jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I got my BA in journalism and Chinese. I started coding on my own and eventually found Bloc, an online bootcamp with courses in web dev, frontend, UX design, iOS and Android development. I took their web dev course little over a year ago. I now work at Bloc as a web developer (oh, we're hiring engineers by the way). It worked for me and it's worked for tons of our students.
Maybe it's just me (and I'm not defending OP here) but looking back on my high-school history classes at age 24, we essentially covered the same shit we had all the previous years. Slightly more detail and different styles of homework but that's about it.
That's why it's all gone to pot. You don't realise that employees are consumers. You give them more money they spend more.
You sound like you subscribe to the notion that the majority is right? Does this mean that the poll might decide the fate of the karma display?

This is of course an entire debate by itself - are the users right, or should they largely be ignored (cf. Zuckerberg and Facebook "controversial" redesigns).

It's always important to remember that the two choices are governed by factors that could be targeted individually and might change the experiences with either completely.
It's hard to hide evidence of evil as you're doing evil.
The BLS makes nearly all of their products publicly available for free. You can poke around the old-school way here: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/

They have an API with documentation here: https://www.bls.gov/developers/

And a few other options here: https://www.bls.gov/data/

But I suspect that what you mean is that the raw data used to calculate these metrics isn’t available. Such as the “worker X on 25 Feb found that the price of a pound of flour at the Kroger store #357 is $1.” I suspect there are two reasons. (I can’t say for sure because I don’t work at the BLS, but I am a statistician, work for the government, and have been involved in decisions not to release data).

1. The BLS almost certainly contracts the leg work for the CPI. While the calculations are relatively simple (arguments about methodology excluded), the work to collect prices nationwide is nontrivial. Including permission to release the data publicly likely increased the cost of the contract. These data vendors also sell their price data to other “businesses intelligence” companies, and allowing the public release hurts their other business prospects, so they would charge a premium for it. And ironic as it may seem, government agencies/workers are interested being good stewards of the public’s tax dollars and had to make a value decision to not buy the rights to release the data.

2. For anything that isn’t legally/contractually prohibited from release, there may have been a conscious decision that the data at its most granular level either wasn’t useful to the public at all, or was likely to be misleading/misused because of critical gaps in what can be released. If the vendor for Alabama prices allowed release but the vendor for California prices did not, they may have just made the decision that releasing incomplete data set wasn’t a good idea.
>I swear if I see a tech news site put out something about this without talking to me first, I will delete my Twitter account. You've been warned.

I don't get this part.
Seriously.

My wife just interviewed and got a new job in the past week, for a proposal writing job at a decent-sized tech consulting firm (300 employees) where she'll be making six figures.

To get this job, she spent about two hours of preparation learning about the company and hunting down samples of past proposals (this is her standard process for preparing for an interview, by the way), then had one 30 minute interview with her would-be boss, and one 30 minute interview with three would-be coworkers (at the same time). She had a job offer a few hours after the second interview.

Now she's had several years of prior experience for some pretty large companies and worked on very large proposals in the past, but the difference seems to be in her industry they trust past experience, whereas in tech it has almost zero value, they just care about whether you can past their coding exercises.

The programmer/software engineer interview process is just so broken. I have to grind toy algorithm coding problems and rewatch algorithm lectures for weeks just to psyche myself up to go through the interview gauntlet again.

I've even neglected getting back to pings from recruiters just because I wasn't feeling up for going through the whole process at that point in my life and/or I knew I wouldn't have enough time to prepare myself for the interview to even have a chance to make it through it and I'd be wasting my time.

I get that employers are getting inundated with people that they at least feel they couldn't code (I bet they'd think that about me as well if they brought me in to interview today, even though I've been basically a one man dev team for startups before and currently developing and supporting software that services millions of customers) so they feel the need to verify the skills.

I just find verifying skills in the midst of the interview very difficult, especially if it's testing knowledge I haven't used very recently, since my brain is constantly context switching out technical details and platforms and apis based on my current work needs.

There needs to be a good way I can prove "Hey, I really can code" outside of an interview, once, that's somehow trusted. I thought that's what a degree in Computer Science was supposed to prove, but apparently that was a waste of money.
Such systems should be written using a safer language, like some of the modern cryptocurrencies do. Rust, Haskell, OCaml, F# would be a perfect fit.
Set alerts on Tradingview.
Slack and Spotify went the direct listing route, but indeed it’s pretty rare compared to IPOs.
Bootstrap? https://icons.getbootstrap.com

IIRC, there was an aggregator/search engine for SVG icons posted on here a couple of weeks ago also.
I doubt that correlation. NYC has the strictest gun laws and lower crime than Chicago.
I built an alternative for my wife called MakePostSell https://www.makepostsell.com

Right now it only works for digital downloads but I'm planning to build out shipping and local pickup options for physical goods.

