jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why is it degrading? I would think it would be perfectly acceptable for companies to ensure that their new hires (experienced or not) pass their basic heuristics. This comes in the form of tests, resume checks, social compatibility, etc.

(I ask this from the perspective of a young, inexperienced developer.. so excuse the thoughtlessness!)
Visit customers. If your not a natural sales person think of it like R+D. Ask questions. See there pain points and try to solve them.
Yes I do.

First of all, Germany is social democracy, not "socialist". On the other hand US is liberal capitalist country - even slightest hints at turning it more towards European-style social democracy are instantly attacked as "communism" there.

Secondly, even if Germany is more of a social democracy than US, it's "a little more", not "significantly more".
If someone's getting food stamps and I legislate the program out of existence, their food stamp benefits have quite clearly been taken away.
but the Kiva system does learn.
"Player of Games" is also a good starting point, it has some of the clearest narrative structure of any of the Culture novels. And from what I can remember, it's a little less dark than Phlebas, to ease you into the depths of Banks' mind.
By your logic, those 17% are not getting ahead because they do not have innate abilities, they dont work hard, have the wrong attitude or dont have moral character and integrity.

The explanation that the poor "don't work hard" seems spot on. About 80% of the poor don't work at all, and 90% or so don't work very hard (full time).

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2008.pdf

Furthermore, the claim that the poor have the "wrong attitude[1]" is also fairly well supported. Here is a recent paper, getting quite a bit of play, which argues that the poor have a higher time-discount rate than the rich. (There is a lot of work concurring with it, see the citations for example.)

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2010/RAND_WR759.pdf

[1] I'm interpreting "wrong attitude" to mean "an attitude which leads to poverty", and am not making any value judgements.
FYI: There may be some IE issues as I have not tested a single drop with it yet.
Car-sharing (and Uber) definitely make it easier to live car-less in a city, at least at the margins. I know a couple in SF who don't own a car but they make pretty regular use of car-share. (Although last I heard they had their ZipCar account suspended for a minor accident and the alternatives or not as good.)

I still stand by the broader point though. To the degree that you don't really have the space for hobby/recreational gear and that it's harder to transport the things you need for activities, the less likely you are to do them.
Yeah I agree. I basically wrote this blog out of my challenges learning this content. It involved a lot of code spellunking and trial and error to figure out precisely what these concepts meant. I do find Beam powerful, but also to be a bit esoteric at times and difficult to follow how watermarks, windows, and triggers all work. And we encounter sometimes unexpected behavior that frequently causes us to revise our understanding of these concepts.

There's a fair amount of Stackoverflow highly voted answers out there like "I dunno, try this trigger, see if it works" without much understanding of how everything work underneath. Probably cause it's tricky to grok
Citing

"Sci-hub", Elbakyan A. et al

is definitely an academic trend I'd support :)
It also scales really badly.

If a paper becomes prominent and many people want to read it, is it reasonable for the authors to be inundated with hundreds of requests for a copy?

What is the point of journals if we rely on word of mouth interactions to share information?
Long down this road. More tips:

Routinizing your diet can bear more useful fruit than anything else. First prioritize ease of preparation, then taste and enjoyment, then health. Doing it in that order makes the subsequent steps a million times easier.

At work, I would go out to eat every day. They clean out the fridge every week and any time I'd start to get into a lunch routine, the fridge cleanout wrecked progress every time and I'd be back to eating out. Eventually I started bringing canned soups to work as they don't need refrigeration. With lunch no longer being subject to the dictates of the fridge schedule, I can start prioritizing taste and enjoyment. I got oil, vinegar, hot sauce, salt and pepper grinders to add to the soups. Canned chicken adds a lot to them as well, and just enough calories so that I don't get hungry again an hour later.

