jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting that you didn't bother looking for it. I'm not sure how you can "see" something if you don't look :)

Anyway, the note is copied pretty much verbatim from the Rational Wiki page on him: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander

Which links here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200623184053/https://twitter.c...

It links to the bottom of the thread in question. The gist of it is that, Scott Alexander communicated and had an open dialogue with the reporter, he knew that his name was going to be published (At the least, he didn't demand anonymity). The reporter initially had a positive take on SSC. The person in the linked tweet spoke to the reporter and introduced them to a different perspective, and put them in contact with other people with a slightly negative perspective of the blog. As soon as the reported started contacting those people, however, Scott suddenly had a problem with his name being published, and the blog was deleted.
By your logic the stock market a scam because of penny stocks.
> With the deregulation of the 1990s, the ambition was to create thriving, independent schools, foundations, parent cooperatives and small limited company schools with educational alternatives.

Sure, and the purpose of privatising welfare institutions, railroads and electric grids is to benefit the citizens, not the cronies of politicians...
> The "just ahed of time" compilation is one of those obvious-in-hindsight ideas IMO

It's not new. One of the most widely used Lisp environments, SBCL, works this way. So does Chez Scheme, and therefore now Racket.
Well, Schadenfreude is a loanword in English, albeit not common.
Even then, it took my friend 7 years and the death of his father to start thinking about leaving the country. By 7 years, I mean that I've been telling him to leave for 7 years.
On this topic, what resource do you think is a really good one for learning mastering?
What do you use? I have an awesome document scanner but Acrobat Pro takes like ten seconds a side to OCR with a ridiculously single-threaded process that ends up taking minutes to finish even short documents on a monster workstation.
Just to clarify, "Held der Steine" literally translates as "Hero of the Stones". "Lord of the Stones" would be "Herr der Steine". (However, I don't know if Thomas has a canonical translation that he prefers, or if he's even ok with the name being translated.)

He also runs a toy store; a German publication referred to his YouTube channel as a "side-gig". That maybe explains the knowledgable-ness.
NetSuite requires CSVs to be in a predefined format. No mapping options at all. [1]

(You might think "just don't use NetSuite" but most large companies are using NetSuite. Small-business accounting systems do not work well past a certain scale of transactions/purchasers/vendors/etc.)

[1] https://www.proteloinc.com/blog/import-online-bank-data-and-...
If you're going to operate at the intersection of gun nuttery and prescriptive English usage, it would help you to be right. The US Army "Small Arms Identification Guide" defined the term at least 50 years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190904213732/http://031d26d.na...
Please explain what's the relevant difference between a social network and a communications app in this context. I'm not going to argue about the exact definition of walled garden, I think my point was clear.
This is an interesting story. There is also a documentary movie made by the person in question: http://www.prodigalsonsfilm.com/

Unfortunately, the documentary leaves something to be desired for a movie. It's not very well done, but it does give you some insight into the story from the eyes of Kimberly.
Even in 2010 I still find that many problems can be factored enough that small, focused programs can be used. Now I could bundle that functionality into a larger application, making a nifty class/module and all that, but sometimes it's nice to just write a C program to take care of it. I will always want something like that in my toolbox, and C is a proven tool that works well.
SHA1 might (I think it is, but I'm not sure) be faster than DES; among other differences, DES crypt(3) has to run the DES key schedule before producing a hash. Data slips through SHA1 like a greased seal.
We added little more info here -- http://www.securityweek.com/backdoor-vulnerability-discovere...
Ah, I hadn't realized there was a BIN on it. Can't believe he set it so low :)
A wise man once said "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments."

The reason _why (used as an example in the article) has the cult-like following he does is that he made fun, interesting things, not because he marketed himself or gamed the social system around him. Sure, a bit of self-promotion is often a good thing, but if you're expending lots of energy on making yourself into an icon, you've got less use actually earning such a status.
Do you mean that all of these positions were recommended to you by a recruiter?
I fail to see why every platform has to become a fucking idealogical battleground. If I’m in the market for a social network myself (HN notwithstanding) I’d probably choose a politics-free one if possible.
You've got the order of events wrong here. The term "responsible disclosure" originated from the legal teams of vendors around 2002, it was never co-opted by vendors.

Here's a little historical context https://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/120

I think the 14 words comparison is apt. Without context there's nothing obviously wrong with the 14 words, just like there's nothing obviously wrong with "responsible disclosure".
Incidentally, these auto-plagiarism-detection systems that academic journals use seem to go overboard. You 're not allowed to quote yourself, and sometimes they detect completely silly things. It's just not possible not to plagiarize "serial section electron tomography".
The US has quite proven itself at starting wars without hesitation to enforce their version of the world order. And lacking a restraint like MAD I think there would be a good chance of them dropping nukes here and there, USSR being prime target.
> That assertion doesn't pass muster because (..)

