jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Someone in his position could do so many things on our little blue dot itself to help those in need.

The entire article boils down to this one tired old argument.

And in the case of Musk, while Teslas don't help people in need directly, the adoption of electric cars and other electric transportation will help the entire world population by reducing air pollution and climate change.

So, whynotboth.jpg.
> I know programmers are insulated and have a very warped view of the world

look in the mirror.

most businesses aren't giant megacorps owned by folks with yachts.

and, hell, the megacorps? large chunks of them are owned by folks without yachts, too.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/holders?p=AAPL

this sort of hyperbolic rage only makes understanding and improving things harder.
To Photoshop?
Yeah, if you could delete it so I can resubmit that would be cool - "conversation" badass skills are imoprtant but not really the point :)
Sorry, I should've mentioned that I'm an OS X user :)

With that said, I've had a look-see in Skype's .plist and its various Application Support files, but oddly there's nothing "grep'able" to be found anywhere...
It's kinda sad... but I've actually done exactly that before.
Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche are more than just restaurant owners. They're innovators in the truest sense of the word.
Because increasing benchmark speed provides no business value (assuming your business isn't self-promotion, getting into flamewars, etc).

There's a extremely well known saying that speaks to this issue, goes something like "Preoptimiztion is root of all evil."
If you folks have any feedback that you'd like to pass on about CGL, we'd love to hear it.
> when everyone has had a chance to be vaccinated

If that happens before a mutation spreads which renders the vaccines useless. And, seeing the pace at which vaccination is progressing in poorer countries, I'm not really optimistic about that. On the other hand, there is still hope that the vaccine will at least keep you from getting seriously sick if you get infected with a vaccine-resistant strain...
Maybe its mentioned in one of his earlier comments on this platform.
> ecto as a library for validations is far more successful at encouraging separation of concerns than I've seen in other CRUD webdev ecosystems.

Which other ecosystems have you tried?

Just asking because with Python and WTForms they've kept validations separate from your model for the last ~10 years.

You could for example create "sign up", "sign in" and "profile" forms based off a single user model and each form has its own fields that you can define with their own validations. Very similar to how you can create separate changesets with Ecto and use a single user schema.
I am not going to risk runaway costs in hope that Amazon "might" cancel it.

Though, apparently population both caring about it and avoiding Amazon as result would pay less than cost of implementing it and not refunded income from catastrophic runaways.
Yes why? Doesn't it?
It’s a Dopamine (mostly) and slight Serotonin re-uptake inhibitor. In the most basic explanation, more of those two things makes you feel good about whatever it is you are doing. It’s euphoric in it’s onset.

If you play games with this daily you will need to believe that all hard work should be primed with a natural feeling of euphoria.
Good idea. If the top cities are full, build more top cities.
I cannot make an expert assessment myself but for one thing mysql is occasionally picked precisely because of its HA story.

It was the case in a couple past jobs of mine, back then I didn't particularly appreciate it but now I might see it with different eyes.

Also commercial databases do have a better HA story - at least that's their reputation.

The current status quo is that everything should be free, but obviously that has a fundamental contradiction with being a professional software developer in the first place.
Oh good point. I didn't know that was possible. Could I have another FB identity attached to the number i use for WhatsApp, you think? I signed up before it was bought. I may have even paid 0.99 or something like that, i forget.

I checked my phone # with the above site and it came up clean.
This story was discussed on HN a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438828#up_4439503
I think you are 100% right. The author didn't say it, but that's exactly what they want to do. They're even buttering it up... You know what the difference will be between WebX and WebGL when they release it: that it's NATIVE! You can smell it coming.
The new version of Silverlight gives you GPU access to the GPU via a subset of XNA, as they do on XBLA and I think WP7. So yeah, you're spot on. They won't implement WebGL until they give up on Silverlight, which may be never.
I use GNU screen sessions for that.

Also, I use Textmate as 'mate .' in a terminal to open projects, with a global configuration making my TM workflow/workspace stateless (no tab bar, heavy use of cmd+T).
Wouldn't that be introducing a globalized single point of failure?
Crashed mobile safari on my original iPad.
More like a less gloomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain
An interesting piece of research could be if Google actually takes the top sites content into account when it ranks other sites? You say your site has been there for a decade, I wonder if it takes how you did your site as a "defacto" for any new sites coming in?

I know it could only be 1 of a 1000 factors but I wonder if this is true.

For example, I wonder if it uses context etc from Wikipedia and such to rank other sites around it. i.e. takes content and their context to rank them? So its not only down to links and content but how you use that content in relation to other sites?

