jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The best thing this widget does is clearly illustrate that there is no easy and painless solution, and that almost all the hot debating in political campaigns today is over the very small ticket items (earmarks, getting out of Iraq, etc).

The truly big ticket items are extremely unpopular among most voters: cuts in social security, Medicare, and huge tax increases on certain groups of people (the most influential folks). Also, a huge simplification is that we ignore the impact on the economy; one of the central arguments for keeping the tax cuts is that it supposedly creates more jobs, as does government workers and aid to states.

Very cool find, though. Maybe it should be a required exercise before each election season, just to discourage politicians from focusing on the less important topics.

One last eye-opener: this only helps plug up the year-to-year budget deficit. The actual national debt is $13.5 trillion, and should another recession hit us between now and 2030, we'll be in bigger trouble even if you managed to balance the budget in this "simulation."
No matter what the title is the thing that makes a world of difference is the reason someone designs. Nice looks are useless if they have no clear purpose, if there's no underlying reason for them to be nice.

The value of really good designer is in the ability to understand what kind of design and how much of it is needed in order to make something _work_ well/better as opposed to just look nice (what can be simply harmful in some cases, I call it monkey with grenade...).

So I think if when you say designer you mean someone who has ability to understand bigger picture and uses his skills as a tool to achieve something, you definitely need one (and you'll have a hard time finding him). But if it's just about looks then I'm not sure.

btw, design is not art, design is an industrial term believe it or not. Child of mass production in 19th century:)
It wasn't entirely clear from this article, but it looks like he was paying normal income tax on the money coming in, but failed to pay self-employment taxes. I have talked to more than a few iPhone developers whom this happened to as well -- forgetting about that extra 15.3% can really hurt.

But, did he remember to track and deduct all of his expenses? The flipside to that income is that the server costs are all deducted from it. If he really was "just barely covering costs" with his Google ads income, it should be 15.3% of nearly zero dollars. He may even be owed a refund if he was paying full income tax on the ad revenue without deducting server costs.

I am not an accountant, but I've dealt with SE tax and had a few "conversations" with the IRS in the past. For all the worries about them being biased, I've found them to be fair, as long as you have precise documentation.
A name should be just a string.

Indeed. The real question is, why are you asking for their name in the first place?

Consider these three scenarios:

(a) You are an airline, and the name you collect has to match their government-issue ID

(b) You need to mail something to the user

(c) You wish to create an account for them on your blogging website

The requirements for you to understand what they are trying to tell you their name is very much depend on the situation (context matters, as I need to have tattooed on my forehead). For (c), screw what is their first name, or last name, or middle name, or whether they have such a thing. For (b) the only requirement is "write something down what the post office in their country will understand" - again, never mind whether you understand it. For (a), how is this going to be matched by TSA? Do what is right to conform to the API.

Even in the US, people have very complicated names - here is a not unusual name from my local paper's birth announcements: Kalamanamananaueikalani Tomoko Namakauluhonuamea'ililamalama Wengler-Ioane

Does anybody really, really need to deal with this in its full glory? It should come down to "What would you like us to call you" and "are you M/F" (if relevant).
Fully agree except the first sentence.

Wisdom comes with experiences. The right ones. Not spending all days in the cubicle. Or staring at the computer screen.
Each narcissistic blogger should at least once write about monads - http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Monads2
> though I haven't heard of that being enforced in practice.

It happened here[0], and the reasoning for why they allow some free tier content is in their S-1[1]. Typically, even if you blatant file sharing or video streaming application in violation of 2.8, Cloudflare doesn't necessarily care as long as it's not too bandwidth intensive (eg. I wouldn't recommend having a dozen people streaming Plex from the outside internet).

0: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-way-you-handle-bandwi...

