jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I know it's fun to laugh at how kooky Adam Neumann is and how comically grandiose The We Company's vision became over time as they raised more and more money. But one thing that still bothers me about this documentary (and now the newyorker's review of it) is that it doesn't make even the slightest attempt at telling both sides of the story.

The most glaring omission is that it doesn't stop to acknowledge at all the impressive growth that WeWork saw. Yes, there were all kinds of problems with the way they managed their growth, and some major challenges with the basic fundamentals of their model. But there were many (hundreds of thousands?) of real users in many cities paying them money for office space. To just write that off as "lol, you re-invented the office" is a little ridiculous. They made a product people loved, and that IMO genuinely was an order of magnitude better in user experience than most other short-term office space that existed at the time. It saved time on all kinds of things, from basic cleaning, coffee and tea, flexible meeting rooms and private phone booths, and a generally comfortable space to work in. Those are things that have real value to anyone who is busy working on their company and just wants a productive turnkey place to work. It's weird to write all that off as just shallow millenials being too vain to work out of a Regus (which is a company I had never even heard of before the documentary, despite having been in this position of needing a small short-term office space for my startup in the past).

Maybe I'm just a crazy, biased shill and a sucker for any startup story, but IMO it would have been a much better documentary if they delved into this side of the narrative - how did such an out of touch, seemingly crazy person manage to build an actually good product that found quick product market fit in the crowded real estate space?
I would consider myself a highly productive person and I have many of the qualities they pointed out. I can’t program that long, I program in hyper-focused bursts. I have had many coworkers comment/complain that it looks like I’m not working because I’m surfing the web, watching YouTube, daydreaming, etc. But I’m constantly designing, debating, and thinking out how I should implement something that by the time I actually go to code it I know what needs to be done and bust it out in a couple hours. My managers commented on this early in my career because other developers think I’m lazy, unprofessional, or unproductive when I’m usually the most productive person on the team. Working from home removes this problem for me.
Chin up bar, dumb bells, etc, etc. Just too much to have at an office.

And the mention of the kitchen in the post is spot on too - it's just way too convenient to have my full kitchen at home for a quick smoothie. Some projects at my job don't even have a refrigerator for Pete's sake!
> One of the interviewers even laughed when I asked.

because it makes no sense, sending money with BTC is like sending cash attached to a carrier pigeon.
Chrome also has an option for Do Not Track. Are you saying it should be enabled by default in Incognito? That may seem like it would help but not really because now you've given trackers a pretty unique signal to further track you (as very few people set that header).
You also have to consider distance to the city center or recreational areas, lot size, neighborhood type, architecture, etc.
I'd just like to point out some examples of things that are implemented incompatibly commonly, not because they are different:

Colors:

(r{0.0-255.0}, g{0.0-255.0}, b{0.0-255.0}, a{0.0-255.0})

vs

{ red = r{0.0-1.0}, green = g{0.0-1.0}, blue={0.0-1.0}, opacity = o{0.0-1.0} }

That is tuple vs record, different scaling factor, opacity vs transparency, but these representations are equivalent.

Or geopoint:

(lat, lng)

vs

(lng, lat)

I could go on...
Why does the magic numbers list have a XENIX column?
Oh I would kill for a sub half hour build time at $dayjob.
Huh.

Did you take any other drugs?

I've experienced stuff like that at high LSD dosages, but it wasn't unpleasant. In fact, I liked it. It's what I meant by "ego death".

That is, there's no awareness that an "I" exists. There's just stuff happening. Inside, outside, all the same. Just stuff.

And then gradually, there's this internal dialog that starts talking about all the stuff. That is, consciousness, what I'm calling ego aka "I".

With marijuana during LSD peaking, that happens abruptly. With sometimes considerable anxiety.
No doubt they would love to but that would take a lot of work on their part, telling counterfeit Lego from the real thing is harder than it seems. The knock-offs are getting so good now that I have to resort to destructive testing to know for sure. Most of the clones still respect the Lego logo at the top and replace it with their own. Blox is particularly impressive, their precision is on par with Lego's and the plastic is just as good as well.

I hate them with a passion because there is no way to automate that part of the recognition process with sufficient reliability.
From what I've seen, many intermediaries do nasty things if you have a body on anything that doesn't 'normally' have one. I've heard a fair amount about GCP's load balancers dropping unexpected bodies, and other tools giving a 5XX.

It is really unfortunate, because there are tons of use cases and zero reason to interfere with these requests.

