jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you think getting a job as a marketer is accomplished by setting stock photography to music and adding quotes, you need to get some more experience.

Great marketing is 90% data analysis, 10% creative. I know you weren't trying to create a real-life ad here, but let's say that you were. How do you know that relating Airbnb to being at home is what your users want?

For me personally (Millenial, travel only for pleasure), that isn't appealing at all. I want something more like an adventure. But for a consultant, who travels for work all the time, they'd probably want something like home.

A great marketer will find the mix and figure out how to target each type of person. The creative part isn't nearly as important as figuring out who the audience is, where their attention is, and how to get their attention inexpensively.

My suggestion is this: find a company that needs marketing help, get some money for AdSense/FB ads, and get creative. See what works and what doesn't. Learn data analysis. Great advertising is built on great numbers.
For what it's worth I thought the post was fantastic until the last paragraph, which was a valuable anecdote (and obviously a very personally significant one), but very confrontational. Understandably so, but the tone probably makes it less likely that a person on the fence would come around to your point of view.
Whether or not a company is allowed to buy another company is a matter of economic freedom. All other things being equal, the more freedom companies have to buy others, the greatest the level of economic freedom, as freedom to buy is a component of economic freedom.

Allowing companies to buy any companies has issues. Not allowing companies to buy other companies also has issues. So how could any intermediate situation not have issues? If it forbids in some cases, it will have some of the problems associated with forbidding. If it allows in some cases, it will have some of the problems associated with lenience.
> Certainly there is more competition for agents in Palo Alto, but the actual amount of work done by a real estate agent in PA is damn near equivalent to the work done by one in SB. There are standard California forms, inspections, financing etc. The only "added perks" provided by luxury firms in the Bay Area are aesthetic improvements designed to attract wealthy buyers.

Work != value.

Here, you seem to have overlooked the fact that Open Listings is trying to "disrupt" the buyer's agent (although technically that's what it is). If you think the only thing a buyer's agent has to do to close deals in hot markets like Palo Alto is to submit an offer and run through the motions, you're mistaken. A great agent can be the difference between getting a property or not.

> For those who are interested, innovation in the real estate market has been difficult due to the monopoly on housing listings. The "Multiple Listing Service" (http://www.mls.com/) is the only master directory of housing lists and is only made available to "Realtors". In case you didn't know, Realtors are not exceptional agents, they simply pay to be members and gain access to the MLS. My dad was a member for the longest time just to have access to the MLS. After all, when a customer asks you to help buy a home, where are you going to get your list of available properties from?

You do realize that the number of pocket listings has grown substantially in the past several years, right? In some markets, pocket listings account for double digit percentages of sales.

This, incidentally, is another reason to work with an agent who is a top producer, particularly in a hot market. They're far more likely to be tapped into the networks that will give their clients access to properties that haven't hit the MLS.
Because I detest Java and I find it to be archaic, old-fashioned and clunky but that's just me.
All the "philosophical" views become rather hypocritical when those who have them receive a lot of money from monopolists who want to prevent competition. So stop the nonsense please. It's not about any philosophy. It's about money.
Telling us that a vaccine is 66.3% or 94.1% effective is pretty clearly informing us that a small handful of vaccinated folks will get infected.
https://www.compuserve.com is the same thing.

Oath/Verizon is keeping these sites on some kind of life support to this day.
I like this fan a lot: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07FPFVZTZ

I had a previous speed-controlled fan that had an annoying buzz at low speed. This AC Infinity one is very good though. I would not cheap out on the fan. I had this set on the lowest setting, and also had an outlet timer plugged in so it turned off for several hours in the middle of the night.

Conversely I don't think the carbon scrubber itself matters much. I think they're basically fungible commodities. Here is a perfectly fine one: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01731MLFK

For regular household use (aka not growing marijuana) either 4" or 6" is appropriate. I went with the 6" because I thought it would most likely be quieter than 4" for moving the same amount of air. You just have to make sure you get the same size inline fan and carbon scrubber.
> I found it interesting that the author found COBOL's use of line numbers strange and chalked it up to its origin in the punch card era. While that may have been part of it, those of us who learned programming via BASIC in the 1980s were very used to line numbers even though we never saw a punch card.

BASIC is also from the punch card era; it is only 5 years newer than COBOL (1964 vs 1959).
I had to drive an old Toyota through Llano Estacado at 44C when the fan and the AC had conked out. There was a lot of sticking my head out the window and dousing with water.
Just use Poetry [1]. It's popular and works well.

[1] https://python-poetry.org/
Banana and lime salad... please tell me no one is actually eating this.
Klik n Play was such a fascinating programming model. I can't think of many places with... Example-based programming? It was such a curious paradigm, in retrospect.
No.

