jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I went to a speech by savage earlier this fall. The point that I took away from it is that what captchas do is filter out the bad guys who haven't figured out a business model.

On the klingon point: They theorized that the particular organization was a bunch of PHDs rather than farmed labor - and that it had learned from previous 'example answers' they had submitted. That particular organization, it was noted, was also an order of magnitude more expensive than the others.
How long have you been programming and in what languages?
So would you be for sales tax on services too?
It's a question of where connectivity is available and how easy it is to track. For example, how do you replace a submarine surfacing somewhere to receive a pre-scheduled radio transmission?
it isnt the holy grail, I can say I am a better programmer thanks to learning erlang though, half of that is due to its functional nature, half due to the erlangs idioms.

you learn the same way you learn any other language, just pick something to program and go for it.
Admittedly anecdotal, but I found for me, after taking into account higher cost of living and higher payroll taxes in the US, the pay scales are comparable.
I think anything you're doing with community is going to be a massive, up hill battle because it's a hugely saturated space where you're competing with a huge range of people that will be hard to beat ... old and established networks like weblogs inc and gawker, communities, and social platforms like Sony's and Microsoft's.

Anything to do with deals is going to be too niche I think ... how often do people buy new games? When I only need to visit your site every other month it's far too easy for someone I visit every day to replace you.

Meetups I think is also going to be a tough battle, there's already (I believe) huge lan party organizations.

What does your specific interests in gaming come from?
Which gaming community are you talking about? Competitive, league-based FPS gamers? Highly socially integrated guild-based MMO players? Casual bejeweled junkies? Pen-and-paper tabletop RPGers?
No, it's clearly some conspiracy involving spies and movie stars.
The article doesn't really address the question posed in the sexy title, as you begin to do. The kind of proliferation of writing that worried Luther and then Poe and now the "pessimists" mentioned here presents readers with the intellectual challenge of figuring out what's really authoritative or just good versus what's throwaway. Poe apparently thought that was an evil, but maybe meeting that challenge does make people smarter, even if the sci journal vs. erotic fiction opposition makes it seem easy (I don't want to throw away the M. de Sade!). "How is the internet changing the way you think?" is an Edge question. http://edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html
Make a game out of doing real world stuff. Ie- I get points for running a 5k, points for skydiving,etc. Now people can cheat, but if you added in proofs like pictures/getting your friends to endorse that you did it, that would be cool.
One absolutely excellent reason for not tying services to port numbers is that it instantly undoes a large amount of strangling currently done to the peer-to-peer nature of the net. If you could run a web server with a url sans :port/ combo on any port that you wanted to then ISPs would have no easy way of blocking access to your self-hosted service without doing deep packet inspection.

It's totally ridiculous that with 100 Mbps 'down' and 20 Mbps 'up' you still need a hosting account for a small web server.
Sadly, he would be losing money to pay me money because 1 CAD is only 0.80 USD so purchasing BTC with a Canadian bank account/card gives him worse exchange rates. How we've gotten around this is him buying me Amazon gift cards. He can spend $50 CAD on a gift card that is worth $50 USD and I just use that on Amazon anytime I want.
I've seen this more commonly when a writer has already written the full title earlier in the article. It does seem strange and unhelpful to do it in a headline about an obscure (to the audience) book.
Unlikely and would cause problems. Parent was suggesting that they should be cleared separately without having to update browsers. I like the certificate transparency idea better though, and I wonder if it is possible to refuse new certs via public endpoints but allow certs to be manually added to the logs and SCTs to be manually issued, in case going that far is needed.
Is it just a branding thing?
If you receive a nice grant of stock from your company, it will probably be few years before you want to sell that stock for cash. In fact, it will likely be several years before there is a reasonable way to sell the stock even if you wanted to. Selling stock in a privately-held, early-stage startup is often not a simple matter.

Despite that, the US IRS will want you to pay taxes on the current value of that stock in cash this year. The IRS doesn't care that you don't have the cash. And, they don't care that there's a very large chance the stock will turn worthless before you can sell it for cash.

Options however are not taxed until they are exercised. In practice, exercised options are usually converted directly to cash. That makes paying the taxes much easier. And, if the company folds you get nothing, but at least you didn't pay taxes up front on a stock that turned worthless.

So, it's a bit complicated, but options are usually more friendly to employees than direct grants in general. Details in the options like "What happens to my options if I leave the company?" are important. They can also be complicated and possibly employee unfriendly. I'll leave the discussion of that detail to the rest of the crew here.
I like this article - agree with the others that it gives the luddite concept a little too much love and doesn't properly recognize the huge benefits of mass media and tech, but still, the basic realization that self-determination in the face of enabling technology, media, culture etc. almost always requires real hard work and sacrifice is something worth contemplating - perhaps more importantly, interesting to consider that the utilization of all society/progress has to offer is in some cases the opposite of self-determination.