In this intance, maybe you became the defacto and you went against your own rules. Does that make sense or even sound feasible?
Honestly, if you can't handle developing for different systems with minor different bugs that you have to work around, I think development is not the thing for you. It's like people expect things to be perfect and they whine and moan if they have to do a little extra work because it's not. Get out in the real world of non-computer engineering and product development and you have to deal with all sorts of non-ideal situations, and people just deal with it.
Love the idea. nice work.
I wouldn't make it the only upload method, but I highly recommend it at least as an option. And with 25 million users, there's a good chance a lot of your new users already have Dropbox, especially within the early adopter crowd.
Their online store is, sadly, paleolithic. I tried to get some for a Grand Canyon trip, and it should be noted that when they say it might be 3 weeks before the maps are printed, they mean it. And if you call to check on the order, you're likely to find that it's been thrown over the wall to the printing department and nobody who answers the phone can answer a question. And if you'd like to cancel the order, it's too late because it's been thrown over the wall.

Great maps, lousy customer service, unfortunately :-(
We will see, I'm hopeful. Good luck to the people in Poland and everywhere else as well of course!
Which gov is 'our gov'? Can you cite that report?
Thanks for this! I've just been refusing to use it
> get tattoos because they want to remember something or because they like the aesthetics of it. [...] Breaking your legs or enlarging your breasts is done [...] to appeal to some beauty standard

So... Because they like the aesthetic? Some people also get tattoos because they want to look tough, or fit into a certain crowd. You can find unhealthy and healthy expressions of both tattoos and cosmetic surgery. I doubt very much that you have firm numbers that one is far more likely than the other to be a healthy expression of aesthetics.
Subscriber for several months, imo one of the few newsletters that's actually insight-rich. I learn something new and fascinating in each one, thank you for working on it!
Isn't "backbone" hyperbole?
Software is not a zero-sum game, so yes it's not just pessimistic. It's wrong.
> If you had a program that let you author your sprites under the same conditions, but let you preview an upscaled version

Combine Atwood's law with a proposed law of mentioning ideas on HN being implemented shortly thereafter and there may be a HTML5+JS implementation popping up as a "Show HN" soon.
You don't have to have them completely fleshed out. But you do have to have them fleshed out to the type level. The Haskell compiler can be an invaluable aid in fleshing out the design of problems. Especially when they are complex difficult to wrap your head around.
At a minimum twice a day, which I don't think is that unusual for most people e.g a chicken sandwich for lunch and chicken with some kind of side for dinner.

Cutting down to once a day i.e. having a vegetarian lunch, might not sound like much but it's harder than you'd expect. Most restaurant versions of a vegetarian option is a meat dish minus the meat e.g. a sandwich with just lettuce and perhaps one tomato slice. Finding a vegetarian option that's tasty and filling can be challenging (though comes with a good consequence of forcing you to discover new places to eat).

I'm sure this is much easier if you work someplace with a good catered lunch option.
@DougBTX: Technically, there are 2 scaling levels. There's 1x for normal screens and 2x for retina. If you want one of the intermediate resolutions, it will actually render at 2x, then scale down.
I subscribe to headspace, have been for about two months now. I find it extremely helpful. There are a wealth of different programs with different areas of focus, and about a years worth of content with daily use. I highly recommend it.
I wish I could vote this up many many times. Code first EF for c# is much nicer IMO.
I mean no. It looks very wrong to me to think that art's primary purpose is to be examined. Am I the only one?
I'm confused. The article says that it's important that I do this, because my "data exhaust" is going to be the future currency of the web. In exactly what way? They never explain how I'm supposed to use this currency to benefit from anything. I can only assume they mean that it's someone else's currency that they can use for their benefit, which I couldn't care less about.

Also, I already migrated my Delicious data -- to pinboard.in -- where the emphasis is on anti-social bookmarking. I just want to have a great way to archive and organize my bookmarks and access them on the most devices with the least difficulty in doing so and maybe have a few great features like saving cached copies of the web pages I bookmarked and doing fulltext search of the entire contents of the pages I've bookmarked. I couldn't really care less about my bookmarks being used for everyone else's benefit.
>A typical open source experience for me (some 90% of cases) is I download a package, compile it, and it doesn't compile. Something is missing or it can't handle the latest version of the OS, or there is some library with the wrong version.

This, and a bit more, is what I'm hoping can be eliminated here.

As to the rest of it, I guess I never got far enough to find out. I hope it's not always true :( I don't see the point of voting you down either, if it's true it's true.
He doesn't even mention the most important part in the video:

"Testing in our workshop demonstrates that the 1.25” titanium bow survives a 48” bolt cutter attack and that sawing is extremely difficult and time consuming due to the ‘springy’ nature of the titanium bow at a third the weight of a common U-lock."
First, as others point out, there are several devices with either the same (or very similar) versions of the ti omap chipset running 4.4.

