jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"In reality, Huxley's savages are indeed the heroes…"

The savages aren't the heroes, but rather are there to show the lack of realistic options. Huxley himself favored a psychedelic society, which he wrote about in Island.
What's Pro Python like? http://propython.com/ The online preview stops just short of showing whether the contents are actually useful.
I have to strongly disagree with this. It is only very difficult to make progress with a long term task under a certain set of circumstances: namely, having no context in returning. This is because it takes time to recall where you left off, what resources you were using, what the current subtask was that you were working on, etc. But all these problems can be remedied by methods mentioned by some of the other posters.

By keeping some sort of log of where you left off, you can more easily transition back into a complex task, and make meaningful progress more immediately.
Does gcc support these new wider registers yet?
In other words, comparing Fox to the media situation in China or Russia is just ridiculous and irresponsible.

The point of "comparing" anything to anything else is to see how the things are alike, and how they differ, as in "compare and contrast." If such comparisons are to be verboten, even if by stigma and not by fiat, then we are giving up an essential tool of understanding.
Yes, this resolution is just symbolic. However, more concrete legislation to allow quadplexes in the vast majority of the city is coming soon. Our councilmember, Lori Droste, has been the champion for both initiatives. Following her on Twitter is a good way to stay up to date on these issues: https://twitter.com/loridroste
Thank you for sharing this. It was a pleasure to read - the youthful zest of your excitement and passion really expresses itself in your writing. I was also touched by how one of your immediate priorities is to help your parents and brothers financially. (Hope you are able fulfill all your wishes).

If you don't mind sharing with us - I am curious how educated your parents are and what their profession is currently?
Loses a percentage of its capacity, not a percentage of the amount of helium it has.
This is often repeated, but misguided: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

Genericides do occur, but they are rather exceptional, and you generally can't do much about it (imagine the public starting to talk of dashboards as grafanas).

Cease-and-desists should probably be reserbed for severe missuse, such as a competitor selling their product as yours, etc.
It's always a sad to read the comment section when discussing male attractiveness; so many people with learned helplessness.

Being attractive is 3 traits: physical fitness, grooming, and sociability. The first two are easy

1. Find a sport and hit the gym. There is a sport out there you will enjoy (racket sports, team sports, martial arts, running, rock climbing). As a creature, you are meant to be active and without a sport you are living sub-optimally.

2. Find a healthy diet. Not keto or some temporary quick fix, but a habit of eating that is enjoyable and good for you.

3. Get a properly fitting wardrobe and a good barber. You don't have to break the bank or be a fashion model to look well-groomed on a regular basis. You will feel good about yourself too.

4. Sociability and confidence are the most work but still a mix of skill and attitude. I can't stress this enough, but if you feel that you can't be attractive thats the result of your environment not some inherent limitation in you as a person.

Everything else on top of these points are just extras. Nice hair, big eyes, high cheekbones, whatever else just improve on a base level of attractiveness. Go find guys who are fit, well groomed, confident and bald, then ask if they seem attractive.
I recall that they did try, but didn't succeed, because it was consided to be too generic. But can't find a reference for that :\
> By comparison, Go has 9k users and 50k repos. And a lot of people say that Go is not that useful of a language because the community is small.

Some people call Python too small. Some even claim "Haskell is mostly used for small, single-purpose tools, or it's used to teach FP principles". Some people say a lot of things, that doesn't make it true.

> My definition of practical is this: people use it in practice. They use it for business or for personal projects that other people get use out of.

I use Haskell for freelance clients currently.

> The core purpose of software is to automate things that, otherwise, people would have to do. What large jobs is Haskell currently automating for people?

https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry

Standard Chartered is particularly of note, as you can see in this quora question. You can also see other examples of Haskell automating jobs for people:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-largest-commercial-program-...
Nice, didn't know about this!
I use different apps with different circles of friends, so I already use WhatsApp, FB Messenger, GChat, and SMS. I have no plans to change anything.
I was into Minecraft before, and now launched a somewhat successful game on Roblox. I don't think the games are really comparable at all, about the only similarity is the blocky look of the characters, and even that is changing soon, as skeletal animation was just launched.

If I had to compare to something, I'd say it's like Unity, except with their own app store from which you can instantly launch games/experiences, and with cross-platform multiplayer taken for granted.

What I love most about Roblox is how the community is leaving behind a lot of the old game tropes and coming up with completely new things, as a lot of the game makers are kids. Turns out most games don't have to involve shooting anything.
big words, unfortunately little common sense.

