jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I too thought that was odd, but I think the point is the method and its potential accessibility benefits, not a specific medical case.
"Higher salaries aren't enough to increase the supply of labour very quickly."

They're enough to increase the supply of labor over the course of 5-10 years, which is plenty of time to keep the US competitive.

So really it's the companies refusing to pay higher wages in order to increase the talent pool who are holding America back.
I have a hard time believing someone would just stop using their hands if they had the ability to do otherwise.

I do agree it would have been nice to know more of the details of what went wrong, though, and why she seemed to experience severe RSI when some other people don't. (Like me - I probably don't use the mouse/trackpad as much as a designer, but I've been clacking away at the keyboard for 25+ years with no significant issues so far.)
I joined just after last years protests in the (misplaced) belief that that much of an outcry would result in the google management actually improving.

They did not, and showed an unwillingness to consider fixing any behavior. They even pushed back on removing forced arbitration for harassment and abuse. They spent most of the time I was there retaliating against people who organized the protest, and people who reported harassment.

There was an ongoing double standard wrt to homophobic, racist, and abusive content on their many platforms. They were super good at marking lgbt content as adult only, and super good at flagging 2s of “copyrighted content” as worthy of removal from the platform. While absolutely opposing any restriction and racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic, or just completely false content. Despite all such content violating their repeatedly reworded rules.

The weekly “talks” basically consisted of them saying that everything was ok, and they were “working on” the harassment and arbitration problems. While avoiding any discussion of the promotion of false and bigoted content, or claiming that all the studies of their algorithms were wrong and that they didn’t promote such content.

For those talks there were unending bigoted questions and comments on the question submission form. Questions related to any of the aforementioned issues were routinely skipped and/or vote bombed to oblivion by a clearly super invested group of employees who supported the actions of the company.

After a while I decided I couldn’t accept money that was “earned” through such atrocious behavior.

I am not saying other big tech companies don’t have problems, but my experience was that google was hell bent on protecting the abusers over the victims in every circumstance and context it came up.
You sort of did although they never really scaled up to full sized computers. You had Marchant calculators going back to WWI era and variations were still in use until the 1970s or so. You also had fire control systems around WWII that were mechanical computers.

I suspect that bigger devices were always going to be electro-mechanical given that the basic component technology was fairly well established.
Because it's different from a passive tool like keyboard you are using for typing your creation and such.

The program actively creates something. Author of the program isn't creating the result, the program is. As I said in the second comment, the whole idea of copyright is based on the incentive. Once that program is out, the author of the program doesn't do anything, i.e. idea of incentive is irrelevant to the resulting works.

You can take it to absurd level. Let's say you write a program that generates every possible text combination, increasingly. Does it mean the author of the program should have copyright potentially on every (not yet copyrighted) text? Of course not, even if resulted texts are original and not gibberish. Same applies to any media, not just text of course.
They changed the name to YouTube Premium
You don't need a graphic calculator for high school. Hundreds of millions of kids in China and India graduate without one and do just fine. Differential calculus is now 400+ years old and generations of humans have done fine without a graphing calculator.
Just fixed the PDF so should work now -fingers crossed-
http://versionone.vc/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Version-One-...
https://thefitness.wiki/getting-started-with-fitness/
https://thefitness.wiki/routines/
> I worked and paid for it, I should get to do what I want with it.

When it’s a house or a table or a bicycle shop, this approach makes sense and I agree with it.

When it’s land or natural resources, it is perfectly sensible to place some general restrictions on what people can do. Those pillars of our existence were here a million years before the current owner and will be there for millions of years afterwards. The entire society depends to a lesser or greater extent on land and natural resources. It is irresponsible for society to allow the owner to do anything they want with it.

Now that’s not to say that nothing should be allowed, but for instance the right of travel for people that don’t cause the place harm in doing so, espesially if it is to their homes, should really win over the right of any individual to close of access to a working road for a place they never even go to.

I don’t hold strong views on this case in particular, but I felt compelled to rebut the general idea that land and natural resources are ‘property just like any other’.
From reading textbooks and solving problems in game theory and econ.
From an investment perspective, it probably makes sense to assume the losses will be socialized, because politically it's very bad optics to do nothing after 100,000s of coastal residents have their homes flooded.
They should offer a cash reward that is less than their internal cost for a rebalancing operation. They should also implement congestion pricing. In Manhattan, I would love to be able to ride a citibike crosstown in mid town. Both stations are full in the middle of the day. If I take a bike out of the dock on the east side, I should get a credit, and I should pay money when I dock it at a busy station on the west side. It would be a wash for me, or I might pay a little. The upside is, those trips should be very easy for citibike to fullfill, it's not like riding out from an empty bike area to a crowded area.
> How does "we don't need to use virgin wilderness" equate to "let's pave and plow every single inch of the planet"? Be specific.