It does, because in the same time the corporation could have used the tech stack they are familiar with, focusing on the product, which would directly improve their revenue.
In most cases I've been consulting, the move to Kubernetes was strictly pushed by people who did not understand that for their use case it made absolutely no difference and only brought a lot of complexity to their table, which then turned into a year of two of consulting costs and even more operational work they previously had to maintain the new tech stack.

Lose-Lose situation.

> Kubernetes is by far the best and only option available to the whole industry.

No it isin't. And the sooner people understand that the better.
As someone from New York, this information is incomplete and incorrect.

Tickets are not checked on the bus and subway. Fare enforcement is done by NYPD, the local police department consisting of police officers.

Tickets are checked on the commuter rail, but conductors only really are empowered to ask people to pay the onboard fare, which is higher than purchasing a ticket at a machine or at an office outside the train. Conductors can call police, but are not able to make arrests or use physical force to remove farebeaters from trains.
Showing non-sexual images of breasts on facebook may or may not work out well: https://www.facebook.com/the.ban.on.breastfeeding/

The sensibilities are different but they exist.
This sounds like a retread of Gladwell's 10,000 hours. Instead of putting the hours in, put in obsession instead. Whether by accident or design, I can imagine it being a flattering message on HN for regulars and for startup founders.

It's wrong. No amount of hours or obsession compensates for lack of raw talent.

Innate ability sets a talent ceiling. Hard work/time/obsession refine and manifest raw talent where it's there, but can't compensate when it isn't. (And a bad environment can cripple it - but that's a different debate.)

The proof is that science, engineering, and math have plenty of very bright, very obsessive, very hard-working people. But they still produce very few no-doubt-about-it outright geniuses.

In fact genius is a rare combination of raw domain talent combined with outstanding creative imagination. The former provides the ability to produce outstanding work, the latter pushes it over the line with the potential for game-changing originality.

Together they can completely transform a domain instead of simply broadening it.

This is not the same as reapplying something already known in a clever and creative way - which is what talented and gifted people do.

Genius pioneers a fundamental change in the understanding of reality and massively expands what humans are capable of imagining and doing within it.
He mentioned he was evaluating MongoDB.
The fact that Judy has to be optimized (and extensively modified) for specific architectures is a big part of this article's critique.
When asked to do things you do not want to do, say no.

Obviously you have to pick your battles, but this simple act is guaranteed to give you more time to do the stuff you do want to do.
rtm?

I remember it was in our text book.
If your living space is limited, ditch your dining table and get a folding ping-pong table with wheels. Do this before you find your life partner.
- Make yourself visible, create your own webpage,portfolio page and link it everywhere, starting with your HN profile. You don't have an email address there right now. So you might've already lost 1-2 potentials that didn't bother to signup/reply just to get your contact address.

- Make some apps on your own, build a portfolio. Just 1-2 should do it. There's google appengine for free hosting.

- Try Elance.com, i've had better luck and more pay per effort on projects there.

Also send me an email with your hourly rates.
Don't try to go to a better school. Try to work well with good people.
There's a lot of great tips here, some I use every day. However, there's one conspicuously missing: whiteboards.

To me, whiteboarding is the best brainstorming tool possible. It's useful for just about everything, too. My whole wall is covered in them and they're almost always full. Get a whiteboard and you won't regret it.
> anyone trained in basic molecular bio techniques can do it.

In the same way as anyone with a laptop can program. The quality of the results... may vary.
Upvoting so someone from Intel sees it and hires these devs to make this actually happen. CUDA absolutely dominates, it would be a game changer to have it work with another GPU platform.
...when do people use it that way? "Sinister" in English has just the one meaning; the sense of "left" is restricted to Latin.

And even there, "left" is a pretty different concept from "left-handed".

On a different note, French for left is "gauche".
Right now facebook has a couple options when a new network emerges. Buy the competitor, clone the competitor, ignore them, compete with a not completely similar product. Why not another option, like "take a percentage of their profit in exchange for service." I dont think it should be looked at as just as direct ROI, but also as a hedge against future obsolescence. Its a better position to be in, to be the ocean, if everybody wakes up one day and jumps ship.

Visa and Microsoft make a ton of money being a grease or tax on other business, a small shaving of money in exchange for massive efficiency, instead of trying to BE every business. Is anyone offering an out of the box Social Graph as a Service kit?

