jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agree with the title's premise, but there is no interesting conclusion here, which is regulators and economists like fiat money (I'm being somewhat reductionist, but it still isn't a particularly groundbreaking assertion).

The author doesn't go on say bitcoin has no value, or no place in the broader financial system. The author makes clear bitcoin won't usurp banks. Which is a very believable point to accept.

Ultimately, banks and fractional lending have the upper hand because we collectively believe the outcome is better: higher growth, stable employment, etc. If regulators egregiously fail to deliver these benefits in the future, there's a potential successor waiting in standby. And 10 to 15 years ago, we didn't have that.

Overall, crypto is good in ensuring existing actors fulfill the functions they've promised and are obligated to do.
It's nice that NASA isn't falling victim to not-invented-here. If a commodity part or protocol can do the job, no sense reimplementing it.
People blamed white supremacy for the recent unprovoked attacks on asians by black perpetrators. Cognitive dissonance became really common on that side of the political spectrum.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-nationalism-isnt-american...

https://archive.md/sa3fA
Well, it can be solved very nicely by teaching everyone else how to "know the system". So where are the activists going door-to-door in black neighborhoods convincing the parents to submit applications to multiple schools and coach their kids through math problems so that they could get a better chance at admission?

Nope, much more rewarding to go bash the upper-middle class for wanting a better future for their kids than a ghetto and a minimum wage.

Mind you, nobody dares to go bash the top 1% "Ivy-league-by-donation" class. Their kids will inherit wealth, networks and power anyway. You are just helping them clear out the next 20% of the income spectrum, that would actually have a shot at competing with them. So feudalism and hereditary rule incoming.
Me? It's handy to be able to dump -> modify -> load jobs when I'm poking at things. No one said anything about serious work, though, they said "load json natively".
> Or is the answer really "if you need a hedge fund as part of your portfolio, you probably aren't coming to HN for investment advice"?

Yeah, that's basically the answer. Retail investors don't typically need to optimize their portfolios with bespoke investment vehicles. Their exposure and goals aren't complicated.
In case you're on Chrome, this is allowable (and super-accessible) by default, by clicking on the icon at the beginning of the URL bar.
The point is that uncertainty about some things creates social engagement.
Would you say that working out those problems has given you a solid fluency in math, in that you spend little to no time now on approaching a new problem? I want to develop a strong intuitional base in math, and from what I've read solving problems is the way to go.
Organic advertising seems more genuine, and powerful, than simple branding. I'm happy to provide the advertising if there is an interesting phenomenon in which X is an instance. But I wouldn't post something simply to advertise.
It does mention Slate, among others. After skimming the intro, I was similarly surprised it didn't mention Self, but it was probably more directly influenced by Slate. (Slate and Io were both strongly influenced by Self.)
Thanks Dale, I'm glad you're enjoying getting up to your eyeballs in open-source. Dale's quickly developing a reputation at CouchOne: if you need something done, give it to Dale. :)
Hi there! I'm the author. Thanks for your feedback.

> "There is nothing in the post to indicate that the InheritedResources gem is any more state of the art than standard scaffold controllers"

I think you may have missed my point (which, as the author, is probably my fault) :) It's not that inherited_resources controllers do anything better than the standard controllers. It's that each controller does exactly the same thing, but one is 81 lines shorter.

> "The fact that the author uses dateless posts and comments (SEO) does not add to its credibility for me"

There are dates on each post (check the top left). Also, you say credibility goes down because I have comments (which you seem to think are for SEO purposes)? I'm afraid I don't follow at all.
But what happens when terrorist children shove explosives inside themselves through their anuses, or when terrorist grandma shoves a handgun inside her vagina?

It's a very slippery slope to climb without a safety-line mate. The minimal increase in security this new procedures allows is just too small in contrast to the vast damage it does towards people's liberties and towards avoiding precedents that could influence some Big Brother type of behavior.

