jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Situation may be slightly different in the NHS (national health service) where there is an overwhelming number of referrals from general practitioners for suspected skin cancer most of which turn out to be benign. As a consequence there is lack of capacity to see patients with other skin conditions. Of course it's always possible to see a private Dermatologist if you have health insurance or are happy to pay.
Ahh, silly me. I actually knew this, but was still locked into "UK only".
Green messages on an iPhone are messages that weren't sent via iMessage; they were sent via SMS.
And twenty-five years on, 1 Beanie Baby = 1 Beanie Baby.
Let’s consider that your perception is fallible and possibly wrong. And hypothetically assume your concept of “the oppressed” is off to some degree.

You’ve admitted to justifying and even supporting riots on the “left.” And that sets the stage for rioting on the “right.”

Political violence begets political violence and you’re (knowingly or not) supporting the dissolution of civil society.
The question isn't "can i get interviews with a bad resume?"

The question is "how many interview requests did I miss because of my bad resume?"

My company did the famous eye-tracking study that shows recruiters' first scan of your resume is 6 seconds long. In qualitative and quantitative research since then, we found what works best based on data.
We'd also need the one operating system on the one architecture. Perhaps the central planning committee can make that a goal for their next five year plan?
More code, more possible bugs, more updates needed.

All that things are not necessary, they could create a separate app "Signal Pay" and everybody who wants it can use that.

It made no sense to implement everything in one app.
A common path to such a career is to have deep expertise in some esoteric(or deprecated) tech stack. Cobol programmer comes to mind. You may only be asked to help once a month (or even once a year) but when they need you they really need you, and are willing to pay handsomely.

The question brings to mind this story (if anyone has a reference please provide).

A company hires a management consultant to assist with cost cutting. After spending time on-site observing the workflow, he has a meeting with a senior management and gives his recommendations. He mentions a guy who sits in his office seemingly doing nothing, and suggests they let him go. The manager says no, he's a critical member. About once a month we have a really complex problem that requires a creative solution, and he always provides one.
Sorry, what is IFS in this context?
Yeah but chances are once you try, you realize it's no fun for either of you and your incentives change towards more lucrative jobs.
Such episodes weren't unheard of, but they were rare, and occured during forst months of war, because armories close to front lines were bombed or captured, and military factories were in the process of being relocated farther into the country
Government developer roles can be sort of like this, it just depends on the details.

The general idea is that you're expected to fulfill a fixed set of responsibilities, which might be challenging for the first year or so. But as time rolls on, a decent employee can usually automate those things.

Typically you're just ignored, no one knows what you do except your boss. If you try to expand outside of the original scope of job duties, you'll be seen as a troublemaker.

And there's rarely any possibility of advancement, since government never promotes developers to the executive level, and advancement within the 'technology group' is usually predicated on your history of procurement, budgeting, and personnel management.

The difficult bit is getting that remote job, but hopefully that's changing due to COVID.
I think the lesson to learn from Java was that we, developers, were evaluating languages on the wrong parameters.

Java is too verbose! (But that can reduce the need for so many comments, and comments can often mislead as software changes. Also, Java 8 was 2014 and it changed the game massively.)

Java runs slowly because of the JVM! (But the JVM evolves and improves, giving free upgrades to all Java programs over time. Also, I have a multi-GHZ processor now.)

Java takes longer to write! (But the first time you write a program is never the hard part- it's continuous evolution of software that matters.)

Norvig's code is beautiful and very good Lisp. But it's so dense that it requires more lines of explanatory comments than actual functionality. The code's functionality isn't self-evident. And sure, you can write Java code that has the same flaws, but I find it's easier to write readable Java code than it is to write readable Lisp.

I think Python's success is further evidence of this perspective.
"Numa will retail for $349." Sounds pricey.

The article is quite vague about how it works. I guess you can achieve the same with some configuration on FREETZ
http://freetz.org/ with a Fritzbox. http://en.avm.de/products/fritzbox/fritzbox-7390/
When I lived in the Midwest I had frontier and when I’d complain about speeds they’d send me to their speed test that always reflected my exact data speed (even though the actual internet speeds were 10x slower some times.) Fast.com always had more accurate speeds.
In some cases, that may be technically true but I suspect that the costs of turning bags of pennies into cash that is > than the face value of the pennies is iffy at best.
Never store your long term savings in a thing that someone who isn't you and never will be you can theoretically print an infinite amount of.

