jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Frankly this is pretty irresponsible thing to do. What if she wants to try electronics, robots, physics or even medicine ? Does she have any way to experience those things ? Web programming might be cool right now but in 10 years it might be replaced by something else. Rather than just focusing on Web programming build your own curriculum around her interests if you think her high school is wasting time.
We have jurisdiction in all countries, just ask our politicians and witness our world policing.
> they're representing hqx deceptively.

A big difference in the techniques is that hq4x is a fix-rate upscaling, whereas Microsoft's can handle arbitrary target resolutions. At the same rez, they are pretty equivalent. But, MS has the option to go higher. HQ8x has not yet been developed. I doubt that HQ(arbitrary)x is possible without completely changing the algorithm.
In my experience, while it's true that technically they have items for every section of the food pyramid, you're often limited to a very small selection within many of those categories. Maybe your store is better stocked than mine was, but I could only eat there if I had the same few meals repeatedly.

I'll admit to a small bit of hyperbole in calling that nutritional deficiency, I should have better called that a distinct lack of variety.
That's because ST is not free.
Raw materials for battery cost: 80 KW/hour. Historical cost of batteries (2012) 600 KW/hour...

Looks like Gigafactory is going to take advantage of that difference.

http://takingpitches.com/2012/09/22/elon-musk-the-role-of-an...
There are - look for patient navigators.
I have high blood pressure. Thanks to insurance, I was able to spend a few months with my doctor, experimenting with medications until we found the combination that brought it down to manageable levels. Meds cost me $15 a month or so.

Blood pressure medication will almost certainly add many years to my life - decades, maybe. Without insurance, I couldn't have afforded the half-dozen trips to the doctor or the meds. And I'd wind up getting lifesaving treatment for an early heart attack or stroke in the ER.

I'll take the insurance, thanks.
> less likely to pull something like this

They are less likely to do this kind of secretive development, but they could go that direction. They have considered cryptocurrency in the past, see https://matrix.org/blog/2017/08/22/thoughts-on-cryptocurrenc.... They are open, but still driven by a single company which could change direction at any time.

They also surprised their community multiple times with renames of their app and weird redesigns (remember the horizontally-scrollable unordered bubbles for room selection?)
Don't like it? Don't use it.

Afterall, private organizations can do what they want according to the mantra repeated here. At least that was the defense for social media organizations implementing censorship and bans.
What role exactly is that?
> My first reaction was “7% sounds low”, but again, that’s probably biased by my own experiences.

That was my reaction as well, particularly based on how the question was asked - it was very specifically about the Internet, not mentioning specific services that someone with low technological literacy might not associate with Internet usage (e.g. Google Maps, or Facebook Messenger) [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Non-i...
> it doesn't feel good to take money from people for work you haven't done.

I can think of entire ranges of organizations I would have no problem in extracting money from.

Despite personally regularly working 60+ hour weeks (I actually like my job), your entire post feels like you’re pretty deep into the wage-slave kool-aid. A job is a means to an end, not a reason to exist, and companies do not care for you in the slightest. Extending them the same courtesy is a reasonable step.
Luckily there's a mechanism to entice people to give up some of their time and effort to work on things that other people find valuable.

They don't have to be passively threatened with starvation or homelessness or other unpleasantness to make that trade.
I totally share your values and agree when you say there are folks causing problems during their attempts on dodging their duties. On the other hand, I didn't see this sort of bad attitude on the OP's side. He's looking for a low-demanding job, which I think is a valid choice, and he's OK about earning less as well. What would be bad -- and, as you said, it's unfortunately pretty common -- is if he were looking for ways of keeping a job while delivering less than what's been asked for -- which he could attempt on any job at all.
I was wondering the same thing. Turns out that he's using Analytk, a project that he created himself.

Here's what it appears to do:

1. A referrer information is gathered on each page hit via javascript and submitted to his server

2. The Analytics page uses Ajax to grab the aggregated data, then charts it using the Google Charts API

That's it. At first I was really interested in it because its beautiful, but on a second look it doesn't do anything that Google Analytics doesn't already do except easily show you referrals from a set of sites that you care about.
I agree it is a red herring in general. That's why I asked when do you see NC-17 movies in a cinema (in the US).
I have a Typeform account so I'm going to have a look at how it works :-) Assuming it's all good, I'll be back, because the ultimate idea sounds very appealing.
There's multiple apps that let people hail cabs: Gett, Taxiapp, etc.
I setup LibreOffice on my mother-in-law’s new computer and gave it the MS Word icon.

