jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Another person notes that ddg is inferior. Maybe people get used to a certain way of searching with Google that doesn't translate to ddg. Haven't noticed a drop in quality myself and I think I might have been retrained to use different patterns and techniques in structuring my queries.
Yes, but Landau derives that in a supremely elegant way, from purely physical arguments.
Yes, you're right. That fact is, to a certain segment of users - like my senior citizen mother - a strong positive.
Agreed, free, and easy to use/cross platform.

MSO has somewhat pivoted towards mobile (Office Online, mobile apps). It is unclear if LO or OO have an "answer" for mobile devices, or if that's even in the realm of things they'd want to tacke?
I'm not convinced it's because the unions are lining the coffers of the politicians. It's not like corporations are strangers to lobbying and influencing either. There have been many problems with non-union subcontractors skimping on workers protections, causing death and injury to workers. I don't know about the situation in Canada, but a few soundbites without data is not going to convince me "union bad", "big construction company good".
> Imgur really jumped the shark by doubling down on social features.

I don't know if you can blame them (then again, that hasn't stopped my IMGZ character from doing it), nobody's going to pay to upload memes and they have to make money somehow, and social was one alternative. There aren't many ways to monetize serving an image...
I'm honestly pretty cynical about EU laws these days. All they're designed to do is to whack around American tech companies until they cough up $X bn for their coffers.

Not that America is any better these days, NJ recently decided to get into the game and started to go after Uber.
Totally reasonable thing to want IMO.

Try searching for stuff to do with managing ETL/integrations. Some of these jobs will require loads of product involvement, others will be some not terribly interesting data munging. At your target salary level which you mentioned elsewhere (30k EUR), there should be plenty of positions where you'll exceed expectations with 2 hours of focused, intelligent work per day. Not sure how many will be remote though, sorry!
If the organisation is big enough and dysfunctional enough, your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time. Just make sure whenever you are seen you have the appearance of being in a huge rush.
Literacy tests were used to keep people of color -- and, sometimes, poor whites -- from voting, and they were administered at the discretion of the officials in charge of voter registration. If the official wanted a person to pass, he could ask the easiest question on the test -- for example, "Who is the president of the United States?"

The same official might require a black person to answer every single question correctly, in an unrealistic amount of time, in order to pass.

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From https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/voting_literacy.html
It might be triggered at a certain karma level but when I look at those threads directly I see the title prefixed with “[flagged]”.
I've come to expect the "why another JS framework" paragraph on project websites. For me, more attention garbing and unusual would be omitting it.
First was with a Huawei partner. They do certifications for this, full training, gave a checklist of what to do, and how to handle every error code. It pays bloody well for blue collar work. The work was done remotely at the time.

You could probably find similar work with some other tech giant that outsources routine work to agencies.

Second was with a major coding bootcamp that had a partnership with an educational institution. The person who created the syllabus went on to do his own course. They tried to hire me, literally saying that I could play games all day, freelance, come in late. The downside is tech moves, so you still have to keep up, even if it's beginner level.
The namespaces are inherent in the class name. It's actually a very nice solution.

Instead of this Foundation::Array we get NSArray. Way easier to type out, and looks a million times cleaner to me.
> We will no longer support the option to opt out of personalization of ads based on your Reddit activity.
What I meant is that it's not a hassle free process. You'll be reported to the IRS (or equivalent) and even be asked to bring an "approved intermediary" in some EU countries. I wish I was making this up.
Data point: wages are higher in the US than most other countries, even for equivalent jobs. I routinely see development jobs in Europe offering 40-50k Euros that would pay double that in dollars in the US, and the US also tends to have lower taxes.

How does your country's wages compare? I do think the US works more hours (look at OECD data for this) but I think US companies are managed better in general, and the general non-unionization of the US workforce (only about 15% overall, with the majority working for government) is a big part of why pay is higher.
That’s not true. Antenna design for these 5 ghz+ frequencies isn’t trivial at all.
That would be great if they were as it would make Chinese silicon cheaper for the US since they are trading partners.
> No, not reality - not if persuasion comes from winning. The framework that lately is winning, which has nothing to do with reality.

The understanding that a large majority of people share about present reality isn’t something that requires persuasion. The persuasion has already occurred. Persuasion is about parting someone from existing beliefs or introducing new ones that you hope they adopt.

> [...] or else people are persuaded by winning, in which case patriarchy is just what's winning at the academy these days.

