jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Probably you are the first guy that I hear that have a 'love letter to Java'. I like your POV and you are absolutely right although I don't like Java very much, but it's because it is what taught me in college. If I write a love letter it would be for Ruby.
I'm with krapp:
"Self-driving cars are potentially the greatest threat to human freedom since the advent of the internet."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6982537
never uploaded anything to libgen, but i am setting up a http mirror of this and will also provide a .zip file, to make it easy for others to download the whole collection.

posting the link here when its done, then someone else can submit this to libgen and other places.
> > PC games have been using more uncompressed assets to free up CPU time, massively bloating install size

> Filesystem compression could help here.

How? Compression is not free, no matter where you put it, someone has to decompress it again.

Are you talking about some exotic SATA controller or other hardware that does that?
Yes, but you can use Messages in iCloud and keep iCloud Backup off.
Perhaps we can go back to buying a pizza for 1 BTC when this is all over.
> Correlation is definitely not evidence for causation.

Try telling this to climate change activists
>As I've said, in my opinion the increasing division is partly a result of the fact that radical minorities nowadays have platforms through which they can easily reach millions.[1]

this is the funny thing. Trump and the right wing are the ones being banned but it's the democrats who have created the divide.

> I agree that this is technically non-trivial, but many experiences have been made already and there are many methods like moderation, karma systems, IP banning, shadow-banning, banning by degrading service, limiting amplification/re-distribution of messages, identifying sockpuppet and bot accounts, and so on.

I also find it funny that to justify banning and other moderation that it's only being done to the 'radical minority' but it's absolutely not. This is about political opposition being silenced.

Which again comes back to the first problem. The political division in 2019 was 100% democrats. In 2021? Not 100% democrats anymore. The republicans are now adding to the division and that's not going to end well.

Attempting to silence them will never work.
You're not wrong, it's just that nobody cares about BTC itself, but only about its value relative to USD.

Crypto is not a currency but an investment product; can we please just accept that and talk about it for what it is?
Big Dog had a gasoline engine for longer endurance, but was heinously noisy.
> that used placeholder texts like Lorum Ipsum can also fail, because the real texts turn out to be much shorter/longer than the placeholder text.

In many cases, the content is dynamic, so the design has to be able to handle many different content lengths.
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Relatively new EE here with a quick question. You can, technically, make a system with the same output (spelling penis, etc.), without a microcontroller, correct? With the proper frequency dividers, timers, and logic gates? Or am I wrong here?
Does the US government really have much to gain from falsely claiming that North Korea is behind the attack? It doesn't seem like it, and it would be pretty embarrassing if it turns out that they're wrong.

That's the only reason I tend to believe in the FBI in this particular case, when they say they have good evidence. It doesn't change much if North Korea is responsible, so why lie?
I don't believe that was OPs point.

OP wasn't suggesting that immigrants are the problem, they are simply saying that you have to do something with 10M people that CAN'T participate in the system as designed. How do you solve for this variable?

If anything, this is a PRO immigrant stance. We need to take care of these people as well and can't think of them as _outside of the system_.
>Newspapers would need to be subscription-only or patronage-based.

In my eyes, this would be a win. Journalism ideally should serve the readers. Aligning the business model (patronage/subscription-only) with the ideal seems like a good thing in the long run.

Journalism (including but not limited to print) is filled with essentially noise that wouldn't be economically viable if the publishers had to justify the value of their content to their audience.
A "tracker" is a piece of music composition software, sort of a glorified spreadsheet. Imagine a virtual piano roll, with note and instrument data laid out over time.

The vast majority of tracker music was initially in a format called MOD, since it originated the format. MOD's specification was matched to the capabilities of the Amiga sound chip, which proved limiting as time went on, so other formats emerged. Formats and file extensions now include STM, S3M, XM, and countless more. The collective term "tracker music" is easier than trying to enumerate them all.

Trackers are differentiated from note-data formats like MIDI in that a tracker song includes the samples themselves, little snippets of WAV-like data which are played at sped-up or slowed-down sample rates according to the note data. Whereas a MIDI file only includes the notes and timing information, which gets sent to "instruments", which are responsible for translating those commands into sound. Different instruments may do it differently, so a MIDI can sound vastly different depending on what player you're using. A tracker song will sound roughly the same everywhere, barring bugs, with the only difference being that certain player software may have higher-quality math (higher CPU usage) for the sample-rate adjustment and mixing.

