jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a fascinating story of how some questionable research slipped through peer review safeguards of academic publishing and flourished. More importantly, it shows how the scientific community eventually caught it and debunked it. The original results were recalled. Sadly, one of the main perpetrators slipped into murky waters of "business consulting" and continue to sell this snake oil:

" Dr. Marcial Losada, has a Ph.D. in Social and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Losada was invited to present his work at Cambridge University in England, Harvard Business School, Graduate Business School at the University of Michigan, Sloan School of Management at MIT, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Stanford Research Institute, and Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California. He presented his findings on applications of nonlinear dynamics to team interaction and productivity at the prestigious Director’s Colloquium in Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has briefed Vice-President Al Gore and the president of MIT, Dr. Charles Vest, on the interaction dynamics of high performance teams."

https://www.losadalineconsulting.net/our_team
You may get better response, if you google 'graphic designers forum' and list the ones you've posted to and then ask if you've missed any.
Question is "what is Traitorware? (eff.org)"

Answer is "something written by turncoat mercenary Geeks".
>Surely that's the whole point of a trap?

I've been hearing about this supposed secret Apple plot to lock down the Mac and take away third party software distribution and operating systems for a decade now. If this is indeed Apple's plot, then they're really slow at implementing it. Maybe they'll sort it out in another decade.
Unless you give dividends, profit is mostly just money you forgot to invest in your business. A successful business is about sustained growth with a balanced budget.
Even if you use GitHub, you're still decentralized.
Yes and no. Right now, if you're running at one dyno then you're pulled from the heroku "mesh" if you run idle. However, this is a free account so it's not really saving you any money.

Heroku doesn't auto manage your dyno and workers based on usage. You set dynos at 10, you're running 10 throughout the month. Likewise with workers.

Heroscale ramps your dynos and workers up/down based on necessity.
I really like this distinction; it jibes with advice I've given would-be bloggers before. When you write a blog, you should have an audience. It's ok if you end up writing about yourself, but you should envision writing for the audience (mine was, initially, my mom---later expanded ;). It meant that, when I was regularly updating my blog at least, I had a readership in the several dozens. The difference between what you call "narcissistic" blogging and my idea of blogging "for mom" is the difference between "I'm writing about me because everyone should be interested in me" and "I'm writing things about me that an audience, however small (hi mom), would want to hear." It does make a difference.

In contrast, one can appear on the surface to be an altruistic blogger---writing about things rather than yourself---but still fall into the trap of narcissism, in this case, saying things about your topic because they pop into your head rather than because you think they'll aid your audience.
Nothing weird here. It's the advertisers who don't want you to click an ad without interest. It's the publishers who want you to generate ad revenue for their site.

Two different parties, two different motivations, two different stances.
Check .gitignore to see if it appears copy and pasted or actually thought through--this will invariably indicate the quality of the rest of the code.
A very sigifigant part of Ansible service module code was done to deal with misbehaving init scripts. They are very much cargo-culted just like RPM or debian package formats - borrow the ones from your previous project.

They are hard to get right and many apps don't daemonize correctly or return OK before they are ready to be running - and then are actually running much later. Upstart/systemd didn't neccessarily make that more clear for people to understand either.

While I haven't tried it, I recently encountered a reference to https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun and it sounds promising.

I don't know how much of this applies to programming in general, really, but init scripts are.. yes... special things.
Developers in China that focus on 2nd and 3rd tier cities are doing very poorly right now. The problem is that property became a speculative investment and an inflation hedge, but true demand has yet to materialize. The people who need housing can't afford these apartments, those that can afford them don't need to live there. Ugh.
This works the same as your example in bash.

foobar || {
echo fail;
}
Anyone knows why he doesn't buy real estate in highly desirable locations, which will always be in demand, given that he has a really long view?
> The silverware was mismatched, the food was literally microwaved tater tots. It was quite the experience.

This made me laugh. This is an extremely common situation, from dead zone rural all the way up to ordinary suburban and midsize city. And it's not hard to find in hopping metropolis San Francisco either.

Unrelated, but there used to be an ironic-downmarket diner in South of Market. It didn't last long, but (for a while) people packed the place to eat trays of frozen macaroni and cheese.

