jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> But the inflation being pushed on the population

I agree that inflation is too high, but the role of fiscal policy isn’t as singular or simplified as it has been portrayed.

At the end of the day, only one thing drives prices: Supply and demand. Home prices are going up because people are pouring more money into the housing market, and because low interest rates make that money go farther.

Think of it this way: How are home prices inflating (adjusted for interest rates, even) if people’s wages are simultaneously going down?

One of the biggest misunderstandings of financial stimulus is this idea that the average or lower class person will somehow suffer. That would be true if stimulus went straight to companies (as some of it did) but more recent proposals are at least focused on individuals.
Here is a android hacker news app I made to quickly get updates

Let me know your feedback

Features:

- Flashes HN headlines word by word to using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation.

- Tap a headline to view its link

- After a headline is read it won't be displayed again so only new content will be shown
Or make them backwards (-:
I have to agree. Knowing that you have enough money to not worry about money would be incredibly liberating, even if I only maintained my current standard of living and changed nothing about what I actually do. Even if I never exercised the options, having that kind of money would give you options you wouldn't have otherwise.
Yeah, that was glaringly lacking in the post. I doubt the idea is one that no one's ever thought of before and keeping it a secret is only going to prevent him from getting potentially valuable feedback.
"No one punctuates with colons like that."

Apparently the Chicago Sun-Times does on its website, as do many other sites. " :: " is a simple visual separator that makes it clear that what's intended is not just a colon. It also prevents any confusion that can arise when you use a single colon or an em-dash as the title/site separator and then use the same punctuation element within a title.
No worries. It makes sense, really.

I just tried to look for the copy that made me think this, and I can't find it.
I agree on the price point, although it's not clear how you could get to that price point -- ditching the Windows tax doesn't buy you that much.

I think the biggest problem I have with it is that -- barring a revolutionary cheap price point -- there seems to be no Unique Selling Proposition or compelling use case that distinguishes it from the capabilities of existing netbooks.
Found a little easter egg doing it the other way: http://translate.google.com/#la|en|Quid%20pro%20quo.
Apple’s homepage is used as an example, since its title is simply “Apple”, but other pages at Apple’s site are named fairly inconsistently: some use curly apostrophes, others use straight ones. Some have sentences ending in periods; others don’t. Some use sentence case; others use title case. Some pages just state what the page is; others read like marketing babble.

Examples:

Apple

Welcome to the Apple Store – Apple Store (U.S.)

Apple – Mac

Apple – Play music and more on iPod.

Apple – iPhone 4 – Video calls, multitasking, HD video, and more

Apple – iPad – See the web, email, and photos like never before.

Apple – iTunes – Everything you need to be entertained

Apple – Support

iPad – iPad WiFi – iPad Wifi + 3G – Apple Store (U.S.)

Apple – MacBook Air – It thinks and acts like a full-size Mac.

Apple – iPod classic – Read the iPod classic technical specifications.

Apple – iPhone 4 – Design of the display, A4 processor, and more

Apple – iTunes – What's on – Discover music, movies, and more.

Apple – Why You’ll Love a Mac – A Mac is the ultimate upgrade.

Apple – In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic for iPod and iPhone

Apple – Science – Inside the Image – Quantum Views

(Still, overall, Apple’s is better than most websites: it’s pretty clear what each of the above pages is about just from its title.)
If you are a Maverick, then that's fine. Write code however you like. Seriously, I care less than anyone.

Just stop talking trash about how I do things. If the story is more interesting than the grammar, then shut up about grammar and go back to writing stories.

My problem is with telling people that there is a problem when there is no problem, and at the same time calling yourself a scholar.
- Have only the most important use cases covered with automated integration tests.

- Don't spend time in writing unit tests until

- You have paying customers and a steady revenue
Implement what you can from the retros. This shows you are interested in improving things rather than complaining. For instance, when I joined a company a few years back, I just started writing unit tests for my code. No permission needed.

Even if you can only do one retro item every sprint, at the end of a few months you should be more effective and will have proven yourself a team player. Hopefully then you can make suggestions that will not be perceived as critical.
> They’ve created a single platform that can be easily modified to do any number of jobs. For instance, their flagship product, the Dannar 4.00, can accept over 250 attachments from CAT, John Deere, or Bobcat. […] Having interoperability with so many different types of equipment, one platform can easily perform many tasks over the course of a year. This is a huge win for cash strapped municipalities. Why would a company or municipality opt to have a backhoe parked all winter long when it could be doing another job?

Does it have regenerative brakes?
Definitely in the US, Europe not so much.

