jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>o... combined with AMD culture of not investing in software, nothing will happen.

That is just not true, they work on the open source toolchain like LLVM and GCC and hopefully things will catch up. And as far as I can tell things are getting much better in 2019.
Cursive was originally based on an old plugin for editing Clojure code developed by some JetBrains people in their spare time. It was effectively abandoned. I spent some time working on it and was going to take over maintenance of it when I considered making it into a product. By the time I released Cursive much of the original code was gone, but there's still some there lurking in the darker corners. That plugin was Apache licensed and I checked with JetBrains and the original devs if they would mind me making a product out of it. My code in the project has never been open source.
You really have drunk the kool-aid. This is a police report. It doesn't matter who is posting it unless you're contesting they've doctored it. I would've thought by now that we'd be past this whole "Short sellers are out to get him!" narrative when Musk literally got caught manipulating the stock price in exactly the same way he accused short sellers of. It's almost comical, at some point you're going to notice the skull and crossbones on Musk's hat and start questioning things.

I'm not saying that Musk isn't an innovative CEO, but his obsession with short sellers and a grand conspiracy to bankrupt him is borderline delusional at this point.
This has been going on for over a decade.

And it's not just China.

The ban on ivory is the driver.
I don't care about your stack or disclosing who you are just please don't lie to us about logging. Either you log everything or you log nothing or you encrypt everything and throw away the key or something. Dissidents and journalists everywhere will thank you.
> Obama not just invaded other countries, he also was bold enough to accept Nobel Peace award for it.

I think your timeline is a bit scrambled. Obama got the Nobel Peace (or rather, Not-GW-Bush-Jr) prize in the first year of his presidency, before any foreign interventions that could be realistically ascribed to his policy.
How have things changed for you all over the past few years?
Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician.

Poisson is French for "fish".
This is great! I just rewrote all my chapters' first paragraph[^1] using the first advice of this article.

I'll give back by sharing an advice I learned from ptatcek: the inverted pyramid.[^2]

Here's some example of what I just re-wrote.

Chapter 2:

- I have talked about cryptographic primitives in the previous chapter, they are constructions that achieve specific security properties and form the building blocks of cryptography.
- In the first part of this book you will learn about several important ones.
+ Attributing global unique identifiers to anything, that's the promise of the first cryptographic construction

chapter 3:

- In chapter 2, you've learned about an interesting construction --hash functions--that on its own doesn't provide much, but if used in combination with a secure channel allows you to verify the authenticity and integrity of some data.
+ Mix a hash function with a secret key, and you obtain something called a *message authentication code (MAC)*.

chapter 4:

- You've learned about authenticated encryption in chapter 4, which is a form of symmetric encryption.
- This is an extremely useful cryptographic primitive, yet in the real-world, there exist many situations where different peers do not have a shared secret.
+ In chapter 4 you learned about authenticated encryption, a cryptographic primitive used to encrypt data but limited by its symmetry: both sides of a connection had to share the same key.
+ In this chapter, I'll lift this restriction by introducing *asymmetric encryption*: a primitive to encrypt to someone else's key without knowing the key.

chapter 12:

- For as far as I can remember, the term "crypto" has been used in reference to the field of cryptography.
- Recently, I have seen its meaning quickly changing and being used by more and more people to refer to *cryptocurrencies*.
+ Can cryptography be the basis for a new financial system?
+ This is what cryptocurrencies have been trying to answer since at least 2008, when Bitcoin was proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto (who to this day has yet to reveal their identity).

[^1]: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=...

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
Jaeger Bomb (Jaeger + Red Bull) or Red Bull and Southern Comfort...

My pet peeve from 'those days' were bars that would charge you the 5.50 for Red Bull and then give you Monster or Vault or even worse a dollar-store style energy drink.
> Instead of taxing the profit of a corporation, just tax the payment of dividends from that profit.

This would be regressive, though. Why not tax the individual via a progressive cap gains tax?

> It also removes the incentive to mess around with stock buybacks, which is good because the extra liquidity can be put to better use within the company.

If a company can't think of a good use for their profits, do we really want to force them to keep the money within the organization? This seems like a recipe for bloated budgets and bigger Christmas parties, but I'm not sure that we could expect much benefit otherwise.
The phone app is very good. I almost never use the Economist web site.
I did not at any point imply that inequality was unique to Capitalism. And I'm not sure what you mean "live without resources". My point is that we have enough resources for everyone to live well even if some people have much more than others. I'm not trying to blame Capitalism for anything. I'm actually trying to say that we can achieve stability and social justice without having to abandon it. We just need a modicum of Socialist policy sprinkled in.
> courts are supposed to interpret the law

The law also states that copyright's purpose is to stimulate progress of the arts, and that's why fair use is possible. Interpreting the law also means establishing the limits of fair use.
Similar things are done in ceramics as well as casting to account for material changes during firing or glazing. Projection through a linear or non-linear transform to arrive at a desired outcome. Anytime you have feedback this solution will arise.
Breyer has actually been writing on these issues for quite some time; see for example his article "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Study of Copyright in Books, Photocopies, and Computer Programs" [0] -- published in the Harvard Law Review in 1970. His overall body of work demonstrates a pretty good understanding of the underlying technical issues, and he has been a reliable ally on the bench in this area.

