jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hope I'm not reading this as a refutation capitalism as exploitation-based economics. I could carry on about that, but will pick up something:

> I've never purchased shampoo or paid for a hair cut - I am female [me: this choice of quote has nothing to say about gender, please read on]

In the Soviet Union, there was a growing demand for consumer goods. Government fought to reach a balance on whether it was time to undertake those goals, and how much of it should be handled by the secondary market.

After WWII, the United States switched to a highly commercial culture of consumer debt financing, a general consumerist focus. This put the communist nations, themselves developing rapidly, under even more strain to give citizens what they saw the West was enjoying. This may have been premature, and some might argue lead to an untimely end for the USSR.

What's interesting about your story is you we're living in a world of few consumer goods, like in the era before and during Khrushchev.

So where capitalism used the newly developing marketing gimmicks to both sell consumer goods at home, and undermine the priorities of People's government abroad--you, at least, are in a place where those superfluous goods are not a sign of victory over People's governments, but actually wasteful and unattainable. At least if one wants to move out of their car one day.

I'm sure none of this is lost on you as a writer of... what was it... Biden speeches? [Fake edit: the apocalypse!]

If we are rejecting the consumerism that served some role in bringing down the USSR, perhaps it's not a wishful thought that class consciousness growing. Maybe we're fatigued, ready to accept a world without the gimmicks parading themselves as innovation and surviving for years a household names off investor money and debt like a Potemkin village.

This is a good practice, living off less, but it's a blow to Western economic theories that have bought their way into textbooks. But what's to come down the pipeline isn't just the growth of China, but also Africa and partnering nations that we're used to exploiting (look at the grooming of India as a place of new manufacture). We'll soon see less opportunities to exploit, higher prices and, well, Socialism or barbarism.
The most difficult thing of allowing for more novel science is accepting that more 'useless' research will be done. If you read stories about the old days, you'll see how often professors/researchers used the freedom they had to do absolutely useless things, just based on their own personal preferences. The same freedom of course allowed others to do great things.

I think nowadays there is much more awareness about what researchers are doing, and they will be held accountable, not just by the people who fund them, but also by the general public (Why are we funding this research about levitating toads?!?!). Shielding the researchers from such outrage and building acceptance for (seemingly) useless research will be just as important as the article's suggested new metrics for novelty.
if the GPS goes out of business because people aren't leaving the house, you'll need to navigate dense urban areas without assistance
There will be a lot of layoffs. The question is, what kind of jobs are they? Are these experienced developers with multiple languages and platforms under their belt, or one-trick ponies that came from a bootcamp?

You're right - ad-driven web properties won't do well. There is tons of code written every day that does actual revenue-generating work, however. It's not sexy work, it's not VC-funded work, and that's okay.

During the dot-com bust I had no problems with work. My longest contract was for a hospital, writing software to help nurses schedule and track patient visits. This was tangible work, with a tangible benefit. It wasn't a nebulous business model.
Wouldn't that pay scale push many talented people to work in private industry? At that pay it would be difficult to retain computer science faculty for example, where universities are already struggling with a shortage.
nobody, except banks perhaps.. on a related note, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, covering thousands of hectares of pristine Alaska coastline with suffocating, deadly raw oil, was famously "good for the economy" .. because almost every measure of economic health increased in the aftermath of the events.. of course, millions of sea creatures died, and the area was poisoned for who-knows-how-long.. make sense?
That much storage would still cost somewhere around $1500-$2000. Impressively low, but still in the range of a very dedicated hobbyist.
You know a company is run by a bunch of MBAs when a pivot in the face of a very successful competitor is a new logo.
EBM: evidence-based medicine?

RCT: randomized controlled trial?
Yep pretty much. If you support this, you should know that if this ever gets legs despite its surface level appeal you will see a lot of people not supporting it, because it's exactly the kind of thing that led to Cambridge Analytica. So that'll be a good time to truly ask yourself which side of this tradeoff is the one you want to make.
Things are so unpredictable. That's regarding the whole Bitcoin (r)evolution. I believe what's currently happening and has happened is great. All these random events that pushed its price down are giving enough time for any interested entities to acquire them at reasonable price - if they understand it and think it may be a good value storage. And it may turn out to be a really good value storage indeed.

Regarding Coinbase I would assume they are convincing their investors that the company has a huge value and expertise even assuming total Bitcoin collapse / switch to another digital currency.
This accusation comes up whenever we make a call that isn't to someone's liking. It's a mechanical reflex, which explains why the "political alignment" we're accused of "not hiding" varies wildly with the observer.

I think we all know the feeling, but it's best to catch it internally first when it flares up, so one can ask oneself if it's really true. Lashing out reflexively doesn't help anything, including your own favored cause.

