jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Important bit of state from the Show-Don't-Tell Department:

> “Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, RMS gave his talk over audio only.”
Well, youtube-dl.org is still delisted from bing, so clearly something is different.
Why does it seem like the further they explore into these particles and the particles that make them the model gets more and more complicated? It seems they are getting further away from the unified model and still have far to go. In my mind I would think that as they got closer to this unified grand theory of everything the "fundamental" particles and their model would be simple, not complex. Am I totally off base here?
and you also pay a MASSIVE amount more in taxes and your education is more controlled with shortfalls and limitations.

https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/free-college-w...

https://www.aei.org/articles/what-european-countries-sacrifi...

"capacity" amazing how forced markets can't create capacity? its also why healthcare is rationed in places like Europe and Canada. Free? Sure if you don't mind waiting months or years...
Don’t do what...?
Great! Thanks a lot for it!
In practice this is the source of a tremendous number of bugs when async tasks don't actually clean up shared state in their Drop impls.
It is unclear to me whether it's archived because they've done everything they wanted or they just stopped all the efforts?
Thinking historically, maybe wait? There are a lot of things that don't work natively yet (maybe most of them)

The iPhone 1, first macbook pro intel, all were refreshed with more capable models.

Personally, I'm wondering what an apple-cpu mac pro will look like... if they refresh quicker than 6 years :)
Firefox offers an account (bookmarks, tabs, etc) sync functionality with between the desktop browsers and mobile apps.
ok, so you could you give an example on a day, where I'm only browsing wikipedia with my Linux-computer? I would tend to agree with you and while there certainly are applications, the relevancy is really blown out of proportion. Technically my naive-bayes spam filter is ML. Practically it's not as flashy as people think ML is - just imagine 15 years back and you'll see that your life could work quite well without using ML in the googly-sense on a daily basis.
My point is that big companies promote open source movement as a way to save on R&D spending. They'll see what people make for free and then pick up what sticks without paying anything for the effort. In many countries you can't hire someone to do work for free, even if they agree and you have at least pay minimum wage.
The same should apply for open source software. Big companies should not be allowed to use it without reimbursing all contributors even if they license the code as public domain. This needs to stop as this is a modern way of labour exploitation.
People make literally billions of off python and its time they share that profits with the developers and pay appropriate taxes!
2021 is the year of virtual conferences. This list includes 28 events confirmed for 2021 (most of which are virtual), along with 19 events I'm keeping track of which haven't been confirmed yet for 2021 but have been great in previous years.

This list is also available as a Twitter thread for easier sharing: https://twitter.com/MyOpinionX/status/1346831251085406209

Any events missing that you think I should add?
Even if it isn't, do doctors have to retake these exams multiple times (as developers have to do this for multiple interviews) every two years when wanting to switch jobs (doctors often don't have to switch jobs, they often have their own practice).
Thank you, Ivice This one looks good. We will keep adding more to our collection.
More than the abstract notion of it being a communication platform, it's the specific usecases that open your imagination to the unlocks connectivity is bringing. Using WhatsApp to report timber theft is something I would never have guessed.

I thought you'd have guessed the spirit of the comment since you're so adept at guessing.
Is that true? I don’t know anything about medical licensing, but after having a few friends take the California bar exam, I’ve heard endless complaints about having to study things like divorce law in order to become a privacy advocate.
This just confirms how terrible FB's hiring process is. If you ask candidates questions about things they won't use on a weekly basis you're doing it wrong. No one should have to study for an interview.
The author mentions CLRS. It’s an introductory level algorithms book and is used in Junior/Senior years of undergrad. Expecting a senior engineer to be well versed in undergrad level algorithms is not a monoculture problem.
Seems like this could work super well for personal use, especially if there was a mobile/tablet app with pinch-to-zoom.

Could throw a party on this with my friends.
People forget this. I remember in the early 2000s when he was known as Kimble and ran pump and dump scams, and had a website of him on private jets and fancy cars partying with his illicit gains. Now he is known as some anti authority hero to many.
By definition, it's going to be a true analysis of the drives when obtained the way Backblaze obtains them and when used in the environment Backblaze uses them. Both of those may be different from Joe Random consumer.
People are having trouble getting this. Consider:

- if you expect to get a 1% pay increase every year, is it reasonable to take out a mortgage at 3% and pay $X/mo for 25 years? Yes, and at the end of the term it will be a smaller fraction of your expenditure. And if your house goes up in value by 1% you're benefiting there as well.

