jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It looks even worse and obvious when looking from outside. As a non-American, when reading news from the US, I use a few different sources with different political leanings. To say there are 2 realities in America is putting it lightly. It's like watching two unrelated movies about the same theme/place, but with vastly different histories that resulted in each reality. Almost like having two cultures, two countries. I don't know what point I'm trying to make but it is really unnerving to watch. It seems that the media in America has zero integrity and face zero consequences.

Maybe it is social media's fault. Maybe, just maybe, social media and information overload (which reduces critical thought in that moment) is the problem. Nevermind propaganda & conspiracies - just the bubble effects + overloaded conflicting information causes some kind of mental disorder but on a national scale. Too much nonsense being internalize and associated with, on a weekly basis, at some point America will have to ask itself if it is all worth it (social media, 24/7 news & streaming (and not to mention porn and the warping of minds)).

Maybe it is just a result of your political system, that this was always the outcome, because you only have 2 sides. Our world and human life/culture cannot just be boiled down to 2 options. There are so much complexity, nuance and scope context that gets ignored if you are forced to pick 1 of 2 options.

Maybe it is just a result of your economic system & regulations and related social structure & social programs. Maybe, just maybe your people are so badly squeezed to live decent lives (esp when it comes to wages/labour vs the cost of living and your bizarre take on healthcare). Maybe it is the greed and tax system favouring "the already rich". Maybe it is because your political system has too much money flowing through it (much of your political practices are illegal elsewhere).

How can you convince a group of people that they are wrong or doing the wrong thing? When the battlefield is rooted in idealogical is very difficult to convince people otherwise (see religions). Trying to convince the people that invaded your capitol will be fruitless. Punishing them will be fruitless too. Nothing you do will change their minds, cause their minds have been warped to believe in a different reality to what the rest of the world sees.

All I know is that America has a lot of reflecting to do to find/re-find your national identity and to decide if the dragon you've been chasing is the right thing. I truly hope you can find a way without thousands of people dying in civil wars etc (nevermind covid).
I've said it in another comment, this is a very dangerous move by Twitter. The next Trump (and there probably will be a next Trump) will know from the very beginning in his mandate to neutralise companies like Twitter.
Id you can stop touching your face, and wash your hands more often, then yeah you might get a cold less often.

One hope I had, is that companies will stop incentiving workers to work when they are sick. But I've heard nothing from the government. Perhaps once they stop hating trump, they'll do something useful.
I don't deny your experiences.

I see a marked change in Rio and Sao Paulo when I visit. People in Rio seem much more relaxed, I see women using $1000 smartphones openly on the buses and subways.

Every single cab driver I talk to is positive about the war happening on the German Hill, which every here I've talked to agrees is simply to clean up the city before the World Cup and Olympics.

My point is not that everything in society has improved. It is just that there is a significant shift, and there is an immense opportunity for Internet businesses here that was not there before.

I don't agree with you about your take on entrepreneurship. I personally know many entrepreneurs here, and they are in the same boat as many of us in Portland: limited access to capital and mentorship.
There is another quote though.

We seem to overestimate change in the short run and underestimate it in the long.
Presumably if you had the tools etc to do that with you, you also have your key.
Also unethical is not automatically given them a refund, and then verbally trying to humiliate them over their choice of reading when they request one.
I do it - when the site is using ajax I add a deliberate wait, especially for saves. I often do it for reads as well (depending on what it's doing).
Note that the author is Australian, and health insurance works very differently.

We have a public system, but many people choose to buy private insurance as well. Depending on the level of private insurance you can pay anything from $2000-$10000/year (for one person).

It's very rare for a company to pay for a person's insurance, though.
I'm not really sure whether arguing the "the work you receive might suck" case is helpful for the discussion. (I'm also pretty sure that it won't get you much love here for that train of though ;-) )

If that's where you start, sure, you can arrive at a lot of conclusions and be none the wiser. I have been to restaurants where the steak was far less reliable than you suppose.

Actually, that's not true - I avoid restaurants like that by figuring out that the one I do go to respects me as a client as I do respect it as the place that makes my tummy full. And there we arrive at the point of the video: The vendors are the ones who bring respect and quality to the table, the problem is that the clients do in no way mirror that respect.

If a client is willing to "just get somebody to do something for as little cash as possible", that's what they will get. Fortunately, people who care about the things they want to have done check first, treat their business partners well and live in a happy place where real things are negotiated for real prices that are then paid like adults.
Not sure of the specific one you're referring to, but jacquesm has a nice list here: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Pay+it+forward,+HN+style
Dont understand me wrong, I use Arrow Keys, plus S-j S-k S-l S-i as custom "smart navigation".

I think the extra pain, that you cause when you remove the arrow keys is worth because force a new user to be conscious all the time that he is not anymore in his old editor.

