jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Moreover I believe that the reason for most peoples disdain for life stems from this in that life is utterly boring today because for most Americans anyway there is absolutely no risk of failure. Here you can just coast by and live a normal life.
This is a shoddy sales pitch, at best. Remember his first post as soon as he left Msft titled "Thanks Microsoft, Hello Google" (http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/11/thank...). I'm all for talking about your past work experience, but that particular post just costed Don his credibility.
"there are people doing more important work than Google."

I think there are people doing more important work than Google, but I think that very few of them are in the computer industry. I have immense respect for teachers, doctors, nurses, tradespeople, babysitters, etc. But people in financial software, SEO, Web 2.0, defense software? You think that what they're doing is more important than search?
I gave my GF's mother a weebly site. She loves it.
A way to see a HN profile while staying on an item.

Elaborating:

A small popup can appear upon selecting someone's HN username on a thread to then show their profile information. Selection would involve holding the left mouse button down on the user name for more than 1.5 seconds, and then the popup would appear with bio, member since, and karma. When the mouse button is released, the popup disappears.

The profile page may need to be parsed to extract information before displaying. It could also be cached client side with HTML5.

As an extra nuance, if the mouse is moved away from the username, the left button can be released but the popup remains activated and a little 'close' is inserted (and the submission and comment links appear). This allows the user to click on any links in the popup, as well as the submission and comment links.

In effect, the popup operates much like on Twitter when the mouse is
moved over a username in the timeline, but in a more controlled fashion where it doesn't appear automatically upon mouseover.
Pick some aspect of his job, and say the same of it ("Accounting? That's just addition and subtraction!" "Sales? That's just going out drinking").

If he gets offended, just smile.
Hmm, from the hours of 9am until about 6pm I can list off about 2 dozen people who I might actually call (girlfriend, dad, best friend, etc) who I know will be on a wifi network and are planning on buying iPhone 4's. You know why? Because between those hours they are at work. Guess what? I can also bet that around 8pm until midnight I can also call them, because they are at home, where they have wifi networks. And guess what? The other times, when they are on the go (walking around out in the world, or driving) are times I wouldn't want to video call anyway. People video calling in public is going to be the new nextel walkie-talkie feature; fucking annoying. Driving while video calling, well, hopefully I don't have to comment on that one.

This is NOT a perfect solution. Of course being able to do it over 3G or 4G would be awesome. As Steve Jobs said.. that will come. They are working with the carriers to make it happen. Why does the solution have to be perfect day one? Baby steps my friend. Do you not think Steve Jobs wants it to work this way as well?

You saying it's done absolutely horrifically is comical, not the other way around. To you, what makes it horrific, is the fact that it only works sometimes, not 24/7. That's pretty ridiculous.

Also, I must point out that when Apple releases something it usually IS done right. It usually is very, very close to finished. Apple polishes before they release, it's in their DNA. Steve Jobs is insane about sweating the details.
It's probably 40% overall, but that includes large concentrations of women in HR and sales. I've heard that engineering is about 10% female. They also tend to clump together on certain teams, for some reason: my first two teams (and second cubicle) were each about 40% female, then my last two teams have been 100% male, at least among the engineers.
Then there's William Shakespeare, who spelled his name about 8 (IIRC) different ways. I guess it was a mark of pride for a literary man to be able to write his name however he wanted to, while less educated folk would have to write their names from memory.
"Within the borders". No thanks. Besides the fact that European countries are not self-sufficient in basic goods and they rely on a steady daily stream of cross-border freight, ordinary Europeans should not be walled off from their fellow Europeans.
Semantics. My point is that it costs political capital to be responsible for an easily avoidable disaster.
If you find a single instance of a nation where the police functions well without qualified immunity, you can at least conclude that it's not a necessary condition for police to be able to operate well.

Sure, in a different context it may be a necessary condition, if you consider all other variables immutable. But there's no need to do that. Many variables can be changed, including the legal system.

I think if you observe that your legal system is so janky that you can only have a functioning police force by making police officers selectively immune to the law, your response should be to not accept such a kludge and insist on actually reforming your legal system.
Why is this flagged? Because Bitcoin admirers don’t agree on an opinion?
This article is a little strange, because TheConversation articles promote a scientific paper from an academic author, and it is the case here [1], but if you read this paper, it bring no specific information or proof about about the title presented here, no specific mention or calculation about EV.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102764
I hope the fines are enough for them to ensure this doesn't happen again. Personally I don't have a Facebook account because I don't trust them anyway but I think the people who have one probably didn't want this to happen.
I get the PHP error about 9 times out of 10 when accessing https://www.bbc.com and https://bbc.co.uk in both Firefox and Chrome (from Switzerland). IP accessed in both cases (i.e. PHP error and successful page load) is 151.101.12.81:443.
There's also a pretty amusing epilogue/footnote to the article from the author, which I'll quote verbatim here:

"At the end of our interview he asked me to print out the piece, step in paint, step on the story, and mail it to him with my foot autograph. I might."

