jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
These comments are hilarious, because people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web. The traffic parler generates for AWS is a rounding error.

It's like complaining about shutting down the old chuck e cheese on the interstate.
>Remember when people said "it's only extremists like Alex Jones" and "white nationalists", yeah well now Twitter has banned the president of the United States.

The president of the United States is in fact an extremist like Alex Jones and a white nationalist.
It was an investigation into whether Trump colluded with the Russians. Even the American Bar Association observed that Mueller found no evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians[0]:

"The special counsel found that Russia did interfere with the election, but “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple efforts from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."

Obviously "things were uncovered". People were charged. But their charges were obviously not related to Trump-Russia collusion, given Mueller's findings. So why is it that half of the country believes that he did? The answer is so, so obvious.

But hey, maybe you have a better handle on this whole thing than the ABA. I'd be glad to hear your thoughts.

[0]https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
He told people to march on the Capitol and stop the steal. If a mob boss tells his lackeys to "take care of it", he is guilty of murder when they kill him. Judgement cones into play because people are not robots, and people in authority have a responsibility to make their orders clear.
Is the Capitol really the "temple of democracy"? If anything, I would think the voting booth would be the temple of democracy and the Capitol would be the temple of Republicanism/Federalism?
This is too naive. Should a 9-year-old black girl be forced to endure racial epithets yelled at her as she enters her school on a daily basis because free speech is so sacrosanct it outweighs the abuse? Obviously not. The truth is in the gray -- free speech isn't an absolute.
It will be interesting to see Republicans argue that their conduct on social media is an attribute of their party affiliation. They would either have to (1) argue that they weren't spreading fake news or inciting violence or (2) that spreading fake news and inciting violence is part of being a Republican.
But if the marginal cost is still less, they should still be mining regardless of whether there are debts.
I think, if you take Epenthesis' statement and shift up a meta-level, you're going to lose a lot of the clarity in what you're saying. A cup happens to have a fairly stable, consistent representation in a variety of relevant timescales. But if you want a computer to identify something like "an isomorphism," or "a useless activity," or "something to help a thirsty person not dehydrate," it is not so clear what the rules are anymore.
I would ask the other way round. Why should this knowledge be hidden from the public?
When an algo puts a bid in and pulls it quickly if the bids start getting hit. It makes the order book seem thick but if there is any decent order flow there is no liquidity to be found.
Snowden revelations have become a media franchise in their own right. This is not about public gain anymore, it's about fame and revenue on the part of the outlets covering the stories.
Wow talk about nostalgia. Seeing the super card gives me warm fuzzy feelings. I miss those days where everything was so new and the possibilities endless. Less apps in general made each one feel much more special
That's because most founders are guys?

It's like the leaflet I got from our local hospital the other day. It features on the cover an african, an indian, a few other minorities, and one small white person. It's like they're trying way too hard to appear diverse. (The area it serves is probably 90%+ white).

I'd rather they project what is actually out there.
On Heroku ... I chose to build by own stuff on EC2, and it is a lot cheaper. And now with the free tier account I also get some freebies.

And yeah, app engine is great for entry-level prototipes, since you can forget about sysadmin tasks.
In all the threads I've read about Wayland, there's been considerable hyperventilation about loss of network transparency along with assurances that those concerns would be easier to deal with in a post-X world; basically, that the people working in these problems weren't born yesterday.

For example, read the whole of this thread: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November...
An inerter is the mechanical equivalent of a capacitor.
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008081906
I showed up at many bars many times in my life, still waiting for that success...
Any old cat5 can handle 1000BASE-T. 1000BASE-TX uses 2 pairs (4 conductors) and is pretty rare in the wild, whereas 1000BASE-T uses all 4 pairs (8 conductors). https://www.iol.unh.edu/sites/default/files/knowledgebase/ge...

This has more information on cat5 vs cat5e vs cat6 and their compatibility with different speeds / modes: http://serverfault.com/questions/107172/what-is-the-actual-d...

