jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I suspect you are ascribing way too much credit to a code generation library.

People work on what interests them when it comes to open source. Besides, most of what you're describing is already being worked on (and naturally, being disparaged as unnecessary or a poor solution by plenty of commentators on HN).

By the way, your entire comment can be applied to just about every single project that's posted to HN. To the point of irrelevance.
Hacker News

I only started actively reading and posting on HN in July this year, and it's been increasing my web/startup IQ like no other. I only wish I had started sooner.

Thanks to all of you for making this community happen.
Amen to your rant. We do ourselves a collective disservice bragging all the time about how we can create million dollar software products in a weekend.
Did you even read what I said? Does science itself not use academic journals ans peer review in it's authority model?

The whole "church" vs Galileo thing was hugely misportrayed in popular culture. Most people believed him but there was corruption like you said where those in power needed him gone. So we are not trying to find a magical source of truth to all things here! We are simply translating existing societal authority models to the internet.

If you think there is a unifyig authority model (which i doubt you do) the production (the internet) is not where you test it out right? The idea is not prevent another death of another galileo but to prevent death of magelan,columbus ,newton,einstein,etc.... as well. Each society in it's own way determines what authority models are authoritative over domains. In science you have peer review, in law enforcement you "salary men" as you called them, in finance you have credit reporting companies (which I dislike),etc... while you are trying to replace all that with a one-size-fits-all society is being torn apart!
If that is real it is amazing!
Why are people living there if they can't even step outside an air-conditioned environment for two minutes? Might as well be living on the moon in a pod at that point.
The powertrain is pretty free nowadays in Formula E, but the rest of the car is almost entirely spec, which inevitably means there's a lot of similarity. It also means they can spec something where the aero doesn't produce so much dirty air.

I think keeping the development limited to the powertrain is the right move for Formula E; there's plenty of other series where money is thrown at the rest of the car, so let developments happen where the series stands out.
I am unconvinced that there is a meaningful conversation to have about this. Every time any topic comes up in the context of Microsoft, someone chimes in to state that it’s not their experience. Yeah, Microsoft is not a monolithic entity. It’s literally 130 thousand employees and tens of thousands of contractors. For literally any topic, there will be a subset of people who feel their immediate organization doesn’t match the direction the company intends.

Top down mandate cannot align 130k employees on every topic, even if that attempt were an appropriate thing for upper management to spend their time on.

There might be a more interesting conversation if context were given. If the comment about management not caring about RESTful APIs is coming from someone working as part of a team focused on public APIs, it’s a lot more interesting than someone working on desktop clients.

Edit: You know what, you’re right. I read the comment as a flippant “pft, that’s not my experience” and responded as such. I should have assumed better intent. Maybe the commenter was questioning why their experience doesn’t match up with this. Maybe they were asking why management isn’t pushing this effectively. I assumed a specific intent and should have considered different potential intentions.
> So have a possible security hole with no active developers until a third party finds a vulnerability, then shut it down?

This is true of every internet protocol. Being staffed at all does not mean the protocol or server has active security research being done on it. It usually doesn't. Taking people off of the work of constant churn from refractors and internal tail chasing doesn't actually change much.

> Sounds like you've never owned a printer before...

Sounds like you're just trolling but I'm going to assume you've just never seen a printer or worked on a stable system before.
Possible, but would negatively affect liquidity and increase volatility. Trading would become more expensive as well.
I kind of enjoyed Gleick's bio of Newton:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17098.Isaac_Newton

It doesn't shy away from what later hagiographies deride as "religious superstition", but what according to Gleick was integral to Newton's worldview.
i feel like the basic plan is not that good of a deal...after all you offer it just for adding a badge on the site: http://mixpanel.com/free/
For anyone wondering what Dancer is: http://www.perldancer.org/
Pro-tip: list the differences between your project and other similar projects on the project web page. Compare and contrast. State clearly and specifically how it's unique.
I don't really know what you mean.

You're right. But I don't see how that's relevant. My point was that people have a choice "I trust dropbox not to abuse my personal files" and they draw the line at their twitter account?!? This I find odd. I don't see how your comment makes it less odd.
Whatever next? Next thing you know someone will write an IRC client using websocket!

Cool showcase though :)
>This is what should be criminally prosecuted in my opinion.

It seems to me all the talk of laws is rather pointless. If the NY Times can detect that this is happening then they can refuse to serve pages to clients that do it, and instead give them instructions on how to remove the malware. That solves the problem for everybody. The user takes a minute to follow the instructions to clean their machine of malware, then continues on to read the article.

Why does everything need a legal solution?