How long did the drama over a nipple being shown during the egg ball final last?
It would be a great idea to legally force social networks to automatically apply this kind of AI and show the results in the feed for the reasons you mentioned.
Oh, and you if you need a little more persuading or motivation you might want to check up on books by Sam Harris [1] and Michael A. Singer [2]. The first one is also a neuroscientist and a famous sceptic, and the second is a former programmer and a successful businessman. Personally, when I was in a similar place as you are now, I found that simply reading Singer’s book was a form of therapy.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religi...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourse...
I’ve found Kohl’s to be a great example of this. If you happen to find something that isn’t 30, 40% off, just try again next week.
Just watch a music channel on TV. Half of the videos look like soft porn. Is that relevant to the music?
Scala got huge because of Spark.

I'm a Scala programmer due to Spark. I love it.
> I wonder if it's used for their alarming logic.

If you need easily verifiable rules for your rules engine, it's hard to go wrong with Prolog.
Since I mentioned Gradle aggravations, I'll share a couple:

1. Bizarre and inscrutable syntax. They say things like "build scripts are just Groovy code", but some things, like how you define sourcesets or configurations, don't look like anything that should parse, much less compile, in any C-like language. They're doing some fancy meta-programming stuff behind the scenes to keep things light and simple, but it really isolates (and possibly alienates) developers from exactly what's happening under the covers. The Kotlin DSL seems to help make it more clear what's going on, but I haven't used it much yet.

Having used Gradle for years, it is strangely off-putting how unsure I often am about whether to put a colon in a particular place or a comma, or if something should be in parenthesis.

2. If you want to do anything beyond what's documented you can get into a bit of trouble, and if you find answers more than a couple of years old there's a good chance they often won't work. Making sense of the DSL documentation is sometimes a little tricky.

Beyond that, I would dare say it's the least awful option for building for the JVM. Their documentation is very comprehensive, it's fast, they are very fair about providing deprecation warnings before features are removed. It's rare I find a case where I'd like to use some external library that has a Maven plugin but no Gradle support.
> Why did they adopt Scala in the first place?

I think in the case of Scala many companies became invested in Spark and Scala came along for the ride. Then as time went on, it turned out you could do advanced FP in Scala, despite its warts, with principled libraries like Cats and the Typelevel stack (see https://typelevel.org/cats/). Companies could then use Scala as a "better Java" or squint-and-it's-almost-Haskell. Or like you said they could just ditch Scala and use something less powerful but easier to learn and work with.
More photos please!
The problem is that the huge suburban "exclusion zone" around cities means that central parts of the metro are very far from open green space. Compare e.g. the development pattern around Cologne-Essen:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cologne,+Germany/@51.20163...

to Houston:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Houston,+TX/@29.759369,-95...

In the one case you are never more than five miles from green space, in the other you may be 20+ in the middle. It's a tragedy of the commons -- no one driveway thinks it caused the flood (literally, in some cases!). Even Paris is more compact than Houston despite having 2x the population!

This can affect air quality, urban heat islands, mental health, etc.
Let’s take the Moderna trial for example, which doses on Day 1 and Day 29. I can’t find specific published data, but safe to assume that “Day 29” is not absolutely 28 days later in every case, but on average 28 days later.

So the “fail safe” method would be to have a 100% reserve of second doses at all times. No first dose can be given if a second dose is not reserved.

Alternatively, you give out all your doses as fast as they come in, and you have a separate queue for 2nd-dosers who get priority when they schedule their time slot. Some days your whole supply could go to 2nd shots.

But unless you’re willing to actually delay the second dose for several months, the total number of people vaccinated in the first 3 months doesn’t really change all that much between the two scenarios.

In either case you shouldn’t literally be locking up doses for 30 days. The smart thing to do logistically is you have tracking on doses throughout the delivery pipeline, probably knowing your specific scheduled deliveries at least 14 days out. The second dose for a person dosed today doesn’t have to sit in the freezer from Day 1, it just needs to be reserved from the delivery expected on Day 24.

If a shipment gets behind and someone gets their second shot on Day 30 or 31, obviously this is perfectly fine. The only issue with getting ahead of yourself would be a major unexpected supply chain interruption that could leave people waiting a couple weeks longer, but then we have much bigger issues.
Is anyone else ever saddened when they think about the man hours spent on projects like this (reversing software or hardware to accomplish what should be a simple goal) when all it would take is the teensiest bit of cooperation to not waste all those hours? I use waste in the sense of like trying to assemble something complicated with the instructions just out of arms reach, not in the sense of doing something pointless.

In some cases all companies would have to do is not actively hide or obfuscate things. In others it may take more effort but still just a drop in the huge bucket compared to developing a system in the first place.

I love Apple's hardware, I even (mostly) love the OS. If they too believe that it is solid - why prevent people from running what they want? The majority will come back anyway - I've run Linux for years and still ended up on MacOS for simplicity. I'll still buy Macs and run MacOS because it works for me, it's not like letting me run Linux will cost them money or something. The vast majority of people don't know what Linux even is, there is no threat there.