TL;DR almost any Ethernet cable you buy today will be cat5e or better, which will work just fine. Really old cat5 is technically compatible and should work too, but due to it having slacker tolerances for e.g. crosstalk, it might not work over e.g. longer runs or difficult situations (cable ran next to fluorescent lights, etc).

EDIT: If you want to know what speed your link-level has established, your OS should provide this info. netstat -e on windows or netstat -i on OSX / Linux should show the connection speed. In windows, you could also do WinKey+ r -> ncpa.cpl -> right-click active internet connection -> connection details IIRC.
I wrote a VHS take tracking system in Basic for a guy that rented out pirate VHS tapes from the back of a van around his council estate. I was about 11 (so about 1982), my dad used to rent tapes from him. - I'd never used whatever computer he had, just the Research Machines 380Z at school.

The next was a clone of some artillery game (a bit like Gorillas.bas) on to another of dad's friend's TRS-80. I'd never used a TRS-80.

Then a stock control program for my dad's pub (which got me an F in my computer studies class but saved at least $50k [I still got an A via the exam which means I scored 90%+]). I did know quite a bit about that system, being my own and all.

Then one day at my local computer shop, I was watching them struggle with their pricing. Only one guy knew the prices of stuff and had employees standing in line so they could price their builds. I was friendly with him so asked if I could take his spreadsheet and make it a bit better. Come Monday morning I'd discovered Access and made a computer building form that worked over the LAN. So they gave me a job making it better. By the end it did the purchasing, retail pricing, BOM production, quote tracking, faxing, barcode printing (which we built by hand as a TTF font in Corel Draw), barcode reading (each fax had a barcode, customers arrived with them and a quick scan later the shop floor people could find their details), sales team target tracking and quite a bit more (this is all pre-internet). The Microsoft rep called the best in-house project he'd ever seen!

Then I taught myself C++ to do image processing for the music video I was commissioned to make by Creation Records (a division of Sony) on the strength of the work we showed while doing video projection at raves.

Knowing vbscript meant I was well placed for IIS web development but realising it was a shit platform I started looking at PHP. I got a phone call from the previously mentioned retailer asking if I knew anyone that could do PHP. I said "yeah me" and got a 5 year job building a recruitment site.

In the process of doing that I taught myself Postgres and FreeBSD system administration.

Now I work in an independent cinema / media centre doing all sorts of sys admin with a digital video strand, DVD authoring & duplication (this pays best!), camera assisting etc. including a 5 machine video distribution and exhibition network on mac minis using Gentoo that can double as a a video wall a la Liquid Galaxy (same code in fact - a patched mplayer which syncs via upd).

tl;dr I knew almost nothing about any of the systems I have done my best work with and learned most of it on the job but got the job because I knew loads of other loosely related things.
I think that was the best comment on hacker news I have ever seen.
Common argument <> correct argument

Killer flaw of overly binary thinking.
I tried to determine this. And while I'm skeptical they brought the site down, there WAS a large uptick in comments on /r/wallstreetbets as the site went down. Still pulling in all the data from right before it went down.

https://topstonks.com/blog/reddit-down
I also see an alternative in 2021, even with both parents working. Just as a baby might be trained to sleep through the night, an adult can be trained to not sleep in one big chunk of 6-8 hours, but sleep in several chunks of a few hours. A little nap here and there, and some getting used to using your brain (=working) when tired is a viable alternative for me at least. While sleep is very important for
ones health, having a child got me to realize that I can function with less sleep as well.
This would be more in the spirit of „parents adapt to their new life as a young family“ in contrast to „the baby adapts to the parents pre-family lifestyle“.
I am ready to sacrifice sleep for going out and working late, and so am I to comfort a crying brand-new descendant of mine.
(Maybe I‘ll change my mind once the second baby is here ;) )
> After a certain threshold "slow" and "down" are effectively the same thing though.