Even if you completely trust the people in charge today, you just can't ever be certain that they'll be in charge forever or that the environment won't change in a way such that they break your trust.
The lack of per-application isolation with desktops is one of those ugly truths people try and sweep under the rug.

I foresee two potential solutions to this.

1) Run everything in a VM like Qubes (essentially nerfs certain application like 3D acceleration without major R&D)

2) Utilize some container runtime to provide isolation for legacy applications and stub out features such as filesystem calls so they do not to be aware of its existence.

Microsoft tried to produce a crippled application runtime for Windows (UWP) with more security, but considering its lack of backwards compatibility and lesser feature-set it is not that surprising that adoption has been an uphill battle.
Then bounce everything sent to the root.
Good post, but the real reason I upvoted was for the Zork reference. Well played!!!
Let me take a stab at creative government-speak:

No, this is also metadata. They are only taking a screenshot every few minutes, with as aim to get a clear picture of the face of the person operating the computer. Just like an email header contains a From-address in the content that's metadata, a webcam session contains the same metadata in the form of these screenshots of people's faces.

They're not collecting the data, i.e. the moving webcam video + voice. They have no idea what's being said. Just metadata.
> There's morals and ethics, but that's what you should do rather than what you can do.

Ethics is also in the realm of what one can do. Civil disobedience is critical in rejecting tyranny. First comes mental freedom. Then comes knowledge. Then comes action. This is how systems are destroyed, changed, and built anew. It's detrimental to the human mind to stay mentally incapacitated by a particular system's arbitrary framework of laws at a point in time. The extent of a person's thought need not be limited and shall always supersede everything external (e.g. governments).

Fundamental rights don't exist in a tangible sense. I'd agree. However, they're healthy intellectual notions that exist. They compel people to dismantle or change current societal models in ways that demand going beyond the suppression of a "legal" realm.
Chrome + F12, inspect element, delete.

I do this too often. We screwed the web.
Dropbox ToS:

"We also reserve the right to suspend or end the Services at any time at our discretion and without notice. "

https://www.dropbox.com/terms

And Google's:

> We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service altogether... Google may also stop providing Services to you, or add or create new limits to our Services at any time.

http://www.google.com/policies/terms/ (that's where a link to Terms of Service from Google Drive page at takes https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en you, those general Google ToS)

For better or for worse, nearly every ToS you will see anywhere includes a provision like this.
It does seem like this would be a lot easier if there were also chat (or even if it were chat-only). If you're talking about code, it would be really helpful to be able to paste in snippets or links to resources.
That's a big "might," and it adds significantly to the cost.

If I'm buying all brand-name Dell or HP, I expect it would be relatively easy to get a low interest rate without much hassle. However, if I'm also buying different brands of network hardware and, say, rolling my own high-performance storage[1], it's another matter.

Regardless, even leasing can cause "sticker shock," and, perhaps more importantly, still requires all the up-front time cost.

[1] Such as SuperMicro enclosures with commodity disks, rather than all brand-name Dell, which can easily double or triple the price, even with a steep discount.
In the meantime I can't play multiplayer games with anyone (even when I walk over to a friend's house for a LAN game) because I have to sign in to PSN first and since the game makers make single-player campaigns so short I've already completed those. Hulu Plus, MLB.tv and Netflix are also inaccessible.

My PS3 is unplugged and unusable "indefinitely". Luckily I kept my Roku player...
A friend of mine used this successfully with groups practicing Test Driven Development:

- First, institute "Test First" development
- Randomly pick some fraction of new tests to be reviewed
(Demand a minimum quality level.)
- Measure productivity in terms of new passing tests completed
with some multiplier for the quality score

This system could be gamed, but it would require a conspiracy consisting of a large fraction of the team, and any system could be gamed in that situation. This is the only method I know of that works when analyzed logically and has been shown to work in practice.
Sorry... minimum viable product. We didn't have the time to do IE compatibility. We will probably work on this in a few days.
Agree, Lisp is actually very easy to learn initially. You don't have to grow a beard and stop bathing, just have some fun with the basics and see where it leads you.
I've been experimenting with DotCloud (about to push my first site live soon) and I've found it's pretty freaking awesome. It runs on AWS, so basically it's outsourced sysadmin-ing. Give the guys some time and I think DotCloud will be the best platform. Given they just raised some funding, if they get their feature set right, it should work out pretty well.
>> You are getting down-voted because Paleo is not scientific.