1: https://l.judge.sh/85EH
Does this support:

- GIF images in multiple choice question responses
- Zapier triggers
- Pre-populating form fields that can be overridden by the user?
Not sure if the issue is with Chrome or my local config generally (bog standard Windows, nothing fancy), but the us-flag example doesn't render as intended. It shows as "US" with the components in the next step being "U" and "S" (not the ASCII characters U & S, the encoding is as intended but those characters are being given in place of the intended).

Displays as I assume intended in Firefox on the same machine: American flag emoji then when broken down in the next step U-in-a-box & S-in-a-box. The other examples seem fine in Chrome.

Take care when using relatively new additions to the Unicode emoji-set, test to make sure your intentions are correctly displayed in all the brower's you might expect your audience to be using.
Garage is designed for self-hosting by collectives of system administrators, what we could call "inter-hosting". Basically you ask your friends to put a server box at their home and achieve redundancy that way.
I'm in this camp. Why do we still waste brain cells on this problem? Just copy it
A Google search for "mamdani fuzzy inference method" has a few papers, videos, and what look like course lesson material covering it on the first page. So I'd do that and pull a few up.
Interesting. I like working in Haskell precisely because it allows me to iterate faster than in something like Ruby/Java/Clojure/<insert-more-popular-language-here>. Granted, I'm not paid to write Haskell, but I think that's more ironic than anything else.

Perhaps someone from industry can confirm my feelings here.
If you use both tree style tabs (which, apart from stacking tabs vertically, lets you collapse tab trees if you desire, and the trees are naturally topic-oriented) and tab groups (a built-in feature, good for splitting tabs by topic), you can easily have hundreds of tabs on the go.

Tabs are sort of a halfway house to bookmarks for me. They persist across browser restarts, but the fact that they are still open increases the chances that I'll consume the information in them.
I am not sure why you are saying that english has been established once and for all. French was that language two centuries and half ago because France was very powerful, and latin was before because the church was the most powerful entity (in Europe that is). It is mostly a question of which culture is the dominant one - right now, it is the western one, in particular american one. I don't know how nor when, but I am sure it will change at some point. The cost of changing language is not that high.

The only thing that could change this would be near-perfect automated translation. I would not bet on China not getting the most important culture in the world before that :)
Definition of holier than thou: Exhibiting an attitude of superior virtue; self-righteously pious.

Gladwell tries to come off from a moral high ground where he preaches about certain concepts (in this example the benefits of talent) by self-selecting evidence.

I really find it funny how the entire employee grading process has become a huge area of contention amongst arm chair quarterbacks. Recently, there was another article where it talked about Wall Street's excessive competitiveness as having caused the crisis. Gladwell and similar authors forget the one company (and the one manager) credited with popularizing this entire concept: General Electric and Jack Welch. I like the off-handed way Gladwell mentions a specific quote from a G.E. exec without talking about the success G.E. had with this approach I can use Welch and G.E. in order to argue against this entire article. In fact, Welch's biographies do the job. Not only did he grade employees into three tiers, he graded entire businesses into tiers. If a business wasn't #1 or #2, its shuttered. I will bet I can actually construct a better argument for supporting the quest for talent.

Enron blew up because upper management was a bunch of liars. What does talent have to do with it? In fact, Enron failed at following the "promote talent" concept. If they did take this philosophy to heart, they would have fired the international heads that bled billions of dollars from Enron's bottom line. In fact, Skilling and the top protected those sub-par managers and execs leading to the shady accounting to hide the carnage. The talent they picked up in their energy trading department was (and is) great. Go into any of the nation's energy trading floors and Enron alumni enjoy great reputations.

As for the record, I think Gladwell goes well beyond being "a bit contrarian". ;)
Urgh. That’s immediate dismissal from his post and a brisk escort from the building for gross misconduct in my book.

Flat out disgusting, not to mention illegal.
Let me guess, Peter Theil thinks he wasn't all bad ?
It's simple, it works with the dumbest of mobile devices, and people understand it.

