jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely correct.

Here’s the Wikipedia entry on the subject: life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emis...
Scarves are about the least effective makeshift masks, catching less than 50% of virus sized particles. A tea towel/dish cloth catches over 70% and a vacuum cleaner bag is over 80%, almost as good as a surgical mask.

> Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/
What should the US president be doing right now that he isn't doing?
Italy's obesity rate is not 42%. That's the rate for 2 year olds, which is bad in and if itself. The obesity rate overall is about 10% though, which is amongst the lowest in oecd counties.
Its simple and easy to use if you dont have a very complex data structure.
Would be great for countries who have givven up on testing the non verry ill ( like netherlands ), to get some idea of how it spreads, (especial if coupled with IP lookup to geo location)
If they’re really a dime a dozen I’ll take twelve please. I’ve been trying to find a good one for 20 years now.
I really liked your quiz. Curious - what are you using for maps and data? I have made a geography quiz earlier but its no longer live
For those who like to hear from both sides, without such biased moderation, https://ruqqus.com is an option.
If the thieves are competent then the laptop already has the wifi antenna removed and the drive taken out.
>I'm generally against the idea of banning subreddits because they just move elsewhere.

The alternative platforms tend to die off, though. Like Voat.
>because they can sell 10k of software upgrades?

Maybe, depending on what those features do. But all you are doing is moving the car into a higher market segment, with fewer potential buyers. Other manufacturers do this, too.
My personal views aside, this is off-topic.
Obviously these services are useful and can save you time now, but they are, generally speaking, rather expensive. That means you end up saving less and probably will be working for more years rather than retiring early.

I think it's a fallacy to think these "saved hours" translate directly into additional paid work. Most of the folks using these services are in salaried jobs, and don't benefit financially by working an extra few hours a week.
Could the blockchain be used as a send only once system?

I mean if you used the blockchain as a message queue it could be pretty reliable, no?
> windows not being a priority won't change, because windows as a deployment target is pretty much a joke.

I take it you haven't done .Net development? It's incredibly easy though Docker and similar tech wasn't developed for Windows so some of that has lagged behind.

> I mean... desktop environment on your application server ... lol?

This is a pretty old way of thinking; it's simply another way of managing your application server. This really isn't a big deal anymore.
Which is my point - they have to be correct.
Serious question: why would the bubble /need/ to "burst"?
Except that is all nice and good, until one comes up with the naive idea to use Boost, and somehow they need to dive into the source code to track down a bug.

Or landing by parachute on a codebase that needs some work.

Or just having to integrate a C++ library done by other team into their managed language framework.

Ridiculous is how many in ISO C++ seem to ignore Bjarne's plea to not overcomplicate the language.
It's probably impossible to compete with Apple GC - essentially they are building the same thing for iOS. There are other options though. The client implementation is not that complicated and could be ported to various platforms: J2ME, Flash, HTML5, etc.

We think developers might appreciate a "GameCenter Light" which is easy to integrate, cheap and does does the basic things right.

Discoverability is another interesting topic, and of course GC will be huge for that. I think that again it would be possible to start a light version, which offers additional exposure for developers and their games. There are many ideas that could be implemented in that direction.
Not necessarily. I use the PDF-reader on OSX called Skim and it lets me bookmark the current page I'm on. Then I can just keep clicking the bookmark menu item and switching to the page I need. Only one copy. Each bookmark can have a label. Not too bad.
I think you found a more direct UI for simple wikis. Nice.
Only if their terms allow that, and usually if they do they will allow for reasonable notice so you can move to another provider if you wish. Unless your hosting service actually goes bust and disappears, which is a risk with anyone you ever deal with, you should be OK with any reputable hosting service as long as you own the domain that is acting as your identity so others can find you.
Avoid collecting such information in the first place, which of course would require a different business model, which brings us back to the initial point.
No, she's probably not going to be able to recover her lost work. What OP and others are trying to point out is that OS X has support for saving revisions to documents if application developers (like Microsoft) would just take advantage of it.
I'd missed that initially; I'm amused that someone's gone all this time thinking "wala" is just a noise people make to indicate "done!"
Yeah but isn't that the point?

Metcalf's law is not suggesting "The value of the network to any random node within the network." Because that measure is very subjective in the ways you say.

Instead, it's "The total value of the network to all nodes". Because the more people in the network, the higher the probability that the nodes you DO care about are also connected.
I remember using images that looked almost identical to <HR> in place of an actual <HR> tag. Plus the million variations (you didn't have a real site until you have a <HR> image that matched your theme).

I remember the 1x1 transparent pixel with great affection---it was the output of my first significant CGI script (in Perl, of course) that I used as a site counter.

Winsock! Fuck yeah!

I remember when a web page and a gopher site looked almost identical (yes, gopher was quite cool for awhile).

