jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, I've found this channel few days ago and it is wonderful.

Author from Canada, and he has seen all the problems described in the thread. He is not bike promoter, just a person who wants comfortable and safe commute. So he moved to Netherlands where even commute by car is better because of the way city is organized. He describes in details how and why, and it is amazing.

Now I want to visit Netherlands.
You might be right, but the overall point seems to be lost. Microsoft was used to marketing microsoft products to middle aged professionals and now they needed to be aware that they may need to think very differently about a very different product from the rest of their offerings (at the time).

Also, relatively expensive luxuries (such as video game consoles) do not need to be marketed toward people who have a lot of money. They just need an emotional appeal to the people who will want them -- then those people will either direct a larger percentage of their income toward those items or they'll motivate their parents/grand parents to buy them for them.

Lastly, even if a console costs $500, many poor people consider them a very cheap form of entertainment in the long run because that $500 console will last for several years where as a trip to the movies is very expensive since it only lasts a few hours.
Thanks! That looks just about what I was (mentally) predicting.
since it is new, i think you can get same id and passwd(?) on HNI :)
I haven't added many new facebook friends in the last year but I can no longer keep up with my news feed anymore. It certainly seems the signal to noise ratio is going up and the social filters are becoming overwhelmed.
Give Opera a chance. It's feels light/fast enough that I use it happily every day on a laptop almost a decade old and the keyboard shortcuts are fully configurable.
Is this really what "the people" need in a recession? When will it be evident that it doesn't matter who is in charge, the government is always intent on encroaching our privacy? Remember that the "patriot act" was written well before 9/11, sitting, just waiting for the right opportunity.
This is clearly true for employees as well.

I have used a lot of recruiting services in the past. There are nearly none that I would recommend, and only a couple of specific recruiters I like.
This site is the by-product of the "hacker news meetup" we had this last Sunday in Bangalore. It all started with this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1885605
Hope this helps Indian audience discover/ask issues faced by Indian startups in cities like Bangalore, Bombay, NCR..
I'll also note, if you understood what those folks are about, that many of these folks would be happy to make a home out there if someone would pay them a normal-ish salary to maintain such a datacenter. I suspect this could end up economically advantageous both for the seasteaders and whatever company wanted to establish the datacenter.

(As opposed to the 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, hazard-pay situation people are in for offshore drilling operations.)
not sure if w3m is what i wanted, but i'm really really enjoying it right now. thank you.
As someone who has read a fair number of granted search warrants, I can attest to the fact that 100% had obvious technical, logical, or factual errors (under penalty of perjury) that were granted by the judge anyway.

The bar/basis to successfully receive a search warrant is hilaribad. It's pretty close to a rubber stamp. The courts just believe whatever crap the cops spew out.
This website is a derivative of "The Inquirer", which is known for its annoying jargon.
Doubt it, or they would know that the coder runs away with the code. And the girls. And the money.
> non-broken software doesn't need them

In my experience, there's no such thing as non-broken software.
For BCC, Patrick does something really smart. He automagically generates bingo cards for different terms such as:

* army bingo cards

* pizza bingo cards

* harry potter bingo cards

Generating such bingo cards and thus relevant pages is easy so even if no body ever searches for 'angry birds bingo cards' it hardly costs him anything to generate and host. But if someone does such a search, Patrick gets a free visit (which normally costs $1 or so in AdWords). Don't forget that a majority of search queries are unique and have never been done before so generating content automagically is a great way to do SEO.
Fascinating. 30 years later wikileaks is continuing a time honoured practice, only now we have the Internet.

As an aside, I raised an eyebrow at the Independent's use of a fake Chrome install banner to promote their chrome plugin.

(I expect you have to use Chrome to see it)
I think it's especially telling that he defaults to deception in a case where the more honest, transparent, and honorable action is both obvious and more personally beneficial to everyone involved.

Using advertising and pre sales contacts to determine demand and design a product is quite reasonable (and standard; the innovation is that self-service AdWords makes it a command-line process vs. a formal effort), but the respondents are your first, best, and potentially most loyal customers, so screwing them even a little right off the bat is bad for a lot of reasons.

When the game theoretic amoral behavior and the "conventional, moral" behavior tend to converge, it's probably the correct choice.
I found? You linked to this incident in your previous comment.
The interview is not just about leet code. There's also a behavioral loop and a system design loop, and both of those are extremely important as well. In fact most candidates vastly underestimate their importance.

In my experience the leetcode questions were quite easy from an algorithm standpoint: string operations and traversals and things like that. You are judged not just on correctness but also your communication, requirements gathering, ability to catch edge cases and bugs, and general code quality. In other words, things that are absolutely relevant to the actual job.
Most people with 20 years of experience can't write basic code? Come on.
Facebook is unethical, immoral and destructive to human nature. No merit working there.
I quit it about a year ago and I cannot even remember what it was like having an account, it just seems so strange that this would be such an important part of their online life.

