jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think it’s unlikely that they will ever have a finished product. They’ll probably coast until the magical money spigot runs out, then fold quickly.
I have an honest question. Why would anybody, ever, make an order number that only has 5 digits. Even if it's just a home-hobby project, the cost of changing to 7-10 digits is so small a d negligible that I can't see any reason for choosing anything lower. Like the 640k that was once "enough for the long term future" in DOS. I understand that hindsight is 2020, but can't wrap my head around not starting bigger when there's no extra cost (nearly).

Could you shed some light on that?
Only a handful of people can earn a living becoming academics and we're in a time where many people are being "pushed" into credentialing up. Forcing people who are going back to school to further their professional careers to learn a language that isn't marketable makes the degree they're trying earn worth less.

Please think harder about why you're offering this class and consider offering something else instead that will provide more value to the adults trying to compete in this flat world.
That doesn't help you install the dependencies for a notebook, if you don't know what they are.
> Our current economic system defines economic productivity to be the thing that generates the highest economic returns according to the rules of the system.

If by "the rules of the system", you mean the idea that things are worth what people will voluntarily pay for them, then I agree with your definition. But that's not tautological. It is a distributed price-setting process that everyone contributes to through their own economic choices.

When it comes to charity, people contribute time and money based on their perceived impact. As a donor, I would value 100 new houses higher than 10 new houses, but that's just me. Other people are free to make different choices.
Apple needs to give a little here.

I think it's patently ridiculous that we have to enlist the assistance of console hackers in order to have a chance at porting the most used operating system in the entire world to run on hardware that in all likelihood already happily runs it inside of Apple's labs.

> In particular, we will be reverse engineering the Apple GPU architecture and developing an open source driver for it.

This is all a noble goal, but I can't see this as being anything other than a complete and total non-starter with zero cooperation from Apple. After the street cred of getting a marginally usable OS up and running evaporates, why continue to take the effort of great engineers and waste it developing an ecosystem that doesn't care? It makes no sense to me.
I think it's a problem for a lot of kids that it's hard for them not to be instantly good at something. Learning patience is part of growing up and gaining experience.
>> Browsers are not the right tool for sandboxing applications.

Browsers have been picking up the slack where OS and desktop developers have fallen down. The OS is supposed to handle process isolation and resource access, but here we are. Tabbed browsing became a thing because GUI toolkits didn't do multiple app instances (or MDI) in a way people liked.
My understanding is that the fee isn't new, it just hadn't be excised. It would be like being told there's an activation fee when you sign up for cell service and it shows up on the 10th bill instead of the 1st.
I gotta say Github seems to me to be using Microsoft's deep pockets for good. Not every company could afford to work on this like that.
Maybe I'm just feeding the trolls here, but why? He wasn't hiding it. I can see a disclaimer needed for something that's open to bias like "competitor X sucks and beyond is way better", but just for saying he likes what we've done?

He had nothing to do with this fundraise, he's had nothing to do with the product so far. He saw the link on HN, said he thinks it's great. I hired him because he thinks it's great.
Well, the bespoke vintage internet experience is kind of what we're up to at the Internet Archive, so you'll see us move into that more, I guess.
I base this on my own personal experience and understanding from a front-end perspective. Maybe back-end devs are different?

I'm quite positive on the other end of development, mainly Microsoft devs, they're almost always using proprietary software like Visual Studio. Sadly, Microsoft dominates the Enterprise and these environments are nearly half the job openings I come across/hear about.
Also, you do realize that no one is worried about whether "somebody at Github/Google is individually watching you." Unless of course they have an ex-lover at Github/Google.

These organizations, and those capable of secretly subpoenaing them, have software and very fast computers that do the watching. And it's not watching, it's profile building.

I'm not saying that this editor's phoning home of usage statistics is resulting in you being on the no-fly list, but you're argument is missing the point.
Is this emyth.com? Or the book on Amazon, or is there a relation between the two?

Edit: Wow. In the small sample on Audible this guy already mentions something I've seen over and over with the clients I work with.

When you start your company you go from employee to business owner. But your mind stays in employee mode. You keep doing your job just like an employee. You get over worked (those 80 hour weeks) and never thrive.

Everything you do needs to involve building a process to hand off to someone else. Otherwise you are simply substituting a 40 hour work week for an 80 hour work week.
It's definitely not like that in all restaurants - as a dishwasher at a restaurant I never got pooled tips. Some places do it, some don't.

This whole "we'll deprioritize your drinks if you don't give me a lot of money" is just... INSANE. It's really bizarre.

