jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The entire post, out of context, seems, as some people have called it, narcissistic or pretentious. I guess no one wants to hear someone laud themselves as a genius.

As someone who's designed many things 5-10 years before a market is available for those things, i have to constantly bite my tongue any time i have a "novel idea" - since i have no patents or published papers, why would anyone listen to me? Furthermore, the end result of bragging (even in this limited context, here) is that people like me less.

I think the linked text is interesting, although meandering. The author appears to understand that their approach to teaching / sharing their ideas is lacking, and seems to be misguided on why that is. Like the Simpsons image macro: "Could I be out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong."
To add to the responses below, my sites are done with Rails, which tends to want to do things inside of Rails itself, rather than use features of the web server. All I want out of a server is to manage incoming requests and route them to Unicorn. So the large featureset of Apache is a downside, and the leanness of nginx is an upside.
Contrary to the claim of the article, my understanding is that the Romans actually did their calculations using the abacus. Furthermore the fall of the abacus went hand in hand with the adoption of Arabic numerals.
I was going to mention something along these lines; there seems to be a fixation on titles in his rant, possibly as a function of his argument that programmers don't get a lot of respect. That position doesn't gain much traction with me, when he pooh-pooh's the idea of someone offering him a mere systems administration position with such disdain.

I've self-identified for years as "something resembling" a systems administrator, but I've never been a glorified button-pusher, which is what rants like this would suggest. I think there's a good deal of confusion on the part of some programmers as to the value a good systems administrator/architect/integrator brings to the table, probably because (as with programmers) there's so few of them (but plenty of bad or mediocre candidates).

I certainly don't equate the role (beyond a certain career level, anyway) with operations; they're just as critical a part of the development process as anyone else involved in building a product.

(Some of us are actually passable programmers, too. ;-)
I'm thinking that Jonathan Ives is turning in to Steve Jobs.
Maybe phones that already know the user's credit card number could keep track of a micro-payment each time the readability feature is used on a participating and non-content-obscuring site and send off a few dollars every N uses.
The key to opensource is that professional programmers contribute time, paid for by their companies, to a project that benefits all parties in the long term.

Whilst a single programmer start make something great, it won't last without others contributing, patching, documenting..and using the code.

If you don't like people using code, don't release it as opensource..
Python folks should really check out Gunicorn as a WSGI server. Easy to configure+monitor and decent documentation. gunicorn.org
Sure. Just now, I wanted to make sure I was right about elements that fire the DOM "change" event for a guy in ##javascript by looking at Mozilla documentation. Unfortunately, I had DDG active in my search bar in Firefox. "mdn change" in DDG turns up nothing remotely useful, whereas the first result in StartPage (Google) is what I want, and the subsequent results are all of some interest. Google seems to understand the proximity of the name of a common DOM reference and the name of a DOM event (probably via some graph) and Bing/DDG is clueless.
Tight like unto a dish.
But under your interpretation, the software can't expect the hardware to be ready in less than 100ms, 10s or 10 minutes either - so the value "10ms" is meaningless.
It is not hard to notice an RF transmitter. If the police thinks their size matters in any way, they completely missed the point.
Sadly (I'm a Windows developer), it's almost all Android here in Paraguay.

I spoke with a couple local companies that do mobile development and the biggest problem is still the cost of hardware. That's even though Paraguay doesn't have anywhere near as large a problem with importing as other nearby countries do (for example, Uruguay's 60% import duty and 22% IVA, Argentina's restrictions on imports and spending money outside the country). I occasionally pop into cell phones stores and I haven't yet found a Nokia Lumia to replace my old X6. I'm sure they're available, but they certainly aren't common.
I am not talking about claims, I am talking about the nutrition info required to be provided by law. We know that there are a bunch of chemical compounds we call "vitamins" which are required to maintain our health. Soylent provides 100% of all of them. Meal replacement drinks do not.
This is so sad to see and from looking at the number of people who travelled for Thanksgiving last week I think it is almost certain that these kind of daily death numbers will continue into the new year :(

Honestly I don't really know what to say when I see these headlines anymore. I am in France but have many friends and family in the US and hearing the stories from them is both saddening and infuriating.

Sadly my own friends and family that I used to respect and look up to have shown themselves as fools this year. People I used to think of as very intelligent falling for the most insane conspiracy theories and other such nonsense. It has been really eye opening in an increasingly depressing way.

And on top of that as someone from the UK (but now living in France) I also have the stupidness of Brexit to deal with.

People talk about the impact of lockdowns on mental health but honestly that wasn't a big deal to me, the biggest impact to me this year has been the stupidity and selfishness of so many people. It is draining having to listen to people talk about 5G spreading the virus or Bill Gates wants to microchip you with the vaccine or going on rants that surgical masks lead to a dangerous build up of CO2.