This might sound awful, but a terrorist attack is most likely to be thwarted because some agents doing profiling decided to be extra careful with Muslims (and this is just an example, I'm not targeting Muslims in any way), than because we have xray machines that strip people naked.
I don't see why its okay to be so derisive of the USPS. By your token, http is the internet's largest spam operation
"Are you an engineer? I ask because I find it very hard to believe an engineer would write that."

How about "In this case, the cost of being precise outweighs the benefits"?
That's a bit of a No true Scotsman.
That doesn't really say anything at all.

The bakery competition is limited to people who want to run a bakery. The beer store market is limited to people who want to run beer stores.

Breaking the law obviously isn't an issue for people in drug industry.
If we want to trace back the lineage completely, here's the discussion on blessed (https://github.com/chjj/blessed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058639

I guess it wasn't very popular in spite of the projects it influenced. :)

Although, blessed-contrib does add some pretty cool widgets.
Tempodox's phrasing may seem a little out there, but there are plenty of arguments that could be in line with his reasoning.

For example, was the Bush administration's lies about the CIA report a crime? [1]

I don't think Hanlon's Razor applies here. While calling it institutionalized crime may be inflammatory, valid, (or even distracting), it's quite clear that those in power pass laws to perpetuate their power. This is in line with the iron law of oligarchy. [2]

[1]https://news.vice.com/article/the-cia-just-declassified-the-...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
History gets to show that Christian beliefs gare entirely compatible with appalling behaviour, eg slavery, looting or plain old genocide. Nothing new under the sun.
Or, take it for what it is, a quote from a movie.

But don't dismiss the merits of the idea. It's essential Risk Management[0], which is most certainly a relevant part of Information Security. Specifically, this is a form of Cost-Benefit Analysis (specifically, Qunatativie Risk Analysis[1]), a critical component in proper Risk Management; the reality is you cannot "fix" every issue.

Take a look at methods like Single Loss Expectancy[2] and Annualized Loss Expectancy[3]; you'll find that the Fight Club quote is very close to the real-world methodology. I cannot speak for the Automobile Insurance industry, but given Insurance is founded in Risk Management, it seems likely to be closer to reality than not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management

[1] https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/publications/conference-pap...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-loss_expectancy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annualized_loss_expectancy
Hey one import and you can have 1000+ dependencies :)
Why does HN moderation staff keep flagging posts related to Stallman? This topic is extremely important and yet they're trying to prevent any discussion of it.
Exactly that was what I thought, GDP should back the currency right? But I’m not an economist to know the answer
Possibly, but I don't see a lot of acceptance for actual diversity in diversity circles. There's a core they share (political stance, worldview) that's essential for being allowed. Diversity is allowed beyond that, but that's really no different than anywhere else. Trump fans of lots of different backgrounds get along great, because they share what they consider important.

The diversity movement is primarily concerned with allowing diversity outside of the core issues, while strictly forbidding it within, and purging those who don't comply, regardless of their gender, sex, ethnicity etc.
In some places, Neolithic houses were built on lakes, probably to offer protection against predators and easy access to fish.
Indeed. Except, the value add is that anyone can run their own password-protected radio show, and the hope is "anyone" includes a lot of popular people.

It's audio snapchat, which everyone wants to join because all the cool people are also on it.
Cocaine isn't a prescription drug. Adderall/Vyvanse aren't addictive at the prescribed doses, it's not really relevant what happens if you just start snorting it.

> Plus you have actual withdraw symptoms from amphetamines too.

Easily managed and known to last about a week. The non-stimulant ADHD medications like guanfacine actually have much worse withdrawal!
To provide perspective: "new languages" is understandable from CL POV but Erlang is 30 years old and Clojure is 15.
> ToS are irrelevant

That's some bad advice. ToS are irrelevant only if you don't expect retaliation from ToS owner, or the costs are trivial.