(And yes, Malware Corp. can try to sue you for telling people to remove their crapware, but anybody can sue anybody for anything. Doesn't mean they'll win.)
This thread is packed with awesome advice. I'm in the exact same boat as the OP, but 12 years and one child older. Get your educational pedigree now while it's natural and expected. Going back to school with a million other things going on as an adult is unrealistic, period.
I hope you have unsoldered your microphone also.
> Men in our society are taught to be emotionally abusive in their relating to others.

My parents sure didn't raise me that way. Honestly, a large reason why so many people are aggressive when they communicate is simply because they just don't know how to communicate. It's not a male thing, nor is it a female thing.

It's a "I'm unable to express my unhappiness regarding this scenario in a well-thought out and respectful way, so I'm going to lob some insults at you to make my point" thing.

My dad used to say that if you need to swear then you've obviously lost the ability to express your opinion in an articulate, and polite way. I don't 100% agree with that statement, but it does have some truth to it when you apply it a bit differently.

If you can't tell somebody their code is bad without berating them for even being born it's not because you're a man or a woman, you either have a condition which prevents you from recognizing you're being a dick or you do not know how to communicate like a civilized human.

Being assertive, constructive, and listening well are three ways to be able to communicate like a decent person. Being subservient or aggressive, destructive, and failing to listen are three/four ways to communicate like a person with a lack of social skills.
What a travesty, this is f*ing rich coming from a guy who wanted to have Xi Jinping as a godfather.
"This company cannot be brought to heel quickly enough."

That you can say that and not think of yourself as authoritarian is the reason the US is so divided right now.
Any real free speech maximalist would first and foremost recognize Facebook's right to free speech. Suspending Trump is merely that right. The 1st amendment is between citizens and the government, not between other citizens.
The fascinating thing to me is that if you bring Tesla valuation up the response is "lol dumb short seller, prepare to lose another X billion this year!".

Tesla's most valuable product definitely isn't anything made in a factory or produced by their programmers, it's the financial cult that has amassed around it. It's people who are putting every penny of their money on Tesla calls and spending every hour of their day making sure to spread the good news of Tesla and metaphorically stoning anyone who dares speak against Elon Musk.

This will almost certainly not end well at some point, especially since the valuation exceeds even a scenario where Tesla becomes a global monopoly in a number of industries. How long will it take for the cult to realize this? Maybe never.
"stand back and stand by" wink wink
132 year old? So are some random family restaurants. How does $10bil of money matter either way? Microsofts market cal is north of $1T, while Nintendos is less than $100B. And finally the question is not what Nintendo would get out of it. The question is what their shareholders stand to gain.
65 years at a 2.5% inflation rate or 15 years at the stock market's historic growth rate of 12%.
IIRC he's publicly stated that he has no interest in taking SpaceX public due to his experience with investors in Tesla
Why doesn't this make sense? The greater roadmap is that Tesla is a energy company paving the way for an all-electric world from battery production to EVs, while SpaceX is revolutionizing spaceflight and starting mass commercialization with Starlink.
I feel similarly. I'm traditional pretty nervous about these platforms taking action.

Yet at the same time its' hard to balance the idea that I want people to have as much free speech on these platforms... and at the same time support the use of these platforms to push anti democratic / misinformation / and actions that would seem to lead to ... other people's rights being infringed and curtailed.
We put puzzles on a card table (or a spare table). To keep the cat from destroying/eating it, we cover it with a spare tablecloth.
"If you truly believe that that trade-off is worth it, "

???

Whuan/Australia clamped down and then they were relatively COVID free and their economies are expanding. The US is still in upside down mode with business flailing people dying.

.5% death rate is meaningless if 1) it expands rapidly enough to overwhelm the health system 2) even at that rate we're talking millions of dead Americans and therefore must be dealt with.

I'd 100% have rather taken the path of Wuhan, Australia or Taiwan who have effectively dealt with this issue while the rest of us flail in the wind.
https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/economie/energie/ministrul-energ...

the romanian blackout is linked to the european one
> Think ghengis khan except on a smaller scale.

Possibly not on a smaller scale. The man with the most children was a ruler of Morocco with 888, and there was a guy breaking into sperm banks to replace the sperm of astronauts, neurosurgeons and all the rest with his own. He apparently sired over 600 children.
Maybe first travel to the West Coast on a vacation or something to get a feel for what it's actually like. If you haven't already.
Given the nature of the example profile, which lists nothing but stories about an alleged killing by the officer profiled, and the option on the submit form calling the post title and url 'evidence' (suggesting the user is reporting a crime) and a badge number (also suggesting the user is reporting a crime, because no one asks for a badge number if they're happy about the way the cops have treated them) I would assume this site is not intended to present cops in an impartial light, or at least, that it's intended to favor negative reviews over positive ones.

