jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You sound really upset. I don’t blame you. I started going bald in my 20s. It was heartbreaking to cut off my long hair. I truly loved it and felt strongly that it was part of my identity. The alternative, I thought, was ridiculous — a bald man with a pony tail.

Now I’m nearly 50, and if I could grow my hair back, I wouldn’t. I’ve been shaving with a trimmer once a week for 15 years now, and I adore it. It’s quick and easy. My hair is predictable and zero-maintenance. I think I still look pretty cool.

Professionally I’ve never felt the lack. When I leave one company I quickly have offers piling up for new gigs. I have a family now, but (back when it was ok to be out in public) women still hit on me.

Consider that no matter what your qualities, some people and contexts will ostracize you for them. You must instead find places and people that are acceptable to you, and accepting of you. There’s no magic here, just work and perseverance.

There are plenty of worse situations: being Black is still no picnic in the US, and plenty of other places. Being a woman is still very challenging in many places. Being poor (like, too poor to own a computer) is still the worst.

If you’ll forgive me for being blunt: if going bald is really the worst thing that’s happened to you, consider yourself to be very, very fortunate. There’s no reason to be suicidal about it. Find a therapist. Only you can improve your life, hair or no hair.
Loads just fine with uBlock Origin on FF.
Depends on the kid, and depends on when. When you were one, you might have listened to "no", but there are plenty of kids who don't. And it matters because of things like wanting to play in the street. I can't tell a one-year-old what two tons of car moving at 30 miles an hour is going to do to them. But I can train them that every time they play in the street, it hurts.

That sounds cruel. On the other hand, letting them get hit by a car is much more cruel, and not all of us have fenced front yards.

I have no problem with spanking for safety issues. But be careful, because a kid in danger triggers fear and panic in parents, and once the crisis is over, that seems to almost automatically morph into anger. Do not spank in anger, ever.
I have Medicare now after a 9 year battle.
Advantage has worked for me. I mean someone saying that to me instead of privilege.

Privilege just invokes the idea of 'fat cats' in a dark hunting lodge smoking stogies and sipping whiskey, complaining about commoners.
Would you please define that word? I can't find a definition online and I try to look up unfamiliar words to widen my vocabulary.
" On the other hand, Ziring says, the Snowden leaks have sparked other students' interest. "[They say], 'I actually know some of what you do now, and that's really cool and I want to come do that," he says."

These students scare me.
Wow. I didn't know that the UK has a censorship infrastructure.
Originally posted Gizmodo article with some discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1910533
I see it come up pretty often in passing, sort of like the scenario this looks like, although I haven't read anything from this series. Do you recommend it? I'm always looking for new sci-fi.
Don't let the facts get between you and faint praise!

Also: Common Lisp, Scheme, Erlang, SML, OCaml, Haskell, Lua, Prolog, and Java, and no doubt numerous others.

For all of the above, many (if not most) implementations compile natively.
I sit like that too, but tried not sitting like that for a while, and decided I could get a lot more comfortable if I ignored my desire to fold one leg under the other.

I've noticed the same thing in bed. My body wants to sleep on its side, but if I force myself to sleep on my back, I'm much more comfortable and sleep better. It's very odd.

(I guess it's the same as wanting to drink 24 cans of soda, eat eight pizzas, and finish it off with a slice of deep-fried chocolate cake. What leads to short-term pleasure is not necessarily what's best in the long term. brain--.)
I can't actually reach the page, however, there is established legal precedent that explicitly removes immunity from any Federal officer "just doing their job" if what they are actually doing is illegal.

This is sometimes called a "Bivens" claim; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivens
"So the danger to paste stuff at the wrong indent level is far less than in Python. "

I would argue that this is actually a feature of the language. This "danger" actually forces the programmer to read through the code he is pasting by indenting.

Also, how many pairs of source code fragments share the same variable names? This argument is quite shallow.
The convention is arbitrary (e.g. most people don't have receivers on their phones and hanging up is done by pressing down a button not by placing the receiver in a horizontal position).

If there were an obvious visual convention, the start button would not need to say "start" and the hang up button would not need to say "hang up."

That's not to say that arbitrary visual conventions can't have great utility (the alphabet being a case in point). But to illustrate the issues with graphic conventions, Quickfuse does not use the long established conventions for flowcharting. It uses natural language instead.
Interesting. This is close to the Mars Express plan, although in their model they're sending automated factories and other material ahead of time in order to build up redundancy and reserves.
Bill Gates is loving his half-retired half-philanthropist life and has all the money he would ever need. I don't believe there is a single thing that would entice him to return to Microsoft. And I'm not even sure he would be the right guy for the job.
Author of blog post here: Thanks for your lucid remarks. JavaScript certainly has its share of annoyances, but likening those to the complexity issues of C++ seems inappropriate to me.
I actually clicked on the Stormfront link, and felt stupid immediately afterward; as far as I could tell the only demand was that you were polite to other white persons. Certainly I didn't get a very strong "be nice to every poster" vibe.
Yea, most Linux distros has a package manager which provides a centralized repository of software making updates easy and requires approval before they are let in.
> all they needed was one manager who kept an eye on the state of capacitive touchscreen development and moved to lock it down before his/her counterpart

And they did move.