I can give you some scenarios:

- Practically every school (elementary school) in Germany uses WhatsApp for communication among Parents and Teachers. If you don't have WhatsApp, you have go to the school and read the official announcements in the wall. Lot of important information there, for example Teacher short-notice absence, protocol from meetings, etc.

- The favorite communication channel of my university is via Whatsapp. There are lot of tools to consolidate and do the customer relationship via WhatsApp.

- Back in the normal days, every single airbnb host that i contacted, were using WhatsApp

So to make it clearer, the main difference between all IM listed are:

- the user base itself (two billion users for WhatsApp[1])

- The number of 3rd part tools offering integration with that tools (zendesk, salesforce, etc).

References:

[1]: https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...
It could also be that he had the "privilege" to earn it (as not everyone has that privilege).
That's too bad. I worked at a dotnet shop when I learned rails (on my own) and it was night and day for me. ASP.NET is a poor framework that was tries to take the windows decktop app experience and port it to web. Turns out that is a bad idea...

Which frameworks do you recommend today?
Yeah! I saw your blog post about reviving your Flywheel and decided to finally take this project on. Thanks for the inspiration!

(No thanks for writing your code in Node ;) https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardwar.... The gymnasticon code was helpful to see before I tracked down the XML specs for the BLE characteristics, though!)
Thanks for your comment. I quickly searched for the IM protocols and there are plenty of open-source projects with promising functionalities.

I think that the mindset of the majority of the people is the source of this problem. Most of the people I speak to don't care about their privacy. They say that they have nothing to hide and that's a valid statement. The problem is that we don't get to choose. If someone wants to share all of their personal information it's their choice, but to not share your personal information seems almost impossible. Social standards expect that you have WhatsApp and LinkedIn and such.
This doesn't exactly answer your question, but what I settled on during my dissertation (granted, that was a few years ago now) was SUMO: https://www.eclipse.org/sumo/

IIRC you could import maps from from open street map, but I'm not sure if it has a "headless" mode, without all the visualisation.
This post perturbs me a bit - aside from the hardcore skepticism - I don't see how anyone who doesn't work for Twitter would be able to comment on the implementation of Twitter's follower lists.

It's strange because to me you are suggesting that I shouldn't believe an engineer at Twitter that it was a bug, because the bug should be impossible based on an imaginary implementation from someone who doesn't work at Twitter in order to prove that Twitter is 100% malicious.

I'm beginning to wonder is most posts like this play at our biases (we want to believe that Twitter is making some underhanded deals with "evil" advertisers), rather than taking a more neutral view.
I've never used Redis but have been meaning to give it a try. Since it's in-memory, what are the biggest kinds of systems you can set up with it? I would imagine it gets tricky to scale after a point?
I don't think it's fair to compare Rust to Go, while operating on nearly the same level. They are targeting a very different crowd.
Go has very clean syntax, few reserved words and writes almost as easy as python. This makes go a attractive language for programmers who have a history with languages like php & python but also want more speed.
Rust on the other hand has a more complex syntax but allows you more control over memory, thus making it more attractive for those with a history in C or C++.
Go is a good language to learn as your first compiled language, easy to write, easy to learn and a good ratio between performance and effort.
Rust is (or will be when it's stable) a good language to learn when you have a history in C and you want memory & type safety but still the control you are used to in C/C++.
In addition to what zurn said, they also don't specify the exact Core i3 model number (it could be an older generation), the RAM speed, and if the data set fits in cache.

If RAM access is needed ARM machines usually fall behind quickly, since they usually have much lower RAM bandwidth.
Well, I suppose this shows more a problem with Americans themselves than with government standards. How come the rest of the world was able to adopt these government-mandated standards, but Americans (or an US company in the case of Apple) can't?

Reminds me that it's also the same with A-sized paper, with basically just the US and Canada stuck with letter/legal/whatever.
No, I think I may not be making myself clear.

Good regulatory structures, like we've been trying to develop alongside the emergence of the free market as "the way", are important, along with the consumer being keenly aware of where there product comes from, the morale implications of buying such a product, and so on.

However, it's hard to debate that the undeniable force of a humans desire to move _themselves_ forward (or their company, for the sake of themselves) has taken us up and to the right in situations like these.
Thanks. Hearing kind words from the founder of Wordpress is definitely encouraging.
I removed `Try` in the version 1.1
I have an 8% conversion rate to sale per unique visitor. I wish I knew what I was doing right.
Those are very helpful observations - thanks!