"He may have earned their slow down, so why should you reward him?"

You have no way of knowing why in the first place. And giving him a penny ensures that if this sort of blackmail is going on, this server has now even less leverage in order to try to buy decent service from coworkers.

The restaurant owners that let this go on get hurt too. I don't particularly care if my service was bad because the cook was slow because he wasn't getting tipped enough to warrant cooking my food the way I asked for it. I don't care if the service was bad because the server wasn't able to curry favor with the bar staff. I just care the service was shitty, and I won't be back. Even less money for the bar staff, cooks, dishwashers and ultimately owners.

In tipping restaurants, the incentive is still for turnover as fast as possible. The extra $5 they might get from me is less overall than the extra $30 they'll get from packing in 3 more tables that night. And if everyone is sharing tips, they all have even more incentive for faster turnover, regardless of my happiness.

EDIT: if restaurants were transparent with everything up front - detailing where tips go, showing me a scoreboard of which servers had favor with bar staff and line cooks, and let me choose the 'best' staff, great. I don't get any of that advantage. I get a random server who may just have pissed someone off last week, and nothing I can do about it.
Sounds like you're looking for a distributed actor framework like AKKA
But currently, delivery doesn't happen for anywhere near minimum wage. A fully-loaded UPS or FedEx driver probably costs $100k or close, and those trucks look pretty expensive...
It's normal for a project of that size, never had any major issues with it, it's in active development so it's good to see issues are being reported
They plan to remove backup from Android FYI.
Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework. It uses Apache Kafka for messaging, and Apache Hadoop YARN to provide fault tolerance, processor isolation, security, and resource management.
too generous...

It seems instead that you are too stingy with your arguments. Why is socialism such a bad policy for these sorts of services? You can't just invoke the Great Leap Forward and expect anyone to agree.
This. Sowell is kept tucked away because no one wants to hear what he has to say.
At the very least fine could a MUCH higher percentage of annual profit. That would at least give the company incentive to fire people.
As someone recently described it to me: lawmakers vote for punishments they can't envision themselves ever receiving.
If you ask an average American from either side they will probably agree that white collar criminals should face tougher consequences. If you ask an average politician from either side, they will probably agree on the opposite.
> The site still fails Lighthouse

No it doesn't. Are you sure something on your system isn't injecting JavaScript (browser extension?)
Also in Israel. I've tried to avoid WhatsApp for long long time (I'm Facebook free since 2010 or so).

Being a parent, WhatsApp is the norm.
And it's pretty impossible to change the entire society. so sadly for anything about my kids I use WhatsApp.
Some people more than told, offered and used drugs openly or the end at the day while I worked there. Nobody cared.

In my brief stint at Apple, only two things seemed to matter; what you could deliver to your org, and whether your manager liked you (highly correlated with the first).

Edit: I guess there was a third thing, don’t do anything that could screw up the brand at all, but that “mattered” only in that it was table stakes.
Also sending binary images and rendering them is very light-weight. They are also cache friendly (doesn't change often).
Well, one complaint often leveled at bureaucracies is that the regulations are opaque and their application is arbitrary. Statutory clarification can thus help to lower the cost of compliance.
One big cost of poor architecture and design is that you miss out on a lot of serendipity. When every new use case comes at the cost of a long, hard slog uphill over a mountain of design and implementation defects you choose your destinations carefully, so you miss out on a lot of potential wins (both big and small) just because you don't have the data to justify the changes.
Yes, and The GIMP is Photoshop for Linux. Great projects and all, but none are especially innovative on the surface.

I should say though, I think people put far, far too much weight on "innovation" and "originality" (not mentioned here but along the same lines).
Sure. I love helping people, I really do. And yes I might yap away at some meet to some guy and give him the best advice I can. But am I going to enter into a long-term relationship with him? A long-term commitment? Highly unlikely. This is only going to happen if there is some personal connection.

Edit: and re our discussion here, on this thread: a couple of passing minutes to spit out a comment is not exactly in them same league as committing to being a company's adviser.
Chimeras and hermaphrodites? You win. :-)
NOT. RELEVANT.

An ideal-Wikileaks would not taint every subsequent disclosure it had a hand in by overtly participating in the editorialization of the information it was disclosing. From now on, every time they publish anything we have to wonder not only whether the leaker is giving us the whole story, but whether Wikileaks is being faithful to the material as well.

An ideal-Wikileaks would stay out of the story and allow third parties to maximize the media impact. The real-world Wikileaks wants to sit across from Stephen Colbert.
Poll: hack Dustin Curtis's things every day? Yay? Nay?
Yeah, this mail is a big deal. Lots of people talking about it.