There is something seriously wrong with the human race. A shocking lack of education and rational rather than emotional thinking for starters.

Sorry I guess my comment doesn't really add to the discourse. Guess I just needed to just put something 'out there' rather than it just rattle around in my head right now.
There's a lot of value in how easy TM makes snippets and all that. Yes a lot of free editors do more but it often requires more effort too. TM is well worth the money for that reason.
I don't think the crypto engineering blog is where Prof. Green publishes his very conservative academic writing. It's a blog, not a refereed paper.
You don't need to ask politicians -- just ask historians. The most recent example is the US prior to Teddy Roosevelt. That age -- the Gilded Age -- was a time of great economic growth combined with a great deal of suffering for the population. The people cried for help, and the government rescued them from the robber barons. That's how regulation came to be in the US -- as a reaction to corporations running the country.

If you want to look further back, it's very easy to see the effect of weak central governments because powerful governments are rather new. The way pretty much all societies all over the world worked before centralized government was called feudalism, and that is -- one assumes -- precisely the form society would take again if corporations were allowed to roam free. The way I see it, you have two options: a strong government or feudalism. Pick whichever one you dislike less.
This sounds almost exactly like eDonkey, which is what we used before BitTorrent. eDonkey used to be much better for rare items, though BitTorrent worked better for popular items. eDonkey used to let you start searches that would run for days, asking neighbour nodes to ask other neighbour nodes, etc.

I miss it and I think there's a lot that can be learned from it.
I think there is a third option that you are ignoring. Pike, Thompson & Co. are designing for a different problem set than the blog authors.

Golang seems to shine at very simple, concurrent tasks that can be passed from one set of developers to another regardless of sophistication levels of those teams. It seems to fail pretty miserably at making a single sophisticated developer vastly more productive. It's what Java would have been if they'd thrown away the write once/run anywhere goal and never gone down the J2EE box canyon.

There is nothing wrong with either goal btw, they just are in some ways opposites.
This has been covered and mentioned way before me, but there are in fact tactics and techniques that can (and should) be used to attempt to de-escalate situations before they get to the point of active rioting.

Specifically, the Army (I believe), and I'm sure other branches of the armed forces, have training manuals on how to interact with people in ways to keep both parties (the would-be combatants/rioters AND other military personnel) from boiling over. This is the sort of this that is incredibly useful, a necessity even, when you're in an active war zone. There's a direct translation over to civilian life, though. At the end of the day, you're trying to keep the peace.

Does it always work? I don't know: I'm not military personnel, nor a LEO, and I haven't looked at all of the available data. As a person who isn't comfortable with the amount of force that local law enforcement in America shows to all people, innocent or guilty, I can tell you 100% that I would personally feel better if I never saw officers show up in armored vehicles.. ever. They're not trained for it, they shouldn't have it.
Here is a link to the original news on the project website http://cast-project.org/news/2011/announcing-cast-preview-re... and a blog post on the Cloudkick website https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2011/apr/26/cast-the-open-dep...
That is exactly why I took linear algebra in college. I (tried to) read the original Google paper and was like, "eigen-what??" and decided to take the class as an elective.

Linear algebra is stupendously useful material, and I think it really should be standard in any CS curriculum. It wasn't in mine.
Almost as big of a ripoff as that company that gives you less than 20,000 bucks for a 2-10% steak in your company:

http://tinyurl.com/yb74jsr

Or maybe both of these deals have other less tangible benefits to the people who end up winning.
Please port it to the Android platform!
Definitely true that when you're starting you have to do it all yourself, and the mix changes as the business grows.

But the way I interpret it is that 'everything' can be lumped into 3 buckets

- right idea (product, strategy, business model)

- right execution (good processes, making sure there is always cash in the bank, and you take off before you run out of runway)

- right communication - selling it, not just to customers, but to recruits, investors, and strategic partners
I disagree. There is a comment higher up suggesting that this app could change the way people live their lives. I read this and it occurred to me that this was likely true. With the caveats if they market it correctly, if they handle competition correctly, if they expand and the proper pace, etc.

The creators will likely see a payoff from this whether or not they do any of these things correctly. But the magnitude of that payoff is entirely dependent on those ifs and the difference between executing correctly and not is humongous.
Alternatively it can be seen as a lesson for the low to not allow the middle to use them as a weapon. If they want to avoid this same result they'd need to take over their own revolution, not be led by the middle.
Looks like it was undefined behavior of the ISA when tickled by code emitted -- so, a real bug in the compiler. Lucky catch.