There's the letter from an official agency stating that the actions we perform are complaint with the law. Also, if there's no definition/differentiation then it goes to the defendant under the legal doctrine of lenity or even reasonable doubt. Hell, you can throw entrapment in there too if you got permission/clarification from the government and they later prosecuted you for it.

You can throw in all the stuff you want about not having special equipment or a (non-existent) training license, but those facts alone would not be enough to prove guilt, especially when the majority of the people training don't have a training license nor special equipment. Remember, you're supposed to be innocent and the prosecution has the burden of proof. It seems that's not really the case when they take irrelevant facts that apply to the majority of people field training and use them to prosecute people.
What do you mean? As I illustrated. There is a lot of potential upside with taking a tipped wage, but little downside.
Never liked when Amazon increases the price a few days later after witnessing you researching something to buy. This is why I only purchase items 'on-the-spot' in a small window of time which allows me to escape such a practice.
1. I use PCBWay, a chinese fab that can manufacture small quantities for like $5 (+$18 shipping if you want them fast) but they arrive in five days.

2. Protecting your IP with your PCB design isn't something you can really do. Any PCB can be reverse engineered very easily. Besides, if you're asking this question on a random internet forum, I have to doubt you have any serious IP to worry about.
BSV is a fork of BCH
TBF, sql queries is something you _don't_ want to have in your code stack. It should be abstracted away in some kind of DAO, and no one should be worrying about SQL queries when they're developing new features.
Was this HNed to bully the author?
It's the same as calling PostgreSQL a skill. You can know SQL in general, and you can know all Postgres's little ins and outs. It's not the same thing.

Personally I wouldn't make knowing all Postgres's ins and outs the "pillar of my career" but some people do. I don't see how doing that with AWS is any different.
I think the biggest problem with hiring an AWS or Azure consultant, is you might not get someone who actually does infrastructure as code (at least this happens a fair bit in London).

I'd rather hire someone who knows terraform and another cloud, than somebody who'll click on the GUI for my preferred cloud, and make excuses around not being able to follow process.
I think you're proving exactly my point.

SQL is intrinsically very close to the metal of your business logic, especially when it comes to general business logic. General business logic is typically most critical and risky around the surface of payments. A JavaScript bug on your site around your shop preventing checkouts is very bad because you are indeed losing cash by the minutes. A poor domain model that doesn't properly associate active promotions to cart order lines could result in an incorrect charge amount and an irate customer.
It would be pretty weird if they did considering they have their own platform and bundles.
> Additionally, Gödel showed that there are true statements that can be described but not proven by math, ao it can never be a perfect model of the real world.

I assume you are refering to Gödel's incompleteness theorems; but this is not what they "say".

What they say is that any formal system powerful enough to contain basic arithmetic is either inconsistent (ie. it can both prove and disprove a particular theorem) or incomplete (ie. cannot either prove or disprove all theorems).

If you take the ZF set theory, for example, it is incomplete, because some statements cannot be either proved or disproved within ZF, such as the Axiom of Choice (AC) or Zorn's Lemma.

However, that doesn't imply that ZF cannot be "a perfect model of the real world", because the AC is irrelevant in a the real world, because the AC only applies to infinite sets, which do not exist in the real world.
I hope after he beat him up, he made the shooter do push-ups until the police arrived.
Yes, and it's accompanied by the Gas Lighting effect, as demonstrated here.
Has anyone checked to see how many for-profit corporate websites are using .org? My favorite example is coursera.org.
Definitely, thanks.
It works well with rice cookers with delay timers (which are as cheap as $35). You prepare the rice the night before and put it in the rice cooker, then set the delay timer to right before you wake up. Once you wake up, put the cooked rice into a container and into the fridge; when you return home it's done.

You can cycle this process every 12 hours by having new rice on a delay when you leave for work, so it's cooked when you return home and you can put that in the fridge for the morning or lunch. It may not be 12 hours exactly but it's close. Or just save big batches.
100% sure it's a typo of "optional types".
Stash is not just if your company is terrified of the cloud. It's also perfect when your customers are extremely risk averse and will not even bring their business to you if you host anything outside your own company, which of course has to be security audited into infinity.

A company I used to work for once had a customer demand (and pay for the purchase of) a separate HPC cluster just for running the simulations for that customer. Because we could not guarantee 100% that it was impossible to circumvent the access controls on the regular cluster, which only had users from the same company, but not all those users had clearance for that project.
RSA is not "modern".

