jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dude, mediamatters.com's tagline is "Help us fight conservative misinformation" - that's not exactly an unbiased source. Or really any sort of respectable source to talk about economics at all. You already know what their position is going to be from the tagline.
Looking through your comments it seems like you are mistaking Hacker News as some sort of forum where you post random questions as you like. Please do not do that.

You also like to submit content embedded to your blog. That is called blogspam and not nice. Always submit the direct url of the original.

This is primarily a news site. News that are of interest to hackers.

Please re-read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and do not submit things like these in the future. Thanks!
My issue with the Bay Area is that and the baseless professional downgrading that's usually involved with that move. Because you didn't do it in the Bay Area, they shave one or two ranks off your title and your salary suffers (and, presumably, you don't get the best projects). Sorry, but I know more than your VPs about technology and how to build a company, and so I'm not going to take a junior role for the "privilege" of living in California. If winter gets to me, I'll take two weeks and go to Mexico or Bonaire; problem solved.
Since he makes a lot of weaker arguments, I'll focus on his strongest argument:

> To think that someone [...] with only a high-school diploma [...] could motivate himself to complete a large number of MOOCs is naïve [...]

He comes up with some spurious statistics to support this assertion (about MOOC completion rates), but it's much more likely the reason he believes this is because of his experience as an educator.

I think this is a valid criticism. One important aspect of college is that you have something on the line (loans), and you're placed into an environment where the social context is "this is what we're doing now, we're completing courses and learning." And this social context propels people who would otherwise not have the self discipline to learn on their own.

The problem here is that the author treats this challenge as evidence that college is the best solution. If MOOCs can't answer it, college will continue to be dominant. Once I've spelled it out like that it should be obvious he's assuming a false choice.

What other options could we come up with to solve this interesting problem he's posed? MOOCs in their current iteration don't compel you to keep learning. But rather than assume college is the best option by default, let's keep thinking of other ways we could figure out how learning could be encouraged systematically.
Boring prose. I couldn't make it to the end. Journalism should not try to engage readers at the expense of telling news. Where is the news in the first sentences?
Loading a big .txt file into memory and comparing each request to it feels like a good first start. Hopefully the open source community takes it further.
One thing is that the T420 is not sold as a consumer laptop. Under Windows, running AutoCAD/SolidWorks will drive temperature of 90+ degrees. This laptop is suppose to be for those kind of work. Furthermore, I'm not even running heavy games. I'm running things like FTL, or older 3D games like RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, or even sometimes just watching YouTube videos at 1080p.

Regardless, thermal performance under heavy load in laptop should either be tolerated, or the manufacturers should disable higher clock speeds.

My W530 on the other hand has no issue with heat. Heavy gaming puts it to about 75-80C. It is also much bulkier in size.

Edit: my dedicated graphics is off most of the time. Even then, CPU alone can drive the temperature up through the roof.
It just seems Exempt/Non-exempt is a distinction that should not be there. If you work overtime you should get paid for it.
if you don't ordinarily check luggage (like most people seem to do nowadays), all you have to do is buy two one way tickets.
the only downside is that you'll get selected for extra screening more often.
Your tenses are wrong. They used to have that problem, but they fixed it (including a retro-fix for previously sold units), and no current models have that issue.
Statement is correct, Rust does insert runtime bounds checking when needed.
As you progress, images take like a good second to fully load (at least for me). Also, is the timer decreasing as you progress?

Fun game. Is the scoreboard legit?
Great article. Most scientists today probably don't think much about the religious roots of their pursuit of truth.
The reason given was "change of leadership", i.e., from Sam Altman to Geoff Ralston. Interestingly, Geoff wrote: "we are just working on launching YC China and I'll work hard to make sure Qi Lu has everything he needs to make that go well" after he was appointed, so it doesn't seem like he started out with different ideas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969490
> It was actually a question regarding the need to tell tales about 'crusty basement-dwelling kids now in their 50s'. What was the point of that other than to make yourself feel better?

I told the story. And it is a relevant one. There is an element in the community, not as pervasive as it once was, but it is not insignificant, that is and behaves exactly as I set forth. And I know it to be true, just as you do, and every other person here on HN knows it to be true. I lived through it.

That "attitude" is one of the major things holding back Linux on the desktop. Sad, but true. And it doesn't have anything to do with my technical prowess (or that of any HN reader for that matter). It's for Joe down the street. Jen who can barely turn a computer on, etc.
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes Relocate: Oregon

Technologies: I'm a generalist operations/network engineer. I help people on a cloud; or in their own datacenter with real networking equipment or an API. Starting on the 6th year using Chef.

