jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The psychopath question is a valid one, and I think it is unfair to dismiss it entirely, so let me address it.

There are some people who are born without empathy or morals, and they will do cruel and evil things just for kicks. I do think that prisons will exist in some capacity basically forever, but I would apply my philosophy as a software engineer to this problem as well:

- Look at other places that have a successful implementation, study how they do it.

- Copy it and adapt it to my use case.

There are prison systems that are more cruel, but there are also prison systems that are LESS cruel and get better results. Either way, we have some holes we need to plug in our own system which seems to be optimized to make the right people money while being as cruel as possible.

However, most prisoners are not psychopaths and our money would be better spent setting up programs to help people escape poverty and have a decent quality of life to make criminal behavior less attractive. A lot of criminal activity emerges as a by-product of poverty. Illegal drugs and all of the crime that goes along with that [0] would be remediated if people were not so desperate to escape poverty. Additionally crimes associated with vagrancy [1] would be remediated.

0: ( Such as territory conflicts leading to violence, selling the illegal drugs on the street, etc. )

1: ( bike theft, sleeping in illegal places, trespassing, drug possession )
Most of them aren't experts in sociobehavioral psychology who write books on this particular subject.
Thank you!

We plan to support the CSS prefers-reduced-motion media query, so you won't see the animation if you get motion sickness easily. And we'll probably add a manual toggle as well.

As for retention length, we plan to add an option for extending it past 24 hours. And thanks for the tip about making it clearer that files are only stored for 24 hours upfront.
Russia-Ukraine might be closer.
I agree with the first 3 statements.

Just to confirm, I am using 'almost surely' in the technical sense, which means 'with probability 1.'

Consider the following statement:

If you keep flipping a fair coin every day, it is almost sure that after some day you will have gotten a tails.

This is the same 'almost surely' that I am referring to.
It's still a risky business model, since in certain fraud cases it will be left holding the bag for chargebacks if it has released the money to a fraudster but they don't have a revenue stream proportional to the payment amount to cover whatever percentage of the transactions are fraudulent.
The (possible) irony is that ClubHouse uses Agora behind the scenes to power its real-time audio. that’s a Chinese company based in Mainland China. I’d be careful if I was them. The double irony is that I believe Agora is blocked behind TGF.
I'm also incredibly confused as to how so many publications are clinging onto advertising revenue even for members paying hundreds of dollars annually.

A customer rep for The Economist confirmed they also do not remove ads and actually suggested I just install an ad blocker!

As far as I can tell, even the WSJ (which costs over $450 a year!!!) does not remove ads for subscribers.

The only publications I'm aware of that remove ads are The New York Times and The Guardian.
Here is the current status of the page:
"I hadn't expect this to become so popular."
With title: "The End"

Hope page will comeback online soon.
Cool tool! One thing I really hate about it (in an entirely exaggerated way) is how the stupid filters reset themselves every few seconds if you're in live mode.
As he suggests, it is helpful to have life goals that are more modest than saving the world, but more idealist than just making money.

Here's a not bad measure of life success: after you retire, how many Christmas cards will you get each year?
The American news I follow covers these things. Maybe you need better sources of news.
I think the one on the left looks more like images in chain e-mails/newspapers. Those are clearly designed that way to attract a certain demographic.

Some people will definitely find the left one more appealing. That is why it's important to know which demographics you want to target.
Maybe because of anchoring?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Currently: registered media type with IANA. Eventually we'll pursue an IETF RFC.
haha. That was the joke I was trying to reference.

-> make reference to ancient looking ui, gets downvoted.
You got my interest because the Nth week of every month seems to be reliably bad/depressing for my partner. But I'm not sure what to expect if I subscribe. Have you thought to add a list of things that a subscriber might expect? (I particularly don't want flowers or confections - durable things would be more in line with my value system.)
Right, it's either a trivial merge when you commit the transaction, or it's a conflict (i.e. two transactions updated the same attribute of the same entity).

There's no automatically fixing a conflict so the second transaction fails. Since there's full isolation that's pretty standard optimistic locking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic_locking

In most cases the transaction would succeed if it was automatically retried.
http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=2e3e4e5e6e7u8s8h8z... Making things not only auditory appealing but visually appealing also. This one has some interesting patterns.
Residual rates sold through Google AdSense are frequently below $0.50 CPM.
After my attempt at compiling ChromeOS ended in failure I installed a Hexxeh vanilla release on a 2yr old Intel Atom based PC. And I have to admit, I liked it, a lot more than I thought I would. Here are some of my thoughts:

- It irks me quite lot that I need to use a Google account to log into the OS. If they remove that restriction it'll go a long way to alleviating the Google-creepiness.

