jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This reply is concerning, I hope you can improve on the current state of v4 more than making usability "an option".

Edit: I should expand. I was not too worried after reading the article, things would improve I was certain of. But this reply, upon given a straight-up question on specific usability and accessibility concerns fails fully to give a proper answer.
Its a pretty clumsy measurement so perhaps not “frequently” but it’s widely used yes (Scandinavia). For example windows and doors are standardized in dm, so a typical window is a 11x13 and a door is 9x21. It’s going to have some other measurement in reality like 1120x1310mm but the dm measurement is still used to reference the rough size.
Calling this a short book is a major understatement. The beauty of it is that it's one of the most to-the-point business and motivation books you'll ever read. Read it several years ago in an evening when he had that silly reality show on tv.
Presumably against anyone who runs a service that exchanges bitcoins for regular currency.
The PS3 version of Portal 2 has a code to activate your copy of Portal 2 on Steam, and play it on PC or Mac. But you have to log in to PSN and Steam at the same time to sync up the accounts, and so as long as PSN is down, I can't install Portal 2 on my PC.

Also, the only reason I play PixelJunk Shooter is for the online leaderboards, which aren't available without PSN.
A small gripe, I know, but when the site offers a choice of seeing the article in multiple pages (aaarrgghh!), or seeing it in one, I really appreciate when the link goes to the 'all in one page' option.
…but that's a lot of people. And companies.
What makes you think it would? Refactoring is generally a precursor to new features being added. If you don't know what is to be added then refactoring is usually counterproductive.

I agree that certain teams might need to slow down and reduce the scope of what they do in a cycle - but I think it would be better for them to calibrate to a sustainable scope rather than skipping a cycle altogether.
That's cute, the IP address for his demo curl command is ... daringfireball's web server.
I believe they are using some chrome only feature, perhaps direct tcp connections?
Almost certainly. I would also expect contamination (finger oils, for example) to be a big issue.

(Source: I worked on and designed equipment for commercial scale-up of a nanoscale superhydrophobic coating process)
Remote exploitation of computers by law enforcement is not even very well defined in law or policy yet. Even in Western countries.

What type of statute do you mean? Guidelines for legal warrant based surveillance or something to counter foreign authoritarian countries from using them? Export controls on exploits/intrusion software will not effectively stop that IMO - but this is the approach Europe is taking at the moment.
It's really hard to find the non-introductory rate for a cable company in the US (any I've seen, at least).
You could have something attached to your belt and keep the laptop on your lap. A gpg smartcard would do well, probably.
Well i look at it from a point of view that people who'll use this service will either be people who can expense it as a business expense (some one else pays) or people who cam to NY as tourist which means they've already dumped couple of 1000's of dollars at least on their experience.

If i would go to NY for fun i would consider this as part of the tour, if i go there on business as i usually do it would be quite hard for me to expense it not because of the price but because i would have to put a helicopter ride on the expense report which might raise more than a few eyebrows at work...
Not right now, but that is simply because the volume isn't large enough to have attracted government attention yet.

There was a case some years ago in Germany where something similar happened. A local initiative introduced a local fiat currency, and initially people did not pay taxes on sales etc. in that currency. At some point, this got the government's attention, and soon after that, the tax advantage was gone. People had to pay their taxes in Euros.

Something similar will happen to BitCoin if it takes off. It may be somewhat harder to enforce for the government, but then again, paper cash transactions are anonymous, too. You still pay sales tax when you purchase something with paper money. There is no truly fundamental difference here to how BitCoin works.
These days you need basically all the message apps anyway unless your circle of friends is super homogenous
> Note: I have NEVER seen anyone do 'a'. It's usually a creative hybrid between a and b)

So, you've never seen someone being a professional ? I've told my boss plenty of times his estimates are wrong, and that it will take longer. It's my job to know how long things take. If my boss thinks it can be done shorter, he better 1/ have the same work experience that I do and 2/ do it on his own.
> I’ve never read anything from Stallman that defends any behavior a reasonable person would identify as Paedophilia

Stallman defended legalization of pedophilia by name (and in the context of an overt political effort to eliminate age of consent entirely) and only recanted that support after the controversy over Minsky erupted in 2019 (which, given the somewhat related subject matter, also brought heightened, though not the first, attention to that advocacy.)
Japan gets a rep for being technologically forward thinking, but given their heavy use of faxes and paper records in banking and government, they seem to have shown they are very slow to move forward in broad ways.
Just offer to switch existing usage to flat rate services instead of consumption based services. This isn’t rocket science. We know how to control costs.

Cloud vendors obviously don’t want this.
It was not "promoted in the Eastern bloc". People from those regions could sign it under their real names without repercussions.

The anti-Stallman letter is signed by the usual SJW developers who jump at any chance to cancel someone. Some of these went straight to positions of power in projects without having contributed anything of value.