I was trying to create a startup based on PDAs at the early 00's (no luck, they were too expensive - the idea was flawed from day 1). There was Palm, and the two entrants: Windows and Linux. Palm had a once nice system that nobody wanted to program for anymore (accumulated too much cruft), Windows had a giant marketing campaign that made everybody hear about them (it was getting more known than Palm), but it was so bad that everybody soon learned to run away from it, and Linux got a steady monotonic growth from nowhere into almost-nowhere.
I believe DDG doesn't set a referrer for privacy reasons.
You could sum this up as, "Eat your own dog food."
Was the aspect of using YouTube's servers so critical to the artistic quality of this project that he couldn't just substitute a shell script that encodes the video 1000 times over? Would've taken a heck of a lot less time than the year he spent.
> Men (full disclosure: I am one) are so apoplectically opposed to women in positions of prominence or authority that they consider any thought or word from them as a form of unconscionable condescension and/or confrontation.

I don't know a single man personally who would come even close to that description. A significant proportion of men being like that is pretty disturbing.
Email is the easy part. Meetings and phone calls are the worst. I mean - they are if you've never done that before so often.
In defining and discussing important notions of social networks and platforms, I will borrow some ideas from the infamous
Steve Yegge
, and the one and only
Martin Kleppmann
for ideas related to “local first” data, as well as, to help the user to better understand some of the technical notions of a truly distrubuted data platform (Martin literally wrote the book on this!).
I am not so convinced by this "clash of civilizations" or "different values" rhetoric. I know this is the standard party response to many foreign criticisms of Chinese politics, but to me it comes across as a bit like the Chinese version of American exceptionalism. The recent effort to push a Chinese view of human rights[0][1] into the UN, I find to be cynical and politically motivated.

The idea that Chinese people and "Western" people are fundamentally different seems to deny the fact that humans as whole share common needs and common motivations. If China and the West have incompatible values, where does that leave other countries of the East? Does India count as the West? What about Japan or South Korea or Taiwan? What about countries in the Global South, are their values incompatible with both the West and China? Plenty of those countries have ratified ICCPR[2].

[0] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-02/22/c_139758736.htm

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/can-china-change-the-definit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civi...
Fusion in particular has never been funded in line with project requirements, we are significantly below projecting "fusion never" levels and that's exactly what we've gotten.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...

So it's different from those other projects.
This is a short version of what may be taught outside of the US.

Japan knew it had lost the war. The only question remaining were the conditions of surrender. Japan hoped that they would be able to negotiate a conditional surrender, with the help of the Soviet Union. Then the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, on August 8, 1945, by invading Manchuria, forcing Japan in accepting an unconditional surrender.

To quote wikipedia: "The Soviet entry into the war was a significant factor in the Japanese government's decision to surrender unconditionally, as it made apparent that the Soviet Union was not willing to act as a third party in negotiating an end to hostilities on conditional terms" [1]

Another quote: "The Japanese army went so far as to believe that they would not have to engage a Soviet attack until spring 1946. But the Soviets surprised them with their invasion of Manchuria, an assault so strong [...] that Emperor Hirohito began to plead with his War Council to reconsider surrender." [2]

Personally I don't think we will ever know why Japan War Council members made this decision. Even if the members were still alive, we (humans) have a tendency to rationalize decisions after the fact. Between nuclear bombs, that new war in Manchuria, loss of lives, and ultimately loss of hope, reasons to surrenders were aplenty.

US will push the US narrative, and dismiss the Soviet Union. Russia will do the opposite. I'm neither American nor Russian so I don't really care one way or the other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War

[2] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-declare-...
Spotify doesn't have something as basic as a "clone playlist" feature, so not really an option for any non-trivial playlists.
Also Gnome. Always cracked me up. Like I'd make this issue with like all the details reported and everything. ESR would have wept. And then "Does this issue still occur in Gnome 3?" and closed a week later all while I'm on vacation. Homie, this sat here for like 5 years, surely you can be a little patient.

Anyway, that taught me not to report something that's not a game-ender. Which is probably what they want too, so I guess we're all in some sort of equilibrium.
Sure. I think this is more a matter of Conway's law, or the old observation that when a company moves its headquarters, it usually makes the CEO's commute shorter.