Which could still be a valuable service either way. I hope it does get both positive and negative reviews. I see the tragedy of the commons dragging it down into the mire pretty quick, though.
It isn't necessarily obvious, but in some ways that's because the San Francisco Bay area is such an outlier that it's easy to miss how fast housing costs in metro areas around the country have been rising relative to salaries. The median home value in Sacramento, for instance, is $330K, compared to San Francisco's staggering $1.3M -- but the home price in San Francisco in November 2011 was $633K, whereas in Sacramento it was $183K. (This is according to Zillow, and I picked those points because they're about the lowest points in the last eight years, just before the CA housing market had started to recover.) Housing prices in Sacramento have been going up slightly faster than they have in San Francisco -- and they're not flooded with techies making $200K+ annual salaries. (Granted, there are some techies from here who are probably willing to commute from there at this point.)

And this isn't just a California thing.

"Home prices are rising at twice the wage of growth." https://www.curbed.com/2019/5/15/18617763/affordable-housing...

"Low-cost housing is disappearing from the market." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/housing-crisis-inequality-har...

You can find a lot of these articles around without much effort.
Both SaaS and multi-tenant hardware have massive surface area.

For multi-tenancy, it isn't about trusting AWS/Azure/GCP, it's about trusting everyone you're sharing hardware with.

Cloud products are difficult to setup (AWS in particular). If you can't setup PostgreSQL properly, why are we assuming you can setup AWS properly? Look at the recent Endgame pen testing tool (1)

(1) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154038
Every marketplace has illegal products. Craigslist has stolen cars. Kijiji has stolen pets. eBay has fake collectibles. You will find all manner of scams on Reddit. Fiverr is filled with tons of people willing to do your homework.

Expecting marketplaces to police peer to peer transactions in depth is unreasonable.
Sorry to disapoint you. My friend who works in recruiting told me, that one company wouldn't accept perfectly skilled candidate, because he was around the same age as their current COBOL developer. They argumented, that they don't want both of them die around the same time.
I think it’s called a “pleasure card” because it’s supposed to be the opposite of a “business card” (like the idiom “business or pleasure”.)
There are multiple account of carriers being "sunk" during excersices by non-nuclear subs. Numbers still matter, and while the Russians and Chinese are't he best in force projection, the Chinese not yet, neither one is to be triffeled with in their backyards.
I have gone through 2 SSDs in my rMBP mid 2015 (16GB RAM). This was the last model with replaceable SSDs, I believe. I am on my third now:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 38 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 7%
Data Units Read: 82,062,737 [42.0 TB]
Data Units Written: 81,415,281 [41.6 TB]
Host Read Commands: 539,567,311
Host Write Commands: 561,934,808
Controller Busy Time: 3,863
Power Cycles: 3,059
Power On Hours: 2,705
So many more things make sense in that light!
Depends what you mean by "changed". The function body itself cannot change in javascript afaik. The function bound to some name can change, but that's equivalent to the name pointing at another structure. The new structure will have its own compiled version of the new function. It doesn't mean though that it can just fold multiple resolutions of the same name into a local variable and cache it. This kind of behaviour would be similar to optimising random() to return 4.

I'm not sure if v8 does any whole-module optimisations... if it does, then there's got to be loads of "invalidate me" hooks everywhere. I doubt it would be worth doing, but if anyone has more precise info - please correct me :)
Or more simply, use a passphrase where words are truely selected by random (diceware).
I don't think the problem was with Python. It seems that the problem was that their code wasn't very good.

It's worth pointing out that there are lots of good tools available now (which were not available then) which make Python an excellent choice for high performance systems.

I will take my Python zealot hat off now. You just raised my hackles slightly, is all :-)
I came across this today and was surprised it had not been posted on HN yet. It's mostly the basics, but I thought it might help some vim students out.
It's unlikely that these sites had major bank accounts in the US. And it's unlikely that the FBI got $TAXHAVEN to shut down their bank accounts. I wonder what is happening here.
You know, these "asset forfeiture" laws will never change as long as it's the 'little people' who are getting reamed.

The day the government grabs the assets of a few rich people, you can bet your ass these laws will change in a hurry.
I forgot who first said it but the TSA is what you get when you pay people to use their reptile brains (the part of the brain that mindless reacts to fear).

The things that REALLY keep us safe are pro-active investigations that take place invisibly and silently long before a terrorist gets to the airport.

What happens at the airport, as Bruce Schneier once said, is "security theater." It is an act that makes it seem as though something is being done. It sounds ridiculous, but this is what makes it possible for many people to convince themselves to continue to fly.
FBI needs to back down, citizens have a choice.
Whatever one thinks of Trump, it seems quite stupid of him to put so much of ability to communicate with his followers in the hands of a company that obviously disagreed with him.