DeathStation 9000 emulators show their value.
Oh, I use Strong as my tracking app. I really suggest some form of tracking. Either an app or a notebook. For me being able to look back at my numbers over time is a huge motivator.
Not quite, because legally, whether the custom was licensed or not matters. By paying the fee to park and cross the property, the public implicitly recognized his private property rights (which means the public didn't have any presumption of a public right-of-way, or even prescriptive easement).

It's the public version of squatters rights, and you can't claim squatters rights if you've been paying rent the whole time.
To be clear you are the victim in this case. It’s also in your interests as an individual to reduce incidence of crime and strict policing and minimum sentences don’t, prison reform does. That would in fact lead you to vote for whatever reduces the likelihood of your being victimized too, and that’s Scandinavian prisons and policing. You should vote for reduced recidivism and a functional rehabilitation system and not a punishment system that’s so utterly failed.
Trump voters are on average wealthier than Clinton voters: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/0...
As it might be of interest to someone suffering from tendonitis:

i've had pain in my right achilles tendon for well over a year now, and although i've never had any symptoms, i've been diagnosed with gout / high uric acid levels in the blood.
I didn't know that urate crystals can deposit in soft tissues/tendons, causing inflammation.

I've been taking allopurinol for a few months now and the tendonitis seems to be slowly going away but i'm not recovered yet.
Not at all true. Mediums such as (film, broadcastTV, CableTV, print, radio all use the same tactics to enhance their ratings / viewers / audience. Media is a word to describe the sector - communications, distribution, etc.

The so-called traditional media skirt any so-called ethics and publish what gets them the most attention. Their ads are not subject to any overview aside from the FTC's loose rules on TIA and the whims of management. This is why Fox News is able to thrive, there is no requirement to be correct or accurate or even fair... Hence the irony of their long time tag line.

Next time you see that ad for unlimited bandwidth or a money back guarantee or a "free" what ever, note the medium. Its everywhere on every medium.
Put a .5" x .5" cardboard square on a wooden post.

Grab a pushpin.

Start counting paces away from the post.

Stop when you're about four city blocks away.

Start running full speed towards the post.

Hurl the pin at the post as hard as you can when you're three city blocks away.

Pin glances off of one corner of the cardboard square.

Crowd yells, "epic fail!"
I faced an interesting issue where I took a fairly artistic photograph of a heritage monument & added it via my Wiki account to the monument's page. The photograph proliferated across dozens of clickbaity tourist sites & I received a speedy removal notice a year or so later, stating my photograph infringed copyright rules since it was probably taken from public sites. Oh the irony.

I am dumbfounded that no effort was made to check the provenance before it was marked for speedy deletion & the appeals process is fairly opaque. I am fairly certain several rich media items would be facing similar fate because rest of the internet finds copypasta easy enough, without writing any credits & Wikipedia believes the media was lifted & not being person's own work. The real loss is emotional to the people who contribute in good faith.

Now, it seems my photograph isn't mine & internet moderation has deemed its provenance belongs to some clickbait designer. I was fairly proud of the pretty rainy day pic adorning the article page for a couple of months. It hurts me whenever I think of it.

The monument is 'Agrasen ki Baoli', a step well system in New Delhi, India (and a tourist attraction). I had no mental bandwidth to fight this deletion, so let it slide.

[1] Talk page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Souravmishra26#Spe...

[2] The image in question:
https://ecdn.thelistacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A...
You are correct - and I'd expand my statement to say that the most effective remote teams I've worked on are teams that supported flexibility.

All my remote teams have established expectations of what response times should be expected. I have never worked on a remote team that expected quick responses on Slack, although I know such teams do exist. My teams have varied from 1 hour to 4 for Slack response expectations. Meeting attendance is clearly expected, but my teams have always tried to respect people's boundaries and schedule them at times that work for people. It does take effort to make remote flexibility work at a team level, but the benefits in job satisfaction and getting the work done are totally worth that effort.
As long as there is not a serious Spotify like entrant journalism will keep dying.

Apple News+ has two dozen local newspapers, and hundreds of magazines from around the world for $10/month.

Browsing through random magazines was how I found out I have an interest in bird watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM3pgStuj54&t=336s

posh isolation (and associated artists) are releasing some really nice ambient
Fair enough. I suppose it doesn't take too much work to add another couple of paragraphs. What about:

"Having increased the BI up to £80, I'm now going to cut it again, down to £60 a week. This is to cover pensioners, people claiming benefits which are currently in excess of £60 and support for vulnerable children (not child benefit: that's paid as BI for the child).

I'm assuming that 20% of people fall into one of the above categories, so cutting £20 off the BI gives us £140 a week to help these people. This is more than the current basic state pension (£113.50/week) so that's a fairly big increase. I don't want to complicate the calculations any further, so the small number of people who require more than this will have to be paid out of the £50 billion we haven't borrowed."