I like lcamtuf's take on it best:

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/06/not-disclosure-debate-ag...
Doesn't do anything on Firefox 3.5.3 on OSX :/
Maybe they could add a link in the confirmation email for 'never ask for confirmation to post from this location', which would whitelist that mailserver for posting without confirmation.
my point was using some common word on purpose, expecting it to produce a low entropy result

My thinking was that "Correct Horse Battery Staple" had more entropy than: "go go go go go go go go go go go go go"

.. which, apparently, is not
As the author, I'm interested in improving the Pyramid docs. Can you elaborate on your issues with them? Did you notice the tutorials at http://docs.pylonshq.com/pyramid/dev/index.html#tutorials (lots of people seem to miss them).
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>How precious. I thought that the novelty of "my website is a terminal" had worn off by now, but oh well

Whereas the novelty of rude remarks for no real reason keeps on giving!
Last few yeas? This has been a problem since the 1798 Sedition Act.
I hope the DX will drop in price too.
My grandfathers managed to get their work done, all of it, without chanting mantras on a schedule. One of them was a farmer and part-time blacksmith, the other a cod fisherman.
I don't know of any scientific studies which the best type of broom to sweep a hallway with or the best hammer to hit a nail into a piece of wood with. Yet somehow I've managed to use these tool.

I don't know of scientific studies showing the effectiveness of repeated affirmations (though I'd suspect there are some). They still seem like a very plausible tool.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. By that token, there are some claims so ordinary that they only require the ordinary evidence of experience.
In case anyone is wondering (via Wikipedia):

In 2004, Adi Shamir and Eran Tromer demonstrated that it may be possible to conduct timing attacks against a CPU performing cryptographic operations by analysis of variations in its humming noise (that is, its high-frequency humming noise, not the louder low-frequency humming of its cooling fan).
http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/acoustic/
2) The attack is possible, but only on the machine which does the encryption. So the threat is real but relatively difficult to exploit.

Anyway, the findings are spectacular because most other attacks use time-memory trade-off brute-force methods.
That definition of insantiy is worthless. Consider this:

You push the button once. Nothing happens. You push it again. Nothing happens. Does that mean nothing will happen in the future? No; that all depends upon what's going on when you push the button. Perhaps nothing that _you can observe_ happens.

FWIW, 'insanity' has many different definitions depending upon what kind of insanity you're talking about. There are different types of psychoses, schizophrenia, and sociopathic behavior as well.
Its an avatar for a war game series originally themed on WWII

Now sure, sometimes you can have an angular black swastika in a white circle on a red background in an entirely innocent context, even in Europe in the mid 20th century
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/aai-files/assets/libraries/dub...

But in a Western wargame? Sure, I'm sure most people wanting swastika avatars are kids trying to be controversial rather than active neo-Nazis promoting an ideology of hate, but I'd be reasonably confident none of them are doing it because it's an auspicious symbol in Hinduism.

Irrespective of whether permitting people to use Nazi symbols actually offends anyone playing a game where the objective is to shoot people, I'm not convinced there's a legitimate freedom-of-speech argument to be made about the avatars a private company chooses to bar from their services. I think censoring a few show-offs is probably an acceptable price to pay for the freedom to operate their services in Germany and it's legal intolerance of Nazi references. Perhaps the counterculture kids can pick hammer-and-sickles or Che Guevara instead....
Looks like the Ruby code in https://gist.github.com/amirrajan/e26fc9de3c20e7c395f6809a99... does a fixed update, so maybe FixedUpdate with Unity would be a better comparison?
Python and Javascript are the new languages that dominate compared to 10 years ago.
Do you have a source for the claim that ruby was designed for game development? I'm not saying it's wrong, I just have never heard that before.
It is strange that the MBA was such a coveted designation for such a long time. Is there literally no value in management?
Interesting 'single purpose' language though I'm surprised that

1) variables have to be declared before the code (I had to do this a long time ago and it was annoying)

2) the separated section for uninitialised variable in struct, why not =undef like all the other languages?

Also having to use base.u32 everywhere instead of just u32 must be annoying fast.
I couldn't find out. This is as close as I came.

"I had the FBI come threaten me to stop a talk that isn't as scary as 20 SCADA bugs," Graham says.

ref: https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/power-... (2012)
I don't find following stack traces through a bramble patch of annotation laden garbage calls and pointless abstractions to be a good fit for the word "easy."

