jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> He acknolwedged all your points in his article, and he didn't call you a jerk.

He acknowledged that charity-as-is is currently failing, largely thanks to poor leadership by people like him?

He acknowledged that he dislikes wealthy people as an almost fundamental belief (as opposed to just having it be an undertone of the article)?

No, he didn't. And you know, when you take time to write a series of articles encouraging people to "Dial Down our Enthusiasm over the Billionare Giving Pledge" - that deserves being called a jerk. He could be building the world, doing things, but no - he's slinging mud. That qualifies as jerk behavior.

Edit: He also doesn't mention the conflict of interest here - he's currently a philanthropy director who stands to lose a lot of influence, power, and prestige as a result of this. He used to be a top dog in philanthropy, and now he's slinging mud at people who are doing different, probably more effective things than him.
"Muerto fin" means "an ending that has died", no?
Because they don't.

Saying that Miguel de Icaza represents open source developers is just wrong. I respect the guy very much. But he's a completely different beast than the average open source programmer joe

Now most of the ones in academia do use mac (and used SGI workstations before that) just because they have a fat allowance for gear and they have no idea how to waste. so mac is the obvious way to go if what you need is to waste money.
I have one philosophical law which governs my behavior and the behavior of my idealized society: no rational agent should ever use force against another. Private property law can't be derived from that, but it's a useful secondary axiom for avoiding the use of force.

The court's decision in this case does mean that force has been used against the property's owners.
Ignore it until it's one hour off, then do a "leap hour". We do that twice a year anyway.
Satellite photos of Tucson boneyard http://bit.ly/airplane-boneyard
Over the past year I've been slowly teaching myself python (mostly for stuff related to my current job) and django (partly just for fun, partly in preparation for the day when I'm not at said job, I suppose). Since I don't have a strong, immediate and personal reason to hit it hard, I haven't been, but I do try to write a little bit of code every day and learn something meatier on a weekly basis.

While I'm sure that a beginner class would still have plenty of value for me, I find that most beginner resources spend a lot of time on stuff that I'm already comfortable with, and it's a pain to dig through to the part where they start covering the topics I'm trying to learn atm. I don't suppose this is a helpful suggestion for your current idea, but what would be most valuable to me is some kind of mentor who could help me figure out what topics/ideas/practices to learn next, where to find the right intermediate-level resources, etc.
Coincidentally, I had the chance to visit the bone yard at Victorville recently while doing a photo shoot for a software project (I'll post a link in a month or two, once it becomes public--it's very cool). We had the chance to photograph these planes up close but were forbidden from sharing the photos, unfortunately. It is quite an eerie place, especially at dusk, which is when we were there.
You're not going to have a future in business with him, and you know it. Man up (I assume you're male; if not, woman up) and tell him it's over!

If you don't have the courage to do this, how are you going to face the much tougher battles yet to come?
To be fair, if your engine is running rich, soot will prevent spark plugs from being able to spark.
IMO too. Though a product that has hundreds of genuine (= highly active) users can't be that poor.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2418234
Another cool live-coding music platform, in Haskell: http://yaxu.org/tidal/
How do you know these activities have been suppressed if he's working from home now?

Our team has always been one where you could step away from the office to run an errand or a doctor's appt. etc. Yet once we started WFH, it became more acceptable to go the store, take a walk, etc during "normal" business hours. As long as you get your work done, no one seems to care, and our mgmt seems to feel that our mental health is important, at least during the pandemic. Sure some may take advantage of this and screw off with their time, but if they get their work done, are they really screwing off? The old metric of "butts in the seats" is industrial age management.

Also, what is "real remote work?"

And yes, the time range of work has expanded for some, but that's a boundaries issue. Unless I'm on call, or we have an outage/issue that needs my attention, work doesn't expect me after 5pm. I start around 7-8am.
I am sure Tesla will sell plenty of them, but I just can't help think it looks like a bad prop from a low budget 80s sci-fi movie.
This is only bad for draconian IoT manufacturers who want to enforce their terms of service and artificial limitations on hardware they think consumers are leasing but consumers think they are buying.

No kidding. What really grinds my gears is the fact that these authoritarian "security" people are effectively helping to tighten the nooses around everyone else, and very eager to do it too. It's one thing to post about an exploit you've found and help the community, but I'll never agree or help anyone who goes snitching to the company about it. In the "old school" hacking culture you would be called a corporate sellout, or worse, for doing that.
I can just hear the Terminator theme song playing.
> Anyway I'm fascinated by all the comments here, none of which discussed the cultural and sociopolitical differences between that of the west and that of China

To be fair, you don't describe any particular difference yourself in the following paragraph. You say these cultural differences can't be defined and simultaneously expect us to discuss them.¿

The fact is, there are plenty of businesses who have successfully navigated the cultural and political waters of China-Western relations. Maybe it's not the right time for YC - that's fine.