Modern elliptic curves are chosen with side channels in mind. You won't find data-dependent branches or look-ups in straightforward implementations of Curve25519 scalar multiplication, for example.
I am really confused as to why the security community is obsessed with the term "nation state". Every single publication or quote from security researchers that wants to attribute some worm or attack to a country incorrectly calls it a nation state.

A nation state is a specific thing that is not just a pompous way of saying state or country.

If you're wondering, you can check the Wikipedia entry on it. There's nothing inherent about any type of technical attack that could connect to a nation state.

It's sort of a shibboleth of someone who is self-important and doesn't fact-check.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1690...

This is not a "cyberware toolbox." This is an IDS. For real, I bet they are using Snort inside one of their codeworded intrusion detection/response systems. Companies try to defend themselves from hackers by analogous systems. Is this any different?
Mine was definitely not reset, and I don't have a gawker account. My wife's account was also not affected (and likewise, she has no gawker account).

Considering the availability of the list of email addresses it would be pretty silly to force a reset for everyone.
If you try hard enough, you can probably get rid of all your users! With no users, you'll have no security risk whatsoever! Brilliant!
Chrome OS is using scrypt!
Thank you for intimating that wealth should be measured in more than currency. Too often discussions of the economy focus only on measures like GDP, roughly, how much money is flying around. Clearly, measuring our wealth and the health of the economy involves much more than this.

What terrifies me is that, where capitilism has all but become the religion, people act like being selfish is somehow doing the right thing.
No suggestions for two nerdy friends I have yet to buy gifts for, and generic female things for my girlfriend. You really have to use your data better to get good suggestions.
Santiago Pastorino too. He went from his first contribution to Rails to being on Rails core all within this year.
+1, this is really surprising to me that there is no way to import delicious bookmarks to google bookmarks.

The one 'supported' method doesn't even work and even if it did, it's a bit ridiculous (export delicious bookmarks, import to firefox, export from firefox, install google toolbar and import into google bookmarks). For one, you will lose all your tags.
I worked in a few startups before joining a few large companies since then. The truth is that there is an incredible variety.

Not all large organizations are the same and it may be very different from department to department. I have worked with people of truly amazing technical expertise and work ethics in a large organization that relied heavily on heavy transaction loads. The cost of downtime was know to the minute and many operations were very sensitive to performance, the contribution of the technical teams to the business were known and recognized. Everything that was central to its operation was done in house all the way down to network protocols. This environment made technical excellence an important aspect of selecting employees. Less performing employees were moved to other areas of the business, or just not kept after their probation period.

I have also seen other organizations where you contact your technical team when you order the coffee for the press conference where you'll announce the new product they're supposed to build. When technical expertise is not well regarded; I've seen less talented people. But the machine was still working thanks to its traditions and established systems, at least if you're attentive you get to learn how to build resilience. I have done great and exciting work in startups, I have also seen countless numbers small companies with low levels of expertise and professionalism.
> I am sure if my financial situation where different, I would still feel the same.

This is based on your current "safe" mindset. I can assure you that if you were in a very different financial situation that your thinking would most likely change.
From the movie:

Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?
An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain
it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed -
fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere.
If its only taxes that are forced on us, why then do US notes say that they're legal tender for all debts public and private. That sounds like force to me: I may want payment in bitcoin or Swiss francs or whatever, but if the payee wants to pay me in USD in the USA, am I free to refuse their payment as non-valid? Or am I forced to accept Federal Reserve Notes?
Here's the failure mode: The insurance company comes up with some prohibitively expensive and not cost effective at all requirements that would work (but bankrupt you) if you actually implemented them. Someone at the company feigns compliance with the rules.

Then, if there is a claim, the insurance company investigates whether you followed the rules, finds that you didn't, and denies the claim. The insurance company doesn't go bankrupt and doesn't care that this happened. But most of the time there isn't a claim so nobody on either side actually notices that this is happening.
This is explored in detail in "Why Are the Prices So Damn High?" [1]

"Education and healthcare are notable examples of sectors seemingly stricken by constantly rising prices ... At the same time, home appliances and telecommunications have become much cheaper. Why?"

[1] https://www.mercatus.org/publications/healthcare/why-are-pri...
I totally agree with your take.

I didn't like LinkedIn for a long time (I much preferred Twitter) but since becoming a business owner I've appreciated having a place where I can go and "talk shop" and connect with other business owners going through the same things I am.