Weather or not the basis of Paleo is sound is not relevant to his point. Not only does he claim benefits for himself, but notes that others seem to agree in similar ways.

I'm really getting pissed at the commercial medial establishment for denying anything that doesn't have clinical trial can be good. Plants or minerals that have helped people for thousands of years are called "homeopathic" or "alternative" by real doctors. Now we're seeing studies that claim various things have no benefit "for people on an already healthy diet" as a footnote. Yet good old aspirin is a plant derivative, as are some other things. But I digress. His point is independent of the basis for the diet and hence should not be downvoted for that.
You can go even further with Java 16, which came out last month.

record Point(int x, int y) { }

No lombok needed. That is the same code, but it also has equals and hashCode methods.

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395
It can be, but people have arranged for it to not be, presumably because they don't feel the storage space to have all integers be 8-bytes is not justified.
As we move to 5nm chips, I wonder if there's a greater likelihood of errors from background radiation.
True, but the quantity of batteries they are used in is rapidly increasing leading to more demand overall.
> If you change, but the algorithms don't acknowledge that change and treat you the same, how much is you identity in your own hands, how fungible is it?

I don't think algorithms doesn't change my identity, but I am curious whether people I am loosely connected or the algorithms will acknowledge this change first.

> I don't think so, but I'm not sure it matters. The end result is similar, only that there's not one large conspiracy that's trying to herd you into thinking a certain way.

I think there might be though, since marketers always think about market segmentation and creating the systems that guide people into herds will be the first thing they would think. If you consider almost all the big tech companies are funded by advertising, shifting people into manageable segments might be intentional.
It’s important to recognize that the privilege of a college education is not as accessible to everyone. And while the hard requirement of a STEM degree is less emphasized these days, there is still a large barrier to entry into tech for folks with non-traditional backgrounds.

We put these booklets together to be transparent about the realities of breaking into tech. Through storytelling, we hope to inspire and motivate folks through actionable tips from those who overcame various obstacles to get to their goal.

Because regardless of your background, you bring a unique perspective needed to solve problems through technology to move society forward.
Simple but not 100% foolproof, you can mutate your source code and verify the changes propagate.

Note the endpoint does a DYNAMIC lookup of source code. So you can kinda reassure yourself the endpoint is executing dynamic code just by providing your own source code.

It might be more obvious the runtime does nothing much if you see the runtime https://github.com/endpointservices/serverlesscells

The clever bits that actually implement services are all in the notebooks.
That's fair. I'm not sure what other word to use though. Admirable in some ways, socially unacceptable in others? Someone whose work was amazing but who really shouldn't be suggested as a role model? And who knows what parts of it are due to trauma and what parts are just being an asshole? I'm open to suggestions.
They depend on my attitude and sense of well being. When I was a child it was like swimming but with less friction; I was buoyant (or maybe there was no gravity).

In high school when I first became insecure, I began to fall out of the sky.

From this time, flying became very unstable (swerving) and required a constant strain to resist the force of gravity -- and was accompanied by a constant fear of falling to my death.

More recently, as I am gaining confidence again, flying still requires concentration, but it is smooth and stable, and now most dreams are partly lucid and I know I will not be harmed even if I fall.

As for the mechanics, as a child I swam, as a teenager created an upward lifting force with my hands, and more recently I am pushing downward against something invisible (I almost feel like a quadcopter).
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I think it's important to take a hard line here. Otherwise in the future we are not going to own any of the devices we buy.

We're almost there with our phones. At least on Android one can install 3rd party apps.

So I think RMS is spot on.

I like to own my device. Write, compile, and install software of my choosing on it, without some company getting into the way of that.

Companies want to control and monetize every possible use of our devices. We can't let that happen unchecked.

The again, in reality I take a less idealistic stance:

- I accept that the BIOS, drivers for the graphics card and the wifi chip are - for the time being - proprietary.

- For everything else I see absolutely no reason why I should use any closed source software.

- My OS is open source, all applications are open source, all games I (occasionally) play are open source.
Remember that half the population has an IQ under 100 and half of those live in places where the American Soldier is still venerated as a paragon of virtue and sacrifice. They’re not victims like the Yemeni kids they’re killing, but they are being manipulated into the situations they choose for themselves.
To everyone who says that Stallman isunrealistic. We have plenty enough realistic people, right on this forum, and across the world.