If I were President Trump I would've ordered the creation of an official US government Social Media site and used that. Alternatively, I would've used Mastodon.
> The digital music revolution is just another aspect of this same concept, I never ever paid for any string of bits in my life, and never will. [my italics]

You sound proud of that! So, you're not a musician or artist or writer etc etc, then – I can't imagine any of those saying that. Calling something "a string of bits" to make it sound valueless is a strange trick.

> "This is not the same as Napster" - It's the same thing.

I think Alexandra's point is a good one – they are essentially different:

"The problem is that publishers are not actual creators of these works, scientists are – they do all the work, and academic publishers simply use their position of power in the Republic of Science to extract unjust profits. Sci-Hub does not enable piracy where creative people are deprived of the reward they deserve. It is a very different thing."
Nassim Taleb once said something interesting on this subject like:

"You need skills to get a BMW. You need skills and luck to become Warren Buffet. Journalists later wrote 'Taleb says Buffet has no skills!'"
As a language nerd I always want to see some sample code, even if I can't understand what is happening yet. Just to get some of the flavor of the language. That's pretty hard to find on the site. I did find one of the tutorial decks [pdf] to serve this purpose though: http://alloy.mit.edu/alloy/tutorials/day-course/s2_language....
Haha, ok sure. :)
(The name Trail of Bits reminds me of the Trail of Tears. Maybe it's just an unfortunate co-incidence?)
If you do this right, there's no "remote", there's no "overseas", there's no day-to-day distinction in how someone works between whether that person happens to live in the country the company was founded or not.
Sounds great, as long as you're only interested in selling to the Bay area I guess.
#2 For tight loops on the GBA you wanted 32bit ARM instructions in an area of RAM with 32bit accesses. There was a performance penalty both for using thumb and for running non thumb out of ROM (the bus to ROM was only 16bits). If there was a lack of WRAM for some reason it would totally make sense to put a tight loop into VRAM. (And for whatever reason Nintendo is really into putting random stuff into VRAM. On the DS, one of the ARM7 images would put WLAN packet buffers into an unused VRAM bank to reduce pressure on other RAM banks).
"@realDonaldTrump" will spawn his own blockchain based social network.
Well, then Patreon is for the "taking". I know it is not that easy, but sometimes being shitty does not pay off
Nope, you are incorrect.
Smart, educated people.
Another irony is NPR breaking this news, as they came under attack for bias during the Obama administration.
> it has no bearing on private companies and only refers to laws Congress is allowed to pass.

I'm afraid that's not quite right.

The Fourteenth Amendment acts to extend the Bill of Rights to the states, as well. So the First Amendment limits not just the laws the federal government can pass and enforce, but the laws state governments can pass and enforce, too.

With some exceptions, the First Amendment also prohibits laws compelling speech. This is at the root of platforms' legal rights to set their own rules for content moderation, or to choose what to publish. For a recent case on compelled speech, see the Supreme Court decision in the Becerra case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Family_a...
The other way around. They deny you if you're a UK customer.
Let's just keep everybody equally uneducated.
I'd be quite interested to keep in touch with some people studying these topics, even if we don't follow the same pace or curriculum.

Despite having studied a decent dose of math during my undergrad (and currently during my grad), I keep on finding awesome books like Axler, Hubbard, Halmos, Neuveu... that make revisiting math so much more illuminating. Everything clicks much more quickly and I never loose momentum now.

Some of these books I found online, so I'd definitely like to exchange more references, problems, tips & experiences.
The problem is that the people who benefit from the situation are never interested in identifying and fixing the "bad situations" until things like this happen. They're fine accepting a system that privileges their own children at the expense of others, and only when their children might be affected do they become ostensible advocates for looking at the situation holistically.
I do Caps Lock to Control too, which frees up the bottom left key as a Function key on external keyboards.
My experience in school (and now with my kids in school) was that there was no such thing as a group of "average" students. There's a huge variation in most grades.

Sure, you could pick the smartest kid in each class and put them in a gifted program, und give extra help to the slowest learners. But that wont help the rest of the class that still spans a huge range.

That's why I think that education should move away from the "everyone does the same thing" type.

I took some extra physics classes in high school. And guess what, in those extra classes every student got their own exercises. Because we were all at different levels and had different interests.

Why don't they do that in normal classes?
Are workspaces integrated with windows desktops or they are separate entities?
> One of the reasons Bitcoin has been on he rise the last year is that it has far greater potential than a savings account to grow in value and, unlike gold or silver, doesn't take up physical space.

Its potential may be offset by its environmental impact and lack of any fundamental value.
Yes it's illegal in France, here is the official documentation:

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F929

3 to 6 month with certified letter before the sale, and can only happen at lease renewal dates (every 3 years).
It goes something like this:

1) Perform some reversible operation

2) Copy answer to another location (At some cost in heat)

3) Perform reverse operation, which rolls back memory to starting point

When you're done you have zeroed out memory, and the only costly operation was the copying of the answer.