Virtual all arable land is already cultivated and grazable pasture is cowburnt now with population 7B. The notion that it's not a problem to scale up because we can just keep chopping down rainforests for lumber, soy and palm oil plantations etc is sickening. No, agriculture doesn't need wilderness, but the inhabitants of earth do.

> I'll repeat what I said to the other guy: you first.

I have << 2.1 children; I've done my part.

> In fact, virtually every advanced society is either population-neutral or actually losing people.

So what? The rest of the world is churning out babies and are more than eager to move. Overpopulation is a global problem. Arithmetic again. Mathematically and physically of course population growth will end at some point. But it's the major driver of all the major social, environmental, and political problems facing nations and the earth today, and it's the easiest one to do something about.

Do you think that population growth just slowed down by magic? In developed countries, family planning is universally accessible. In developing countries where overpopulation is most acute, countries with well-run organized population programs like Thailand, Iran, and China have been extremely successful at managing population growth and have reaped the benefits.
That reminds me of the movie Lord of War, in which you can't help but root for Nicolas Cage and against Ethan Hawke.
Sublime is not an IDE. It's a text editor. There is a difference.
Mahalo comes to mind (there's some useful content, but there's also a massive amount of things scraped and barely cited or not cited at all). It may be unfair to call eHow a scraper site, but it usually ranks high for the terms and is very light on actual content, and again with the barely cited or not cited. Beyond that, I run into a lot of seemingly one-off sites that are geared toward a specific keyword combination, have no real content, but somehow manage to rank.

It's easy enough to ignore the big, repeat offender sites, but not so much for the one-off sites, and avoidable or not they're still there cluttering my SERPs.
We're used to scientific studies being misrepresented, but additionally the study itself seems to have some problems:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/12/more_dubious_state...
Doesn't Google provide a way to blacklist some domains, and not return results from those sites?
Heh, well it's going to be a concern again after this month. IIRC they said they are going to release a more complete tool to let you explore the Skype network in general (besides just decoding packets for sniffing). In theory you can penetrate corporate networks wherever there is a Skype client running, and if they found a bug in an old version of Skype it's possible they could send a worm through the network and take out a lot of machines.

But maybe it is more likely that it was just an innocent bug. I just asked the question because it seemed like a big coincidence that Skype should go down right before these guys do a big exposee on the protocol and encryption.
Win7 and a GTX 275.
Um hm. Yes, I often "know the problem has nothing to do" with me. And then it sometimes Does have to do with me.
The reason the suggestions are in the script is, to try what works most of the time. Thinking it out in your head can lead you to conclusions, but actually rebooting the modem may prove something.
Also routers, modems are hardware shipped on a schedule, so they have bugs. Logic can be tripped up by bugs, since they negate assumptions - "clearly the modem isn't editing my UDP traffic!" etc.
Fleitz, I thought I had included my email in my profile. I will review your profile and be in touch shortly.

Can you create an application without having any idea of a business model? Sure. But why would you? I am certainly not opposed to VC funding. In fact, it's essential in many cases. I think it's smarter to have a business model in mind behind your application though. That's just my opinion. Anyone is free to disagree. That's what makes these forums so intellectually stimulating.

Good analogy to Mark and Eduardo by the way.
Only very niche search sites (legal, medical, marketing, ...) can possibly hope to charge people enough to be profitable. It needs to fill a need that Google does not fulfill at all, not just be a little better.
yes it is down: https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/556747522140819456
Javascript

Pretty much a lot of stuff (front and backend) can be written in JS.
Actually, humans often struggle to even agree on what is porn.
This article was submitted here nearly two years ago (as you will find out if you click the link to the HN discussion at the bottom of the article). But I thought of one not included in the article.

From Portland's Wikipedia page:

> On the west side, the RiverPlace, John's Landing and South Waterfront Districts lie in a "sixth quadrant" where addresses go higher from west to east toward the river ... East-West addresses in this area are denoted with a leading zero (instead of a minus sign). This means 0246 SW California St. is not the same as 246 SW California St. Many mapping programs are unable to distinguish between the two.
Are people just upvoting this because they don’t like Bitcoin? I don’t like Bitcoin either but none of these are original arguments and this looks like an ad for a different cryptocurrency I’ve never heard of.
Maybe someday they could be viewed from an innocuous object with cameras installed. Like the remote controlled elephant dung pile cam:

https://youtu.be/LCqaFvc7rDw
You left out the big one - Android.
It is much easier to maintain a language binding than a full toolchain. There are a lot of activities in Swift mainline, and I can only imagine how much work it must be to maintain the S4TF fork.
Sorry, if it wasn't clear it should have √n neighbours of the same color! (The number of actual neighbors of each vertex is fixed, as you said, to n :)

In the latter case, you round up!
“ Yahya Muslim, 28, was charged with assault, battery and elder abuse. He has not been charged with hate crimes. Muslim already had two prior felony assault convictions, according to the Alameda County Sheriff and district attorney offices.”

