jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
OP is asking for gadgets to treat the effect, not the cause of the problem. The cause? I'm not really sure, but this whole discussion reminds me of some simple, yet brilliant advice my grandmother once gave me, "If you look hard enough for trouble, you'll probably find it."

Mark, I've been here for ages and simply have not witnessed very much of the negativity you talk about. I don't remember any of the original threads you cite, so maybe I just travel in a different circle within hn. Or maybe I stick to more technical issues. Or just avoid threads that invite more emotional responses. I don't know.

Or maybe you're just looking to stoke a little bit. That's fine. We need that kind of thinking from time to time. But don't be like the kid with green hair that gets upset when people react. You know they will. So deal with it. That's my tip. Not much else needed here. Move along.
Honestly I think it depends on the circumstance. But companies (at least US ones) always try to make these contracts much more restrictive than they could ever actually get away with. I once worked for a company that said I was not allowed to work for a company in a related market segment for 2 years after leaving the company.
They are right in that it just does not happen that fast. Furthermore, trying to make cash when you are under pressure to make cash rarely works - people who need cash quickly usually don't have the time or the patience to successfully bring a product from conception to release.

One first has to solve the cash issue before trying to build a product. Building a product from dire straits rarely works.
This was posted to HN a month and a half ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283523
I think it's much more likely lower income people will use a smartphone as their primary computer than a desktop machine. Cell phones already have incredible penetration, and the cell companies (not to mention Google) are going to push smartphones into that population in short order.
Well the Dan Plan is looking to show that it is about training. But I should also note that the theory isn't that you stop improving at 10,000 hours, but that's how many hours it takes to be an expert.

Maybe Go is an outlier. I don't know enough about the game. But I'd be surprised that someone who did 10k hours of deliberate practice wouldn't be pretty good by most metrics of the Go community.
A 4 digit pin isn't good enough if you care at all about thwarting serious attackers. Do a quick calculation of how long it would take an attacker with a script and 10 phone lines to get access.

Maybe you could translate a longer password into the corresponding touchtones?
I did that late last year with one of my WebOS apps. I don't have the time to keep it updated and the rev went from ~$700 a month to ~$200 so I MIT'd it on GitHub then announced it on twitter. So far a few forks, but no one has really taken and ran with it.
You appear to not know what spec work is. For bootstrapping to be spec work, there would have to be (for example) 20 different entrepreneurs who attempt to bootstrap a business according to specifications that a third party dictates to them. They pour in their blood, sweat, and tears to build the business by those specifications and at the end of it the third party chooses only 1 of them. The other 19 are contractually obligated to throw their business in the garbage and will have wasted their time and effort simply because they weren't chosen.

Same thing for building iOS apps. Want an iOS app designed on spec? Get in touch with a few dozen developers, all of whom build the exact same app using your specifications. Pick only 1 of them as the winner and the losers are contractually required to throw their app away.
I like the chain of comments more than an up-vote.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that could someone provide a tl;dr?
I graduated a year early and started working for Microsoft almost immediately. Now, staring 30 in the face—having worked for a startup, started an angel-backed one of my own, and having recently joined another—I can happily reiterate what Brad is saying: follow your passion.

Life is simply too short to do anything but.
The only problem with this of course is that the range of a car is already limited. Plugging in your car overnight, and then discovering half the charge is gone might be a tad, shall we say, unwelcome.

One could imagine though a big incentive (cost wise) not to charge the car during the day, or early evening but have the charger kick in after say 10pm. Then if your range is sufficient to get to work and back you're not motivated to charge during the day.

While all those batteries sitting there is somewhat appealing, the highest demand for grid power is also likely to be around the time you want to use your car.
You are right, but I think you mis-interpreted Patrick's comment. I guess he is saying that you can probably have a great ROI for the time invested in testing and optimization. Of course, this does not mean that you _always_ have to be doing testing and optimization.
Well put. I cannot imagine what more evidence pg needs for collapsable threads or trigger-happy moderators than that thread.
Then you won't like the Greek version of that proverb, which makes little to no sense:

"Whoever has the fly gets flied."
I thought this would be about the fact that all of us will miss the next thousand and million years and everything that will happen on earth during that time.

