jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Lets say I am not a Ruby dev, what would compel me to learn this over Unity, Unreal, React Native game engine, or one of the other (thousand) game engines out there?

A good reason would be that RoR is still a competitive advantage for indie web devs and small startup teams working on non performance-constrained domains.

It's amazing how many successes In see in the IH world using Ruby despite far larger numbers of people building everything in JS or maybe Python.

Dev experience matters and there are some durable advantages the Ruby ecosystem has maintained despite others growing more quickly in popularity. Building DSLs is one.
The happiest Americans.
What about a denylist?
This is one of the primary benefits of a messaging client that uses Matrix [1], if one app becomes undesirable there are dozens of compatible apps! [2]

I highly recommend giving Element [3] a try - it's polished and easy for non technical people to use, end-to-end encrypted and OSS.

[1]: https://matrix.org/

[2]: https://matrix.org/clients/

[3]: https://element.io
GP made a blanket "We're faster" claim. I'm the one moving the goalposts?
DisplayLink (as it's name might suggest) has nothing to do with DisplayPort. DisplayLink runs a compressed video stream over host USB to an external box (which decodes that compressed stream and pipes it to the dual DP ports on the box).
I meant listened to. Sorry.
> Practically there'd be huge consequences for whoever was stupid enough to disrespect the US Congress.

Interesting time to make this observation. Let’s see.
The election doesn’t delete Trump’s Twitter followers. If anything, twitter’s actions show this was never about profit... but about the fact that no media outlet in the US has ever outright censored a sitting president.
He absolutely is. Trump is the only reason I actually go to twitter at all. The rest of the website is effectively a trash dump. Also if you haven't figured it out. Trump is likely to radically reform the entire republican party. Just because he lost the election doesn't mean he is going out of politics.
Easily. It is a type error. An attempt to apply inapplicable (orthogonal) concepts to one another.

An evidence implies an observable phenomenon (whose description is a statement of fact). Merely a chain of reasoning is never an evidence, because it usually based on flawed premises or domain-specific logic.

Now pay me.
My family is on Threema, but I advocated for it heavily and it's still an island and they all use WhatsApp in parallel. But at least family photos get shared on Threema now.
People on the right-wing want Trump to move to Parler anyways. We don't want to be supporting "big tech" anymore.
I read it was one, but you are right four people died tonight. What a shame...
You can, just deny the request and add contacts in Telegram. At least in android, I denied contact list and manually adding relevant ones to telegram.
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Safari 7.1, no extensions: blank page. Firefox 34.0.5, clean install: blank page. Chrome 39.0.2171.99, clean install: blank page.
Snake is a metaphor for the male anatomy. I think you know how that works by now.
Neither HN nor SO are clickbaity. The user asking the question is saying there's something creepy happening, not that GitHub is censoring.

> which immediately follows the number. It's explained in the actual SO post.

Yeah, which is why it is on HN, what's your point?
I think you'll find those who support minimum wage laws also support the enforcement of those laws. I'm not sure if you're advocating for deportation, restrictions on immigrant labor, or something else entirely, but given that you're using terms like "illegal aliens," I'm going to assume you're not a fan.

We've already got mechanisms to crack down on black-market labor. Tax-dodging, not paying workers minimum wage, and subjecting employees to unsafe work conditions should be punished as such. In addition to punishing employers who exploit immigrant workers by paying them illegal wages, we should have much larger programs to allow unskilled undocumented immigrants to legally participate in the above-ground economy so the legal citizens aren't undercut. It's the same reason why we don't allow employers to pay teenagers below-minimum wage. Sure, teenagers don't have to support themselves (let alone a family) and might be happy to work for less, but if employers are allowed to pay kids five bucks an hour, they'd only hire kids and the minimum wage would completely fail.

In short - the only way to reduce black and gray markets is to punish the exploiters and decriminalize the exploited. Punish the pimps instead of the prostitutes, the drug-lords instead of the addicts, and the business-owners who skirt sensible labor regulations instead of the immigrant workers.
Actually, many people do has same idea, but they don't call it 'headless component'. They instead call it 'renderless component'. Means the component itself render no ui element and delegate every ui part to something else. Google this word will give you a lot of similar ideas.
I wrote something like this a couple months ago and thought about selling it. I ultimately decided that the price where you make it cost-prohibitive to mine cryptocurrency is too high for someone that just wants to render PDFs without dealing with the burstiness of running several copies of Chrome on their production infrastructure. I was also concerned about the underlying browser changing how things render when upgraded; I didn't want to run an outdated browser, but I also didn't want to tell users "hey we updated Chrome, better check the output of your batch job and make an emergency fix to your HTML".