Because of their self-contained nature, containing only the sound samples actually used in a given song, tracked music was popular in video games and in the game cracking scene alike. (All the music in Star Control 2 is embedded MOD files, for instance.) And like anything else in what became the demo-scene, the mantra of doing more with less, making enjoyable music in just a few K of note data and samples combined, became its own factor to compete on.

Modarchive.org is the place to go to experience tracker music now; there are players that run in your browser. Click through the top couple songs and you'll get a feel for not just the format but also the era, since the heyday of MOD was the early 90s, much of it fits right into what we now nostalgically think of as 90s electronica.
Not suggesting that it's the language. It's the language that is popular for large-organization commodity programming. Agency people who want well paying jobs with not necessarily a lot of interest in software development itself.
That DW article is pretty poor, dating sars 1 to around 2009/2010 - confusing it with swine flu perhaps? A later comment, presumably from another source since the article is tagged AFP/AP/Reuters, gives a correct and more precise dating to sars 1. Yet the editor/collator didn't notice the discrepancy.
I think you and I posted this within seconds of each other :p
Define "it works" and for whom...
And it's a shame really - I find most budget colas have a far richer cola flavour than either Coke or Pepsi. Coke especially is very bland.
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I'm very interested, will send you an email when I'll finish processing all the information from this thread ;).
re: Cloud Srorage vs Garage data center

Elastic Block is NAS . This is why Elastic Block storage is two to three orders of magnitude slower than SSD attached to a server in your garage. 1 EC2 compute unit is analagous to a 1.6 Ghz 2005 Opteron, or performance wise it's similar to a fast Atom processor. I can build a 4 core server with 8 Gigs of RAM and 120GB of SSD and 2 TB of spinning disk for around $600. SSD latencies are low enough that they can be thought of as slow local memory.

So, for the cost of a 3 to 4 months of medium / large instance EC2 instances, you can have roughly 8 times the processing power and 2 orders of magnitude more local memory/SSD.

By setting up a couple of cheap servers in my garage, I can get as much processing power as 20 to 30 EC2 instances. That means I can spend a lot more time worrying about coding and less worrying about SysOps.

re: single word search

You are absolutely right. As I said, our search is very much in alpha right now, and I

really haven't spent much time at all on it.
Maybe he's more worried about freedoms missing from your life.
These posts make me think I should no longer follow ycombinator.. I have a hard time keeping up with all the posts, if you post that much irrelevant stuff.
If you think this is a great story, there's one on reddit where someone changed a car tire for someone else! also, cats.
There is a python shell plugin for gedit that gives you access to your text document.

If someone could do that for this plugin, i.e. Giving you access to the main tab/window object, that would be seriously cool. Prototyping screen scraping, building easy extentions using python, and hacking a quick change into a website would all be so easy.
And coming soon...

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cesarchavez - robots.txt validator

trickydicknixon - duplicate URL analysis and advice

Because what better way to honor historical figures than associate them with mundane, unrelated webmaster tools?
Mass starvation won't necessarily mean extinction.
remote-friendly means that company has a remote DNA. This project was partially inspired by https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

Yes each position should have "remote": true|false since even in programmers work remotely the office manager may need to be onsite. Could you make a PR please?
Great idea! Cloud you make a PR please?
You're right to an extent, but this isn't relevant to the Java vs Bash discussion. The largest companies make this kind of mistake in whatever language they happen to use.

People delete data and screw things up in MapReduce jobs for Hadoop. A lot.
> or blame third party software issues to the OS maker

I think we are seeing exactly the opposite effect: People who use third-party software are complaining less.

Safari is buggy (swipe-to-go-back gesture sometimes freezes until I reboot), iWork has been ruined, Apple's photo ecosystem is a terrible mess, iCloud reliability (for documents) is a joke.

If I was using Chrome/Firefox, MS Office, Lightroom and Dropbox instead, I would have very few complaints about Apple's software quality.
please indicate its year (2003) in the title.
Sutherland’s original aim was to make computers accessible
to new classes of user (artists and draughtsmen among others), while
retaining the powers of abstraction that are critical to programmers

If that was his original aim, I think we can safely agree that he achieved this goal beyond his wildest expectations.

His vision has become the goto paradigm for computing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, although the rise of mobile computing is changing the basic UI trajectory.
Most interesting. I know a fellow who works in retail, and has done so for many years. I remember from a brief bit of conversation a couple of years ago that he must have been unclear on the distinction between service animals and emotional support animals.
I sent a link to a friend that works for lever.co Maybe companies that work in this space would be more interested.
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This is really cool. From where are they sourcing this data?