[0]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1339714?seq=1
I understand what you are saying, but reality doesn't agree with this worldview. The reality of the situation is that some people need more help than others, and this help does cost more money/time/labor. I think overall it is a better experience if the marketplace for these services prices in the extra labor necessary for this help.

Perhaps the government could subsidize the lost time. However expecting workers to do more work for less pay is not in line with human nature.

Having children is expensive, and parents should be factoring in paying extra to do things.

The problem you are outlining is that picking up non-special needs customers is the most profitable way to be an uber driver. If there was a bonus for picking up "special needs" passengers, the incentive problem could be fixed. Right now, "special needs" passengers just get worse service, and it will always be this way unless human nature fundamentally changes or they gain a way to signal to drivers that it will be worth the driver's extra time.

Many Uber drivers barely make minimum wage.
Translation and interpretation here: https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/194989942X

100 % can recommend.
I think it's not just that but the fact that the country is literally packed. It's about 2/3 of my country's size,yet has 3 times more people. Haven't been to Switzerland but I can imagine most parks and other public spaces must feel quite full with people.
I also have GitHub Sponsors!

https://github.com/sponsors/marcan

I want people to pick whatever platform they are comfortable with, and Patreon is very popular, so I offer both. But yes, in principle GitHub sponsors should have lower overhead (I'll have to wait until I get income from both to see exactly how it works out after the intermediaries involved).
Shortly after the Brexit vote came back to leave I started the process of moving away from the EU domain we utilised. We spent about 2 years transitioning until almost all traffic was to the replacement and haven't used an EU domain since 2018. Most people only got told in 2018 that they would almost certainly loose them unless negotiations determined otherwise but I just thought it wasn't worth the risk.
Relatively few vaccines exist, and even fewer old ones, but on the whole they have been quite effective. https://www.vaccines.gov/diseases In total both Smallpox (human) and Rinderpest(cattle) have been eliminated in the wild. Seasonal flu is kind of an interesting case as each year is arguably a different disease with the old one having been eradicated. That’s hopefully a model which will work for covid-19.

Polio is very close to being eliminated, with only 125 known cases in 2019, which was a spike. Rubella dropped from 670 thousand in 2000 to under 15 thousand in 2018.

Ovine rinderpest elimination is considered a reasonable goal, but still 15+ years off.
The problem with 5GHz is that some 60% of the spectrum is locked behind 1/10 min DFS for ill-conceived radar coexistence, so all the APs usually bunch in the few channels that don't require that.
At a high level, I think it would be silly to say that deterrence is entirely ineffective. I think most individuals making serious arguments against it state that it is only effective in certain circumstances, it has diminishing returns, and as a country, the US errors on the side of sentences which are much longer than necessary.

For example, If a crime is punished with incarceration, it seems unlikely that a person would make a calculated decision that 5 years in prison is an acceptable risk but 10 is not.
Why the hell are we not just using beam forming with WiFi? Why are we restricting the construction of computer networks to some few privileged companies?

What the hell is going on here?
The other way is to electrolyze water and store hydrogen in underground salt caverns.
I completely agree with you that geographically speaking, silicon valley is considered a sub-region of the greater bay area, but it's also kind of an entity or state of mind that goes beyond its borders. For instance, if someone in LA wrote a wiki about "moving to hollywood", we wouldn't expect it to be geographically limited to hollywood. Personally, I don't think the title is all that bad.
Does anyone know of a "Move to New York" wiki? One specific to startups would be great, but a more generic guide would be great, too.
Why no javascript? Seems like an obvious language to watch in terms of popularity, job market, and interesting progress.
"The closest thing that I can think of is having someone sleep with your spouse"

That's a pretty horrible analogy. It's not like you have a deal with the RIAA/MPAA equivalent to a marriage contract. The sole idea of that scares me. Also, if you ripoff your spouse and make her pay extra to get anything from you and only on terms that lets you control you forever, I think you deserve the cheating. You can go on exploiting your spouse like that and no expect issues.