> Open knowledge is important, especially in video game scenes where elitism is a real issue

Open knowledge? This is reverse engineering someone's cash cow. Kinda like claiming Win 10 code is open knowledge.

Video game scenes? Elitist?
It's just a silly option in some medieval sim. There are other games that allow these kinds of things. Massive chalice for example.

By that stretch, why not complain Hearts of Iron don't allow you to create a third Furry side in WW2?

Or if you really want to be part of video game scene make your own. But I doubt you'd open source it. It takes monumental effort.

Did you see indie games? It's veritable farmers market of small games.
Fair question but at some degree of bad faith flagging and moving on is more effective.
If you go up to the top of this thread, I think you will find that we are bickering about specific micromort values listed on the Wikipedia page.

Some of these things plausibly can be modeled as LNT. Radiation possibly can, perhaps airplane rides too. Some of them cannot be, like alcohol consumption.
Yes, which means we have well-documented functionality and tooling of that language to deal with various use cases. Which is not going to be the case with your ad-hoc format based on YAML or JSON.

Really? Unless it's written in Haskell or something else with a very strong type system, you won't do better than JSONSchema for validating the config file.

And here is the crux of the issue. Tools that are designed so that someone can keep "more control" rather than for tool users to solve real problems. The industry is sliding back towards bad old days of batch processing because of conceit and lack of lateral thinking.

Too much freedom is a bad thing. The industry is not "sliding" anywhere. We tried code-as-configuration, it required too much discipline, so the pendulum is swinging back. As pointed out elsewhere, hopefully Dhall will save us from all this by being the happy balance between expressive and chaos-limiting.
> So the same thing run locally is run in the cloud

Who is preparing Dockerfiles? Developers and system administrators / security people do not generally prioritize same things. We do not use k8s for now (therefore I know very little about it), so this might not be relevant but how do you prevent shipping insecure containers?
I don't care if they sell it. I don't want their business partners to have my data, but I'm not any more ok with Facebook having it in the first place.
In the traditional model, the anime is marketing material for the franchise. Money is in figures, merchandise, and manga, which usually all existed before the anime was created. Generally only established studios with plenty of funds do original (not first portrayed in another medium) anime.

OPM went to JC for S2 because the very expensive S1 from Madhouse had already satisfied the goal of bringing tons of new fans to the franchise.

This is changing though, as anime is getting cheaper to produce and international viewers are increasing.
I think it's less to do with targeting and more to do with a noxious business model. When your business model literally relies on wasting people's time and/or compromising their privacy, it shouldn't be surprising that people eventually develop workarounds (ad blocking) or provide a business incentive for a third-party company (like Apple) to implement countermeasures.
>So I do what I can. I don't even ask what time format something belongs in. I just write ISO8601 by default. If someone complains then I point them to the international standard and ask whether we want to be an internationally standards-compliant company.

This is my approach as well. I've never gotten a complaint about it, which proves to me that the format is understandable AND unambiguous.
Just playing with it now. The new geometry nodes are the beginning of something big... a more procedural approach to modeling. Perfect for natural distribution of things like rocks and plants.

Our department (art and design) moved from 3ds Max to Blender last year, and have not looked back. The rapid pace of development is testament to the fact that Blender now has more than twice as many full time devs working on it than Max.
I dearly love both sports and reading, but they are very different activities that give you happiness in very different ways. Kayaking won't teach you quantum mechanics or ancient Greek history. So from a certain knowledge-adquisition point of view, pottery and kayaking are way less efficient, if not a waste of time. Just like reading is a waste of time from the physical happiness POV.

As with most things in life, a good balance is needed.
Seems like it's time to buy me some cod liver oil... I hope it's not as nasty as I'm thinking it will be.
Maybe I am a little bit ignorant but I suspect that the problem is that most of the people in Africa don't have computers (or other devices to use the Internet). Even more, I believe that solving hunger or HIV issues is a little bit more important for people living in poor countries.
Yahoo is still using FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is also used by ISPs (NYI, Pair, Verio), storage companies (NetApp, EMC), internet infrastructure companies (Cisco, Juniper), hedge funds (not sure if I should mention names), antivirus companies (probably shouldn't mention names), large defence contractors, several US national laboratories...

