jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Great software entrepreneur MAY be artists, but it isn't a necessity. Just because you craft or make something doesn't inherently make you an artist. Are the people who make sandwiches at Subway really "sandwich artists"?

That said, an appreciation for the arts most certainly affects one's eye for design and taste. It is the difference between a good looking/feeling app and a great one. So much can and should be borrowed from the arts to build products, but perhaps such a loose definition of "artist" is unhelpful.
Here is, at least in my industry, a fairly successful open core product: http://www.mirthcorp.com/products/mirth-connect.
Not to be rude but I think you're highly overestimating the effects this could have globally. The ocean is really big, and it's not like radioactivity is contagious. As for the local effects, who knows...

EDIT: by who knows, I just mean I'm not aware of the scale, I could imagine it getting pretty bad. It's just that with all the sensationalism and non comprehension of basic statistics in some articles, I feel pretty misinformed on the subject.
Or... I could use a language/toolset that makes all that easier. Why does that need further justification?
Nope, just pkgsrc.
And the one that are not closed to the sea, are closed to rivers, and so are also at risk of being flooded. Another risk is that after severe heat waves, the river's water can become to "hot" to efficiently cool the reactor... Not to mention severe drought where the river level can become too low... All in all, plenty of different ways to fail.
Those aren’t the tweets that got Trump suspended.

He tweeted praise for the rioters and justified the riot while the riot to stop the constitutional process of the peaceful transfer of power was in progress.
I disagree. I think Donald Trump’s tweets were the gasoline. I have serious doubts this fire can go on without him. Hopes, at least.
Nobody is forced to install Parler.

Apple, as a maker of (very!) personal, general computers shouldn't have any say on what the computer users can or can not do once they bought these computers.

In fact, IMHO they shouldn't be allowed to control the App Store at all. (Of course this also goes for their competition : Google, Microsoft, probably even Canonical.)
People were overly enthusiastic about it intially, but soon realized almost no one wants to use a slower, riskier, and now more expensive payment option. Bitcoin is good for merchants but terrible for buyers.

Bitcoin lightning could change this, instant transactions with almost no fees, but it's still in early days.
Not from the US, but when the current president of any nation whips up a crowd of fanatic followers at the end of his term to stay in power against the will of the people that is a coup.

What the reasons are for the individual follower is completely and utterly irrelevant, because it is overshadowed by the fact that the current head of the executive tried to overturn the result of an election.

And quite frankly: the only ingredient missing here was support of the military — if he had that the US very likely could have become a dictatorship right now.
No matter how you slice it, it all eventually comes down to energy.

We know how to generate power with minimal CO2 emissions, but we don't do it at the necessary scale. We know how to recycle, but we don't actually do that, either, and it takes energy. And, capturing carbon... well, if you want to put the carbon genie back in the bottle, you have to either expend energy to do it, or violate the laws of thermodynamics. One cuts into the amount of energy you can consume, while the other is an impossibility. All this is just making the argument that we need to share the technology to do these things as broadly as possible, including throughout the global south.

Do you or do you not believe there's a finite amount of energy we can expend and still remain sustainable? Essentially, we're limited to biomass (which puts carbon back in the air that was taken out of the air previously), nuclear, gravity (hydroelectric, more or less), and solar (solar panels, wind). To go past that, we need to get into fossil fuels, and be very, very careful we don't exceed the ability of the Earth to absorb the CO2 we put in the air. Unfortunately, we're coming close to exceeding the capacity of the Earth to absorb any nontrivial amount of CO2 and still remain broadly habitable, which is why we're having significant warming over the past several decades. As you said, humans are very pro-growth, which means we're really bad at respecting these sorts of limits. So, we need to remove the temptation to do so ASAP if we are to succeed.

As for innovation, you just told me we have all the technology necessary to go net zero carbon, so, who cares about innovation in the short term? Do you want to watch the collapse of global civilization on your iPhone 15, or something?

Honestly, as long as you're going to sit there and tell me we can capitalism our way out of a problem that was caused by capitalism, you're not convincing me that you can be convinced otherwise. You're literally espousing a position that capitalists refer to as "capitalist realism," which is essentially "we can't conceive of any alternative to capitalism, so, there is no alternative!"

You know the definition of insanity, right? Tell me again why it makes sense that we're going to capitalism our way out of this?
This is completely false.

The machines are not hacked, and the voter rolls are legitimate.

There is zero evidence of systematic fraud, therefore, there is no 'disenfranchisement'.

