jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even better, the author, Charles Stross, has kind of predicted cryptocurrencies (specifically Ethereum and this "RedCoin") in his (begun in 1999 !) book : Accelerando (Which otherwise is first about a technological singularity.) :

> One of his e-mail accounts is halfway to the moon with automatic messages, companies with names like agalmic.holdings.root.8E.F0 screaming for the attention of their transitive director. Each of these companies – and there are currently more than sixteen thousand of them, although the herd is growing day by day – has three directors and is the director of three other companies. Each of them executes a script in a functional language Manfred invented; the directors tell the company what to do, and the instructions include orders to pass instructions on to their children. In effect, they are a flock of cellular automata, like the cells in Conway's Game of Life, only far more complex and powerful.

> Manfred's companies form a programmable grid. Some of them are armed with capital in the form of patents Manfred filed, then delegated rather than passing on to one of the Free Foundations. Some of them are effectively nontrading, but occupy directorial roles. Their corporate functions (such as filing of accounts and voting in new directors) are all handled centrally through his company-operating framework, and their trading is carried out via several of the more popular B2B enabler dot-coms. Internally, the companies do other, more obscure load-balancing computations, processing resource-allocation problems like a classic state central planning system. None of which explains why fully half of them have been hit by lawsuits in the past twenty-two hours.

> The lawsuits are ... random. That's the only pattern Manfred can detect. Some of them allege patent infringements; these he might take seriously, except that about a third of the targets are director companies that don't actually do anything visible to the public. A few lawsuits allege mismanagement, but then there's a whole bizarre raft of spurious nonsense: suits for wrongful dismissal or age discrimination – against companies with no employees – complaints about reckless trading, and one action alleging that the defendant (in conspiracy with the prime minister of Japan, the government of Canada, and the Emir of Kuwait) is using orbital mind-control lasers to make the plaintiff's pet chihuahua bark at all hours of day and night.

> Manfred groans and does a quick calculation. At the current rate, lawsuits are hitting his corporate grid at a rate of one every sixteen seconds – up from none in the preceding six months. In another day, this is going to saturate him. If it keeps up for a week, it'll saturate every court in the United States. Someone has found a means to do for lawsuits what he's doing for companies – and they've chosen him as their target.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
That's a great tribute. The speech he derived it from, a few links down: https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html
My now-defunct u2f-hidraw-policy package did this in a generic manner. The code was subsequently ported into the upstream udev code, so any up to date distro should automatically detect and handle U2F devices. If they don’t, file an issue with upstream systemd and it’ll get fixed. Feel free to file an issue on u2f-hidraw-policy too if you want my attention.
It is scandalous that a service like BackBlaze, who purport to be ready to host production services (B2), use a budget registrar who are /known/ for shenanigans.

Glad it seems to be returning to normal.
Not many good things are done in the name of survival. In fact being on the edge of survival is much more likely to drive you to crime through desperation. Take care of these needs on the other hand and people start spending time on things they care about.

Open source is a great example of this, if software engineers were struggling to put a roof over their heads and food on the table do you think we'd have the level of open source ecosystem we have today? The very fact we're both paid enough and have enough free time to contribute to that work has had produced great benefits for society. The goal of UBI is simply to extend that same freedom to everyone.

Not everyone will contribute back, but we'd free up a lot of people to create art, businesses, software etc. that would otherwise have been behind a fast food counter or stuck in an office.
The squeeze was actually cut short, because trades from Robinhood were halted for GME as well as some other brokers (all at the same time). Nobody knows how high it would've gone, but it's certainly significantly higher.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-bars-users-from-buy...

You can also look at trading volume. It would have gone a lot higher had there been no intervention from Robinhood. I am not claiming there is a conspiracy here - I realize Robinhood didn't have the cashflow for these deals and had to halt trading.
Take a look at this: https://youtu.be/jZu52duIqno
I don't know if the assertion you made is true, ie that an omniscient entity can't explain everything there is to know about temperature by looking at the simple movement of atoms. What's the basis for this? I know you followed that up with a rationale, but I didn't really follow. Just because this abstraction (temperature) allows us to come to conclusions and inferences about state and state changes doesn't mean that there's anything real about the abstraction aside from the cognitive structure in our brains that helps us to process the world around us effectively.
I have IBS symptoms basically fully in times of stress, days on end, otherwise things are fairly normal. I wonder if either my understanding of IBS is false, or it's not biome related for me.
because fuck the shift key. RSI sufferers unite!

but in all seriousness, I don't know.
Example of features you miss?
I think there is too much focus on Swift as a general purpose language. I really enjoy working in it and it’s great at what it does, does it have to be deployed in every domain?
I do listen a lot, like i can not work without listening something, lots of punk, emo stuff.

