jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The number of times such an activity would be useful to me is zero.

However calling my bank and having cash recalled from fraudulent (or even just bankrupt) merchants, that's happened. Who do I call at Bitcoin?
Because std::jthread adds new methods as well. If you don't use a different class, then you end up with a weird situation where you still have to decide what get_stop_source() and get_stop_token() should do when the new constructor argument is omitted. That's definitely less clean, IMO.
Trade is generally accepted as one of the best ways to relieve poverty, precisely because money ends up close to the workers instead of with corrupt governments.
I just don’t see how Clubhouse scales. I can see how compelling it is to actively participate in a small-scale chat with interesting people. But once a room reaches the level where only a few people can talk I’m basically listening to a poorly produced podcast that must be listened to live rather than at my convenience. …I don’t get the appeal.
I always wondered if a distributed trustless search engine is possible. There are a few out there but non-of them come close in terms of result quality or speed. You also run into an issue where if the nodes are doing the indexing they can influence how much priority results have but if you can overcome that it would be very interesting.

Content of the article aside...
As an ex-Lycos employee I find it so strange how it seems to be wiped out of peoples' memory. Lycos was an innovator and top contender at one point. That image of search engines has several companies Lycos bought but not Lycos itself. I'd say it is because Lycos predates Google but Altavista is on there and others.
How much CO2 are you actually pulling out of the air? I've read a bit about other carbon capture companies and Carbon Eng. is claiming 1M tons/year with the new facility they're building.
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4chan is blocked at my work, can someone copy and paste the content or post a TLDR.

Thanks in advance!
We built a new player for muusical.com and released it today. The player is built in javascript and supports playlists of songs from several sources (Youtube/Soundcloud/Vimeo). We also updated the entire site using the pjax gem to allow for continuous listening for the user while the browse and interact with the site.

Would love any feedback or questions!
This is precisely what we do when hiring at our web dev/game/app agency. We have a somewhat casual meeting to first determine if the candidate is the type of person we'd want to work with every day and then we give them a challenge to take home with them. We provide a direct line to one of our developers that fulfills a similar role to what we are hiring for and encourage them to ask questions as they are completing the challenge. It's a very telling process. We are a very collaborative team and expect people to ask questions and grow together. When candidates ask questions that would be really easily answered by a quick Google search, or take far longer to complete the challenge than it should take someone who even sort of knows what they are doing, these are major red flags. At the end we review their code and see if their solutions are well thought out and up to basic standards. I should mention the challenge is typically extremely simple... Some candidates don't make it a priority and make excuses for days or weeks on end why they aren't finished. These don't tend to be the type of people we like to hire.
Have you considered omniscient with Immutable.js? https://www.npmjs.com/package/omniscient
So it could mean, not that dogs "use humans" but
rather that they recognize humans (and specifically
their trainer) as the leader of their pack, which
wolves do not.

I think this is absolutely correct.
Is it only because they did a similar post last year that you were confused? Maybe this just needs "2015" in the title?
To be honest, I am half-scared of taking equity instead of cash pay. The reason is, I don't understand it as well as I should. It always scares me to think that through some VC-magic, whatever equity I have could end up nearly worthless (possibly an irrational fear since I don't understand the whole mechanism).
I agree, whether or not meat is good or bad for you is a question that shouldn't consider environment impact. Questions like: Whether one should eat meat, whether the government should enact policies which discourage meat production, and whether we should invest in lab grown meat are questions that should consider cruelty and sustainability.
Who'd have guessed that Thomas and Bernie Sanders would agree on anything?
Why the hell isn't this obvious? Presidents are recruited out of senators. Being a senator often runs in the family. And there are clans providing a lot of the past and current leadership, think Kennedy, Bush, Clinton. Of course there is a ruling class.
>95,000 years is plenty of time for adaptations in diet

Is it? Is it enough for all kinds of dietary adaptations? If me and my progeny eat grass for 95,000 years, will we adapt to be able to digest it?

On lactose: many of us carry the mutation that helps us digest lactose into adulthood (without any seeming issues). But does that make it ideal to consume? Is consumption of lactose into adulthood causing any issues that I can't readily detect?
Yep, just like that, except the one that actually has the power to do something. Because afaik, UN exists to just broker peace and maintain a somewhat cordial relationship between its member states, but not much more than that.

Especially considering that the permanent members (which include Russia and China, as well as the US and others) are given veto powers, and they aren't afraid to use them whenever convenient for them.