Secondly, I purchased a Galaxy Nexus from Google in late April, 2012 with the understanding that it would receive updates for at least 2 years. That is why I was very disappointed when it was not eligible for an update that arrived less than 18 months after I purchased it.

It is truely sad that a perfectly good phone is essentially e-waste, and cannot be used due to this bug.
Many people (myself included) don't trust Drobox, so being able to handle my data myself is regarded as a plus.

(having Condoleezza Rice on the board is just _one_ obvious reason not to trust them)
You should do that. I do that, and it's the only way to go through airports unchallenged I think, that and wearing a suit
That is likely to be the actual importance of Ara: Not configurable hardware, because hardly anyone re-configures their hardware, but rather software that can be configured to a much wider range of hardware.
The problem isn't the change. History has shown time and again that we can deal with that. The problem is the rate of change. The industrial revolution took generations to really complete, and even so it was kind of rough in places. These changes are coming much, much faster.

We need to find something between accepting mass poverty and creating a total welfare state which, even if it works economically, will be a disaster for human happiness. People need to feel productive, useful and self-reliant. What that is, I don't know.

I'm encouraging my kids to become technocrats, like me.
Mailbox

I like how easy it is to manage my email by archiving it or snoozing until later. This keeps email out of my way during the day because it only alerts me when I tell it to.
> For example, they were done for using Google Street View cars to slurp WiFi information, so now they just use Android devices to do it for them.

What? Street View problems were not about slurping SSID, MAC and geolocaction from wifi's, but because of capturing snippets of broadcasted data.

They still use Google Street cars to geolocate wifi's.

> Manufacturers have to have this enabled by default if they want Gmail and the Play Store on the device.

Source for that?

> and even worse, if you agree to that for one device you have to agree to not release any Android devices which do not have those things, thus removing the ability for the market to decide

Source for that?
I don't think the culpability problem is that hard to solve... Surely all that would really change is when buying a new car, you are purely insuring the vehicle and not the person! The whole notion of "no claims discount", or sexist/ageist insurance rules would become obsolete.

And the vehicle manufacture would only be considered "at fault" if the vehicle fails safety regulations.

The only time the consumer (driver) would be at fault is if they tampered with the vehicle, or entered it knowing it was damaged.
3. It's a PR stunt.

It invites people who don't care much for Tesla or the vehicle itself to share the video, it softens the seriousness and tension of a launch, and it helps to humanise the brand and the presenter.
>people driving it have no idea what they are doing + have no need for that capacity.

Presumptuous to assume the operators of these vehicles don’t have the need for the capacity. My next door neighbor has 3 kids that fit in 3 car seats she carts them around all day not to mention their accessories and shopping and I always thought she needed a bigger vehicle.
SUVs fare better in a collision with a smaller car, when it comes to protecting your kids you are better off riding in a tank.
What point is there in knowing the answer to a mystery, if one can’t allude to it in the slightest? :)
Ok, strike "fired" from the list. Maybe. It's still a concentration of power and the same rules apply. Attractive at first, but then it goes sour when the people with concentrated power start using it for their own ends.
Let's be careful not to conflate "any aggression" with "psychopathic violence". The values at clash in past conflict are sometimes very human values, rather than manifestations of psychopathic anti-social mechanisms. (safe example: USA joining war against Germany)

Though I'm sure the complexities of conflict make for a mixed bag of such overlapping actors and rationales...!

I'm prepared to walk this thought back btw.
The original essay was written in a time when the concept of a social media celebrity was unheard of.

That said, as Twitter is now shilling paid newsletters, I'm sure they'd prefer 1000 users targeting a follower base of 1000 followers, instead of say 100 users targeting a base of 100k followers.
Yeah... but oddly they could still impose their own taxes.
Scary, how much of what we are currently experiencing, was already blueprinted in may...
OK, so you still use Reddit?
But that doesn’t make any sense. We’re not talking about physical hardware we’re talking about tiny tiny slices of it. When VMs are the logical isolation boundary in your infra they get really small — 512 MB is a lot of memory for a single purpose server.
I will never understand people who think a bastion host or "jump box" is a good idea. I've seen so many companies that have experienced extended downtime because they had an issue and it also broke their jumpbox - so nothing could be fixed until their bastion host was fixed. Plus, the companies I've bought that used bastion hosts ended up having the worst security on the jumpbox machine because it's a "set it and forget it" machine that isn't normally treated like a production server. I've seen bastion hosts that had root kits for years and nobody noticed because they never really logged in to look around at the bastion host itself.