I have similar routines for dinner, which allows more flexibility due to a fridge I can control and a stove and utensils and all that. It's still limited by the fact that I can't cook every single night. So I compromise, building on frozen dinners, adding onions, peppers, seasonings, butter, protein, then saving half for the next day. Make things a little better each time while staying within your routine. Eventually it's all muscle memory and your mind focuses on what's new and it doesn't feel like drudgery.

Health comes in after you've finished the heavy lifting on the first two. I started noticing little differences in how I feel after meals, and adjusting how much I eat each time. Pounds have been coming off effortlessly, but I don't feel hungry very often unless I get off my routine for whatever reason.

Your computing life can be simplified the same way. Build on a foundation, in my case Ubuntu. Years ago I maintained a set of instructions, nowadays my scripts are reliable enough to get a brand new Ubuntu system from just installed to usable in some 10 minutes. I use them more often than you'd think.

You learn deeper concepts over time. I kept everything on Dropbox until I found Spacemacs and projectile, now I'm moving it all back to git. I used to keep complicated sync scripts in .bashrc, now I manually run a sync script as a matter of routine. Workflowy is giving way to orgmode. Ruby may never be dislodged from my life, but I've been adding in Crystal for use in keyboard macros. More power is slowly earned and the number of Sorcerer's Apprentice ordeals dwindles.
The bottom line of all the pay for ad mounting that goes around in the world, it would be really great to see how much profit it really returns, minus all the expenses...

I've implemented ads on web sites before, and though they weren't high traffic sites, they still made thousands of hits every month and ad revenue was nowhere near the hours it too to implement and configure ads across them.

Side revenue is a great thing when it works, but there are so many pyramid schemes when it comes to ride sharing, house sharing, office space sharing, scooter sharing and everything else, it's making me wonder if all the people that used to sell AMWAY and Tupperware are at the bottom of this one. Maybe I'm being cynical... But putting a billboard on top of my car for $300 a month doesn't justify the wear and tear to even a hooptie, and the damage it will do the one time I forget it's on and drive through an automated car wash. :/
I'd love to know what the downvote was for on this one. One of the side effects of the ymyl stuff added to the algo soup is that small sites with little content can crush larger sites with much more info.

It's terribly obvious in that vertical. I'm sure that was part of the goal, however what may be good for the spam team is not necessarily what is best for the users who are searching for particular things.
I can't open your link for some reason. But it's all still there in the original FT article.

It is a bit unclear though which numbers and findings come from Cognizant and which are from the TfL investigation.
I am serious. Yes, it's true it's easier than ever to create sophisticated websites. But it's also true that almost all this sophistication delivers negative value to users - it distracts them, slows them down, and forces them to keep buying faster hardware. It doesn't have to be like this - but it currently is. It's not even just a problem of explicit business incentives - the technical side of the industry has been compromised. The "best practices" in web development and user experience all deoptimize end-user ergonomy and productivity.
> It has solutions, like Google voicing out the contents, instead of doing a webpage that is so scrappable that screenreaders can parse it.

The real solution is to find a business model, or a way to organize society, that does not depend on us building nonsensical prisons or restrictions for each other. It's almost as if surveillance capitalism is not the final answer...
You can likely re-enable IPv6 and simply block all incoming IPv6 traffic except for icmp and it'll be quite alright. If you're using OpenWrt for example the default firewall has this exact configuration.
>CHEAPASS: $5 Per Year. 1 GB

What does 1 GB mean? Is that bandwidth or storage? And if it's bandwidth, what happens if I go over that amount?
I agree. It's funny that the lack of attention of AMD to software / drivers (say Blas / MKL, CUDA) is holding the adoption of their silicon back in certain markets even after they've surpassed Intel in performance.
I love how approachable the writing style is. It's very easy to write a technical introduction that assumes a lot of pre-existing knowledge of the reader. So far it's a great read for someone like me who got discouraged by notation and cloudy terms before.

Looks like it's on pair with the Book of shaders.
I hope iTunes with sync to USB devices with a Windows XP vm now.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...