Resume/CV: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/scottmlikens

Email: scott AT likens DOT us
Their annual domain registration prices appear to be 50-100% higher than many other registrars, so I'm not sure how "free" this is...
Fair point. But if he did I suppose it would clarify the situation and we would know it.
For those wondering, I think the episode that copsarebastards is referring to is called 15 Million Merits.
That makes no sense, the iOS devices reign supreme for casual gaming.
While it seems random, it is simply:

1 2 3 4 5 6 => January, 2, 03:04:05pm, 2006
I have been thinking about telling it for while, I have considered starting a blog to help other start-ups especially people who are a little older and get caught in the full employment trap with the needto pay the mortgage. Also considereddoing a mixergy interview. But always go back to 'head down, work your arse off', there is always work to be done. One day, one day soon. I need to pay back to the community.
What percentage of your income is coming from CustomerFind? Just curious, because it seems like a really lean startup.
Like what? Make people pay for content? The internet costs money to maintain and I'm sorry to say but much of the convenience we enjoy is provided only because we look at a thousand+ ads a day. Do you really want to pay $5 a month for every site you want to read?
Unless you open up the spec every single time you make a prediction, you're using a mental model.

And the spec is probably not arranged for easy use.
I think the "find" command was around before then, and it has long options. For example:

find dir -type f -name "*.h" -print
This theme is called "Kubrick". It was the default Wordpress theme from ~2005-2010. It was designed by Michael Heilemann (https://twitter.com/Heilemann), here's a nice article about it https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-secret-history-of-kub_b_4...
This seems immediately flawed. If I see one pillar holding the roof off the base, I assume there is a reason the roof should not be resting directly on the base or they wouldn’t have put the pillar there in the first place. Maybe it needs airflow, or light, or they just like the aesthetics.

I think all this proves is that if you present people with a partial design that points in one direction, they’ll continue in that direction.
Hi all,

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I'm currently looking for some beta testers for a tool called Loggicat, it can be used to scan you code and logs for potential sensitive data and produce clean logs so you won't be worrying about logging passwords.

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If you start one, please share a link.
I agree. Although for most tasks I tend to prefer having a command line interface, just because of things like programmability and my typing speed, I'd be lying to go as far as to say the CLI is _always_ the best way to do something. For example, I like to construct git commits using a GUI, since I'm faster at selecting lines to commit than I am sifting through potentially hundreds of changes looking for the right one to add to a particular commit.

Additionally, I think some of the listed tasks are objectively better in the GUI, despite being possibly slower. For example, in the command line, deleting a file doesn't send it to the "Recycle Bin" or your OS's equivalent, it simply deletes it. This is better for things like scripts, but worse for someone using it as a GUI replacement, since now there's a risk that they could permanently delete an important file due to misspelling or something of the sort. I find it hard to remember sometimes that Emacs is a GUI too, and it can often be the best way to do any given task.
>at a time when MS was working hard on open-source compatibility.

You mean around 2002-2006? I find that pretty hard to believe.
I think "culmination" rather than "result", because whilst I think the right wing gutter press (and I include the Mail and Times) were a factor, I don't think they were the most important factor.
Nice. Sloths can be spirit animals too.
I am sorry but from what I know, 30k€/year is more than the average wage (net) in most European countries, for a full-time job, mind you. In many countries, like Italy or Spain, it's even more like just 20k€/year. To US citizens that is often surprising but you obviously can't discount the social safety net, universal health care and generally lower cost of living, better public transport etc. in many countries. In that case, 20k€ year can definitely be enough to live on (at least until you have kids).

So I fear it is unlikely that you will find a part-time job that pays that much in most of Europe... But again, correct me if I'm wrong.
But what was the zeroth computer?
Using any CPU is a fundamental mistake?
What kind of DRM? I haven't come across a YouTube video where it fell back to Flash in ages.
The call for papers is out now, and the online systems for registration as well as paper, workshop and music submissions are open.
(I wanted to write 50MB =~ 400Mb earlier).

Something in your setup is broken. I get 50MB/s speeds when Linux is on both ends, and even when Cygwin is on one end.
I’m building a platform to try to support better, privacy-focused email marketing.

I see two challenges to current email marketing:

1) It’s tricky for senders to build an audience in a very crowded space - mind-share is coming at a premium.

2) Recipients are having to deal with more and more noise in their inboxes.

My solution is a topic-based email platform that lets recipients choose areas of interest which senders can then pay to broadcast to.

I am trying to make this possible in a totally private way - so senders will never see recipients’ email addresses or any demographic data; they will only be able to target groups of people (think FB ads).

On top of this, I see an opportunity to pass the financial gains onto recipients, so every message you read earns you money.

And to take it one step further, I want to promote ethical business by donating proceeds to the Golden Lion Tamarin fund to help preserve some of the world’s most endangered species and forests.

If any of this is appeals, I would love it if you’d sign up to the waitlist. I’m trying to gauge interest before I invest too much into it:

https://goldtamarin.com
Does that mean the thing about the water needed is just wrong (chemically, I mean, not as practice)?
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609375
earlier this year I was working on a project called emojirama.io for building interactive stories with emoji. I started it as a way to learn and practice lots of different things: Vuex patterns, PWA, Quasar Framework, Django Rest Framework, Social Authentication, path-finding algorithms, web sockets with Django channels and other random things. I took a break from working on this recently but hopefully will revisit it soon.