The Table vs CSS wars never ended and are just in a temporary cease fire.

I started my own webring. And ring of rings. And proudly displayed my "made with notepad" button. And the black one with the red ribbon for... 2600? or EFF?

The most popular websites were vast collections of poorly transcribed midi collections that took years to master as every fucktard in middle school band uploaded a slightly different version of every song on earth. Twice, if it was Stairway to Heaven.

I was a webmaster.

Everyone bitched about SSI and its security holes but everyone used it anyway because fuck you, inline or die! Except it was universally only used for image counters and random quote generators.

My local ISP gave everyone a shell, email, ftp, and web account. You just had to figure out SLIP and PPP.

State of the art at one point was dialing into a local BBS to access their internet connection so you could use lynx to pull up the first sites.

Animated GIFs will survive cockroaches.

Frontpage when it first came out was a horrible POS. It would randomly move half your links, reformat them, rearrange your files, and change your background to bright red. Just, well, who the fuck knows why.

TABLES WITH 3D BORDER SUPPORT. FUCK YEAH. IT'S NOT A 3D BUTTON UNTIL IT'S IN ITS OWN 3D TABLE FOR EMPHASIS.

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Even though browsers have all kinds of compatibility issues now, they are mostly minor. There were several years where IE would say "we're just going to put in our own marquee tab, why the fuck not?" then Netscape would say "We're all going to VRML. Oh and you can set the background color" and IE would say "Shit, we're just going to put a TV in here. You want a TV? Use IE." and Netscape would say "Fucking A, our new <cat> tag actually purrs. Does IE have <cat> support? NO! (because we just invented it)" and Netscape would say "DUDE. LLLLLAAAAYYYYERRRZZZZZZ AND SHIT" and IE would say "FUCK IT WE'LL JUST PUT A WHOLE OTHER BROWSER FRAME IN YOUR BROWSER FRAME."

It really was quite a crazy and extremely blatant war over the future. IE won when it's "waiting" icon because a large spinning globe and a million VB ActiveX developers were unleashed upon the world. That was just the jihad, though. The battle was actually won when Gates just stonewalled the shit out of the courts for 4 years, causing Netscape to slowly lose their mind until they became convinced that rewriting their entire fucking code base was the way forward.
Yes, though I haven't edited video. I use Ubuntu, but I'm assuming it's the same in that regard.
I'm an open source developer, and I run Mac OS X for one reason:

I find it's interface to be, hands down, the best I've ever used. Since I work, essentially, two full time jobs (my day job, followed by Appleseed at night), I frankly don't want to have to wrestle with my operating system, even just a little bit.

I used Linux for years, haven't really used Windows since XP was released, and switched to Mac OS X about three years ago, and I'm not really interested in going back. I'm a fan of picking and choosing your battles, as opposed to adopting an approach of total purity, so right now my focus is building open source social networking, and if a closed system helps me do that without tearing my hair out, then I find that to be an acceptable compromise.
As a total outsider, I think 2021 is too early for people without a higher academic credential (PhD + postdoc) to bet on the quantum tech. I don't think there is that much jobs outside of academia, and inside it's highly competitive.
Or you can get it from the official source [0] and not some PDF on a file sharing site linked from an HN comment.

[0] https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
Every year I do my taxes on H&R Block or one of the others right up to the point where I review the form and the next step is to submit.

Then I write all the numbers down and file for free on Free File Fillable Forms.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

Thanks H&R!
More walking, less stress and socializing with other dog people at the dog park !
the way I see it, is if you are doing engineering or any other technical major, then yes it still is.

but humanities etc is a waste of money

unfortunately our culture has made getting a degree a prerequisite(everyone got one), so now you need a college degree for jobs you wouldn't have needed one in the past.

before, having a college degree was a means to increase your income substantially, now it's just a checkmark that you got $40-160K in debt for.
I thought the WWDC demo failed because they couldn't get on the WiFi, not on the 3G. I might be wrong though.
There is all sorts of info at http://notifo.com/ - but if you have other questions, feel free to email us: contact at notifo daught com
Are useful and powerful the opposite of sucky to most people?

Not to me. Consider a parallel example:

Visual Basic (pre-.NET, think ~3.0) opened up programming for GUIs to a much much broader audience (because Hypercard was made for a far less popular system). VBmade embedding hugely powerful applications within your own, remote object calls simple, etc. It was the most popular programming language.

It was incredibly successful, useful, and powerful. None of that could change the fact that it fundamentally sucked though.

It sucked so much though that Microsoft killed it. They killed their most popular programming product ever. They killed the product that was used to make most of the applications for their platform, their office suite, their web server, their database server, etc. In the transition to .NET they apparently they felt its foundations were so fundamentally flawed that they had to redesign the language.
I'm an okay jQuery/Javascript developer who gets stuff done - by going the way you said - search the docs for the function that I need.