Currently in beta but my wife is using the platform in production here: https://shop.printableprompts.com

The only payment processor at this time is stripe.

My thought is to allow people to bring their own domain, Stripe API keys, PayPal, and S3 bucket or digital Ocean spaces (for files, attachments, thumbnails, preview files, and products.

I want to disrupt and keep pricing very competitive for small shops (potentially even a free entry-level plan)

Hope this helps you feel less trapped.

Click the "New Shop" button to try the beta.
These are extreme times, so Amazon the mega-corp that it is should probably not nickel and dime customers of money that can be used towards more immediate needs.
Technically it is a "ventilation-assisted mask" but according to the sketches, it does plug directly into the hospital's oxygen system. Scroll down to the bottom to see sketches.
I read this a while ago and it took me a long time to get through it because I couldn't stop laughing. If you're a dog person you'll appreciate it even more.
Really interesting, and they also ship outside US.
I think the important point is that people are discussing the evidence for this rather than merely stating it to be the case.
Did he turn off personalized search with the pws=0 parameter?
Your theory is fantasy, and your conclusion that it is inevitable is hilarious.

Please do a 2 minute read of the BCH wikipedia page and correct your comment.
Considering that hackers are usually open to experimenting new things, why not try something new on Christmas that could become one of your passions? This could be a good time to enter the world of tea/tea-brewing, something that a caffeinated hacker should be able to appreciate. Buy some starter kit (below $50) and see how it goes.
Gadget-wise, if you don't have it already you should definitely buy an ebook reader.
It seems to me that life is more than just who you work for.
I was thinking more of my workstation. If I lose access to free software, I might as well just leave the whole industry and stop using technology.

It is kind of important for me I do not have to use closed source blobs or operating systems. And I think I'm not the only one.

Btw, I've yet to see a Graviton instance that compiles our Rust project faster than my 3090x workstation. Maybe there is, but it costs a fortune. And what Amazon does here is it just kicks out all competition who cannot build their own CPUs. Then they can ramp up the prices.
>... status is something that you give to someone else and not something a person can create on their own. Ie, someone elses status requires your active participation.

The pitfall here is the words "your active participation". Huge amount of people have parts of their minds which are out of control of their consciousness. It is often that reacting to someone status signs happens automatically (subconciousnessly). Some people stop doing it after some time passes by, some never stop these uncontrollable reactions.
Can I give you my end-user perspective? The buyer experience was ridiculously slick, particularly on my second transaction. I didn't feel like I was spending money at all. No retyping address/card, no password prompt, just pick dollar amount and hit OK.

It's like what Paypal would feel like if Paypal wasn't a web 1.0 company. (For example, FB is fast -- Google fast -- and Paypal is slow. I'm inclined to believe PP does the auth in the request/response cycle and FB reports insta-success and deals with problems later.)
Wouldn't you have been better off explaining the (presumably genuine) need for a windows machine? Your CEO is likely to remember this the next time you make a suggestion.
In my well-tested experience, there is a fine line between having fun and making an ass of yourself. The correlation between showing up to class wasted and making an ass of yourself is (again, in my own intimate experience) too large to ignore.

Don't get me wrong, I like to drink a lot. And I don't look down on others who drink a lot. I certainly don't think they're dumb. But I do think promoting/encouraging/bragging about it is generally kind of silly, especially when alcoholism is a serious problem that destroys lives.
Do you think they are or could be liable for any sanctions due to this sham lawsuit? And what sort of sanctions, if any, might be levied?

Personally, I think that divesting them of the copyrights in question could be an effective deterrent to future trolls, but I'm not sure that's even possible.
it's less of a problem for gofix because Go's static typing means it's easy to be much more precise about which methods and functions are actually being used.
We tried this exact formula at a place I worked previously and we had mostly the same results. It didn't help that the guy in your position didn't know the codebase or Subversion very well either. It was/is terribly painful and indicative of brain-dead managers and along with a few other (admittedly more important) things eventually led me to quit.

The most frustrating aspect was it seems that, while far from perfect, using Subversion as intended, in your case and ours, would be 1/10th as painful even while introducing a few issues of its own. The explanation I always got was "long before you came on board we used Perforce but we switched to Subversion because it's open source but we still want to use it like it's Perforce." You seem to have reasoned about your change quite a bit more than this, so I'm interested in hearing why you think you need to do things this way.
You're getting (maybe unfairly) downvoted because the popular opinion in security is that client-side JavaScript anything is worthless in terms of security. Since it's not authenticated in any way by the browser, any successful MITM attack on a connection can feed malicious JavaScript which would request the user's key. Or, a malicious add-on in the browser could do the same. Or, possibly, an XSRF.