There are permanent FreeBSD deployments on every continent (yes, including antarctica) and in some of the most remote regions on earth (when the European Southern Observatory in Chile needed to send data wirelessly over 100 km, they used FreeBSD).

Yes, people still use BSD.
I'm a fan of Cmd + , which opens the Preferences dialog.
Sadly the tone of your answer seems to imply that 'non-technical' people are basically worthless until they've gone out & made it big in the world. Consider that if the money, connections, sales skills & knowledge were already there, they'd just go hire someone.

Everyone starts somewhere, and classifying anyone who isn't already very successful as "some random asshole with a great idea for a company begging people go build a company for you and let you come along for the ride" is the type of attitude that gives hackers a bad "elitist who doesn't play well with others" reputation.

As I read it the OP's question was pretty simple,"How Do Non-technical Entrepreneurs Find Engineers?" A straight forward and honest question. Replying with,"If you have to ask, you won't find the answer" is not imparting some sort of Yoda-like sage wisdom, rather it just makes you sound kinda like a dick.
I think this is a really interesting idea, but this site serves only as a frustrating introduction to a blog post that explains everything.

http://www.blog.ahumanright.org/2010/10/buy-that-satellite/
"What we need is someone who truly groks multiprocessor, multi-threaded, heterogeneous run-time environments; and from that knowledge can write a language to take advantage of such an environment."

Please Google: Starlisp, Paralations, NESL, Multilisp, Qlisp, Actors (ACT 1, ABCL), Termite, Kali

There have been only two (tuplespaces and STM) parallel programming paradigms that have not been pioneered by people who can be considered "Lispers."
Brave admission.
treasured iMac or MacBook.

Ok, let’s not try to get too precious here. And, since most of the recent attacks are generally social engineering-based (fake codecs, trojans) platform security’s still good. Now, hacking vulnerability’s another story...
All of this comment is wrong, but I think the "pro tip" is especially important to correct. When you're close to exhaustion is when you most need to think about form, because the easiest default motions are not the most efficient. You'll find the path of least mental effort, not physical effort, and it'll cost you a lot.
Anayyir - While my style may not appeal to you, I've already received a few thoughtful emails in response to my post.

The HN community may have a broader perspective then you give it credit for.

Thanks again for your suggestion on DSP forums - I have already found one that looks like it will be a great resource.
"For a long time, the promise at Twitter was that we were going to look at different ways of making money, and to some degree I feel that hasn’t happened."

In other words, all the hand-waving didn't lead to human-powered flight, so Twitter is looking at the booooring aspect of actually sustaining their business.
I'd say yeah - without the proof of the Poincaré conjecture (execution), the idea of the Ricci flow is an amusing conceit.

And worthless beyond that.
I think this is the right answer. I should probably refactor this article.
And it's a compulsion for me to follow every footnote to the bottom of the page to see what I'm missing... I guess that's what options are for. :)
http://www.kindlingapp.com/
> The demos below show how Apple’s Safari web browser supports the capabilities of web standards such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

Just sayin.
The math is off, but they have a point.

If you want to invest, buy equities. If you want to collect, collect.

Is my promo copy of the Late Great's "Turpentine" ever going to be worth something? Irrelevant, burn it on the funeral pyre along with the rest of that stuff when I die.

That album rocks, though.
No, it's not. You can make decisions about buying stock based on fundamentals. You can choose to buy Apple stock based on their products, and on Tesla stock based on their technology. You can't reliably do the same for collectibles.
Slide 50 just says "Questions?"
Or, at least not have to listen to the guys one pod over "spontaneously" discussing last night's sports statistics for a half hour block on the daily. Perhaps they're "doing it wrong" but they have their right to "spontaneous fun" things too. We're all adults and only have so much say, even one's manager. All it takes is one conflict and the concept eats itself alive.
You're very welcome.