When i realized this, i got worried about it amd did some research, found some interesting stuff.

Here is what i found (Papers):

The cognitive effects of listening to background music: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197792/pdf/fna...

TL DR: This study aimed to address this imbalance by assessing the impact of different types of background music on cognitive tasks tapping declarative memory and processing speed in older adults. Overall, background music tended to improve performance over no music and white noise, but not always in the same manner

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The Influence of Background Music on Learning in the Light of Different Theoretical Perspectives and the Role of Working Memory Capacity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671572/pdf/fps...

TL DR: measure learning outcomes we tested recall and comprehension. We did not find a mediation effect between background music and arousal or mood on learning outcomes. In addition, for recall performance there were no main effects of background music or working memory capacity, nor an interaction effect of these factors. However, when considering comprehension we did find an interaction between background music and working memory capacity: the higher the learners’ working memory capacity, the better they learned with background music.

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Correlation between work concentration level and background music: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19759431/

TL DR: The findings showed that, in comparison with "no music at all", those who listened to music prior to testing obtained higher scores in attentiveness (most probably a supplemental effect of the music), whereas those who listened to music during attention test showed extremely high level of variation in attention test scoring. Background music does affect people's job-site behavior
Most of these stories are about Amazon and again, at the scale that Amazon operates I think that this would be expected? With 1,000,000 employees, if you assume a yearly turnover of just 1% that's 10,000 people leaving the company and I'm sure there are quite a few people in that group who had a bad experience - particularly as this includes the retail operation, which definitely had a bad reputation (most stories on the website that you linked are about retail teams). Post the NYT story in 2015 a LOT of things changed in retail, but I'm sure there are still issues.

Not trying to be pedantic here, but this thread was about AWS and not Amazon, so I will just reiterate that I can't personally comment on Amazon as a whole, I can only comment on AWS and I think most people would agree that AWS can be put into the same category as FB, MSFT, GOOG, etc. I have highlighted this distinction several times, but you seem to not want to engage in a conversation about AWS and rather discuss Amazon as a whole. That's fine, but as AWS and Amazon are really two different companies, you are then comparing apples to oranges and in that case you should compare Amazon to e.g. WalMart?
Other stuff that is missing:

- Relative coordinates. You can hack around this by using other SVG documents inside an SVG document, but this is really just a hack.

- Conic gradients. Even CSS has them.

Also, there are still a few implementation bugs for SVG. The Chromiums and Firefox teams have done an outstanding job at fixing bugs over the last few years, but if you do advanceed stuff, you will inevitable bounce into one of them. Also, Safari is not really good at SVG, but honestly, who cares.
My project, Talon, is free and cross platform. It might have some options that can help you: https://talonvoice.com

Some blog posts:

- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/hands-free-coding/

- https://www.admiralbumblebee.com/music/2021/01/18/Reaper-Day...

- http://nsaphra.github.io/post/hands/

Some talks:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYWt8B9hgs

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuRkGkf5HU

- https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11436-accessible_input_for_reader...
>This is why the class warfare elements of the narratives around the whole WSB/GME situation have always seemed naive to me.

None of the original WSB community that initially invested in GME subscribed to that nonsense. It was only ever about making money. The narrative was hijacked by the social media crowd that piled in on the pump two weeks ago and subsequently made the subreddit unreadable, and the media ran with it. It really reminds me a lot of what happened to 4chan in 2007 with "Project Chanology".
You do get something back, you prove the idea has legs. Someone might go build it. It might help to give something more to backers but it seemed too much to work on for the MVP. I mean, if this idea gets 0 users (again) there's no point in adding more stuff to it.

On refunds there are two options. The builder can either accept the $1000 or refund them.

I don't know what would work. The reason I put a hard-cap on $1000 is to not get in legal trouble during this launch. Getting more than $1000 might make a service classified as an MSB (money services business). For the same reason, I'm thinking of refunding all the money back after 30 days, and not letting the builder keep any of the money.
Not at all I'm offering reasons - all pretty solid ones - why fixing aging wouldn't remove the cost of healthcare. The point was to show there are lots of other healthcare costs unrelated to aging.

I'd argue it is the other poster who has become set on a theory. :-)
Used laptops are fine as long as they are still under the manufacturers warranty.
This is a very good idea, but let's push it further. Groupon could let people collect points and badges for their continued patronage at stores that were featured by Groupon. These badges would identify the best customers, and Groupon could offer them rewards. People may feel even more motivated to continue shopping at such stores, and Groupon will know who the loyal customers are. Groupon could literally become an Air Mile card of sort.
That doesn't contradict him at all. "cannot easily be disabled by someone who wants to use location services" is totally in line with "when you launch a location-aware app".