I'm somewhat skeptical of this because I think that such attacks can be successfully mounted against most other web-related activities. DNS poisoning and self-signed SSL would be enough to phish many people's bank login credentials, and a lot of attacks don't even go to that much trouble.

But, anyway, client-side JavaScript for security purposes is supposed to be verboten.
Wild wolves are social but not particularly hierarchichal. A typical wolf pack is formed of a couple and their offsprings. Adult wolves leave the pack to form their own.

The idea that wolf pack have complex fixed hierarchical structure is mostly a myth produced by inadequate research from Rudolph Schenkel on captive wolves and popularized by even more inadequate research and a book by L. David Mech. Mech then went on to do very good work on wild wolf.

Wolves are however both social and used to complex interactions involving social dominance.
...an entity that does nothing but own shares of facebook

You just described an index fund (albeit with only one stock in the index).

Bucket shops are nothing like this - bucket shops are casinos where the source of random numbers is the stock market, but no shares are ever traded.
As far as I can tell this uses StackVM to run multiple browsers in a VM in your browser, so it's a bit more than screenshots or testing javascript.
His example could be improved a little:

file "target" => %w(prereq1 prereq2 prereq3 prereq4) |t|
sh "update", t.name, *t.prerequisites
end

Now, call me crazy, but I actually prefer "t.prerequisites" over "$^".

If I were writing makefiles all the time, perhaps I'd appreciate Make's concise but obscure syntax. But maintaining makefiles takes only a small proportion of my time, and more syntax I have to learn, the more trouble I'm going to have remembering it.

Rakefiles are written in Ruby, a language I already use for development. The additional syntax I need to remember to use Rake is therefore very small. It's also a heck of a lot easier to work with Rake if you happen to want to do something a little complex or unusual!
The title seems clever the first time you see it. Also the second time. After a dozen times, it gets tiresome: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22or+how+I+learned+to+stop+w...
Your typical workload sounds almost exactly the same to mine - right down to VMware temporarily killing OS X performance.

Not that Anonymous Guy On HN is worth much, but get an SSD - it'll be the best upgrade you've ever purchased.

(Or maybe I just needed to sidegrade to Linux. :)
Still though, when they're explaining absolute positioning they make this statement:

"You can set an element to top: 100px and left: 200px; and that element will sit exactly 100px from the top and 200px from the left of the document."

Which seems misleading, despite the example they show later.
I have used lex and yacc over almost 30 years numerous, numerous times. I always regretted the decision later. It's a myopic concession for short-term gain.

The tools generate a monstrous, ugly mess that nobody understands, which is linked into your executable.

When it gets complicated, debugging it is a massage session, where you make changes that you don't entirely understand in hopes that a desired behavioral change comes about.

Here is a debugging fail: you cannot just put a break point on a rule, because it's not a function. The state machine is traversing multiple rules at the same time.

In a recursive-descent parser, you can break on a rule and get a call stack.
I think a lot of posts on HN are by people not particularly capable of critical thought.
As supposed of advocating lockdown ? How many million of people would suffer from lockdown?
Might help to add “regarding SolarWinds breach” to add a bit more context to the headline.
That’s from people who sight it before Christmas.

Takes 3 weeks from catching it to hospital - that’s still a few days away
great doublespeak: you’re not censored, you’re being “moderated”
The argument over 230 is that one can't pretend to be a utility/platform for communication while at the same time restricting what information is allowed to be published. Lots of these platforms want to have the cake an eat it too; i.e. blacklisting news stories sitewide, banning certain political leanings 21:1, etc. while claiming to be a neutral platform provider that doesn't have a say in what's published.
Can we not just defund them? Can't "Stave The Beast" be used for good?
All of the links on rotation images and company text go to DoorDash for me. Also, only a short line of text is shown and the rest is cut off. "Lyft uses connect to Create an integ"

This is on IE10 Version: 10.0.9200.17267 (work machine).

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/lddIlhz
fwiw I read HN more for new products,technical developments and code libraries than culture or advice articles, although I do read those sometimes. On reddit I value the comments more than the link, definitely on /. back in the day the comments were way better than the link, but I don't think about HN that way myself.
The real trick isn't that they get people to buy expensive rocks. The real trick is that they convinced so many of us to rebury them. Cemeteries are most certainly the richest untapped diamond fields in existence.
So, what do you do when you have to install a new patch level release of said glibc? Rebuild every single component on the system?

I take it configuration of the packages needs to go in nix as well? So what do you do when there is, for example, a change of upstream smtp?
Nice idea.