Current Teslas apparently have enough hardware to drive themselves around, but this year they plan to enable only a limited set of features because of safety reasons.
Thank you for the comment! The project actually started as we were building a tool to teach people Markdown a la Codecademy. We realized this probably does an equally good job at that too.
>What if they were modified with a piece of hardware broadcasting its location to an API, and a correlating phone app using a push notification or voice alert to let the user know they are approaching.

You could use a beacon attached to a telephone pole, this is just some random idea, that will broadcast the location and push notifications. Or something in that nature, because I know retailers do this when you walk by a certain section and you have their app you will get a notification. So for public safety you could just have a app and if there is a crime that was reported, like a shooting, if you are within a certain block radius you get a notification.

This is something that I have thought about especially living in Philadelphia, constant crime is going on. I don't know what I am walking into or riding my bike into. It would be awesome to have updated information like this.
All that bundling will lead to is then contracts, and we're back to cable company monopolies again. I don't know why people prefer that? At least with Netflix, D+ etc I can cancel when I see fit.
> I've always hesitated to recommend Signal to people due to Moxie's attitude towards the more traditional security and privacy community where things like federation and open source are respected concepts.

My understanding is that is a part of the amateur 'security' community, not the professional or expert one?
I’m always glad to see Make being used. It’s such a powerful and simple tool that usually does the job just as well as more “bespoke” CLI’s for various frameworks and languages
Ok, I'll bite. How do I get my family to church? 4 kids between 1 and 6. 6 miles from home.

It would be nice if we didn't smell when we arrived.
A lot of states have public salaries. If it's not released then organizations like newspapers will file FOIA requests.
The techs are alright. Both things you mention are two prime examples (I'm still flabbergasted how well the voting machines thing worked out, because it had all the reasons in the world to fail).

But when you need to invest 4x more on hardware and software to have something that is 2 years older than standard hardware and software, all inside a bureaucratic state that adds dozens of legal impediments or delays to anyone who wants to make some honest money, it's easy to see why any potential entrepreneur has to tread much more dangerous waters in Brazil than it would anywhere else.
After what Amazon and other US providers did to WikiLeaks, I will recommend everyone to have a backup plan to outsourcing data center to 'cloud'. And, backup doesn't mean another instance on Amazon cloud or another similar cloud provider.
I was leaning towards the smaller models but because of availability and starting a new job I ended up with a 16" M1 Pro and I love it. Usually I prefer smaller items that I use daily but the screen real estate and battery life are worth it in my opinion. That being said, the specs on the base 14" and 16" are definitely overkill for web development. I've never had the fans turn on.
> Quite taken with it tbh. Still think MacOS is crap overall though.

So the amazing memory management you love so much is likely part of the crap os you don't.

> Soon as linux is viable on M1 as a daily driver, i am checking out of macos.

Might as well check out of the apple ecosystem and save yourself some money while you're at it. AMD is supposedly releasing an Arm SoC and theyre also working on one with Samsung (likely mobile). Whether either of them are Laptop/desktop ready or comparable to the M1 is unknown (unlikely competitive without a comparable software ecosystem).
The first batch of M1 machines were released in Nov 2020. Assuming the refresh happens later this year that's still a 1.5-2 year cycle, similar to the old Macbooks.

Plus, even the Intel Macbooks that didn't always get flashy marketing or design updates still had their processors bumped up behind the scenes pretty frequently.
“True crypto believers” seems like a loaded phrase these days because I feel like most crypto believers are riding it’s wave to legitimacy. And things like this push it further towards that goal.

I don’t see how anyone could really still believe in the original ideals behind Bitcoin. They made something but not what they wanted.
He's not talking to you, he's talking to the other people in his pod.
Are there any decent docs for Zend at all? I struggled with it for years. Simple "how do I ..." questions would just bring up nothing. Not from the docs, nor anywhere else on the web. Any solution I'd find wouldn't work in my case because other parts of my app were built in some incompatible way.