These developers represent less than 5% of projects, the other 95% either does not care or is scared to sign the pro-Stallman letter.
Exactly, celebrities plus wanna be celebrities plus startups.

Mumble + new rich = this
Alright.

So I just wanna step aside and stop drooling over how handsome/ ugly it is and ask a real question.

Has a prototype been created, and shown at any expo?

Or Elon is just gonna squeeze money out of starry eyed buyers now and only then start design + production?

In the past he has been late by months in delivery after making customers shell out money.
May be we should then question the model that Businesses should be morally agnostic.
I don't even disagree from a purist standpoint. And yes, I think everyone should read it. But they won't all, and don't need to, understand it.

But um, so a sophomoric summary without the "complications" of proving it is NOT better nor more accessible.

And I see none of your bullet points are improved upon in the linked paper.
So, using grep or a similar tool, how would you find the definition of the function, separately from its uses? In a Rust codebase I could just run `grep -r "fn foo" .` and find the definition immediately.

Clearly this doesn’t matter if you’re in an IDE with a working “find definition” feature, but that’s often enough not the case that I find easily greppable definitions to be a gigantic advantage.
I haven't touched FP languages in years, but my first year undergraduate intro programming course was taught in Haskell... FP principles aren't so difficult that the average programmer can't learn them to at least a basic level.
A bit of a tangent, I think the following part is gold and really captures the moment:

> ... It comes over you when you’re suddenly faced with a new result that shows you just how strange and unexpected the physical universe can be. At first, all you can do is just stand there and wonder what the hell just happened (and whether you can do it again!) The feeling is an intense version of the amazement you feel at watching a particularly good magic trick, intense because it’s not a trick.
Exactly. My F150 bed currently contains 6 egg boxes of children's clothes to donate, two folding chairs, a foot locker sized rubbermaid container filled with emergency gear & camping stuff, a large Patagonia duffel full of sports clothes, a smaller duffel with cleats & soccer ball, two pairs of basketball shoes + ball, an extra jacket and a large umbrella. Yes, I don't need to keep all this crap in the truck all the time, but it sure is convenient to have that option!
That is a poor, poor substitute for passive safety measures...
You can flag irrelevant reviews.
keep in mind X being missing from the shelves doesn't necessarily imply that X is being disproportionately purchased by customers. it can also imply that X is relatively harder to restock. the supply chain can maintain much deeper buffers of canned goods without risking spoilage.

the water is probably panic buying, but the other missing items in your list could just be the result of an above average number of shoppers buying a typical distribution of items. also, you don't consider frozen pizza a non-perishable?

the store I go to seems to have recovered from the initial shock. everything seems to be stocked except sanitizer, which is short everywhere. the only other thing empty is the fresh meat display, which I assume is one of the harder things to restock.
Published literature suggests that surgical masks reduce the amount of escaped virus by 3x. If we can make enough masks, we need everyone to start wearing them. They should be handing them out at grocery stores!
“You should wear one if you are sick”

Asymptomatic carriers are showing as a large contributor of spread. We should have a mandate for masks for everyone (since we don’t know who is a carrier or not) and government should contract manufacturers to ramp production ASAP to meet the demand.

China and South Korea has ramped productions and is allocating 2 masks per week per resident.

US has 330 million people. 2 per person is 660 million face masks.

China is currently producing 200 millions masks a day. If we ramp production to even half of that, 100 million masks a day, we can have 2 masks for everyone in less than a week.
Right now a lot of companies still operating are b2b businesses also, with lots of the client businesses taking hits. That hasn't necessarily trickled upstream yet, but I suspect it will.
SiGe transistors have been mainstream in RF electronics for decades.
Caveat: I'm, of course, being a bit flippant here and there are of course people who've genuinely found a lot of this helpful. I'm actually a huge fan of Cal Newport as an author in general, but the deep work idea always didn't quite resonate with me.

Having looked at this topic quite a bit and generally being interested in productivity, I'll say this:

Deep work isn't complicated, in the same way that losing weight isn't technically "complicated": Eat better/less/etc. and maybe also exercise more. The difficult part is, of course, forcing yourself to stick with it.

Want to do deep work? Remove all distractions (physically, if necessary) and don't engage in any of them for a period of time. Have a goal in mind for this period of time. If you find your mind wandering, gently bring it back to the task. There, done. You're doing deep work.

Of course if one had the level of discipline to not indulge that urge to say, check HN, to begin with it's likely they don't need any concept of deep work in the first place (other than perhaps to remind oneself to engage in more thoughtful tasks).

That's not to say there aren't interesting tidbits here: Mindfulness is obviously a really useful skill, and sometimes physically removing distractions can be helpful in the same way that removing junk food from your household can be helpful in losing weight.

