jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To be clear, he means "advocates for" in the sense that you have an advocate who is an ally.

One could interpret this as "this repo support 996" which is the opposite of reality, without that context.
Note that the 400 and 800 freighters kept the short bump because the longer upper deck reduced main deck height and impaired cargo handling. That's also the main reason that passenger 400s are seldom converted to freighters.
They actually have a philosophy page which explains it: http://suckless.org/philosophy

It basically boils down to minimalism (in general) with an emphasis on minimalist code instead of minimalist UX/UI (whenever the two conflict).
My view is colored by the fact that most rural property I think about is in the mountains, where septic systems and satellite internet are livin' high on the hog.
I don't understand your question.

Stability and growth are different things.

Not all couples need to have extra babies to have growth.

Why did you bring up growth?
Thank you again for your reply. I am aware of the confusion regarding PRISM and its 'vernacular' use to encompass the activities from other disclosed programs in addition to confusion about its particular details.

In your haste I'm afraid you may have drafted a response that is not on the topic of its parent, though this is okay since it appears the conversation found a natural and agreeable conclusion.
Yes, that proximity seems important.

A Des Moines story made the rounds here recently, and David Byrne wrote about this (in relation to NYC):

http://davidbyrne.com/des-moines

I thought they were already complaining about the rent in Asheville! (Though it's all relative.)
I'm not the author of the article; chrisdone is: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chrisdone
It's perfectly fine to be OK with your government hacking other countries while also being mad when those other countries do the same thing (though it's foolish to be shocked when it happens).

I would disagree that this opinion is fine; this is only fine if one selfishly considers oneself more important than the 7000000000+ other people on the planet.
I don't believe that the US has ever said that "a digital attack is an act of war". The quote that you linked to says that the United States reserves the right to respond militarily to "hostile acts in cyberspace" if it exhausts all other options and judges the costs of action to be greater than the costs of inaction.

The statement is not saying that any cyberattack is an act of war, it is saying that the United States might treat certain attacks as the cost of doing business but that other attacks might require a military response, depending on the specifics of the incident.
Yes. And in some places it would be drinks during the workday, if the pub was close enough for a lunchtime pint.
Hmm. Let's see how they do it in practise: funnel all money to another entity for 'licensing' their own brand. Net effect: no profit == no tax. Benefits for society: zero. Sure you don't want to change that?
Well I guess we could have solved the rural Internet access problem at the same time as the pandemic but no. Big corporations and governments colluded to prevent that happening.

Yes. Sarcasm.
They're not so much complaints in the documentaries but "think of it like this" observations through a specific world-view lense. I think Curtis views the world as interesting chaos and presents a certain filter on the chaos that is interesting.
"UK press coverage of the EU Referendum" https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/uk-p...

The report is based on analysis of two days of press coverage each week for London editions of nine national newspapers over 4 months of the campaign. Of the 2,378 articles analysed which were focused on the referendum, 41% were pro leave as against 27% pro-remain.
I know that Comma isn’t as successful as Waymo and probably may not be. But that personal bias aside this was a beautifully written ode to what technology ideally should be and what society needs to evolve to and look like over the next few centuries. An ecological sensibility with a lower footprint combined with a desire to allow individuals to harness more of their autonomy and freedom.
Fraud calls seem to be the favorite pastime for Russian inmates. They typically target individuals though. They're not supposed to have cellphones but they bribe their way to them, purchase some personal details and typically pose as bank security officers.
> Just Eat comes to mind

Just Eat is on the list of companies impacted by this in the article.
FWIW, you can pay a much lower fee and the transaction will probably be confirmed... eventually...

For example, I donated to a torrenting site with a very low fee and it took ~3 days to confirm.
The fact that specific prices, or that prices in some spending categories have risen faster than the standard CPI is trivially conformable and trivially true. The contention that the general price level has increased faster than CPI is quite difficult to confirm or dispute.

Even on an individual level, it's not easy at all to built an accurate price index. Not many people have complete and accurate records of all their expenditures even from just the current month. Close to zero have them for several years, let alone decades. So they usually go by memory and cherry picking.
I think the principle of charity that dang has recently been trying to promote applies here. It's probably safe to assume that the author isn't suggesting that software be allowed to critically fail more often in the interests of micro-optimization.

The PDF he linked to for bounds-checking is a series of slides that notes that conventional approaches to bounds-checking incurs a 60% runtime performance hit, and that there is another approach that works as well but incurs only about a 23% runtime performance hit.

Aside: rapidly improving energy efficiency has probably been one of the greatest technological developments of the last 20 years; it would be amazing if software development practices could be similarly adapted. Like, is it possible to have a demoscene approach to software development while still keeping portability and maintainability? Imagine the transformation in software we could see in the next 10 years if someone figured out how to do that.
Hm what does TCO have to do with a language spec? It impacts neither syntax nor semantics of a language, which is what a language spec should be about. It's a detail of the compiler.