In retrospect, might not be such a bad analogy ;p
As an avid fly fisherman, I completely agree; however, it's often very difficult for people to conceptualize that wildlife is a limited resource. How does my taking a fish that is a half inch under the limit really hurt anyone? What about an extra fish? Or fishing after dark when it's illegal? The negative effects are often extremely far removed from the initial act. That doesn't make it ok, but it does explain why many people who would never steal from a store will break all kinds of Fish and Game laws.
Scheme is a niche language, and it's niche is education. It's almost never used in industry because it lacks a single popular standard library adds enough functionality to make it practical to use in the real world. In general, you don't write a practical scheme application, you write a practical [insert implementation]-scheme application.
I disagree. In the startup community, you basically work for free until funding comes through. I think this guy knew the situation and approached it properly. Offering work is one of the best ways to get hired. Offering to work for free sets the bar lower so its much easier to exceed expectations and get a job after the pro bono project.
Visiting the bay area every now and then, it's ridiculously expensive, compared to Germany or even France.

Rent is a cruel joke, as is land tax (so much for housing costs). Food is more expensive on the label (unless you're counting Ramen, where things are close), and there's sales tax on top (while EU prices are all-in).
It's not the cost that's the issue though, people don't like the idea of passwords being stored in a single place on a internet connected computer. I mention that you can secure password access behind two factor authentication but it doesn't get around the knee-jerk reaction often. Sharing lots of passwords when working with a team remotely is especially painful when password managers are not allowed...
> What's the solution, get a pasta sauce button?

I see nothing wrong with dedicating a wall of my kitchen entirely to Amazon buttons for everything in my fridge and pantry. :)

As I mentioned in another comment, though, a better system would probably be to use some cheap, single-purpose wall-mountable tablet computer (probably e-Ink based, maybe even with a column of physical buttons instead of a touchscreen to bring costs down to a pittance) that one could load up with a list of products that need to be routinely reordered for a partiuclar room. If prices could be brought down considerably (if not free with Prime membership, as is being proposed for these Dash buttons), this could be pretty viable.
> Can Mozilla even make a Firefox browser for ChromeOS?

Can Google even make a Chrome browser for FirefoxOS?

All of the PR surrounding the creation of FirefoxOS lauded how it was completely open because it was built on standards like HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

But when Google does the same thing, it is an example of "locking everything down while still calling itself open."

Mozilla has been arguing for years that compile-to-JavaScript is good enough (and based their opposition to NaCl/PNaCl on this principle). It is strange to see argument here against Google that "only true native will do", when that argument is what motivated NaCl/PNaCl to begin with.
Valuing anything illiquid will involve a mix of rational analysis of inherent value and speculation, they can't really be separated. Pre-IPO companies are very illiquid and so could be prone to bubbles, and many knowledgeable people claim they are in a bubble right now. However, claiming that secondary markets are by necessity pure speculation is simply incorrect.

Your last paragraph doesn't make any sense to me. Mostly people sell equity shares on secondary markets. Equity shares are not derivatives. They can also sell stock options, which are derivatives, but are not created when they are sold on a secondary market. It sounds to me like all you know is that the word "derivatives" is scary, so things you don't like must be derivatives.
Keep in mind that on the desktop, firefox renders the user interface using XUL and CSS. In this case, (I assume) it's just using a native android ui instead.
Never understood why "netbook" became a bad word. I loved mine; it was sturdy and simple and cheap and I never worried about throwing it in a bag and taking it wherever I was going. My mindset was "so what if it gets trashed, it only cost $250, I'll buy another one!" - but in fact my one netbook lasted five years, and by then the category had disappeared. That one Eee pc outlasted two macbooks!
A scale would be useful:

Recommended dosage
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Also for mg vs mg/kg, that's a harder problem - off the top my head, get rid of the modes, and show both mg/kg and mg textboxes, with a radio button to select the one you want to edit. Edit it, and the non-selected text box is grayed-out and uneditable, and shows you the corresponding calculation (enter in mg/kg, and it shows you the mg amount of medicine; enter in mg, and it shows you the mg/kg ratio).
Hi Sylvainkalache,

Thank you for reaching out. At this time we do not offer visa sponsorship.
Have you used any other MX switches before?

Wondering how the MX Clears compare to MX Blue; I'm currently using a Ducky Shine 3 with MX Blue, I attempted to put on some o-rings to quiet the clicks, but lost a lot of tactile feedback which annoyed me.
Amazingly in depth post!

I'm sad when programming languages have to reach for new keywords and syntax to add features.

`function*` is difficult to google for, and doesn't have any human readable hints for somebody to understand.
I guess it depends on which side you are thinking from in arguments like these. The interest rate a bank will give you depends on how much demand there is for the money that you are about to give that bank. If the bank has no way to make a profit on the money they give you because there is little demand then they will offer you a low interest percentage (or even none or a negative one).