Does anyone know if this is completely free to use or available under some specific licence(s)?
>and nobody ever claimed otherwise.

except lots and lots of bitcoin advocates.
$100 in Chiang Mai is possible for nothing fancy, but only if you speak thai. A fresh of the boat foreigner will pay $250 rock bottom without thai skills for a very basic apartment. Visa costs are at least $50 a month and you'll also need a scooter or deal with pickup taxis, which will add about $80-120 to the expenses unless you enjoy walking or cycling through the heat on roads not made for either of that.

Tokyo is much better value imo, as central parts are easily walkable and the yen is really cheap, so the costs work out roughly the same as in Thailand with the added benefit of living in a first world country.

A room in a shared apartment in central Tokyo can easily be had for 50k yen which is about $400 right now.

$600 will get you an unfurnished apartment in Ikeburo or so.
::sigh:: This is one of the reasons that Bitcoin core discourages address reuse.
I do remember back in the day playing AT Bots, it was a similar concept, only you would write the bots in assembly, which was kind of fun, because on top of the strategy, you also had to figure all the ways to profile your code. Like for instance bit shifting instead of dividing, and such. You had to keep the code light because the speed of your bot directly correlated to the how fast the code would be executed. So, each processor cycle counted towards making you faster, but speed up too much by cutting down your code, and your bot would get dumber.

It would be interesting to see a game where only the API for the bot is exposed, and the actual computation takes place on a separate machine (or same machine, but separate processor). That way you can experiment with all kinds of languages, or even possible hardware combinations. For competition your code would be loaded on a VM instance or a physical machine which has identical characteristics to all the other competing machines, and you go at it. This way you are not limited to a given language or a set of libraries, and can really explore all the possibilities.
I really hate to generalize but seeing the Substack domain in the url is becoming the new Medium for me.
If you truly want to save money shopping, you need to learn how to create your meals from what you already have in your house and then buy the best deals each week to replenish what you have on hand. This allows you to purchase food at the best prices as opposed to what they happen to be when you go to get the ingredients for your menu. This simple change should instantly cut your grocery bill by 50% or more.
America's foreign policy (as a government as evidenced through history and present-day) is to police and/or spy on the world but not to be policed and/or spied on.
If you want the non-digital game for this: RoboRally https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally

It's actually pretty fun, even for grown-up coders ;)
Sorry for the misunderstanding then, I might be using the wrong terminology.

I have seen many other products that are marketed as "open source" because you get the source code after you purchase it, so it is literally "open source", but not "open-source" as in released under an open-source license.

I am personally not marketing userTrak as open-source and I will stop using similar terms if other people do have a strong opinion about what "open-source" actually means.
I'm stepping out of my domain knowledge on this one to start a discussion, I hope to have my points corrected where I'm wrong. Another note, I'm not advocating for FB's methods I'm strictly interested in some cryptography aspects.

As I understand it, in order to have real end-to-end encryption (the real stuff, not some marketing term) each device has to generate a long set of keys and with each message sent, they cycle through to the next key. If WhatsApp is doing what it reports it's doing and it actually is end-to-end encrypted then the web application needs to use your phone because it needs that set of keys. I'm not sure if it specifically sends through your phone or if it sends via the webapp, but you have to use the keys in the correct order or the device you're contacting won't be able to decrypt the next message.
SQL is only secondary in my work but I'd rather go with the explicit and verbose queries rather than with stuff with surprises like how the last_value gives wrong results when used the way you'd expect i.e. the reverse of first_value.
Haskell is not an OO language at all.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/11/case-against-coica
What makes you think her generic unnamed Republican opponent wouldn't vote the same way?
Extra Credit: Why aren't the senators' party affiliations listed?
Just wanted to amend my previous statement a bit:

One thing this thing will do good is deliver a some payload (including satellite or UAV) to any place on Earth REALLY fast.

This thing is simply not very good platform for intelligence gathering in itself. Not very easy to gather intelligence at speed of Mach 20+.
Would you elaborate what part of it makes it "cliffhanger drama"and why?
This interview will filter for people who happen to already be familiar with the memcached code base, in which the interviewer will believe he has found his genius superhero.
TIL, Thanks!
1. If you change the laws to simply allow more density and mixed use, things will start changing soon. Especially in high-cost cities. Governments don't need to invest any money here, just time.

2. People tend to underestimate how far you can easily go on a bike. The house I grew up in on the outskirts of a rural town is 5 miles from the supermarket, which sounds far but should take only about 20 minutes.
I get the same error, although I have the directory. I do keep my iTunes library on another drive, though I can't imagine this is related.
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

Dale Carnegie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
I know Aphex Twin was notorious for this and he even got to a point where anything released was run of the mill, middle of the road, remix stuff and was even entitled "26 mixes for cash".