You could get a slightly better version of the same dish (but still distinctly microwaved) in a dozen places elsewhere around town, but people went to this place for the hipper decor and music, and to know that they were eating (and enjoying) the same food ironically, expensively, a few blocks from work, and just down the street from a wine bar where they have such creative ideas of how to infuse a vodka tonic!
I hate quippy cliches people say in these types of situations when they don't know what else to say. If you don't know what to say, say "i don't know what to say". Be honest. You don't have to say anything.
Several years ago you already saw large number of MacBooks (well, PowerBooks at the time) at tech conferences. IMHO it really was the Unix + nice UI that attracted many developers. It certainly got me.
Yep. For things that aren't "big data" (nearly everything), I've started to use in-memory SQLite databases for analysis. Just loading your data into a table makes doing all the selections/aggregations pretty simple if you're familiar with SQL and it fits in RAM.
I just wish there was a way to fast forward 2 years into a 10k LOC project to find out what new problems this creates. After running after the new hotness in technology for the last 5 years, I've realised it's never about the problems it solves today. It's the shit that you have to maintain a couple of years down the line.

(Not saying that this is bad -- just a random rant)
I certainly felt cheated after seeing this movie. The Nolans spoiled audiences with fantastic feats of imagination and well crafted storytelling. I did not expect such a trite delivery worthy philosophical notions. I found it interesting Chris Nolan is quoted basically saying don't try to think too much when watching his movies, but much of his body of work is thoughtful and thought provoking.
I'm a pretty vocal opponent of sexism (to the point where I've been labeled by GamerGate-types a "SJW"), and I would criticize the same strategy if it was a man putting it forward. Or at least, I hope I would.

There's no shortage of sexism out there, but it's dangerous to jump to the conclusion that any criticism of a woman is automatically rooted in sexism. That doesn't do social progress any favors either.
As I said, employing clever people to work as teachers seems obvious to everyone except those in power.
Indeed in the MI185 case it's thought that the pilot killed the co-pilot with a fire axe before bringing down the aircraft.
Nice idea, but not practical. Before the first intifada, a large number of Gazans worked in Israel. Afterwards, Israel put up security restrictions to prevent terrorism. Hamas also restricts travel to Israel since it's afraid people will develop positive attitudes to Israel or become collaborators.
I assume you're the one that downvoted me.

You're either a vegetarian or meat eater that thinks the whole thing is silly. I don't know which, but there are real differences. For example:

http://certifiedhumane.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Std09.Chi...
There are enough instances of sensors and autopilot malfunctioning, there should always be manual-override procedures and a human operator available to take control. I don't see this changing any time soon.
I've been using 10minutemail for years. I've never hand any email address that didn't work or was rejected.
Basically, intelligence is a speed of processing.

Assumedly every human being, given enough time, would be able to solve the same set of problems.

The thing is that we only have 80 years to solve them!
And also, there are more problems to be solved than anybody can in this small time frame, even with a IQ of 1000 (speed of processing).

Now what does that mean for the slower minds, in a competitive environment?

You can still provide useful output, by restricting yourself to a small set of problems, and by employing more persistance and constance on solving a choosen problem.

The faster guys will often grow bored with a single problem and will have to skip from one problem to another (ADHD, etc). This is your opportunity: stay on the same problem longer than they can, and you will find solutions while they're busy approaching multiple other problems.

Yes, perhaps over a given period of time, they will be able to find ten solutions to ten different problems, but this doesn't mean that you cannot provide one solution to one problem, that they will have not approached and found.

People who are really great and competent at what they do, are usually very able and willing to teach (or at least give hints) to juniors and newbies, as long as you show signs of personnal studying and researching your problems. They don't like to spoon-feed lazy newbies. In general, you will also find this attitude on the Internet (irc, newsgroups, web forums), where you will find a lot of help, as long as you start by trying solving your own problems yourself, and are able to explain what you tried and where you're stuck.

If your professionnal environment doesn't allow you to learn with your colleagues, then you may consider changing it, because even if you were yourself a rock-star developer, you would still have a lot to learn.
> If it's not fun, kids get bored very quickly.

Yes, this is our experience as well when we built a space park in India. We had to add some element of entertainment. It becomes immediately evident when kids visit the park who among them are interested in the education side and who are interested on the non-educational/entertainment side of the project.
> I actually didn't know they were even available, after being told by officials to use cloth masks for 10+ months I stopped looking. I was surprised how easy and available they were.

Your link doesn't work anymore, but KN95-style masks have been quite readily available for at least 6 months now, if not more. Though most of them seem to be of iffy quality/fit in my experience. Sometimes they're marketed at N95, but I'm thinking that's usually fraudulent mislabeling.
Ha! Good catch. It was working on Jan 4th which is when I placed my order.
By which means are the people paid who organize Tether? If they hand out tether effectively for nothing, who is paying for the infrastructure? If there is no payment, why would one not expect that they intend to run away with those $30 billion one day?

Additionally, if that bank goes bankrupt, the money is not secured.
One thing I particularly appreciate about our Dyson corded vacuum is that I can take the whole damned air path apart if needed, without tools. It's quite useful when something gets jammed up in a u-bend.