For the '50s, nothing off the top of my head, although it's really just a synthesis of a bunch of things I've observed and learned over decades:

First is the obvious, that the M14 is a Garand with a detachable box magazine and a much better gas system in the front end, but it still has an op rod and the same exposed bolt on top. Compare to the other major designs of the 50s:

The AR-10 wasn't exactly, except it inspired the AR-15, then there's the FNH FAL and the H&K G3/91: the only exposure the action gets is the necessary ejection port.

And of course the M14 officially won the US competition. The corruption in that should be searchable both directly (e.g. search for "sabotage" of the alternatives, but you'll also find hits alleging sabotage of the M16), and indirectly in the much studied history of the adoption of The Black Rifle, as one of the major books on it is titled. Some of those accounts should detail why the civilians in the DoD took this out of the Army's hands (and I gather terminating with extreme prejudice that unit of the Army, and of course closing down Springfield Armory in 1968; the M60 debacle probably also played a role).

It's also self-evident that something major happened to establish 7.62 NATO. E.g. I just read in Wikipedia that the British were going forward with their own rifle design using their own intermediate .280 British (which looks to be noticeably better than 7.62x39, a bit hotter than 6.8 SPC but probably wouldn't travel as far), then Labour lost the 1951 election...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_FAL
Before picking a library, one should do some research: take a look at the issue tracker, the mailing-list, open the source code, etc. It will give a good idea whether it's a good bet or not. I don't think this issue is specific to JavaScript.

Note that the author comes from Java. Developpers coming from dynamic languages will be much less annoyed by JavaScript vibrant ecosystem.
Congratulations on getting the book written and on Amazon. I hope to follow in your footsteps in the coming year.

Like you, I'm fascinated by story structure, the hero's journey, and the mono-myth. And I've struggled with creating something less than flat characters.

I've read the Snowflake method, and parts of it definitely work for me. Another book that I highly value is Dwight Swain's Technique's of the Selling Writing. This was one of the first books that I read on writing fiction, and I still think it's one of the best. I would also recommend Baboulene's, The Story Book, for it's discussion on subtext.

Unfortunately for me, the focus on technique left me not only with flat characters but also a severe case of writer's block. However, I may have found a solution to both problems in John Dufresne's Is Life Like This? Dufresne advocates a more organic, even serendipitous, approach to story creation. For him at least, the results can be wonderful (read his Love Warps the Mind a Little, or his short stories in Johnny Too Bad), and for me, it's got me writing (finally!) and seeing my characters as something more than just cardboard cutouts. Like anything else, it's not for everybody, and YMMV.

Good luck, and keep writing!
OTOH, I think is part of the point:

> file, err = os.Open("file.txt")
> if err != nil {
> ... handle error ...

A type system with generics can use types to make an error a different type and produce a compile error if you don't handle the case without making the code more complex.
Along with Coke, Pepsi and soda in general being one of the most consumed products on earth. It's like a slow form of suicide, and yet people still consume it widely.
There's certainly some of that, but the long tail of the Internet means there are all sorts of communities and real-life meet ups of the strangest obsessions where their interests are celebrated, not made fun of. This means it's safe to declare your weird obsessions. Even if you're family doesn't understand it, they don't have to - theres a community to connect with, whereas previously there was little/no such ability, and Nerd interests were shunned. Now they're the feature of Comic Con, SDCC, Pax, etc.
> Minimum wage hurts most the very people it pretends to help: the least productive of us, who become unemployable legally.

How do you explain that the countries with the highest minimum wages also seem to have plentiful jobs and high performing economies? It seems that with your logic the should have large unemployed underclasses, but that doesn't seem to be the case.