jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Some doctors can get the several hundred thousand dollars, but many of them fall for scam investments and lose it all in them. Teachers are more likely be investing in safer things than a real estate deal. An index fund (or similar) will give you more diversity for the same investment and so is a lot safer, it won't grow as fast in the best case, but it won't drop nearly as far in the worst case. (I recommend target date retirement funds these days for even better diversity).

Not that real estate is a bad investment, but a single high value deal has no diversity and so it a bad investment. If you are putting several hundred thousand into a single investment your net worth really should be closer to ten million than one.

Note that I said some doctors above. If only 1% of doctors are good with money/investments, that is a lot of doctors, and they will in general have more money than any teacher.
The Gray Zone is not a trustworthy news source.

To start, Gray Zone founder Max Blumenthal attended the same expenses-paid 2015 gala in Russia, celebrating RT's 10-year anniversary, at which Jill Stein and Mike Flynn were photographed sitting with Vladimir Putin. Like Flynn, Blumenthal was paid to be there:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/flynn-putin-din...

One month after the gala, Blumenthal founded The Gray Zone. At this time he did a 180 from his earlier anti-Assad reporting to become one of that dictator's biggest supporters:

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/bruce-bawer/usef...

The Gray Zone also publishes pro-dictator reports on Venezuela, another ally of the Russian government. Here's a 2019 video of Blumenthal personally & cheerfully receiving honors from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who has ruled that country by violence and decree since 2015:

https://twitter.com/NicolasMaduro/status/1156588153945427970

Here's a piece that goes into detail on shortcomings in The Gray Zone's Venezuela reporting. Blumenthal and his employees have denied the existence of that country's ongoing humanitarian crisis, in which 20% of the Venezuelan population has fled the country as economic refugees:

https://medium.com/muros-invisibles/grayzone-grifters-and-th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis

Not all of The Gray Zone's reporting is flawed, but there's enough to make me seriously question their aims and journalistic integrity. Their source of funding remains obscure. They don't run ads, don't sell subscriptions, and their Patreon is tiny, yet they're flying people all over the world. Blumenthal is also now a frequent Sputnik and RT contributor. It's my suspicion that they're a propaganda outlet aimed at Western skeptics, the anti-war crowd, and intellectuals.
It’s fine... Until Apple buys the software tools your working with and then kills the support for running on anything outside the Apple ecosystem.
You're also guaranteed that all traffic to watch for is coming from one side only - you don't have to watch for cross-traffic in both directions, nor people coming from the opposite direction who are turning.
Recently a Mexican cartel outgunned the Mexican police and forced the release of El Chapo's son. It's hard to imagine something like that happening in a wealthy country, but it's not unheard of in the real world.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/americas/el-chapo-son-operati...
The pervasiveness of social media since 2008 has been a qualitative, rather than just quantitative, change. Different things are possible when such a high percentage of people have access to the same network. Also, 6 years is not a very long time frame over which to scoff at a lack of progress, even if it were true...
Reading between the lines of gmueckl's post a little, it's not hard for most people, but there are several aspects to the process that would challenge people with one or more disabilities:

> Mobility and dexterity, being able to dial the dials

> Memory and cognition, remembering where you are in the process

> (he didn't mention this) Sight, being able to see the dial accurately and consistently

I was also able to use the dial phone as a kid, but I'm glad it's gone, too.

(By the way, is there any way to make a bulleted list in hackernews text?)
I wish Linux would replace dynamic libraries (especially ones referencing specific paths) with a system based on the library's hash. Then we could have a single lib folder with 1 copy of each library, and get ourselves out of dependency hell by just making dynamic loading act like static loading. We could even download libraries from the web on the fly, if needed. Heck it would even remove a lot of the need to compile every_single_time because apps could reference binaries.

The notion of being able to fix an app by merely upgrading a library it depends on has not worked out in practice. More often than not, when I upgrade a library, I find myself having to upgrade my app’s code because so much has changed. The burden of having to constantly backup, upgrade, manually tweak config files, over and over and over again for days/weeks/months was SO not worth the few hundred megabytes or whatever dynamic loading was supposed to have saved.
Try shaving all that crap off the end of the domain name to avoid the 403 error
> Coinbase Global Inc.’s filing to become a publicly-traded company provides a glimpse into the remarkably small circle of mostly men who command the incredibly lucrative digital landscape

Why is the fact they are "mostly men" relevant in any way?

What if they are "mostly jewish"?
Or "mostly white"?
Or "mostly American"?

Is Bitcoin now a matter of "privilege"?

Are there people out there who fall for this sort of insane narrative?