I have no comment about the rest of it, compared to other ones, because I haven't had to replace it since we got it a couple of decades ago.
Imagine if the USA was like most other developed nations where the government just sends you a receipt for you to verify and your taxes are otherwise taken care of for you. Instead we have Intuit lobbying to make it as difficult as possible, aided by Republicans who want the process to be as unpleasant as possible so people begin to loathe the very concept of taxation (This isn't hyperbole, Grover Norquist and his numerous disciples freely admit this).
A much more naive version of this, the Do Not Track header, was removed from major browsers (partly) because it was actually being used for fingerprinting. I strongly suspect a less naive version would be subject to more abuse: as it gets more granular it becomes a fingerprint all on its own.

I understand that you’re suggesting pairing it with legal force, but I also highly doubt that would or could be effective in any kind of consistent way.
The parent comment is making a philosophical/ethical point - there is a lot of power concentrated into two private companies (Mastercard and Visa). They are the gatekeepers to being able to take payments, without them you can't have consumer income, and they make moral judgements that make it hard to operate certain kinds of (legal) businesses.
I'm not claiming that Microsoft is the best company to work for.

But - the "I'm to good to work at company X" attitude will not lead you far. Especially if you say that on Microsoft which still has some of the world greatest minds.
Human beings make their choices on the basis of folklore. That's how our species functions. We experiment as individuals, we do science, we try different strategies, we answer questions, and then the fruits of that get baked into our culture, so that they are usable for everyone else.
Look at a high-end Amiga from ~20 years ago (such as an Amiga 3000). You have roughly 75% of what we have today on a much lower end hardware platform. Sad, isn't it?
the question I wanna ask: is the writer working or had worked for microsoft?
if the answer is no, then the article is not worth reading.
Reading that letter makes me proud of the Security Group at Cambridge University. Ross Anderson took us for a couple of Security courses in second/third year Computer Science and was interesting, direct and completely no-nonsense. He emphasised that policy and ignorance were often the main causes of failures, especially with LAS, NHS centralisation (UK government projects). I find strong individuals like Anderson inspiring when they take on organisations who attack knowledge rather than being hands-on and fixing their systems.

The Security II course is especially relevant. I am not sure that everyone can access these resources but the lecture notes cover a variety of modern hardware approaches to security (including chip-and-pin). Try:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/SecurityII/

I highly recommend Anderson's Security Engineering, the first edition is available online:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
s/Microsoft/MIT/g and the topic of the article would be much more interesting...
> America became the first large-scale experiment of a society that could be called a meritocracy

Bit of a fail here. The word meritocracy comes from a book of the same title written in 1958 by Michael Young (interesting fella, wrote the UK Labour Party's manifesto in 1945, founded the Open University).

The point about meritocracy is that it is a satirical term. (The beauty of it being that in any society the wealthy and powerful can claim they rose on merit. In the time of the Divine Right Of Kings, merit was being chosen by God.)

But don't take my word for it, read Michael Young on the subject in 2001.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
In userland you actually don't have to install at all, there are no prerequisites to resolve and there is no build process.
Just unpack the tarball from http://latest.mojolicio.us and start playing. :)
Catastrophic event; reminds me of black swans. The more catastrophic, the rarer, but also well be the one with the most damage. As every insurance is itself insured, I'd say if there is something really catastrophic, all crashes and no-one gets money at all.

Financial insurance also build a corset to let the card castel grow higher, until it falls apart on the floor. Idea taken from Antifragile.
Just US & Canada, for now.
Over Django? Any day! I'm not an advocate of that. It's just the alternative I had at that time (which doesn't mean I advocate it). I'm still watching Django very closely and, as I said, fundraising for a schema migration makes me sad.
One thing I've noticed about the far-left is that they have a tendency of dismissing anybody they disagree with as far-right.
I'm not debating the audience, I'm debating the qualifications of the person writing.

I know Wendell is the real deal because Dr. Ian Cutress wouldn't have had him on AnandTech livestreams if he wasn't. I also know Wendell's the real deal by watching Level1Techs YouTube videos. I also know he's the real deal because he literally builds out networks for companies for a living (Wendell Wilson Consulting in Kentucky). I don't know shit about this NYT writer. His credentials aren't listed on the NYT website. Does he have a degree in business information systems? Electrical engineering? Computer science? I don't know. That's the whole point.

I don't want to hear heart health advice from a "health journalist", I want to hear what an actual cardiologist has to say. Same with a "tech journalist". No thanks, I'll trust the opinion of someone who builds networks for a living when it comes to my network equipment.

In the past, finding people with these qualifications was difficult, and then you had to find time to liaise with them. Now you can find some of the best people in the world and gain their insight just from reading or watching YouTube.
I assumed the implication would be clear from the analogy.