A lot of people are persuaded by winning, which is part of why certain harmful ideas prevail, at least for a time. My point was that challenging harmful ideas by making their influence untenable is often more effective than trying to reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place.

For instance, the expansion of hate group activity and open participation in recent years wasn’t because there was a sudden surge of interest in hate. It was because several political movements mired in hate gained power and prominence. Sure, it also expanded their mindshare reach, but it mostly just made people motivated by hate less afraid to show it.

Convincing people to abandon hate and embrace the humanity of the people they hate is an enormous investment, usually deeply personal in a way that doesn’t scale, and seldom effective. Convincing people that if they act on their hate they’ll likely experience substantial negative consequences is a lot more effective and a lot more scalable.

You have to determine, for whatever issue or belief expression, whether that level of conflict is appropriate. But if you do believe the risk of leaving an idea to fester is significantly greater than the risk of stifling the idea, the conflict is well warranted.

This isn’t just academic. Millions upon millions of dead bodies are at stake. And that’s not hyperbole, we already have many instances in history showing this, both in terms of their impact unchecked and their impact when confronted.

In conclusion: I do not wish to convince nazis not to kill me and nearly everyone I love by changing their minds. I wish to prevent them from doing so with the confidence that I have every natural moral right to do so I can imagine.
The article is instructing users how to configure Mac OS' built-in Mail application into a minimal form. The preferences dialog pictured is from that application.
I have the same approach. I'll add that the "desactivate retweets" function is also very useful.
I think that the goal of 100% code testing will exclude most research using software not written by professional programmers (i.e. most software in science and engineering research).
Do you have a cofounder? Having another person there to push you and make you feel obligated to put in time even when you're swamped with school assignments is crucial. When one of my cofounders and I were working on our startup during senior year of college, we basically treated it like heavy-workload class - we scheduled set hours to get together and work every day or every other day. I didn't want to disappoint my cofounder, so I found time to work on our startup even when PSets and programming assignments were due the next day.
If it can't fix those curly braces in the screenshot then I don't want to go near the thing.
Just one example of why people need to be careful using this data. It's a very useful source, but I've been seeing a lot of uncritical uses cropping up. For example, some people are using it to track intellectual trends--- compare the graphs of Heidegger and Russell or so on. This can sometimes work, but depends heavily on: 1) uniqueness of names; and 2) the particular set of books included in Google's corpus (especially if comparing people not from the same exact area, like a scientist versus an artist).

Even with relatively unique names, it can be tricky. The case of completely or almost completely unique last names (like "Nietzsche") is easy, but with the available interface to the data, it's difficult to handle cases where First+Last is unique, but last alone isn't. You need to count things like "First Last" and "Last, First", plus variants like "First M. Last", without double-counting.
It really depends on the University and major. If you're at a university that requires very little work, then you can get by. But if you're at a famously difficult major at a famously difficult university, you can't.

A lot of the more engineering focused universities (MIT, Caltech, CMU) can easily push their students to 80 hours of work a week without the blink of an eye. It's not unheard of the more difficult classes to take 60 hours a week by itself.

At any rate, good luck. I've been desperately trying to balance a startup myself with school :). However, Christmas break (now) is the real furious coding sprint.
Read my post. I admit, the "suck" referenced was a bit of a troll. It's how I once felt.
Congrats

It's a bit disappointing about the international shipping. I'm not sure how this snuck up on them so late in the game.

Shouldn't this have been foreseeable? What happened to cause this mistake?
Interesting point. I own another online retail business and all of my (500+ clients) pay me through it.
I preordered for a WakeMate way back when I was a BlackBerry user. Wow.

Regardless, I'm glad they're finally shipping (for real this time?). I hope it is worth the wait.
Ten part story with two ads. Well worth the hour it took to read. I must have missed this story back when it originally happened.
Would be nice if every new VC was forced to use this and share their results with their partners, to learn some humility.
RPM.
it is a state policy not erdogan's
refactored the code a bit to be faster.
A Treasury bond is just some bits sitting on a hard drive that promises to pay you so many "dollars", which is a purely imaginary unit whose value can be manipulated at the whim of the government. It's every bit as imaginary as Bitcoin. Arguably even more so, since Bitcoin can't be inflated at will and without limit.

They don't have to formally default if they inflate the dollar enough that a current dollar is worth only 10% (or whatever) of what one was worth at the time the bond was issued.