I might keep reading this blog.
I like this series so far!
Why is it bothering you? You are missing the big picture of my comment. it doesn't matter what way I communicate with # tags or swear words!

You should look past the silly things and understand the message / purpose of the comment
That sums it up. Oh, and they're a danger to the internet itself.
Depends on your definition of a free market. It is free in the sense there is no government (or other entity) controlling it.
I'm guessing they just took the figures from the Chinese press release and turned it into an article. Lazy journalism at its best.
I use the varidesk, it works well for me. I've had it for about 2 years and it's handling the ups and downs well with the load of my 27" iMac. Not the prettiest thing, but it gets the job done.
I totally agree with this. I was assuming the case of a default behavior like shift or reduce force fully for unambiguous grammars, which I should have mentioned. Thanks.
Yeah, problem with nix is that it's different. The nix language is a lazy-functional DSL, which takes a bit of effort to learn.

The thing is, "better" does imply "different." The syntax is weird and difficult, but it's the linchpin of the whole system. It's much, much better than your typical packaging system and worth the effort to learn it.
Last time I checked Amazon's hardware line... didn't go too well. Amazon is a retail company, not a software company. Remember that.

AWS (the closest thing to software Amazon owns) will converge to 0 profitably as competitors copy the easily replicable service.
Maybe EFF's Privacy Badger could help? I use it and like it, you can unblock individual scripts on a per page basis.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Like in my other comment, I agree with this. I missed mentioning mentioning my assumption of a forceful shift or reduce action in case of an ambiguous grammar.
Oh yes, I struggled with this a lot. I started working full time remote about 4 years ago, then decided after a couple years it wasn't for me, and swapped to a short lived office job as the quarantine happened. It's only in the last few months I've been able to go to an office.

The problem, for me at least, is that my brain doesn't want to swap to "work mode" when I'm at home. I can do it for the short term but over the long term I really struggle with focus at home.

How did I cope with it? Well, sad to say, I never found anything that completely worked. Outside of lock down I'd go work in a coffee shop and that was my most productive time. Now, going into the office, it's crazy how productive I am compared to when I'm at home.

I think all you can do is try to trick your brain into work mode. If you have space (which I didn't), a dedicated office that you only use for working is one approach. Only enter that room 9-5 when you're working. Other people have similar tricks. Prior to lock down, at least half the remote engineers I was working with had co-working offices they'd go to.

Another trick I used was to have a dedicated pair of noise cancelling headphones just for working, and use them at home just like I did when in the office. This seemed to help quite a bit.

I will say though that the flexibility of working from home is wonderful. But I never feel quite as productive work wise.
Mathematics is not a field of natural science, but it is a science too. I've seen it classified as "structural science" before. It operates on the same tenets of the scientific method (which, in one sentence, can be described as "methodically testing falsifiable hypotheses"). The only difference to natural science is that the testing does not involve interrogating the physical world through experiments.
My economics teacher once used the number 17 as a random number twice in one class, without noticing.

A note on the number 7: magicians actually use the frequency of that number being picked for their tricks. If an amateur card magician asks you to pick a number, for example, "between 5 and 10" or the more daring "between 1 and 10" they want you to say 7. Now that you know this, though, I'd rather you humor us if you're ever asked..
Right, but then you have to require that your script be loaded synchronously. And this is really just a hack to get around the fact that browsers don't provide a proper API.
(he has eleven attorney’s in his practice at a major firm)

we had watched three company’s raise more than $10M each in our space

I am genuinely sorry for it, and part of me feels elitist for insisting on it, but I will always [EDIT]be[/EDIT] wary of anyone who doesn't know their apostrophes.
I've been really surprised recently by Paint.Net. It actually does a lot of the "basic" photoshop stuff really well. It may be difficult to create graphical masterpiece type stuff but for the basics it's great.

Would be nice to see something like that cross platform with a decent UI. Gimp is cool and I've spent countless hours with it but the interface is simply clunky.

Will definitely check this out.
A bit more data would be nice to corroborate the claim. I understand some of the criticism in the comments. :)

If you are looking for some ridiculous correlation claims, check out the spurious correlation.

Here's an example,

The number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming pool correlates with the number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in.

http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=359

:)
The question is, what exactly is the overhead of VT-d and friends, especially when done at OS-level (every process gets its own "virtual" cpu?)
Indeed, I am. Incidentally, the worst parts of St. Louis account for basically all of that ranking. People here like to focus on the separation of the City of St. Louis from the surrounding St. Louis County (which is critical in understanding St. Louis's ranking on that list), but even within the City itself there are large areas that have basically none or few homicides every year. The most violent areas are extremely violent, in other words.
P.s: python has (or at least had) "static" analysis of the kind w.r.t exceptions and generators when they didn't mix well.