SpringBoot epitomizes the worst of the marriage between an OO fetishist and an enterprise "architect."
This sort of thing is true for a lot of instruments. For guitar, a lot of players get into the bad habit of pinching the neck with their fingers and thumb, and moving their wrist when they strum. This can lead to injury at worst, but more common is a cramp or complaining about barre chords. You should use your elbow and a steady, fixed wrist to pull your fingers against the frets with just enough pressure to avoid buzzing, the thumb shouldn't be applying pressure at all, and you should be strumming from the elbow.
For a while I worked on a team where we wrote all code in pairs. The team room had 4 computers, each of which had 2 pairs of 2 monitors and 2 mice and 2 keyboards. During the day, every hour or so, each dev would switch between driver and passenger roles.

It was a great way to work, because junior people could get up to speed quickly, and it was much less likely that would would get stuck on any problem. As a bonus, we didn't need code reviews because every line of code had already been seen (and if necessary, critiqued) by another person.

One drawback was that you could not start working until your partner for the day arrived, and you'd have to stop working when the first person of a pair left for the day.

I'm not sure how this way of working pays off during the annual performance reviews, I didn't stick around long enough to find out.
In the U.S., employee protections (or lack thereof) are largely determined at the state level rather than the federal level. What protections that do exist in law are practically unenforceable.

Decades of union-busting lobbying has resulted in "at-will" employment being the default in many states that formerly had better employee protections. Contracts are now uncommon, and contracts that do not heavily favor the employer are rare. This was sold as making it easier to hire and fire employees, but my observations suggest that it has not made it easier to hire.

Working in much of the U.S., aside from a few specific states, is toiling under the Sword of Damocles. My worst-case anecdote was being laid off with 3 days of notice with no severance. In theory, that should have triggered a federal penalty, since the entire office facility was laid off, but the company did some sort of legal sidestep to avoid that, which amounted to "You're not being laid off; we're just not giving you any work or paying you." When I found a new job 2 weeks later, the company demanded a resignation letter in order to release my security clearance responsibility to the new company. I refused, but I still had to write a note for their records explaining how layoffs work.

I'm continually surprised at people who come from Europe or Commonwealth countries to work in the US. Perhaps they just don't know?
I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience- I know how frustrating it can be to have unexpected loss, particularly here, where it feels like it could have been prevented.

I'm not associated with Linode; I don't even host anything there, but I can see things from their perspective on this.

With a service like this, you'll sometimes see people who never cancel a service, they just stop paying for it. Maybe their card expires and they decide not to renew, maybe their business closed, or any number of other things.

If I were in their position, I'd certainly reach out to you- I'd warn you it was ending soon, and I'd remind you to renew. For one, it'd be the decent thing to do, and for another I'd want to get the renewel revenue! As the expression goes, 'It's easier to keep a customer than gain a new one.'

That said, if the time came and you hadn't renewed, I'd have a decision to make.
I want to keep you as a customer, but from my perspective, I have no indication you want to stay as a client- You haven't sent me any email about it, and you're not paying me anymore.

I'd probably archive off the data for a while, and shut it down.

My mental thought process would be akin to "I'll turn it off, and keep the files around for a few weeks. If he's using the site, then he'll notice when it gets shut down, and pay to stay with us. If not, Good luck in the future!"

From my perspective, it looks like that's exactly what Linode did. They gave you 20 days; That's nearly 3 weeks of the server being off, without you even writing them an email to say "Hey, Noticed it's off and I'm not paying you, could you please give me a few more weeks?"

I understand it's very frustrating for you, but I really can't blame Linode at all.

The other thing I'd touch on briefly is that you really should have backups.

I don't want to harp on it, because I know it must feel like kicking you when you're down, but servers fail..
What if Linode's datacenter caught fire? What if they were bought out by a company who wanted to convert them all to Windows servers? ;) Who knows. Things happen. Having the service turned off for nonpayment is among the smallest of problems.

If you were running a nightly backup job at this point, you'd be very frustrated that you had to copy everything back, but you'd have not lost anything.

In any event, I'm sorry that things didn't work out, and hope that your experiences with Linode (Or whomever you use to replace them) are more positve going forward.
Further note: now it won't let me go back in and watch it again, it's asking for money. Oh well, I had already started downloading it, so I'll just do that.
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Nothing, just keep dollar coast averaging VTI+VXUS.

I do think economy is about to slow down rapidly but will there be a recession? It's anyone's guess.
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Yeah I totally agree on the UX part.

Last time I used an iPhone and took a picture and it didn't show up in the "Files" app. WTF? Reminds me of the times when Apple measured hard drive capacities in "songs" instead of GB.