I've never understood the appeal, nor have I seen anyone do it well, honestly. It seems to get mentioned in all of these novice and semi-pro SSH related articles as a good idea and just makes my eye twitch when I see it.
TIMELINES:

Barbary Slave Trade 1500–1800

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade

Atlantic Slave Trade 1500-1800

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

Abolition of Slavery from Britain 1807 and 1833

The Abolition of Slavery in Britain happened in 1807 making illegal to purchase slaves from Africa and then in 1833 stopping slavery in the Caribbean.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Aboli...
Unfortunately this is why I've given up on investing anything more in stocks or crypto. Everything I invested since before COVID is down.

My coinbase account currently has only 34% of the value I put into it 2 years ago, and I spread my investment over the top 5 hot currencies at that time (ethereum, cardano, algorand, sushi, bitcoin).

My stock investments are doing better at 65% of what I invested (tech, engineering, infra, pharma). Most are doing ok (down about 10%) but one in particular has absolutely tanked even though their pharma products are doing great and they've got two promising drugs in clinical trials. It's value has gone down 65% in the last year.

People will tell you to do you DD but the simple fact is, you can't. The market doesn't operate on any type of logic, a cat can do as well as a stock broker at picking stocks, and huge investment firms only win out in aggregate because they can (usually) absorb gigantic losses.

Right now I'm "bag holding" for the foreseeable. I consider these things "back pocket lottery tickets" that might one day give me a small win. But for the future I'm maxing out my pension and saving enough to buy a rental property, because one thing that has never dipped through boom and bust (at least where I live), is rent.

Edit: I lie, part of my TC is stock, so wherever I work, I am "investing in them" too
But is that really daylight saving time though, or the fact that we just have more hours of daylight in the summer?

I can't speak for your psyche (and you may well be a naturally early riser), but we know that having to wake up earlier decreases a lot of people's sleep overall, and that is also not good for mental health.
I was under the impression that certain functions required by uBlock Origin still weren't available even though Apple embraced WebExtensions. I may be wrong.
We will need a cosmic vacuum cleaner one day.
Marriage is a privilege?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia#Decision
I know some people who have concealed-carry permits and claim to carry whenever they're not at work.
I'm not surprised - I know of at least 3 companies that were abusing the free tier -- running thousands or 10s of thousands of simultaneous dynos on free and keeping them awake.

Honestly, its kind of amazing they let it go on this long.
Are you implying that private corporations are more motivated to take advantage of their employees for profit, rather than just trying to keep them happy and productive? I doubt tech companies care much about the profits from these endeavors to risk losing employees through shenanigans. The motivation for both private and military seems to me to just keep happy, committed employees who will be productive for the cause.
If you don't want to log in with Facebook, you can see a screenshot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nn263vixavwve2o/Screen%20Shot%2020...

It's pretty straightforward. Put your to-dos that should be done everyday (routines). When it's done, mark it. The page gets cleared after midnight. Your history is recorded but not shown yet (future plan). It's possible to set the timezone.
The use of p-values with a research design like you are describing worries me:

'The garden of forking paths: Why multiple comparisons can be a problem, even when there is no \ shing expedition" or "p-hacking" and the research hypothesis was posited ahead of time '
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...
Why is this headline phrased as a question?
I hope Amy Walgenbach will be talking at that event.
Except the mechanic for voting down (dimming out the comment) remains.

Also, my experience is that the down votes are usually countered. Good comments get a good number of points.

By removing points from comments, you've made points worthless for determining comment value. In that way, having them is pointless.
I upvoted this. My own opinion. I don't know how many other
silent readers agree, but hopefully I can know soon.

Building on your idea: why not also have the downvote count revealed after pressing up/down/pass? That way we can also know more than the net score tells us.
I kind of like hiding the points for active threads, maybe after 24 hours it could show the points. This would be helpful when
users != customers
I like the concept. It gives normal people a chance to invest in start up companies that might not justify angel or VC investment.

My only concern is that your typical person cannot properly evaluate the risk of a start up company (which is why the "accredited investor" classification exists with the SEC). There is risk of people investing in things they don't understand.
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I think the point is no data collection: only targeting based on stuff you explicitly enter on a clearly indicated form.
Internet stores are surprisingly bad (for whatever reason) at pricing international shipping competitively.

Small businesses are stuck with what the big shippers charge for international shipping (and shipping in general). You basically don't qualify for negotiated rates with the shippers until you are spending five figures minimum per month for shipping, and you don't qualify for good shipping rates until you're spending six figures minimum per month. We ship enough with FedEx to have a dedicated rep, and even then are international discounts are minimal (although our domestic discounts are sizable).