Still, it's a lot of discussion for something that ultimately boils down to "stop surfing reddit 4head".
I had the same question about the suffix letters. My uninformed guess is:

8 bits == byte == B
16 bits == word == W
32 bits == doubleword == D
> Are surgical masks going to give you total protection? Of course not, but as you say they provide SOME benefit

Face protection must surely have the side-benefit as well that it signals to others to keep your distance and that this is a serious situation.
It's worse because the information he's tweeting about doesn't require strong expertise.

It's that he's not careful with language.

The point of the tweet - that family gatherings with the elderly is problematic, is probably valid.

But his wording 'children are immune' is really bad.

They are not immune. The will get Coronavirus. They just get it less often and are less likely to show symptoms and very unlikely to die from it.

So they are not 'immune', rather they are 'immune to dying from it', which is a big difference.

Elon speaks off the cuff, with sensitive things, you have to be careful about how you word stuff.

This is why we have communications people.
Google seems to have stalemated itself. They don't want to compete with ChromeOS or cannibalize it - so they are deliberately de-emphasizing tablet uses of Android. But at the same time they can't seem to deliver ChromeOS, so it's all just going nowhere.

In general I like Google's attitude of embracing multiple products and letting the best one win. However that seems to be getting lost here as their obsession with ChromeOS is significantly impairing Android's progress on the table front (or at least, that's the only way I can really explain what's happening).
Thank you to you both.
the main problem with electron is js
But that assumes that one could predict in advance what those highest performing funds would be. Of course the highest performing XXX will be above average. The point is that no one can consistently predict which ones will be the highest performing XXX. Worse still, regression to the mean indicates that if, in 2021 you invest in the highest performing XXX of the preceding X years, you're more likely to get returns below average.

And let's suppose that there really is a fund staffed by a group of super-geniuses who can reliably pick the best performing stocks. There are two possibilities: They take on more and more investment capital until their returns end up getting closer to the mean or they don't accept new investments and the hypothetical new investor is left out in the cold.
Two black marks in my book

Selim I banning the printing press and and destruction of Taqiuddin’s observatory under Murad III
> Sadly, fighting games, and to the same extent FPS casually break that assumption. 1s is an eternity in a close fight.

Sure, but that's nothing compared to the speed of just polling inputs.

I would assume a pro player in a fighting game to have what, say 180 APM at peak ?

That's 3 actions per second, so if we assume a uniform holding time and a 60 FPS game that's 1 input change every 20 polled inputs. Assuming repeated inputs does seem like a good strategy in this situation.

An other way of seeing it, is that if a player with 180APM realistically can only change inputs every 333ms, then with a remote input lag of 25ms (50ms ping / 2) there is just a 1/13 chance that an input change would occur in this time slice.
uBlock Origin is also a must-have.
Why is this specifically about Microsoft? It seems applying to facebook|google|apple is about the same, and they're seen as more desirable to most people I know.
I assumed the same company as you. However, I fall on the other side of the analysis, that Watsi is 1. not interfering with any trademarks registered by BCBS (all BCBS registered marks, which I found in TESS, are word/design marks, which means the blue cross on its own is not protected, it is only protected when it is accompanied by the word mark); and 2. otherwise not causing any confusion in the markplace (for example who is going to donate to Watsi under the belief they were donating to BCBS, there is a test of the reasonable consumer and BCBS would have to prove actual confusion in the marketplace...good luck on that).

I am sure Watsi being who they are made an informed decision and with the advice of counsel. The sad thing is the advice was probably to the effect that while Watsi has a reasonable likelihood of prevailing on their use of the mark, BCBS has enough money to try to enforce the mark without putting a dent in their litigation budget, and Watsi's money would be better spent on Watsi's mission of helping people not in defending litigation. Nevertheless I would have felt good defending Watsi's use of the mark.
> "IP theft" is pretty much impossible to achieve. You're thinking of infringement.

Nope, I'm really thinking of theft. And it's quite possible to achieve. In fact, it happens quite often; it's just hard to prove conclusively that it has happened.
Maybe.
https://github.com/atom/welcome/blob/master/LICENSE.md
https://github.com/atom/welcome/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
I live in Houston and never knew how it worked. I assumed they only used the toll tags. It's actually not wifi, but rather bluetooth: http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/bluetooth/transtar_blueto.... I am not sure if the bluetooth radio on the phones uses a different MAC than the wifi radio.
Personally I think it's an awful idea to use meta-programming without an exceptionally good reason in production code. Like excessive use of function pointers in C. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Programming in this style causes more code complexity and will accelerate the rate at a which a codebase becomes a mess, not to mention it's really slow.
I'm conservative about words. I object to using "literally" to mean "not literally." When I do, I'm invariably taken to task: "words change!" "language evolves!" "it means what people use it to mean!" "dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive!" "get with it, you curmudgeon!". But the use of "theft" or "stealing" here seems perfectly natural to me, even after reading the legalistic objections to it. And, certainly, people use these words to describe copyright violation, all the time. So why, in this case, does everyone suddenly join the usage police? In not once place on this long page of comments do I see the usual descriptivist lament. Where are my old friends who should be popping up to explain that "stealing" means copyright violation because people use it that way?
I like Coromega brand because it can't become rancid. The oil is sealed in an air tight packet until you consume it.
We could either:

1. accept that fact, supply and demand remember?