It would also be a huge growth opportunity for Facebook Ad Services, to be THE ad marketplace of all new social networks. And in a play right out of Adobe's playbook, buying some things like bigcommerce, ecommdash, shiptstation would position them to sell underlying services that allow their customers to compete directly with amazon, ebay, adobe, salesforce. There is surely a lot more money they could make selling saas and pass, vs becoming another generic iaas provider.

https://telegra.ph/Facebook-Social-Services-FbSS-a-missed-op...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19868341
what's the pay rate for sequestered employees?
In which states will they not be? They’re considered essential even in shelter in place states
I'm waiting for someone to bring the vertically curved video slot machine displays to market for general use. Those would make a nice personal command center.
Looks like Microsoft surface with ryzen 4000 might be comming. Will be interesting to see if it fares any better than previous Gen vs Intel, though:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15213/the-microsoft-surface-l...

Rumor:

https://www.techradar.com/au/news/amd-ryzen-4000-powered-mic...

Still waiting for full touch support for surface pro 4 in mainline Linux - other than that it's a pretty snazzy machine. The keyboard is great (if not quite IBM era thinkpad great.. But what is?). Would prefer a matte screen though.
Out of curiosity: What did f 0 0 give for f _ 0 = 1; f 0 _ = 2; ?
> Serverless UI deploys each function in your /functions directory as a Node.js lambda behind a CDN and API Gateway for an optimal blend of performance and scalability.

Cool!
Well there is a benefit in being able to read code and know exactly what's going on. For me, reading words requires less mental effort that mentally parsing glyphs.
given how big the world is, _yes_, still infancy
Simpler and less complex?
With force, of course.
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/09/29/is-book-writing-wort...

Martin Kleppmann, the author behind Designing Data Intensive Applications, wrote about his experience as well, and it shows an interesting contrast with Resig's experience with digital publishing. As you can see in Martin's graph, ebook sales starting Sept 2014 were a _major_ part of his royalties due to it being available as "early release", and integration with the O'Reilly platform increased his exposure, and therefore royalties.

Its hard to guage accurately, but it seems O'Reilly + ebook sales contributed to about 2/3rds of his overall royalty returns, which is a pretty darn good result!

Of course, Kleppmann and Resig are writing about very different eras in terms of publishing, but I can't help but wonder if Resig would have a different experience if he was able to publish an equally relevant work in 2015 vs 2008.
Would be interesting to see App Platform growth numbers. Lot's of competition: Heroku, Netlify, Fly.io, App Engine, Cloud Run, etc. But they may have hit the sweet spot in terms of features and pricing.
This really messes with some of the stuff I do at work with test instrumentation since we use GPS time in the field but our computers use UTC. We had a problem late in 2014 when one of our instrumentation techs was using an old instruction manual and he was converted his data using a 14 second offset between GPS time and UTC, instead of the correct 16 seconds. Now we'll have to issue all new instruction manuals to the technicians-- or maybe we can just fall back to a 2011 version that had a 15 second offset.
Not necessarily. First easy reason for not migrating: the cost to do so outweighs the benefits. Why port working code to a new language when all you're doing is maintenance?

I don't know about you but its hard to sell upper managers on complete rewrites of things when the end result is: no real change but it might/should/could run faster. Unless performance is a concern to be addressed the risk of changing technology stacks doesn't seem a great idea.
Showing me ads is also theft of resources. When I visit a website I do it for the content, not the ads. I never visited a website for its ads, ever! Stop stealing my resources, please...
sorry, i never hovered on it. thanks
I earn my bread with Pharo Smalltalk.
And I use all the modern trappings:

CI with Jenkins
Source versioned in Github
Unit tests

Used to use Java, C, C++, PHP, and some Tcl/Tk.

Smalltalk is above all of these in terms of pleasure of coding. That's factor number one for me as this is what keeps motivation high.

I've been able to be faster, with less errors, and more features than any of the aforementioned languages once I passed a given experience threshold.

Pharo works nicely with the command line and on headless servers.

One can write text files that are loaded at runtime too, so scripting it fine too.

It would be nice to have a webdav view on an image so that one could have that "files" view and edit things with Vim for example. Well, one can do that already with a git checkout, I am just speaking about doing it on a live image. There are working POCs of that (e.g. Spoon from Craig Latta) and some work is going forward in that direction as well these days.
He wanted to make a cheap joke, but PHP should be the opposite: productivity is rather high, while self-assesment is low.
I am an edge case, but one where big CDNs are blocked, especially Google. Where the cache doesn't work, often nor do the entire pages they're supposed to serve; this does not apply only to fonts.
Do something relevant that you really want to do. That means don't pick a project because it's easy, but pick one that passionates you, no matter how hard.
Haskell has Djinn. Not as powerful as Agda.
if i were a turk, i'd be very wary about all this.

looking at the fiasco in the ukraine, i can see how some powers are looking to engage the local mob to bring just another government to its knees. as big parts (portugal, spain, france, italy, ireland, greece) are effectively bankrupt, living on wellfare of the rest of the union, the eu is very, very eager to extend its reach into eastern territory -- by all means.

turks, ukrainian fellows and all other potential guinea pigs: don't get sucked into something you'll complain about as not having seen coming.
Really? Every jot, every tittle?
http://hackerlunch.com

I'm working on Hacker Lunch, which lets you meet up and have lunch with another hacker in your area.