In any case, feel free to keep all your wealth away from Bitcoin. It's not mandatory to use it -- unlike the US Dollar, which is actually managed by a mafia, which we call "the government", and which will use force against you if you don't use its currency.
Other cofounder here. I just wanted to add that we still have some t-shirts and stickers left. So if you want some defunct project/startup swag, we'd love to send it to you! https://shop.flynn.io
I could vote three times with less information.
Not all of us write web apps. :)
I think this example was so new novel you can’t really blame much Apple for not letting it into the store.

I think it had (some) merit as a work of art, and didn’t try to scam people. It ‘just’ turned out that people didn’t realize/believe that button signaling “expensive” really meant it.

I think it’s similar to recalling a child’s toy that turns out to have a dangerous feature. Yes, shops shouldn’t sell those, but sometimes, toys get used in unforeseen ways.
I do this for a living (help companies migrate to k8s).

The advice I give everyone is: Stay off k8s until you care about binpacking. That is, making sure you're fully utilizing the instances you pay for. When the cost of your architecture is taking up some brain cycles, start digging in.

If that's low down on your priority list, it's not worth the investment. If you're reasonable considered "a startup", invest your time/money elsewhere. PMF and getting to default alive is far more important.
The $1000 'I'm rich' application eventually evolved into the $1000 iPhone itself. And the $1000 Apple monitor stand. It's a tautology!
They're limited in the sense that they can't magically reach into a scope and inspect its private variables.

(Not technically true - deep code inspection is possible. That wouldn't be the same as unit testing, though.)
I'm using Vultr.com but I installed as "Custom ISO" since they didn't have a 5.6 option at the time.
> 2013 and you still can't build a REST application without installing 3rd party code?

Of course you can. There are some third party apps that might save some time.
> I straight don’t trust “science”.

Think logically. The paper is there to look at, as is the data.

I understand not trusting scientists, I disagree and think it's a bad idea, but understand why someone would not.

Not trusting science is a whole different ballgame.
I get that this is issue is very real, but the skeptic in me is wondering if there isn't an even greater related problem hidden here. If a certain group of people isn't fairly represented in silicon valley, then there are two explanations in my mind that could be contributing to this (not exclusively to each other). There could be a great deal of discrimination in this sector, and realistically there probably is. Alternatively, one could argue that something about our system of education and upbringing does not encourage women and non white/asian students to actively seek out jobs in that arena or to try and get seed funding for a company. Maybe I'm being ignorant here, but I feel like at this level, especially with the insatiable demand for real talent in silicon valley, this might be a bigger and more societal issue than just "Google et al discriminate against X." There is more that can and should be done to encourage diversity in the tech sector.
on [rails-business] this was addressed as not a problem as they are trying to break into the subscription market in a big way.
After writing a lexer, parser, compiler and virtual machine in C++ and ported parts to Python, Java and FreeBASIC - I think this is a good starting point.

Most of the concepts are pretty simple - it's when you get into if/while/for statements. Especially if you have nested if/while/for statements. Conceptually easy to implement using recursion but during the compilation phase keeping track of where you are at can be...difficult. I'll be the first to admit my implementation sucked but it worked.
I don't think Yosemite is as bad as people are making out; there have been some odd bugs, but many of them are caused by odd legacy migrations from old laptops or botched upgrades it seems. A fresh install seems to fix many problems experienced by many.

Even if OS X Yosemite is buggy, I don't think it's worth the switch to Linux for a desktop machine. It's a step backwards.
Sure, FB uses PHP but it's also very interesting to see how they've created things like Hack and Flow (built using OCaml, iirc) to improve the quality of their code.
Primarily to respect the privacy of your site's visitors.

It also removes a dependency on a 3rd party source.
It's nice, but it seems to be a bit overly aggressive. As an example, it's removing the "Share to Twitter" button on my TT-RSS install.
I tried µBlock but it seems to be extremely trigger happy. For example Youtube front page doesn't show any videos and Facebook doesn't load at all (basically it blocks everything other than its side bar). I can obviously white list those sites but my concern is that next time I visit some site for the first time I will not know if its broken or just µBlock acting up.

----- EDIT

I reinstalled the plugin and the problems went away. So far looks good.
I frankly don't know how to improve on clicking the big fat green button in the popup to whitelist a site (Ctrl-click for a specific page).
"As far as I read it: no, as long as there aren't any further restrictions on the font by third parties."

My reading of 5e says the opposite. That 'unless expressly permitted by content owners' you shouldn't be allowing caching of content provided via Google APIs.
Three hundred tabs! Perhaps you might enjoy a cool feature called bookmarking. How do you keep track of them all? I get to 10 tabs before my Sheldon Cooper kicks in.
Is it my dirty mind or does this sound like a website for Japanese style love hotels?
It depends very much on the job. I'm currently working from home and loving it, but I know far too much about jobs that suck. Factory work can look very much like Lucy from I Love Lucy working at the chocolate factory, for example. It may not be very mentally engaging, but 12 hours (or more) of that are enough to wear down anybody, especially when you get busy seasons with no weekends.
Wait, was this an arbitrary code execution bug?
How I judge the quality of documentation:

Is it on a wiki? Leave project and never come back.
"It is plain wrong to make a standard easier for machine-parsing at the expense of humans who are typing it in."