No calls yet...
His account has been removed, but there's still lots of content on Facebook discussing him and his ideas. There are also still lots of people on Facebook who discuss similar ideas. TikTok, on the other hand, has banned/deplatformed certain classes of ideas.
If you add that the banned party was popular and democratically elected a month ago before being ousted by the current government which is primarily sponsored by the army and usa intelligence community, then you have Bolivia, and the people answering the justification question are news organizations like the New York Times.
”I’ve come here to help you.
I have what you need.
And my prices are low. And I work with great speed.
And my work is one hundred per cent guaranteed!”
What a nice visual summary of why most people do not need this many cores.
The Stackoverflow database is available for download, no need to scrape the site.

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/10/how-to-download-th...
I was skeptical, so I just searched for some rather obscure stuff on YT, and wow—they had it all.

But how’s the audio quality? Is it as good as Spotify?
Did SAT/ACT scores ever make a difference in applications here? I know they probably cut off around 1300-1400 (as do plenty of schools), but my understanding was that MIT wanted you to be doing tons of extracurriculars and other stuff that wasn't represented by standardized tests anyway.
This is an April Fools joke.

Previously submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26670545
How do you factor in the projection of infections/deaths without any enforced lockdowns?

Aka everybody gets it very fast and in a short time period, hospitals are easily overwhelmed and lead to even more deaths.
Sorry, but I can’t confirm your experience at all. Maybe I’m just lucky with my past jobs, but, aside from very junior reviewers, I never observed the „focus on style“ effect.

Sometimes it comes as an addendum (like „and please fix the order of imports“), but it is very rarely the core message.
Are you thinking of Libra, now called Diem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency)
My point precisely is that you can't pass just by "reading material". It is too hard for that.
It would be nice if HN would be a place that is free of Corona related debate.
Especially, since most people here are not qualified to draw the correct conclusions from studies such as this.
What a strawman. Yanis calls that himself, eq. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufaki...
This is new info for me. Thank you for explaining it. I'll do some research and think about changing my position on this.
As a business owner with ADHD - what are you thoughts on hiring people who also have the condition? Are you open to making the workplace more neurodivergent-friendly?
What defnition of "extremely common" are we working with here? PCGW lists 151 games [0] with Vulkan support of any kind (not neccessarily on Windows).

Meanwhile there are 188 with DirectX 12 support [1] and 2723 with DirectX 11 support [2].

Don't get me wrong, I too would like for the open cross-platform API to win, but so far support is far from extemely common.

[0] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Vulkan_games

[1] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DirectX_12_games

[2] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DirectX_11_games

> As to the root comment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...

Could you expand on what you are trying to argue? It seems to me that Proton is the immediate reward while waiting for the platform to grow to get native ports would be the delayed reward. Yet "In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes" would support the caution against Proton if you were to generalize from children to platform strategies (not saying that you should).
The market is skewed as Uber runs huge losses and is operating at a loss, that's how it's different to other markets.

Also, Uber are paying under the minimum wage in the UK, or at least the regional minimum living wage in London. Uber don't pay taxes in the UK like a London minicab company would, then they underpay their drivers and expect our welfare system to pick up the slack on their crummy wages.

Minimum wages should apply to gig type working like Uber/Deliveroo etc as much as it does to everyone else. This is the market failure.

Without a minimum wage, sick pay, materity/paternity leave pay, of course you can make the ride cheaper.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uber-verdic...
I had a professor that loved to make simple substitutions to values in questions, where the original question would be incredibly difficult, but if you spotted the substitution, the amount of work you had to do was dramatically reduced. Think something like integrate cos x + i sin x dx, if you spot that cos x + i sin x = e^(ix), and perform substitution, the problem becomes trivial.

Deriving information from facts is a vital skill. But recalling facts is also incredibly important as well. Having knowledge immediately available for use allows a person to apply that knowledge in real-time, which is important for problem solving and thinking on your feet.
Worked for me... met my wife on Tinder, been married 5 years.

For me the hard part was just finding new girls outside of my immediate social circle. Tinder just helped me meet lots of new girls I would have normally never met.
Bye Bye LibreOffice. Hello Google Docs (or some other online service).

(1) Auto backup

(2) Accessible from all my devices with zero work.

(3) Can share with anyone with just a link

(4) Can allow anyone to edit with just a link

I'm sure HN will be "evil google" and you might be right. I don't believe they "spy" on google docs and I'm a paying g-suite customer.

I get different people have different needs. Google Docs meets mine. Been using it since soon after it shipped. Haven't looked back. I might be able to be convinced to move to another online service but I could never go back to a native app for documents or spreadsheets
Wow, what a story, well told.
I would imagine that most are not aware of googler &/or do not want to use one tool to search and another tool to browse
This is a feels-good paragraph, but it does not apply to the real world we live in.