In this case, the reality is that I've posted things like the GP hundreds if not thousands of times, usually not on political topics (and scattered across all political alignments when they are). The principles are always the same, to the point of tedium. Anyone can see that for themselves if they want to bother:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22significant%20new%20informa...
"Shitting in their own kitchen" got many/most major cities to examine how they allocate police and social service resources just like the protesters wanted.
I suppose you tried more than once, if so was the error the same?
>these papers did not actually bring any original evidence in support of the notion that some programmers are 10X better than others, [...] What I’ve been saying is that the data is not actually there, so we do not have any strong proof of the actual claim.

I can agree with the specific observation that there is no consensus on concrete quantifiable data to prove "10x" with mathematical rigor.

Ok, let's set aside "10x" because many previous discussions about it have shown it to be a distasteful description to some. For those who do not believe in the "10x programmer", how do you feel about programmers such as John Carmack (Doom, Oculus)[1], Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, pi algorithm)[2], Linus Torvalds (Linux, Git), TJ Holowaychuk (node.js projects)?

If they are a league above other average programmers, what's an acceptable description that you'd use?

To me, the "10x programmer" was always a snappy rhetorical label and I was fine with it that way. I never sought a mathematical proof of the statement.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
What are you goals?

If you want to Get Shit Done and ship a product, pick a tried and true (and possibly boring) stack

Be wary of the Magpie! http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/
And that may be one reason for Google going full steam with Project Ara. Limit the carrier meddling to a replaceable mobile radio module.
> one of the top websites in the US in terms of traffic

> constantly DDoSd

Hmm...
From the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
> The killer app is decentralized, permissionless, open source, and censorship resistant network.

That's the "how" part, not the "what". What's the killer app implemented using that network? What do we do with it?
That was after how many years of Tether insisting that they had 1:1 reserves, talking about audits thereof, threatening lawsuits against people who said they didn't?

... and many many crypto-fans naysaying anyone who didn't believe them.
Except in this case, this isn't a copyright violation. I have never heard of a case of a website being shut down by an ISP for advocating violence. If that was the case, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter or any social media platform wouldn't exist.
I have about 30 examples, none of which will ever be shared on the Internet!
Isn't it more likely that advertisers found the subreddit offensive and complained?
Given that the dow jones closed at a record high while the confederate flag was flying in the capitol building, I think that shareholders are quite happy
The hurdle for bitcoin is finding a way for people to turn it into a currency they can use. This is where you end up with a centralized exchange layer built on top of it.

I can make a $12,000,000 transaction for $.35 but if I actually want to get the money, I have to pay 2.5% to a legit exchange or take my chances on some janky ass exchange. Why not just transfer the money via ACH and pay the small fee and save myself the headache?
I was just about to make something like this for myself. Thanks for making it! Looking forward to an iPad app.

One quick bit of feedback: I notice when I'm logged in and try to refresh my saved videos (say to refresh to see whether the video I just hit "Watch Later" would appear), the app logs me out. Everything else appears to work great - including leaving the page and coming back to it. Just when I hit refresh. When I log back in, the video appears in my queue like I'd expect it to.

It's probably on your radar, but being able to save TED Talk videos and Mixergy interviews would be great.
Do they have a SLA? I presume they can pass on some of the refunds from Amazon.
This brings back memories of the Gawker breach, but Sony seemed so much more legitimate. It can happen to the best of companies, I guess. This is the worst security hack I've ever witnessed.

This spells for Sony, yes, but even worse for the uncountable people whose credit card numbers just got nabbed. One hacker on the loose...

The worst part is that this public breach is only a single event. All the companies that have our information could be hacked and Sony is only a visible example. It's similar to the BP oil spill: what other oil companies weren't running tight rigs? The disasters happened to BP and Sony, yes, but it is a reflection on their industries.
"If you're really taking 100% responsibility, then consider pro-rating the bills of affected paying customers (based on the downtime)."

That's implied, at the very least, by the phrase "heroku takes 100% of the responsibility. "

I would be very surprised if they didn't offer more than that.
Oh alright then, not sure I saw the self-deprecation as humor, but to each his own! Carry on good sir.
I do not think it is unfair to Uber. If they are breaching laws, they know they can be punished for it. I'm sure there are other laws that protect Uber, such as againts copyright infringement, brand infringement, regulations for bankers who hold their money, NDAs with their employees, etc. They just have to figure out how to offer their service without breaking the law.
OpenDNS and Skylight are the two big deployments we know of, and there are some smaller ones we've heard rumors of.