And it's starting to look like that's exactly the strategy that's in play.
Thats what I said too, but after trying it out it does a lot better than expected. For the games I like playing the lag isn't noticeable. During little nightmares 2 I forgot I wasn't playing on a local machine.
Author here.

What they did wrong was making promises to users and then breaking those promises.

I also tried to make the case that they either did not do their due diligence, which they should have done because they used C in the first place, or they did and should not have given up that battle-tested code.

I even mentioned that they were victims of the Rust language not keeping its promises. So I disagree that I am blaming the victim here.

Also, if they did not want to do the due diligence required by using C, they should have written Cryptography in Rust from the beginning and not made promises to users that they couldn't keep.
> We don’t set goals or long-term road maps. Daily, we look at what seems to be a good use of our time, and we do it, period. Long-term planning is tiresome and always looks pretty useless for a team like us.

Totally agree that long-term planning is less useful for startups than bigger organizations, but I assume the author isn't suggesting that any planning whatsoever is a waste of time. I'd be curious to know how planning enters into their decision-making process, and how they arrived at that equilibrium.
I use Phabricator as a self-hosted Git. It's slightly overkill for what I need - it's more geared for team working, but It's really simple to install and maintain.
Haven't given them my number on any of my twitter accounts. Where does this banning rumor come from?
One of the sources cited in this article is a Twitter account with 4,623 followers that goes by @PutinIsAVirus. Is this a credible source? Not saying I have any controverting evidence against the statements made in the article, but I am very skeptical of these generic news outlets that cite anonymous Twitter sources.

https://twitter.com/PutinIsAVirus/status/1379481592599621641...
I think it’s right: https://uploads.peterme.net/nimsafe.html
Is he implying that the way dog is being buried is typically disrespectful?
It's not unrelated until systemic racism is gone
What we did for tacticalvote.co.uk:

1. A static site generator, with markdown as the source input in Github

2. Data from Google Sheets

3. A bash job on a cron that would poll both for changes... if changes exist, re-publish the site or data and purge Cloudflare cache using their API

4. Configure Cloudflare via Page Rule to Cache Everything

Even with a very high change rate and hundreds of thousands of visitors a day and severe traffic spikes... the site was instantaneous to load, simple to maintain and update, and the cache purge stampede never overwhelmed the cheapest Linode serving the static files.

The content editors used Github as the CMS and edited Markdown, or just updated data in Google Sheets. Changes were live within 5 minutes.
Since my N95 respirator supply is limited, I have been removing it in the car and spritzing it with 91% alcohol inside and out until moist. It is usually dry in minutes, and should be sterile for the next use.
Most of the things you mention are fairly safe and have limited impact on the person’s life; the exception would be the heart and brain procedures (some are safe, some not), but those aren’t cosmetic; they’re necessary.

I’d be wary of most cosmetic surgery, but this is probably about the most extreme form.
I estimated a few years back that with China's continuing growth larger than the US's, the crossover date when China would be the strongest nation would be about 2025.

To prevent that, the US in its Thucydides Trap (alternatively, its Wolfowitz Doctrine) would need to initiate a conflict with China about 5 years earlier (so, 2020) otherwise it would have no guarantee of winning that conflict, and would probably be destroyed completely.

Wars in the Northern Hemisphere need to kick off in Spring (Mar 21) at best, or Summer (June 21) at the latest. If the US doesn't start a war with China in the next 3 months, it will have missed the boat.
The only double hires was on the title screen. Maybe the princess scenes too.
> form factor that is appealing

I don't think that's so difficult--once you can play games outside using headsets I think they will grow on people. Right now, as a fashion statement they represent people who sit at home and don't go outside. Not that there's anything significantly wrong with that, except it doesn't represent the majority.

Once we have good AR applications which work outdoors, the whole game will change.
All the latest info will be on the blog.
You are right of course on both points, I was talking about Therevadan monks and was referring to an interpretation of the Pali canon when talking about what the Buddha said.
Just ignore the second space that someone types after a period. =)
I have to check, but I thought they used AAA to take the F-117 down. If so, such things are statistical - put enough metal in a volume of space suspected of having a plane, rinse, repeat.

If he had the intel to guestimate the location or path of a plane, it's just a matter of time before the thing gets hit.

update: some searching revealed that low-frequency/old radars picked it up and some form of SAM got it. But there were bullet holes in the wing, too. If there was a hostile fighter up, that would work if it could be guided close enough. I've read previously that old/low-freq radars would be more effective as they weren't what was modeled when the thing was built.