It may be useful to listen to a person who sounds unrealistic, but also proved to be right on some pretty important issues, like DRM and the cloud.

It does not mean we should immediately switch away from anything proprietary. But it does mean it's worth being aware.
"credit card machine is broken."

Things I don't ever have to hear or put up with ever again #623.
Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler--who apparently was rather strongly afflicted with these instinctive reactions himself--was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!

Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Who said brain size has anything to do with performance?
The problem is in the question: the game dev wants to know how to reconcile ethics and his desire to make money from making games. Stallman is saying “it’s not my job to help solve your dilemma.” And he’s right. If I ask a doctor ‘how can I eat french fries and still lose weight”, the doctor will say “you can’t, and I can’t help you resolve your dilemma. What you’re doing is unhealthy”.
A collection is non-empty if and only if it has a first element. Therefore checking for non-emptiness is the same as checking for the existence of a first element.
They do. Some other states already have easy cancel laws.

If a business is so small that this would be hard to manage, then they're probably not big enough to have MBAs rubbing their hands and implementing impossible to cancel systems. If a business is so big that it can afford to pay call centers to deal with their intentionally Kafkaesque cancellations, then they can afford to deal with the regulations. They can't as easily afford to lose 12 million customers.

Easy canceling is far, far easier to make than the stuff these regulations target. No honest mom and pop shop is losing sleep over this.
To OP were you aware of :

https://diasporafoundation.org/

I can't help but feel that a lot of these efforts would be better applied on what is already out there?
He was right, and everyone knew it. Research funding dried up, programs shut down, and autonomous driving receded back to the future.

It seems perhaps that this was a self fulfilling prophecy as we'll never know how much closer we could be now to self-driving cars if funding had not dried up.
You might try and convince yourself of that, but it was never true. Django has always nurtured a better ecosystem for webapps since its inception due to its nature of packaging smaller parts of a whole as "apps". See a modern website aggregating these apps here:

http://djangoplugables.com/

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this just doesn't exist for Rails. Sure you might find the random open source'd library or plugin, but that's about the extent of re-usable code you're going to have.

For the Django developer, in minutes you can have a website with a blog, tagging system, voting, contact form, traditional registration system, social authentication, openid logins, avatars, user profiles, friends/followers, on-site messaging, full-site search, and all ready for e-commerce. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Any of those parts are autonomous and interchangeable. Sure it'll take a bit longer to actually configure the apps how you'd like, display them in your desired format, and connect them up according to your business logic, but who's really going to complain about that after getting all of the above for free?

Hell, for half of my clients I barely have to write a single custom line of code; their entire site request can be broken down into reusable Django apps that already exist and I've worked with before. It's the pinnacle of Don't Repeat Yourself. If that's not the ideal ecosystem for webapps then I don't know what is.
If you're the kind of person that frequents HN, I would have thought you'd have the google skills to find that out.
So, what does belong here, then? "Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." This certainly gratifies mine, as it's another example of how behaviors can be explained through game theory as well as replacing - or at least adding to - what I previously thought was the explanation (it forces cashers to open the till, reducing the chance for thievery).

This article also doesn't fall under the things which don't belong here: "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." Just because it doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean that it doesn't belong here.

Also, as long as I'm quoting the guidelines at you, "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it ... If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
I think you're completely misunderstanding the thrust of the article. This ability goes far beyond memorizing knowledge in one specialized area. These people go through hours (up to 8 at a time) of testing about the everyday mundane events that have happened as well as the extraordinary things - there is no way for them to trick their testers. In the 60 minute piece, they could recall amazing detail about days from 20 years ago. This goes far beyond memorizing weather patterns and reconstructing information according to the regularity of a work schedule, etc.

I think what a lot of people are noticing here is that this extraordinary ability has not been commensurate with extraordinary accomplishments and it leads them to downplay the significance...
Ah, the good ol' "if you're poor it must be your fault" reasoning, wearing yet another dress today.
Indeed, your comment reminds me of that radical leftist Milton Friedman who once wrote "Remember, to spend is to tax." What a pity that so many have forgotten Friedman's words.
I should mention that they explain why this is the case: http://instantdomainsearch.com/faq/#falsepositive
"Why put down a fair post with useless comments on a "hunch that he offers 5% or less"?"

Because he already stated that the co-founder gets no salary. He never mentioned the actual percentage, so it's a fair assumption.
Check out Forrst or Dribbble
If you're a Stanford student. I wouldn't want to try that for other schools.