No, it isn't - especially not when the intended use case is for literally every viewer of the document to use "machine-parsing" to read it, doubly so when a significant fraction of the users will actually BE machines...
Perhaps I'm missing something, but wouldn't you be paying $20 to enter the competition? It seems like the fee isn't directly tied to getting your score posted on a website and the article is using that as a distraction. Isn't this how races and competitions have worked for a long time?

It is an interesting thought that most people will be "failing" and yet they're willing to pay money. On the other hand, there's a lot more to competing than winning. I've run the "Krispy Kreme Challenge" a few times and while I wouldn't mind winning it, I know my registration fee is really going towards a fun race, a spectacle involving thousands of people (many in costume), and edible and wearable souvenirs.
Yes I have seen same productivity patterns. In one company I applied, the most senior developer's average skills were less than my junior skills.
I can say I have junior skills but better productivity. Most of the times I had under-performed to save my ass from undeserving workload.
Majority of my team works 4 days/week, but do so by working 4x9 hours (36 total) instead of 5x8 hours (40 total). We don't really do less work (or take longer for projects).

Some observations:

* The folks working 4 days are a bit less likely to pick-up 'side activities' (e.g. help organise an external event, lead some of the recruiting efforts, etc.), because a day away takes out 25% of active time in one go.

* Ratio overhead vs work is probably better for the part of the team working 4x9 vs 5x8. It turns out they can miss many of these meetings and still be fine without additional catch-ups. (unfortunately not in my power to just remove it completely)

* I believe in people having broad responsibilities ("deliver this project in the best way you see fit") rather than "work X hours". We don't downscope projects because someone works 4 vs 5 days, but no one has ever remarked on it either. This type of responsibility sometimes means people wrap-up early, sometimes they feel responsible enough to pick something really important up in the evening/weekend and take a few hours off on another day.

* I think the ~10% difference wouldn't be measurable for software (or AI in our case) development anyway, we're not a call center where you can measure 'minutes called'.

Final notes:

* This is my European/Dutch perspective. I understand this trend is stronger in the nordics/Germany/Netherlands than in the southern countries. Having managed a team in the US in the past, I find it hard to imagine how this would work in the US culture I experienced.

* I have no desire to own souls ;)
Partner especially, you can always raise children on a budget.
No, I presume the coining press mentioned here accepts different sizes of blanks and reduction punches:

https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/making-the-coins...
> Some of them are so bad

So why is your company hiring bad QAs?
Tail calls are pretty easy to implement in a language that compiles to C, even if the C compiler doesn't cooperate. This can be done without bothering the foreign code. For instance:

int f(int a, int b){return f(b,a);}

compiles into

int f(int a, int b){start: int t=a; a=b; b=tmp; goto start;}
It's nice to see that not all of the claims made that turned out to be false were in the negative.

e.g:

Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as well known as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads. - Harry Bruno, aviation publicist, 1943.

Furthermore, I notice that's by an aviation publicist; and that just happens to lend to my other comment / question:

How many of these people were paid to have the stance that they had?
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/linkletter.asp
Wikipedia and snopes seem to both think it's an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/linkletter.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misconceptions_about_drugs#Thou...
The event stream processing is probably worthy of another blog post, but to be brief... we try to align all of our API servers (or event dispatchers) to be nodejs and have all of the processing in Storm (java). But reality is a bit more complicated. Specifically the API server pushing events into Kinesis is in python. It is a refactoring of some code that was written in the first days of the company. At the time it was based on multiple processes communicating through files... which didn't scale (as one would expect). The Kinesis implementation was done by a researcher which is a very talented coder but did not have experience with Kinesis. He was up and running after a short whiteboard session and a few hours of coding. We had to tweak a few things in the following days (such as adding more shards for higher read throughput, abandoning Kinesis shards altogether in favor of multiple stream with one shard)
In the article it says they're stashed in chronological order and almost all immediately that they were put into circulation, ruling out a "big heist".
Google Docs already have revision controls.
I hate to be that guy, but....why not just do Monads in Haskell? It's so much more clean than this. Is there some advantage to writing monadic code in Scala I'm not seeing? I understand if you're restricted to ONLY the JVM, but....really?
Did you have some point to make? You didn't even explain the original anecdote you referred to.
get the emacs starter kit by technomancy (on github). It comes with some nice default settings that made it pretty easy for me to jump right in.