Everybody I know is on Whatsapp/Signal, so I really don't feel like I'm missing anything.
Can you share some examples of what it finds? As long as it is safe to post that.
Have you read "Paranoidi optimisti" by Risto Siilasmaa? All the big problems software wise were cause by Symbian.

"Unfortunately, this was only the tip of the iceberg. Siilasmaa later learned that the overall build time of Symbian was two weeks."
https://www.flashover.blog/posts/technical-debt/
Just the title is fun: "No learning from mistakes, because we dont make mistakes!"

I can't wait to see the AR Fact Checks: "This street is not on fire: its a celebratory peaceful protest"
>the insurance company's own MDs are only there to provide legitimacy to the initial denial.

I have first hand knowledge that this is false. Especially if the insurer is just acting as an administrator for a state Medicaid or federal Medicare or other payer, since there are big penalties for denying coverage just to save money. The insurers even have MDs and PharmDs to audit their own MDs and PharmDs to see if they are appropriately approving or denying treatment.

A lot of the problem is probably coming from lack of proper EMR and supporting documentation justifying treatment, and subjectivity in justifying treatment because there are many gray areas.

This same approval denial situation happens under taxpayer funded healthcare also, since no one has unlimited resources. But yes, the US implementation of it with myriad payers and rules certainly makes for an unpleasant experience and results in subpar healthcare.
I don't think that's true at all. It's been an up and down maelstrom of anti-democracy and mob bating since the man walked down that escalator.
Our tech - we can handle twice the number of people in a room! We'll also be integrating work apps on to the platform.
Are the searches in your luggage on any flight not bothering you?

I agree that phones are different from other possessions.
Exact same article discussed here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26101929
A warning: my father read about DIY air filter just like this one, and made a couple of them at home. The fans are not designed to run continuously, and one failed and caught on fire. The living room burnt down but luckily the fire was put out before it took down the whole house. Damage costed orders of magnitude more than the extra few hundred $ from buying a commercial air purifier.
This is so on point you should write a whole goddamn article and publish it
In fairness, I don't like any social network.
“and they're eco-friendly.”

They certainly have that image, but I think an eco-friendly electric car would have to be smaller and lighter, even if that means decreasing range.

Going for a long range makes their cars unnecessarily heavy. That makes them require more power and increases tire and road wear.

I also think the competition is timing its entry quite well, arriving close to the moment when it becomes possible to make money making electric cars.
Wonderful resource, really helped me have fun playing with C sockets. Thank you Beej!
I don't think it's necessarily union control related at all. From an industry standpoint it makes some sense to have a geographic center so that companies who serve the industry have a place to go and find customers, network, etc. I think in this regard it's largely a spontaneous phenomenon more than a coordinated decision. "Birds of a feather."

The other replies to this are interesting though and it's not all one thing, distributed decision making can be rationalized after the fact any number of ways
First thing you need to do, is determine how much income you want to be making. Are you happy with $1M net worth (in stocks and real estate) or do you want to make $1M USD annual income. I would rather have $100,000 monthly income than a $1M net worth on paper.

I am not a millionaire yet. I would like my annual income to exceed $1M. I don't care much about net worth.

Once you determine how much income you want to make, you can then decide how you are going to do it. Best way is a startup in a sizable market.
Just my thoughts.
Thanks for letting me know. Here's a shorter link that hopefully works:
https://www.beyondtrust.com/assets/documents/BeyondTrust-Mic...
I like "cheers" for informal email or for people I've had a longer professional relationship with.

I think its too intimate/informal for new acquaintances or new customers, so "regards" gets used for that. I think its a better sign off for conveying deference and respect, without sounding like Mr Darcy with "yours sincerely".

That one I reserve for lawyers .
If you like short stories I recommend Nine Tomorrows by Issac Asimov & The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Syriza is literally an acronym for 'Coalition of the Radical Left'.
Don't confound price with value!

Software programmers and Engineers work an inmense amount to build things that are commercially unsuccessful. In fact, most projects are botched completely, let alone those that run at a loss, before you get the big wins.

There is a definite disproportion of price/value across all professions, and programmers are today in the spectrum where the expectations are rather low. 20 years from now, we could have so many engineers that there wont be much advantage in comparison with accountants, operations managers, sales or retail etc.