P.S. I don't honestly believe in the whole "global new world order" conspiracy-tier of political discourse. My reply above was just meant to illustrate that something like UN is not what the person, who originally brought up "global new world order", had in mind.
Yahoo still makes billions in revenue every year. And the vast majority is not from finance or sports.

Baffling to some HN readers perhaps, but Yahoo is still one of the biggest online destinations. It has a DAU count an order of magnitude larger than say Reddit, and it monetizes those users far more effectively.
Actually they were. Peers of the Spartans were horrified about how bad they treated their slaves - even though they themselves owned slaves.
And remember that Fair Use is a four-part balancing test. Thus, a single factor shifting will still have to be weighed against the rest. Also, for the S3 APIs, you're also talking about using even _less_ of Amazon's copyrighted code (e.g. a dozen function signatures compared to millions of LoC).
Finance isn't just banking and accounting. A huge amount of finance is modelling, simulations, signal generation, etc. where being fast is often way more important than being completely 100% accurate. In financial modelling, errors from floating point are going to be insignificant compared to all the other assumptions you make in your models.

I have worked in finance for my entire career, and everyone uses floating point arithmetic for dealing with money on the modelling side (sometimes $0.01 = 1.0, sometimes $1 = 1.0, depends on the institution/currency/convention/context, but we have to deal with fractional money anyway).

They do NOT use it on the accounting/back office side. That would be a spectacularly bad idea. Those systems are designed for accuracy to the penny.
"Do note that file creation time in unix requires kernel level access and quite a bit of low level filesystem knowledge to truly forge."

Timestamps are a mess on unix. POSIX doesn't support creation time but instead has ctime (change time). Newer filesystems add crtime but common utilities don't ever display crtime. Also partitions sometimes are mounted to not update atime for performance reasons.

crtime (and ctime) can be modified with root privileges without kernel access with debugfs.

Or you can go the ugly hackish way:
date -s $forgedate && touch tmp && date -s $realdate && cat original >> tmp && mv tmp original

Neither are elegant, but certainly not hard.

What's really hard to forensically cover up is the order of inodes on a filesystem. That file with forged timestamps to 2012 will still have an inode that looks much more recent.
You're not a customer because you're being forced to pay. You have no choice in the matter. If they provide really really bad service you still have to pay.
You mean for security patches? i.e rebuilding all your binaries, instead of just openssl's shared libs
In the UK on-street parking for 1 or 2 hours usually has a "no return" period too.
You think if there are fewer roads that you are forced to walk along them??
Reducing infant mortality rates and lowering poverty rates is thought to have this exact effect. The data between these statistics is correlated but the exact mechanism of action is still poorly understood.
It's not the main concern for the pedestrian, but it may be for the driver. If legal liability is clearly on the driver then drivers will be more careful. At least, many will, even if not all.
Argument by personal incredulity.
It's always helpful to see summaries of other people's experiences with platforms. Ember is going through a big growing period right now and feels like a moving target, but it has a strong direction.
The lesson I am taking away from this is: Regardless of what a company claims, I am going to hold on to the old one for at least a month after. Just in case they change their mind.

Plus I also drill my dead HDDs anyway if it isn't encrypted, and keep them for at least a year to let the data (e.g. passwords, banking information) become less valuable to an identity thief.

Even a dead HDD is still often recoverable (depending on HOW it died, a lot have electronic failures or the head dies, the platters remain in working order). And while realistically nobody wants to steal my data, why take the risk? Drilling a HDD takes five minutes, and tipping salt water in takes a few seconds...
Mosh and screen/tmux serve different roles. Mosh keeps your connection and reconnects across all sorts of events that would break your ssh connection. (laptop sleeps, different networks). Then screen/tmux manages the sessions on the other side of that connection.

Maybe I don't understand everything screen can do, which is very possible.
Sure - sounds interesting!
The fix: (1) government re-regulates building to be easier and land to be more available, causing a housing boom. (2) government guarantees every house's value as it was before the reforms. If the value falls, government pays the difference. (3) Government raises a tax to pay this all off.
if you put a high lineWidth value, you'll have your object literals or destructuring mostly one-lined, etc.. often not desirable (for 4+ props)

That's mostly why I don't like prettier, sometimes you want a bit of control over code formatting when several options are possible, prettier don't allow it. I use vscode formatter (actually it's TypeScript compiler formatter) instead

Other things I dislike with prettier, like how it'd force parenthesis in a `2 + 3 * 4` expression, where it's a bit superfluous. Or string templates line returns on expressions https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/3280
I was wrong. Been in isolation now for 9 days.
What are the various dimensions that you categorize flavors into? You just named spicy as one. What would the others be? I remember looking at a list[1] a while back and feeling a little underwhelmed by the dimensions used for categorization, although I did think it was a good start. Perhaps it's intrinsically hard because of how things overlap.