So I'm curious what this has to do with the languagr spec? Couldn't a smart compiler/interpreter do this before ES6 already?
Wait, I’m confused. Like one promise/future/whatever monadish-eventually-fulfilled value referencing its own value? Or a polymorphic promise/etc referencing the same construct that created it to map its resolution into a new value?
That's impressive.

It took 40 years and somewhere well above $100 million to get to a minimum viable product. First DARPA, then Google, then Softbank. It helps having long-term funding.
Yes, it will save me _weeks_ of work. But, I think that there are a few fundamental issues at play here.

1. I think every project has different requirements, e.g. what if I want phone auth or single sign-on using email. Once you add all those features, your product is likely to become complex like Firebase Auth or Auth0 where understanding third-party APIs is almost equivalent to writing your own system (especially since open-source ecosystem already has key components available). You might argue that the solutions have client libraries to make things super simple, but in real world applications, plug-and-play rarely works to perfection.

2. Projects that are just starting out can't really afford third-party solutions. Once they can, they can also afford to build their own.

3. Solutions to these things already exists, just not in one place. Netlify has a solution for Forms and templates (I think). For Auth, we have Okta, Auth0 and Firebase. For emails, I think Amazon SNS (not sure).
There's a funny interaction between TCO and memory management. If you have scoped destructors (C++, Rust) then you might accidentally defeat TCO by simply declaring a variable. GCs solve this problem by deferring collection to allocation points, but now TCO requires GC.

What's the modern view here? I think it's bimodal: either TCO is a defining feature of the language, or a best-effort optimization that nobody should rely on.
> If we decided today to do large-scale deployment of new nuclear reactors, then we would see reductions in CO₂ emissions from the energy sector only in ten to twenty years.

Nobody serious is suggesting we do nothing but deploy nuclear reactors. Just in the energy sector, we should do a massive build-out of wind, solar, transmission, and, yes, nuclear.

> switching to wind+solar+storage and in the process democratizing energy production

These have large economies of scale too. While you might want to install a small propeller in your back yard, it's much more cost effective to get the energy from the grid supplied by a large scale wind farm.

> rethinking mobility (massive expansion of public transport, massive price reduction of public transport, massive investion in biking infrastructure, making outer city districts more attractive), putting a prize on CO₂ with a substantial steering effect (but ensuring that the proceeds of such a tax are given, in equal parts, to the population, so that people who contribute less-than-average to the climate crisis have more money available at the end of the day), transforming the system (because even with a prize for CO₂, there are lots of valuable things which cannot be measured in dollars, and competition pressure in unchecked capitalism deepens inequality and exploitation), ...

These may all be good ideas (and personally, I would certainly agree with some of those), but has nothing to do with whether the needed energy is produced by renewables, nuclear, or mass deployment of hamster wheels.
This is a really noice app with a good collection of sounds, thanks for making it available (on F-Droid, in particular). I've since learnt earplugs work better for me, but this made for a nice transition point between listening to music and shutting out all sound.

For any potential contributors: the only issue I had was (relatively minor) UI difficulty - there was no way to set 'saved presets' as the home screen of the app. So every time, I had to open the app, open the side bar, click on Saved Presets (which was pretty much the only things I wanted to play), then click on the preset title. Making this easier might be nice for other users who might have the same issue. Relatedly, widgets would be nice to have - just a simple 1x1 Play button, that when clicked starts playing a particular Saved Preset chosen when creating the widget.
It's kind of a joke post. "Use a one-time pad! Proven unbreakable! And exchange the huge key on a physical CD with your intended destination!"
Please correct me if I’m wrong here but companies must “play by the rules” in some countries. If they don’t, that company gets the ban hammer.

But I guess that’s your point?
I don't want to speak to the other companies, but that Google link is over a decade old.

They absolutely have very strict access control now — it would be 100% impossible for a Google employee to do this nowdays.
> anti union, anti local workers as you call them are coming in via illegal immigration

No they're not. What makes you think that? I have worked in the tech industry all my adult life, and worked closely with countless H1-B holders and they have all, as a rule, been egregiously anti workers-rights, elitist, chauvinistic, misogynistic, and racist; with _few_ exceptions.

I see no reason to assume the same of a different group.

As for these "many powers", they are all nodes of the same industrial tree, and across that tree we see poor representation of Black, Latino, Dalit, and Indigenous leadership and disproportionately representation from White, Han Chinese, and Brahmin communities (although there are obviously still significant prejudicial barriers before Indian workers of all stripes). None of the sectors you mentioned are free from systemic racial prejudice.

