jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It’s so dystopian. There is such a narrow window of what is acceptable behaviour in the workplace. I get along with and like my colleagues but my relationship with them will never be as genuine as it can be once I don’t work with them anymore. There is no upside and tons of downside to being yourself. It’s just not worth it.
I'm not sure what you mean by informed abstainers, but if you mean informed abstainers of Reddit then I can speak for myself.

I see Reddit as a self-aggrandizing media outlet. Members generally accept liberal values as status quo. Meaningful discussion imitates base prime time political discourse.

Some of my specific gripes are:

1. Racism on Reddit is an acceptable subtext, as long as the subtext is funny.
2. Sexism on Reddit is acceptable as long as your mother, wife, or daughter are not directly considered.
3. Israel is wrong on Reddit.

I know I'm painting a pretty nasty picture of a lot of people, and I apologize to those who don't deserve it, but I've seen group think plenty of times before in my life and Reddit is it.
From the article: "efficient remoting protocols do not look like X"

I'll attest to that. Back in 1999/2000 when I had to administer a 500-700 element network using HPopenView over a 128 Kbit ISDN link, the performance was "OK", but nothing to write home about. If I had a lot of work to do, I was often tempted to just head into the office, and work there.

Then, Windows XP+Remote Desktop came in vogue, and the combination of Windows XP running the HummingBird Client (Exceed was the common X-Server at the time), accessed via RDP over ISDN, was actually a very successful combination.

Net-Net - While everyone talks about how great X-Windows is from a network-transparency perspective, I've always had more success with RDP - to the point of running it on my iPhone/iPad to manage my desktop at work. I'm not even sure if they make an X-Server for the iPhone. (Edit: of course they do - http://www.appstorehq.com/ix11-xserver-iphone-32068/app)

And VNC is just plain great as well - lots of competition in that ecosystem, and is hands down the most elegant solution to manage a couple dozen desktops running in VMware workstation for Windows.

So - Given that X-Windows has always been a bit "kludgy" for Desktop Apps (And I speak as one who has been using them for well over 10 years, sometimes on a daily basis for years at a stretch), and has never really been that super as a remote-access mechanism, has likely held back the adoption of Linux as a Desktop OS, AND will also likely be still supported even as Wayland starts to come on board - I say this is a GREAT announcement, and look forward to the community coming onboard and developing the Wayland ecosystem.
Borrow money.
That's where I'm lost.

10% more money is much more money when you're rich than when you're poor (Captain obvious to the rescue.)

So if you want to make me 10% more happy, that's going to cost you a lot more actual dollars / euros / yuan / whatever ; and the last 10$ are going to make me less "happier" (in absolute) than the first 10$.

Considering people don't buy stuff in percentage of their salaries, but in absolute dollars (if i'm not mistaken), isn't that a case where the absolute / relative difference is relevant ?

I'm pretty sure I'm having a stats 101-level argument, and there is something obvious that I'm missing, so please forgive and educate ;)
With things like Symfony/Laravel and HHVM/PHP7, it can be.
Interesting. I wonder to what extent this reasoning was behind executive support of the Chrome project, and whether it was a factor from the onset or something that Google stumbled upon after developing a browser.
Scary scenarios regarding "faulty ram destroys volume" can be found in various places, e.g.,

https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-...

However, for a refutation of this scenario see XorNot's comment (and perhaps the surrounding discussion) at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8294434
Not sure what makes me feel worse, the fact that this shit still happens or the fact that I didn't know it did...

EDIT:

*that this shit still happens so close to "civilization"
I think it is unfortunate this does not support python 3. I think we have already passed a tipping point in the migration from python 2. Just look at the python 3 readiness[0]. I believe it might already be more interesting for beginners to learn python 3 over python 2 now.

All new packages should think about supporting python3, or at least be ready to support it with a lot of __future__ imports.

[0]: http://py3readiness.org/
Actually there is no such rule.
Positive cash flow is a great indicator although with early-stage companies that haven't achieved meaningful scale or been in the game very long it still seems a tricky sell. That said I like the idea and hope the model proves success for people.

Sidenote: is $50k/year a generally accepted figure or were you just demonstrating the point?
What you're scanning as hostility is exasperation. I have been writing code for twenty years and getting paid for it for twelve. That's not a "get off my lawn," either, not least because I don't know many 27-year-olds in the Boston area with a lawn and I certainly don't have one either. That's a "get out of the basement and go outside." I am remarkably sick and tired of the endemic social insecurity that runs through this industry. There are so very many fun examples of it around here - I miss @shithnsays desperately. At some point in the last couple years I finally grew up to the point where I realized that the tireless posturing and wellactuallying just doesn't get anyone anywhere. When the best he could do was "oh, you only know four languages, smarm smarm smarm," the jimmies, they were rustled.