E.g For me the arrow keys were a good enough option to align things by hand, but after removing the them, I learned to use align-regex and rectangular editing.
For all those interested in WooThemes story, there is another in-depth interview on Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/woothemes-adriaan-pienaar/
>fiber is protective against many of the negative effects associated with fructose.

Sorry for my ignorance in the subject, but isn't fiber the non digestible part of food? I've read that it absorbs some toxins, but how it can have such a big impact?
Wow - 9x11mm YAG laser as a spark plug to reduce emissions and increase performance - sounds cool, but I can't help but think that this is like building a carbon fiber stagecoach: cool improvement to what should be a dying technology. We can't produce a damn fuel cell cheaply, but mini YAG lasers are possible? What are you doing science?!?
I'm from Vienna, I would say it's quite average.
To calculate taxes and to put it into perspective you can use this online-calculator of the federal ministry of finance:
http://www.bmf.gv.at/service/anwend/steuerberech/bruttonetto...

Comparing salaries in europe is quite difficult, in Austria, for 45,000 €, your employer have to pay about 14,000 € taxes additionally which you don't see on your pay slip, so the employer is spending in your case about 60,000 €. And you have 25 holidays a year and lots of public holidays http://english.bmf.gv.at/Ministry/PublicHolidaysinAustria.ht... ;-)
No so for infinite. If you add 1 to ω you haven't changed the cardinality at all. But if you append a new number after ω then that new number is in a position which doesn't exist anywhere in ω, and therefore it must be a larger ordinal.

It's worth noting that ordinal addition and multiplication are not commutative. 1+ω = ω ≠ ω+1
This is insightful post, but I think this kind of difference between service quality is to be expected.

Compare Groupon -- a well-funded company and relatively well-known brand, which seem to consider themselves to have strong position on the market, with LivingSocial, who seem consider themselves fighting an uphill battle against an incumbent.

No wonder LivingSocial works hard on differentiating themselves form the competition. No wonder Groupon tries to cut the costs by providing what they consider bare minimum service.

I think you'll find similar example everywhere you go, where imbalanced markets and competition are at work.
I wonder how much these stats are influenced by the changing age differences between partners. It used to be typical for men to be older than their wives and very shocking/bizarre for a woman to much older than her husband. It seems to me that the older partner has had more time to get an education and build a career, so even if you were to compare their earnings and education at the same age and find it was terribly different, the older partner may still make more money currently. Since it seems like it is becoming increasingly common/acceptable for spouse's to be the same age or for the wife to be older, I wonder how much influence (if any) that has on these figures.
The original poster is talking about way more than 20 years ago, as far as I can tell. It looks like his items cover a range, going as far back as 40 or 50 years ago, up to about 10 years ago.
Just go with Django. For all its warts (and there are a lot), it beats the hodgepodge of the agnostic glue frameworks and the one dozen or five external dependencies they bring in to get anything done.
Fortune Brands.

Distilling my previous comment:

(1) The majors figured out how to buy craft distillers and keep the quality, so the majors are (largely) craft distillers.

(2) It takes half a decade to bring a new bourbon to market at Makers' level, if you get everything perfect. You're more likely to just go out of business.

Hence: very few strong indie whiskies.
As long as we're having a bit of fun, here's Yahtzee's "review" of DNF, which your post reminded me of:

http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2010/09/01/zero-punctuation-viewers...

I have linked to someone embedding the video because as of this writing the Escapist magazine appears to be down. It ought to be living at http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation... .

For the record, this "review" dates from shortly after the cancellation was announced and quite a bit before the current company picked it up, so when it refers to the game being released it was being very "review"y.
Marketers work does improve the actual product, in the eye of the consumer. Intangible value is still value!
Me too. :) This is a much, much nicer implementation than anything I had in mind, though,
Wikipedia can tell you more, but India employed 5-year plans and nationalized a fair share of industries, among other things.
Oh, man — not being that guy, at least in the fault-finding sense; just apparently failing to make an obvious joke. Very strictly, grammatically speaking, it does say that, and it was a humorous implication to me, since I have known so many programmers who apparently did stop learning once they were very slightly advanced. But I'm completely aware that the implication was accidental.
prolog, for one.
I'm in the same boat: I almost never watch the videos. However, I've also run a Kickstarter of my own and, while researching it, found that videos make a huge difference.

We're both HN posters, which puts us in a pretty small demographic. :)
There are more static site generators now then you could ever evaluate in a lifetime. So if one is OSX specific, I don't think that's a big deal.

For what it's worth I like Wintersmith (http://wintersmith.io) for a command line, UNIX friendly generator. It's built on NodeJS.
Carrying ballast is generally a PR move used to sell superlight bicycles to amateurs.

This isn't true. Bikes like OGE's Scott Addict or (last year's) Garmin-Sharp's R5/RCA are frequently ballasted. There'a video of Simon Gerran's Addict somewhere showing the ballast under the bottom bracket.