I have no idea what this guy’s ethnicity was, but the fact he was not charged with a hate crime completely undermines the argument of the posted article
> width is hedge - you don't get paid as much, but you can land a job quickly, because you can plug into any team

I generally like your model, but mobility is upstream of salary too. If you're very intentional about your career, mobility is the ace up your sleeve, letting you slot into the places you need to to maximize your current and future salary.

I've always been a pretty width-first engineer; it just fits my personality. But time and again, I've been able to open doors for myself because my established excellence in one area provided an "insurance policy" for teams to take a chance on me working in another (in-demand, specialized) area. After the first iteration or two, it's been a virtuous cycle, where I make lots of money with my established skill in the currently-hot thing and trade off a small portion of that to grow the skill in the next-to-be-hot thing.

Though perhaps this doesn't generalize well. I've been studying/working in AI for well over a decade and it's been a remarkable boom for my chosen field. Perhaps during the next AI winter, I'll have to face the depth/width trade-off a little more directly. But even in that case, it seems like width maximizes my expected salary.
On the origins of the current world wide web: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11

(Substitute Medium.com, web blogs, SEO, clickbait news, essays, etc. as your cynicism feels inclined)
That's almost certainly at least part of the explanation, if for no other reason than that height and cognitive development are both adversely impacted by some of the same environmental conditions from conception through childhood.
> Added language-integrated differentiable programming into the Swift language. This work continues in the official Swift compiler.

added lots of novel paradigms and rarely trodden code paths to the compiler and then peaced out.

I hope the inherent complexity added doesn’t impede future Swift development much, or is expeditiously deleted.
California uses goats on roadsides also. Especially right before wildfire season.
Wait a minute. Unless you already built RDBMS tables with that relationship in mind, you are just as screwed there as you are in Couch. And if you are talking about the time it takes Couch to build a new index for some custom view, I'm sure it's nominal compared to the number of times you feel the need to change or create one.
I can't resist this one, can I please have a go? I know you didn't specifically ask for my opinion, but perhaps it gives some food for thought. Forgive me if this is more off-topic than you would like.

As someone who joined the IE dev team relatively recently, I must say I had much of the same ambivalence you express in your first sentence. To add to that, I was a Mac user and moved from the Bay Area -- not exactly the bastion of Microsoft love -- and still have friends who are skeptical of my move. For me, the decision boiled down to two things:

(1) Web browsers have intrigued me for about a decade, and this gave me a chance to help push the web platform ahead. I love how through a process of public discussion and consensus some of the largest technology companies come together to build these (more or less) mutually compatible and complex platforms (a.k.a web browsers). Notice how I skipped past much of internet history there? You might say that, well, there are other browsers out there that I could have contributed to, and I will then ask which one do you think needed the most help? ;)

(2) Where would my small contribution be able to have the most impact. As you rightly point out, IE remains the most used browser (on the desktop at least) and every line of code I write may some day be exercised by hundreds of millions. I cannot emphasize enough just how fulfilling this is to me. When I was graduating and interviewing, Facebook liked to say that their user to dev ratio was a million to one, and our team easily tops that.

How's it like to be an engineer on this product? Lots of fun and very challenging. Much (as my limited view sees it) boils down to adding new features and/or rewriting older subsystems for performance reasons. Simple enough, but when you factor in about 15 years of legacy code, much of whose functionality has to be maintained (or emulated even in the new subsystems), life becomes very interesting very fast. I _suspect_ Firefox and Chrome are running into some of these challenges with the Electrolysis project (FF) and adding in graphics hardware acceleration (Chrome), which is perhaps why they're taking longer than anticipated.

Do other web developers treat me guilty by association? I don't know :)
I would first make it so that uploaded images aren't mangled so badly. If you ever look closely at an image, you'll notice awful jpeg artifacts. This makes the fact that they're really small even worse.

I would probably also improve the typography (in a subtle way.) Since the site is basically all text, the text that's there ought to look nice. I don't really have a problem with the colors.

Fighting the spam problem is tricky, and I think solving it involves changing the business model, not the design. (I don't have an idea of how I would solve it.)
If the python project had something like that, the current python 3 situation could maybe have been avoided.
Just to add on, I would recommend getting that exercise in the morning or worst case, more than 4 hours before bedtime.
Although the other side of the coin is that Silicon Valley has much higher living costs. Does this make a big difference? Do people in Silicon Valley have significantly higher qualities of life, or is there an argument for staying away from the expensive hubs?
"Sure, the pile of Lisp macros that recapitulates most of Haskell would be gnarly and nasty."