The justification is also downright ridiculous. The argument is that "GET, DELETE, ... have no defined semantics for bodies". Meanwhile the 'defined semantics' for POST bodies is... whatever the application decides.
That is ok usage, but in the discussed case we already know that people followed were later doxed not called to discuss unions. Big difference
I already see a trend building behind functional programming and LISP. Oh brother, right after I started reading SICP.
e-Terminal, like it's 1999
The working class has been satiated since the times of such strikes and accomplishments with tax breaks, easy access to credit and a booming economic growth rate that was long-term unsustainable. Keeping in mind both parties are at fault in that trade: the politicians for being willing to ply the electorate with unsustainable economic policies to ensure votes, and the voters for being so shortsighted and naive to think infinite growth was possible. Now those chickens are coming home to roost and most of those people most responsible will probably be dead and dust before the debts are paid.

I'm not one of those people who thinks the planet is actually going to kill us off. We're a clever bunch, we'll survive. That said our world in 100 years or so will look significantly different, and I don't think in any of the ways people wanted.
With a price ceiling like that Casio would be pumping out calculators all day everyday just like F91W's.
Looks cool, I just checked into it. It does work well, but doesn't appear do anything to reduce repeated substrings. Maybe a combination of the two would work well though.
Ackshually, all matter emits black body radiation and is therefore on the spectrum. /s
Isn't the idea that you can run it locally?
Early startup, we have 4 engineers. 2 are bootcamp grads (General Assembly and Flatiron)
Yes - I studied at General Assembly last year and found a job very quickly in a start up in London. I have helped out with subsequent courses at GA and the figures of around 90% getting jobs are accurate. As with job ads throughout the industry the required skills are often exaggerated. Companies wont necessarily advertise for entry level but will accept. The careers fairs held at the end of each course are highly attended.
I'd like to read this, but I don't see why I should have to share my email address with y'all to do it.
I have a friend who graduated from college a couple years ago with a liberal arts degree then went straight into Hackbright (women's only, I think). I did not have high hopes for her success but she actually landed a job pretty quickly as a javascript dev at a startup. She's still there and the company has raised multiple bigger funding rounds. I would guess her stock is worth quite a bit now. Good for her.
I've created five years ago http://www.totalwireframe.com, based on a hunch that it would interest people. It's a site where I sell libraries for an obscure/niche market.

The first year, I sold for $0 of librairies. In 2014, I've made ~$45,000 and it's 100% passive income. I'm not proud to say that I've worked a total of 30 hours on the site last year (it sounds as if I'm lazy, and I'm not). Moreover, I've never spent a single dollar on marketing, no matter its form.

It works so well that I've taken the decision to leave my daily job to work on the site full time. I (perhaps naively) think that if I make that much money while doing practically nothing, I can surely make a ton more by actually working on it every day for a year. On Feb 1st, I'm making the jump.

It has been tough to get there though. The first year has been a disaster. I nearly abandoned the site. Then, one day, I started to gain traction. To this day, I have no idea why. Then, months after months, the sales went up. It took me weeks and weeks of work to create the libraries I'm selling today. I also did a lot of variations, based on the feedback I received from my customers. My customers are the best, I think. They like what I do, they give me a lot of feedback. In the course of my business, I also did stupid things I regret immensely, like copy a competitor (but honestly it was not intentional), and I'm really, really not proud of this.

Sales have reached a peak of $7500 for the month of May 2014.

The site is based on http://jekyllrb.com/ and is hosted on https://www.webfaction.com/, on a 9$ per month plan. As the site is static, I just need Nginx. That's it. GetDPD allows me to collect payments with both Paypal and Stripe.

To let people pay and downlaod, I use http://getdpd.com/. They are fantastic. I've tried a lot of other options and even though GetDPD looks terrible, it's a great product, well worth the tiny monthly cost.

I hope my story will let people know that it's totally feasible to do a great business as a side project. I honestly wonder EVERY.SINGLE.DAY how come it worked for me, but well,... it worked :-)
such flow, so grant, ideal for shibe https://github.com/simov/grant
I don't know which OS this phone runs, but the Series 40 platform which used to ship on Nokia devices in this segment was able to run WhatsApp. The thing is, S40 never really felt "finished". It had these tiny little things which just made you drive nuts because there wasn't a way to fix it. Over time I thought it would be amazing if S40 would get open sourced for people to flash modified versions.
Wasn't that aluminum?
When given a problem, an expert might be able to solve it by recalling the solution to another problem he solved earlier, while a novice has to actually solve the problem.
It seems plausible that Amazon could detect someone buying such a high volume of different stuff. Then examine the sellers and look for similar patterns of people who purchased same items.
Our monoculture practices have removed all the natural forage for native bees. They have nothing to eat amidst a sea of corn and soybean and thus they die. Additionally, we routinely over-spray with neonicotinoids, which cause the deaths of native and non-native bees alike.
So now the only way to pollinate fun foods (apples, cherries, almonds, blueberries, etc) is with the european honeybee (apis mellifera), but we are running out of hives due to pesticide use, overworking, and parasites (we're down to 1.8M hives in the US from 5.4M 30 years ago).