In the 2013 Female Giro Fabiana Luperini was disqualified after she finished 4th on a stage after her bike was found to be under-weight[1]

I agree with the rest of your comments to some extent. The weight limit has been great for other innovations, especially the use of power meters which would have never happened if it weren't for the weight limit.

But now-days but it's pretty easy to build an aero-framed bike under the weight limit, even for something like the S5 (which is hardly the lightest aero frame around). There's a guy who got under 6kg (12.96lbs = 5.87kg), admittedly using some fairly exotic parts[2]

[1] http://www.podiumcafe.com/2013/7/5/4496564/abbott-again-and-...

[2] http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t...
You not being able to control your own internet surfing is a personal problem though, not an external factor.
The only weird thing to me is this:

> # There are 46,908 different valid characters that you can use in an identifier

And yet among all those characters I can't have a question mark at the end of a boolean variable or function name...

Anyway, weirdness is no excuse for not supporting a feature in a parser!
UGA has a law school, Tech doesn't. I think we know where the responsibility for bad Georgia laws lies. :-)
I was trying to add "The Global Computer Employer Index" at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

My remote list is at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/

Feel free to jack my list if you like. I'm not trying to make money with this, what I aim to accomplish is to dispel the notion that there is a shortage of tech workers.
The easiest way to make elementary functions faster is to use a different libm: the glibc preoccupation with being correctly rounded (ie accurate to within 0.5 ulps) imposes significant performance penalties. For example the glibc log function, which is often the dominant cost in a lot of sampling algorithms, is about 2.5x slower than a straightforward implementation (ie no fancy SIMD tricks) of Tang's 25 year old table lookup algorithm, which is accurate to 0.57 ulps. Recent OS X libms are faster still, and appear to be accurate to about 0.51 ulps, though unfortunately are closed source.
Isn't there a way to use pihole as your DNS server and let it use DoH?

That way you could do DNS to pihole, do the filtering and let it use DoH to the outside world.
They should really make an Apple TV app, I have an Apple TV 4K sitting there most of the day, and I'm sure most owners do too.
I believe it is either "force portrait" or "autorotate", there is no "force landscape".
I don't intend to spend my life working for the big payoff. I like PG's concept of 'compressing your working life down to a few years.' Like I said to a work colleague, "Who wants to retire at 65, when you're old and geriatric, with barely any lead left in your pencil?"

At 30, I'd like to have my own music studio. But rather than simply making do with an M-Box and a cheap mic, I'd like a RME Hammerfall and Shure SM-58s. All thing being equal, money makes life easier.

It's like the old argument about bootstrapping vs VC. How many founders wouldn't want a longer runway while they iterate?

Thought so.

Admit this much: Up to a point, money simply makes life easier. And I suspect that point is WAY past 1 million.

In closing, allow me to post an unfinished poem I began writing a few months ago, as a repsonse to the 'wealth deniers.':

--------AN ODE TO LUCRE--------

We praise the One whose bounty feeds,

And to whose temple success leads,

Who blesses us with cream, with salmon,

All praise to Thee, O God, O Mammon!

The heathen speak against they name,

That thy seekers should hide in shame,

And that your love shall be our ruin,

Let papuperdom be their undoing!

(While on our grills, sirloin is stewing.)

Despite their speech, they too seek rent-

But saying for their Lord it's meant!

Till paid his due, Devil won't relent,

Even God demands his ten percent...

By suffering they have been selected,

Because thy precepts they rejected,

And while they in their misery puffeth,

We enter pearly Gates of Buffet.

Thou sent to us thy sacred prophets,

To lead us to make naked profits,

Who taught us how to raise our station:

O Atlas Shrugged! O Wealth of Nations!

I'll be finishing it soon...
this rant is ridiculous. Just don't use google then, why are you even talking about this. Take action and stop using google products, there are plenty of alternatives in every space that google is.
I should turn this into a blog post ;P.

Please do!
yes, yes I do. the average moron might not have any use for money (observe lottery winner's behavior) but any reasonably educated person should.
Wether you perceive that as "free, with some exceptions" or as "costly, with some exceptions" depends not only on the Apple/Android ratio in your network but also on your general wealth (unless your particular brand of wealth absence is entirely based on general lack of monetary self-control)
Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks.
Please share any feedback.
School isn't about learning. It's about socialisation. If school was about learning there'd be a great deal more interleaved practice and spaced repetition. [http://www.salon.com/2014/04/20/ditch_the_10000_hour_rule_wh...]

