jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with you. My car looks like it's going to last a little over 10 years and then eventually it won't be worth fixing.

I wonder what the cost of this Tesla upgrade is going to be though.
Why would there be insane electricity costs? It doesn't have to be a POS blockchain. Also, it's not completely vaporware since the proposal includes backing the coin by $1B to kick it off.
It has come to light that Einstein's first wife likely was co-author of his papers but got no credit due her gender.[1] I see no mention of that in either article.

Historically, it was sort of a given that a man's career was supported by the labor of a wife. This assumption is baked into how we design jobs and it's problematic in a world where that's less true than it once was.

If you don't count hidden contributions of that sort, you will never figure out some reproducible formula.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24964646
There are other formatters, some may even be better.
I think it tends to happen when you are really 'that close' and or, you're kind of 'awake' when it's happening, and more likely in moments of acute trauma like car accidents etc..
He provides links to facts and actual emails. What do you provide, besides indignation?
And yet the defense industry will purchase it in droves, thanks to the revolving door and all the special connections that Boeing has.
Comparing how I felt doing keto with the keto flu vs. just plain calorie counting, I think the unique metabolism of ketosis makes your body not use everything you eat during keto. It's very hard to keep under 20g of carbs and not eat too much protein also. Much easier to just go to chipolte/subway and calorie count. If your lifestyle makes you make all 3 meals already, then keto is great. If you don't, then it's a lot of work.
Nice to see he's kept his word and following through as is the community. Really great and lovable group of folks. Sometimes there are cultural differentials, but everyone is really great and with a primary and essentially only rule of "be nice" - I think it's a breath of fresh air in this screwed up time.
There is no war just a special operation.
OSs and hard real time can also be written in managed languages — there are many research OS written in managed languages (with a bit of assembly, but you also need it for C as it is not low-level either), like Midori, and there are even hard-real-time JVMs used in military settings like jamaicavm.
Are you talking about the example by RustyConsul? Because I'm not RustyConsul so I can't tell you what specifically RustyConsul intended with this example. Yes this is a bad data structure in Rust, or C, or presumably Zig. In the context of this thread I'm sure Zig's proponents will say that you'd never make this mistake in Zig.
AngularDart is sadly basically dead these days at least publicly. It still runs all of Google Ads so it’s very well maintained internally I imagine but it’s officially unsupported publicly at this point which I agree is a shame.

Flutter for web is at a weird stage right now. I think once AOM, WASM-GC and WebGPU are in place and well supported across browsers it will be a very different story but thats probably a year or two away at this point.
I feel like, ideally, one should never have to face the conundrum of choosing an integer width for general-purpose use.

I really like that the "normal" integers in Common Lisp are arbitrary length, but they're represented automatically as register-sized quantities when small enough (which, for typical code, is most of the time). That way, at least in terms of space efficiency, and for the most part in terms of time efficiency, you can have your cake and eat it too.

If I really need performance, I can always declare that a variable will never contain a non-machine-sized integer:

(defun f (x)
(declare (type (unsigned-byte 64) x))
...)

This is me promising to Lisp that x will always be bound to an unsigned 64-bit integer. If I dial the optimization settings with high speed and low safety (which I can scope to just that file, or even just that function):

(declaim (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)))

then Lisp will eliminate bounds checks, bignum-promotions, etc. and produce the native assembly you expect.

My point is that I really appreciate the "safe and general by default" philosophy, while still being able to opt-in to practical efficiency considerations when I absolutely need it.

(If I'm pedantic: The above optimization behavior, while encouraged in various ways by the Common Lisp standard, is technically not de jure required. But any general purpose Lisp compiler from the past 30 years will do these things, like SBCL.)
What? Are we having the same conversation?

I'm saying is that focusing your energies on trying to get location based cheap labour might not be the best use of your time. How am I arguing that people should starve?
If you a cloud host, you need a way to sandbox hostile code. Firecracker allows you to do that (it is a configuration of the traditional KVM virtualization system except lighter and faster, instead of booting a VPS which can take minutes, you can now spawn one in under a second).
>After forty years this is what the internet gives us. A few people get rich at the cost of all the rest.

Sure, if you want to focus on the negative you can focus on the negative.
Birdwatching is my biggest hobby. It's also a wonderful way to relax and take my mind off things. I've recently bought a cute device to enjoy this passtime more. Take a look
https://www.atncorp.com/smart-hd-binocular .
Yes, but does it work for women, too?
Keyboard trays. You can't beat a good keyboard tray.
Summary: Google launches new web site, tells self not to index the site, said site is not findable by search. Oops.
The thing is - if the BBC pay they're being utterly stupid

"Your ISP doesn't support the BBC IPlayer - please let them know about it here"

strikes me as a pretty obvious marketing tool.