It irritates me to no end when Model Minorities complain of racial prejudice while deliberately ignoring the systemic factors which foment racial prejudice. To me it smacks of bad faith. Especially when it ends with "I am buying a gun".

You, a member of a relatively privileged class, threatening fatal violence against the untouchable caste? That willingness to violence to defend your Whiteness is what protects Whiteness from YOU.
I'm no expert, but something similar happened to me a few years back. The conclusion was an allergic reaction to the sun...
USB-C is super slow for this. You need to use Thunderbolt NVME enclosures which can run the NVME at PCIe 3.0 x 4 speed. I have 5 and RAID them together, which handily beats the internal drive for speed by about 2x.
Super nit-picky comment, but it’s Elo rating, not ELO. It’s not an acronym, it’s named after the physicist Arpad Elo
If anything I think the term clickbait is used more appropriately now. "Local mother discovers one small trick" is terrible clickbait because most people are used to it now in the same way a Nigerian prince scam won't work on most people.

Clickbait is anything that gets you to click on an article. In some cases, it can be good clickbait and an equally good article and in other cases it can be bad clickbait where the title states facts but the facts are misleading or require a specific interpretation or need more context or don't accurately describe the essence of the article.
> I have the feeling swift never really worked in the server side

Vapor [1] is wonderful to work with and has a large user base. Apple is also putting significant resources into Server Side Swift with Swift NIO [2]. Lots of really cool stuff happening in that ecosystem

[1]: https://vapor.codes
[2]: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
Like Tesla? Wouldn't Tesla have to have a monopoly on the entire automotive industry to realise their P/E? And as for profit they don't make any at the moment, IIRC
> The difference is in gun culture. Very few Europeans identify with guns as much as Americans occasionally do

It’s an issue that’s become culturally politicized. I bet folks in Switzerland don’t say stuff like “people in other cantons cling to their guns and religion.”
The space ones are expensive partially because weight is an important consideration. For a terrestrial RTG, you can use Strontium or something else that's much cheaper (but much less weight-efficient).

See e.g. https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:9398623
Sounds like a replacement for SMS is needed ASAP. We should not be relying on tech giants for something as critical as messaging. SMS is provided as part of a phone plan and does not rely on any FAANGs to operate. We need an end-to-end encrypted protocol for use over the cell network that is provided by default with all cell plans.
yeah, let's put everyone out of work
Heaven forbid someone front runs the trades of Congress.
I think part of it is due to academia. In computer science classes a lot of questions have a "best" answer. In the real world customers don't buy software because the architecture started with the "best" ideas. They buy software because it fits their need. The best idea could contribute a superior customer experience but it is peripheral to what it takes to be successful.
Also (from right now) it seems that Gruber doesn't know what browser sniffing is (or at least pretends to), but still has an opinion:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/04/html5-safari-ope...
Well, to be pedantic, one is an absolute judgment, the other is a relative one. "Seldom" implies that a significant majority of iPhone critics do not let facts get in their way. "Becoming more" implies that there is a trend towards freedom from facts, but does not place a judgment on the absolute degree of fact-freedom.
I wonder if this will really help with the issue of comprehension that Nick Carr was talking about. The links are still there and still visible so I'm not sure that I won't just use them in the same way. That said, it is nicer looking now that they don't pop nearly as much.
The article missed perhaps the easiest way to surmise if someone is gay on Facebook -- mutual friends. If you both are gay, you probably have the same gay mutual friends.

Ever since I started adding gay people, I started getting friend requests from other random gay people (I'm assuming who use Facebook for dating).
I think the article is missing the point.

It's not that you can't have a secret and be on Facebook-- it's that you can't have anybody who knows your secret be on Facebook.

Put another way: even if "Joe" (from the article) were not on Facebook, that wouldn't have stopped someone from posting a comment about his boyfriend.

People talk about other people. You can't control what they say. If these people are publishing their comments (to their "friends", or on blogs, to the general public), you're shit out of luck.
Thanks, heresy, for the UI compliment :)

I agree with you - it's clear what the value proposition is, and it's a tool that generates real value. That's the real reason it makes money, the UI is just the way I chose to differentiate.

Making $2k/mo is NOT hard if you provide actual value.

Anyone can learn to do that!

It just takes time, effort, reading biz books, etc. - or attending my launch course (http://yearofhustle.com), which condenses everything I've learned from reading and practice into really easy-to-absorb lessons.

The thing is, the reason I specifically chose a tool that would have a clear value, chose how to deliver that value in a different way, and made the content explain how it makes people money.