> Gray is mostly right: forager kids learn all they need when free to play all day, forager adults work all they need without toiling, and kids can learn modern skills this way today. But there is no net trend toward free schools, and I expect a wholesale move would be a disaster. Yes, it works for some students, including most who stay until they graduate at free schools, but parents of kids for whom it doesn’t work probably pull their kids out. And free school graduates probably avoid the ugly jobs schools were designed to make kids accept. School isn’t about learning “material,” school is about learning to accept workplace domination and ranking, and tolerating long hours of doing boring stuff exactly when and how you are told. Others seem to agree: - See more at: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/school-isnt-about-lear...
I feel that the right approach (at least it worked for me) is to tell the matematician - "see, this term is very close to zero for all practical inputs we can see in real life (proof of which will be left as an exercise for you), so - as you can see from the structure of the equation - we can safely drop it without introducing any significant error to the end result. Yes, the result will be a little bit less accurate; no, no one will notice. And if you happen to encounter a high-energy (or whatever) problem, you can always go back and use the full equation". Explicitly accepting that each handwave introduces errors and imprecision but that sometimes those errors are below what we can measure (or care about) should be acceptable enough for a math-minded person.
Try running something OOPy instead of a tight loopy code, e.g. DeltaBlue, you will discover that LuaJIT has weaknesses too.

Though I must admit V8 could handle dictionaries a bit better - but at the moment it does not.
> In dynamic langs the desire to monkey-patch is real because you often need to extend objects whose source you do not control.

And in static languages, you never need to extend objects whose source you do not control.

I must be doing it wrong - I've only been tempted to monkey patch once, and that was because the folks who controlled the code explicitly said to monkey patch in certain circumstances.
I quite agree with you (especially after writing a lot of javascript) - it's funny you mentioned javascript as I said the same thing in a child comment I made below :-)
The point of unit tests is to provide an executable specification. Ideally, the specification changes less frequently than the code does. In practice, the specification tends to change a lot too, but you should be able to perform optimizations or refactorings without having to change a whole lot of unit tests.

I know teams that have an "every change should break some unit test" policy, and IMNSHO those teams are making way more work for themselves than they need to. The point of tests is not to make sure that the code does what it does, the point is to make sure that it does what you need it to.
Agreed, these exemptions CREATE discrimination based on religion by providing different rules for people depending on their religious beliefs.
I have also been working on different tech throughout my career. Do you suffer from imposter syndrome because of this? I often feel like I don't know as much as my peers do. I can't do things that quickly. I am in a very good workplace now where my manager appreciates my work. But most of the times I feel I am not contributing like others. I don't even understand that much.
It's honestly super depressing to see what could be possible if we didn't have the rules of 29 systems standing in our way. By the time we learn one tool, we are on to the next.

Even Leetcode interviews are easier than any of this stuff. I routinely pass leetcode/java interviews every month on average, but when I get in the actual job I struggle to be productive learning all their different tools that seemingly have no overlap from my previous job.
Yes, resident credential (aka "Client discoverable") support in (at least) desktop Firefox is broken and has been for a long time. I believe it's also absent (but at least not broken) in desktop Chrome. :/
Kotlin is slowly getting in the industry as well. But really comparing Rust and Java (meaning the JVM, its languages and all the libs and tools) is not fair. They have different targets and respond to different needs. Of course, like everything, there are problems where their capabilities overlap and they would both work really well. But I have trouble believing this "new language that will rule them all" idea. We didn't really see that happen anywhere (or maybe we did and I'm missing an example of that).
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14960597
Under certain technical conditions, differentiation under the integral sign also works for Riemann integration (see Marsden & Hoffman). There's no need to develop Lebesgue theory to demonstrate this technique in a calculus course, but uniform convergence must be understood.
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Android development is a huge “niche”.

I don’t see how Rust displaces Java or Kotlin. It’s very different with different use cases that it’s suited for and different strengths and weaknesses.

Kotlin also seamlessly inter operates with Java, which is a big deal for any company with a large existing Java code base, which are legion.
Perhaps your parents were never really poor but just wanted you to be self reliant. Maybe they were gaslighting you with all the broken electronics.
I used i3-wm out of necessity in the past eg. piece of crap computers where I could save 300MB of RAM by not using stock Ubuntu.

Maybe not directly related but I'm looking forward to learning more of KDE with Pinephone Pro and Kirigami. I would be interested in some kind of tiling manager there again for resource saving.

My intent ultimately is a UI like Windows Phone if that somehow makes it snappier. I tried SxMO and it was brutal.
yes, it's partly debilitating and a strange realization

i should add, anxiety level can influence this system a lot, and when you start to have issue (covid context not helping) it might also play a role. i'm no doctor again, but i've read that capillaries have microscopic valve on both ends to control blood flow, anxiety -> nervous system -> shut capillaries.. so even if you try to breath, oxygen doesn't reach cells properly. That sort of things.

relaxation, good oxygen (maybe you can get O2 intake sessions), patience, and of course check for covid related data regarding lung damage (hopefully it's just temporary inflammation)

tc^2