If we could stop spraying with neonicotinoids and start planting natural forage (basically just regular weeds), we could undo this in just 10 years.
I need it in library form as well. It can get tricky sometimes learning the ins and outs of sockets on various platforms, so it would be great to have C bindings to open the port in a standard cross-platform way. Currently it supports:

https://github.com/txthinking/mr2#download

Download OS Arch
mr2 Linux amd64
mr2_darwin_amd64 MacOS amd64
mr2_windows_amd64.exe

https://github.com/txthinking/mr2/releases

mr2, mr2_darwin_amd64, mr2_freebsd_386, mr2_freebsd_amd64, mr2_linux_386, mr2_linux_arm5, mr2_linux_arm6, mr2_linux_arm64, mr2_linux_arm7, mr2_linux_mips, mr2_linux_mips64, mr2_linux_mips64le, mr2_linux_mipsle, mr2_linux_mipsle_sf, mr2_linux_mips_sf, mr2_linux_ppc64, mr2_linux_ppc64le, mr2_windows_386.exe, mr2_windows_amd64.exe

Also random question, but, does anyone know of a lightweight cross-platform tool to wrap any console executable within a library? Like a mini container or Docker except it would inherit the parent OS so there would be no base platform. The parent application would just see C bindings to the STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR streams and possibly an array of shared directories/permissions, and/or anything else that a console app typically communicates through. Sorry if this is a dumb question (I've only used Docker and Vagrant for specific use cases and am not an expert on the theory behind containers).
It's pretty typical for these "backported" packages to have version numbers that only differ from the original by a suffix, and that suffix often only appears in the package manager.

For example, the Debian stable Apache package is currently version 2.4.38-3+deb10u3, but Apache will typically report something less than all that information, like just 2.4.38.

If it's really just looking at exposed version numbers, there's plenty of other problems, like servers that are configured to not expose their version numbers.
It appears to also contain information possibly acquired from other companies. For example, the author notes that he had attributed to him a phone number he had assigned to him by AT&T that he never used or shared.
The crime is irrelevant. The discussion is whether you are guilty or not as an individual. If you willing commit a crime (regardless of how you feel about the law) then you are rightfully punished.

The problem is when you're innocent and still get punished anyway.
It's weird because for oxydata you have to contact their sales team... but peopledatalabs has an opt out form.

https://www.peopledatalabs.com/opt-out-form

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Not exactly, but have you seen the Spry stuff? I've used it for (admittedly smaller) datasets and been impressed.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/home.html
I am the author and paying attention. I don't intend to quibble over the specs. The ones you mention are 100% correct. This is an honest discussion.

Trying to pick a winner on specs in a battle that is not zero-sum is a fool's errand, so I won't waste your time or mine with that. I am simply glad we can talk about Android or iPhone instead of Microsoft or Symbian. :)
wow i expected up-votes for this. jobs is one of the greatest innovators of our time. but he got completely destroyed by microsoft last time, and he's going to get similarly beaten by android and google.
I only managed a 92% with > 6 blue rectangle = I can do tasks with around 2 distractions. And when the distraction increases to 6, my performance decrease. NEVER MULTITASK from onwards, I figured if I can complete one task at a time, at the end of the day I will be able to complete quite a handful of tasks.
> My big question is: will these make it to the iPad version of Safari?

I really, really hope so.
True. It's been easier than some of the other comments here that have been in disagreement.
Even when you consider only members of an elite group like the top percentile of the seventh graders on the SAT math test, someone at the 99.9 level is more likely than someone at the 99.1 level to get a doctorate in science or to win tenure at a top university.

This sentence is very important to the point he is trying to make but I can't find it in the research that he quotes earlier and I have no idea where it comes from. Moreover it is contradicted by my own personal experience; anybody who thinks the ability to obtain a doctorate is so tightly correlated with such fine variations in intelligence has not spent much time around PhDs.
"Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam."

Got my next product idea: mashup of SAM and Eliza as a developer help line
"Why should anyone require a salary increase for somehow to show them how to do their job in an easier way?"

Perhaps because making some parts of a job easier doesn't make the job as a whole easier. It is quite conceivable that by eliminating all of the repetitive work, they would be forced to spend more time on difficult problems rather than trivial ones.