In exactly the same way, not providing access to youtube would probably be the most moronic thing most ISPs could do.

If the BBC pay anybody else beyond their own bandwidth costs, the top brass should be sacked.
A few things I've notice (and why I stopped using it):

- It doesn't show new mail when it arrives

- It doesn't do threaded conversations so they're compatible with the gmail web app

- Its address book autocomplete is not as good

- It stores messages locally so you can't search past mails

- It does not hide the quoted text the same way gmail normally does, which sort of breaks that feature when you switch between mail.app and web based gmail.

edit: Maybe I'll try it again since you love it so much. It's possible that my initial frustrations led me to write it off prematurely (plus, I heard it's getting updates in IOS 4.2)
Not sure, but the magazine "2600" is absolutely named after this. FWIW, Wikipedia suggests otherwise:

The console was originally sold as the Atari VCS, for Video Computer System. Following the release of the Atari 5200, in 1982, the VCS was renamed "Atari 2600", after the unit's Atari part number, CX2600.
Yeah, I mean we couldn't let GS fail, GS IS AMERICA!
Turn off the computer for a while.
>>You are suggesting that officially sanctioned NYC cab drivers should be allowed to not give rides to people based on race and destination

My argument is that a private company should be able to offer whatever service they want. If the city of New York wants to offer a complete service then they should add a taxi service as part of the MTA. Also, I don't think I mentioned race. Destination discrimination is mainly about minimizing risk and avoiding areas dense with blue dots on this map http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map

>>What is the point of a subjectively offered city service with no viable alternative?

This is not a city service. It's a private service in the city that well established companies have lobbied nyc government to increase the barrier of entry for. Subways and busses are city services, they are the ones that should have universal service routes.

>> If there was a law that made my industry so inefficient it harmed me and my customers so much and benefited my boss to an outrageous extent then I would show my disapproval by changing industries (either permanently or temporarily via a strike). That is how changes to the status quo are made in a market. Reducing demand so suppliers have to change their offer.

No, going on strike would decrease supply NOT demand. Also, do you really think cab drivers have an alternate industry to flock to?
While I agree in theory with #1 & #2, there's a very real element of danger there. Many places will only provide a reference for start date, end date and title/position.

If you self-grant and put "Lead Architect" on your resume and your reference check comes back with "No, that wasn't his title. His title the whole time was Senior SWE.", how's that going to look?

If you want to choose your own title, and you've been doing good work for your current company, propose a new title/role for yourself.

To the OP: if you want to find ways to have a bigger influence, but you don't want any stink of management to get on your hands, you may have a long road ahead. While you don't necessarily need to formally lead (and review, set comp, etc) as a career manager, you're probably going to have to do things that look a lot like management of one form or another: technical, project, career/people, or a mix. It's hard to have a significantly larger impact without doing something beyond individual contributor work.
Wait, why Apple has to allow enter payment details?

The app (Kindle, GMail, etc) have your account so it has your payment details
Wind & Rain Sensor: https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=29 or https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8942 ; related Arduino sketch: http://code.google.com/p/pweatherstation/

You want an RTC1307 real time clock, a humidity sensor and pressure & temperature sensor from Sparkfun/Adafruit/etc.

e.g. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11824 . Good starting point on SF: https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/152

Only buy sensors from vendors that provide you an up-to-date Arduino 1.2+ sketch for Uno/Mega or Due! I had to tune my sketch to fit it in Arduino Uno 32k memory (ethernet shield, various sensors code), so if it's your first project maybe use an Arduino Mega (more memory). Test every sketch on its own, then combine all sketches to one sketch. Cables are more reliable than wireless, especially if it should work years without maintenance. You can also use an RPi.
This is not a problem inherent in stack ranking. Any performance review system that (1) allow unbalanced pay and (2) makes this fact visible to employee, will cause exact same issues. Here unbalanced pay means you want to divide available reward such that higher performing employee gets lions share while those at the tail gets peanuts. Whether you do this through peer reviews or through manager reviews or stack ranking or team level performance or by throwing dice, you will always find some portion of employees feel the system is unjust and they deserve better ratings. Only way to avoid this is by equal bonus pays OR not assigning any ratings at all. For most technology companies at least the option of paying every one equal bonus won't be acceptable. It is known fact that highest performing employees perform 5X-20X than lowest performing employees and it would be hard to retain them if they were paid same bonuses as everyone else.