For what it's worth they're the following: bitter, cooling, earthy, floral, fruity, herbaceous, hot, nutty, piney, pungent, sour, spicy, sulfury, sweet and woody.

[1] https://www.spicesinc.com/p-3743-flavor-characteristics-of-s...
> and cede more power to the EU within the western world

Why would any nation cede power willingly to another? Would the EU willingly cede power to the US? What about Britain? That's not how sovereignty works.

The US response has been massive and unprecedented.
Yeah, $75,000 maximum, $18,000 minimum...

If you make $75,000 in New York, you're probably homeless... but in the red states that's fuck you money.
That's true.

But an actual doubling, measured by the number of people who can't breathe in a hospital currently takes 3-4 days.
The Army Corps of Engineers is one of the finer things in the US. I find it encouraging that they are involved with this effort.

Please note that's an extremely specific observation and doesn't implicitly suggest anything else, positive or negative, about the rest of this situation.
> Why will any self respective smart person want to throw their intelligence away for a pittance? You want them to be smart with science and stupid with money is it?

Because it buys them the freedom to do what they want in terms of research, rather than being a slave to a certain agenda, or a quota, or what have you. Science progresses by empowering curious people. If a researcher was interested in making money, then they would focus on money-making discoveries and spin off startups (which already happens plenty now).

> There shouldn't be more researchers, there should be less. My decade-long experience with academia has been that too many people who aren't exactly scientifically smart (more smart at socializing and grant writing) are too established.

That's because the academic and publishing incentives are all skewed, like the OP said, not because we have too many people doing research. If the low-hanging fruit has been plucked, then we need more eyeballs looking at things from all sorts of different perspectives to find pieces that don't quite fit our established theories.
Yes, absolutely. Even so, and even if there is a lot of noise in the data the trend is alarming to put it mildly. With earlier testing and a more transparent picture people may have taken the warnings more serious. Now they are partying like it is 1999 and the results of that will only become visible two weeks from now. By the time tests will be more common across other populous states the USA will likely be the #1 country in the world regarding case count and the delayed response means they'll peak a lot higher than China.

This is far from over.
> And I think one of the strongest virtues of the United States is being proven by Trump

Strong military logistic?

I think it is such a strong side of US military, that if you compare the entire logistic capacity of the rest of world's militaries taken together, it will still not surpass the US.
I've been there.

I was hired for just having a phd in engineering (unrelated to CS) and knowing about hacker news (it was an interview question!).

I was in over my head technically and with little time to catch up. Most of my colleagues were chill, but three or four were jerks. Nasty types, who fed on other's pain. My manager was a cool guy.

I entered a feedback loop of negativity which affected my focus at work. Eventually I quit and returned to working in my field (which I don't enjoy, but at least I can perform while I'm training in something better)

Positives:

I learned about programing practices, which is useful to my current work. Within my field, I was already a good programer. Now, for my colleagues, I'm a ninja.

Experienced start up life. The good. The bad. And the ugly.

The negative:

Wasted time.

My advise would be to figure out if you can make it for a year or so. If you can make it, hold on and move on afterwards. If you're about to break, pull the rip cord.

I pulled the cord after three months. No regrets.
Are you not able to use C extensions for some reason? Both the stdlib json module and the msgpack-python implementation have C acceleration modules (with pure Python as a fallback).

I haven't benchmarked either though.
>Watch #gamergate on twitter for just a minute and you'll get the opposite impression. By far.

I'm not seeing any harassment. On the other hand I don't see anything about ethics in game journalism either. It's just some completly stupid sjw vs anti-sjw fight.
So I guess the conclusion is that no mainstream cloud service is to be relied on.
FYI, I get 1 TB storage through dropbox for $99
Rails isn't dying, it's just a lot less difficult to hire Rails programmers, as it's brought Ruby mainstream enough that nearly all software engineers have either learned it or are more than capable of learning it. The "hottest" programming languages right now seem to be the various JS frameworks. If you are looking for highest paying, I doubt the old standards of C, C++, Java, C#, etc. will lose their place as the most reliable ways to make money as a software engineer.