So yes, there is an oversupply, but that's the same as little demand on the other side of the bank, plus or minus some arbitrary skew in time.

The bank simply tries to make money from being in the middle between supplier of capital (you and your savings) and the consumers of capital (the demand side, industry, mortgages and so on).
The most profitable advice I've gotten for charging good rates comes from two sources:

1. Jim Camp's negotiation book, "Start with No": http://www.amazon.com/Start-No-Negotiating-Tools-that-ebook/...
One key takeaway: You can refuse to compromise on your rates, provided that you can afford to walk away if necessary.

2. Patrick McKenzie's (patio11's) advice for moving beyond the "freelancer" title, in particular http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro... and http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-...

I used these strategies to double my daily rate as an Ember.js consultant from $1k to $2k, and it was a fairly straightforward exercise in the end.
> Sound dampening O-rings

Copy editors: you mean "Sound damping".
Yes, of course customers are ultimately covering all costs of doing business, this included.

But not specific customers. Affluent consumers often use credit in advantageous ways. That behavior is subsidized by consumers of more limited means. I get 5% cashback every time I shop at amazon, 6% at every grocery store, 5% on every tank of gas and 2.5% on every restaurant, etc. (Sallie Mae Rewards Card, Amex Blue Preferred, Sallie Mae again, and Chase Sapphire, respectively). Access to credit most certainly costs me "negative money."
Sounds like an (partial)-inversion of a Web of Trust.
It's not dogma, it's a simple application of the null hypothesis, meaning until there's contradicting evidence, the assumption is that there's no effect. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Without the null hypothesis, if we instead assumed extraordinary claims to be true without evidence, skeptics would be required to prove a negative, an impossible burden of evidence in most cases, and Bigfoot would become real by default.

As things stand, skepticism is the default position of a scientist, and the burden of evidence rests with those who claim extraordinary things.

> Permanent batteries are as real as permanent magnets.

Neither a permanent battery nor a permanent magnet represents an expenditure of energy, or a violation of energy conservation.
You probably don't remember but the demoscene started more than 20 years ago when the hw was very limited.
The movies we're talking about last only a few tens of seconds at _very low_ resolution. You certainly don't need multi-megabyte storage for them
One could make a Lua backend to PyPy? :) Lua 5.2 has a nice `goto` which makes things very easy. Esp with builtin TCO.
> If you let some good people fall through the cracks, even if it's 10%, the company can continue for years.

Continue, sure. Microsoft isn't going to go away for many years, no matter how much they fuck up. They have too many established customers that will find it hard to switch away from them and they have too much cash on hand.

Nevertheless, the degree to which Microsoft will be relevant to the industry at large and their revenue levels in the time frame of a decade to two decades from now are currently open questions. And not by a small amount either, by orders of magnitude. And the difference between being able to execute on projects that will keep the company relevant and highly profitable and not being able to do so will largely come down to the collective capabilities, passions, experience, and talent of the folks who are still at the company. And that pool of skills and capabilities has been substantially decapitated bit by bit over the past several years.
Didn't NY flood a while ago?
Why not jut create a contacts app and use that as your private contact apps.
The only thing the CEO of SolarWinds is telling us by saying this is that he's a terrible leader. We don't even know that the hackers used the exposed password at this point. But even if they did, this is an obvious process failure and by blaming an individual intern, Sudhakar Ramakrishna is loudly demonstrating his own hopeless incompetence.
Nowadays you can click and get the transcript (in a tiny window), so my use of YT, such as it is, is: open transcript, scan it (it's like reading a bunch of tweets :-( ), and if something looks like it would actually be interesting to see as video, click on the transcript to jump to that point.

Also you can just turn on captions and watch at 2X.
Oh! I know! I work for a large company. At one point, we sent so much junk mail, we were the Post Office's #1 customer (in the US). We have started to send junk emails, too.

There is a Swedish company (non profit? Activist group? IDK) called SpamHause. They partner with ISPs to help block spam. Their process is something along the lines of:

1) Inject fake email addresses into lists of email addresses that are bought/sold WITHOUT user consent

2) Wait until someone UNAUTHORIZED emails them spam

3) Tell the ISPs (and anyone else who will listen) to STOP processing emails from the companies that sent them spam.

4) The ISPs block the companies because SpamHause is reputable and REALLY good at finding spam, also the ISPs save money by "not having to process the spam

We accidentally got a hold of a bad batch of email addresses several years ago and we spent MONTHS trying to fishout and overhaul our email authorization process. It cost us $10s of millions.

Also, WHY were we sending that spam?!?
And how much using HSBC and Deutchebank?