To suggest that 'maybe one day, someone could mess with our election' is not 'disenfranchisement'.

"You may have been told by the media" - Rudy Giuilani and the President clearly failed to make a case or provide any evidence - moreover, they lied, lied and lied through the process and have no credibility.

The election was fine - Trump's claims of fraud are completely fabricated.
It wouldn't have mattered much in practice.
Astrazeneca has also produced a vaccine and it's not an mRNA vaccine.
Not trying to downplay the research here, I'm just talking timing.
> ? A woman is under arrest for trying to grab what she thought was her phone back from a black kid. It's a national story.

> In 2020, getting into an argument with a Black person is 'racist' and 'criminal' if you happen to be wrong.

Assault isn't a mere argument, and it's a crime regardless of the race of the perpetrators or victim.

> But because someone is a different colour, she's being destroyed and doxxed on the MSM for the assumption of racism.

No, she’s being condemned for the objective fact of assaulting a child.
Reminds me a bit of David Foster Wallace's famous speech... the idea that the real reason you should strive for education is to control and understand your thoughts? Which is hard - how often I find I am on auto-pilot and then hours later I am in the wrong place with work or trying to solve a problem and didn't even notice. Or worse, a bias puts me in a bad mood and then I am stuck there because I don't pay attention to how this time its different / not the same.

>The really significant education in thinking that we’re supposed to get in a place like this isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.

>That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

Full speech: https://www.butwhatfor.com/david-foster-wallace-this-is-wate...
The F-35 JIRA
Pretty clearly unsustainable, isn't it?
how were those countries economies before communism?
I live in Japan and go around twice a week, some people go near everyday here. Small homes, small fridges and portions, convenient walkable neighborhoods, desire to eat fresh.
Is this web rings again?
Because everyone knows how good the government is with our data
I'd love to come up with examples as I type this to you from an open source web browser on a smart phone that contains more functionality than $20K worth of equipment did with more processing power than what all of NASA had in the 70s and access to more information than President Reagan had in the 80s and a faster throughput than anyone had in the 90s all hosted on a self made website by a startup platform helped fund and inspire hundreds of successful companies as I wait for my sushi dinner to be delivered to my door and take a break from my telecommute to work to hack out this absent minded response to you, but I'm drawing a blank.

Another Musk inspired project is the hyperloop and of course the Boring tunnels for electric cars. These are novel transportation solutions that solve for the problem in a more creative way than simply "build more light rails". That's the type of stuff a government will never come up with. There needs to be a creative maestro with massive capital. Musks are rare in the world but they certainly can move in a more agile way when they do appear.

I would also argue, telecommuting has solved for some of the transportation problems alone. Think of how many less cars are on the road as a result of work from home.
You seem to be mistaken. In the US, trading law for campaign cash is very legal.
HE washing machines seems to be one of the few things where less water is still ok. They make up for it by running longer. A water efficient toilet just ends up not working as well because it’s using less water and not reusing it (like washing machines).
It's also a good idea to give safer things shorter names.

So make random() a CSPRNG (and an alias for SecureRandom() for people who want to be explicit) while InsecureFastRandom() is just what it says and has no other name. Then if you really need performance over unpredictability, it's there, but nobody is confused about what they're getting. And lazy people who don't like to type or pay close attention get the safe one.
ScalaJS is one of the projects which I don't understand why more people don't rave about. It's /extremely/ nice that I can have a single project which share code between them for validation; no need for swagger or OpenAPI.
External static analyzers also improved a lot.

You can ensure memory-safety in C by enforcing strict rules since the first commit.
Ditto. They dry my hands much faster than the Dyson and I don't have to touch a germ infested surface.
I don’t know about welfare queens, but there are a massive number of older, white men blue collar workers who pretty much live off of disability for their “bad backs”
I'm appreciating this because I'm seeing the value of single process and single machine workflows. And this is after spending a decade on massive scale distributed systems, so I know that 98% of all people don't need scale.

My bet is on a single document server, and I'm writing a programming language for board games : http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/what-the-living-document

While I do see a future of the concepts I espouse as I'm making the language feel like an excel-reactive environment, my focus is on having fun. This year looks to be a slow year for the language as I built up some UIs for games.

Litestreem looks very interesting because it may be the missing piece where I could leverage it to get durability of a single database.
To be clear, I didn't downvote their comment — I don't think it warranted it — I'm just saying I can sympathise with the argument that a comment that doesn't add anything useful to the discussion is a fair target for a downvote.