- if you expect to get a 1% pay cut every year, is it reasonable to take out a mortgage at 1% and pay $X/mo for 25 years? No, that's going to be a disaster as it gradually squeezes you, unless you carefully refi regularly. And if the house goes down in value by 1% a year, that's even worse. Construction industry collapses as a result.
I'm so sorry to hear about your awful experiences. Peach (joinpeach.com) exists to be an advocate to consumers in these warranty nightmares. There's no cost to our service. We would be happy to help. You can email us at info@joinpeach.com
Whenever I tell recruiters or career councilors that I am looking for 'junior developer' jobs they look at me like I am crazy, like such things don't exist and that I don't and to work hard or do real software development. So it is nice to know a decade after getting a Computer Science degree that such jobs may actually exist.
That doesn't mean that we should simply accept America's sub-optimal state of affairs. We can strive for a better day, in which cars are not so dominant, and you can instead opt for a method of getting from A to B that is both healthier for you and easier on the environment.
Haha, awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, we did a lot of "testing" on games. Yeah, I misremembered, it was OS 7. As far as I know, there was no PPC version.
Inflation is good for borrowers, employers and sellers. Deflation is good for lenders, employees and buyers.

Borrowing - Inflation: I borrow $1000.00 today at 3% with an inflation rate of 2% (per year). At the end of this year I pay the loan back in full at $1030.00. I have spent a larger nominal value, however the real value of the loan is now $1030.00 * 0.98 = $1009.40. Meaning my effective interest rate was around 1%.

Borrowing - Deflation: Let's take the same numbers, but now it's 2% deflation. I pay back the loan, $1030.00 nominal value. The real value is $1030.00 * 1.02 = $1050.60. My effective interest rate is around 5%.

Salary - Inflation: I am paid $100,000 this year for my work, inflation rate of 2%. Without a pay raise my nominal salary remains the same next year, but my real salary becomes $98,000. This is a pro for employers, I am a cheaper employee. It's a con for me, my time is worth less.

Salary - Deflation: I am paid $100,000 this year for my work, deflation rate of 2%. Without a pay raise my nominal salary remains the same next year, but my real salary becomes $102,000. This is the reverse. I cost my employer more, but without changing nominal salaries my time has become more valuable.

Purchasing - Inflation: You want a widget worth $1000.00 today and face 2% inflation. If you purchase it at the start of the year, ignoring depreciation on the widget, it's worth $1020.00 at the end of the year. So if you resell it at that point you've made 2% (nominal), though the real value is the same.

Purchasing - Deflation: Using the same widget, price and 2% deflation. If you purchase it at the start of the year for $1000.00, and sell at the end for $980.00 you end with the same real value, but you've lost 2% of the nominal value. Barring a need to purchase an item within a particular time, it makes sense for purchasers to delay purchasing as long as possible. On the other hand, vendors want to sell as early as possible because the nominal value of their goods are decreasing (and this ignores other costs of holding inventory).
Web development has long since moved on past WSDL and SOAP; they've now been relegated to the domain of Enterprise software.

As for the claim that the proliferation of frameworks indicates a problem, well I completely disagree. They are so many frameworks because progress is being made improving the technology all the time. This is a good thing; it is how progress is made. By your logic there is a problem with the automotive industry (people keep making new cars), the computer hardware industry (new chips), in fact pretty much every industry that exists today.

It's human (hacker?) nature to think there must be a better way, and do something about it.
Happy to take suggestions for a name change....
I find this rather bizarre, not least for the incredibly short cartoon skirt. Who is it aimed at? Do the creators think that they will win over some mythical basement-dwelling anime-loving "nerds" (male, of course) with this campaign?

Is this what the marketing department thinks tech-savvy people are into?

EDIT: I mistakenly thought this was made by Microsoft; of course a more careful reading on my part would have made it obvious that it is not.
How does this compare to the 'sexp' library?

http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/patterns_sexp_dslsP.ht...
Quora is of greater intellectual merit than Yahoo Answers, and isn't siloed into verticals like Stack Exchange.
Thanks! Just fixed that. Want me to delete your special account?
Hey that was my finding :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2457332
Appeals to the inner command line in me. Needs a spell command to make it complete for me :)
That link is not about a person with an Arabic t-shirt, nor is it about the U.S.

It's my presumption they don't have a "TSA," at least by that name, in the UK.
This viewpoint only makes sense if you subscribe to the (very silly) ideas that there are a limited number of internet points available and that they matter. Why does it matter to you which people are being rewarded for what?
My sincere congratulations on your "first failure" - I hope you continue to look back on this ending as the beginning of an exciting new journey.