Even installing and using a TOTP app, and configuring it to work with an online login, is a hurdle that a non-negligible number of users cannot pass.

It's better than nothing.
This is just silly. Assuming their estimate of 16433 t of CO2 per year[0] is correct, a person sending one e-mail less per day, throughout the year, would reduce their annual carbon footprint by:

16433 / 60e6 / 10 * 100% = 0.0027% [1]

See also MacKay's Without Hot Air take on a similar topic.[2]

Since OVO is an energy company, they definitely should know better. Charitably, they're being extraordinarily stupid. Uncharitably they're trying to push their "Carbon Capper" chrome extension which is probably spyware or trying to distract people from more serious issues.

[0] https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/n...

[1] The UK has a population of about 60 million and the CO2 footprint is about 10 t per person.

[2] https://www.withouthotair.com/c19/page_114.shtml
What's FIRE?
You’re describing the reason I wanted to transition into developer management for so long - to be in a position to have the conversations that will prevent the type of environments that create burnout.

So far, it’s working but it’s not as easy at it should be. I do work for a company where I legitimately care about the mission, the company and it’s impact but I get most of my sense of purpose from taking care of my team.
Welp, I changed careers drastically, just to find out that the major problem I have is... myself. Paradoxically, I've found out that the other half of the problem is seeing myself as a problem. So now I'm kinda stuck in this loop.
The evidence suggests that the suspect committed the crime. Oh nevermind, the suspect explicitly stated he did not commit the crime.

I don't even think freeing up usernames is necessarily a bad thing, but trusting the stated motivation of big companies for their actions seems awfully naive.
My son started kindergarten this year, and unfortunately we are zoned into one of the worst schools in the district. He’s a bright kid, already knows everything they would teach him, so we weren’t concerned about academics, but let me tell you—his behavior at home, and especially his language use, has taken a really troubling turn. He is obviously picking up the behavior of some of the children he goes to school with.

I read a book not too long ago entitled “The Nurture Assumption,” by Judith Harris. It influenced me more than anything I’ve read as a parent, because it is so obviously true. Her thesis is that everyone assumes that adults have a significant impact on a child’s future, yet there is basically zero evidence to support such an assumption.

Peer groups are the dominant influence on a child’s personality and development, full stop. This is probably hard for educators to accept because there’s really nothing that can be done about it from their perspective.
Reading
"I think we may be coming to the end of a period where being an artist was synonymous with being urban"
the first thing I noticed was the unorthodox use of the word "synonymous". Davis' use could be read as stating that everyone urban was an artist during the period in question, which is an absurd and pedantic reading, but it may reveal his preoccupations.
Not only this is common all around the world but it is also "ordered" correctly. dd/mm/yyyy (smallest, middle, largest) makes a lot more sense than mm/dd/yyyy (middle, smallest, largest).
Have a go at Hy (hylang.org). You can have your cake and eat it too. :)

Other than that, I'm fiddling with LISP Flavored Erlang (lfe.io), but I've had previous Erlang exposure.
So type classes?
yep, the screenshots in the linked article are QBasic, not QuickBasic - check them out
How so? The idea is not novel, in fact he links to a proper implementation (having a Go process listen on a UNIX domain socket) and the only contribution is to introduce a huge security vulnerability
The risk wasn't 2 billion Euro, just the portfolio. The risk, according to solvency II, is 30-50% of the equities, approximately a 1% raise or drop in interest rates, 25% change in FX, etc.

The risk is probably about 40% of the 2 billion.
For fun I'm attracted to various high-level information processing stuff and I do backend web dev at work. Haskell's definitely a Python replacement for me, I'm not writing any OSes in it.
From what i understand White Tea and Green Tea are from the same leaf, but processed differently
English exists in its current state because it is constantly changing. Adding words, changing the pronunciation/spelling and even changing the definitions of them. You aren't concerned with correctness you're concerned with image and a pet word.
The part where he makes fun of the agile snake oil salesmen despite the fact that he was one of the biggest offenders?
Perhaps the essay just doesn't say what it wants to say very effectively.