Also, I didn't see the part of the article where law enforcement is using this for unmonitored tracking. They can pull the data off your phone once when they arrest you. But how do they continue to keep pulling the data off your phone? If the police take my phone from me every day, I don't think that qualifies as unmonitored.
> I understand that C is the "lingua franca" of interviews, but if you read my resume (or even talked to me) you'd know I'm not looking for a C job (and really haven't used C since college). While, I'm open to coding in C, it's cooler if you don't force me to use C.

The article assumes that the reason someone would ask them to use C on an interview is because it's lingua franca, and they're only interested in the interviewee's algorithm knowledge.

Algorithms are great and should be a part of an interview, but I am interviewing software engineers, not algorists: I'll ask about general algorithms (the ones you might find in first half of "Algorithm Design Manual" and in "Programming Pearls"), data structures (where I'll expect the interviewee to understand pointers: whether in a language like Python or Java, where every value (with exception of Java's primitives) is a pointer or in a language like C where pointers are explicit).

I'll also ask about algorithms specific to their job, or (if I am interviewing a candidate for another project, as a part of a panel) I'll leave that to other interviewers. If, for example, somebody lists ten years of distributed systems development they should be familiar with the various consensus algorithms, pros and cons of them (I will not expect them to implement Paxos, but it would be nice if they know how multi-Paxos and ZAB solve some of the issues Lamport's original algorithm had). Again, this is for experienced candidates being interviewed for a role in which they claim existing experience.

There are also simple algorithms (related to string or array manipulation) that are just easier implemented in C. If ask someone to reverse a string in place [NB: I don't actually ask this], they'd have an easier time doing it in C than in Java.

However, there's more to C than a language in which to implement algorithms: it's also a systems language. I want candidates I hire to understand how their computers work. I'll challenge them to understand how various system calls work, how parts of libc are implemented, how memory allocation works (and, if I am interviewing a candidate for a Java, Python et all collection how garbage collection works, and in what cases might it fail to work). In this case, knowing C (and having it used it, at least in your own free time after college) is invaluable, not because of the language itself-- but because it's a great portable assembler.

I understand people are frustrated when they're expected to know C, even though they won't be programming in it: however, it's not about the language, it's about knowing about an area of computer science that isn't often as glamorous, but is just as crucial as algorithms and data structures.
The discussion of not yet having a return vehicle for a trip to Mars reminds me of a Reddit AMA with a Russian engineer through his grandson. There he claims his Grandfather worked on a plan to send an astronaut to Mars orbit then return, but there was a second and favored plan with which the astronaut would land on the surface, walk around, then die.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/etu2s/i_was_born_in_sh...

I wonder how it would be received if the goal was to create a permanent settlement on Mars rather than returning.
Here are a couple of reasons why I think it's not so clear cut:

1. If garbage collection was that damaging to the cache, Haskell wouldn't be nearly as fast as C.
2. Copy-on-write data structures are nice because the immutability allows for concurrent access without locking.

Granted, this was from 2002 and Linus may no longer feel so strongly about the topic.
Yes, I was going to say chain. Each chain link points to (or touches) the next.
If you actually read his article instead of lamenting your lack of upvotes, you'd know that what he wanted WAS a rags to riches story.
The thing is, every favor/service has a price. If you're my friend and you're an expert in rails or a salsa teacher, i'd be happy to pay you to teach me what you know if i need it.

Doesn't make sense?
As dragonwriter points out, I mislead you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263959
'It'll be better without Ballmer' is the 'If Jobs were alive' of the Microsoft world. I don't necessarily think that Microsoft has been doing a swell job, but I didn't think they were when Gates was in charge. Mostly it's a disappointment that they're that big and doing that little progressive.

Still, he's not been an awful CEO, business has been good under Ballmer but progression has been awful.
With the exception of cities like New York, a car is not a luxury item in the US; it is a necessity. We might quibble about the kind of car but, without learning more about hers I'm not sure we could come to a consensus.
I read the data a little differently, too. I read it as "in two of the four cases, the cases are identical, because it's the same damn graph".
The "arcane magic" impression likely comes from the heavy use of information theory concepts and maths that are encountered in the traditional literature. Probably necessary to analyse in detail, but quite daunting for the beginner. I find LZ to be particularly intuitive since it embodies the natural notion of "abbreviation" by referring to something we've seen before, and writing compressors/decompressors for the algorithm is relatively easy (especially decompressors.)

On the other hand Huffman is somewhat less easy to grasp intuitively, but some aspects of its principle of reducing bits/symbol based on their frequency shows up in natural languages: the more common a word is, the shorter it tends to be. It's also a bit more difficult to implement.
He, ah, also only shows three graphs in his post despite referring to four. He just shows one of them twice.