The Laravel docs on the other hand are the best I've ever seen and there's a huge amount of community driven guides that are mostly decent too.
But this is really backwards? Everyone uses the if __name__ == "__main__" dance to avoid calling functions before they're defined, no?
I've got the 13" MBA - I'm pretty impressed. My main computer is a beefy desktop gaming PC with an Intel i9 - but the MBA with M1 can do some of the tasks in a comparable time! The GPU is also impressive - better than any integrated GPU that I've tried before, and not that far behind the RX570 in my HTPC. I'm pleased that Apple is back to focusing on general computing after all those years focusing on mobile devices.

Edit: I meant to say RX570 not RX560. The M1 GPU is actually slightly faster than an RX560 see e.g. https://askgeek.io/en/gpus/vs/Apple_M1-gpu-vs-AMD_Radeon-RX-....
I talked to them. They are like a great many people today - they believe they get to chose their own reality, to have their own alternative facts. In effect, to bully reality. They're right about the provincial and federal governments having spewed a lot of misinformation as fact (virus no risk to Canada, masks don't work, natural immunity not strong, we'll never have a mask mandate 'cause it wouldn't work, etc, etc), but they don't know what a killed virus vaccine is, or why we're waiting for 'em. (2000 different COVID-19 proteins vs maybe 4 in an RNA vaccine.)

They are giving the police more to do just when, in my city, the main police station is literally shuttered due to COVID, and the regular phone line of the police, yesterday during the day, was dead - no ring no answer. (911 services still available, and you can fill in an online form - very zombie apocalypse.) Not good, not super sane, and they have been very, very loud. Just before the end of substantial restrictions, anyway, they have to throw a fit.

Everybody gets their own opinion, nobody (govt or freelancers) gets to have their own facts.
Right. That link deserves to be more widely read.

The 1968 Sackman, Erikson & Grant paper is available as a scanned PDF, btw:

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0645438&Locati...
I believe this is why a gamma transform is made at presentation time. But maybe what you're interested in is adding RGB tuples before presentation?
So ask her if she's willing to be on this project! Seriously though, ask your developer why there is a correlation between them and project success - if they can tell you, even if it shows they should be a business analyst, you're on to something very useful and valuable.
Techcrunch/Techdirt simply recycling a misleading, provocative headline for pageviews? Color me shocked, shocked.
Every voter only gets one vote. Extra parties would change nothing.
Arash's comment on the article:

"This is Arash from Dropbox. We removed the project source code from the user’s Dropbox because it enables communications with our servers in a manner that is a violation of our Terms of Service. By our TOS, we reserve the right to terminate the account of users in this case. However, we chose to remove access to the file instead of terminating the account of the user."

I'm questioning whether possessing the file without using it against Dropbox is actually a TOS violation.
FWIW, everything went smoothly.
Typos on page 2: “At one interview, he had to hung up the phone because the journalist couldn’t understand the difficult topics involved … If he don’t get it, will he be sad about it?”

Regardless, awesome idea. I plan on reading it through.
Writing a blog engine has been the "hello world" for new languages / web frameworks for a while.
Sure, look at the quality of the comments in this thread. Truly enlightening. I'm sure we've all learned a lot on gender dysphoria.

This is tabloid material.
Unfortunately, in terms of learning the same proportions of the total sum of knowledge as the old renaissance men, attaining real renaissance personhood is impossible at current life spans. Boosting learning velocity/capacity/efficieny should help. Why must we replay histroy when teaching? But maybe we are not doing such a good job at consolidating/compressing knowledge as we used to since there is so much. A scaling problem, the entropy per bit of data is decreasing, we are increasing the total number of bits of data in our knowledge at a much higher rate than we are its entropy.