Full and unlimited self-determination implies that all contracts made in any situation by an individual are valid. But not every contract is well-analyzed and well-considered and made in perfect information.

If you are arguing that all contracts made by individuals are valid, even when in imperfect information, when not right of mind, etc, then I disagree with you. It may be a fundamental philosophical difference, but all your feels good "oh dont violate my right to self determination" seems weak if that person can't even properly comprehend the transaction they are making.

If you are not arguing this then your entire argument falls apart: once we care about being right of mind, we can speak of restricting addicts or drunks from certain transactions. Once we care about imperfect information, we can restrict or remove usurious loans. Indeed, these basic ideas of what is a "valid" transaction give credence to to the language of "vulnerable people" and laws that aim to protect them from predatory transactions.
This post is another example of a trend in this thread to down vote the on-topic posts. Am I the only one that noticed that the highest voted comment in this thread is about Clapper splitting the bill? Why aren't we discussing the rest of the article?
Right. These things don't sell because they are common and so people don't care. Not because the media is intentionally suppressing them.
Some technical details: The backend runs on Google App Engine. The server keeps a concept of the 'freshest' canvas. I have a cron job that aggregates all pixel changes and creates a fresh canvas. When you download the app, you initially download the fresh canvas. After that, you only download a very small amount of JSON which represents the pixel changes.
Obviously if you have inherited wealth you have less needs-based pressure to work hard or create things.

Working to make money for yourself is what is used to explain the difference between capitalism and really existing socialism (USSR et al), that is to explain why in the former people worked more and were more motivated, as well as the latter's decline in progress, industry, etc. "Why work hard and be creative since you have a guaranteed salary from the state", the reasoning went.

Adopting this argument, we can say: "why work hard and be creative, since you have a guaranteed fortune that you inherited".

Think Paris Hilton. Or really any lazy, fast-spender inherited-money-from-his-self-made-parents person you know...

Isn't it obvious in retrospect? Of course someone can have $10 billion in his name and still be creative, but I'm talking about the average person here, not outliers.

As for the thing about this "taking us back to feudal times", as has been pointed out by other people in this thread, inherited wealth is not really that different from the inherited castles, and plots of land and fortunes of the feudal overlords.

With inheritance, just because you were born in a certain family (like in feudal times) you automatically get wealth and power. And you can use that power to ensure you keep the wealth and pass it on to your "noble" descendants. It's not by accident that we talk about "silver spoons" and such.

(Power, in our society is directly associated with wealth. From a point and above you can have a few congressment in your pocket, for example).
Indeed. It'd be foolish not to do it.
Yeah, I'm ambivalent about this. (For some background, I used to hate Perl until I had to write some non-trivial shell scripts, then I realized Perl was a godsend compared to shell).

We've long been at the point where you can expect Perl and Python to be installed (Perl is required by the Debian's base tools, and Python by Redhat's).

You may not have the libraries you need at the version you need, and it's a shame that neither system has a convenient way to address that (Python virtualenv remains a hacky solution IMHO).

I was initially enthused by Shellfire's offering but, come to think of it, all it's doing is bringing SH scripting to some level with Perl or Python... but, as you point out, we have those already.
What I found fascinating were the links to the reference material being used while writing the article that were later removed. I think people tend to forget that this is a hypertext medium and thus, you can always link to your source materials in context, in case anyone is curious enough to follow up on it.
We can't just spontaneously arrange atoms for free. Turning, say, lead into gold is possible, but consumes a lot of energy for a very small result. Some transformations are effectively "one-way".

It's all nice to say "it's just a bunch of atoms", but some toxic compilations of atoms can't (without more "one-way" transformations to tap the available chemical energy) be easily transformed back into useful combinations.
http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/slider/13sentences

Sad. Now that etherpad is no more this incredibly relevant link is gone forever.

(it was a replay of pg writing an essay http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336)
I could imagine there would be a huge rush on .er domains if they became available.
Alright, thanks for all the comments everyone. I added an example of a rendered ad, instructed the users to fill the form out as best as possible (implying that the whole thing is optional... I hope), and and stuck with the yellow - until it stops raining. Cheers!
Wow! This makes me feel so much better about my writing. I always thought good writers just busted out an article. I didn't think they put in so much scaffolding. Being a good writer now seems almost attainable.
... And rolls Royce does not put ads for the cars on TV, don't they get it???

Sorry, this blog post gets me down.