- In the Hexxeh release I used Flash was not enabled by default, I had to click a warning message to use Flash on every page, I assume this is fixed by now

- There is no user-exposed filesystem and no way to install apps (without hacking in a console). There is no software, desktop, icons, home folders... nothing. You totally get this feeling of using an Operating System-Free computer.

- The version of Chrome browser that gets installed maybe wasn't the latest but it certainly does feel fast enough to use, especially on a slow system. Chrome browser on ChromeOS is significantly faster than IE on Windows on the same system.

- HackerNews displays with a serif font presumably because PG doesn't have a 'sans-serif' alternative font in the HN codebase.

- I have a very strong urge to minimize the browser and see the desktop.

- The browser does not have a full-screen mode. If you want to watch a youtube video, there is no way to maximize the video, the tabs and URL bar are always visible. I found this to be extremely annoying and hopefully gets added.

- The browser needs to have a tab split-screen mode. I need to be able to look at 2 or more windows simultaneously, and the modal restriction gets on my nerves.

- To my surprise both audio and my webcam worked, although I had some boot up issues when the webcam was plugged into the USB port, but I could plug it in once it was booted up

There are some major usability problems here, but if they get addressed it could become quite cool. I would totally enjoy having this built into my next television or monitor.
Or, perhaps, Reagan spun a mythology of tax cuts, then actually increased taxes (to his credit, it was in response to a "burgeoning deficit") in his last years in office:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/08/news/economy/reagan_years_ta...
Also, here's the "unofficial official" Who's Hiring account:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

Hopefully the person behind it will also add "Remote" to the regular list.
There are a number of escrow services available for Bitcoin transactions. https://clearcoin.appspot.com/ for example.
and Hollywood isn't the only place where movies are made
One of my favorites. The quote "Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" has stuck with me since middle school.
Ooh - that is a great thought. I was wondering if that could be a part of it. Anything else?
Please do name drop. In this case I would consider it a matter of citing your work, and gives me the opportunity to support the projects mentioned if I think they're worthwhile.
there's a lot of talk here about teacher/school standardization but I dont see any talk of what that standardization is, only whos at fault. students dont do poorly in school because the information to learn isnt there or even because its not encouraged by the students parents (speaking of the us education system). students fail at school because of how much its geared to teach square pegs when many students arent a square peg.

sure some teachers may teach for square pegs while others teach for round pegs but the students dont get the option of attending the class for round pegs instead of the square peg class. instead the student is thrown into a teachers class and has to conform to however that teacher wants to structure and grade the class. class A may be graded mostly on tests while class B may be mostly on homework and even still class C may be a mix of both homework and tests. then other teachers like to throw artifacts such as attendance to skew the grade even more.

finally theres the problem of subjects that people just arent good at or dont care for because they provide little real world use. subjects such as history or soke more advanced english or math. these turn into something that a student is not only forced to attend and contribute to but also be judged on.

for a personal anecdote and one of ky sources of critisms, when I was a freshman in high school I was in an algebra class and aced both finals with the highest grade in the class while getting A's and B's on all of my tests. one thing I never did though was the homework (I turned in maybe two homework assignments the entire year). end of the year comes and I fail the class because I didnt turn in the homework and I had a habit of sleeping in the class.

to top off all of that there are teachers who just suck and/or dont get along with certain students. teachers who are condescending to soke students or try to keep students in class during lunch. its not a teachers job to punish kids in any way. if the student is disruptive to the class then they should dismiss the student from the class and have the school take care of problem students.
And here's a working link to another site's reprint of the original:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227456-Have-you-ever-print...
Are you suggesting that a privacy leak is a concern only for those who have something to hide?
Very nice tool. I expect to use it, and happily pay for it.

I like subtle, minimalist design, and the look grabbed me. But I also have somewhat diminished vision, and I had to blow the page up a lot to read it.
Why not keep it on App Engine permanently so you don't have to worry about it going down again?
It would be great if each book came with a hierarchy of summaries. A 1000-page book would have a 100 page summary, a 10 page summary, a 1 page summary, and a single paragraph summary. Whatever the right factor is: 3, 5, 8, or 10. If you like any given part, you can go down that branch and read the details.
One way to think of this is that if you are a regular employee of a company, you are 100% dependent on them for your work, but you also have a lot of things taken care of for you (one hopes). If you have a startup, but it's heavily dependent on some platform, you are maybe not completely dependent on them in the same way, but less independent than if you had your own infrastructure. There's sort of a continuum here.
Should and will are different questions. He also may be able to pardon himself depending on whose interpretation of the law you believe.

If a prosecution is possible it will be up to Biden as to what to do. At very least I think everything his administration did should be carefully investigated, documented, and put in a museum as a warning.