It is a priviledged position, albeit not as priviledged as lawyers or bankers (whose salary can vastly outpace their value).
Classical service jobs dont have that luxury: you serve x burguers, u sell x products, you build y chairs.
Let's wrap up here but, again, there is a totally trivial remedy for an article being "evil". Just don't post it to HN.
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-will-start-to-punish-users-for-up...
I use VSCode, it’s helpful but It’s not remotely the same. With TS it’s better when the devs included documentation.
The standard library has a General Purpose Allocator that can catch some of the errors that ASAN can, like memory leaks.
What do you feel an apolitical organization would look like on the world stage?
That's perhaps unsurprising.. it certainly would be far from the first industry to suffer from institutional blindness to any inconvenient metric that might challenge a self-stated purpose
>one needs the notions of Lebesgue integral and measure. The Riemann integral from calculus courses is just not robust enough.

definitely not the case. leibniz's rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_integral_rule#Proof_of...

only requires fubini's theorem for exchanging order of integration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubini%27s_theorem#Riemann_int...

which i'm pretty sure everyone learns in multivariable calc.

i personally learned it from apostol's calc (not analysis) books.
I think we're going around in circles. Because Alexander's identity was not in fact private, I don't care why Alexander wanted the NYT to keep it out of the story, nor do I think there is any real-world norm obligating them to do so.
Ironically, there was a recent astral codex article about how much writings sucks and becomes useless when you have to appeal to too many stakeholders by constantly re-stating the obvious to keep everyone happy.
We don't need it for this. Intelligence organizations know that biological threats like this are intelligence problems. They just didn't think them likely or that the sick guy would be our enemy.

However, now we know the adversary is truly an adversary. China will suppress information on pandemics started within its borders.

The game has changed. You don't listen to China about whether China is sick. You listen to Keyhole and your guys on the ground.
Please, that's such a copout. To "hire good people" you need to 1. attract and 2. identify them. If you don't create attractive conditions, good people will go elsewhere; if you do offer, say, financial incentives and personal prestige, bad people will flock too, so you need to identify good people. Further, the whole show is dynamic, good people can turn bad if wrong incentives exist, or you can lose them if more attractive alternatives present themselves.

So it all becomes a process problem, how to select, retain and reward good people. Which is exactly the problem impact factors, grants, publication metrics etc. try to solve, in an objective and reproducible manner. You might have a better system and results, but it's relevant only if it's not based on you personal nose and intuition to "hire good people".
eagerly waiting for the first go2 monad library :-)

- maybe

- either

- writer

- state
they will just revoke certificates for disallowed websites and safari will have no way of showing them.
And yet the mainstream media has cast him as the voice of reason in all of this mess. Hmm.
seriously. cops just turn their cameras off
Rule of 72: doubles in 10 years, annual %age is 72/10 = 7.2%. Close to the right answer, easy to do in your head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72
It doesn't matter. They got a Bitcoin Billionaire in a trial. Guilty or not, they already won this round.
We’ve been arguing about this for years. Frameworks have their place. Bespoke hand-crafted apps have their place. It all depends on expected performance, human factors, and maintainability. I think that’s a benefit you get from hiring folks that have both worked inside and outside of frameworks and in a variety of tech stacks.
This. I still wonder if it was worth it to jump from a 16GB MBA to a 32GB MBP for twice the price...
This cyclist went on to murder three people. The Tesla was simply choosing the better of two bad options to minimize fatality.
The user had tried to change lanes to (I assume) get into the right turn only lane past the bus lane.
6M per day is an average of 70rps. It would be highly unusual to have a 100x variation from the mean on such a large traffic volume.

Let's imagine that all the traffic occurs in a single hour (6M per hour) and is Poisson distributed. Even then to reach 10,000 rps would require a second with 6x the average traffic volume for that hour. Admittedly this could theoretically occur when some correlated event causes everyone to browse HN, but historically the site goes down during those.

For comparison our service (also largely US-centric) served 30M views yesterday with a peak volume of ~1000rps.
This report shows 8 minor deaths, approx 2/3 of total deaths were hypothermia, but doesn't show a cause/age breakdown

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/SMOC_FebWinterStorm_...
It's not a brag, it's a data free guess intended to not be wrong low.

A transformer at a substation that serves much of the town blew up a few years ago causing a several day outage, so it definitely isn't a few hours. They had rolling black outs in place in less than a day and had power back in less than 3 days (there was not a spare on site).
I agree with your take on the doctor heuristic. But there is also the worry that the patient won't call back for longer than they should, and the underlying disease could have a chance to get a lot worse in that time. If a doctor really isn't doing any basic diagnostic work, and is just telling people "take some aspirin, and call back if it doesn't go away after X days", that is still IMO negligent. If I have cancer, I don't want to wait 2 weeks or a month longer than necessary to start treatment. That could be the difference between life and death.