At least if you're going to be That Guy who everyone hates dealing with ever, be right about it.

(Also I'm drinking, and somewhere between two and five in the morning I sort of explode into a particularly prickly thesaurus. It's a medical condition. I have a doctor's note. Don't judge me.)
The author spends a considerable portion of the piece attacking a straw man. As he mentions in the article, people who stress the importance of reading and writing skills aren't merely advocating for the ability to transcribe speech to paper and pronounce written text; they are also advocating for the communication skills that are taught as part of a good literacy education. Similarly, people who stress the importance of programming are not merely advocating that people gain the ability to transcribe a perfectly detailed spec into executable code, they're also advocating for the modeling skills that give you the skills to write the spec.

His real point is that he believes teaching people modeling and computing skills using Excel would be more useful than teaching them modeling and computing skills using python.

Depending on the audience and the amount of time they have to dedicate to the topic, I might agree with him. Many undergrad business programs, for instance, require a course in Excel/VBA, which seems sensible. However, I think many people who say things like "computing is the new literacy" think that computing and modeling might be important enough skills that most people should dedicate more than the equivalent of 1 semester in college to them. They might instead suggest 3 semesters, or maybe even that high school students take a computing course every year. And if he wants to replace all THAT with Excel, I think I would argue that you've got enough time to add in some python too.
Either of you install it yet?
Poingent insight, as Anonymous is mostly comprised of minors who don't have credit cards.
I understand the concern. For reference, what are the worst patents that Facebook owns? Do they own patents that should not have been granted?
It's an official of the Swedish government, acting officially on behalf of the country. Maybe it's an American thing, but this is pretty standard headline writing.
What is this synergy/syngeries/synerging I keep hearing about? I know the meaning of the word and I see that it's some kind of a big company cliche, but where'd it come from?
HN should put a little entrepreneur badge next to your name for having shipped a product. That would motivate some people.
Why should passengers in vehicles be prevented from making calls? There are any number of perfectly safe situations that they would be preventing, and even emergency situations that they would be making worse, in order to correct some behavior they feel is unsafe.
For the past month etc/host block on my macbook. Access with my ipad at night and in the morning. I gained a lot of productivity!
Yes those are what I meant - my point was that this whole evolution needn't be repeated with JSON. Let's keep JSON for the things it's good at, and keep it simple, and keep XML for the things it's good, with all the complicated things we have for it now anyway.
I think you're right. They want to close the deal because they may have been searching for a new hire for a while, and they can only field ONE offer at a time. If you decline, they want to know as soon as possible so they can offer to the next choice. If every offer takes two weeks to resolve, it could take a month or two to make a hire AFTER a number of good candidates have come through.
Maybe they need to have nine babies in one month?
They're already more efficient though, and there's no benefit to the current residents (tech rich or not) from massive incoming population growth.

There won't be equivalent investment in services, recreation, leisure facilities to cope, so they'll degrade.
The question here is why the NYT felt it necessary to publish his name. They unquestionably had the legal right to do it, much like they unquestionably have the legal right to write a smear piece about HN with your full name, age, and city of residence... but why would they do that?

The world does not revolve around you or I, but in general the people in it operate according to some kind of goal or motivation, and I am baffled by what the author of the NYT article felt he was achieving. He started by writing a story about a man who was consistently right about certain aspects of covid before the authorities, somehow started a fight with his subject, and ended up publishing a poorly written hatchet job with zero info about covid, coincidentally earning Scott quarter of a million dollars. What the hell did he want out of all this? What did he gain, what did he give his readers, what journalistic values did he uphold?
The 1040EZ was eliminated in 2018.

All you want would still be possible under a system where the govt pre-fills forms. It’s just the 99.9% of Americans who DON’T find it to be fun would get a leg up.
Yeah it's an interesting visualisation of the data.

I can't personally vouch for its exact accuracy -- every government reports their metrics on a different schedule and I guess they're building realtime estimates based on that. Certainly seems reasonable enough to look at for the broad trendline.
Should we be training on TIS-100[0] to be ready for when these chips become a necessity.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIS-100
Ruby invented strftime?
Adding a bit of info about what I'd need to implement on my end would be useful. I'm assuming that this will fetch a HTTP URL once per "hit"?
A developer like yourself would benefit far more by focusing on UI Design than the far broader area of Graphic Design. You don't need to design logos. You do need to be able to design bare-bones interfaces well.
Yes - 4Chan is the new FB. It's deliberately unappealing, it's the new generation.
I liken Mys[ace/bebo/friendster/facebook/linked-in/4Chan/whatever to bars and nightclubs. They can get popular for a while, even wildly popular, but eventually they go out of fashion. Those 'pubs' with a slower cadence like Linked-in will take longer to die, but will also never reach the dizzy heights of the biggest 'clubs' like mySpace and Facebook.
> I think the subreddit system did its job.