They say that nobody on the executive team lives in San Francisco anymore, so that much seems likely to stick.
Therefore it will always be as NSFW as humanly possible.
Or get a desk you can change the height of so you can stand up when you're near it.

This app does not save you time - quite the contrary. It's a motivational, social tool - not a productivity tool. The marketing is off.
That's still evolution.

It's just a matter of changing genes to produce something new and then selecting the best outcomes. Whether the change happens randomly or because two organisms combined their DNA, is irrelevant.
The server does the "encoding", but the contents are stored on the local device (among other things, this method provides offline access almost "for free"). Think of it just like a proxy with a filter.

Since I have complete control over the HTML which is displayed in the devices, I can store the position where the reader is at just by recording an offset in the HTML code and doing some calculations with it.
Thanks for the detail insight.
True Love Waits: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead
Alive 2007: Daft Punk

These two plus the aforementioned NIN Ghosts I-IV and the Social Network score are in heavy rotation.
Going from 5k to 5M is really impressive - congrats on your sudden impressive growth!

However, the "there was no downtime" seems a bit disingenuous given my own experience signing up for the service yesterday. I received many "service unavailable" messages during signup, after clicking on the email verification link, and finally after signing up. Searching Twitter at the time for "Pinboard" showed that many other users were getting the same message (e.g. http://twitter.com/davekincaid/status/15520511979167744) ... there were many others, but unfortunately Twitter's 'older tweets' search doesn't seem to be working now.

I actually didn't care that the service was down for me even though I had just paid to sign up for it; I figured you guys were getting absolutely hammered by the unexpected news around Delicious. However, seeing your response here was surprising - either you didn't have monitoring tools set up to show you that indeed there was downtime or we have a drastically different definition of 'downtime'.
If the two species can mate it was never that big a split to begin with.

Personally I'm far more intrigued by the fact evolution can take action as quickly as a few generations if need be.
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization
An email server doesn't need concurrent connections to every possible recipient.
Device drivers are not just peripheral drivers. The baseband driver, the wifi driver, the kernel display adapter driver, the touch driver, the drivers to handle the hardware buttons, the PCH and FSB controller hubs, bluetooth drivers, bluetooth device drivers, and NFC drivers, at the least. You may also be missing accelerometer and thermometer drivers.
And, going up on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOcrXzpA0W83uyr5LX-U4...
It's not really a chicken / egg issue, and the tactical logic of fire and maneuver long predates WWII. Yes, the StG 44 was a revolutionary weapon and certainly influenced the AK and Stoner designs, but I'm not sure I buy the argument that it influenced tactics per se.

FWIW, the story I've heard behind the introduction of the 5.56 round is that it was designed to wound, not kill. Supposedly the generals in charge of doctrine in the 50's surmised that wounding Soviet soldiers would be a better way of slowing their advance across the Fulda Gap than would killing a similar number.

With regard to SLAM being a fraud -- there is indeed debate as to whether his stats about what % of men in WWII fired their weapons are accurate. However, to the extent that any of SLAM's writings influenced the rollout of the M16, it was Soldier's Load, the TLDR version of which is, "our gear is too heavy". He had a point there, and we shouldn't ignore the significance of the 5.56mm round's light weight, and not just for the M16. Being able to carry 5 drums of SAW ammo on patrol can come in handy.
Yeah, but then it has also around 10K other features, most of which you don't need. Most Java developers won't be able to become Scala masters by 2018 anyway, if at all.

On the other hand C# has even better generics than this proposal, along with await, dynamic, yield. And it's now supported by MS and Xamarin on all big platforms.
“Is it going to be OK?” I asked, my anxiety phrasing the
question. He paused on the stair, gave me a brief,
memorably odd look, then smiled. “Yes,” he said, “I
definitely think it will,”

Anxiety. Over the quality of the manuscript.
Why can't we specify how many cores we get? I'm sick of having 2GB or more of RAM and only one core. Some languages can actually saturate 4 cores and use less than 2GB of RAM while doing so. Are there any CPU core friendly VPS providers out there?
The bit about E. coli is also a bit of a scare tactic -- while E. coli outbreaks have gotten a decent amount of public press in the past decade or two, they dont even show up in the top 5 food-borne pathogens, by infection rate [1]. (They are however #5 in infections causing hospitalization.)

Most foodborne illnesses are actually caused by pathogens on fruits and vegetables [2], especially leafy ones [3]. Of course, this is not a reason to avoid eating produce. The majority of these diseases can be traced to their (human) food handlers, and fruits and vegetables are more likely to be eaten uncooked (or less cooked) than meats.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/2011-foodborne-estimates....

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/attribution-image.html#fo...