Launched a super rough MVP only for hackers in San Francisco, you can try it at http://hackerlunch.com

A few people tried it out and had a pretty fun experience, so I hope more people try it out.

I plan on building this out fully into a mobile app, so the process is a bit more natural and instantaneous.
Ah, what cute example of disruption porn.

Hip, populist sounding name? Check.

New slick-designed facade on old activity? Check.

Marketed as if they're eliminating middlemen? Check. (wow! no fees!)

Promoted as making a begrudgingly-done banality suddenly fun? Check.

Entirely predicated on the idea that the founders' simplicity will persevere? Check.

Majority of money still flowing to well connected insiders? Check. (who do you think is on the other side of trades?)

Eventually going to be assimilated into an incumbent and end up as a tired pig's discarded lipstick? Check.
I think you need a challenge.

You're happy, content with how your business is going, you love whats happening around you. So I believe you're losing motivation to go on. Why not take up a small challenge to yourself which is not related to your business at all? This usually freshens my mind and gets me thinking on some other things. Some simple ideas you could try:
1. Grow an audience for you twitter handle (Don't know anything about it, just go ahead anyway)
2. Code something for your wife/girlfriend and surprise her?

Let me know what you think. You probably just need a distraction on the side to push you through this phase. All the best mate!
I agree that privacy is a fundamental right. However, has anyone thought about how we haven't seen any real terrorist attacks in the past decade? There are people out there wanting to hurt the US. And it's not difficult to do. It really isn't. Clearly the NSA is doing something right.

Like I said, I wholeheartedly agree that privacy is a fundamental right. But, I would like to see more people acknowledging the flip side of the argument.
> Yes, it's luxury in many ways. But it's also a coal mine of its own sort.

Except you won't die from sitting home in your pajamas.

You will, however, be very to die for a multitude of reasons in a coal mine.

I'm a programmer. Yes, my brain is engaged constantly. But that's fun to me. It's not like I rue the day I became a programmer and I had to perform the terrible labor of sitting around with friends/acquaintances, sip free coffee, and make web apps. However, if you're in a sweatshop, forced to work many hours a day and likely suffer a variety injuries, you aren't doing as well.
Github is "a US Coding Website"? What? Theres thousand of non US code repos there.
It would be rather pointless to ship Perl4, as Perl5 is almost completely backwards compatible with Perl4. Most of the parts where backwards compatibility was removed weren't actually used to a large extent. Also Perl5 didn't add that much syntax, and a big reason it was ugly is that Perl4 didn't leave a lot of space for the extra features. Which is also why Perl6 breaks backwards compatibility.

There are also some features that were eventually removed from Perl5, but not really. For example setting $[ was removed (it was a pretty stupid idea), but if you try to use it Perl loads the module arybase which re-implements that feature. (removing it simplified the internals)
If you seriously think that Perl5 is less suitable for text processing than Perl4 was, I suspect you haven't actually used the language in a while... it's still perfectly good for that. Perhaps even better, since 5.8 added extensive support for Unicode (without requiring explicit conversions and breaking everything like Python 3 did).
This is a shitty comment.
You can tell it’s a scam when there are loads of buzzwords and no technical details.
One thing I notice: too many things cause unresponsiveness. 8 cores in my laptop and I can't install a package in the background, and semantic parsing interrupts typing. There doesn't seem to be any concurrency at all, things I do every day like eval'ing forms to REPL cause stutters.

I love that it allows makers to explore new ui paradigms (magit, lispy), but performance is its biggest downside.
Not using calculators is a good solution, using apps on computers or smartphones to teach children how to use the tools the scientists use is even better. It would allow to reduce the amount of boring tasks performed in math class and increase the amount of real math.

More capitalism (or better to say market) is always good answer because it helps to solve situations where people are stuck with inefficient and useless products. If children and parents could choose between schools with different programs, and teaching apps, this expensive and outdated calculator would not exist now.
Once the forest is mature, though, it's mostly just storing the carbon, rather than acting as an effective sink. So maybe you need to cut some trees down from time to time, and store that wood somehow where the carbon will be locked up for a long time without taking up valuable land area.

The problem is that we keep pulling carbon out of the ground and introducing it into the ecosystem. If we don't have a corresponding method of removing it from the ecosystem, we'll eventually run out of room for forests that we can use to store it. Some of that happens by natural means, but we'd have a bit more breathing room if we could figure out how to make it happen faster.
They realise that alright, that is why they offer cloud services to do exactly that.