And on the Jan 2021 top US domestic routes, what's up with those Atlanta to Ft Lauderdale/Miami/Tampa/Orlando routes? We're only partly through the month so that maybe that's why they are listed but still, I was surprised.
At that point(1989), the future was less clear-cut than Windows vs OS2. Windows was more a graphical shell for DOS than a real OS, and there were other graphical shells for DOS. From the top of my head: I vaguely remember GEM, I have used one from Tandy. There was something else installed on our school computers, Dynamic Environment or something . Windows before 3.0 (1990) was inferior to a lot of these DOS shells.

If the choice was between 2 options, 'both' might be a viable response. But 3 or more, especially with a market expectancy that everything DOS-based would disappear?
How did Facebook know that it was a valid phone number, how did they associate it with your identity, and how did they know that number was really yours?
It’s a social graph that’s divided by time zone.

I can’t be connected to these people because I live in Europe and so times when I can reasonably be on a phone call do not overlap with theirs.

Twitter on the other hand... I can be connected with these people and not only can I “catch up” later, but reading Twitter in bed is more socially acceptable than being on a conference call.
It isn't just half an hour. It's half an hour of being almost forcefully yanked out of the zone, which may lead to hours of lost efficiency. The idea that we just measure by the time it takes to talk to people plus a minor overhead, is part of why this is being normalized so often. Yet that idea has never been proven, and there is more suggestive evidence of the opposite. Nor has the value of such a "more accurate" estimate ever been shown, beyond a few actually critical deadlines (extremely rare in the field of software dev). Especially considering so many projects even under harsh estimation rules go overbudget and overtime anyway.

That's before going into the long-lasting effects of such a dynamic, and potential escalations. The most obvious one: dragging in part of, if not the entire team, for every little thing.
Flu testing has basically stopped. Many countries are recording every death within 20 days of a positive test as a covid death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfOcGm5xiA

This shows overall deaths in a number of countries compared to the last 20 years for a number of countries.

https://oronu.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/mortality-statistics/
I've found Quora pretty active, but I just use it to offhandedly ask dumb questions like "if Easter is so good why isn't there a Wester" whenever I think of them.

Half the time the answers are actually very educational and the other half it's a Facebook-style reply where an old person yells at me because they misread the question.

The one exploitative thing I've noticed is there's a "partner program" that pays you to ask questions, but it seems impossible to make more than 10c off it in a lifetime.
There's a philosophical discussion here longer than a comment can afford but the bottom line isn't "code is not people". While I took GP's "wife" remark as a joke, I feel like you're implying that as long as it's "not people" it's a free for all. Like someone "exploring" how it feels like to spend your money, wear your watch, and drive your car.

Since this is a digital world, hacking doesn't have to lead to a loss for the creator. It can be done for your own intellectual pleasure and exploration. But making it available online to the general public is no longer exploration. So depending on the case you no longer have the moral cover of "I was just exploring".
Yikes, same, I had so many.
Depending, yes, as part of a set of measures.
In support of this accurate comment, I'll repeat this assertion: Not all people are wealth maniacs.
That reminds me of my favorite bug in a C program I ever delt with. We had a dorm floors' worth of "Intro to C" students pouring over our friend's buggy program.

With a enough printfs() I was able to whittle the problem down to: A local variable "b" was changing after some function call that looked like: "call(&a)". Turns out because our program looked like "{ int a[3]; int b; ... call(&a); }" an off by one error accessing "a[4]" in the function was overwriting variables never passed to it!

Felt like the champ figuring out. (This is a 15 year old story from freshman year, so I hope I got the details right.)
If we consider Vue 3 and React - they are not great at progressive enhancement because they are not built for that purpose if you're not using corresponding server-side renderer. If your backend return simple HTML - there's no way to mount Vue3 or React on top of that HTML and be sure that it won't be fully replaced by JS-rendered HTML because it has small differences between them.

Vue-Petite is definitely interesting and I likely will use it in the future, but talking strictly about Vue 3 and React - they are more suitable to SPAs than to progressively enhance your HTML.
This reminds me of how q-tip manufacturers forbid you from using q-tips to clean your ears.
Also Cuba is sending doctors and nurses to Italy:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cuba/c...
I'm working on https://www.idea-matrix.com/ but have hard time motivating myself to invest more time into it :/
Well, we won’t know whether the picnicking was fine until about 2 weeks hence. I hope it was indeed fine, but I’m doubtful.
I'm looking into Xamarin for the first time. I've looked at the Xamarin 101 tutorial and seen the bare-bones note taking app they walk you through developing, and I'm hoping to improve it significantly. I've already added the feature to edit notes and set a title for a note, but there's still a few more ideas I want.