I was thinking about this as I was going to sleep last night, and it dawned on me that what we could do is maybe have simple two-frame animations of people doing the exercises (perhaps in various locations) with the app counting in the graphics somehow.

The pelvic thrusting exercise is definitely one that people feel awkward doing in public. Hadn't thought about that angle before - one of the reasons users cited they liked CrunchFu was that they feel awkward/self-concious in gyms. That's a really good angel.

It's surprisingly effective at behaviour change, but having these other angles could be a much better hook.

/me adds to todo list
Why I would take vim or emacs any day:

- versions available for many platforms. Your editing skills on Linux are easily transferrable to Windows or Mac, and others.

- Free, and Open Source.

- Insanely extensible, with a rich collection of extensions and plugins already available.

- Large user base, that keeps improving the editor to support new languages (most times before you know about it!), port it to new platforms, and provide more plugins.

I guess there is a market for "easier" and more intuitive editors, but anyone who seriously plans a career in software/web development (or anything else that involves heavy text editing) will profit greatly (on the long term) from learning well one of these editors.

Vim never lets me down :)
Government accountability is a myth. Governments run into enormous debt, change pension systems, wage wars ... Where's the responsibility? Loosing elections isn't a serious consequence.
The whole purpose of the Clipper Chip was the escrowed encryption - that is a big difference from a backdoor, especially from a concealed backdoor.
One of the main differences in the early days of Hacker News was that it was small enough that you could recognize all of the names. The ones with high karma get recognized more by virtue of seeing them post more often.
Totally understand where you are coming from - thanks for elaborating.
I have a few guns but I don't have a backyard pool.

I'm showing the relative lack of a problem. People aren't up in arms about banning pools because they enjoy using them when its hot out and they consider it worth the risk.

Similarly people who don't own guns see no problem with restricting or banning them in some way because it will have no negative affect on their lives.
Nerdy guys are hit on by women ? When where?
If you know people who don't make a lot of money (just getting by), being able to exchange your privacy for a service might be an option they're willing to do.

I think transparency and allowing people to make the choice is fair. I don't suspect a lot of people give the "free" aspect much thought, and I'm glad this is getting the news out there.

I really wish companies would give you the option to pay to not be tracked, or exchange your information for tracked ads. I don't love that even though I subscribe to some online publication they still have ads.

Jaron Lanier a good set of videos on the problem and has a proposal to get you paid for your information (videos).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/23/opinion/data-...
If you split the code horizontally instead of vertically you have to deal with IPC, which could be problematic (and slow). I would do that only if there was already a clearly defined interface between the modules, not just for the sake of concurrency. Moreover, taking into account growing number of cores in modern machines such strategy doesn't seem very future-proof.
It was written in C and assembly.
I agree with the author that there is too much data but the conclusion is very accurate. Great leaders can evolve as the company evolves and smoothly move from being an individual contributor to a manager/delegator. If you want to grow a big company you have to learn both and more importantly learn when to make the transition.
Pretty much all the incubators keep this data secret.
To me, this all smacks of weakness. If they were not breaking the law (at least in spirit), they wouldn't fear journalists. If they were capable of preventing or at least showing the danger of the acts they claim to fight, they wouldn't fear journalists.

But because the danger is perhaps not as immediate or as severe as the political narrative might suggest, or because their intrusions into our privacy are not as necessary as they claim, their only true threat are people who can expose such.
I like figuring out what other people are thinking. They'll give me a bunch of requirements and I can look at them and their situation and crunch the requirements down into a tight, beautiful solution that addresses the needs they didn't know they had.

I also really enjoy the process of understanding things in general - figuring out the important/disparate parts, determining how they link together, exploring connections, etc. Once I understand something all of the possibilities hidden in that topic are open to me and my creativity.

But I'm terrible at taking time to create things. Once I have the solution it is very difficult to find the drive to actually continue and build on it. It's always a slog, as if I were a kid being forced to eat vegetables. I think I'm slowly improving, though.
Good ridden to those in India. Bye bye!!!
"what about the theory of the second best? This theory — which is just basic micro — says that when some markets are distorted, for whatever reason, social costs and benefits across the economy don’t correspond to private costs, so that unprofitable, even seemingly wasteful activities can sometimes be beneficial. And an economy in which millions of willing workers can’t find work is surely one with massive distortions of some kind."
Yeah, the jury system is scary. It's also better than any other alternative that anyone else has come up with so far.

Much the same criticism can be applied to representative democracy in general. It sucks but it beats, e.g., the plutocratic cult-of-personality that Russia currently has. And what about Somalia? Rule by warlord?

