jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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Not a very compelling proposition. I could see hosts offering write-ups of the vicinity but am not sure how monetization would work.

I'd like to see AirBnB go after regular vacation rentals. I have much better luck on VRBO and FlipKey than AirBnB.
> all trade with tax haven countries.

UK, Netherlands and others countries have their own tax havens like Cayman Island, Curacao Island. Are you really going to ban trade with such big financial powerhouses?
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." Mark Twain.

It sounds like you want to help other developers and set up CICD pipelines. Sounds like a DevOps type role?
Is it possible to read the article without getting into their subscription trap? I'd gladly pay some one-time fee, maybe 1-2$ for the whole issue.
Because many devs have it wrong.

It should be "I want to use ecosystem X => language YWZ", while many do "I have language YWZ => what can I do?".

Hence why language wars based on grammar/semantics are pointless.
Perfect. Now that it’s no longer part of the curriculum some kids might actually read it for fun.
Scopes has very good "naked" syntax too
https://scopes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dataformat/

I especially love the fact that comments are indentation aware.
It's nice that you can freely mix naked and parenthesis syntax too.
On a related note, anyone know why Safari has done away with favicons next to tab titles? Safari is pretty unusable as an everyday browser for me without them.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585

Authors Cass R. Sunstein (proposed member of a panel to review the surveillance practices of the National Security Agency) and Adrian Vermeule, dated January 15, 2008

Abstract: Many millions of people hold conspiracy theories; they believe that powerful people have worked together in order to withhold the truth about some important practice or some terrible event. A recent example is the belief, widespread in some parts of the world, that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out not by Al Qaeda, but by Israel or the United States. Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence, and the existence of such theories raises significant challenges for policy and law. The first challenge is to understand the mechanisms by which conspiracy theories prosper; the second challenge is to understand how such theories might be undermined. Such theories typically spread as a result of identifiable cognitive blunders, operating in conjunction with informational and reputational influences. A distinctive feature of conspiracy theories is their self-sealing quality. Conspiracy theorists are not likely to be persuaded by an attempt to dispel their theories; they may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy. Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

File under "elite panic" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/elite_panic.h...
It here is some speculation about said inside information. I emphasize speculation.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-23/call-it-ballmer-gam...
That's exactly my point. Olympic archery is at 70 yards, and they are very consistent at hitting the inner rings of the target. That extra distance would be great for hunting.
Quite the contrary. CPS is making basic computer science a part of the K-12 curriculum, starting as earlier as Kindergarten[1]. It will take decades to see the actual results from this but its helping put the city on the right path.

[1]http://cps.edu/News/Press_releases/Pages/PR1_03_19_2014.aspx
Everyone learns everyone's status all at once. It's n^2 for everyone to send their status to the whole team though. Standup should be under a minute per person. Leverage the power of sound waves.

Where I work we do one a week and it takes forever because people talk way too long. We often have two team members talking to each other about some niche thing nobody else cares about.
Well there are more productive programmers and less productive ones. It's pretty obvious to me. I don't like trying to quantify it as 10x or 20x, because it's kinda pointless to try and I don't view it as a scalar. I can't program graphics cards, but I can rebuild some of the data feeds that the Nasdaq pipes to hedge funds. I don't think a game developer could do what I do. It's the specialization that really counts, not the raw productivity, but raw productivity does count too.

In terms of your example, yes. The problem with software is that a bad architecture can complete hobble it and there are plenty of cases with unbeautiful code that makes a pile of money. I think there is artistry in software, but that wasn't the primary reason I compared it to music. I was trying to express the vastness of the domain and the range of complexity and how one could find a part in the search space that is simple enough to be called easy. Hence the garage band metaphor. Not everyone is going to be writing compilers. Some people don't want to throw their brain at a heap of complexity all day long. They just want to make pretty buttons that have a satisfying snappiness to them and call it a day.

What I'm trying to say is that there isn't one "programming" and for the people that need to hear "programming is easy, anyone can do it" in order to get the courage to try to take it up, I think that message is good. It doesn't mean they'll be working for Nasa on space probes, but they can make a comfortable living on low stakes stuff and have fun while they're at it.
> As someone who first started programming in 1979

I absolutely love that there are seasoned experts like you on HN.

Would you mind sharing with us what you're working on these days?

Compared to you I'm relatively young (I've been programming around 26 years) and in my circles I don't get to mix with too many older programmers.

Would love to hear your thoughts on career trajectories.

For me personally, I'm gradually spending less time on pursuing commercial interests, and more time on pro bono projects - and I love the idea of working on open source software indefinitely once I retire.

