apart from NASA who disallow threading and allocation), how is there this belief that it is at all possible.

It's the software equivalent of flat-earthing or climate change denial. We have abundant hard evidence supporting the inability for humans to reason about memory allocation, and absolutely zero evidence to the contrary.

Safe Rust eliminates entire categories of bugs. It doesn't eliminate all bugs (including vulnerabilities), so you do need testing, but it does a huge amount more than nothing (C++).

[1]: https://cve.mitre.org/
I think this thing was deprecated soon after release, and its userbase migrated to something more suitable.

BTW, Ubuntu 19.x is its 30th/31st release: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history
Anybody remember the end of Waterworld?
> There is no "build out again" -- they use the same wires, which was the expensive part

Who told you that? ISPs run new fiber all the time.
Probably a coincidence, in my opinion. How long ago did it happen?

When did you actually see that it was filed? If you saw it come out of the patent office a few days later, it was probably filed much earlier than your forum post.

If you saw it later but it was filed several days after your post, I think it is feasible, perhaps with the aid of someone like GPT-3, to put together a patent application that quickly.
Consider that some processors were too small to fit a stack. Some languages (notably BASIC), only had what you might call 'static' variables (to use the C name), so when you recursed into them, the variables would be shared across all calls to that function.
I'll run the pointer-chasing version later. Thanks

Re timing issues: I am on Linux.
> It's double dipping to charge for the rate of flow and the amount. We don't do that for water.

Well we do. A commercial user with a 3 inch water line pays more for the basic service than a house with a 3/4 inch line. And they both pay for gallons used.
Just like I speculated - now Hyundai have walked back - removing any reference to Apple - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hyundai-walks-back-linking-ap...