FWIW my jury experience differs from yours. I have been on a number of juries in my life and I wound up with a relatively good opinion of most of my fellow jurors. There was only one juror (out of IIRC about six juries) that, it was immediately obvious, was very close minded and basically unclear as to her civic responsibility. But most of my experience is 15 or 30 years old. Perhaps jurors have gotten dumber since then?
>Objectively, so far, BTC was a better investment.

Dollars are not meant to be an "investment". The fact that the supply can be increased on demand is a feature, not a bug.
Scarcity. It’s ledger money. People want a unit of exchange that won’t depreciate as a result of the creation of new units. bitcoin meets that need.
I agree with you.

When newbies get elected, they have a tough time navigating the corridors of power. This is where the lobbyists come in: they've seen the system (they probably were a part of it before becoming lobbyists), they know how it works, and they're just too happy to help out. This way their influence grows stronger year by year.

Term limits is not the answer. I think California's open primaries will help in electing moderates, people who are willing to look at all sides of the equation.
Because Republicans loudly proclaim the equivalency of money and speech, and always come out against attempts to regulate spending in elections?

Seriously, it's part of their platform.
It depends on who you ask; many people agree with you but others say it starts 0, 1.
The workers who designed and built the machines are skilled. Inefficient jobs are replaced with with new jobs not necessarily in the same industry.
Or, scroll wheel click.
Microsoft Surface sells for $12,500: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/Pages/HowToBuy/HowToB... . It's only 30 inches, but you're also getting software when you buy it.
> a manager of a corporation (with 100 shareholders) writing Congresscritters to advocate for some policy (that not all 100 shareholders think is a good idea)

Actually, those shareholders do think that it's a good idea because they've continued to be shareholders.

> corporation hiring a lobbyist to be its permanent advocate in Washington

That's just like me than me writing a letter every day.
Ive been loving people and libraries going digital. I snagged several physical books that were out of print in the last year at prices I never imagined a couple of years back. examples - etudes for programmers, introduction to functional programming etc for < 20$'s. On Lisp for < 30 bucks still eludes me though.
LOL... What history? You have none. You've accomplished nothing, and you have zero social skills. Chocolates. LOL!

Have a great day.
I think you'll find that Apple has done more than anyone else with regard to raising the importance of design in product.

In the last 6 months there has been a real shift towards the importance of design. I'd say thanks to iPhone mostly for spreading the message. I doubt Google has inspired many designers although they are starting to change... and no, profiles is not one of those.
>> What I don't get is why more companies aren't structuring themselves to take advantage of remote workers.

Lots of companies _are_ structuring to take advantage or remote workers. It's called outsourcing. After all, why pay high rates for a remote-US worker when you can pay low-rates for a remote Chinese or Indian worker.

Sure, you're smart, and bright, and a hard worker, but there are a billion Indians, and more Chinese - I'm sure we can find _someone_ smart and keen AND cheap...

Telecomputing and outsourcing are the same thing. If you promote one, then you promote the other.

What workers don't realize is that there is a massive advantage in going to the office. It's the only thing separating you from that other guy. Take that advantage away at your own peril, but don't come crying to me later when your job has moved 10 000 miles away.
I wanted to post this here to raise a question to the developers:

Flapon (I still struggle with the name) is the first social network I've used that seems like a potential challenger to Facebook and Twitter. I say both Facebook and Twitter because it seems to take features from both. Regardless of the name, bravo for what you've put together so far and for taking on the giants.

My question is:

I want to start telling my friends to use it. I'm bored with Facebook (never really was that active on Twitter). However, what I don't want to happen is to invest a lot of time in promoting and using the site just to have you guys sell it to Facebook the second they throw a seven figure offer at you.

What plans do you have long term? Tell me you're in for the long haul.
I love the fact that their privacy policy is non-existent, and their terms of service is badly formatted (wrapped in PRE tags) HTML.
So, in effect, energy has to be stored during the day, and used during "unsunny" times.

Electricity demand is already way higher during the day than during the night. A good example besides the obvious of "lights" would be air conditioning.

Most likely, the amount of solar power built in such a case would converge to (typical peak power during the day) - (typical peak average power during the night), with existing technologies or other renewable technologies used to cover the remaining.
This reminded me of the time when I solved most of the problems in this book just for the fun of it:

http://books.google.com/books/about/Problem_book_in_high_sch...
I had a Samsung smartphone a few years ago and it was a terrible experience! After that I had phones by ASUS and Motorola, both good experiences.