Cheers from South Africa.
It's more explicit now. Most sites add the Facebook Pixel as they want to track conversions on their site. Most brands have this on their site. Facebook can do all of the analysis that Google can with that, such as knowing how many people add something to their cart, checkout, etc.

The power is in combining that data, like one of the grandparent comments mentioned. They will know if you buy a SUV (since the dealer uploads the data as an offline conversion) and that you're browsing baby clothes on Walmart/Target. Now you're a "new or expecting parent".

Some of these interest categories are not that explicit but the lookalike audiences are. That's a whole other post :)
The only real advantage of going back to the office would be getting away from the wife, who has also been working from home for the past year, once in a while. On the whole, it's still better to just say "Honey, I'm going to the grocery store/Home Depot/Tractor Supply" when I need to get away and get out from under thumb.
The jet fume exposure isn’t legal. Many people in your office will end up dying of cancer because of it. Call OSHA. Consider quitting anyway.
Both grep and egrep are the same executable.

bash-3.2$ diff `which grep` `which egrep`
bash-3.2$
> Lupiano said many of those who reached out to him about their brain cancer cases "are former CHS teachers and staff members who didn’t live in Colonia, they just worked in the school."
Being 30 minutes away from a nuclear processing facility makes the story interesting, but highly unlikely to be actually correlated. That’s just way too far. But perhaps there’s not much buildings between the school and the facility, so it could be plausible that for some reason some material ended up in the school. Testing for radiation at the school could give some hints, but I have doubts 20+ years after the fact they’re going to find much.
I have not -- I like Jellyfin because it's docker based and it has inter-op with Infuse (apple tv) and VLC. All my other home services are running in a small k8s cluster. So if I ever want to move where jellyfin lives it'll be seamless.
There's a bunch I can't really say, but I think a bunch of forms from bad incentives which don't align to any long term goals.

My opinion is that the key idea of the metaverse definitely requires a standard like HTML which people can just hack on with text files. X3D is the closest in my opinion of achieving that, and I argued we should make X3D a first class citizen to overcome performance challenges of the browser/device.

Even today, pick whatever web framework, and it just boils down to HTML. There really should be a common 3D substrate that is that easy.
FWIW I never posted on Show HN because I know what assholes people are here. The app is going strong anyways so nothing of value was lost.
My prediction is that community involvement in .NET will die on the vine. If .NET is just another community-maintained project, then why use it (and/or contribute to it) over more popular (and therefore more feature-rich and bug-free) languages, such as Python? (Maybe the speed of the .NET runtime over the Python runtime, but most people don't need it).

IMHO the major value proposition in .NET is that it has that top-down leadership from Microsoft, where you don't have to think about what library to use, because it's already baked into the standard library. It may not be perfect, but it's workable. (For instance, people get very opinionated about HTML formatting libraries, and .NET previously - last time that I checked, anyway - had one or two built-in, usually one that was "blessed" and one that was "legacy". Now presumably there are dozens of community-supported libraries, making it a similar situation to the Node/JS ecosystem. Which do you pick?)
Same here, ls output needs formatting help on mobile. I was hoping glob might work too - could be a useful update
> You don’t imagine that “unions are good because of X, Y, and Z facts” is a more compelling argument to anyone anywhere in the middle spectrum than “if you don’t like unions, you’re a selfish asshole” or “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” and that difference in compelling nature would influence someone’s support of unions?

I'm not the OP, but to answer your question: frankly, no - in general it seems to often be the case that the factual merit of an argument is not really important in influencing opinion.

That the argument you mention ("if you don't like unions, you're a selfish asshole") has any influence at all is proof enough of this; note that it makes no direct statement about the merit of unions themselves, and yet is presented as an example of an influential argument about the value of unions - and rightfully so, based on your reaction and the reactions of other people in this thread.

Furthermore, I think it's fairly naive to think that "we developed [our opinions regarding unions] over time by deciding on the arguments advanced," as though it were always a conscious process or that a broadly fair view of unions was widely disseminated with which to make an informed decision. After all, why would it be?
> The reason why it says stupid in the man-pages is that it makes no assumptions about what content you store in it.

That's not true. The assumption that you are storing text files is very much built in to the design of git, and specifically, into the design of its diff and merge algorithm. Those algorithms treat line breaks as privileged markers of the structure of the underlying data. This is the reason git does not play well with large binary files.
Big fan of Elixir. First and third party libraries are typically very high quality; community support is great; and documentation is best in class.