On the security guard, you're right, but I think it's still interesting to think about. If the security guard really does just assume any noise heard is not robbers, then they are effectively not doing anything. Their deterrence value is non-zero, agreed, but maybe it's cheaper and more productive to install motion-activated security cameras at ingress points, and big honkin' signs at the perimeter that say "Security monitoring in effect 24/7". Yes, you have to pay for the monitoring, but that's probably cheaper than paying for a butt-in-seat. And safer, too! Most security guards at most places probably aren't trained for much beyond the basics. I think it's more likely than not that someone will get hurt if robbers do show up and a security guard gets involved. I would much rather some stuff get stolen than people get hurt. (Certainly there are some things that are critical enough that require a well-trained security force. I just think these things are less common than most people would think.)

> Un-nuanced and quite sloppy presentation of heuristics.

I think the lack of nuance is in part the point. We should be examining places in our lives where we go by our gut feeling, or by the common case, when we probably should actually be doing research, diagnosis, or testing. Even if the results aren't as dire as some of the non-nuanced takes, they're still bad enough to warrant some thought.
The website's homepage is proudly sporting the banner "Saving the Australian Way of Life."

Top stories:

- Pandemics Not State Libs’ Real Problem

- Regions Smashed By Net-Zero Fallout

- Craig Kelly: Cancel Culture Has Now Come To The Government’s Backbenches

What a dumpster fire of a site.
Would you purchase a device that did this for you somehow?
This criticism seems unnecessarily harsh and focused on income.

There are real issues here regarding the role of a CEO in working with or talking to analysts and investors. You could make an argument that it serves Google's long-term interest to withhold this information from analysts and their shareholders. Or you could argue that Larry Page should answer to people who own part of his company. I'm not saying one is more right than the other, you just aren't contributing to the discussion by trashing someone based on their income.

This isn't about Larry Page vs some "loser $100k analysts" it's about the CEO of a major public tech company and their relationship with their investors.
Being from New Zealand the first thing I look for on e-commerce sites is the currency of the quoted price and the availability (and charges if applicable) of international shipping.

I could find neither on your site.

Apart from that it's a great site and lots of fun designing different shirts. Hopefully I can buy something from you in the future :)
An actual book written to be sold at a dollar isn't expected to be much. In fact, I would assume any book written for that price point is probably one of those scammy "Send me $20 for a PDF all about being a video game wizard!" website type of books.

However, for content that would otherwise be languishing, it can be a terrific move.

Like Jerry Pournelle said, 70% is a hell of a lot more than you ever get from a publisher. Hell, 30% is a hell of a lot more than you ever get. Ten percent (what you'd get from a publisher) on a $20 book is going to get an author a couple bucks. On Kindle, they could sell it for $3 and still make more money.

And at a buck or three, you're more likely to pick up more spontaneous sales and they can add up to ten or even a hundred thousand sales, pretty fast. If you are smart enough to have included a rights-reversion in your contract, it's a good way to make some additional income on what might otherwise be forgotten and ignored.
I'd like to upvote you twice. Warren Buffett has plenty to say about the unholy marriage of corporations and their analysts, consummated with garbage "earnings guidance". Yecch. The quality of the article was lame, at best: "News Flash: Wall Street analysts say people should really pay attention to them, or else."
According to the article, that's exactly where it came from.

Sadly, the symbols mentioned in the article aren't always used the way they should. For instance, earlier today there was a link on HN about an HTML5 audio player, Speakker [1], which uses the standby symbol as a play button. Confuses the hell out of me.

[1] http://www.speakker.com/demo/
Why not just sterilize it with gamma radiation?

A WHO link I found claims that high-dose irradiation (>10,000 grays) is substantially safe and will sterilize food, but Wikipedia says this is banned in the US except for hospitals and NASA:

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/fs_management/irr...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation#High_dose_appl...
I came to the comments for this. I immediately liked the left way better, and then saw "If you said right one, then I did my job." I stopped reading after that because he obviously didn't do his job.
Cool video! Just what we've been waiting to see.

I wonder what actually exploded there? Part of the argument for why the landing was supposed to be relatively safe was that the stage would be mostly empty of fuel by the time that it landed, so there wouldn't be much to explode if something went wrong. So is that an explosion of the remaining fuel in the rocket, or something on deck?
Thanks! That was one of the most exciting parts of the post for me.

It would be really cool to have something, like the Google Books ngram viewer [1], which would allow you to see how this changes over time, using a huge corpus. I imagine a graph where the x-axis is year, the y-axis is a linear combination of word vectors that the user defines, and then the user can select words and see them plotted over time.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams
I zoomed out so that I could see the entire Earth, which is where I live. Looks pretty small on that scale.
These 3254 people voting for the Linux client might encompass the whole of the future user base of the client.

Linux users traditionally have been more involved in a community, so it's entirely conceivable that next to 100% of potential uTorrent Linux users have taken the opportunity to vote whereas only a fraction of a percent of utorrent's total user base voted for the second highest rated feature.

I would probably not use a poll like this to direct the future planning of my product.