Please note that this comment is not directed at people who choose to spend their time on projects like this. You're awesome, I just wish you didn't have to put so much effort in.
Also got excited to see Cincinnati on the front page. I love it here, but the public transit is lacking. People from out of town are also often surprised when I tell them that it's very hilly here, and it makes cycling tough. Good for exercise, hard for commuting.
So you think that makes it okay for Iran to do it? Hypocrisy doesn't make someone else's bad actions acceptable.
You know how every now and then someone comments "That's it, HN has officially become Reddit" or something along those lines? Well, I think this would be a good opportunity...

(Usually, those comments get downvoted, so please feel free.)
Think about how your comment would sit if it was made on a sexual assault case.
Tools that make reading and understanding legacy COBOL code would always do well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatr...

They did it in Soviet Union at some point to the intellectuals who questioned their ideology.
Maybe not something to optimize for, but still something to optimize when you can do it without sacrificing speed or functionality in other areas.
Well guess they can easily dig into the system and hence make sure those money out there are all theirs. As said, money inside China is not yours, ask a guy Ma. Now we may say, digital money of China is not yours as well, just the ccp.
I had to chuckle at this, one of the bulleted features:

"Offers an extended source format that lets source text vary in length up to 252 bytes per line. COBOL for Linux on x86 supports fixed source format and extended source format. Fixed source format consists of text that varies in length up to a 72 bytes per line."

Yeah I'm never going to be in the same room as COBOL code
It may have seemed like a fiasco to you, but when the dust settled I still had a copy of 1984 on my Kindle, so from a customer's POV I'm not too worried.
once worked on a project that tried to do just that, but at the time the LinkedIn api was already limited to seeing the authenticated users connections connections, which was too limited for what we wanted to do, can only imagine it got worse.
It's also the reason recruiters really want to connect to you on LinkedIn because even if you are not interested, your connections might be.
And one wonders how muddied the waters will become, actual videos may be discarded on accusation of being deepfakes!
Uhhh, I have no idea what exchange you're talking about.

It's a well-documented fact that we work with DARPA on a number of research programs, which lets us release things like this to the public:

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/11/01/two-new-tools-that-t...
And they figured this all out without so-called "telemetry" in Win 3.1. Isn't that amazing. Almost as if today's "telemetry is absolutely necessary for improving UX" mantra isn't actually true...
I hope chunky bevelled edges come back into fashion soon. The UI in these screenshots looks reassuringly solid somehow, like how you'd expect a tool to feel. Not to mention proper scrollbars.
I wonder if management just can't tell what is and isn't important, so they err on spending nothing until it blows up. Then they now this is something they might need to spend money on.
Sourcegraph CTO here.

> For example, if you pay for GitLab's self-managed "Starter" package, and assuming you spin up your own private Sourcegraph instance [1] to go along with your self-managed GitLab instance, what Sourcegraph features do you get? Will you get code review intelligence, which Sourcegraph charges $29/user/month for?

The GitLab pricing tier has no bearing on Sourcegraph features—it is the Sourcegraph pricing tier that determines what Sourcegraph features are available. $29/user/month is the Sourcegraph Enterprise tier, which includes full code review intelligence (jump-to-def, find-refs, hover tooltips).

Note also that Sourcegraph customers are only charged for active users, so if most of your team doesn't end up using the features provided by Sourcegraph, you aren't charged for them.

> On Sourcegraph's pricing page, it says the open-source edition is missing features like "Single repository definitions and references" and "Cross-repository definitions and references". What does that mean for private GitLab instances?

"Single repository definitions and references" means go-to-def and find-refs work if the code you're trying to jump to is in the same repository. "Cross repository" means you can jump through to code in upstream and downstream dependencies.

If you're running a private GitLab instance, you'll need to deploy a Sourcegraph instance (runnable as either a single Docker image or Kubernetes cluster) and pay for the appropriate license (free if you're under 10 active users and just want single-repository code intelligence, $29/user/month if you're over 10 active users or want cross-repo code intelligence).

Sorry about the confusion here—does that answer your questions?
I think they still don't store it, What there are doing here is syncing all messages from phone to web when paired. FAQ clearly mentions that web version connects with phone to sync data - https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/web/28080002
What's absurd about it? Maybe I should put Win98 and Win95 somewhere there. They'd be somewhere around Gnome.
It was demoed just right now here: http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/