If he is pardoned he will probably be at war in the state of New York for the rest of his life.
Has been a few years, but War and Peace takes indeed one extreme position in that debate. That's in the whole book, including the chaos of the battles. It's a great perspective, thanks for citing it here.
Additionally, expert engineers can better define the problem space to begin with. Some engineers can get things done and evaluate tradeoffs well, but end up solving the wrong problem.

Expert engineers have the ability to think about a problem in a broader context than the engineering problem at hand.
> and (C) US payment method is required, which kind of defeats the entire point. Good try though.

You... are aware that the primary market for USD-denominated gift cards is US residents, right?
... are you assuming the US = world?

Uber didn’t get a monopoly... and there are a bunch of competitors in lots of different countries. And Uber is paying for this with epic losses every year... where is the anti trust?
I will be honest as long apple keeps this walled garden shenanigans going. I am not buying any of their hardware.
How is a bunch of unarmed people a coup? Yeah, storming the Capitol is a little concerning, but nothing's going to happen. The people that run that side are sheltered urban liberals and don't have the slightest clue as to what it would take for a US coup.
Because "YouTube" has a meaning for regular people, while "x264" doesn't.
If you want to focus on muscle size, then more reps is definitely optimal.

However, that's not quite everything when considering "muscle strength"

We also have to consider neurological adaptations that make it easier to use more of the existing muscle at once to increase power output.
I'm with you, and it sucks and is very nerve-wracking to have the wrong expectations going into an interview. Having said that, my reaction to that would have been more like "oh good, I'm glad they're also interested in what I know about a bunch of other stuff, I was afraid they just wanted me to be the HTML, CSS, and JS guy". Specialization is a good thing, but I prefer jobs where I'm hired because they think I'll be generally useful to the company, perhaps on things they haven't even foreseen working on yet, rather than for a really narrow role.

A farther flung interview suggests an interest in hiring a person rather than a set of skills.
almost entirely unrelated but I would love some way to play Synth Riders with AR goggles instead of VR. On expert/master levels a good song is a serious aerobic workout but I can't do more than 1-2 songs at a time because sweating in VR sucks. Heck, probably just standing in front of a polarized 3D display with polarized 3D glasses and VR motion controllers would work. I find it extremely fun and would be happy to do it as a workout.
Not possible? I think you mean that it's painful.

And it is, and I sympathize, but you and your family will not die or starve. It's possible.

I'm fed up an will remove fb and wa from my phone, at least. It will be painful
There's another facet to this which I think is far more important that OP question of "What [exactly] does mastery 'look like'?".

The more important question is "how do you cultivate mastery?" How does your organization get to a place where people can develop mastery instead of the organization trying to create it instantly by hiring "the right people"? Regardless of what people may claim, hiring is not a solved problem. It's _really_ hard to identify candidates that are true masters at what they do (let alone getting them to quit their job and join your team).

By the same token, it's also _really_ hard for true masters to find a place that understands their value and, more importantly, will allow them to do their thing and provide career satisfaction. A lot of talented people are locked out of jobs because someone thought their career trajectory wasn't quite right/impressive.

Training and mentorship, however, are better understood and have lower stakes. It makes me think of Bell Labs. I know a couple folks who worked there who had very "unimpressive" backgrounds, they started as techs but rubbed elbows with stellar talent in a place that cultivated discovery and collaboration. Over time while there and in other places they were able to rise to principal design engineers, beyond what many who went to elite universities achieve. They credit their formative years in Bell labs with getting them started on their career path.

The thing is, Bell Labs didn't have an epically selective hiring process, nor was the compensation insanely high. They provided an environment that _attracted_ people with mastery and those who were passionate about what they do, they developed talent within their walls rather than trying to merely buy it or find it.

This was for electrical engineers, but the same ideas can apply to software engineers.
No gesture typing, unfortunately. I miss that feature from GBoard, whenever I try an open source one.

Yes, ASK has it, but it is not at all smart about figuring out what word I mean if I happen to not start my gesture on the exactly right starting letter.
> While none of his objections had any legal merit, what exactly is scary in principle about using the law as it written to contest the results of an election?

But that's not what happened. What really happened was that Donald Trump and his lawyers repeatedly committed perjury and barratry by deliberately filing cases that were either false or meaningless.

Any petitioner acting in good faith needs their day in court.

There are already penalties in law for people who attempt to abuse the court system for their own benefit and these penalties need to be applied with maximum force to the Trump administration and their legal "professionals".
The ability to master complexity.

A master will be able to understand the relationship between systems so he can reduce combinatorial possibilities and reduce complexity to a minimum.

In other words, a master will not shoot herself in the foot.
She will also not let others shoot themselves in the foot.