Except when you realize the mempool has a complete record of every pending tx, unlike the central bank whose system is completely down and cannot and will not have a record of any of these transactions and it's services cannot be reached.

A part of me wants to be elated, but another part realizes that the end of US empire may allow the CCP to continue unabated, and that has incredibly horrible consequences given all the sabre rattling and their focus on Taiwan after illegally annexing Hong Kong and enslaving Xianjing.

The West will continue, and the lack of the US hegemony may allow it to prosper in other ways, but this will be an incredibly rough patch as it loses its status on sole Super Power, I don't think the CCP's China qualifies as a super power as it cannot unilaterally impose the world to operate on its own standard in anything but trade reliance, something it can and should lose. As creditor it cannot really do much except in a close sphere of emerging African countries, of which Bitcoin is actually flourishing, or the Russia/Iran block, and Iran is a hotbed of Bitcoin influence with state sponsored miners.

I hope the US takes the lead once more without the need for overt militaristic, police-state tactics as the petro-dollar loses its gravitas, I just don't want to be here when it happens.
Has anyone tried this out?
The comparisons show that the amount of firearms alone doesn't explain the number of deaths.
Why waste time building your own testing scripts when you can copy paste a few lines of YAML and be done.
Reddit also went down.
GME is also going parabolic this PM along with AMC

coincidence?
Indeed, FDIC is not something that you need in the case of BTC as it's fluid and is not locked to one "bank" / "exchange" / new future entities. It's interoperable between many systems today too.
Exactly what I meant. The money funneling has a valid purpose beyond actual aircraft, but as it stands it doesn't really serve that purpose.
It doesn't stop an idiot from using it wrong,
because no solution would.

I disagree, I think our services provide a path of least resistance and if there's anything an idiot loves it's the path of least work/time.
CSI has nothing on Blade Runner.

Though to Blade Runner's credit, it is the future. Maybe it was holographic film... :)
Yeah, I hadn't realized that it was tilted that far toward the Disney side either.

The way he tends to talk about Apple is that they want to make products that sell so that they'll get to "come to work the next day" and keep making more. Obviously there's some public positioning / PR going on there, but I think there's at least a kernel of truth, too.
I implemented this a while back and it worked pretty well after a few stumbles. If you have any questions trying to set it up feel free to contact me username@gmail.com
thanks. i'll try that.

just tried it it does not show up as an option.

if others like the colors, i can fix it for myself. my eyes are sensitive to rich colors and glare.
The good thing about MongoDB is that all the gotchas are well known in the community and documented. Thats actually all the more reason to stay with MongoDB.
I'm usually on a 24" screen where this probably wouldn't be a problem, but since I'm travelling for holidays I'm on a 13" screen, and there is too little "above the fold." This is what I see:

http://img.skitch.com/20101223-cswsdqrxqjwbat5isf124bkr29.jp...

I think you could change/sacrifice some of the giant whitespace up top and move more screenshots or real meat of the application above the fold.
I generally agree with the premise, but yeah, the dude namedropped Madcatz so you'd think he'd know that 3rd party controllers have never been worth it.
As someone who has extensive experience in both Haskell and Clojure, I can say that the latter is definitely better suited for “transformation of data”.
Has already happened, Nano is feeless, currently supports 250tx/s on main net and requires the energy of one windmill for the entire network.

It's also more secure than Bitcoin due to a higher decentralization coefficient.
Haskell is good for correctness.

Where correctness really matters, you might find Haskell. That makes it a very niche language, as most developers don't really care about correctness.

But you do find Haskell in places where complexity is high and correctness matters. Mostly banking, infrastructure, defense, and research applications.
The only Haskell software I regularly interact with is Hasura, and it has plenty of bugs (even ones around nulls and other things Haskell is supposed to magic away).
> It's a research vehicle.

Well, it's also one that happens to make people lots and lots of money. Standard Chartered, for example, uses it extensively to earn lots of money. Facebook uses it for spam filtering logic. Niche, perhaps, but painting it as purely for research is just incorrect.