I'm not at all as sad over missing most of contemporary culture as I am over missing what will happen beyond my life span. The technological marvels, the scientific advances, the development of new ways of looking at what life really means. The advent of new forms of life, perhaps alien or artificial, which is so unlikely to happen during the flash of time I get to spend here.

In this perspective the article came across as very unimaginative and dull, but I suppose that's only me.
> SF is not there yet

It will not get anywhere near the feel of European cities, I've lived in both. Until they fix their serious housing issues with homeless / mentally-ill people camping on sidewalks and creating a hostile environment around the downtown core, it will never attract people to walk or bike.

I lived around SoMa for a decade and I HATE cars with a passion but slowly found myself walking and biking less and less as the years passed. I hated having to constantly scan my surroundings so I don't get mugged / attacked, random ill people screaming or spitting at me and having my locked bike stolen.

The best part about living in European cities was how safe it was to walk or bike to critical places.
Here's his (Norvig's) previous answer on "Why Python" as a HN comment he made ~10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815

Also: https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html
Colleges also thrive on a steady influx of cash (often backed by debt) and the costs are simply not sustainable. This is a bad model to emulate.
I find refreshing this idea of likenind contractors just doing carefully their jobs.
Without a 'coorporate culture'.

I also find that in various development project I do people mater just more than the frame.
I have “cherry picked“ nothing. That’s the data from the study. The researchers picked the start date, arbitrarily, to produce the outcome they liked. It’s obvious.

By the way: there was a randomized controlled trial for masks and covid published just recently. They were able to detect no statistically significant protective effect:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/89778
I am said to say but YouTube has become the Ministry of Truth, 1984 is coming true, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-...

Anything that does not fit Big Brother's version of history is censored and banned. YouTube and other big tech companies like Facebook have become Big Brother.

If you think they just cancel out the right, what if they cancel out the left and moderates as well?

It is the start of a civil war after Trump Patriots invaded DC and the Capitol building. We haven't seen the last of it. Censoring and banning people won't make it go away.
Basic biology should tell you that the only thing that counts for carbon capture is biomass added. Anything that the tree does that doesn't permanently add to its mass can't capture carbon permanently. Hence, once a tree stops growing, it stops capturing carbon. It still respirates because it does things that require energy, but any carbon it captures doing so is released fairly quickly again, e.g. when the leaves it produced in spring fall off and rot. Of course many trees keep growing a little even after they reach maturity, but the rate of growth is minuscule. A mature stable forest stores a large amount of carbon, but it hardly captures any more.
https://archive.is/r732X
>the article does say they may be compromised

Same applies to any software. No software without a bug or an issue.
Getting shot with a lead bullet is different than a rubber bullet. Of course the crime is different etc, but you can't really compare lead bullets with rubber bullets. Rubber bullets can be lethal, yes, but lead bullets many orders of magnitude more lethal.
I am self taught and yeah I figured it out.
> It's not free to run and it is not generating revenues.

If there's only a few users then it's cheap to run. If there's a lot of users then this is a mountain of bad PR right at the time they are trying to get users to adopt new products (like, say, Stadia). Since all it does is shuffle PDFs & images between endpoints I'm gonna guess this is on the order of basically free to run.

But either way canceling it isn't free, either. I'm arguing the cost of canceling this is far larger than the cost of keeping it running.
Transport is "only 20%" but the combination of transport, power generation and heat is the majority of CO2 emissions, and all of those things have zero carbon alternatives at not much higher prices than the existing methods. And most of the rest of it is "agriculture" and "industry" which is a lot of the same thing -- a diesel tractor or bulldozer is still a thing we can make run on batteries instead.
A general jumping-off point for this idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping

It's a very cool concept, similar to sculpting bonsai trees with copper wire, just on a bigger scale.
However unless it can reliably conform to civil engineering specs, it's useless outside of an artisan project.
This is true. My first job as a dev was in fintech, but I know literally nothing about finance, nor do I care to. I was not a very good developer in that arena, because you really need domain knowledge to be truly effective in some fields.
Mods - can we update the title to “San Francisco dog poop crisis” ? Note that the category of tickets in 311 is “Human / Animal waste”. I personally went through 100 random tickets on the sf data portal and found that 95% were either dog poop or miss classified (eg abandoned car or trash collection). People automatically read the headline and correlate to human waste.
In case you haven't seen it yet, the Rivian R1T is explicitly targeting that use case.
I can't really understand the attitude such as 'if they want to do drug, let them do it in a safe way at least'. It sounds compassionate and all, but isn't doing drug just, WRONG? I somehow feel this is an encouragement to them.
And ensure that they weren't hacked, etc. Then you need another immutable blockchain to keep track of the bad posts on the first immutable blockchain.
Of course they're owned by Chinese citizens. That's why I chose them as examples, rather than other big companies with a large presence in China, such as Volkswagen or Apple.

> carefully managed by the government

That's not true. They make business decisions based on the profit motive.

> The CEO and founder of Huawei is a member of the communist party

That's not very meaningful. There are a lot of people who are members of the party.

> Do not assume the strong distinction in the west between private entities and the government exists in China.

I think that a lot of people in this forum (and other fora in the West) do not understand the basic economic reforms that China has gone through. There is a huge difference between how a private company like Tencent operates and how a state-owned enterprise operates. It has been government policy over the past few decades to allow the private economy to grow, and to allow it to operate according to profit considerations.

Companies and people in China do not have the same sorts of protections should the government decide to go after them, but it's not as if the government controls the decision-making of private companies.

> In China if you are of any real size whatsoever as a company, the government is either taking a role in things directly, or you are going to be forced out.

This simply isn't true. The Chinese government does not run Alibaba, and doing so would actually go against the direction of Chinese economic reforms over the past few decades.
Real pity. My school's printer services are terrible. The drivers are a pain to install, and it doesn't even work half the time.

Google Print was a great way to get around these issues, but not anymore. Crazy how out-of-the-blue Google will kill off certain products.
Yeah, but every blockchain that isn't used much has fast transactions. And even with smart contracts they will be missing layer 2. It's a long time to wait.
> To the point that if a place won’t take American Express (like Costco)

Costco stands behind everything they sell. Other than electronics, they unofficially have a lifetime return policy for nearly anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26287811
um... Range? Charging time, power to weight, range, cost, also range. Those are the most important things i look for in a car.
It's actually a legitimate concern, and it goes far beyond coworkers embarrassing you in slack.

For example, posted yesterday: https://tailscale.com/blog/rotate-ssh-keys/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26249380)

> One company had an employee they fired for bad behaviour. A few months later all their production servers got wiped out. ... A month later, it happened again! Everything gone.

> What happened was that the rogue employee, months before they were fired, had waited until everyone went to lunch, walked around from one PC to the next, and collected the ssh private keys from any of them that weren’t locked. ... Then, a while after getting fired, he used a co-worker’s ssh key to login and destroy everything.

Of course, screen locking would not prevent a determined, disgruntled (or desperate) employee from pulling off something like this, but it would stop the casual collection of secrets while everyone is at lunch. Add full disk encryption to PCs and you have a reasonable chance at defending.

Oh, and if you're doing anything with credit cards, PCI DSS requires you to enforce a workstation locking policy. Failing to do so opens you up to massive liability in the event of a breach.
Ta, if I feel energetic I may implement that. At the moment if it breaks something you can refresh the page. I was also thinking of a keyboard shortcut and working on getting it to work with time.com. It doesn't do that one at the moment.
> they look out for people of their own tribe, but that kind of tribalism does not exist in the US

There's still a strong division into Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites in the US in most socio-economic settings.
It's fast.

It looks nice.

And has no window menu whatsoever in any application at all, despite having plenty of space for that.

You video player has detected the wrong ratio for the video you want to see?

Bad luck, elementary will not let you change it.
I still don't know what happens in that scene, which is strange for a movie with such heavy handed exposition; even the version without narration.

GET IT - SHES A REPLICANT! SO IS HE AND HER AND HIM! OH THE OWL IS FAKE. DID I MENTION THE OWL YET? ITS FAKE!