We don't encourage it until 1.0, of course...
Erick and I are currently doing a crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of producing Lecture 2. If you contribute to our campaign, you will get privileged access to the unreleased videos of Lecture 2 as soon as the tilt (1000$) is reached.

https://safepodmtl.tilt.com/lecture-2-the-safe-network-from-...
For most people I would imagine it's not an issue of ever missing trailers, but more of an issue of being inundated by them.
While that could work for small software systems (or small modules which you can rewrite), it's simply not viable solution for hardware bugs (like the one GP described) or large software projects which are mostly in the state of perpetual mess and horrible dependency graph.

This actually reminds me a type of bug every electronics novice has seen- a circuit does not work unless you touch it with your finger (or even place your finger next to circuit). Some of these bugs you can solve by rewriting the software (enable internal pullup/pulldown resistor) but some others you can't solve without soldering iron (missing GND connection).
There is a difference between legal/constitutional freedom of speech and freedom of speech in a cultural perspective.
Words still have specific, falsifiable definitions.
Pretty sure that wasn’t his plan, given the months-long campaign to overturn the election: which culminated in him inciting a riot.
Reminder that trump did and said the same things for a long time. It’s only once the mob actually showed up that they banned him. If the ayatollah was saying “go here and destroy this building” and it got done then they’d ban him based on this precedent

It’s also a funny argument to me because you have people comparing trump to the ayatollah and mao and thinking it helps their case.
This is my same exact thought. Although sometimes I think the blinding light might be a good disincentive to stare at my phone in bed.
All our phones have an emergency alert systems enforced by the telecoms and phone manufacturers that you can't turn off.
Those right wing positions are just bread and circus for the masses.
Transparency in how ads are targeted would go a long way.

Personally, I would appreciate a legal mandate that every targeted advertisement must include a link explaining which demographics or criteria are being used to target the ad.

Ideally the ad would also need to identify which criteria were applicable to the individual who was shown the ad, and where that information came from. That requirement might be onerous to implement, but maybe it could kick in at a certain revenue threshold for the ad network.

Imagine if people had to be told that they kept seeing embarrassing ads because their bank sold their interest in [product category] to a marketing agency. Or if you could inform your aging relatives that they shouldn't trust ads which target them based on their past multilevel marketing purchases. I can dream...
blerg, sorry about that! Will fix when I'm done with the dissertation.
Sounds like a unifying theory to me. Just not a very testable one.
This one?

http://www.amazon.com/Connections-James-Burke/dp/0316116726

Our university offered an engineering class that used this as the textbook.
Aww... you got my hopes up for _why's return and you reminded me how much I missed his contributions to the ruby community.

If you're out there somewhere _why, please come back. We miss you.
I agree with your assertion but not really the justification you give. I don't think he needed an ultimate goal; he followed what seems like a random walk but ultimately found something that worked, hugely. There's definitely survivorship bias, but heck, if we discounted all stories by that criterion the world would be a much less interesting, albeit perhaps more realistic, place.
Thanks, to be honest the expenses for the service are quite low. It is just the server and domain costs at the moment and of course my time.

You're right as it scales I may need to upgrade the server etc. but I think it will cover its expenses quite easily.
The Homebrew maintainers do real work, but I disagree with your characterization of this complaint as “entitled” and coming from time-wasting “grandstanders”. I’d be happy to hear how you disagree but trivializing the issue doesn’t really help :(
Doing nothing is an action. Inaction is not what neutrality means.

It is not neutral to let foreign powers interfere with elections (in any country, whether it be the US in a Russian one or Russia in a US one).
You don’t get to gatekeep “open source project” on business venture or not.

If it has a free software license and the code is provided, it is a true open source project.

Simply being an “open source project”, however, unfortunately, does not mean that the maintainers are going to act ethically or not produce software that abuses people’s human rights.
kolmogorov complexity converts the combination of program and data to entropy, fwiw
> Facebook is able to track you because Android developers of 3rd party apps (example: Indeed Job Search) implement Facebook’s Software Development Kit (SDK).

Shadow profiling isn't new and Facebook has been doing this for years. Perhaps for those who are seriously on the brink of 'tinfoilism' of avoiding these creatures who just can't stop tracking us, we need a Ad-blocker-like component that blocks the FBSDK embedded in other apps and is enabled OS-wide. (Like a Privacy Firewall)

uBlock Origin has done this for Firefox, Safari and Chrome, we an equivalent for these apps. Facebook will stop at nothing to connect everything even if you don't have an account.
Honestly.. I don't understand the details anymore. I just trust that Mozilla and gorhil are doing their best. And if they can't help me nobody can.
>Is there a name for the phenomenon (eg. Poe's Law) where people leave comments on random world politics topics that basically consist of "but America..."?