I still do a few non-emacsy things like use the arrow keys, but I've installed a few new libraries and customized it a bit more to my liking... to the point where I now find Textmate a big drag on productivity.
It's interesting seeing differences between countries. Like the author said in the comments, 401k isn't an "issue" in Australia. I don't know how 401k works, but Superannuation in Aus is a compulsory 9%-10% of your salary that your employer sends to your super fund (that you can't access until you're 60). If you're a contractor you don't have to pay yourself super (so you could have more immediately available money), but you could also put away 9% just like your employer would. There's no insurance issues because we get government provided healthcare, and depending on the contract structure you go with there's actually a few decent protections an employer is required to provide you (if you structure it that you're a company contracting to another company then you're out of luck there).

So realistically the major difference is "security", which to be honest there isn't much of regardless you being an employee or contractor. So at least in Australia, unless you're getting an increase in your hourly rate, or a company says they'll only continue to send you work if you're an employee, there's no major advantage to switching to be an employee.
From my friend, an HIV researcher:

Me: So is this genuine progress or breathless "science" journalism?

Him:
A little of both to be honest. They basically replaced the man's entire bone stem cell population with a donor's to "cure" him. Which only works for one type of the virus. Which only works if you have an exact match for a bone marrow donor. Which only works if the exact match happens to have the super rare CCR5-32 mutation that makes them immune to that one type of virus. And you get to take immunosuppressants for the rest of your life because you have another dude's bone marrow in you. That being said, they cured HIV.
Yup. Bonus, 5% matching 401k, etc.
patience or impatience? Seems to me that being patient would lead to less change, less creep.
Actually, I trust e-mail more than SMS. With e-mail at least you can look at the headers and if you know which part you can trust you can verify where it came from. With SMS there is no such possibility.
You may think putting C++ and Rust in the same category against C will make your comment a bit more popular. But the reality is Rust people cringe at C++ code a lot more.
And some of the meaningful regulation drastically increases costs. Mostly for good reasons.
This gives me hope that the US can achieve the same despite some people not wanting to get their 5G shots. I think we can muster up 56%.
Probably. SoC based devices improved explosively in the last 5 years.
Could someone elaborate on what the worst-case exploit would be for those number that got leaked? How would a scenario look like? Asking for a friend whose number got exposed...
The crazy thing is texas has among the best wind conditions in the country, and is also the center of structural steel.
@thinkingemote - Thanks for one of the best comments in this thread.

Also, part of the way this swinging back to equilibrium will work is by the left tearing each other apart with more and more demands to just accept the liberal orthodoxy handed down from on high. At each step along the way, more and more people will pop out and realize that the whole thing is flawed because it is based on the Appeal to Authority logical fallacy.
Don’t connect it to the internet and your fine. Sure if you are Edward Snowden or some famous person I get it, people are out to get you.

You are not going to change the world, just buy the cheep tv and use it as a dumb tv.
I've had the displeasure of using machines with Mcaffe software that installed a filesystem driver. It made the machine completely unusable for development and I'm shocked Microsoft thought making that the default configuration was reasonable.
Is there a javascript version of the game of life where we can see this?
First of all, this isn't the same as being asked out by someone. This is one email among thousands of others, code review requests, bug reports and what else. Sure it has a bit of a higher priority since Jobs wanted you to look at it but it doesn't look like Jobs was particularly interested either.

Also, the OP should know that this stuff happens all the time. And people who want a response send a polite ping request and would say that "If I don't hear back, I'll go ahead with <foo>" or "I'll assume <foo>". The OP didn't do that and went straight to the top which was a terrible move again.

At best, someone trying to be polite. At worst, someone being drowned in work and not communicating how busy they are (and being sick in the middle too).

Extrapolating and calling that some sign of corporate bad culture is bad form.
I think your perspective may also be distorted by all the famous products out there.

I worked on Google Wonder Wheel, which had a tiny, startup-sized development team. Probably 99.5% of you have never heard of it. However, the people that do use it really like it. Enough that they complained when we temporarily disabled it for the recent visual redesign, another project I worked on. It has orders of magnitude more users than Bingo Card Creator, and has generated orders of magnitude more revenue for Google. Yet you hear about BCC all the time on HN, while maybe once every 6 months somebody might mention Wonder Wheel.
In what way did they trade freedom of speech?
Did people in China have more freedom of speech before they came to China? Could they have forced the chinese government to limit censoring?

Of course not... The only thing they could do and did is give another reliable search engine that censored less than their competitors...
the Chinese government doesn't care about freedom of speech

Oh, I think the CCP cares very deeply about freedom of speech. Just maybe not in the way that you'd like ; )