Right now, I’m trying to find a way to speed up builds in CI because they’re the biggest bottle neck to deploying. Building an umbrella with 5 apps, 3 of which are phoenix, leveraging parallelised docker buildkit, will still take 8~ minutes.
I lived in Wiesbaden in the late 1960s. It was commonplace to see boys and men in Lederhosen on the street, and not just as a costume during Fasching. They wore them like jeans (not with the suspenders).
Version 1.0.3 uploaded, removed "tabs" permission :)
Possibly a bad idea. Potential outcome:

Them, knowing more than you might assume: "OwO what's this?"

You: possibly now a furry due to inversion of plausible deniability
There's a big difference between using a mean weight for the correct category of people—which, by definition, will on average be correct, though you might occasionally get enough very overweight people to make it slightly off—and using a mean weight for the wrong category entirely, and thus ending up systematically skewing your calculations.

Just to pull some numbers out of, ah, thin air for an example, if you were using 110lbs as the average weight of a child and 160lbs as the average weight of an adult woman, your airplane seats about 200, and roughly one-third of your passengers are adult women, half of whom use "miss" as their title, that works out to 50 lbs difference * ~30 passengers = 1500lbs.

That's gonna make a big difference.
Here's what the WHO says: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

> Data from one study shows that of more than 3,000 adults ages 18 to 34 who contracted COVID-19 and became sick enough to require hospital care, 21% ended up in intensive care, 10% were placed on a breathing machine and 2.7% died.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-publishes-second-themed-rev... ( NHS about long Covid )

> For those admitted to hospital, between 50-89% had at least one enduring symptom after two months. Of those not admitted to hospital, 20-30% experience at least one enduring symptom around one month later and at least 10% three months later;

With any common sense. That is definitely not a "very low" risk.

And it's obvious the actual research I added doesn't suggests it either.
I would think definitely some 10,000 involved. I have done transcriptions for years, but not very frequently. I don't have 10,000 hours, but I have more hours today than I did 20 years ago. And I'm definitely better at it. Ive reached the point where some music I really can just hear and write down, but there's still plenty that I need to work at meticulously.
Indeed, and the worldwide response to Covid has highlighted just how far down this path we have already come as a (Western) society. We already were a society of isolated, atomised, under-developed and ineffectual individuals, and that has only accelerated in the last year.
Funny. Are they also going to rename Thierry Coquand?
Yeah, it is quite common. In IT. I wouldn't say it is in other domains.
One thing I didn’t ask when this news first broke was did google present their case any differently to the Supreme Court? I remember when google lost last time thinking their case was presented very poorly and didn’t really attempt to explain the technical merits and how they connect to copyright law in this case too well, although I could be mistaken about that.

Does anyone care to weigh in on this?
The other option (which may be what you meant by #1) is that we're playing fast and loose with the term "harassment". It sometimes appears as if a mere mention of something sexual or scatological constitutes harassment. Similarly, it seems as though anything falling below an ideal standard of professionalism is labeled as "harassment". I worry about the lack of nuance and conflation of ideas.
Noted, thanks! Is there any relevant difference between N100 and P100? I think my local hardware store has P100 filters in stock
None of these are especially created for mobile. Or aimed squarely at BBM with the same features.

I had been thinking about creating BBM for other platforms simply because I'd like to have it on my iPhone.
Being predictable isn't easy to avoid. We put so much hardware in the sky, and quickly neutralize so many of the surface-to-air threats, that aircraft are far more likely to have a close call with another friendly aircraft than to be deliberately targeted. (Not true for rotary wing aircraft.) So they're predictable, because that's the easiest way to keep two airplanes from occupying the same piece of sky, because midair collision is the greater threat. There are other ways to deconflict traffic, since so little use is made of the real capabilities of modern electronics, but being predictable also allows military air traffic to fit into the civilian air traffic control system. It's a tradeoff, and following predictable procedures resolves it while simultaneously covering a lot of asses.

Of course, as soon as one sortie aborts for a SAM threat, a concerted effort should be put into finding the source (and redoubled if it isn't found but reports keep coming in). You can be as predictable as you like if you really do own the sky.
we don't use incrementing ids, but needed ids that increase over time (so that you can sort tweets by them). hence, snowflake: http://github.com/twitter/snowflake
I think it depends how broadly or narrowly you conceptualise computer science. I doubt category theory is much use for developing algorithms, but it's been an important influence on type systems for programming languages, especially modern functional languages but also more mainstream things like generic types in Java.

Taking your question literally (“category theory being applied to solving a CS problem”), I'd say the full abstraction problem for PCF is a good example of a problem in computer science whose solution leant heavily on category theory.
It's called "use the source" for a reason :P
Looks like it's pretty new. They're still calling it a "beta". Maybe the mobile apps are coming next?
I was in the same boat with regards to TODOs, and I asked myself, given how well steeped we are in technology nowadays - surely this is a solved problem?