Saying "But what about x?" when you yourself provide a link that says that X is a non-issue doesn't make for an engaging discussion. "But what about x? This link suggests it's not a problem but I think it is because of y" does make for an engaging discussion, even if y is seemingly nonsense.
I think he meant Vietnam as in a total failure on the part of the US
C# (.NET4+) has real variable types, and a library to use them for database access.

Using Type dynamic - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736.aspx

https://github.com/robconery/massive
I think the accusing party has to explain why something is hypocritical and propaganda.
If you're going to accuse someone of writing weak arguments, you should probably make sure that your own argument is really well supported.
Gruber does approach technology from a pro-Apple viewpoint, but many of his articles are at least organized around verifiable facts, though some may argue with his opinions or conclusions. In most (though not all) Gruber articles, it is at least not hard to tell which part is the facts he started with and which part is the opinion that some may disagree with. This is so basic, but most blogs are a complete muddle.
It's actually also here -- http://www.ringio.com/about/pricing/ in our main website. For us the emphasis since we launched a month ago was to get good feedback from customers, and since it has been free for all to try, it felt unnecessary to be more upfront with the trial.
I've found that decent programming podcasts are few and far between. The ones that promise to be most useful - as in, actually teaching you how to do X - suffer from the flaw that they are people talking about code. And, obviously, if you are driving or running or whatever it is you are doing such that you are listening to audio podcasts, you can't see the code. If they get into any level of detail, it all falls down.

Imagine: "well, the code is like this - open brackets defn whatever open brackets map open brackets list open brackets whatever clsoed bracket closed bracket" (for Lisp) or "well, we created a class with a method called foo that iterates through the 'bar' argument, and returns a array of strings" (for Python/Java etc.)

I tried listening to a podcast like that (about Python IIRC) when I was on the Eurostar train once. I did have my computer with me, but I just couldn't follow it without being able to see the code. At the point I realised this, I was deep under the English Channel, so couldn't exactly log on to the blog and see the code samples...

The closest things I've found are either things like RailsEnvy - now reborn as The Ruby Show and not IMHO as good - which provided some useful news each week about new libraries and plugins for Rails. Or there's some higher level best practices, software engineering type programmes which often seem to be people preaching to me about how I need to be more and more test-infected and agile and (insert methodology buzzword of the week).

It's actually quite difficult to find good, geeky/programming-related podcasts that don't either just descend into general news chit-chat or end up with someone trying to sell me a new engineering methodology. It's a very hard balance between being too technical for audio-only and not being technical enough. A lot of the newsy podcasts like TWiT are way too damn long and rambly.

I mostly don't bother with tech podcasts for the reasons I've just described and stick to things like In Our Time, and quite a few course podcasts on philosophy and other interesting stuff - quite a lot of universities are now doing podcasts: Oxford, UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford etc. There are thousands of people now following along with lecture courses remotely using podcasts - see http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-podclass24nov24,0,7889...
Sincere question --

How many times have existing anti-terrorism laws been misused versus "well" used for the purpose they were intended?

So many people's objections are based on the particular example they can quote, or the very bad outcome case that sticks in your mind. Just like in dumb presidential debates you can line up specific example after example of someone who got left out of the healthcare system, etc (for either side's argument).
But laws are for dealing with hundreds or thousands of incidents, not optimizing for the 0.001% case.

ACLU says that existing laws have unfairly targeted <xyz>, etc. etc. How many times? Versus what positive things did it prevent?

The ACLU is an advocate -- it isn't required to weigh and balance both sides. Lawmakers should.
There was a time when any form of censorship was anti-american.

Now, if one’s opinion does not conform to society’s version of what is true. That opinion is silenced. And that person is socially and publicly shamed.

We are a nation constantly judging each other’s thoughts.

And if you happen to agree with society’s current truth. You agree that silencing these ‘evil ppl’ is just, and the right thing to do. They should be silenced. They should lose their jobs. Their livelihoods.

All that is missing, is throwing them into the gulag, to change their ‘evil’ thoughts.

How fascist we have become.
oh please no. imagine if each tweet consumed as much energy as a current bitcoin transaction. that'd be great. /s
Can you recall any of Brin's ideas on the subject?

(It's funny since I just started reading Sundiver the other day!)
Honestly, I think we're going to need a constitutional right to videotape on-duty cops or something one of these days.

That, and more people who refuse to convict anyone for "resisting arrest", especially when that's the only charge and none of the cops are injured. Doubly so if only the suspect is injured.