It's interesting to see Stack Overflow take the same approach with the Stack Exchange network. I'm betting that will pay off over time.
Libya is so corrupt, they'll seize whatever domain your government (or competitor, nemesis, etc.) pays them to seize.
I have a simple rule for GUI design: build trees not graphs. Write components that accept a state snapshot and broadcast changes. If component A listens for state changes from B, then A is a parent node of B. If A sends state to B, then A is a parent of B. Components reconcile state before broadcasting changes toward the root of the tree.

Often there is a price paid in brevity, but I believe it is worth it. It may seem annoying to propagate a click explicitly through 5 parent components just to sum clicks into a count widget, but as soon as a short circuit is made, you've created a graph, and you lose the ability to isolate GUI sub-trees for testing/debugging.
It seems that way. Here's another analysis of studies that focused on indoor humidity.

>"If the relative humidity of indoor air is below 40 percent, the particles emitted by infected people absorb less water, remain lighter, fly further through the room and are more likely to be inhaled by healthy people. In addition, dry air also makes the mucous membranes in our noses dry and more permeable to viruses," summarizes Dr. Ajit Ahlawat.

https://www.tropos.de/en/current-issues/press-releases/detai...

Actual paper:

https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-20-06-covid-0302
Yeah that rings a bell!

Really couldn’t believe my luck when I found something so obvious (I still felt like I had mad hacker skills)
> Profilers traditionally have looked like this regardless of the tool/GUI lib/GUI paradigm they'd been made with.

the profiler I use most (hotspot) definitely looks much cleaner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogEkQ-vKt4
Scott Aaronson, quantum computing expert, is the author of this article about Scott Alexander, and the one who insists he will continue to talk to journalists:

> On reflection, then, I’ll continue to talk to journalists, whenever I have time, whenever I think I might know something that might improve their story. I’ll continue to rank bend-over-backwards openness and honesty among my most fundamental values. Hell, I’d even talk to Cade for a future story, assuming he’ll talk to me after all the disagreements I’ve aired here!
Refusing to answer a fact seeking question in a negotiation isn’t great strategy. it may not even help your case. if you make too little, that’s already your problem. Someone offering you more than what you make is a net positive. Withholding information leading to a whitheld offer does you no good.
Either a) (US way) or b) (EU way) are fine, but the problem is when they’re applied unfairly - supporting Antifa riots is treated as a), supporting right-wing riots is treated as b).
How would a civil war actually happen? I know this idea gets thrown around, but, I don't see how this would happen.

Usually, civil wars happen with the support of (at least part of) the military and there are 0 doubts about who the army will side with. Even with the high rate of gun ownership in the US (and even higher among right-wingers), there is no way civilians will actually be able to whitstand a focused, concerted military effort.

The only caveat to that is if someone high up in the US military decides that this is their time to act and will try to use current civil unrest for a coup, but that seems extremely unlikely.

Another scenario to consider is an IRA/ETA style insurrection, which, again seems unlikely, as both IRA and ETA had strong geographical and cultural components to their identity, which is not true of right-wing extremists.

What is more likely to happen is for low-level civil unrest to be around for a while, as long as Trump is still in power, but, as soon as Biden comes into effect, the state will step in and very quickly squish anyone they suspect of right-wing violence. Still, it will probably get worse before it gets better.
Those liberals are now considered conservatives/libertarians.
I want no part of the current form of "liberalism", if it means censoring other people like these companies have consistently done.
Free speech is a principle to me, not just some "law".
Well that would be Pocket getting annoying then, not Firefox.

A long time Firefox user here, and I only feel it is getting better with time (both desktop and mobile)
Many excellent musicians and albums mentioned already, but here are a few others.