The stuff's not magic, although the press and popular literature makes it out as such. Far better to fly things w/o a pilot, as holding missile fragments for hostage doesn't generate much interest.
aeontech is correct - the point of the product is not to change your schedule, but to maximize the efficiency and quality of the sleep you do get given your schedule.
As soon as we have a reliable app that competes with BBM for ease of use and reliablity and is cross platform, everyone I know who can afford it will immediately dump their blackberries and switch to Android or iPhones. Staying in touch with their friends who can't afford such changes right now and are "stuck" on the blackberry right now is the only thing keeping a whole lot of people from dumping them.
Maybe the flat earth theory was invoked as a polite way of telling Columbus no. In the same way that many investors never say no, they often say 'not right now'. The story must have had a kernel of truth to grow from.
Finding a better place to talk about politics is not HN's problem

To be clear, I was simply responding to something you said. You gave the impression that it was the quality of political discussion, not simply that it was against the rules.

A simple way to avoid problems would be to require all submissions to have code in the body of the text. The broad notion of "hacker" is too broad to be useful, IMO.
I didn't get an answer on my similar question, but here in the UK we have something like that in operation already - crowdcube.com

I've not used it yet myself, but I find the idea compelling because it allows people to actually invest in companies that need funding, rather than just pre-order.

It seems to support loans with a set interest rate or actual micro-equity. I might actually get around to investing through it someday...
Why you think is that? Could you, please, elaborate?
itertools, functools.

I once read a quote that when you're using itertools frequently enough in your Python code you're one step away from jumping to a language like Haskell.
If using powers-of-two, you'd bitwise-OR rather than multiply the values-per-character. Simpler op, and your accumulated value per string never rises (in the 26-letter case) above 2^26.
The problem with Gruber's argument though is there are no killer apps on the iPhone either. He lists a bunch of iOS apps in his story that I've never heard of. There's no Netscape. There's no Excel, Word. There's no Lotus 1-2-3.

Today I've only really seen four killer apps on a phone... email, SMS, mobile web browsers, and GPS. Facebook would be a marginal fifth. Everything else is stuff that frankly most people would barely notice if it was missing.
"The TNO institute, linked in some reports to the research, said in a statement it specifically distanced itself from the project.

A TNO researcher was involved in several discussions during the project but the organisation 'emphatically distances itself from the conclusions about the relationship between wifi and plant growth', the statement said.

There are no details about the research on the Wageningen University website."

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/11/mobile_interne...

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
Note that pg can do whatever he wants in the REPL.

I haven't noticed any thread ordering tomfoolery before, but he's definitely hidden posts from the index pages before without [dead]-ing them.
...It does!

I honestly don't know what to do with this information. Is this an intentional message? It's extremely overt.
> I'd actually have to think for a minute on how to do fizz buzz right now, simply because it is so far remove from the actual engineering workflow.

This type of attitude is highly suspicious.

If you're not the kind of person who thinks fizz buzz is trivial, then there are actual red flags.
I recently passed the RHCSA exam, which as of last October added a containers/podman section to the test. I usually work with lxcs under libvirt and directly, so working with podman was new to me. The test requirements are very simplistic, but I went further and spent a decent amount of time finding annoyances and issues.

I am not impressed with podman. It's buggy and slow. Documentation is very basic and the underlaying mechanics are not covered where needed. Want to reconfigure the command parameters your start your container with to add a exported variable? Gotta remake the entire setup because there's no edit command.
What? There's more chance that Facebook will be much more part of your life in 25 years than Cloudflare. Internet technology comes and go, social networks are here to stay. More than that, VR is going to boom in the next 10 years.
I agree. It might depend on where you start the 'netbook' definition and how you count 'most'.

The EeePC was x86, the Chromebook Pixel was x86 along with many that followed with balance being ARM variants.

More recently you have convertibles/ultrabooks and their stripped down cousins (e.g. Microsoft Surface Pro vs. Surface 3/Go/Go 2 and Surface 2, Surface RT, and Surface Pro X the latter 3 being ARM).

Ultimately the netbook niche has been squeeze by ultrabooks and tablets to few offerings if anyone is even bothering to market computers that way anymore.
The volume in the EU went from 70% to 100%, it’s unlikely to “reverse” after the ban is lifted.