Now it is such that you are a generalist if you have peripheral knowledge of related sub sub fields of your sub field of expertize in some sub section of a topic.
I noticed pedalpete actually mentioned my staff scheduling business (http://www.helloscheduling.com), Hello Scheduling in his compete metrics. A few important things to think about:

1) Those compete metrics are really far off compared to what I am seeing in Google Analytics.

2) You have to remember that Excel and paper schedules are REALLY flexible. If your scheduling software is rigid, people will sign up, but then abandon returning to what feels comfortable to them.

Since we launched our application in mid-January 2011, we have consistently had sign ups but then high abandonment. As we've release features that made the product more flexible and addressed more unique scheduling needs, we've seen usage increase.

This is a really tough space, but don't lose heart.
In real life, he does it with a smile on his face and it's actually quite disarming.
Good timing! The Ludum Dare 48-hour game programming contest is just over a week away.

http://www.ludumdare.com

A number of these folks, incl. Notch and Lexaloffle, are #ld48 regulars.
Gah. That's obvious. But he didn't test the _performance_. That's the real pain of CSS3 versus CSS. Try using box-shadow, or lots of gradients on a medium old machine – then you'll get a sluggish experience.
This is really fascinating, although a blow for the chrome team.

It would be even more interested to see performance based on the javascript that, say, twitter and facebook use, but I would guess that it's very difficult to feed the scripts the correct sort of data for benchmarking.
In fairness its pretty easy to go back 12 years and pick apart a prediction. I've known some really bright guys who after using the web the first time said something like, "Not bad, but not sure why I'd use this over gopher, ftp, archie, etc...".
Could be both, often it would be a DJ who is on the same label or part of the same crew as the producer who wrote the tracks. Often these people share studios, so there is a direct monetary link there.

There are almost no DJs who aren't producers. The few that are only DJs either have some special and unique facet to their style of mixing, or they date back to the early days when Things were Different.
Just wondering, what do you think is wrong with it? (not affiliated at all with them) Besides the whole "enter brings up the ask question box instead of going to their search page", I think their search is pretty good. The autocomplete is scary fast and very helpful.
So hg branches should behave like completely separate clones/repos that happen to live within the same folder/URL. That would fix pretty much all issues and be completely straight-forward since it mimics the separate-clones-as-branches model originally promoted by hg, with the difference that you don't have separate folders for the clones.
I thought the site itself was the advice, in a "don't do this" kind of way.
Maybe. If a single claim could wipe out the pension, there's a good chance the department would close ranks even harder than today. You could hope they would police themselves better, but once something does happen, Johnny Idiot's mistake has put the entire department's pension at risk. This sets up bad incentives.
I run http://agfunder.com and our General Counsel is a former Chief at the SEC.

This is a non-starter and will only be used in special circumstances. Just because you have rules that allow non-accredited investors to invest, most companies do not want investments less than $10-15k on their capable. In effect you exclude most non-accredited investors anyways. The exception of course is for the earliest stage companies, but then they run into another problem: legal fees on a Reg A+ Are going to run you $40k-$70k. Compare that to $2-$5k for legal using a YC/500/TechStars template doc. The cost of admission is to high.

FundersClub and AngelList will also not benefit from this either because the New rules don't extend to fund structures like the 506(c) rules. So even if you could create some reusable template document with exhaustive disclosures you can't use it for these purposes. Jobs Act 2.0 may address this next year, but for now these rules are largely useless in practice.
Hey Michael, I'd be remiss if I didn't comment on this. I just wanted to say that I think the way you were treated (and continue to be treated by some) is abominable. I never had the opportunity to tell you since our time didn't overlap at Google. Even though you don't know me, I'll have your back.

I love reading your blog btw, even if I don't always agree with you. As far as the G+ component, well, I think the proof is in how it ended up :-/
I'm not sure what will happen with this particular attempt at bringing affordable housing in SF to within reach of people. But I am grateful to organizations out there such as the Internet Archive that are trying different experiments.