This whole article is just a bag of fail.
Which states don't enforce that employers have to make up the difference if tips aren't enough to bring a server up to at least minimum wage?
You got the creativity and expression bit right. That's a big motivator. For the positioning, I do understand your point. We may need to explore this a bit more to really convey what we're trying to do better.
No I don’t want any minutes taken away from my saturdays. Have my hour before lunch instead
OP here.

The headline says "Some People" but I feel that severely downplays the actual numbers - which as near as I can tell will be in the tens of millions.

I've not yet seen what criteria the IRS is using to decide who's stimulus will be held hostage. I'm wagering it'll turn out to be the most vulnerable.
That comes out to $100,000 per unit, which is below the median cost of an apartment unit ($201,978) or a detached home ($303,515). If they can pull it off it'll be a triumph, but their goal is very ambitious.
> First, Facebook avoids titles, so there's no such thing "senior software engineer".

How egalitarian. Let me guess: you are an IC6, or perhaps IC7? You just give off that vibe.
You must not have tried to hire a software engineer before. In a hiring cycle I encounter multiple "Senior Engineers" who can't write basic code. Fizzbuzz. Can't do it. Engineers should absolutely expect to write real code in an interview. It's preposterous to think that someone can claim to have 20 years experience writing code and then be offended to spend 20 minutes doing it in an interview.
I agree that it doesn't need to be about security. If web apps had to be installed on browsers similar to the way they are installed on the operating system, they would be acceptable. The current system that they run automatically when you visit a web page is obviously unacceptable, but that could be changed. The lack of standards and GUI features is also not that bad.

For me it's more about pricing and freedom. Server and computing costs force most web apps to be subscription-based and I'm extremely picky about subscriptions. First, there is often data lock in, of course, and it's often very deliberate with no viable export options. That's unacceptable to any reasonable person both on desktops and with web-based apps. Second, subscription-based applications are universally too expensive. If I turned all desktop software I currently use into equivalent subscriptions my monthly bill would be insanely high, an additional 200 to 500 euro per month. To most people including me that's just not affordable. It just doesn't add up. There is no market where people buy 20 different apps at $15/month each.

Almost everyone uses free desktop apps and a few paid ones.
The concepts are still broadly valid, the naivety being referred to is the assumption that two non adjacent memory reads will be twice as slow as one memory read or two adjacent reads.
Cosmopolitan Libc is designed to put power in your hands, and power can be used for good or bad. The best way for us to all keep that power, is to start using Cosmopolitan to do as many good deeds as possible.

This project is going to benefit developers on all platforms, because it supports everyone without bias. Indie developers are going to have more opportunities to be successful writing native apps, since Cosmo helps them reach a broader audience. Before Cosmopolitan only big companies could introduce new projects (e.g. TensorFlow) that effectively solve the portability problem, since the only way to do it before was brute force cash. Lastly, Cosmopolitan is going to relieve language authors of many of the portability burdens they've each needed to carry on their own, which means they're going to have more time to focus on their visions.

If we don't use Actually Portable Executable to accomplish grand acts of public service, then operating systems are just going to block it. For example, UPX is a project that does creative things with executable formats. If you read the XNU source code you'll notice that they have explicit source code for blocking those executables and they call out the project by name.
I'm sorry, what are PEPs, again?
There are a lot of local kids' baseball leagues that aren't Little League, it's worth mentioning.

The one I played in when I was a kid was called "(Local Area Name) Baseball for Boys" (yeah, it was a while ago).

Probably the people running Little League have all kinds of lucrative deals going on, as is the norm with "non-profits".

According to the article linked below, in 2012 Little League had revenue of almost $25 million and assets of more than $85 million, and the CEO raked in $430,000 per year in salary.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2014/08/22/little-leag...
But still far behind natural gas. That has less to do with the adoption of wind and solar, and more with fracking. Natural gas is cheaper than coal, and coal plants are gradually being replaced by natural gas.

Gas is better than coal, and having renewables pass coal is a win as coal is on the way out. But it's not a case of fossil fuels being phased out. We're still dumping CO2 into the atmosphere at a rate that puts us on target for a 3C or more increase. That will wreak all kinds of havoc.

So yay for the milestone, but it's not sufficient, or even on a track to sufficient. Much more has to be change.
Unfortunately this. Or they will say "don't optimize it until it proves to be slow in production" - at which point it is too dangerous to change it.
See footnote 6 in the original article:

"That’s the original S/390, mind you, not the 64-bit “s390x” (also known as z/Architecture). Think about your own C projects for a minute: are you willing to bet that they perform correctly on a 31-bit architecture that even Linux doesn’t support anymore?"