Personally, I think that's a great result, but people who don't like learning new things probably won't appreciate it.
Sorry, I wasn't insinuating malicious intent. It's a cool app and I used it, it's much better than the openstreetmap version that was released!

My comment was more of a reflection of people's amusingly conflicting views. One thing this has made me realise though is that if Apple were to just ask their customers rather than operate with subterfuge then they could have avoided this whole thing being a problem.
Anyone know what Facebook's commission cut is compared to Groupon & Living Social?
I'd get involved in some open source projects to boost your cred/ knowledge in the skills not heavily utilized in your current job & start applying to jobs once you feel that you are more up to par.
I think I know where you are coming from. The first time I touched laravel was somewhere 2016-2017. I loved the way you got started and using valet got your app up and running a few minutes. Recently I wanted to do a quick project and noticed it is getting bloated. You have multiple paths you can follow instead of being straight forward. It adds to the learning curve. It is ironic because some of this new things were supposed to make it easier to create an MVP, but what happens is that it makes it harder to learn how the framework operates and integrates with all the new features.
There's 100000 or more weirdos out there claiming all sorts of spurious stuff, it's only natural one of them would be right
I agree, even the GPU is impressive and I say that as someone whose main computer is a gaming PC with an RTX2080.

But the mind-blowing part is the CPU where on some tasks I can get desktop-i9-like level of performance.
It's hard to imagine a plausible path to payment digitization without states asserting a) currency controls and b) some degree of visibility on transactions. I think on the latter they'll take a "well if anyone can see it, we should be able to " and "KYC is needed" etc. stance. The only way to avoid anyone seeing it will defeat (a) an not be acceptable to them. This would relegate to same status as any other black market, with better/broader tech.
I went from a 13 to the new 14. For the most part it feels like the same size as the old 13, but the screen is noticeably bigger. Other than price, it's hard for me to imagine anything that is better in the 13 than the 14...
I wonder if this will include the Mac Mini - over the years the Mac Mini hasn't been updated particularly frequently, and it only just got an update to the M1 chip.

I know the article mentions Mac Mini but Apple doesn't seem to have been super enthused about it's lowest end machine in the past.
According to the Nobel Prize rules, "In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons." - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundatio... .

Note the exception that "The Nobel Peace Prize may also be awarded to institutions and associations." - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundatio...

The award may not be given to one person and the funds to an organization: "On the Festival Day of the Foundation, December 10, which is the anniversary of the death of the testator, the prize-awarding bodies shall present to each prizewinner a check for the amount of the prize, a diploma and a gold medal bearing the image of the testator and an appropriate inscription." - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundatio...

Also, very few of the editors of Wikipedia are members of the Wikipedia Foundation.

Other than these few rules, it wouldn't be a problem. Just need to amend the rules. :) http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundatio... .
http://www.constitution.org/wj/meow_intro.htm
They're not asking for any adjustment to the content, but for extra content, eg a feature piece that isn't tied to a particular date. Bear in mind that a full-page ad only covers one side of the paper so you need something for the reverse side, and newspapers are generally printed on folding sheets (ie 4 pages to a sheet), so that means 3 extra pages to be filled. It's not like the advertising department content is suggesting which content to use. Every newspaper has a variable pile of feature material whose exact publication date depends on the size of the print run, which is highly variable.

I'm curious about what you think the ethical breach here is. Advertising and editorial departments have to coordinate on practical matters like page layout.
As you can see in the second example in the article, there are changes. There's a 4:3 original, followed by the naive widescreen version, followed by a widescreen version that has been edited to try to preserve more of the original intent. Cropping back to 4:3 will no longer get you the original scene.
It doesn't really matter how well the LISP version was implemented because in the end people will choose the language with modern libraries and support.

You can be as edgy as you want and use LISP but real-world scenarios take into account economical factors. And surprise, surprise no company gives a shit about the beauty of a solution.
I don't quite get all the cynicism.
> JSX does come with one fatal flaw in order to accomplish what it does - it requires extra build tooling from the get go, which makes it that much more difficult for junior developers to pick it up, along with the assault of other technologies, code structure, and paradigms they have to pick up at the same time.

However if they managed to understand directives, digest cycles, dependency injection, MVVM, angular services, $scope, controllers (confession: as an amateur I haven't been able too), handling JSX build step doesn't seem like a stumbling block.
125k/year seems like a lot for _full-time employment_, but a freelancer may still have to pay full costs for health insurance and the like.

Even then, such a task would realistically take at least several days. So, the _actual_ annual income would be closer to 30k.
Right but as I understand, it uses some binary hacking/undocumented APIs to go about it's job. I also use Vimperator, various tracking blockers, search redirectors (disconnect me for Google search), etc.