Turns out, it is. emacs' org-mode does pretty much the exact same thing WorkFlowy does, only it's tied into all the other niceties of emacs (and to admit that is saying something, I was a vim user). Plus, thanks to Dropbox, and MobileOrg for iPhones and Android, you can sync it to your mobile device quickly and easily.

Each to their own and all that, but I really, really like org-mode. The only reason I've slowed down on it a bit currently (using Astrid atm) is because the Android client is still relatively weak; as soon as that picks up a bit I'll be back on it full-time.
If I had a penny for every user that ignored important facts about IT I could retire.
#1 in Mechanical Engineering. Really?

That specific ranking seems a little fishy to me. Also, I'm having a fair amount of trouble finding any corroboration online that Science Watch ever put Harvard up there in any ranking. If anyone could find a link to a Science Watch article with their methodology, I'd really like to see just what it was about Harvard that made them rank it over say, MIT (the current US News top) mechanical engineering.
Are you still a startup when you have 1000 employees?
Sadly, there will always be poor/homeless in a free market.
> TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT is something similar on Linux

Not similar enough. In the case I was describing, there are some bytes to read but not a full HTTP request. TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT prevents accept() from returning until there are some bytes to read. That doesn't help.
> You could even pay only $500k/y to these excellent guys but no startup does that because they're not sure

In some cases, equity does provide this level of pay. The problem is there is no way to know which startup will get to 100x it's current value, and which one will flame out.
This is r/shitamericanssay material.
I have broad spectrum allergies to lots of stuff (pollen, etc). I live in the southeast with pine trees everywhere so it isn’t really seasonal.

A mask does help, which I’ve been wearing for… obvious reasons but exercising in a N95 is rough.
I remember areas of Bali where local cabs would threaten and drive away cabs from outside the area, including private-hire ones ordered via app. Their argument was local drivers should be supported, but the cab prices were really high for short rides as a result (because the clientele was foreign tourists, many from Australia and Europe).
AFAIK it was the problem with his Internet speed, not with software. He had the video stream in the beginning, but it was lagging.
>It would also very likely introduce pop-in and latency issue as soon the client peeks behind the wall and now need updated information from the server.

Which is why games that do that will still send you data about player who you are almost able to see. This will be their exact position and look direction along with what they are holding. Even limited wallhacks can give a competitive advantage.

I think you misunderstand fake lag. With fake lag you get fake packet loss / latency which causes your character to stutter making it harder to aim at you. The server isn't getting a regular stream of updates of your position.
And even if you disagree with their ranking, you can change ranking weights for domains yourself.
Two ideas:

(1) Might you have had an ISDN modem and two 56kbps channels? Or are you certain it was a plain 56kbps modem and an ordinary POTS line (plain old telephone service).

(2) Are you sure that the P2P software wasn't lying to you? Did you time it yourself? It might have been showing you a highly exaggerated transfer speed (maybe basing the speed on the uncompressed file).
I do though -- it costs money to produce electricity. So if more electricity is used overall my costs ultimately go up to accommodate. Perhaps fuel prices increase, or to offset the cost of additional power plants to support the higher demand, or any number of other reasons. Paying by your usage does offset this but it doesn't help if the total amount of demand increases.

It also costs more money to support higher bandwidth of network travel. But unlike with electricity, there is no cost (to network providers) to generate the data, since the data is usually paid for by the source. This means the average consumer doesn't get any of the benefit of the increased pricing -- it has not changed how the internet providers charge to consumers at all, only how they charge content makers. And customers who like the content get increased costs on top of that.

Therefore, I don't see any benefit by removing net neutrality -- it can only hurt consumers. If it only benefits network providers, why should I support it?
> The 'freedom' to inspect the code that runs on your computer is useless without both the freedom to see what happens upstream, and also some level of trust or confidence that the service you're using really isnt doing something nefarious.

How is such freedom useless? I keep hearing this argument, yet I still run a significant portion of software locally and have no plans of replacing that with services, given they are a far worse option, precisely due to the loss of freedom and autonomy for not much additional gain.

Sure, if you accept that all your software are belong to them, then clearly the freedom to run libre stuff is useless, tautologically. But maybe you shouldn't be ready to give away that freedom just yet?

That you cannot be sure what someone else is running "over there", on a machine you don't control, is a fact of nature. Trading away your freedom for a foolish attempt to control that is misguided and shortsighted.