Another change is that more and more startups are launching with just a mobile app, meaning Swift, Obj-C, and Java will be in demand.
Opposed to antibiotics which are not currently working at all? I think 90% is better than 0%. It could be the difference between life and death. Killing most of the MRSA bacteria could actually reduce its severity. Obviously I am not a scientist though and I am purely assuming things here based on my own logic.
HW Longfellow : Psalm of life
Rudyard kipling; If
Ditto methodologies.

Maybe analogous to mixed strategy equilibria from game theory.
glibc has thread-local pools for malloc, afaik musl uses locks.
Haha, I was thinking of that as I wrote it. My first language was C++ back in the day, then I dabbled in various languages for a while, and finally really dove into Python because there was a project I couldn't figure out how to write any other way. If I had to work with one of the languages I learned earlier, my first instinct would now be to write the solution in Python and pass it to the legacy program. Perfect example of what the speaker is warning of.
Last time I checked about a year ago. Netflix still works on my iPad 1
The article discusses some locations in Canada, but people should know this problem exists at all latitudes served by geostationary satellites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_outage
During elections, before I stopped using facebook, I used to try to follow everybody I could from every side of the political spectrum to try to get a more balanced feed. My goodness, my feed was immediately full of insane conspiracy theories, white nationalist group posts, communist posts, nothing but stories of subjugation and oppression of everybody from every side. The choice I made was to try to broaden my bubble, but what I got was insane
"I already have an iPhone, and iPad and a Macbook Pro. Why would I want this?"

Er, I'm guessing you wouldn't, if your current setup works for you. But it could potentially replace the iPad that you rarely use and the Macbook that you do.

If I was in the market for a new laptop I'd strongly consider a Surface 3 Pro with a docking station - perfect for when I'm sat at my desk with a monitor (what I do with my Macbook anyway) and a lot more portable when I'm not.

I agree with you about Windows, to an extent - as a developer I just find the environment lacking. But for the vast, vast majority of people running full Windows is a benefit, not a drawback.
People are as much responsible for their governments as the governments are responsible for their people. You can’t let a couple thugs run your country and then say “oh I never liked them, so don’t blame me!!111” when someone points out that they’re thugs.
What does it say about the IT industry that I first thought that the title referred to poaching employees?
> This is a Machiavellian area with a survivorship bias

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

And for context: I believe humanity is at the least Darwinian point of its survival to date. To that end, any belief that we are in some sort of zero sum competition with one another is a lean towards a more primitive way of thinking which will actively hold back humanity's advancement.
I've thought of a real question now: wouldn't it be easier to implement this in Factor than in Haskell? I'm asking out of interest rather than because I think you should re-implement it.

BTW, if you happen to use Nix, could you please add this great thing to NixOS?
The upper middle class essentially didn't exist in 1970? On that particular detail, I call baloney.
I call riots that happened at BLM protests "BLM riots".

They are not the same thing.

The reason they kept happening is the media, not you, were no willing to call out the violence. They were not willing to out of a fear that they would appear to be disagreeing with the cause.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a working open wireless network (ie. no captive portal) in public, let alone been able to access one from my living room. Are they more common in other countries?
I agree with you completely but since it seems like we’re already in a future where basically every TV is smart this seems like the least bad option. At least Apple TVs ans Chromecasts get updates for a decent amount of time.
To me it's the creepy corporate weirdos who are scary, even more than the government. And if you carry a cell phone those creepy corporate weirdos can all track you.
My smart TV will update the firmware via USB. Other than the fact that it's a 1.5 GB download [1], it's quick and easy.

[1] There's a couple 4k test videos in the system menu, which I guess is some of the hugeness. Seems crazy though.
In a perfect world the 2nd generation Volt would have been the Beetle of EVs

People who don't understand ICEs go "Worst of both worlds!!!! EV and ICE reliability problems!!!"

ICEs can be insanely efficient when operating at peak efficiency and incredibly reliable with low power demands

Volt maintenance was actually less involved than Tesla's with their required yearly service.
The existence of crap trials does not exclude that people are over-critical sometimes, and people take the crap trials that "validate the null (or preferred) hypothesis" at face value frequently as well.
How to nicely represent all these in the database layer where most things end up living at the end of the day. I have't really found a good recommendation on that to be honest specially the whole LocalDate/Time thing. Anyone has recommendations/documents to help guide that?