"the objective is not to own the consumer, but to be their friend" so brands are my friends now? how charming, I wonder if somewhere someone gets a kick out of the diluted effect all this has on a term that is one of humanity most treasured experiences

I know. We live in a market reality, I get it, I embrace it. But when I read this kind of tripe I can only think of the late bill hicks

"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now."
They chose Tumblr as the "Best Little Company" for
2010, and their track record for this award is pretty good:

2009: Aardvark

2008: Zoho

2007: Twitter

2006: YouTube

2005: 37signals

2004: Flickr(Ludicorp)

Look at these "little companies" from just a few years ago. I love the new speed of business.
> For instance, I love to bind "s" to "go into insert mode, insert one character, exit insert mode".

Doesn't that already exist, by hitting 'r'?
Individual stocks still have a positive average return, even if they have huge amount of risk.

Collectibles have the same risk but a zero or negative average return.
Ah, they hired Paul Viola. He's a major talent.
Most of the callback spaghetti and event loop blocking stuff is just a critique of Node.js, not developer ability. Most other languages don't have these problems.
Presumably it has more connection with Iceland than the rest of Greenland (not necessarily historically, but economically or transport or whatever).

Wikipedia doesn't mention it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ittoqqortoormiit
A not-particularly informed take:

It means that every user effectively has root privileges. Which means that every user can eavesdrop on other users, view their saved data and files (unless encrypted on disk), intercept their network communications, impersonate them, steal their passwords (system, application, external web sites).

How bad that is depends on your particular use case. But for pretty much any setup where security is a concern or there's any sensitive data at stake, this is a very serious issue.
well why would you need to when canadian government funds tech startups with amounts greater than what YC offers?
But aren't other universes also "hidden variables"?

Even more, why do you say "to explain what snuffs out the other universes"? That means you're already assuming that there are (or were or should be) other universes. What is your basis for assuming that?
You say that causa sui or at least cyclic cause is troublesome without saying why. I'm curious for your reasoning.
Interesting! There are no airports in that area. The time zone is named Danmarkshavn time zone. Danmarkshavn is a weather station in the zone with a permanent population of 8.
While it's true that C++ still has lots of great things, the features aren't always directly comparable, due to C++'s existing semantics and commitment to backwards compatibility.

For example, if you move a uniq_ptr, it will become null, and using it will cause a segfault. In Rust, moving a Box<T> works just fine, because using it after the move is a compile-time error.
I work at GitLab, just started last month. My experience with documentation has not only helped me better learn my role, but its given me the opportunity to contribute to my teams growth within my first weeks. This page helped me learn more about how we use the handbook, it might help others interested in learning more, too: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/handbook-usage/
The power in noise is actually fairly low. Like single digit watts low, for deafening noise.
Because no editor is perfect. They all have annoyances that you notice after using them for long enough. I bounce between TextMate and Emacs for that reason.

TextMate can't indent properly because it doesn't actually parse code. If a function call or condition spans a couple of lines and you indent things nicely the following line will be indented to the level of the first char of the previous line, not the proper indent level. e.g.

if (something.fooBarBlah('hello there') && something.someOtherMethod(42) &&
theFinal.condition('here'))
<hit tab here and cry because you have to fix the indent manually, every damn time>

However TextMate makes it really easy to jump around a project w/ Cmd-T and Cmd-Shift-T. ido for Emacs gets me most of the way there but it's not quite the same.

But then I want to split a window and I can't do that in TextMate, I can only open new windows. So back to Emacs I go. Until I want to search a project. Using grep gets old so I go back to TextMate. Then I get bitten by TextMate's crappy file cache which sometimes doesn't show all results or shows invalid results that have changed since it last cached those files. It's really annoying so sometimes when refactoring I have to grep anyway just to be sure I found everything I searched for.

I get fed up with both of them depending on the task at hand, so I use both. Neither is perfect, that should be pretty easy to understand. I don't think any editor is perfect.

edit: js2-mode for Emacs is fantastic. You get syntax highlighting to warn you about accidental globals (very easy in JS), statements w/ no side effects, and other semantic errors. I wish TextMate had that too.

Emacs could really use the concept of projects and something like TM's project browser. Unfortunately the file trees that exist for Emacs are pretty bad (vim too, imo).

It goes back and forth like that. I think the only real way to have a perfect editor is to put a huge amount of work into creating one tailored to your individual needs, whether you start from scratch or start with Emacs or vim.
There is a man whose job is to each day enter my property and deposit garbage into a receptacle, which I am then legally obliged to dispose of.

He is the mail man.
So sad, these guys did a lot of great work. Too bad it never had a bigger payoff for them.
On PCs they chose the Silverlight platform, but what do PCs have to do with mobile devices. Silverlight isn't available on mobile devices, and choosing Flash for android deployment wouldn't help them much either. How many android devices run flash? How many of those run it well? Does anyone provide a content protection framework for Android? No, and that's the problem. What part isn't 'quite true'?