- https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1379878161589153793
Is source control considered that large an educational opportunity that the lack of classroom discussion is a barrier? When I hire someone that is a 15 minute conversation and maybe a cheat sheet taped to their monitor - regardless of education. If they can't pick it up by the end of the day that's usually a good sign that things aren't going to go well.

Not that there aren't plenty of educational opportunities surrounding the implementation of a good control system, just that teaching basic usage just seems to be a little simple.

Now not being able to write running code is a serious problem and it is frightening that someone could graduate after 4 years of computer science and never have written a working program.
More images please :-/
"Uncrop" isn't from Blade Runner, it's Red Dwarf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU Which was making fun of... well, all of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk :-)

And everyone knows that Deckard was looking at a live feed from a video camera, not enhancing a still image.
There's nothing magical about manufacturing, though--the US got cut out of (some) manufacturing because other countries are able to manufacture just as well as we can if not better.

There are no guarantees and you have to compete. If you're going to have to pick your battles, pick one that's worth winning. If the US became a nation of engineers and designers and businessmen, that would do more to support a middle class and a high quality of life than if the US went back to being a nation of factory workers and coal miners. And it turns out the US has a lot of things--a vast, high-quality higher education system, a relatively free market, a culture amenable to entrepreneurship--that give us competitive advantages in these fields. What competitive advantage do we have in manufacturing?

Maybe the one thing holding us back is a lack of appreciation for great design. Apple is truly an outlier in that respect.
I wonder what would happen if you signed up for a boyfriend and a girlfriend and had them talk to each other
There's a number of problems, which folks like jwz have dealt with, and which we'll look at. Basically, you don't get https (of course) and the response codes of web servers have shifted enough that older browsers don't know what to do. Proxy injection of needed helper material will help this a bit.

Bear in mind, though, it will ALWAYS be insecure and it will ALWAYS be more of a "try this out" than popping on your unicycle, starting up your bagpipes and riding down the Information Superhighway permanently.
"they unilaterally declared 'The Netherlands' to be too complicated for marketing purposes”

That is history :-). https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2019/11/08/new-interna... (3 weeks ago):

"From now on the Netherlands and the Kingdom of the Netherlands can be recognised internationally by a new logo. The logo is characterised by two symbols: NL and a stylised orange tulip. The logo replaces the much used ‘Holland tulip’ of the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions’ (NBTC)”

I think it will be ‘a while’ before ‘Holland’ is gone, if only because ’Nederland’ doesn’t work well in cheering on sports teams.
One thing to notice is that the open-sourced version of Qt is under GPL/LGPL, which means if you statically linked it into the executable, your application is then infected by (L)GPL.
There's the cubed-root rule that is pretty sensible, where representation is related to the cubed root of the population. From 2010 census there would be 676 representatives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root_rule
Just remember... The Tesla Cybertruck is always just a single "Fast & The Furious" movie away from being the most popular car in America.

Seriously, the cluelessness that gave us the Hummer didn't matter when Arnold Schawzenneger made it the only car he drove.

The Rock could do the same thing with the Cyber Truck.
60 democrats is not 60 votes.
Do you want to be tried by a jury of people with no critical thinking skills? Do you want these same people making political decisions about which they don't understand anything?
@Dang looks like the Title and URL changed to this...

"Charles Schwab to lose SF headquarters in $26 billion TD Ameritrade deal"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Charles-Schwab-...
The tipping points are real, cataclysmic and not mentioned here. Read about the clathrate gun and the methane coming out of the tundra, never mind the huge fires in the boreal forests this year. The IPCC estimates are famously conservative and the trend figures all indicate the most aggressive scenarios or worse are likely. Anyone who suggests the world will end in 20 years is wrong, but the impacts will be massive on longer timescales. Minimizing the risks in this way is so deeply frightening.
Winning a war vs North Korea would be easy for the US: kill very large numbers of people indiscriminately with nukes, or stand-off and just bomb them very heavily and perpetually for a decade until nothing is left. After a very short amount of time, North Korea would be entirely incapable of shooting down high altitude bombers, the US would never have to put boots on the ground, just spend all the money on never-ending bombing raids.