It starts right out painting people who disagree with its thesis as "anti-immigration".

So no one should be surprised about the quality of conversation that results from that.
Would it be unreasonable to draw parallels to Lulzsec?
Could someone point me to better explanation how this is teleportation if to restore state at destination, you need to send some information via fiber cable anyway? Aren't it more like encoding and decoding at destination?
7 is not satisfied by a letter from any company CEO. The person writing the letter has to be a distinguished individual in their own capacity. A startup CEO, irrespective of potential, is a nobody. Tim Cook writing the letter means something. Also 1 letter doesn't suffice. O-1 applications typically require 7-8 such letters from distinguished individuals ~not directly related to your field~. At a minimum 3 or 4 are needed.

Remember, US immigration is not an objective process, i.e., you satisfy 3 of 8 points, you are in. It is a subjective process. The sponsoring company hires a lawyer to petition USCIS making a case for the visa. The subjective interpretation of the petition is completely at the discretion of the specific case officer. The recent multi-year trend of evaluating O-1 visa petitions seems to be completely dependent on number of publications in journals, impact factor of those journals, number of citations in google scholar, your work being published in major news media, and several letters of support from distinguished individuals from ~outside~ your primary area of expertise (your contributions are considered valuable if people not in your immediate field have a high opinion of you).

The law offices of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP, the immigration attorneys that 95% of Bay Area companies retain for filing immigration visas, will not even accept your case if the candidate doesn't have a Ph.D. with several years of high impact publications.

As you can see, this visa is geared towards positions as university faculty, major national lab scientists, or industry research labs of big firms. This visa doesn't help startups. I know of only one startup that successfully got the O-1 visa for a Chinese data scientist. But that person was part of the CERN team that won the Nobel prize.

There is a huge gap between the targeted beneficiaries of the O-1 and H-1B visa. One is geared towards Nobel prize caliber scientists, the other towards run of the mill developers working in body shops and overseas consulting firms.

The prototypical 10X developers that most startups seek do not usually meet the criteria for the O-1, and is at a disadvantage in the H-1B lottery. A lottery treats every application equally. It makes no distinction between an extremely competent individual and an extremely incompetent one. This favors body shoppers and outsourcers since they can mass-file visa petitions for every warm body on their payroll overseas hoping some of them make the lottery. A startup filing one or two visa petitions for a very specific individual is at a severe disadvantage.
It's a bit odd that the original reason.com submission got flagged. Here is a recording on the seminar for anyone curious: https://soundcloud.com/user-381804527/microagressions-presen...

The relevant Q&A starts at 28:45.
I don't think so? Aren't UCS surrogate pairs at most 16bit each by their very purpose? Also, >16bit unicode code points came much later, I believe, in Unicode 2.0 in 1996 according to Wikipedia (vs UTF-8 which is from around 1992)
Literally anyone with a fist of dollars and minimal dev knowledge access can parse those leaked numbers, send mass text via API and damage facebook even more than they would damage themselves.
It's possible that the word filter for titles that HN uses removed the "real". But yeah, whatever the cause, the result is bad.
Wiping out the bone marrow should also (essentially) reset the immune system IIRC.
Sure but you don’t even need to use a “no” once you realize that YT Kids is hot garbage and make it not even an option anymore.
FWIW, I think it is worth noting that a small landlord is a small business owner, and they have--in general--been screwed during the pandemic (I am not taking a position on whether this is sane or not, but I think it is important to move the discussion away from landlords as being unique victims: I can see arguments then where this framing hurts them, but also ones where it helps them).
Reminds me of the old "Hot or Not" sites.

Remember RateMyVomit and RateMyPoo? Real class acts. Brought to you by the fine people that ran rotten.com.