Maybe it's just that I've cultivated the right community, but at least 90% of the content I see on LinkedIn is interesting, personal, and thoughtful. I much prefer it to every other social network I use.
200% YoY average return, and you'd move it to index funds?

https://www.casebitcoin.com/images/stories/charliebilello_re...
Significantly raising the pay of Amazon workers would hurt Bezos because it translates to less reinvestment to the company. This would also hurt the million new employees that Amazon hired last year as well as the consumers who increasingly relied on Amazon for goods during quarantine.
Can you link to Matt Levine's argument? (I googled a little but didn't see what you were talking about)
Hacker News has always been reddit. All these comments are just people seeing through the matrix.
Inflation is the catch 22 though. With a limited supply it seems like bitcoin may never successfully become a currency due to deflation, but at the same time without the carrot of massive gains you probably wouldn't have had any adoption at all. Most people owning bitcoin these days do it as a speculative investment, hoping that it'll be worth (a lot) more one day. It's not for nothing that the rallying cry of cryptocurrency zealots everywhere is "HOLD".

I think the root of the issue is that bitcoin was created in a vacuum. Some guy didn't start minting euro bills in his basement until France and Germany though "hey, we could use that". The financial systems already existed, and they created the currency to unify pre-existing European currencies.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin don't have this institutional momentum so they need to reward its users to drive adoption, which is self-defeating in the long run because when I spend a 20 euro bill I don't think "uh, maybe I should just keep it for now, it'll be worth more tomorrow". Actually if anything I think the opposite due to inflation.
Google has been relying on it for years. It's completely seamless and means you get even better reliability by insulating from the underlying hardware issues.
Decentralization of a currency is great in theory but adoption has been abysmal.

At least as an investment asset BTC has found a niche.

Especially with billions of tether issued without any fiat behind it to keep the market extra liquid.
I highly recommend David Attenborough's 2020 Netflix documentary "A Life on Our Planet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_...

https://www.netflix.com/title/80216393

It is his "witness statement" on how he has personally observed enormous environmental changes over his ~70 year career documenting wildlife throughout the world.
For collective transportation to succeed, collective living has to succeed. That is, a lot of people should live densely enough in towns. This is what you see in Germany, Netherlands, (northern) France, England, for instance. Public railways are well-developed there, and have been for a century or more.

But you can't expect the same in the US Midwest, for instance, where countryside and suburban living is prevalent. It's just impractical, so cars reign supreme.
I feel like something the American Left and the American Right could agree on is that white collar criminals should face the same kind of tough law enforcement consequences as regular street criminals. How would one start pushing for such legislation?
I think he's looking for the opposite: use a 5.25" floppy on a modern computer, instead of convince a vintage computer that you've got a compatible floppy disk.
Perhaps transferring custody/ownership to the state?
What would you say if the answer to your questions were yes, yes, and large enough?

Why isn't there enough high-value work? One of their organizing principles seems to be that it's okay to do something that seems fun or that creators are asking for, so why should that stop being a guide for people who enjoy the work they do and enjoy listening to customers?
Asking to leave WhatsApp is like cancelling your contract with your ISP and going offline

The OP is literally a poll of other services. In any case, it would be to cancel with your ISP to go to another ISP.
> The genius of Trump's tactic of saying everything (continuously contradicting himself)

I’ve always found this to make his statements incoherent.
It would be good if more browsers and websites implemented the prefer- reduced-data setting that Chrome and Edge have right now, but you do have that option in Chrome for Android right now. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
I think it’s pretty well known ... have a look into this guy https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/...

I know you’re not engaging in good faith but I’m adding this more for the benefit of onlookers
The built in sorting algorithm (apparently it's mergesort in most browsers) in most implementations of JavaScript is often a little bit slow, so more sorting algorithms that people have implemented is a good thing. (I actually implemented Quicksort in Javascript and got about 5x better performance than Chrome's sort algorithm)
This is obviously bad - and certainly suspicious... but the lack of withdrawals given the situation is just sensible.

Withdrawals will require movement from cold storage - am I right? Well - if you've got a security problem with your hot wallet, then this would be a ridiculously stupid thing to enable.
Once Python got nested scoping, 'class' became redundant. It's a nuisance not just because of all the selves: say you started with

def make_window(x1, x2):
lo, hi = sorted((x1, x2))
def window(x): return lo <= x <= hi
return window

and decided to give the window a custom repr. You could write

window.__repr__ = lambda: '<%s..%s>' % (lo, hi)

but this sort of thing gets less fun the further you take it. So you actually rewrite all of this code with 'self' and '__init__' and it gets much longer and if you're me you conceive an antipathy to classes. What I wish you could write is

def make_window(x1, x2):
lo, hi = sorted((x1, x2))
def window:
def __call__(x): return lo <= x <= hi
def __repr__(): return '<%s..%s>' % (lo, hi)
return window

BTW, 'foo hell' is too strong a term for most real foo in programming -- we don't need more encouragement to split into warring tribes.