It goes back to what I said: the issue is what the US would be willing to do to win. It's not acceptable to defeat enemies today in a manner in which truly large sums of civilians are killed (I'm talking about killing 1/4, 1/2 of the country, vaporizing them, mowing them down with unrelenting bombardment, and then with starvation).

The US could have easily won the Vietnam war, it won every major engagement. The US could have marched north with a million soldiers and run over the Vietcong, killing however many people were necessary in the process. However it would have required another level of extreme brutality, and potentially (likely?) would have ended in a direct war with Russia or China. The question for the US post WW2 has been what's acceptable to achieve victory in war, because against its adversaries that question has been the only limiting factor, not the ability to achieve victory itself.

As a side note, I consider that the US won the Korean war. Given how South Korea has turned out, I consider it a staggering victory. Especially considering how difficult it was to go into Asia and hold ground with China, Russia and North Korea trying to push you out in one form or another.
There's plenty of tickets on Snowdrift.coop (https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/t), any of which could present a problem.

If you want something particularly challenging, that's off the main development path (so if you fail or take a long time, no one's waiting on you), but that would be useful, one thing I'd like to see is the Snowdrift comment system peeled out as a separate library that provides a Yesod subsite, with sufficient hooks to retain existing integration.

Happy to point you at resources and explain what's currently going on.
That looks very cool indeed
real world performance includes software that can avoid cache misses (most games) and code that can’t (most compilers). It is good to make caches bigger and faster especially for less carefully engineered software which tends to have many layers of indirection, and a jit, and a garbage collector all putting pressure on the caches. smaller transistors helps us get bigger l3 caches which is something that helps zen2 compile code pretty fast! zen3 makes that l3 unified so it will be effectively bigger still

making l1 and l2 caches bigger is problematic as that also makes them slower.
Right, your point was that legislation is superior to unions. My point is that unions can lead to legislation, as was the case of the 40hr workweek.
I feel this way about mobile phones. Everyone's supposed to carry one of those random disruption devices.
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-the first beacons physical web platform.
-physical web beacons outside retail disrupt, assets management and buildings information management.
- ibeacons fail to get traction.
- chrome phone
- the "URL" physical web beacons become in an unstoppable force on the internet of things.
- let's tag the world togheter *.tag
I can't wait to see the N-Gate filter on this...
I just tell my browser to discard all cookies at the end of every session (with a list of sites to keep).
> Therefore, they are forced to place bets in a volatile and dangerous game to keep their life savings

Is there any evidence that people in these countries are rushing to transfer their cash into Bitcoin? Not just a couple people that some news reporter found, but actual statistics?

Realistically, if these people have access to out-of-country transfers they're going to switch to USD, not transfer to a Bitcoin exchange and switch to digital money that they can't actually use for any transactions.

On the other hand, Bitcoin would be a very attractive vehicle for oppressive governments to embezzle funds out of their country at scale, as they control the strings to the banks and the regulations. Their only concern is not getting caught or seeing their money confiscated.
Yeah. At least those only accidentally introduce vulnerabilities into your computer, right? God I hate these anti-cheat software companies... They think they can just own people's computers for the sake of some game. The sheer audacity of it is what pisses me off...
That's not true you lose hours in the airports.
> nd there are ways to pay with Bitcoin (lightning) that involve negligible fees.

Cool, where can I use this Lightning network?

It exists and works, right?
Business vs startup
When Twitter went public in 2013, it was valued at $24B — 12 times higher than Times market cap. Twitter was losing money while Times earned $133M the same year. Why do startups have such big valuations?

The answer is: cash flow. It is different between high-growth startups and low-growth businesses. Startups would usually be profitable in the future. Startup’s main metric is growth. [1]

[1]https://medium.com/@paulmillr/zero-to-one-summary-8dbda22e15...
From your site:

> Over 2 million people are effected by mass incarceration in the United States.

You probably mean affected.
My iTunes Connect account is in a different name than my own for the time being. For my Stripe account, an email from a guardian indicating consent is enough for me to have my account under their terms. I appreciate your concern and I have looked into all of these areas.
Even as a simple matter of logistics, I've often wondered - why don't we bury people vertically? About the only downside to it would be in the extremely rare case that exhumation is needed, which would have to be a (literally?) one in a million event?
This looks like a very nice way to deploy containers. I see the per hour prices (https://www.joyent.com/blog/expanded-container-service-previ...) but is there any pricing on bandwidth? I imagine there will be eventually, right?
Saying that a product used by 500 Million people (that's ~7% of the population of planet Earth) earned its value by "simply existing" is a pretty hand-wavy.