I think we all understand that dealings between the West and China are complicated, to say the least, by cultural, language, and historic differences. That is why we look to the best of us to reach across these differences and make deals so that we can all prosper rather than be left behind as the rest of the world moves on.
Weird move to put it behind a email hoover. Wonder if it does anything more than just evaluate the email format.
> The Chinese government is one thing. But "the Chinese way" is another thing. And "the Chinese way" actually underlines how the Chinese society works and how the Chinese government functions.

"The Chinese Way" is a cop out, it points out the cultural differences between the West and China, but that does not change the fundamentals of political ideologies. Fascist and authoritarian regimes, all, justify their actions through the proxy of cultural differences.

It is not right to shut down discussion about political climates by reducing it to a non-negotiable argument, i.e. the other party does not understand "The Chinese Way" or they will never know the history of China. There are plenty of non-Chinese historians arounds the world who have studied China deeply, academically and by experience such as expats including myself who have spent significant time in China. We know "The Chinese Way".

> The Chinese government is one thing.

No, that's the elephant in the room here, don't be so quick to dismiss it. Ask yourself this - "Would I feel threatened to criticize the Chinese government publicly while I am in China?" If the answer is yes, you either A) Took allegiance to the Chinese nationalism B) or afraid to speak out. If it is B, then it is time to move out of China before it is too late.
Surely what they've just rolled out onto the stage is a joke?
That Faulkner paper also discussed differences with Plan9’s implementation of /proc
I suggest practicing over and over again to reduce your anxiety. We all feel anxious when doing a whiteboard or now VC interview where they can ask you anything and you feel like you have to instantly answer.
It tries to guess when will you use the computer(you can also change it in the config), except it did not work for everyone.
+ for Diigo. I want most stuff private, it does it. You can create private groups, which I use as folders, say if doing research on an idea I throw all the related bookmarks in a private group. Then I can also share the collection, by just letting someone in the group. They have very robust browser extensions as well.
But your claim that the iPhone doesn't do real multitasking is bogus, it's just that third party apps can't do it. Mail, phone, safari all run in the background.

And in your sidebar you note which features can be done with a jailbroken iPhone, except for the ones that I've listed - which should be updated imho.

I own an Android and an iPhone. Jailbreaking an iPhone is a three minute process (with Spirit).
Totally -- but it takes balls to acknowledge that. I'd certainly feel betrayed if I had been a loyal SproutCore user: templates for the user interface is almost a complete 180 ° from the prior gospel.

But from an outside perspective, I think this could make SC truly competitive, and that's going to be a good thing for JavaScript-heavy web apps in general.
Are 120 chars bad?
Then pad fields and require them, even if the value is Null/None/Nil, and the field names too.

USERNAME:dotancohen\0\0\0\0\0\0
FOOBAR\0\0:\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0

This might look ugly if you open it in Notepad, but so do XML and Org mode files. However an Emacs/VIM/VsCode plugin could make this seamless for the user.
Tcl was great. The startup I worked for back in 1999, already had something, lets call it, Tcl on Rails.

But we weren't in SV, nor the web was what it is today.
That's slightly less than constructive... the parent post well notes that the article should offer some insight into Groupon's actual earnings-producing operations, strategy, and future outlook on same.
If the company buys a gift then it can be tax-deductible, I think 'employee entertainment' is the usual budget term. If the boss-like individual buy it it's post-(income)-tax money.
Snowflake :) Redshift is also good

See this for comparison benchmarking: https://fivetran.com/blog/warehouse-benchmark
If finding out you’re wrong feels mean to you, you’re not going to get far in this world.
For the record, I doubt that he will actually be removed from office before his term expires. I also don’t necessarily disagree about the optics, from the perspective of his supporters. However, there is absolutely nothing undemocratic about the process of impeachment. It is an expressly democratic escape valve for exactly this kind of situation. And it is unquestionably dangerous to have a mentally unstable president in charge of the military and nuclear arsenal, however short his term might be, and however much we might hope that his cabinet will disobey unlawful orders.

(It is unlikely that the 25th would be able to remove him, even if there was overwhelming internal support for it, which there doesn’t seem to be.)
Nirav, I don't want to be the guy but yeah. One the one side, I like that somebody finally takes care of products we really need—notebooks. That somebody enters the hardware game, one of the hardest spaces to conquer. On the other side, I am a bit underwhelmed.

I mean this must the dream of every engineer, designer and 13-year old. Designing your own notebook. And what's the results? It's good, I would buy one, maybe. But is it a gadget I think of before I fall asleep?