Yes, it's not going to be great if all you're writing is integrations with various vendors using SOAP or just legacy or odd protocols. Those have libraries or code generators on the JVM/.Net/etc. platforms... not so much in Haskell. However, this has nothing to do with the language, it's just a matter of people actually doing the work to support those things.

Everything else, though... you're golden. It has a learning curve, but there's a reason that Scala is moving ever closer to monads, adopting proper syntax for type classes, etc.
AM / PM clears up the 0900 vs 2100 ambiguity, but agreed re; American date formats.
I think that was already a big risk. I don't think the Twitter ban is going to change anything other than taking away a platform that is being used to spread misinformation, anger, and fear
"By 8:10 we'd booked. By 8:16, we'd ironed clothes, showered, driven and arrived for a great meal."

Wow. You iron, shower, and drive a whole lot faster than I do.
Anyone know what database system they use?
No girls. A bar full of dudes gets boring really fast. You go once, twice, then you don't go there anymore.

Better just stay home and code and drink a beer. I meet my friends at coffee places (Red Rock in MV., or Coupa Cafe in PA).
The only thing surprising is how easy a balanced budget would be. There are very few things on that list I'd object to.

Lets balance the budget and keep it that way, then we can let the national debt die a slow inflationary death.
Well, 25 minutes isn't bad. The thing that sucks is that it's 25 minutes over 5 miles. If I'm going to be in my car for half an hour and living in a place I don't really like, I might as well commute a bit longer and live in a place I like better.

The fact that live music is pretty much non-existant in this area is sort of a bummer as well.
when I price out my services (which usually come out to being cheaper than ec2) a rough rule of thumb is that the monthly fee should be around 1/4th the capital cost of the hardware.

When thinking about the rent vs buy equation, this is something to think about. If you only need it for a month or less, you almost certainly will save money by renting. If you keep the hardware for a year, you will nearly always save money by buying. (of course, it's a little more complex; if you have have a bunch of hardware knolwedge in-house and can sell hardware that was used for a month at nearly full price, it might make sense to buy even for one month's usage. If the opposite is true, e.g. there is something in your organization that prevents you from hiring hardware contractors, or you have budge for MRC but not for capital costs, renting might make sense longer. I just use the 'four months' as a starting place.)

This is leaving aside the "of reasonable size" bit. If you need 256MiB of ram and a tiny slice of a x86 CPU in a data center, it's nearly always cheaper for you to rent a virtual than to own a physical bit of hardware. But for large clusters, you usually need enough ram/cpu to justify buying and hosting a real (32GiB ram/8 core or better) server.
Hi Riskish!

We need a redesign! We're not at a point where we're building the site....but we've been developing the concept and product for the past year. We're finishing the tech spec and will be ready for software dev in Jan...but definitely wanting a logo redesign.
Yeah but flying is more fun.

- Sent from the Seattle Airport
I know I will get some backlash for saying this, but there is a lot to be said for a good IDE. - PyCharm (a Python IDE) would detect the example given. The word "elephant" would be grey (parameter not used) and the live Python interpreter would underline "elephnt" (Unknown reference) upon pressing return.

He does state "by default" this would not be detected, which is true. Yes, the compiler isn't always on your back, but Jenkins is ;)

What the title should say is "Why might a C++ programmer find Python tedious"- Answer, because he/she has to write tests.
Does python document anything about performance?

I assume my array sort won't be n^3, but how do we draw the line on what to assume and what not to assume?
> No reason self-driving technology should be bundled with a car

It seems to me that there are many reasons it should be bundled, and I'll bet that in the long run all self-driving cars will be integrated systems. It's not a good place for inconsistent installations or a modding mentality--imagine multiplying Uber and Tesla's programs a thousandfold with fewer resources and less accountability.
> how deeply dualism is ingrained in philosophy and the cognitive sciences.