Kids, these days...they don’t know what they’re missing...
None, this post was from November. Not sure why it was posted
Matomo doesn't track all that much.
Screen size, which is wrong for Firefox vs Chrome.
Visit time and unique user and visit ID. Also some ecommerce parameters if you set them.
As well as if your browser supports whatever tech like flash, silverlight etc.
It's a slightly better server log.
There's a "Goals" section in my BoA app for my checking account which appears to let you set savings goals and target amounts. (I'll underline my "haven't tried it" disclaimer above, though! While I didn't use Simple's functionality for this, I recall it as being pretty well-designed, and design hasn't really been one of BoA's strengths...)
I have an older LG TV (circa 2016 or so) which runs an older version of LG's WebOS. It has no ads, the TV's UI hasn't noticeably slowed. It's 4K. It's an excellent TV.

I catch myself thinking that I'll be in a conundrum when the TV eventually dies. It looks like new versions of LG's WebOS has ads every time you open it's 'dock'.

Yes, you can buy an AppleTV (or your preferred alternative) – but you'll always be scurrying to the TV's original remove for anything beyond on/off, or changing the volume. So you either keep two remotes around, or toss Apple's glass remote and use a universal remote.

Does it work? Sure. Is it elegant? Eh. How have you guys solved this?
For all the companies I've worked at, the developers are all full-time so I envy your industry / location if part-time is common.

More generally though, I feel employees almost need an
"excuse" to work part time (i.e. some reason such as childcare). I wish for a time when a significant % of developer jobs are advertised as near-full time and that I'm not stereotyped as lazy for applying to them. There's more to life than reviewing pull requests...
Incorrect. The supposed MR=MC law means that the entire economy is zero-sum and wealth creation is impossible. His reasoning also directly translates to real world physical security, as in, if you want to protect wealth worth $1000 from theft, according to him you have to spend $1000-epsilon, otherwise someone is going to outspend you and steal it. Fortunately, that's not how the world works.

Visual illustration of the asymmetric security in action: https://www.pohjoiseen.fi/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2083960...
He isn't active on HN :)
As an ML + open source developer for over 10y, MacOS support for deep learning is already long gone, Linux is the prime AI/ML OS. However, Apple and NVidia parting away is a good omen for GPU competition I believe. Whatever Apple hw comes up with, if usable outside MacOS software stack, it'd be an interesting alternative.
Why else would you meet with a competitor? :-)

Most of my friends are co-workers, or other people in the industry, including competitors (more the field/sales types than the corporate/management types, because you see them when you are bidding for a client's buisiness).

One of my friends used to be an employee. He quit. He then forked me. He then undercut me (or, well, my prices).

Somehow, I don't know how, maybe because I am such a sterling man of honor (ed: throwaway prince Andrew reference), we are still friends. But I've got to tell you! In terms of price? It's kind of still a race to the bottom. (At least for the vanilla, not the value-add, product)

So - even though Adam Smith has it right (he often does!), the public does not. We are enjoying shared stories of battle, over large accounts, and the blow-by-blows during large-account acquisitions go, and toasting one another's accomplishments, after battle, but ... the prices end up going down. It is the nature of competition.
Plagiarism is to misrepresent something as authored by yourself. Whether you paid someone else for writing it or copied it without permission does not matter for the plagiarism charge - the wrongdoing is the misrepresentation.

It is not the same as copyright infringement - although it might be both at the same time if you copy something without permission and publish it under your own name.

Plagiarism is not always illegal. Publishing a book which is ghostwritten by someone else is not illegal AFAIK (as long as they get paid). But in education and research it is illegal - and they don't care if you bought the material fairly, the point is that decisions (grades, hiring, funding etc.) are based on the assumption that the material reflects your abilities.

So it is not really "theft of ideas", it is "faking credentials".
Serious question: what do you mean with "back" to democracy? I have never thought of either shogunates or the imperial development after Meiji restoration as "democractic". Is there a significant democractic era in Japan somewhere before?