jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Or maybe just let people find whatever mental state they prefer, and if their work output is sufficient to justify their salary, fuck right off with telling other adults that they must remain sober at all times.

Set rational expectations. The on call people need to remain sober, as well as anyone operating or maintaining critical infrastructure or machinery. If you're dealing with the public, you should probably be mostly sober. If you're doing data entry requiring precision, you probably shouldn't be doing 5 grams of mushrooms, but a few beers or a little weed might get you in the zone and make the work enjoyable.

If someone produces excellent output while a little drunk or high, or maybe they like to trip for inspiration, or they take a second Adderall to plow through a project, that should be a decision up to the worker and their doctor.

Set behavioral expectations for respectful workplaces, but let's not pretend that a sober, unaltered state of mind is the one and only appropriate condition for all work situations. Fetishizing sobriety and stigmatizing altered states are anti-human ideas.

I've worked at high level isp positions and many of the top engineers - CCIE level - were working while high as fuck. They did excellent work, but could get a case of the giggles at silly things. Management knew and would ignore it unless someone behaved inappropriately. Altering your state of mind is not a sin - behaving badly is not an inevitable consequence of drug use. Drug use is not always behaving badly.
This is how programming generally feels to me. I love having written a useful / interesting tool or function, but sometimes getting started is like pulling teeth.
It seems like there must be something lost between Google and its contractors, because Google already doesn't have a policy against discussing wages and compensation, as evidenced by the crowdsourced salary and comp spreadsheet that's been going around for almost a decade now.
> Wouldn't Trump himself count?

No. He was tolerated despite his politics until he (arguably) incited a seditious attack on Congress and his own vice president.

> I think it should be, because attempting to ban political views gets in the way of finding out which political views are better.

The problem is that "political views" is not a defined term. What if I employ 50% Irish employees and have someone who says, "I hate the Irish and wish they'd never ruined this country"?

It harms my business to have that person around. It is bad for my brand, it's bad for my other employees, and maybe I just don't want to hear those comments myself. Why should the government be able to force me to pay that person?

Or, in the case of social networks, why should the government force my employees to publish that content, maintain it, and keep it backed up for millions of people to see?

> I don't know what "fascist" is, but I can definitely imagine political views like "Communism is a good way to run the country" or "Capitalism results in the best outcomes for everyone" being banned and I really don't like it.

These kinds of comments are protected by the First Amendment. You can publish them, and you can shout them on the street. But you can't force people to like you or employ you if you say them. These ideas won't die out because of social pressure.

Also, thousands of websites (including Parler) already ban one or both of the statements you included. It's just that no one really cares because they're small sites.

So at what point do you say that a company is too big to be allowed to decide what they publish? Is it 100M users? Or 500M? If MSNBC or Fox News had 2 billion viewers, should they also be forced to air videos produced by any group?
This outright hostility towards third-party clients was how I knew that Signal was just a wolf wearing open-source clothing. Glad I stayed far far away.
What I find weird is why does anyone think ANY of these companies are meant to uphold free speech in the American sense?

Does Abercrombie and Fitch (or most fashion companies) make clothes of all sizes? No? Because what they produce is part of their brand as much as their marketing. They don't want overweight people wearing their stuff, it makes the brand not what they want it to be. Whether that is good or not is another debate.

Same with Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Parler or ANY other media platform. What they show publicly is part of their brand, along with their marketing etc.

The real issue is that society has come to see these brand platforms as being an inherent part of their ability to communicate. But they are borrowed megaphones at best.
I hate to one-up -- but I stumbled (via startuptabs) across re:splashed [1] yesterday.

It's a site with 563 free high res stock images, also with the same (CC0 1.0) license.

[1] http://www.resplashed.com
That the pirate bay will resurrect in on february 1st to keep the kopimi spirit alive.

see: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-crew-responds-to-the-raid...

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-starts-counting-down-to-f...
At least in Europe we've seen quite many small teams become break-even or profitable with ~$100k. One of the advantages in Europe is the possibility of having full-time employees at a fully loaded cost of $1500-3000 per month. Make $10-20k in MRR per month and you're nicely profitable with a team of 5-10. Grow from there. Most of these sell B2B or other SaaS solutions with 80+% of customers in the US.

You can get there with $100k in many cases in 12-18 months if not sooner. Might not be a huge VC business, but still a sustainable growing SME.

We've raised $200k with Weekdone (https://weekdone.com/) but are taking a similar path currently. 5 persons, around break-even, growing month by month. Not really looking at additional investment for now, but might consider someone like Indie.vs if there's a good fit.