How are you dealing with these issues?
What can you tell us about the rest of your stack?

What language(s) do you use?

What libraries do you use?

What static and dynamic security analysis tools do you use?

What style guides and code best practices do you use?

Where do you host your code?

Where are your backups?

Where are your POPs located?

Have you had any pen tests run?
I am guessing he is at ETH Zurich
> we don't need to do that every single time.

You cannot help but do it every single time. Even when you choose what TV channel to watch. If you conscious mind doesn't do it, your subconscious will.

Making good cost/benefit decisions is how poor people move up financially, and making bad ones is how the rich become not-so-rich. (Like David Cassidy, who spent his wealth on drugs and parties and one day woke up jobless, friendless, and money-less. A similar story happened to Will Smith, though he managed to turn his life around, make better decisions, and regained his wealth.)
No, I’m stridently anti-imperialist, but simply observing the historical reality that, counter to OP’s claims, “monocultural” nationalism is a modern, unstable construction, that tends toward violence.
As Claudia called out - scale, memory, and information are all technical terms in our context but have layman meanings in the language too.

Is that not the same as justice, racism, and privilege in humanities?
Are you aware that he is talking about summer?
understanding Maslow's Needs by negative example

Those are usually called “hygiene factors” in the literature.
I totally can relate and wish you all the best - right time, right solution!
#3 isn't just a die roll, it's the entire basis of early stage investment. If he loses on #3, YC will either be a shadow of its former self, or Sam will have given himself enough rope to hang himself (as president of YC).

This is exactly the sort of thing that everyone making press about investment capital should be willing to do. Sam isn't making a bet about money here, he's making a bet about his reputation as a forecaster/analyst.
This is a joke, right? Airbnb has changed the way I, and many other people, travel abroad. It's made a marketplace (in holiday accommodation and, perhaps more importantly, local hospitality) where there wasn't one before.
> text-based browser in the classic sense, so much as an ASCII art frontend

is ASCII art not text based?

> A text-based browser in the traditional sense explicitly wouldn't care about JS and WebGL

I guess that's the difference between "traditional" and "modern"? the whole point of doing something different is to stray away from the traditional

> I don't understand the benefit of brow.sh over basically anything else

I don't know if this is exactly how brow.sh works, but if it does its a use case for me. In my case, I have some remote machines whose IPs are whitelisted for certain third party vendors. These vendors have web portals we can access, but only on those machines. If I could use this to proxy through and be able to hit those web portals through those machines, it would be useful for me
> The GP was talking about running a purely v6 network, and pointing out that it wasn't yet feasible.

Amusingly that's how mobile/smartphones are supposedly run: the devices get IPv6-only, and if they need to hit an IPv4-only address they are CGNATed.

* https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy360/2014/cas...

* https://blogs.akamai.com/2016/06/preparing-for-ipv6-only-mob...
Java (Vs. Visual C++) had the industry and Academia trying to break free from Microsoft's grip by going cross-platform and later in-browser.

Dart just doesn't have that kind of driving force going for it.
very interesting post.
I'll bite.

>Stealing happens when I take resource from you in a way that denies you that resource

Are you saying it isn't stealing to pirate my iPhone app? Are you saying it isn't stealing to copy my website's design? Are you saying it isn't stealing if I take something out of your house for a day but return it before you need/notice the item?

Most of the people on HN sell/create digital goods and to say that we have no rights over the things we create is very insulting.
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Having a strong diaphragm and good lung capacity is important for being healthy. Proper intake of oxygen can work wonders for your mind and improve efficiency by a lot. Stay safe everyone!
Stop spreading the conspiracy theories, please.

(Even those that say it started from the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...)

There is absolutely no evidence showing the virus started from a lab, regardless of Chinese or American.
That was quite helpful thanks.
So for most of the rest of the world, moving sick patients across political boundaries is going to be a hot potato nobody will touch. Autoclaving some medical equipment and dropping it off somewhere else is probably much easier.

And then there are the problems of the ridiculously huge countries, like China, the US, or Brazil, that most of the rest of the world simply fail to fathom the enormity of distance-based logistical problems. Two of the largest cities in just the contiguous United States are 4 and a half hours apart at the speed of sound, and there's a bigass mountain range in the middle that you can't fly around. And it looks like a medical helicopter would take about 3 times as long, so moving sick people is a multiple of moving equipment. Even New York City to Chicago would handily kill a patient drowning in their own fluids before they arrived, and most first world countries are wider across than that.
Why do you need to lauch that app while you’re driving if you only need it to get into the parking garage? Can’t you pause at the garage, launch the app and enter?
Exactly, I think the article is a bit self centered and overlooks this concept
Ah, I used to have one for a while. Great fun.

Reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw on a big, jacked-up American truck, though: "If you can't stop, smile as you go under."
This would be very good for generating synthetic datasets for machine learning.
Tesla doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to sell a truck to everybody, and people that love something are willing to pay more than people who only mildly like something, so it makes sense that they would design a highly polarizing truck that a few people loved but everybody else hated. It's reminiscent of the economic model of fursuit manufacturers.
I argue that Facebook isn't a dumpster fire. I use it mostly to share photos with my friends and family, and I see little or no propaganda on my feed.

(Agree with your other points.)
DRY is dangerous if applied to pedantically; sometimes similar code should be allowed to exist to make overall architecture simpler, or allow similar components to evolve (possibly Divergantly) over time.
At least some of us prefer a Dark mode that especially uses real black in backgrounds because of OLED and other HDR screens. Real black on many OLED devices is an entirely unlit pixel. That's very plainly less light being forced at your eyes from that screen, and absolutely will reduce certain forms of eye strain. Black backgrounds literally fade into the background of the screen. Grays and dark grays don't do that, they need at least a little lighting.

As with almost all aesthetic preferences, your mileage and your hardware may vary.
You can obviously reject a job for any reason you like.

Personally, I decided some twenty years ago that I never wanted to work with Microsoft products again, and have since passed on quite a few opportunities because that. My stress levels went down significantly after making that decision, though. Asking to be comfortable with something you spend a majority of your wake time on is not unreasonable.
Starting with books with an intention to go into all e-commerce seems like a good plan to expand into a large domain from a hard problems side, then he could do it again with AWS. By that point size alone was advantage.

Manufacturing a fitness product with streamed classes seemed to be tackling the hardest part of what domain? Sure they could try random things now, but where are they ahead of a media, robotics, car or e-commerce firm? Investors are quoted as thinking he doesn't know what he is doing so probably he shouldn't have built up staff with no new market to enter with an advantage.
That's been existing for quite a while now? The "[–]" link at the end of each comment summary line.
Update: Tim says if you buy 3 copies of his book and email him your receipt, he’ll send you a chapter that his publisher edited out of the book.

This on top of an incredible claim caused my informational immune system to close the tab. If any reasonable person made such a discovery, they would be concerned about skepticism, about looking like a huckster. And about being wrong! They would look for some way to validate their work and would see if they could convince someone credible in the field before they started pitching it to the general public. This guy is going out of his way to look like a charlatan. Conclusion: he's looking for suckers and is weeding out everyone else right up front.
I'm skeptical. Mirah can't really do much to support functional programming without adding a runtime, since the JDK's built-in classes don't provide data structures amenable to FP. But the point of Mirah is to be lightweight without its own standard library.

You could use Mirah with Clojure or Scala to get access to the necessary libs, but then you lose the lightweight advantage and could fragment the community.
Any ex Yahoo'ers out there who happen to be in NC - or who might want to move to NC - gimme a shout... maybe we could work on some interesting stuff together. Contact info in profile.
I certainly agree with that.

But do you think that in the future people will use one central application to organize their data, or will we organize it inside of the apps we use?
Note that FSD beta participants are selected/limited by Tesla based on proprietary "safe driver" scoring, so FSD data doesn't say much about how the gen pop might fare at managing the system. (I know you were writing about Autopilot -- discussion is on FSD Beta though.)

Note also that other drivers are learning behaviors such as keeping their distance from Tesla's, etc., making it harder to assess the system functionally.

Edit: Actually, there are docs for the scoring, sans changelog though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30267858
40,000 people die in car crashes every year in the US alone. If the lord farquad approach brings widespread autonomous car adoption which decreases that number substantially even a month sooner it's the right thing to do. Many of us are already dying.
Likely the latter.

Far too many employers are used to high job competition allowing them to pay only pennies on the dollar for that work. The moment people ask for rational and reasonable wages, it’s suddenly “No OnE WaNtS tO wOrK” because they’re wanting champagne work output on a horse piss beer salary.
> Can we be sure that the average driver who has received no special training in the matter will be able to take over from an autopilot in a split second when driving at high speeds?

The beta system controls for this by only allowing in people who score 98 or above in Tesla's safety surveillance program. The restrictions are tight enough that you have to actively try to be a safe driver to get anywhere close to the cutoff (some people even got pissed off because their score went down because someone brake checked them and they had to decelerate too quickly). Not everyone who buys FSD gets into the beta.

> If/when the system is rolled out at scale will drivers actually comprehend that?