I too feel driven all the time. Perhaps too much. I spend a lot of time feeling guilty about not doing something. I hope that remembering what you said lightens my load too.
Does anyone even pay for phone sex anymore? I'd thought that business model went out with dial up ISP's and people screaming in a trading pit on the stock exchange.
Nobody has ever written perfect code. So don't worry about it; writing code and being able look at it critically are both rare skills, and will look great in an interview.

It's much better to say "I wrote xxx and hate yyy design feature" than to say "I've never done anything".
Will do. Thanks for the suggestion.
You're right. We were inspired to do this after using rapportive and finding it very useful to have the picture of the person who is emailing you show up.
That's what I feel after staying at home 11 days.
Actually, you can run it through an article scraper, then hash it.
Your thoughts are most definitely shared by others. Thank you for taking the time to detail them.
> ephemeral conversations that censors can’t police after the fact

The ephemeral part is what's crazy. We've moved from "speech is fine as long as it doesn't lead to violence" to "speech itself is violence when certain people hear it" to "it doesn't matter if anyone hears it, you saying it privately is violence."

It's thoughtcrime.
This raises an interesting question.

Can one fork the Signal iOS app, add features then publish to the App Store while using Signals infrastructure?
Posted in wrong thread? This comment seems off topic.
Maybe they will pay more attention to hot heads and prevent them from getting hired in the first place.

> Another person's misconduct resulted in you getting your pension drained?

This happens quite frequently in companies with public stock and/or profit based bonus contributions. If someone fucks up and the product kills someone, it impacts everyone’s retirement that’s based on company performance.
Read the comment I was replying to, before jumping into Rust advocacy mode.

> My understanding is that Rust's chief innovation is the borrow checker.

Carp was a mistake, I wanted to refer to Linear Lisp.

Also in the context of worse is better, C and C++ solutions just need to be good enough.

Learn this and advocate properly.
A team at my workplace uses Jsonnet for this problem and it seems to work very well. It's a nicely human-readable DSL for generating JSON in a way that respects JSON structures - you can construct lists of objects (deployments, services, etc.) by looping over templates and composing modifications.

That seems a lot better than either SaltStack's use of Jinja (using text-based templating on a structured format) or Ansible's (using YAML as syntax for an imperative programming language that has Jinja-evaluation functionality).
Sure. It's just my district's extended learning program though, I am not in the Boston program.

It was a program that started in elementary school (https://ycsd.yorkcountyschools.org/EXTENDCenter). In second grade they tested us for it, I don't remember a whole lot about it. I do remember it was logic-based and math-based. Every Wednesday from 2nd grade to 5th grade (then in middle school on a different schedule) we would spend in the extended learning program's building (a very small wing). We learned French (though looking back it was more preparing us to learn other languages than actually learning French), did science projects, wrote stuff about a random topic selected out of an encyclopedia, etc. It really is my most fond memory of school and I still keep in contact with the teacher.

Over in the middle school side, we did more advanced topics. We studied the Ebola virus and how it affects the body, we wrote papers about an unknown John Doe in Yorktown in 1770's (then we literally walked to it, separate tangent below), we had a "socratic seminar" where we debated topics, we built a Rube Goldberg machine, all sorts of stuff.

It actually changed my life. Anyone who says advanced education doesn't help simply doesn't see the changes a well-designed, thought out program has. And this was all in a public school. I checked their site recently and they are still running it even through the pandemic, which warms my heart.

I mentioned the one-day, one-time onboarding process. They have since remedied it, instead scheduling tests with students chosen. This is a good solution and I'm glad they implemented it.

Tangent: I lived in Yorktown Virginia, which is probably my second favorite thing about my childhood. The pre-school I went to was a 30 second walk down a hill to Yorktown Beach. In middle school, we read about the Revolutionary War, then took a field trip consisting of walking outside the doors, through the forest and 5 minutes of walking, and just like that we were where it actually took place, with monuments, statues, historical signs, etc.
I’ve noticed I can predict a lot about the quality of code an engineer produces by listening to their opinions on testing in strange environments.

People interested in stamping out undefined / nondeterministic behavior / compiler warnings welcome bug reports from platforms that find new bugs.

They also are more conservative about including dependencies, and their code is much, much more maintainable over time.
This is definitely the most reasonable case I've heard made from this argument, and it's changed my stance on the issue.