A company I know did annual revenues of 0, 50k, 250k, 750k, 1.2m, 1.8m and over 2m this year. Pays good dividends. No outside investment. Some of the financing in early days was generated by custom software dev work. Have seen quite some similar ones around.
I only bought this game because of the stunning visuals and boy is it stunning. This write up is very informative.
You can always go to another bar which does serve what you want. Name an alternative to Facebook/Instagram/Twitter that has similar reach. It's not a very good analogy IMHO. It's all well and good to say that companies should be free to set the terms and conditions of use but when said companies have such a large impact on people's livelihood and have a near monopoly, I'm not sure.
> One, you have the not-so-uncommon addiction to porn. Because of the wide and free availability of porn content today, it's very easy for a person that's susceptible to addiction to fall into a vicious hole.

You can say this about anything. Movies, video games, the internet, alcohol, sugary foods, fast cars, social media upvotes.

> Secondly, it can lead to spreading aggressive, potentially dangerous fetishes.

Again, this statement can also apply to things like violence in movies and games. And much has been said against that kind of reasoning :)

> I'm not suggesting we should shun it or disallow it completely - but I think celebrating would also be an extreme that's not worth the consequences.

I didn't mean literally celebrating like parading them around on a palanquin, but treating them with respect at the very least.

Create an environment that at least allows some discussion about it, instead of indignantly shutting these topics down upon hearing the first syllable.
> whether this particular case constitutes fair use

The English common law system relies heavily upon judicial precedent. A ruling in this particular case that the copying of an API constitutes fair use will inform decisions in future cases of similar copying.
> there's essentially two groups: those that want the information and are annoyed by the stories, and those who want the stories

This assumes information can always be cleanly severed from the story. That strikes me like cutting a paper down to the abstract and conclusion. Yes, the methods may be tedious to get through, but someone with an understanding of them sees the problem with more depth.
I'm not in the field (nor an academic, nor particularly smart), but my impression is that this is implicit in nearly everything people are doing. Almost all of the papers will be talking about interpolation, not extrapolation. More specifically, training data and test data are assumed to be partitioning an existing data set into test and training portions. "Generalization" is measured only by success at fitting the test data.

Of course, most actual applications immediately break out of that model by running live against previously unobserved data coming from different populations, different times (just think: post-2020 vs pre-2020!), often different purposes. And probably much of the error because you're now extrapolating gets regarded as an engineering problem?
> I've seen plenty of people paint Oracle as some evil boogeyman

“Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.”
Wha's wrong with Heroku?
and Amazon could talk to Oracle who "borrwed" the S3 API for their cloud storage.
We’re not detecting signals from aliens because, in all likelihood, everybody but the Terrans are using quantum entanglement communication for vast distances, and no one’s seriously used radio signals since the time of their great, great, great, great, great, great grandad.
For a large number of Windows and Mac users who have less than 1 TB to backup (or less than 6 TB if they are willing to put up with a fair amount of hassle) there is a far less expensive option.

I speak of Windows and Mac users who got a Microsoft 365 subscription for the Microsoft Office apps. That comes with 1 TB of OneDrive, or 6 TB if you get the family subscription.

OneDrive has API access which is supported by a fair number of commercial and open source backup programs.

You can get a family subscription without being a family. All you actually need is the ability to control 5 extra email addresses, one for each fake family member. Your 6 TB would end up partitioned into 6 1 TB buckets so as I said, would be somewhat of a hassle to use.

But if you only need 1 TB, and want or need Office anyway, and don't really have a lot of non-backup cloud needs, then OneDrive is a good, often overlooked option.
Except that Android is a fkup of “Java” that is so old that repositories have to create an android and a normal version. Kotlin spread into android development pretty much because android java is so bad.

That is exactly what was the “damage” Oracle sued for.
Sharing is only fair if it's a two-way exchange. How much code have most people contributed to Nginx? If they don't contribute code, then how about donating money? Oh hm... the donation page doesn't look so impressive.
This.
Even if a great deal of the savings from cutting MS fees is forwarded to training the current/new tech support it's still a win.
As someone who recruits I'd say that I don't think the point is that there are parallels between interviews and other situations and the candidate is being rejected because of that, it's that I just didn't get enough information to make a decision.

Any part way competent interviewer knows the difference between a bad interview and nerves getting the better someone. When it's nerves we're not thinking "they're awful", we're thinking "i don't know how good they are".

At that point I'm generally too busy to try and come up with a bunch of other things myself on the off chance the person will respond better to a different situation BUT if the person were proactive and came back and said "I know I screwed that up, would it be possible to try X instead", I think I'd be open to that.