In the last 20 years the US has invaded two of Iran's neighbors, Iraq to the west, and Afghanistan to the east.
Will the expansion cards work if plugged into a USB-C port on another laptop or desktop? (Assuming I have driver e.g. Linux installed).
Hey HN, I created CalcuLaTeX because I was frustrated with my workflow for chemistry and physics homework. Generally, I'd use the Python REPL as a calculator and type each problem into LaTeX to turn it in. CalcuLaTeX merges these two steps and makes it easier to reason about calculations by real time visual feedback.

I've posted on r/rust as well (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lqn5aa/calculatex_a_p...), and there seems to be interest in using it for scientific papers and such.

The only alternative I know of is PTC MathCAD, which is quite powerful and definitely worth looking into. However, it's quite expensive and Windows only.

The main repo (a Rust library and basic CLI) can be found here: https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX

The website repo using WASM and very hacky JS can be found here: https://github.com/mkhan45/CalcuLaTeX-Web
Tracking individual users is how Google Analytics works. Every hit has a "client ID" to tie together hits that came from the same browser. You can trace the actions of an individual in the "User Explorer Report." Although in practice, that's only useful for debugging.

The terms of service prevent you from putting PII into Google Analytics data. It is perfectly acceptable (and even encouraged) to put in an opaque identifier, which connects to PII stored in a different system. That is, for example, how you implement the official integration between Google Analytics and Salesforce CRM.
I wish more blog posts were like this. Just really useful, real-world information packaged as a set of bullet points. Bravo.
The Washington Times... not to be confused with The Washington Post, folks.
Marx tended to focus on roles more than persons or transactions. Buyers and sellers, capitalists and workers, etc. Any individual might play any particular role at any given time. (For instance, I personally fill the role of worker with my day job and capitalist with my 401k.)

The reason I mention that is because his thesis was that, in aggregate, the role of capitalist must expect a positive return on MCM transactions, or they wouldn't occur. Individuals may suffer losses, but as a role it just be positive.

He's less data driven than Piketty, and he builds this notion on top of the idea that there is a desire to hold wealth. Or, put another way, it is natural in an economy of commodities and money to prefer holding money over any given commodity. Eg, having a hoard of money is more useful than having a hoard of wool, as it is generally easier to convert money into a commodity you need than to convert between two commodities.

So the natural inclination is to try and increase wealth, and MCM exists commonly, so therefore MCM must be a net engine for increasing wealth. (Even if individual cases are losses.)

I'm less confident in answering your first question. It hasn't come up in my reading, but I'm not a scholar. It could be in there. (One of the things Marx often does is open windows to look at something and then move on without diving deep on them. For instance he acknowledges inflation, and moves on rather quickly.)
Yes! Plain "Firefox" on the Play Store is Fenix these days.
>Why don't they want to hear this? It's not really a secret, I'm pretty sure they know it.

This is like the EU version of a Californian saying those dastardly Texans should be ashamed of their low taxes when BigCo announces they're moving to Texas.

It's a backhanded way of implying that it's not a good thing or that they should be ashamed or whatever.
Maybe I should mutter[1] "That's Kubernetes as fuck" next time I see another shenanigans involving multiple overcomplicated layers with confusing documentation interacting with each other in a way nobody can figure out.

[1] Just to myself, of course.
Most times I see faang it's in the context of tech jobs, and Netflix is notorious for its wages - just my perspective as an outsider in Australia...
Of course if they made a Tesla with fewer issues and better service, I'd buy it. My 2018 Model 3 has had almost no issues. No other car company is making anything close so I'll put up with the service for now.
Correct. Greeks (and a few other markets) use it to compare
prices and buy stuff. That being said, they are in the process of expanding their business right now with new products/different offerings.

There are some growing pains there but it's an interesting company overall and they experiment with the work/life balance (e.g. they did 4 day weeks at some stage, unsure if they went ahead with that or reverted to 5-day weeks).
cloudflare has been talked about on WSB and /r/stocks for months. it's probably pumped a good bit already and this was a reality check.
Borrowers pay more than lenders. You get a cut of those fees as interest. There's risk there of course, but it isn't magic money or a ponzi.
Even as an anecdote, that's not impressive.
I guess no one should bother taking any lessons away from the Facebook DMCA fiasco of the past week, then? If you don't want to lose control of your data, don't stick it into walled gardens. (Though obviously exporting delicious info is much more straightforward than disentangling one's self from Facebook.)
But is it really? If I recall it's been found that typical hunter gathers had more leisure time than we do.

Citation needed. As far as I understand, the reason why civilization doesn't happen without agriculture is that everyone has the same job: getting food. Fundamentally, leisure time doesn't matter when everyone's specialty is "getting food." There's a reason that most of history's notable mathematicians and scientists tended to be in the upper class of their society.