I learned a lot of bad habits this way - because there are always two (or more) ways of doing things, and one of them is usually better than the rest. I just figured out that I was doing those things wrong when reading the book.

Case for example: Increasing Performance with Event Delegation - http://www.rebeccamurphey.com/jqfundamentals/#N20DAA

When I started learning jQuery, I scratched my head over this issue - I assign event handlers for a class, but they don't apply for elements that were added later to the DOM. Had the aha! moment when I figured out what was happening. The best solution I could find was to keep on assigning the event handlers whenever I added something to the DOM.

It served me well but Rebecca just taught me that there is something called $.fn.live and $.fn.delegate designed solve exactly this problem. This I would not have searched in the docs because I did'nt know that there existed something to solve this; and even if I thought there did, I might not have been able to frame the right question.

And there are lots of other gems that I picked up from this book.. jQuery really needs this. Especially for beginning developers who discover the power of jQuery - it helps them learn the right habits from the get go.

And the book is very concise and informative that the author deserves great praise for an excellent job.

Thanks, Rebecca Murphy!
This is true of bureaucracies in general. They each have a number of pigeonholes they want to put people in, and the trick of dealing with them is to decide what pigeonholes they have, decide what you want to be regarded as, and taylor your answers accordingly.
So you could work for an investment bank, make a lot of money, use as little of it as possible and save the rest, then after a few years, quit and use the savings to fund a start-up? Sounds like a plan to me...
My solution (in a cousin comment) is to actually lease to large corporations and universities. They can allow their employees a short term stay at a rate comparable to regular rental in exchange for assuming full liability. There'd still be vetting of the individuals on top of this.

The insurance is a good idea as well.
But ones that don't pay almost $100,000 more:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Bank-of-America-Vice-Preside...

The top end of "Senior Developer" at Lockheed is around $100k. The top end for the same job at BofA (with an impressive-sounding but meaningless title) is $200k. And you don't have to lie about being investigated by the FBI. And if you get bored, you can just jump ship to their competitors across the street.

Dunno, but I'm not convinced that anyone should worry about security clearance unless they are completely unable to write even the simplest computer program.
So what's the point of this Operating System? Kill Microsoft and the thousands of developers that are working their just because you don't like them or the name of the company?

Wouldn't this huge time and effort be spent on something we need but don't have? And yes, charge me for using it. I study medicine, but I won't work as a doctor for free.
36? Of course not. Try a bit of programming for a month or two. Pick up a book on Ruby and work through a few of the chapters. If you find you start thinking about programming more and more, then keep at it. It's never too late to learn something new.
Are you kidding? It's been what, 2 years since the market crash they caused?

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/27/business/la-fi-goldm...

Investment bankers created and sold the toxic assets (which they knew to be toxic) that caused the financial meltdown.

The top commenter explained a few more terribly evil things they do as well. For more examples, read any book ever written about Wall Street.
> I wonder if the cultural shifts - the pivotal moments in history - were more significant between 1955-1985, than 1985-2015.

That might be part of it, but I think a lot of it is just that the Baby Boomers are the worst generation in history, while today's younger folks are…just younger folks.
Looks like it to me. The smoke and fog seems to be moving at a very 'normal' speed.
Bitcoin has died 33 deaths so far. Source: http://bitcoinobituaries.com/
I completely agree with you. I've been a subscriber for over 12 years, so maybe similarly biased. A good test case for me is whenever there's an article about something I have in-depth knowledge about it's rare to find grievous errors. A reverse Gell-Mann amnesia if you will.

The articles that are posted here are usually from the Leaders section, which are in effect opinion pieces. For every Leader article there's also a more in-depth article. If your only experience with the Economist is through their Leaders I can see how you would come away with the idea that all their articles are biased and lack detail.
I think it stemmed from their dominance in quality TVs for a while. These days I see no reason to pay Samsung's rediculous TV prices and they do puy out some real garbage screens now but for a while it was Samsung or some peasant trash.
Skid is another word for shipping pallet and it’s called skid row because it’s next to the freight train lines into downtown. Pallets would get stacked high along the streets, hence skid row. There are plenty of cities across America with their own area called skid row. The name has nothing to do with the current homeless population.

It is common for poor industrial areas to end up with large transient populations, but that’s a case of convergent evolution.
Exactly. As the article says:

> In 2014, The National Federation of the Blind in the US sued the ride-sharing app over guide-dog regulations.

> The case was settled in 2017 when Uber agreed to ensure its drivers knew they were legally obliged to provide service to people with guide dogs.