(That said obviously giving small paid projects work to all potential interviewees doesn't scale particularly well.)
I remember trying this some year ago when a lot of bloggers were trying it out and blogging about their experiences. I tried the Uberman Sleep Cycle (4x15min) but inevitably it wore me down to the point of being completely nonfunctional.
Facebook is sooo 2009, time.com seems to just have no balls to make Assange the person of the year.
You could apply that statement to the founder of most companies but it doesn't make it true. A good founder knows how to focus their talents, not control the entire chain. However that doesn't mean they aren't one of the most important links in that chain.
Is the user base behaviour that much different from, say, php user base or javascript user base or whatever mainstream tool user base behaviour?
No idea. It's not the only one if I remember correctly. It could be a brilliant social engineering experiment: you make a bunch of wealthy doctors and lawyers believe they are chatting with paris hilton and at the same time you collect info out of juicy targets for scams and thefts.
That's not completely correct; although Revenge of the Titans has been available for purchase & play whilst in beta, I think this is in fact its official release.
Sadly though, this is move 3-5 years too late. WebOS was great in its day, but I can't imagine there has been a lot of R&D invested in the progress of the tools or OS.
One series of articles which might serve as a start is Steven Strogatz's series which ran in the NY Times earlier this year:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/series/steven_strogatz...

It's written for a layperson (he starts with counting on Sesame Street) but nonetheless touches on some very advanced topics, and describes them in simple ways. It won't give you a firm foundation in mathematics (the articles are pretty short, and there are only 15 or so), but it might serve as a guide for which subtopics in particular pique your interest, and there are numerous references and suggestions for further reading. I believe he's collecting the articles in a longer book, hoping to publish it in 2012.
That's great, you're telling him that he should enable the copy protection so that his software, and all closed source software, will fail?
I love to fly a drone around the map listening to some music or a podcast, very relaxing.

For anyone interested, just install the quadcopter mod, add a trainer if you want to be able to set weather/time of day (Menyoo works for me). Then you're good to go.
No. because you still have the opcodes that operate on just 64/32/16/8 bits of the register.
The RKI statistics are not complete because the electronic submission is not done by everybody (allegedly NRW is particularly bad and has high numbers). I guess the system is new and the federal organizations are too busy to use it properly?

This is sad because RKI is the official authority.
> accumulated excess workforce

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
> $1M is nothing.

Nothing it is not. It is something, and if the beneficiaries are limited (like hospitals in SF) it is certainly much more than something.

Everyone needs to pitch in in order to get over this hump. PG pitched in $1M. Your contribution could be not to belittle his contribution, which you chose not to do, for reasons that are entirely unclear.
Most mortality estimates and forecasts include only deaths directly attributable to the virus. There are many indirect deaths that will be caused by it. Long term lung damage is one of the ways this will happen, probably among the most delayed. Many more deaths will happen because hospitals that are operating at capacity won't have the resources to prevent other deaths that they normally stop, or will have to stop non-critical treatments in ways that will reduce patients' life expectancies. I live in Madrid and know a neurologist that has stopped any intervention that can't be delayed.
Now I need a startup to help with insmomnia.
Movie rental places are dying, but I think there is still room for niche Netflix type sites.
I use an external monitor at home on my MBA and I used to find it really annoying to resize all my windows every time I connected or disconnected my 24" monitor. Then I found Stay:

https://cordlessdog.com/stay/

This $15 app remembers window positions and sizes for each application and display setup (and even combos with multi monitors). It'll even restore window positions when you connect/disconnect external monitors.

I have had a few issues where it can't figure out TotalFinder and Terminal (because of the tabs) window positions and sometimes it can't figure out which Chrome window is which, but overall it's made switching between external monitors a whole lot less painful.
In fairness, it's worth noting that Readability app is Instapaper; it's just been repackaged.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/instapaper-readability/
I've been using Instapaper (mostly on programming related blog posts [standard WP/Blogger templates] and major magazine articles [Vanity Fair, Economist, etc]) for a while and rarely found this to be the case. It has almost always stripped unneeded markup well, often providing a superior reading experience on the iPhone than iOS Safari's rendering of the original content.

Are there any specific sites/types of pages you've had trouble with?
To the left the state is there "god", to question its legitimacy is sanctimonious, to require proof is beyond the pale (you must immediately accept everything that there acolytes tell you without question) because they have belief in the state is so paramount to who they are that anyone dares questions there very faith, to question it's authority is to be a modern day heretic of the lowest order (a racist).
Perhaps market realities aren't convincing to you, but they're quite real. Capable CEOs demand much more equity than capable CTOs in the market.

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/66/Startup-Founder-Comp...