It looks really really really impressive! It's a see through pair of glasses so not like Occulus and they said they invented a new technology: HPU. The glasses will have their own GPU, CPU and HPU and will be wireless.
So when Apple does it everyone cheers, when Microsoft does it it is a "desperate attempt?" Ok.
Is it really "holographic", or just stereoscopic?
What about a way to test that people are "worthy" of it? "Only people bothered to go beyond the popular social networks go there" is a decent approximation for quality. However, it would be nice to have that and a larger audience. HN is great, but what if we could scale it up and make it more general? We would need some other way to measure and filter for that kind of person - shameless elitism, yes. I can't think of any right now, though. IQ tests would be a very weak because someone can be intelligent but still not civil.
I literally only got through calculus in college because of this one guy on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL58C7BA6C14FD8F48

He doesn’t give TED talks, he doesn’t have an organization, he doesn’t have a tech team, and he isn’t selling a narrative. Probably because he didn’t go to MIT, and Harvard, and wasn’t the brand that could go out and evangelize it. But Khan was, so his responsibility is much higher, and he mostly failed at it.

I believe in what that guy is doing. What Khan billed himself as was unfortunate and we needed to see a lot more from it. A glorified YouTube tutor. This thread might as well be a how-to on using YouTube-dl to download any number of auxiliary help videos on YouTube, not for our pristine Khan, savior of education.
No apology necessary :) When and where formalization of debate could be helpful -- or not -- is also worth talking about.

I think there's an opportunity to add diagrammatic structure to make debate more understandable and accessible, while reducing distractions and (potentially time-wasteful) repetition of talking points.

It's part of a broader idea: take an important topic, and imagine all the ways that bad actors might try to disrupt debate about that. Then try to figure out how to build a discussion system that is resilient against those efforts, while remaining participatory.

(I'd agree I don't think any file format or system will let us reach rationality or objective truth any time soon - if they're even achieable goals - but they could help groups make decisions and debug prior mistakes and misunderstandings)
How about we tie settlements and complaints to police compensation packages?

I doubt we’d be able to achieve that without the willingness to disband the police. Police unions are extremely powerful and they would never accept this without an existential threat to all of their members’ jobs.

At that point, why not go all the way and disband the police, creating a new law enforcement agency to replace them, with an entirely different culture and mandate?
Using terms like "Freedomland" expose your biases fairly clearly and make it easy for me to safely ignore you.

But you might be surprised to learn that even as recently as 2016 the use of masks in surgical settings wasn't understood to be backed by very strong science: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/
I’ve found Grokking Simplicity [0] to be a great, pragmatic introduction to solving real-world problems with “functional thinking”.

All the code is JavaScript and it tries to walk you through how you might solve common, everyday business problems with a more functional approach. All without getting bogged down with terms like “monad” or “functor”.

This book (along with Domain Driven Design made Functional, mentioned elsewhere) are both great resources for getting introduced to “useful” functional programming.

[0] https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity
They said this 36 days ago:

> I understand that posting it again and again is bad, sorry for that.

Then posted the same link 19 more times since then. And that's just in the last 36 days, before the above exchange there were 10+ of the link (thus the exchange).
The employer setting most of the terms is the reality for most of the working class.
> You can't have it both ways - either your general cost of living is taken into account in your salary (location-based pay), or it's not.

Cost of living allowance/adjustment (COLA) was a retention strategy originally designed to give workers being transferred overseas and to large metropolitan areas more money, not less. You should do some reading up on HR practices if you want them to stop taking advantage of you.
Well, the point illustrated in the review makes a sweeping and inaccurate critique of a strawman. Overall, I thought that this was a kind of flaky review of an interesting sounding book. I can't tell if the book is making the same critique or if the reviewer is just trying to shoehorn things against the so-called neoliberal worldview.
>Is the amount of days really the most important aspect of this?

No, but if people cannot get such a simple thing right, and find citations for that, I also don't trust they got the rest right. No one has linked me anything that says "all messages from everyone need to be stored for whatever amount of days".

If you are going to paint China as the bad guys, at least do it over stuff that can be supported by facts, or if it is supported by fact make sure you can show them if someone asks.
Used them for past ten years, on Windows. So quiet. I used Apple’s drivers to have the nice osd for media keys.

I love how the AAK feels sturdy. It’s one large slab, it doesnt slide easily on the table thanks to the rubber pads. It gives a nice low vibration thud when you type on it, it doesn’t feel cheap.

However i got myself a mechanical keyboard lately. The only issue i have with the AAK is that the function keys have no separation, always need to double check if I’m pressing the right key. For gaming this can be annoying. On many other pc kkeyboards you get f1-f4 grouped, then some space, then f5-f8 etc. so it’s much easier to find them if you eg. need to pres f5 quickly.

Now I’m on a Ducky One 2 TKL with "cherry mx silent red" and what a joke. It?s WAY more noisy than the AAK. The transition was rough... but i start to like it... i guess you can get used to either, the AAK now feels a bit weird.

Anyways, long story to say only after switching away i realized just how nice these "scissor" switches feel. I genuinely never even paid attention to the small resistance of the keys, before they activate.