However not disclosing ratings could certainly be option. Or you can only disclose binary ratings "Stay/Fire" or trinary rating "Green/Yellow/Red" where they don't disclose amount/range of bonus but whether employee performance was sufficient for continuity of employment. People who thought that disclosing bonus indicating ratings was a good idea probably bought on an argument that this will motivate employees to improve themselves to get higher ratings. In reality many aggressive employees actually do work even harder to get back to better ratings however people who have feel lack of opportunity or are rusted eventually settle down with being labeled "average" and pull back on their effort level just to keep employment going.
Does anyone have more information on the websockets? I assume they all go through haproxy to their 9 web servers, which is a decent 29k sustained connections per server.
I'd love to have your reaction to this:
https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/12414295448478638...
you do realize that the folks upstream to DigitalOcean, meaning the ISP and data centers, have their own AUP that DigitalOcean is required to meet in order to be their customer?

Every ISP has an abuse process, this isn't very unique here.
Angering lawmakers does not matter . . . .

No one, even on a powerful committee, has any real power to legislate at the moment, and so the anger is really just that: the basis for a WSJ headline.
How can they cache tracking pixels? Each one has a distinct URL.
One way is not by working for someone else ... unless you get very very lucky and the company is the next Google and IPOs.

http://www.marshallbrain.com/million.htm
My problem so far has very much been that all of my ideas and efforts have been towards big, pie in the sky, breaking new ground type things. And of course, they usually don't get finished.

I've been trying to get far more disciplined in looking for the more practical, boring problem/solutions that follow market trends etc.

I just find it so hard to do because it doesn't excite me as much, even though I know there is so much opportunity out there.
Richland Chambers Reservoir shows up as "Corsicana River" on terrain data. I asked around and was told that 20+ years ago that was the name of the river before they broke a dam and extended the area. Perhaps the data being used to map terrain areas is quite old?
Maybe use a product like Workshare Professional to manage and remove hidden metadata in the documents. Then since the clients are not very tech savvy put the files on a USB flash drive and drop it in the FedEx. Low tech solution, but I'll bet the clients would like it. Especially if the USB drive came with a neck strap to keep it from getting lost with the attorney's name and phone number on it.

http://www.workshare.com/products/wsprofessional/
I'm sure that I'm not the only one here who's seen people who should know better email encrypted files with the password in plain text in the email body.

The simplest solution that I've managed to come up with so far is to send the encrypted file and then send the password via a different channel. So you email the encrypted file and then phone the person to tell them the password. Or host the file at a login-required https URL and provide log in details over the phone.

Of course those approaches are only justifiable for information that isn't too sensitive. Once you have to worry about people tapping your phones and intercepting your email then you really need tech savvy recipients. Of course, I'm hoping that someone in this thread will mention a solution that proves me wrong.
I assumed the black hole carved out a spherical hole in the center of the Earth. If it was inside it, then it would be inside a spherical shell (a very thick one at that).
Are these robot dogs networked? Skynet awakening?
That’s part of it. Disney’s brand is to be the elite of whatever it’s doing.

I married into the fanaticism and have been mostly converted.

My spouse essentially treats the trips like she is cosplaying being Royalty. She dresses to the nines, Everybody greets her with a smile and a friendly word and she “jet sets” to exotic locations. She takes in world class entertainment and cuisine, and has a grand ole time.

For myself, I find always leave with motivation. Figment, the imagineers, and the endless pursuit to make the magical appear real never fails to make me believe in a better tomorrow.

In short, the branding is truly a magical and motivating experience. The brand extends to the things you can do outside the parks like “the skyliner,” and even the stores in the malls.
Can’t agree more. We were using vue-tables-2, which got the job done, but the maintainer went MIA for a few months (he did just recently push a new update).

Ag Grid is INSANE. The client side version churns through our entire set like butter.

Even if it weren’t, I was prepared to dive into the graphQL implementation but haven’t needed to.

The only negative I have is the bloat. But I’m p sure v22 solves that by letting you load on demand vs the whole thing.

I can’t imagine ever using datatables again or having to make a server call to sort or filter.
> Ms. Meyers-Levy’s studies have shown that women are able to process information more comprehensively and to do so at a lower threshold. Men are more selective and tend to focus on the essentials.

I was expecting a cool, UI/gender studies point about pinterest's grid style getting gendered as for girls through social construction, but instead just read some bullshit gender essentialism.
Warning and cold hard reality I'm afraid. Still would be awesome to at least give it a try and see what I learn.
I've been using GV for almost a year now and for the most part it's been great. I have had issues with certain people trying to call me as well and getting busy signals or operator error messages. From what I've read I think this has to do with routing tables not being updated in certain states for certain GV number blocks, and that it's really hard to get resolved.
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." - Alan Kay

This news is yet another data point that developers will need to hack concurrency sooner than later, as a core skill in one's professional repertoire. Off to learn Stackless PyPy, Clojure, Scala, etc...
That's what they _believed_ was real.