This logo, then the centered trackpad (are you serious?), huge clumsy bays nobody asked for and a non-centered displays. Worst, a design that doesn't dare, that is afraid to go beyond the Macbook comfort zone, something that wants to be liked, something Chuwi and BMAX, two low-end Chinese brands, would have designed better. Btw, celebrating this reparability feature, maybe you should check out what Schenker/XMG/Clevo or the Thinkpads do for years. Not that all of aforementioned are dealbreakers but IDK, let's says they do not make a good first impression.

Look at following non-iconic notebooks[1]—I don't compare yours with iconic brands, this wouldn't be fair—but look what other non-premium brands are able to create. These are gadgets I dream of and you should think of restarting the project, seriously, I mean are you happy with this yourself or would Jobs be?

[1]

Brand new Chinese Yoga 14S https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/kifq5i/lenovo_y...

Brand new Asus Flow X13 https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/l5fq7a/asus_rog_flow_...

Razer Book 13 https://www.razer.com/productivity-laptops/razer-book-13

Asus G14 ACRONYM limited editon, https://rog.asus.com/microsite/ROG-ZEPHYRUS-G14-ACRNM/

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PS: If anyone disagrees, pls comment and let me know where I am wrong thanks.
Their subscription service alone doesn't cover the costs of running the business. That's why they take a margin on sales.

Also it seems like a fair way to make money -- sell hosting services for cheap (so people who want to start a business can get going fast) and as they move into larger revenues they provide a portion back to the services that helped them get there.
I'm copy/pasting what user DannyBee (his about on HN: "I'm an open source lawyer who hacks on compilers" via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DannyBee ) has said here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113324 - he's replying to something another user said -

"Facebook is granting you additional rights on top of the BSD license. In the worst case, where you do something that causes the patent rights to be revoked, you're still left with the same rights you have under the BSD license. This is unambiguously safer to use than if they had released it under a vanilla BSD license. As for why Facebook did this, they're most likely trying to give away additional rights while still maintaining the ability to use these patents defensively, in the event someone sues them for infringing a different patent."

This is 100% totally and completely wrong :)

The BSD license normally includes an implied patent license.

It says " Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met .. "

This grants an implied patent license to the patents necessary to actually do this, as long as you meet the restrictions.

This is actually well settled law. You don't get to give people stuff unrestricted, and say "you can use this for free", and then say "just kidding, what i meant was, you can use this for free as long as you pay me for the patents"
However, when you do what facebook has done, and give an explicit license, you have overwritten the terms of that implied license, and you get no implied license.

So it is not only "not unambiguously safer", you are not "left with the same rights you had under the bsd license if it is revoked".

This is because if you revoke the explicit grant, you get nothing in terms of patents. But the implicit grant is not revokable unless you violate the copyright license.

So sorry, but this is not "better than the default" and does not in fact, help you.
This is totally on point. Ref-counting / RAII is the only sane way to do resource management. It's super lightweight and easy to understand.

The vast majority of resources are short-lived and don't create cycles. Our garbage collections "systems" should be designed for this case.

Cycles are a special case required for few data structures. They are not the norm and we shouldn't ship a huge heaping mess of a garbage collection system and make everything else slower to account for this rarely used special case.

Anyway people programming today shouldn't be thinking in terms of pointers and references. We should be thinking in terms of VALUES. Finite values have no cycles! The Haskell and C++ community have already embraced this, everyone else is still catching up.

Yet another reason why Java is a horrible language holding people back and the JVM is basically a hamster wheel keeping itself busy.
> But we don't see said therapists telling each other, "Oh, our jobs are so cushy and luxurious. Try being a line cook!"

First of all : you don't know that.

Second of all : there are rigors to therapy, and every profession, that aren't obvious from the outside. The same holds true for programming.
You know, if C++ used the concepts and just put sane (non-abstract-algebra) names on them, that might be really useful. I might get Haskell a lot better if the C++ committee does this well.
Consider creative ways of finding fellow freelancers and partner with them to share relevant opportunities. Ideally, partner with people you respect as being equally smart and driven. We are often judged by our friends.
> PRISIM intercepts bill talking to his dealer, and knows that he will have a small amount of weed on his person for sciatica because his state doesn't have medical marijuana.

Forget the state; possession of marijuana is a federal crime rendering the possessor eligible for jail time in all 50 states, including the states where it is regarded by the general public as "legal".

This strikes me as an incredibly dangerous development that most seem to ignore. Selective enforcement of laws broken by everyone, all the time, is just as terrifying as the loss of privacy.
This is the first time I am mentioning this publicly, but I have been working on Educator News. It's a clone of HN for the education profession.