It's not, though. Dualism has been a dying breed for at least a century now. Academics like Chalmers are rare outliers.
I think there needs to be a name for this type of baseless argument. COMPANY would never do UNPOPULAR_CHOICE under OLD_BOSS.
175k to 660k in 32 years is only a 4.25% increase per year. That's really not much at all.
Avalanche isn't that big yet but it's in production and running DeFi.
The brain is a deterministic system. We understand the dynamics of deterministic systems from the study of physics, so what is free will in terms of a system with an already decided outcome?
In the UK mortgage interest deductions were eliminated from income tax but it just pushed professional landlords to move to holding property in more elaborate incorporated structures
Fun fact!

Income is NEGATIVELY correlated with job satisfaction in SOME scenarios. Imagine the thought experiment: you get paid GREAT, but you boss is aweful. You decide to quit as soon as you find a job that let's you keep you current lifestyle. If it is hard to do that, you keep your job longer...and you have poor satisfaction.

To counter this, I got a 10% raise 6 months ago, and it was tots legit.
this seems like a clever way of censoring internet access from within China - get the site owners to do the censorship for you.
He didn't last very long because he didn't agree with you?

'cos clearly whatever he was doing was acceptable up till that point.
No one owes anyone anything if we are talking about commerce. People are owed respect and decency.

Your comparison to the gold rush is an apt one, though.

Cheers.
I mean that the Linux kernel memory allocation behaviour was tested. Yes, drivers and modules - and userspace apps - all undergo their own testing, but to be clear I was referring to the memory allocation and management subsystem.

Of course there are other rules that factor in here too - in safety critical, you don't use malloc() much.
> -- Jackson Palmer, author of Dogecoin.

Does replacing Bitcoin's logo with the picture of a cute dog now make you some sort of authority on distributed consensus algorithms?

> And i share this point of view.

And just like him, you don't even understand PoW.

> consensus means all members of a party agree upon something. Not just 50%+1, majority rule.

Actually, consensus means "majority opinion". And I don't know where you got the 50%+1 expression from anyway, or why you think it matters . What are you referring to, exactly? Would you say there isn't consensus for the validity of the theory of evolution, just because initially, or even today, someone disagreed?
When I hear passive income on HN, patio11's blog comes to mind - http://www.kalzumeus.com/

Just reading his blog should hopefully give you some ideas.
It's difficult to compare brewers and distillers. It's easy to hide flaws in beer, but very difficult to do that in liquor.

The time to market is also very different in the two fields. With modern brewing equipment you can go grain to glass in as little as 2 weeks. With a whiskey you're talking at least a couple months of aging.

When making beer there are 23 major categories of beer. As a brewer you can make mist of those with just different ingredients. When distilling you're focus is usually on only one type of spirit. In that case it's all or nothing.
Sorry! I intended it to be encouraging for C dabblers like myself, but it's definitely not a "guide." It's my first time posting to HN, so I'll try to be more accurate with my titles in the future.
I quit a job that I hate and was killing me.

One week before I was facing unemployment I got a new job working as employee #1 on a startup, using technology I've been wanting to use for ages, on an interesting problem, for more money, and working from home.

I start my new job next week.

I learned that if you hate your job, it really is possible to do something about it.

Next year is going to be mental - so much to learn and do - but I can't see any way it'll not be better - and leave me a better person - than this year.
Almost all contents are publicly viewable. For example: http://www.quora.com/Startups

Things that aren't publicly viewable are question comments and revision logs.
Just one point about your wording. " It is easy, scales to any number of players, and..." sounds very uh, odd for the subject. I'm not sure teachers are thinking about scaling and Big-O, are they?

It tripped me up while I was reading it.
Just skimmed over TFA so I may have missed it but it only addresses the income benefits married men have compared to unmarried ones. What about the expenses ? Even ignoring the financially catastrophic for men scenario of divorce, I'm pretty sure for frugal single guys like me marriage would be a bad move economically with all the "necessities" married life comes with.