I don't think you can macro your way to Haskell. Haskell wants a guarantee that if some function takes a function of type Int -> Int, the passed-in function will absolutely positively not do anything in the universe except take an int and return an int, and if that isn't true and that closure can do something else, Haskell breaks. Even if you can macro your way towards restricting arbitrary closures like that, you don't have Lisp anymore; you've got Haskell. Or you don't have Haskell and you do have Lisp. The two are fundamentally opposed at a deep philosophical level.
I would suggest you:

1) Do more than just video. Make full blown AV wikipedia or something. This right now really doesn't have a place alongside Google Video Search or YouTube's recommendations.

2) Either automate the content creation or find where the content farms get their writers - you can't just wait for people to show up and make content for you, you need content to lure them in.

3) Figure out how to bundle the content up into widgets that can be embedded on other websites, turn it into a wordpress plugin, get onto that embedly site, push the widget anywhere you can to seed links and traffic to your site.

4) Make every page compelling. It's competing with Wikipedia, YouTube, all the search results, every page needs to be an experience and the definitive source of stuff about x.

or, and this might be a bit harsh:

5) Do something else .... I can remember seeing it when it was avtorrents or something a year ago and your showcase page was Andy Warhol back then too, if you don't have traction just let it go, take what you've learnt and apply it to something new.
Timestamp: Jan 7 1996, <strong>4:00 am</strong>

Nice!
I was always under the impression that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (who is Dutch, not German) invented the microscope. I can't find anything about a German Count who funded microsope research anywhere. Does anybody know a source for this?
"Here are your winnings, Sir."
The key, explained in the blog post, is that every Bitmap that lives in ashmem needs to have an explicit .recycle call to unpin and free the memory. Fresco's DraweeViews automatically do this when they go off-screen.

Fresco limits the total amount of memory an app can allocate to bitmaps, even in ashmem. But although ashmem does count towards total PSS, it doesn't count towards the Dalvik heap limit, which is the bound that most Java apps have to deal with.
Like every organization there is a need to maintain good relationship with others. This means you have to make compromise and make deal. This means people aren't always 100% in charge. You can choose to do things against the will of some powerful enemy, and you will face the consequence. So Xi can make all the decisions here. He can say "I want this to be done" and his officials will carry out. At this very moment, Xi is absolutely in charge of everything, especially given his popularity.
This is really impressive. The problem is highly constrained. Because a house is a sturdy structure, large amounts of physical material are involved. Furthermore, there are quality/safety requirements.

It's great to see Ikea applying their deep expertise in producing sturdy structures that can be shipped cheaply, to this area.
The workers who manufacture the iPhones aren't Apple employees. They're Foxconn employees, and Apple doesn't really have much control over how much they get paid. I mean sure, they could say "here's an extra Billion, make sure that the workers who build the iPhones get these"; I'm sure Foxconn would take it, but who knows where it would go from there.
Let's talk about a hypothetical case where we flip an unfair coin (more likely heads than tails). Every time it comes up heads we fire someone. Then some particular person says they were fired because we used an biased coin instead of a fair one. It's impossible to say that's why they were fired, but that isn't taken as evidence against bias.
Blindsight by Peter Watts. The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Ra, by Sam Hughes (http://qntm.org/ra). The Sequences of Less Wrong, and a good chunk of the related writing (HPMOR, Three Worlds Collide, https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/2/The-Finale-of-the-Ult... which follows directly from Permutation City (seriously)). The postings on the SCP Foundation wiki. Watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
If they use Youtube or Skype, they use some of them. Any online/app audio/video chat thing will probably use a mixture.

Depending on how your office VOIP phone works, or the PBX it's connected to, or your POTs carrier, you might be using those technologies. Maybe the CCTV at your work uses them too...

If you are building a multimedia thing, and you don't want to worry about paying for patents, you might reach for one of these. Your users won't know.
Sell it to the left as assistance programs, sell it to the right as a tax overhaul, (fair tax/flat etc).

You could cover both sides by consolidating aid programs into one basic income payment and bundling with tax reform where all tax paid is via a consumption tax. So borrow the fair tax idea of a prebate, where the government automatically deposits a set amount weekly/monthly into your account.

The worrisome parts here are is that far too many people are willing to live at near poverty levels as long as the feel comfortable and the effort to exist there requires little on their part. We could end up legislating an entire segment to permanent poverty, paid enough to keep them from rising against those who have all the money
All right thanks, i will go with Django.
Are there any use-case for http links on HN in 2021?