I realize they charged them with "attempted lynching" here, but "resisting arrest" is by far the more common charge. Mind you, I'm not saying that one can't resist arrest or that it shouldn't be a crime, only that I wish more people were wise to the abuse of that charge and that they knew to look for warning signs that it's being used abusively. Specifically, I would consider it to be a warning sign if: no cops are injured, there's heavily injured suspect especially when they're disproportionately injured compared to the hypothetical threat they might pose to an officer (two large cops shouldn't be very threatened by a small, unarmed kid), no weapons are found or alleged to have been seen, officer say-so is the only evidence of the crime, suspect is charged with no crime except resisting, contradictory or non-existent testimony about what they were arresting for to begin with and any other contradictions in the evidence.
As a hosting provider this seems to have been a horrible business decision on Amazon's part since now their customers are questioning their reliability. It actually doesn't make much sense especially considering the paranoid nature of many of their techie customers. Yes, Amazon has business before the Feds so they might have wanted to keep them happy up to a certain point, but this seems to have been a big rash decision if they were just acting on a phone call from Lieberman.

What I've been wondering, considering how quickly and strangely PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, also acted, if what really happened here was that they received some kind of National Security Letter. NSL's are subpoenas from the government that also include a gag order preventing you from talking about the letter. NSL's were supposedly ruled unconstitutional after the government had issued 192,499(!) of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are unknown unchallenged variations of the letter or loopholes that allow the government to still threaten businesses without them being able to talk about it or defend themselves.
Warren Buffett is capable of prediction but he is probably boring (I'm probably wrong about this...)

You probably are:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2009ar/2009ar.pdf

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2008ar/2008ar.pdf

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2007ar/2007ar.pdf
Most people don't like their public web servers to be on ports other than 80/443.

If you want the resources served by Node.js and another webserver to be on the same domain/port you need some sort of proxy configuration.
You can get the SheevaPlug DevKit for $99 (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-k...). As far as the software they're using, it's not available yet but will be GPL (source: http://theplugbot.com/about).
It just looks like a regular Sheevaplug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
Brilliant, exactly.

Another important point here: A big benefit of doing changes like this is that vi has the special command "." which repeats the last change. With a single keystroke, it makes the same change you did last.

In practice this comes in handy quite often. Let's say that I have a program which generates a bunch of images. Let's say it's generating 4 images, and 2 of them are thumbnails and 2 are big versions.

img1.save('x-th.png',100)
img1.save('x.png')
img2.save('y-th.png',100)
img2.save('y.png')

I want to change the thumbnails to .gif. I can't just use search and replace, because I only want to change 2 instances. (Technically I could with a regex, but forget about that for a moment.) I go to the first one I watch to change, use 'cwgif' which changes the png to gif. Then I navigate to the next one, and just press period. The period key is one of the monster productivity boosts you can get from vi.
The article has valid points. Hidden agenda is when people say that writing Perl is equivalent to using ancient technologies, solely because Perl had its popularity peak in the nineties - and this might also be a reason why you can't be paid for doing Perl - who would want legacy technologies in their stack?

It's just that, well, it isn't legacy. It's more up to date and much more robust than many of the hip languages.
I just tried to add a new attribute to a many-to-many relationships
So essentially, this is a mashup between XMR (ring sigs) and XLM (consensus protocol)? Why not use zk-proofs?
True. I mean the short squeeze the redditors are hoping for ("100k is not a meme guys just hold lool!!!!")
Cross site tracking probably makes it pretty easy for companies to learn whatever they want about a person
Is it possible to have something like random.org but without paying for it?

say you want to build a lottery application, who can you rely on to make receive a very good random number generator at low cost?

Should the government provide this for free to developers? Seems like its in everybody's interest to have a ~true random() function.

Pokerstars uses lasers, someone else uses lava lamps, radio waves, what else?

Also on a side note: how much do you think we have truly discovered the nature of "randomness"? Nassim Taleb says its not random if you run into somebody you know in the supermarket while thinking of them. Some physicists have likened it similar to newtonian others a more parallelian view. Why is it that some natural order emerges out of "randomness" out of a 52 card deck? How is it that a randomly swinging spot light in a dark room is able to "find" a plant that is also "randomly" placed in the room? Or the randomness of people's birth date and time emerging in lottery tickets? Or even more controversial, the fact that RNG is able to be seemingly influenced by the collective consciousness?
Those don’t really catch memory safety issues in the general case; they’re more focused on exploit mitigation.