That's incredibly difficult to do.
I invented the Python bits of the Firefox build system (moz.build files). I learned after I implemented them that Google's internal approach with Blaze was very similar. It felt reassuring that I independently reinvented a similar solution :)

There are a handful of Blaze derivatives built by Xooglers. Pants and Buck come to mind. They also share the trait of using sandboxed Python to define a build configuration. I'll take it over make syntax any day!
Bernie Madoff was no peasant. He started the NASDAQ, and apart from not meeting your requirement of being a massive company CEO, ticked off all the boxes. He got 150 years in prison.
bruh it's a commencement speech
Not unfair but turns it into more of a gamble for both sides.
You don’t know how much investment you’ll get until you know the numbers so how do you plan? Your company maybe worth more or less than the proposed investment ratio.
> compromise their ethics

They're spying or supporting those doing spying, right?
Being really good at coding is the professional equivalent of being really sexy. People will do what it takes to get you.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think it is the transactions that substantially contribute to the energy use of Bitcoin.
Binance CEO said this a while ago: “Wherever I sit, is going to be the Binance office. Wherever I need somebody, is going to be the Binance office"
I would say that building and running a cloud — multi-tenant outsourced digital infrastructure — seems to be the very definition of “highly operational.” Especially when you’re working at Microsoft, which continues its unregulated tradition of cloning and/or embracing-and-extending its competitors.
It doesn't say
I just looked him up on GoodReads, I'll definitely check his stuff out. Thanks.
Whether it was forced or not has absolutely nothing to do with whether it was insurance or whether it was originally his money anyway. Unemployment payments are effectively a tax cut (taxes being another forced fee) yet I've never heard of anyone claiming tax cuts are welfare.

I'm sure the guy did see it as a welfare program. That's why I called him a fool.
Is this not Capitalism? Lowering costs. If your worth more then what you are getting paid, quit? Ask for a raise? Seems bad to expect companies to just drop fantastic paying jobs into your laps.

Government regulation to increase wage prices, seems like communism.
I really appreciate his matter of factness in these sorts of tweets.
Guess it's too hard to notify users that their information got leaked. I hope they reported to all the different institutions in Europe though. The article suggests they didn't even report it to the Ireland one!
Pet food and pet care supplies. I don't, and never will own a pet.

Maybe too many cat videos?
Fascinating - and surprisingly positive outcome/interaction - they were both great sports, particularly the writer.

Foot people always leave me feeling creeped out when I encounter them online and I think it is at least partly because it seems like many of them enjoy making others squirm about their affinity for feet almost as much as they enjoy the feet themselves.
It depends. Data seems to be from 2019. If you deleted the account recently, but it was there in 2019....
If it’s there, please preserve and document it. There’s very little left of it anywhere else.
The idea that "shoe tech" is the issue with the integrity of running is pretty hilarious to anyone who follows the sport, weather track, road or yes even trail these days.

Talking about doping of course, legal and illegal.
From the text[0]:

> A public body or person acting on behalf of, under color of or within the course and scope of the authority of a public body shall not subject or cause to be subjected any resident of New Mexico ... to deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured pursuant to the bill of rights ...

and:

> [a] "public body" means a state or local government, an advisory board, a commission, an agency or an entity created by the constitution of New Mexico or any branch of government that receives public funding, including political subdivisions, special tax districts, school districts and institutions of higher education...

[0] https://legiscan.com/NM/text/HB4/2021
Lol, that reminded me of "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman".
Only 84%? I would've expected a higher percentage than that.
There is a fair gamut, from the very small ( < 100 people) focused on tech, to the very large (~5000) and well-known, and some places in between that emphasize fast development and advancement.
True to a degree, but also you've made it more 'ok' for people to describe themselves as hackers, which has rubbed off into the popular consciousness.

Reading Hackers and Painters (the essay not the book) was the first time I'd realised that what I did had a name. I now take it for granted that other developers consider themselves hackers. I'd argue that the term filtering down to lifehacker and popular journalists is a consequence of that kind of mindset change. Which you have helped with.
Well to begin with, I don't think that's a valid comparison.

...but if you really want to go there.

No, absolutely not.

"Superior Orders" has historically been recognized as a legal defence.

What happened 60 years ago was they decided it couldn't excuse acts...just reduce the punishment.

If you go back and read what I said, you'll see I'm not advocating absolving them of quilt, but just making sure their punishment is commensurate with the nature of the crime and their culpability.

I think given the circumstances as described, assault charges are a bit much.
The original robot in Asimov's "I, Robot" short story was called Robbie.

OMG, statsheet has robot journalists and a robot CEO!