Piano: Thelonious Monk - any album, Michel Camilo - Thru My Eyes

Guitar: Pat Metheny - Orchestrion and Unity Band, Bela Fleck - Outbound

Bass: Victor Wooten - Trypnotyx, Marcus Miller

Sax: Michael Brecker - Tales From the Hudson, Grover Washington Jr. - Winelight, Chris Potter - Ultrahang

Trumpet: Roy Hargrove - Earfood and RH Factor, Arturo Sandoval - Live at the Blue Note

I saw Chick most recently at Blues Alley in DC. Amazing show and always accompanied by world class musicians. RIP
Not Rust, but you may be interested in colorless async io_uring using Zig: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111847

Also (very rough) benchmarks (take with a pinch of salt) comparing various styles of fs and network IO (blocking, epoll, io_uring) for C and Zig: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/tree/master/demos/io_u...
My Facebook photo is from when I signed up, at a time when I needed a university email address to do so, but I'm quite happy sticking other photos on there. As for LinkedIn, mostly I just don't care whether clients know what I look like, but I think the repeated surveys got some ruder answers!
The behavior your are likely thinking of (execvp on a file without a shebang) is implemented in libc.
And if not permanent, more common. Authorities might say, "We did it before and this flu is half as dangerous, so just to be safe, let's put everyone on the digital leash again." This sort control comes with its own costs.

Personally, I'd rather take my risks and live free.
Looks like it was finally forked https://github.com/sstephenson/bats/issues/150
Not exactly on the cutting edge of tech from what I hear.
We use a 'PEO' (ambrosegroup.com). Essentially, they are the 'employer' for all the employees, and provide payroll, medical, dental, 401k, travel accounts, etc - and bill us for the total (plus something for them) every two weeks.

For a small startup, it makes a lot of sense - no time is taken up with 'HR' issues. And (from my initial research) the group medical rates that they can get more than make up for their administration cost. Making the payroll, etc, all a free bonus...
> for all practical purposes, everybody on Android does use Webkit.

That might change when Firefox Mobile comes out. I've been using the beta http://www.mozilla.com/m/beta and it's really nice. Also, Opera 10.1 beta for Android is out, and although I haven't tried it, I'm sure it will be popular as well.
If they had kids to take care of at the time, I hope they did not spend an entire afternoon working on it without success. And if they took so much time documenting their steps that it made the project take so long they could not complete it, I would say that is a negative indicator.

In the end, IIRC it wasn't that hard a test for the sort of person who would be good at the job, so it seems like a reasonable filter. The only good reasons for not successfully completing it were 1) You didn't have time for it, or 2) You simply aren't ready at this point in your career.
The crux of his prescription is to reserve insurance for the catastrophic, low-probability events like getting cancer or hit by a bus, but high-deductible catastrophic plans seem carefully calibrated to make you go bankrupt anyway. Given any other choices at all, I wouldn't trust my heath to one.

I reviewed plans with a health insurance broker in Washington state in September, who openly mocked some Regence (Blue Shield) coverage with a fifteen hundred dollar annual limit on "complex imaging", which means MRIs, CAT scans, PET scans, mammography, etc. He said, "Do you have any idea how many scans you'd get if you had cancer?", and that $1500 might cover most of the first one. If you missed that detail and got sick, you might as well not have insurance.
I found this post by Gruber (2004!) historically important and interesting, given the recent discussions about Web, openness and the shift from web apps to mobile apps. This recent talk by Gruber is equally insightful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qss5RnD7wK8&feature=playe...
No -webkit-border-radius?
Would you care to post a quick synopsis of what these tools are doing/their purpose? The thread mentions targeting routers - can you confirm?
But for simple devices or server setups with few changes over time, it might be worth it as it would at least cause a little more work to hack in. I remember that it used to be encouraged to use non-standard paths for security's sake, but then it seemed like too much work for the reason you stated. But these days, with more automated attacks relying on standard paths, I don't think it is out of the question.
A few gems in there for entrepreneurs:

"The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money." - Henry Ford

In other words, the best way to get more customers may be to delight them by providing a lot more value than they expect.

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

Pretty much sums up the best way to think about innovation and disruption.

"But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never." - William Friedkin

Will the market validate your idea/product? That is what matters the most in the end - so it is vital to understand clearly what the market wants.

"Focusing is about saying no." - Steve Jobs

"As it turned out, the obvious clearly stated, and combined with new observations, was sometimes close to revolutionary." - Wallace Stegner

The next big thing always appears obvious and simple in retrospect!
- Trello, and break it down to the most granular set of tasks that you can.
- Put some real easy ones in a list called "low-hanging fruit"
- When motivation is low, pick one or two off to get going...if motivation doesn't come back that day, just rst. But often the mere act of getting going will move you along
What is it that marks them as successes now? Still audience opinion, just not those audiences who first watched it.
> What is that empirical data? I'm curious, not being snide.

Nearly everything I've read indicates that immigration doesn't really hurt wages, except perhaps those of recent immigrants.
Just to be pedantic, the author of the article is British, all the students involved are British, and hence the First Amendment (to the US Constitution, as I assume you meant) is irrelevant.

Of course the UK has its own concept of freedom of speech, albeit quite different from the US one.