I think taking an existing project and improving upon it, as opposed to starting a fresh new project, has helped me somewhat. I have to think less about how to get it started and whether the framework or style is right, because some of the code is already there.
Younger people have lung damage. Read the reports of MERS and SARS survivors to see how that goes.

Also, we don't need to kill our economy:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YbtJGn7ida2IYNgwCFk3Sjhs...
This is hearsay, but I recall being at the Precision Medicine Conference recently and one of the speakers said that when sick with, say, flu, your heart rate spikes maybe 30-60 minutes before you'd otherwise know (have a fever, headache, etc.). So it didn't seem like a very useful test.

Maybe coronavirus is different though. I would check up on sources.
In the US, 1 person dies of cardiovascular disease every 37 seconds. Since no body cries in the media 'Pandemic!!' (although it is a very real one), I guess that its not the total number of deaths per day that is shocking, its the exponential growth.
The growth is indeed exponential, there is no doubt about that, but what is its potential?
Judging from the data we now have from Italy and the rest of the world, it has a very small overall potential - the very old and very sick (obviously we have to take care of them, but a global hysteria??).
What is the equivalent? Say you started a new web service, that is wonderful and very attractive and cost effective and what-have-you - but only for people who's name start with the letter K.
The media is exploding with compliments, subscriptions are going through the roof, all the celebs who's name start with the letter K subscribe and praise etc etc, and you indeed get an exponential growth - for just a few days.
Then the source dries up. No new subscribers. All the potential market is exhausted. You end up with a few million subscribers - and no more growth what-so-ever, exponential or linear.
> My analysis was in response to and in the context of large companies conducting stock buy backs which is in no way related to the position SMBs find themselves. So yes, those buy backs were mistakes.

Fair enough - I was mostly talking in the context of the article (SMBs).

And to be frank, it sounds like you're much more knowledgeable about this issue than I am, certainly in terms of actual practice.

That said, I still disagree with you and not sure why you arrived at your conclusion.

Let's put aside for a second the question of whether shareholder primacy is good social policy or not in the general case - and I agree with you here - it's not mandated by law, and even if it were, we could change that if we decide it's bad policy.

Your specific contention here is that companies are using buybacks to prop up their share price, and thus are reducing their reserves. And that they should keep more reserves around.

So firstly - tax structure aside, I've never understood why anyone treats buybacks differently than dividend payments. It's just a way of giving money back to shareholders. Do you agree with that or not?

Secondly, how much reserves should a company actually keep? If this situation/recession drags on for a year, will you be saying that it's bad that companies didn't keep a year's worth of reserves? Two years?

I think that's both an unrealistic demand, and a supremely inefficient one. No company could've, nor should've, had to predict this kind of disaster happening, and been prepared for it. I'm generally a libertarian, but this is exactly the reason we have governments - this kind of crisis should be prevent by the government - both in terms of preventing a pandemic in the first place, and in terms of fixing the economy once we're in this situation.

In other words, I don't see any good way to change the market to incentivize companies to keep tons of cash lying around as a rainy day fund - and I don't think it would make sense for so many companies to hoard so much money. Much better to have them return the money to shareholders, to go invest in new companies.

Where do we disagree?
> Apple also sells you.

By that logic, a shopping mall “sells you” to retail stores. A cinema “sells you” to movie studios. Etc.
Odd reply to my statement that FAANGs roll their own config management tools. Are you smoking a lot of weed during this quarantine? You can google linkedins version of docker 'locker', facebooks hydra, etc etc. Alot of these big companies roll their own tools because consumer tools aren't scale enough. Linked In rolled Kafka for just this reason as well.

Also, odd and a little creepy that you're stalking my comments but I hope you enjoyed my brain droppings. ;)
This has nothing to do with the stock market, it's to prevent the credit and treasury market from seizing up. The treasury market is not acting well, the spreads between bid/ask is really high...and this is supposed to be the most liquid market in the world.
Amazon is actually defined by long-term thinking, which was heavily criticized for over a decade while their stock remained flat. It's hard to imagine now, but people didn't really believe in the company until about 2009.

Jeff Bezos' letter to shareholders, 1997:

It's All About the Long Term

Because of our emphasis on the long term, we may make decisions and weigh tradeoffs differently than some companies... We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability considerations or short-term Wall Street reactions.

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-original-1...