Then, depending on what you do, you will need technical ability:
-Understanding basic physics or economics or whatever you interface with your software.
-Understanding of low level systems (assembler and C)
-Understanding of different paradigms(objects, functional)
-Understanding of very High level systems (Lisp, Haskell)
-Understanding of serialization(parsing and binary)
-Understanding communications.
-Understanding data handling.
-Understanding interfaces(like command line, desktop or Web).
-Understanding standards.

But this depends on the particular work you need or want to do. You will be stronger or weaker in different areas.

But complexity handling is common to any area in engineering.
Some SE/30's are upgraded SE's; these typically feature the original HD and floppy drive. I own one of these, though I upgraded those components in the late 90's.
That message is self-inconsistent, but not actually that unusual. A key plank of religious tolerance is people peacefully accepting they are governed by, potentially, literal heretics. Or religious crazies in the case of the atheists.

It is possible to simultaneously believe that the election results are illegitimate and to live peacefully in society. It requires a bit more mental flexibility than I like to give myself, but there is precedent.

The call to action (go home with love & in peace) trumps the frame.
https://zom.im/zomenglish.html

https://duckduckgo.com/?q="zom"+messaging
> Social network effects create monopolies on free speech.

Absolutely. Many people want to talk in the public (or at least town) square, which trends strongly towards a few providers (where everybody is), which establishes de facto global free speech limits via those provider's policies.

And "moving to another service" isn't a feasible redress.

Do we want to live in a world where conservatives only read ConservaPedia, and liberals read LibPedia? Or one where they're exposed to each other's ideas and share some facts?

>> the first amendment only applies to the government for a reason. [...] The number of people you can reach by shouting in a town square isn't very high, that's why the government can allow any kind of crank to do it. If you can reach millions...bad things would happen.

I'll assume that's the reason you were referring to? If so, we disagree on the intent of the First Amendment.

I don't think it's about audience reach, so much as relative power: government has historically had controls not available to private companies.

Yet in modern times, Facebook / Twitter / Youtube have as much or more control over their platforms, which are as bigger or bigger than the largest First Amendment-covered venue.

So while Facebook or Google can't send the FBI to your door, they can effectively disappear your idea / product from their ecosystems, and there are very few checks on that power, particularly when ranking algorithms are allowed to be shielded from public scrutiny.
Even if the choice was between quality of life now and addressing climate change you haven't made a convincing argument for why maintaining peoples quality of life as it is now is worth risking a mass extinction event in the future.

That being said I see no reason why doing any of the things mainstream scientists and economists are calling for would in any way diminish anyone's quality of life. If anything it will improve quality of life at the very least by reducing air pollution and it will prevent drastic reductions in quality of life in the coming decades from the effects of unchecked global warming.

I really don't know where this crap even comes from. Like we get x amount of energy from fossil fuels. Therefore we must reduce energy usage by that much? Do you think that's what we're advocating for?
What if FB came up with this response based on the data from German and French users?
Internecine Swedish politics are becoming their own circle of hell on Hacker News.

> Asbestos suit ready. Flame on.

Please don't do this here. I don't just mean talking blithely about flamewars, but conducting them at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087694 and marked it off-topic.
Can't.

The crux of working inside the .NET ecosystem is that you need to ignore roughly 90% of it if you want to build anything complicated. Specifically, you have to ignore the 90% of .NET that you'll learn in "Teach Yourself To Build Terrible Intranet Websites with ASP.NET in 21 days".

Those books will tell you about how to drag and drop controls onto a page. Don't do that. They'll tell you about all these cool <ASP:whetever> rich usercontrols. Don't use those (except Repeater and Literal). They'll tell you about Ajax.NET. Definitely don't use that. They'll tell you about the terrible built in ORM garbage that's lurking in VS.NET that you absolutely need to stay away from if you want your thing to stand up in the face of traffic.

Nobody has yet written the book that teaches you the parts of ASP.NET to use. It's a shame, since most of us have stumbled across the same set of amazingly powerful libraries on our own, and are building really cool stuff with them. But nobody has published that list.

Maybe when I get some time I'll do so. Until then, you're going to need to learn .NET by using it. Stay away from anything you can accomplish with wizards or by drag/drop, and you'll do OK.
It’s not Waffle House, so it’s not time to panic yet.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/if...
Or someone else making a mistake like in F2 recently where a crash lead to a death and severe injuries. Car that slammed (survived) into car that stopped (dead) at 300kph had zero seconds to react. Full speed over a blind crest into a stopped car.

But if you don’t go full speed over a blind crest, you won’t be in even the top 10.

Takes a special kind of person.
It might be good to keep "influenza" in the title. I assumed this was about COVID-19.