So Uber have clearly failed to train their drivers to treat disabled passengers in the right way. There are definitely lots of problems that could be solved with a better UI but this isn't one of them.
Wow you're entirely correct, I just checked again 3 days later and there's now magically 3 in stock again :) Thanks for the tip!
Yep. You gotta half-bake something before you can fully-bake it. In fact, there's no reason you couldn't take some of the good bits of your 24-hour album and use them for later more polished compositions.
> There is a chance that true behavior based analysis can provide hints towards compromise and all the BPF tooling around that makes it a potentially promising lead, but no anti-virus I'm aware of is doing that while other auditing tools are.

Many Windows AV solutions feature behavioral analysis or sandbox. Even analyzing API calls in many cases is enough to identify something you are not really content with. For instance a simplistic image viewer which opens internet connections and fetches data from the net ... that sounds weird, right? Or calls exec() on some weird strings.
Thanks, this was exactly the thrust of my analogy. I appreciate it when it lands for at least one person (though perhaps I could be a bit more precise in my writing)
Journalists just trying to make them look like tax dodgers.

Which they are, as discussed elsewhere in this thread, but the journalist doesn't know enough to point to the actual problematic behaviour.
We also though so. The General Prosecutors of several Cantons politely made us understood that we were wrong (in case of criminal offense). All our competitors provide the data without obstruction. We also now comply.
As a Vim user who switched to emacs I find emacs bindings inconvenient as hell [1] however I don't think it is possible to fix them now. Most 'prominent' emacs users are simply used to them and won't change their habits, it's really unlikely that new bindings - no matter how cool they would be - would acquire much attention.

[1] Well, I may be biased, however I already use emacs commands automatically e.g. acquired some muscle memory and some things actually are better in vim - after long coding I can actually feel some strain from pressing C-M, and navigation still is much slower, and I doubt it will get faster with time.
I honestly didn't mean to sound snotty or obnoxious, I just strongly disagree with people suggesting to others to pay exorbitant fees for incorporations when the information is freely provided.

But, I will definitely take your advice into consideration and try my best to adjust the pdocast to fit the audience.
Such distinctions have been discussed to death over the past 10-15 years, but the most obvious benefit is to allow developers to know something about an API without having used it before: PUT, DELETE, and GET to resources are all idempotent operations that act on an entire resource. A PUT to a collection acts on the entire collection. On the other hand a POST to a collection creates a new resource in that collection.

You can know all of those things and more about a RESTful web service without reading a line of documentation. So I would personally consider the distinctions between HTTP verbs very useful and quite underutilized.

The UNIX filesystem is another example where distinctions between seemingly arbitrary terms helps a user know more about a system without knowing details about a specific implementation: /home is for user data, /etc for configuration, /var can probably be mounted non-executable, /usr/local mirrors /usr, etc.

Despite a wide range of variation amongst implementations, someone familiar with these distinctions can navigate fairly comfortably on a wide range of operating systems and distributions.

On the other hand, let's pretend my patch is worthless. I would hope that doesn't lessen the usefulness of my post. My attempt was not to enforce some pedantic standards compliance but rather introduce developers to how to diagnose problems and come to solutions.
Sorry, I'd have to hire a virtual assistant in order to provide a transcript. I'd like to keep the content free, so I won't be providing transcripts unless someone is willing to volunteer their time or cover that cost. Thanks!
I think there's zero chance any of this stuff ever gets deployed, for whatever that's worth. I think that, and that Bernstein is probably right.
I'm adhering as best I can to the (nearly completely undefined) development practices of the project I'm working on. My assumption is that upstream developers will continue to guide me through the testing and improving of my patch. Even in a loosely run project I would hope my patch would be applied to the development build for wider testing long before it's included in production.
go support was recently included in gcc. I can't really tell if this changes anything though (with respect to goroutines vs runtime).
It took two days to create a vaccine for COVID-19. How much more lead time do we need?
Nice, reminds me of discovering Macromedia Flash 3 and trying out their "Tweening" feature. The good old days when the "tech stack" were things like Macromedia Flash and Paintshop Pro.
At the state level you had that dashboard whistleblower scientist jailed.
Except the page contains no actual info relating to the next season (despite their title and summary indicating it would), after the fluff content they invariably say something to the effect of “we have no kind of information about the next season”.

The pages exist only to lure you to the site under false pretences. If I wanted an analysis on the last episode season, I would have searched for that, but their title and summary deliberately mislead me into thinking it contains content which it does not.
To be honest, most normal people call the web the internet. It's the only bit most people see.
Java and JVM are developed together, Kotlin just adds syntax sugar on top.

If Kotlin is so much better, why doesn't JetBrains just port everything into Kotlin/Native?
>The reason I don't remember is that the effect of reading his essays is that they're so long you forget why he wrote them and what you were thinking before you started it.

Honest question: how do you read books if a 10k word article is too long?