And I have read 100s of business books -- a hobby I started as a 13-year-old. It's not like I've got an MBA, or ever had a business mentor. I taught myself.
Spot on! Whether it make or break an idea lie with the ability of the entrepreneur and its team.
The first line of the linked article at bestinclass.dk:

> Spring cleaning is complete and the driving code behind bestinclass.dk is now being released as opensource. With it you can generate a static site, import a wordpress blog, emit feeds (atom) and much much more.
Definitely visit SF for unexpected lessons.
For OpenStack clouds, the HEAT project is working on that.
I wish Qt Widgets (C++, not QML) was more mobile friendly... Xamarin will be good when it finally becomes free (acquired by MS?), or at least gains more indie-friendly license.

API-wise, MoSync really stands out. Unfortunately, it is dead now. Same goes for Adobe Flex/AIR.
I stand corrected. Anyway the inclusion of Obama in the debate was appropriate.
View as function of model isn't a concept foreign to FRP either - MVVM is a common pattern together with ReactiveCocoa.
I am 100% sure this is the reason Chrome was funded. (I don't doubt Chrome developers' goal was to develop the best web browser in the world, but business case for doing so is different matter.)
This is why basic research is so hard to manage. If a company is no longer interested in researching area X and instead wants to shift focus to area Y, there is no real alternative to outplacing the area X researchers and hiring new for area Y.

Trying to shift the interest of area X researchers only results in their coming up with rationalizations about how what they have been doing all along is somehow related to Y.
what is ID.R please explain?
> this is extremely noticeable if you drop into a debugger

Is the debugger part of the language specification? No.

When I say 'can you observe the difference as a programmer' you can mentally expand that to 'can you observe the difference as a programmer who is working off a copy of the language specification'. Otherwise someone armed with a debugger can look at the machine code and then we might as well say all implementation decisions are observable by the user, and then I think we're being a bit silly.

> you won't be able to access the first variable

I'm not familiar with this part of JavaScript off the top of my head sorry - do you mean using a debugger again here?
Phone number can tell more than enough (as phone is used as a user id in Signal).
Sure, it is a technical problem too. It's a technical workaround to a political problem of not being able to touch the other platform.

My approach to this has been to embrace, extend, extinguish (yes, that was an intentional reference, sorry):

Insert a constrained API "around" the service you can't modify. Change all your services to go via that API instead of direct. Now you can apply the fixes you can to the new layer while finding ways to gradually replace it in parallel.

At the same time the new layer provides a constraint: It should be as narrow as you can get away with - creating a "new contract" with the API consumers about what they're actually allowed to do without negotiating with you, and ensure that any expansion of dependencies on the service you can't touch get documented and appropriate attempts made to avoid increasing complexity (it's good to do this in general, but realistically it's easier to get buy-in to enforce in limited cases like this).

This intersection of tech with procedures and politics lie at the heart of a lot of technical architecture work. A huge proportion of the work we do is not technically hard in and of itself - it becomes technically hard because of organisational considerations.
Now wait until you fall on it.
The current effort towards medical ai is heading in the wrong direction: were trying to make machines adapt to the field while we should be trying to adapt the field to make it available to machine-aided reasoning. Problem: almost nobody understands both medicine and machines well enough to bridge the abysmal communication gap separating AI/CS and medical professionals.
I used Bubble (bubble.io), a visual programming tool, to create fully functional applications very similar to UI prototyping.
You’re really comparing a homophobic ban of a gay couple trying to get married, to that of someone pushing an insurrection against the government? Would you also be against civil rights laws because they forced restaurants to allow black people to dine, and churches to marry interracial couples? Your attempts to make the two things equal is deeply disingenuous. This is an outright attack on the whole democratic system because one person is a sore loser.
Hi slfnflctd! You replied to my comment on a thread on LSD trips some 42 odd days ago, and I kind of missed it when you posted it but I just stumbled upon it today and found your comment to be really insightful and I could relate to it really well. I think I could learn more from you if you were open to a discussion. I was wondering if we could connect through email or any other platform of your choice?
Not everybody has gigabit FTTH. On a 25 Mbit connection waiting for humongous downloads really sucked when I wanted to play a bit of GTA 5 (not even online!) after not touching it for a few weeks.
> That's too broad a statement to make and it's not factually based on anything.

It's based on a WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870343950457611...

I've seen this number several other places as well, varing from 96k to 104.

I live in Atlanta. I get articles from Georgia Tech about the tech job scene here as well as averages for different majors, etc. If you really really really want me to find an email from Tech, and stick it on the web I will.

I get Austin numbers talking to people I know there...

I have housing market comparisons for all three cities and Vancouver due to talking to friends in all three areas.
>>Spark refused to pay a $200,000 break up fee to help cover the expenses the lean company had started to take on ..

So this "lean" company spent around $200,000 on expenses relating to the possibility of getting VC investment that they apparently didn't need (and didn't originally plan for)

In the VC/angel funded world, I guess this passes as "lean".