Yeah, isn't it called "pot... kettle"?
People have purchased - and installed - Google Home (and Mini's) and Alexa's in their homes. They think they're "cute", and offer a valuable service to them. They are a microphone controlled by data raping giants.

People use "Assistants" and enable full tracking technologies on their devices ("See how great it is Google has your every location on a map for the last decade").

People have not only accepted but embraced a full surveillance and tracking society; even if YOU don't accept it, you're part of it, people may add your contact to their phone that will be gobbled up in seconds by Facebook/Google/et al.

People don't care. End of story.
Thank you very much for your work. It is Bellard-level magnificent!
One of the major advantages of the M1 hardware is that the storage controller for the SSD is directly integrated into the CPU. You would be losing a big part of that performance advantage by using an external OS volume.
# Python version 3.8+

>>> a = 6, 9
>>> a
(6, 9)

>>> (a := 6, 9)
(6, 9)
>>> a
6

>>> a, b = 6, 9 # Typical unpacking
>>> a, b
(6, 9)
>>> (a, b = 16, 19) # Oops
File "<stdin>", line 1
(a, b = 6, 9)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> (a, b := 16, 19) # This prints out a weird 3-tuple
(6, 16, 19)

>>> a # a is still unchanged?
6

>>> b
16

In what way is ANY of this unexpected?

For starters, unpacking is not the same as assigning inside a tuple...

(And how is the 3-tuple "weird"? It prints exactly what you did...)
It's not worth it on HN. Everyone here is completely pro-Apple anti-Google it's not even possible to have a good-faith discussion. I agree with you distrust both of these corporations, Apple's figured out that by pushing the "privacy" marketing ploy they can defeat Google strategically, that's all this is about. If it would benefit them to abuse user privacy, they would.
Agree 100%. I always find great songs there. A cool feature to discover new music. But I guess we are not that sophisticated. Predicting which songs I'm gonna like is probably noit that difficult.
Offering free ad-supported videos in the future, similar to how Plex handles its own streaming service, is another possibility.

I hope that can be disabled. I use VLC to play videos, not ads.
Some Americans think France has done this to the US but they have been taken in by obscurantist academics who read Finnegan's Wake on the way to an 'English' Literature PhD -- they want you to think reading fiction is something hard like quantum mechanics, best left to professionals.
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Or both of them are watching two computers playing against each other.
That's right. Seriously, if anyone who joins the Vanguard isn't ecstatic about the experience, I don't want to keep their money.
Wow, what a release to see this finally end. Seems like I've been watching this insanity drag on for most of my adult life.

So... time to CELEBRATE! Where are the "SCOwned" parties going to be? I know there's going to be some here in SF this weekend... where else?

:)
Of course Nokia has CDMA phones. For example, I used to have a Nokia feature phone on Tracfone, which piggybacked off the Verizon network.

There is little awareness of or marketing for Nokia smartphones. In my mind and in likely many others, Nokia phones belong to the past generation of button-only, non-touchscreen phones.
The full article is here:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/11/sconovell-suit-is-over-...
Cool, thanks a lot :)
I'm not arguing that MBA's are evil or something. I have just noticed that companies tend to overdo their financial engineering to a point where the company is a perfect financial machine but it is unable to produce anything worthwhile or innovate or whatever.

Entrepreneurs should treat finance as a tool not become a tool for the finance. What I mean is that sometimes you need to tell your accountant: Yes, what you propose makes sense from financial perspective - but it might severely cripple our vision and diminish our ability to reach our long term goals.

Nowadays to many treat finance as religion. And they don't even take a dump without their accountant.
First is Scotch chess.
Who are you arguing with? The article said nothing about hiring more attractive people being wrong.
The sad part is you could make quite a case for being slanted against poor students who don't own their own computer. Not saying I would agree with it, but it wouldn't surprise me.
The book is a good read too.

Ori is good with illustrative stories.
I’m very skeptical about that claim. It’s of course true that the first amendment and basic rights in general (usually?) only apply to the government. I know too little about US law to say with certainty whether there are exceptions in the USA. (I know with certainty that in certain, very limited circumstances some basic rights apply even between private entities in Germany.)

The submitted article, however, quotes a law professor who explicitly portrays this as a first amendment issue which doesn’t support your hypothesis that the first amendment only applies to the government in this case. I’m relatively certain that Facebook is free to block Lamebook on their own site all they want. Freedom of speech doesn’t come into play. I’m not so sure about that when it comes to the trademark.
In my opinion all office apps will suck until they agree on something. Even different versions of the same office suite cannot work together,
Not using mixpanel right now (was using it a while ago) and I bought the plan just because. I'm sure it's going to come in handy.