I have yet to see anyone claim that belief is reality and give justification beyond simply repeating/rephrasing the claim, and you certainly aren't the first.
And all the rivers run in the right direction. In contrast to, say, Russia's rivers which mostly run into ice seas or the inland water bodies.
Couple of questions: Does it handle subscriptions? Do you need a merchant bank account?
I feel like, roughly speaking, the first Atlantic system started off quite small because Native Americans were slave labor starting with Columbus. The second Atlantic system passed Barbary slaving. Import into the US was banned in 1808.
One of the use cases I can think of is "I have a set of scripts (shell, GDB, etc.) that are useful when troubleshooting servers, and I want to be able to use any of them at will once I've connected to a machine that's broken."

Even just having my own dotfiles (.vimrc especially) present on a machine that I'm troubleshooting is huge.
I love this story because as Feynman puts it, there's a difference between knowing the name of something and really knowing it.

Since we're on the topic of light -- despite going to a great school and taking several physics courses, I suffered from a severe misconception until about a month ago. Maybe you have it too.

Think about a light wave. You might imagine a diagram like this:

http://betterexplained.com/wp-content/uploads/graphs/Wave.pn...

Yep, you've seen it a million times. Light is a wave and wiggles up and down... right?

Oh really? Do you think the fastest thing the universe travels in a zigzag pattern? Hey, why don't we beat the speed of light by moving on a straight line! Nobel prize time!

No, the y-axis is amplitude of the field. The graph is not a Family-circus dotted line following the particle's motion! A better diagram may be this:

http://betterexplained.com/wp-content/uploads/graphs/wave_am...

It's the intensity of the wave which is varying. But we memorize the "light is a wiggling wave" diagram and wind up with a severe misconception.

(Shameless plug: I blog at http://betterexplained.com and try to hammer away at the insights that have befuddled me.)
Maybe you should roll your own. I think a project experience should be concerned about what you've done rather than what you have participated.
Anyway you may find Google Code Summer is helpful, but it's 2011 year's application seems end.
Probably less productive on an average day, but it’s also far saner for my mental health if I’m having an off day to be able to do less vs being forced to be at a desk in some office.

As a result I have more high value deep work days where I can get difficult things done.

The biggest thing is being able to proactively manage my own burnout without a manager physically breathing down my neck.
>Everybody knows rolling release is not "enterprise" and "production ready"

It really depends, if you want to install things like a big oracle db, then a classical LTS distro is better. But if your instances have short/medium lifecycles and good tests in place, then a rolling distro can even be a time saver (because you migrate your scripts/confs all the time a bit, and nothing massive like from a 10yo release to the new one)
This is excellent. There should be a permalink entry for this as a gold standard if this works with people commenting on how they applied it practically.
Yes, I am dead certain one can change one's mind through meditation.

I don't know about neuroscience's take on it, but my experience is that mental health professionals all encourage me to meditate.

If you practice Buddhist meditation, be advised that it can be excruciatingly boring.

It's meant to be.

How often do you just sit and do nothing? Not reading hacker news, soylent news, tweaking your code?

I don't practice sitting meditation a whole lot, but quite frequently I walk aimlessly, most commonly late at night.
Everyone that buys this is going to spray it in their mouths. This has nothing to do with skin absorption and everything to do with getting around the FDA.
Well, jobs are high stress affairs too. We often have to maintain production systems that fail in cryptic ways at the most inconvenient times. I postulate that such situations are more stressful than solving some binary search tree problem on a whiteboard.
This seems false to me. Interview stress isn't deadline stress isn't code review stress.

This is like saying "all drivers need to be able to drive well under stress, so let's test them while blaring a foghorn in their ear". Context is important.

I don't want to hire someone who is good at interviewing, I want to hire someone who is good at what I need them to do. While it may behoove the individual to train themselves on being better at interviews, as an employer it is a negative to wash someone out simply because they don't interview well.

Personally I rock at interviews, I've done easily 100+ interviews in my life at this point and I actually relax when I get into the room. This doesn't make me a better coder and it doesn't make me more qualified than the next guy who comes in with sweaty palms, and an employer whose heuristic uses interview-skill as a proxy for engineering-skill would be very misguided.

The entire problem with tech recruiting comes down to stupid proxies. We went through a phase where the top tech companies replaced real questions with logic brain teasers, as if that was a suitable proxy for real engineering ability. Now some startups are doing stupid shit like requiring extensive side projects, as if that is a suitable proxy for real engineering ability.

I'm not sure how many more years it will take for tech as an industry to realize that the best way to know someone is good at X, is to get them to do X.