It's been attempted before, and was well received. The people who made it previously were not programmers, so when it immediately outgrew the platform on which it was built, it disappeared. I think I can do it right. :)

I am planning a soft launch this weekend. After working out any immediate bugs, I will do a Show HN.
Professional C++ coder here.

Seeing new and delete has very heavy code smell and can be avoided 99% of the time.
I wouldn't count your Mbps before they hatch.

The australian plan was announced in a somewhat similar fashion. The original estimate soon blew out to 40 billion dollars. The government admits that they don't have the money, and that there will be no commercial return for at least 20-30 years. They, so far, have spent $17 million dollars in studies and reports by consultants, and have delievered a pitifully low amount of Broadband to Tasmania, the smallest (by an order of 10) state (think Rhode Island vs Alaska). Already it is covered in scandals and rorts, the head of the project gets a $400k salary and is an ex-union hack who was given the job on the basis of being friends with the minister responsible. The main opposition party has promised to scrap the entire project for fiscal responsibility reasons and turn the market back over to private competitors, with government backing for rural areas, as was the original plan. The opposition are currently polling better than the government with under 6 months to go to the election. I think it is fair to say that the National Broadband Scheme in Australia is a dead project walking. Thankfully the overturn of the government will also spell the death of the proposed internet filter.

These projects sound good in theory but are terrible in execution because Governments just cannot understand commercial returns, and as such are a giant sink hole of money and rorting. It's like the Concorde : neat idea and great tech, but an absolute financial disaster area.
http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js
An alternative: http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js
No, the definition of "cross-platform" is not "supports Windows." It works on two different platforms, so it's cross-platform. Much like how Photoshop is a cross-platform application even though it doesn't support Linux.
Its just a ruby container for webkit. So Appcelerator, or I think you are talking about their titanium container, is just like this.

The basic idea is that you bundle a browser, and then using your programming language of choice, you can create APIs that are available inside JavaScript.

So, you can also probably create functionality in ruby, that can then be accessed in JavaScript.
I can see why "encouragement and bias" might account for higher male achievement, but not why that would at the same time account for lower male achievement.
Hilarious. And HN-appropriate.
OK, so who didn't get 100%?
I’d love to see the SEO involved in a blog post for a Chef recipe for deploying “Keto”.
I would recommend Alan Jacob's work in this space:

* The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9859899-the-pleasures-of...)

* Breaking Bread with the Dead (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608945/breaking-bre...)

I would also recommend some of Matthew Crawford's work on the so-called "attention economy."
I don't use Spotify, simple.

If you like electronic music I can recommend Digitally Imported (https://www.di.fm/).

The best part is that I don't need to find new music since it's radio. Also it's like half the price of a spotify sub.
> Of course the knowledge that you have covid could be stressful in itself, but that's also a result of covid.

It's not just the result of covid. It's also the result of studies like this.
Great writeup.

How do you handle database migrations when using an otherwise automated CI/CD flow with gradual deployment?
In one of Plato's Dialogues "The Phaedrus" Socrates argues about writing as following (@ section 274c by invoking the Egyptian Myth of the God Theuth inventing "letters"): "[275a ...] For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir, not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise. [...]"

"[275d ...] Writing, Phaedrus, has this strange quality, and is very like painting; for the creatures of painting stand like living beings, but if one asks them a question, they preserve a solemn silence. And so it is with written words; you might think they spoke as if they had intelligence, but if you question them, wishing to know about their sayings, they always say only one and the same thing. [...]"

"[276a ...] the living and breathing word of him who knows, of which the written word may justly be called the image"

This self-reflected, self-conscious "inferiority" to the very living, breathing, vanishing "speech" - the written letter being at best a very poor at its worst a misrepesentative image - gives "birth", I would argue, to (modern western) literature, as we know it.

Philip K. Dick is a literal example of a relentless chase in writing a Exegesis ("a religious/contemplative practice of pointing beyond the text") until his writing drive is completely void of any "letters" to be written. A hell of a ride.

In a way looking back at "books" kind of is just the echo within the echo of the speech dying away in the moment being "spoken".

So trying to find something in books which is "missing" in our "Age of Constant Distraction" is the very same gesture, albeit - in my reading - literary trapped in a ancient rhetoric figure: “Today's youth is rotten to
the core, it is evil, godless, and lazy. It will never be what youth used to be, and it will never be able to preserve our
culture."
"three coloured circles"

Uh, I'm pretty sure that's just MacOS
To be fair, General Mojo's Well-Laid Plan is from "Duster" by Gary Burton's band with Larry Coryell, which is considered to be one of the first fusion records and was really influential at the time.