2. pay it out of taxpayer's money, I mean, what are taxes for? War?

Or, since we are on the hypothetical subject of food materializing out of thin air ...

3. recognize that once food can be materialized out of thin air, we wouldn't need money at all to live and hence, many of us would be free to invent, compose or just to enjoy life ;-)
I'm saying obesity among America's poor is a real problem and there are studies that support that claim that come from somewhere other than a conservative think tank dedicated to keeping the rich rich and keeping the government from helping the poor.
Freelancing is generally not long term work.

The most important lesson I've learnt is the difference between freelancing, contracting, consulting, and beyond.

It is possible you are trying to be a freelancer and desiring the stability of a contractor / consultant.

You have to find long term customers who need regular ongoing work.

To do this, you'll have to do things that are closer to the creation of value in a company, rather than at the edge. For example, someone that is doable by many people is not as valuable. If you help them with strategy as well as implementation, that is value.

Many small businesses would pay $1000/month for someone for ongoing work when they cannot afford a full time person. Get 10 of them and you have steady work. This is how I started in 1999 when there were far fewer people online. The need is much greater today.

Lastly, about your point on patience, you are right. Everyone seems to want to magically reinvent their lives in 6-18 months. That happens for outliers who are willing to learn and do whatever it takes. The above advice that I've helped my own friends implement in their lives is relative to execution, dedication, patience, commitment, resilience, and remembering how you add value.

You are now a business. You have to do the work of a business whether you like it or not. The health of any business is how good it is at getting new customers, and keeping/growing existing ones. Applying this to a smaller freelancing/consultant scale is doable and quite beneficial to review regularly.

My advice would be to find opportunities where you add the highest value, and seek some sort of a monthly retainer that is affordable for the customer and meaningful for you x10.

Once there is stability, there is an opportunity to pursue prosperity. Too many people try to thrive before learning to survive, and actually make more money than they need to use for growth. It's the single biggest important lesson for business and startups.
Which is stupid if the goal is safety. A radar detector makes the user slow down for a much longer area than the sight of a cop car does.
And neovim ??
Clojure is awesome. However I don't want it to become too popular, as then those who do currently use it will lose all our magical powers if everyone has access to it :)
http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/

this url works with feedly
Yes and Haskell allows arbitrary user-defined operators. Once the genie is out of that bottle it's hard to put it back inside!
Sadly, the cause from cancer trends is not always certain (from a Beverly Hills high School in 2006):

https://latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-23-me-bevhills2...

>> As the case moved along, the city and the school district groused that Brockovich-Ellis and Masry had refused to divulge data that they said showed high levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical. The court ordered them to do so, and the numbers showed mostly normal readings.

>> The dismissals satisfied Wendy Cozen, an epidemiologist and an associate professor of preventive medicine at USC. “There’s not a lot of evidence that a standing oil well could cause Hodgkin’s or non-Hodgkin’s or thyroid cancer,” she said.
This might indeed be a problem for Irish nationals, just as the "IR35" rules affect UK contractors working through limited companies, but I can't imagine that a non-national working outside Ireland through an Irish company would suddenly be considered resident in Ireland for tax purposes.
What gripes did you run into with Signal? Most of my friends (tech or non-tech) use Signal, so I'm really curious.
Signal. That would be the main one I'd consider moving to given the overlap it already has with WhatsApp in my neck of the woods.
No.

I'm sorry, but that is a different question, and you're welcome to ask it. This type of thing is a bloody epidemic on the internet, where people will ask a question; "Do I use Atom or VS Code?" and millions of idiots will pile on saying "Just use Emacs". Aaargh! Just stick to the confines of the question! Too many discussions have gotten derailed on stack exchange, reddit, microsoft answers...nowhere is safe.

These kinds of sermonising replies would still be OK if the author first spent some time answering the question on its own merit and then talked about alternatives. Otherwise, it's preachy and irritating.
The problem with switching from Whatsapp is that it's not you alone who has to switch, it's everybody else. If you have a way to make all my family, friends and colleagues, let me know
There are actual videos of these things taking place.

Dismissing it as "conspiracy fueled guff" is dishonest.
Thanks for letting me know about Kialo.
It takes a pro-cons approach breaking things down into modular claims. What's not enough?

A claim could be A->C

Supported by separate claims:
Since A; A->B; B->C, etc?