How's that?
Thank you for the compliment! Usually I do not get called back but there are some strange cases where companies I would have never had thought would contact me back wanted to do a phone screening. I wish I would have been useful to them at the time, they were doing amazing things. I, of course, should have applied more, but nothing I can do about that now but learn from the situation.
Of course cropping is also automated, but using the different algorithm.

Text detection and text recognition is a different problem. Text detection is usually solved by stroke width transform. The article focuses on text recognition using the neural network.
There's something interesting missing from this discussion -- do the most-skilled international developers want to move to the US? The US's reputation is at a low ebb.

I mean, I like visiting, and I would love to work on some of the projects that are only available in the US, but the idea of actually living there? That's a really tough sell.
That is not true - my compensation has grown by about 100% moving from DC to the Valley a half year ago, and it still isn't as high as I believe it should be. From what I understand, DC is one of the better areas in the country for tech as well.
I can't get behind this because it's not workers versus management, or at least not only that. It's also workers versus other workers. Don't you have any friends who have had immigration issues? Screwing with them (or rather, supporting the politicians who do it) to get an even higher salary when we're already paid very well is pretty callous.

The reputation of tech employees is bad enough without this infighting over getting an even better seat at the table.
Be careful though. Yes, you are young and yes the world is your oyster but everything still has consequences good or bad. Passion doesn't mean you have to throw yourself at the work while ignoring other factors.

Passion may be working for 3 - 6 months to save to go to a development bootcamp or just working through it. I know several have programs to get financing to do it, if that is a possibility.

I've hired people from dev bootcamp and can say these programs are worth it. Just be smart about it.

If you are passionate, then dedicating several months to save money to go to one of the schools by taking any job while staying sharp should be worth it. To the point, you are 18 yrs old and can take the few months now of working a whole to set up the rest of your life.

Just don't go in debt. That lasts awhile, and I'm sure there's plenty of people here who have been in it through a bad startup.
Obviously there are issues that can mask the weight loss from losing fat in the short term (water retention is a prime culprit here). However, in the long term (at least 8-12 weeks) the trend should be fairly obvious. The situation you described where someone is packing on 1-2 lbs of muscle for every lb of fat lost is very hard to achieve and generally only seen in beginners. Once the beginner gains are out of the way they'll see the same pattern as everyone else.
Dup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997753

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997239

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997104

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1993830

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992262

None have comments of note.
> "The Americans, the FBI, the CIA and everything else, they were brilliant. I mean, I fell in love with America, because I've never been treated so well," he said. "Everybody there really looked after me. And they just thought, oh, it's this silly kid getting himself into trouble."

Haha, try that today.
The companion blog post is at https://seanmoriarity.com/2021/04/08/axon-deep-learning-in-e...
It can be MUCH more secure to run it in a jail; but IMHO that's not the point, but it could be.

There's also multiple types of security.

Running it in a jail allows you to do cool things, especially when coupled with ZFS.
This is about running & managing VM's.

Imagine you wanted to 'restore from day X', or restart each day with the same config (i.e. testing Windows boxes for exploits), or you wanted solid A/B tests and MS keeps installing updates and moving your goalposts, or some funky abandoned software only works if you have the calendar set to 1993, etc....)

You can do all of these things easily with JAILS + ZFS.

But IMHO the best reason to run something in a jail is to isolate services.

On my file-server right now I have the following running in different jails:

Plex

Windows10

WindowsXP

my Git server

my SAMBA server

DHCP

DNS/PiHole/ad-blocking

IRC server

Mumble server

4 different FAMP servers for friends & family

I like to isolate each jail into the task it'll be handling.
That how it stays organized in my mind.

ZFS send & receive + jails makes backups and restoring painless.
There is also a social/cultural "shame" mentality of being homeless there so people don't wear it like a badge like they kinda do in the US. Pot smoking hippies are looked on far worse there than they are here.
Thank you for reporting it! I will get to the team with the feedback.

You can also read the announcement here: https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-dev/c/uXRnXfOgba4/m/x...
> the West was severely outgunned (at least in conventional weapons) by Soviets in Europe.

"The west" was severely outgunned by the west - the largest political party in France in 1948 was PCF, the communist/socialist alliance in Italy almost won that year. Finland remained outside the eastern bloc simply because it was no longer seen as being part of a threat. In the UK the Labour party which tossed out Churchill while he was in Potsdam was busy nationalizing the commanding heights of England's means of production (although they were not as militant as their comrades on the continent of course).

The west was busy trying to hold onto the West, never mind intervening in Prague.
> and you’re comfortable leaving money and opportunities on the table

There are all sorts of things you can do to get the money and opportunities that don't involve perpetual interviewing.

You don't have to be introvert to not like sort of police interrogation.