And python's call stack is sort-of visible through tracebacks, frames, and stuff like that.
If you’re not working on something your boss values, you are setting yourself up to being fired. Why should you be getting paid if you’re not doing something that your boss thinks is useful?

You should request a weekly or biweekly meeting 1 on 1 and talk with him. If he refused then try to switch to a different group, or leave the company on your own terms.
How does NFS prevent the developer from getting root?
What would be the consequences for Google if that page was inaccurate, misleading, or untruthful?
People ask me why I use cash, why I use bitcoin, why I think Uber and Deliveroo and their ilk are poison - this is why.

Take your data and shove it up your arse. If you work on this stuff, you're a cancer cell. You just haven't realised it yet.

I don't need your "credit". I don't even need you. No-one does.
It works great for me on Linux. There are obviously some confounding factors here that happen to disproportionately impact Firefox on your system.
No, the article and the library does gamma correction, and I've observed the exact effect you're talking about before. I'm not sure why the images are appearing too bright for the person above. Maybe because it's using pure colours like red and green which are bright on RGB displays? I should've chosen a different palette.
Feels like a wild ride going from DoubleClick getting flagged as literal spyware back in the day to everyone normalizing tracking to iOS cracking down on stuff like this
Tech literacy is negatively correlated with the likelihood of falling for scams or predatory practices. Companies who typically make their money out of screwing their customers over (and relying on the fact that they don't know/don't bother to rectify the situation) might very well preemptively raise prices or outright deny service to people who they think wouldn't fall for their bullshit.
Yeah this is basically correct. There is nothing really preventing an elevator from reporting that it's going both up and down. The up/down indicators are used for two things:
1. To shut off the up/down request indicators correctly on the floor when the elevator arrives.
2. By passengers to decide whether to get on an elevator or not.
Just like how the US financial system only freezes the assets of Bad Guys, right? As for GME? We had to rugpull them because they were manipulating the market[1].

[1] Yes I know that wasn't the real reason why trading was halted
I don't use their apps.

They are almost certainly sharing data behind the scenes, they openly say this in op's link about how WhatsApp uses your data:

> improving their services and your experiences using them, such as making suggestions for you (for example, of friends or group connections, or of interesting content), (...) across the Facebook Company Products;

There is a small chance that they've gotten all my data from the people at the other side of the conversation if they have the fb app installed I guess, which really isn't much better.
I had to take a pay cut and switch to a purely service delivery / provisioning role before I got out of On-Call; same org, different role.

~7 years and a couple of jobs later -- totally worth it.

Just make sure you're using that newly found freedom wisely; don't fight for freedom and then do 3 hours of uninterrupted netflix every night.
The blog post ends with "Easy money!". You are correct sir, this post is perfect.
Thank you Nat. It is better that Github be fully available on other countries sanctioned by US like Syria, Venezuela, ...

I am from Iran. unfortunately, we are prisoners of mullahs like peoples of other countries sanctioned by US that are prisoners of their dictatorship governments.
That comes of as cynical and reductionist. I don't want to be spied on and I don't want my country to spy on anyone.
Didn't Trudeau dress up in Blackface several times in the past, even well into his thirties?
As for the original (gp) comment, you should check the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

This (parent) comment falls foul of:

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
The VC fund is something entirely different. You can choose who you are doing business with, if you make decisions based on anything else than ability and product you probably will miss out on profit, but in the end, no harm was done.

Also, this stuff comes to Europe. It's already in Germany where some public jobs have to meet certain male/female quotas, but also the universities, which are filled with this PC crap.
I'm sure there will be a push to outlaw private schools.
How more reasonable it would have been for Microsoft to provide the publishers details to consumers instead of the other way around.

Interesting that this is not so.
It's not a UBI experiment until the taxation part of the equation is also included in the experiment. Injecting outside money like manna from heaven is not UBI
Listen Live is a neat feature that can be used for both good and evil.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209082

They can also be used as hearing aides

https://www.hearingtracker.com/news/airpods-pro-become-heari...
Yes but unless the local employee anticipated to be fired, most of the times they won't have made copies of the work.

When you tell them they're fired you can block them from physically accessing their dev machine.

Of course if you work on an open source project this problem go away, every employee is mandated to release their code ;-)
I don't see a problem with ambulance coming in -> charge them to the moon because if we don't do what we're going to do, they are going to die.