[3] http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/attribution-1998-2008.htm...
This is a shrimp treadmill if I ever saw one. [1]

[1] http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/11/13/how-a-47-...
http://alice.pandorabots.com/
That's about 105 years of a normal movie if you're going to watch one second of it completely.
Paul McCartney got the Beatles catalog back from Sony in mid-2017 [1].

[1] https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/paul-mccartney-beatles-rig...
They can add HTML in the description field.
I would prefer something like this, but for specific niches. For example I'd love something like this to upload my video game trailer too, but I don't think showcasing the game I'm building is really all that well served by your current format.

I can imagine similar examples for music
I agree that most people will want to run Ubuntu server in a VM.

I don’t agree that Multipass is the obvious default way that most people will want do this, given that Multipass is clearly aimed at local workstations for dev/testing and not actually servers.

I’m working on the assumption that “Ubuntu Server” is designed primarily for servers, and Multipass, by its own description page is categorically not designed for servers. It’s for a secondary use-case of running a test environment locally on a dev machine.

My point was that it seems strange to push a secondary use-case as the first option on the download page.

I’m not saying this is absolutely terrible, but it was just an example of some seemingly unnecessary friction being introduced.

From the Multipass info page: [0]
> “Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation”

[0] https://multipass.run
If only it didn't do its thing by extracting the containers into dotdirectories...
THANK YOU AARON!
Yup. If they can't guarantee provenance and license for reuse, then it's worthless to me.

But that's just me. YMMV.
Knew this was gonna happen. Doomed from the beginning. Should ve chosen Julia
This whole thing is hilarious to me. And kinda sad.

The narrative that this was somehow David sticking it to Goliath was laughable. A bunch of people spotted an opportunity and managed to profit from it. Good for them. But a bunch of hedge funds jumped onto the long side too.

What's more encouraging the mass buying frenzy is classic Ponzi scheme material. And shock, horror I see there's a potential securities investigation. With all the people jumping in at $300+, someone was going to sell first and everyone else would be left holding the bag.

Anyone involved in this pump and dump isn't profiting from hedge funds. They're profiting from the naive, uninformed, greedy and foolish who are jumping in on this far too late.

Likewise, the narrative that Robinhood or its owners were somehow defending hedge funds also doesn't hold water. Robinhood Instant lends money so people can buy immediately. They borrowed nearly $1B to cover these loans and the buying frenzied posed a potential existential threat to RH.

Calls for everyone to hold were equally self-serving and were never going to happen. Sufficiently large markets just don't work that way. Markets only work at all because eventually everyone acts in their own best interests.

And now we have these David wannabees sparring over movie deals.

I said at the time: this is a one-off. Hedge fund risk managers won't be caught out with so much open short interest again. I hope some of the paper millionaires cashed out and didn't ride this all the way up and then all the way down.

But encouraging other people to buy when you already own is at best ethically questionable.
Where can I read more about these hints?
As I and many privacy advocates would love people to immediately stop using Facebook for privacy-respecting alternatives, I'm afraid that the users won't leave FB, IG or WhatsApp unless the so-called 'Influencers' and their friends leave for other alternatives as they can 'influence' the 'millions' of followers to another platform.

On top of that it's difficult to convince these 'influencers' to move due to the reasons outlined on this web-page if they start to lose their followers, popularity and their money. They will crawl back to FB/IG again if this happens. Rather than target general users, they must target the influencers with millions of users.

Every major social network always had these 'influencers' using it first and their followers always jumping on it afterwards. If a privacy-respecting alternative can somehow help grow an 'influencers' reach or even make them more money without violating their privacy, they will stay and their millions of users will follow them.
> "Poverty squanders potential."

having seen this in practice, i generally buy-in to this idea but disagree that UBI is the solution (i might buy that it could be a small, targeted part of a larger solution). fix systemic inequity. give disadvantaged folks dignity and fairness. they'll do the rest.

poverty may not even be the principal problem. don't try to step in to solve their "problem" for them, especially if you have no experience. let them do it. allow opportunities, listen, but don't just give solutions.

> "...in my opinion self evidently valid, concern about an increasing number of white collar jobs being replaced by automation."

entirely not self-evident and an overblown concern, given history. humans are infinitely creative. we'll do other stuff, or even change the system, in the pursuit of esteem.
Except now your server has to handle a lot more connections.

Was recently dealing with a list of 100+ simple text fields each with unique identifying meta info.

Most usage of the form would only involve updating a few at a time, but on initial entry or a large update all of them could be updated or deleted.

A RESTful approach would have me submit 100+ individual PUT requests. However for a smaller instance of our server it would likely be affected by 100s of requests at a time and it would significantly complicate the client code to make all of these requests at a time and do the error handling for it.

It’s actually a small payload, even with 100 items, so it’s ridiculous to send them individual in order to be “correct” if it

- leads to a worse user experience.
- increases load on the server.
- complicates the codebase.