I believe a much smaller difference than this article is warranted, since most of the equity is compensation for risk, but some reflection of market is appropriate.
You are totally right that some of the parked domains make a lot of money. For example, Anything.com Ltd. owns a slew of domains (look at marketing.com) which are nearly all parked.

They make money from users clicking through and I'm sure they earn a lot of money, but imagine how much more they could make if, at minimum, they created a better affiliate site that didn't look like a crappy parked domain. Even if they just changed the design and kept basically the same strategy, they could probably double their money. Frankly I'm amazed they don't try harder.

How many people actually click through the links on a parked page? Personally I hate these pages and immediately close them. If they just put in the effort to create a "real" site, they would draw in a much higher percentage of users. It may not be the case with Anything.com Ltd., but I'm sure that there are many domain owners who don't have the knowledge or resources to make a decent site. So, if they paired with a competent developer, they greatly increase their chances for success.
AND there's a free website that drives people to know about the ipad version in the first place.
The keyboard::apple just changes the contents of /etc/default/keyboard to:

XKBMODEL="apple"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="mac"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin,altwin:swap_lalt_lwin"

The network::interfaces::wireless class: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/379776/
That titles seems alarmist. It could also be stated that the users who aren't upgrading are leaving 20% of Macs vulnerable.
exactly what i was thinking, classic
Have you checked web2py with its DAL? you can get it also as a standalone module https://github.com/web2py/pydal
Also there is db.py from yhat.
or, you could have said "whoosh".
Unless you had a REALLY big house :P
I'm sorry, I should have clarified. I do have a GED. It took me no time at all to get it, and it is a lot better than nothing. It seems I'm getting plenty of advice to do atleast some community college; So I will seriously consider that option in the future. Thank you.
The solution to bad comments is not making the thread even worse, and the solution to "cliche HackerNews trope" is not to add another cliche trope with more aggression. That only contributes to taking us further into hell. The intended spirit of the site is just the opposite of that. If you're familiar enough with HN to complain about tropes, I assume you're aware of this?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> So why were they in the original HTTP spec if they weren't supported by original HTTP agents?

Bad assumption.[1]

HTTP/1.0 spec (1996) defined GET, POST, and HEAD.[2]

HTTP/1.1 spec (1997) defined all of the other, newer methods.[3]

> supported by original HTTP agents

The first web browsers I know about were Mosaic (1993) and Netscape Navigator (1994) predating the HTTP/1.0 RFC.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41411152/how-many-http-v...

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-5.1.1

[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-9
> Also is impossible to get around without a car even if you live downtown. Is not a walkable city.

This isn't true. Where do you live?
You know you would think they would at least slow down on sunsetting services as they're releasing Stadia to a chorus of "How long until they kill this?"
Neat site. What sort of money are you making with it?
It's too bad and honestly kinda a bummer how all this panned out.

Mozilla people pushed really hard against "just use sqlite" because it's not a spec, and compatible alternatives would need to implement some of the quirks of sqlite. Unfortunately, nothing as good as sqlite has ever materialized, but this argument essentially blocked websql from becoming "officially blessed" by the w3c.

Around this time Mozilla was also was drinking the koolaid hard and somehow we ended up with something literally nobody wanted: indexeddb. There's a funny article which is made even better by it's earnest, unironic use of the term "aesthetics" to describe indexeddb [1].

Another tragic instance of design-by-committee and a complete lack of pragmatism.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
Not just cobalt, there aren't enough rare earth minerals to have battery production at required scale. Extraction of those is extremely expensive process as well, then the question is what to do with used batteries. We are trading one known externality (air pollution) for a bunch of unknown externalities, passing the buck.
Makes sense now... Thanks!!
"Fully managed Spark" sounded awesome a few years ago. But now, Spark can run on Kubernetes clusters [1]. If your infrastructure is already running on Kubernetes then you already have a cluster capable of running Spark. And because of the magic of Kubernetes you don't even have to dedicate nodes to Spark.

[1] https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/running-on-kubernetes.h...
In the case of my step-son I've also been stressing that you can teach yourself many of these things - not just giving him the answer but the tools to find the answer for himself.

This has gotten him into space and half his non-school related youtube use has been to watch documentaries on space topics - I think learning that you can teach yourself is a crucial lesson that modern schools don't typically emphasise enough - our daily walks have gone from discussions about fortnite to discussions about exo-planets and what their surfaces might be like through to neutron stars and black holes - I'm incredibly proud of his progress, I knew he was bright (he kills it at maths) but I hadn't really realised how bright until I had to teach him.

Next weekend I think we'll watch Interstellar since it covers many of the things he's been asking about and the visuals are engaging enough to hold the attention of a 10yo.