There's a problem with applying that logic to - hey I have a pain in my hand because I was rowing a boat today without warming up. Take this 800mg Ibuprofen. 3 months later $800. (So that's a true experience with my wife and rowing a boat)
I agree. But I'm not sure why Cohen's career is not hate speech.
Ya'll joke, but I don't suspect they are going to make/sell a lot of these and if Tesla goes under in the near future these things will skyrocket in value.

If you really want to bet against Tesla, buy one of these and wait for Tesla to fold. No one will ever make anything like this again.

I could even imagine them only making a few hundred of these and them all being worth a million dollars after the company collapses.
Except it will be in beta for the whole period.
I think this article probably deserves a passing mention to the classic tool for reducing compiler bug cases, creduce [1]. I know it's used for rust or at least it can be used for rust.

It uses delta debugging [2] to minimize the reproducer, and AFAIK doesn't know about Rust. But it could be taught these rust-specific transformations.

[1] https://embed.cs.utah.edu/creduce/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_debugging
I use it for shutdown channels. It doesn't matter what you're putting in the channel if you're never putting anything in the channel
Yes.

Do we have to be US citizens?

No, as long as you can get here for at least three months. We've funded many startups founded by non-citizens.

(http://ycombinator.com/faq.html)

––

Check the specifics for coming to the US for 3 months with your nationality. Most western countries fall under the visa waiver thingy, for others you'll have to get a tourist visa.
Also throw in all the college debt they require you to pile on before being hired, not to mention the hours spent studying instead of working. And that it is a cyclical feast or famine industry where it ping pongs between 70 hour weeks of deadline crunches and post-dotcom, post-bank bust periods where no one is hiring. And that the career of many ends at 40. Plus as you mentioned, the San Francisco rents for those requiring you work in the city.
If someone wants to come to the USA on their own volition, and take their oath of citizenship- fantastic!

Except they can't - it's quite difficult for someone to do so without an employment or marriage relationship, and even after someone has a green card they are required to wait several years before an application for citizenship will even be considered.

Railroads in the 1890's didn't suddenly wake up with a million trained workers at their disposal, and they didn't have the option of importing trained workers from the UK where railroads were booming.

Why do you think there are so many Chinese people on the West coast of the USA? As well as those who arrived to dig for gold int he 1850s, a great deal of railroad construction was done with imported Chinese labor starting in the 1860s; both to relieve the labor shortage in the railroad industry and because they were cheaper and better-behaved than Irish laborers. If you're in the Bay Area the Oakland Museum of California has a permanent exhibit dedicated to this.

I am of course in favor of more training but you seem to be under the impression that the US railroad industry bootstrapped itself, when in fact it was heavily reliant on immigrant labor from the outset.
It could even be a single node, rather than all the nodes on a single machine.
"Dear xxx:
Thank you for interviewing me for the YYYY position. After careful consideration, I have concluded that I would not be a good fit for your organization.

I trust that you will soon be successful in finding the right candidate.

Sincerely,
Netsec"

That's really all you need to say
> Python? It's commonly used for writing backends.

So are dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of other capable languages and platforms. They could have easily mentioned Ruby, Java, or NodeJS.
We always use onetimesecret.com even over Slack
Even when they're guaranteed to deny you and take away your copies of all the evidence?
I don't know what kind of work you're in, but "knowing how a btree index works" (i mean how it really works, not just knowing the word "b-tree", if that's what you meant, nm) ranks pretty high in my book, it'd be outright bizarre if that same person didn't know the difference between udp and tcp?
TL;DR: Everything in the NYT article is "complete bullshit" but still basically true, if occasionally quoted out of context or a bit exaggerated, so Yahoo should keep giving her $2B/year to fling at random startups in the hope that one of them takes off and makes it all worthwhile. Did I miss something?
I can see how the situation you are describing works in theory, but the example you are giving is weak. Every device I own has a video camera; I am sure yours do too.
A Tesla (especially a Roadster) is a performance car though. Extreme LRR tires are not what most buyers are going to want.
Thank you! I much prefer whitelisting, but had not known about this one.
What was great about wasting any resources on copy protection instead of using them for something actually useful for users?
To really understand the output of 23andme will take a lot more study and I think that if you're going to let it influence your life's decisions at that level that you should be prepared to spend a substantial amount over and beyond the initial fee here to have the results interpreted by a professional that is able to put them in to the proper perspective.

23andme is expensive infotainment without the required education in both the genetic and the mathematical/statistical background.
I'm more than happy to have a conversation here about genetic testing (hey, Carbocation!) - but this is just an advertisement.
The OP devotes a paragraph to it.
Team 1024! Always an easy name to remember. Hello from team 166!
>What's the point of anything at all?

>...

>just because its beautiful and brings out joy to people in your world, however small the number might be

You answered your own question.