Yet a weird 6 minute sequence with a photo editor just goes unexplained. He magically sees something we don't using technology that isn't remotely explained.
Aren't you rather implying that they don't spy on everybody already?
> There’s a particular sinking feeling that comes when the candidate starts on one of these problems and immediately writes a for loop.

> in most embedded/real-time/kernel work, ... When there are strict bounds on stack sizes, recursive algorithms can be downright dangerous, especially when operating on user-supplied data.

Seems like an excellent interview question. Certainly from the first three paragraphs, I can tell that this is a company that recruits mediocre graduates because they don't pay attention to real-world constraints. A company I definitely shouldn't be working for.
Great to see but I'd like some real numbers on the performance, in my experience AWS' poor storage performance has always been a show stopper for large database especially when trying to scale them if integrity is crucial to your platform.
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Invest in what you understand.

Also:

"The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors."

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I feel ya on the experience, I ran Slackware for years and years (Dropline Gnome!) and around Ubuntu 5.x or so I was introduced to it and have been on it since. I had a short stint on Gentoo... glad those days are over
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If you need to take psychedelics to 'unlock the wonders of your mind' or whatever just to do some simple programming, software may not be the field for you.
You mean "not at all"? Just fire up a packet sniffer...
I completely agree on your point regarding the visa/immigration BS. Some of the best talent I work with is from south america or eastern Europe. They are ALL in this boat, and it's heartbreaking to see (and makes me feel like I have something I shouldn't, when a lot of these people are just more talented than I).

The US does need to monetarily attract new start-ups.

Our brightest minds are still going to the IB/PE firms of NYC and sucking money out of a zero-sum system instead of creating something worthwhile. Give them incentive to create (in terms of personal cash reward) in the same way the banks do, and you have something.
It's not a good sign when investors are waiting for news of a sale and instead they hear about low earnings and loss of market share.
In the video you can clearly see just the rear wheels spinning on the F-150; e.g., it was RWD.
Looking forward to it since I believe the professional barrier to be quite dysfunctional in recent times.
e.g. the most prominent US democratic candidates openly support ideas that are more marxist than anything else. They represent a lot of people, it's not some small heresy
You had half the story, just the wrong half. HN and YC used to be a single program in Arc (a single thread, even:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231810). When pg left, the YC side was split off and redone in Rails. In the internal narrative in my head, this is known as "the great lobotomy". I can say that here because almost no one will ever read this and therefore it won't create any scandal, yes?

If you know of anyone who would love to program in Arc and would be willing to be publicly impaled daily as an HN moderator, please send them my way. It isn't necessary to already know Arc. It's just necessary to be delighted by the idea and willing to learn.
I haven't read this one yet. I'm reading his The Beginning of Infinity now, and so impressed by it that I intend to TFoR next.
That looks cool, thanks, I'm going to bookmark that, here's to hoping that in two years time I'll find it again ;)
And here's a rather cool article which focuses more on low-tax/tax-free local economies:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thaddeus-russell/mafia-renegad...

There's a pattern here! All of a sudden this is a far more interesting topic... ;-)
“But that’s how I feel about engineers with great passion who can’t raise money, usually because they were born in the wrong country or under the wrong circumstances. I want to create an abstraction layer that allows them to be entrepreneurs.”

I like this part IMHO :-)
True... you'll need to sign up on a desktop browser.
Absolutely. Drive and determination can get you closer to your personal genetic ceiling. But if you don't have lucky genetics your ceiling will be lower than the world class level. Whether that is sports, math, painting, whatever.
A large code base is not trivial.
The issue in the article I linked isn’t that thorium is being produced but rather that Greenland Minerals doesn’t seem to have a plan for storing or processing it. So the fact that it could one day be used in a reactor isn’t very meaningful if the thorium in question is badly contaminated with other waste products and buried in a landfill somewhere.
This is a common argument, but backwards. The more important an issue is the more pragmatic you need to be, because results actually matter more than your gut feelings of discomfort, right?
oz exists in our algorithms now
I meant that if you miss generics, your code is probably too complex.