The only ethical way to roll this out at a wider scale than the scale allowed by the safety surveillance program is if it's good enough to avoid incidents like the one depicted here. I think we can all conclude that Tesla deserves the fat lawsuits if they were to green light FSD in the state it is in today.

> but no one can bring a dead pedestrian back to life.

An unfortunate fact of life, hopefully made irrelevant by the comeuppance of autonomous transportation technology (including but not limited to automobiles) that makes motor vehicle accidents a thing of the past. Until we get there, though, someone has to keep trying.
ie had a built in government market, i have no qualms ignoring safari.
Yorkshire dialects vary and the stereotypical "broad Yorkshire" accent is fairly rare now and from an older generation, but I've definitely heard people round here say "off dahnt pub". The accent seems to be getting milder over the generations.
You're getting it wrong. PHP's (and Laravel) getenv is getting the system's environment variable. .env is a helper that overrides them. It just helping you setup different env var for each project in same system.

If you're using docker, it's fine to just use docker's env_file or environment value, or use Laravel's .env only if you prefer it.
Apple News is just selected highlights from papers like the WSJ (i.e. those that have their own pricy subscriptions) though, no? I've thought of giving it a try.
Management wants to extract maximum labor from their workers they encourage this fuzziness and second guessing as a way to manipulate their teams into thinking it's their fault or working extra hours to satisfy unreasonable management demands.

This is true for all parts of agile as practiced - it's micromanagement by another name.
I would literally solve a problem I have and start a startup now. Whatever bothers you, fix it. You’ll learn everything including programming along the way. If it gains traction apply to YC. Heck apply to YC anyways.
Either expand, pivot or exit. Rinse and repeat and by the time you are 25 you’ll be a startup veteran.
Another risk... has a re-write been brought-up before and shot down? Did everyone agree (reluctantly) to make the best of it and continue with the code base? If that happened and you bring this up again, it may not end well. Management may see it as you undermining the project, not "being on board", etc.

So unless you feel really compelled to do this, and you can do a good, objective quantification (here is why a re-write will make us more money) as why it must be done, don't bring it up.

Also, telling mgt that a whole team in the company produces bad code may not be in your interest and it certainly won't make that team your friend going forward.
This is a great example of not having to understand a phenomena in order to exploit. Of course, understanding will let us take it even further.
Please be respectful of all HN users time and don't link to your own Twitter statuses. This could be written as a comment on HN.
A woman (and a black guy) have institutions against them. They go somewhere, and they are instantly assumed to be less competent. That's why these things are given to them - to help out the weak, not to push YOU down. Those things are legs-up to equalise the playing field - you, as a WASP already are at the starting line, asking to get those things is to get another 10 yards.

Allowing this for the sake of argument, at what point do you stop "giving" things to disadvantaged groups? If a group makes up 60% of the population of college graduates, is it time to start punishing them as well?
"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal" - Heinlein
I would say any company that would retract an offer when you attempt to negotiate isn’t worth working for. Probably an awful culture. The only way I could see you losing out an offer at a good company is if the negotiation drags out long enough (weeks) that someone else comes along and agrees to take the role at X pay while you’re still negotiating.

I’ve hired many engineers. Neither myself, nor any cofounder has been insulted or angry by a counter-offer. Sometimes we said to ourselves “this is kinda high for someone at their experience level” and held firm or met in the middle, but most of the time if you ask you’ll squeeze at least 5K more out of it even if your counter was 30K higher than the offer.
In some unpleasant circles, yes, this is forbidden. It's strange to me, because people in those circles seem to be defending a sort of metaphysical equality that is obviously false.

Presumably, it is possible to believe both that IQ is highly heritable and that it is very important for success in the modern world, while also concluding, "this is why we need full communism now," but you rarely encounter those people at all, at least outside of SSC-adjacent places.
What does it mean that "Rust now plays in the C/C++ league"? Is this referring to the Rust Foundation announcement or some other recent news?
If you're that one person who can do that one Facebook thing I'm sure you can get way more that $1M and I think that's good.

But I don't think that's about optionality. That's about the actual value of your skill, and its scarcity.

Optionality is more like: Google would probably hire you do CRUD apps because you went to Stanford and passed our Google-like interview when we hired you to do CRUD apps, so we will pay you what we think it costs for you to not go do that at Google. Dave over here went to SF State and was hired before the algo-interview craze; no chance Google will hire him, so we can and will pay him less even if he makes better CRUD apps than you do.

If I, your hiring manager, also went to Stanford I will pay you even more because I sure think I have high optionality! And if my manager went to Stanford then all the better because he will immediately understand why you need more than Dave. Which, in the end, is true: Dave's still here, right?