That said, I feel the cryptography project handled this poorly. I encountered the issue when one day, installing a Python Ansible module the same way I did the day before required a compiler for a different language that I've never used before and that is hardly used, if at all, in the rest of my stack. The Ansible project seemed to be taken by surprise, and eventually I found the root upstream issue, where the initial attitude was "too bad". Some people making those comments worked for Red Hat / IBM, Ansible is heavily backed by that. What company cares more about Linux on S390 than Red Hat / IBM? I would suggest none. So the fact that they had this attitude and community reaction to me suggests the problem is not one of expecting free work for a corporation on a non-free architecture. It was IMHO a combination of a lack of forethought, communication, and yes, perhaps a change that is overdue and will just be a little painful. The suggestion to maintain an LTS release while people figure out how to proceed is the right move.
The bill doesn't rely on DNS and moving the DNS system outside of the USA wouldn't stop COICA from working.

COICA works by forcing American ISPs to block their users' access to a list of domains. It mandates 2 lists; one where ISPs won't be punished for blocking and a second list where ISPs are forced to block. It's very close to implementing what China has with their Great Firewall. It's censorship plain and simple.
While I certainly understand why PG and others feel this way; I think this title gives a good frame of reference to the story ... especially given the persistence that these guys needed in the face of being rejected for funding. As a fellow Canadian entrepreneur I gotta give these guys 2 big thumbs up! Way to go.
The denominator for the "blog view rate" is the number of times the landing page was shown, not the number of downloads (the landing page showed the entire resume and had the same outgoing links.)
Sorry if nobody likes this (by the downvoting) but it's the way things are.

Is exactly the same problem with the authentication in AppEngine applications. We never see the passwords, just Google telling us this person is really this user, but people don't care about the details, we just don't want to share our passwords.

Note that I myself have to use this scheme and even I didn't check your web just because of the authentication problem.

This makes me remember to tell you one more thing: don't ever expect your users to read anything you write on your web.

EDIT: Also, it's a bit silly, but try to put some screen captures to get more conversions, even if it's a text based game.
I know I shouldn't promote tabloids, but I am always reminded about his, Jimmy Wales, IM transcripts with his former girlfriend, Rachael Marsden, where he discussed buying a jet after starting up wikia.
[This is a fixed version of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940270]
What's with the white banner iframe following the page-scroll..?
FYI You could run either tarsnap or SpiderOak directly on the server for a prompt offsite backup. Both have excellent support for archiving many versions of a file, with de-duplication of the version stream, and no limits on how many historical versions are kept.

Also, "gzip --rsyncable" increases the compressed size by only about 1%, but makes deduplication between successive compressed dump files possible.

(I cofounded SpiderOak.)
This is a fantastic way to show younger or beginning programmers to think beyond what the code is supposed to denote and consider how it works in reality--in other words, the hacker's perspective. A naive programmer takes array[index] at face value. The hacker gets the idea that array[index] is just *(array + index) deeply enough to make a perverse joke out of it.
This is a bad thing?

Could they please de-list AOL as well so my computer-noob friends will stop giving out their login to facebook?

I am tired of the creepy spam from Facebook that has learned my name and location and harasses me to join because my friends don't realize what they are doing.
The point being, it might just fall in your lap, or be super random.
Your estimate got me wondering what the true number is. I would guess it is a little low for non-teacher's union employees. But considering that government unions generally cooperate to form an oligarchy; from a few searches I find there are 25 million Americans directly employed by federal, state, and local governments. There are 15 million Americans who's is directly paid by government contracts. There are about 140 million Americans in the labor force, so we have 2/7 ~ 28% of the labor force directly dependent upon government.
"A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a man’s right to his own life. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action; the right to life means the right to engage in self-sustaining and self-generated action—which means: the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. (Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)

The concept of a “right” pertains only to action-specifically, to freedom of action. It means freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by other men.

Thus, for every individual, a right is the moral sanction of a positive—of his freedom to act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntary, uncoerced choice. As to his neighbors, his rights impose no obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights."

Source: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/individual_rights.html
These places look cool. I'm gonna check out that Hacker Dojo place.
your arguments are backwards and you didn't return dst.
I totally agree that making you pay to file when it should be free is scummy, but the linked article completely ignores that the first non-ad result is from the IRS page on how to file your taxes for free.
The is a problem with the power structures, not the people. American hierarchies give power to people who glorify those things, and those people exercise that power to prevent or suppress the spread of opposing ideas.
One huge advantage over docker is that if you mount a directory into the container, and the container writes files there, on the host system they always have the owner of the user that started the container.

That makes it much more convenient for build environments, without having to hard-code user IDs both in the container and on the host.