It is currently deployed on https://emojirama.io and all of the code is on GitLab here: https://gitlab.com/emojirama/game
As usual it is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
Not really that is the reality right now. Liberals mean neo-liberals. He is spot on. May be you meant progressives.
I do share the author's scepticism. But it's a bit much to describe this as something that "really looks less like a relief package and more a corporate coup" when you admittedly have absolutely no idea of what it actually is.

One could argue the same case just as well without resorting to pre-emptive hyperbole. This isn't a new problem for public advocacy groups, and they tend to try to find a balance where you get people to sign up for your newsletter or prepare to show up for a protest, but with the understanding that it may not happen or that your actual message will be decided at short notice.

Honesty in such matters isn't just moral principle, but also serves your cause. Because outrage overload such as this will only get you written off as "cynics that would oppose everything". No politician will even consider to change their behaviour if you publicly admit that you are going to oppose them entirely independent of that behaviour.

If you don't appear willing to consider the actual facts, you have no power.
They fact that the choice is 'rsync' or 'ftp' scares the heck out of me. Doesn't everyone use a packaging system with reproducible builds, deploying these packages to staging first, testing it, then deploying the same signed package live using real configuration management (eg. Puppet) ...?
Theres a typo for the link: The API is ready for you at http://www.newbslur.com/api.
Does anyone have figures on how much money the US federal government has spent to develop the RISC architecture?
No, but those who make heat pumps know that to sell in the north people care so they try to make one model that works anywhere.
They sell a lot of bicycles but the majority of their products are accessory items.
I couldn't help but remember the classic IRC exchange: http://bash.org/?258908
> Facts you can find on Wikipedia or in the phone book

No no no! The facts on Wikipedia are supposed to be dug up by journalists!
Milo Medin was involved early on in the @Home Network -- a profile: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/01/17425
Redis is one of the best pieces of software I've used in the past few years. I use it so many ways in production it's loco. Having flexible data structures besides (string)k, (string)v is a huge boost.
Wouldn't an idea like pricing per-site only work if all the carriers did it?

Yes, and that doesn't seem to be a problem. Look at the near-simultaneous doubling of text messaging charges from all carriers a few years ago.
There are many sites on the internet, and other clinics to visit in your metaphor.
The neural engine for simplified AI models is separate silicon from the GPU.
Yeah I also thought it should be something like Safari preloading pages.

Still, why must the page preload happen during an update?

There's plenty of time for that after the update..
Nitpick: That is Meteor Crater, Arizona, not the Yucatan Peninsula. Doesn't change your point, though, because the Yucatan impact was far, far larger.
The issue is not with anime but with Japan.

Most "anime" is being created in Japan(That's the literal definition of anime) hence the issue.

You don't hear about starving Pixar animators or Disney artists overworking to extreme levels.

This is part of the Japanese culture. Moreover, I would say that anime is having more difficult time making profit and being sustainable.
that is a nonsense statement. "doing something" = "do it"

if you mean, cant stop you considering it, then thats fair, but then the point has no value?
> why does any app need to know which other apps I have installed, and how long I use them

What are you referring to? As far as I know, one app can't query the list and usage time of other installed apps on iOS. This stackoverflow question[1] seems to confirm this. But please enlighten me if I'm misunderstanding what you're referring to.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51634436/how-to-get-a-li...
Ideas like this come and go every month. If someone open sourced something like that, so I could host it myself, I'd be down. But these ventures always either fail completely, or are bought up by some big company, which guts the core product and leaves it to whither into obscurity.

I would love something like this, I just wouldn't trust it to last more than a few years. I'm sorry to be negative about your venture, and I truly do hope it works out, because the world needs a small scale technology platform for sending chats and files easily.
The army - even the generals - aren't usually the ones that get to declare war, though, at least in this day and age.
Does any of the subjects on your list excite you REALLY? I know that, if I don't have such thing, I'm having hard time to motive myself to do much (and also, am grumpy).

On the other hand, if I can work on something which is genuinely exciting for me, I often literally cannot wait till I start engaging with it. I think this is the state in which we should be in our personal projects, otherwise they're just another chore.

Also, one piece of wisdom from Jordan Peterson (I wish I heard it ten years ago, it would have saved me a lot of wasted time): you cannot make yourself like something. You like what you like, each one of us is an individual with unique sets of likes and dislikes.
I doubt it. Reading the comments in your link shows that it was just unsubstantiated fearmongering.

I expect it is more to do with the fact that you don't need the Zoom app and why should you have to download it when pretty much everything works perfectly through the web client?
I wonder if this situation will push them even further in the direction of drone delivery.
We have adopted Kubernetes at our startup. It's solved a couple of problems but created a whole lot more. We aren't at the stage that we need the scaling yet.
Stressed. Can't stop thinking about everything. My chest feels right and it's making my arm ache because of the worry. not sleeping good.

I need to laugh or mediate. I don't want to talk to the neighbours or friends for fear I'll burst out crying.
Did you ever write an arithmetic evaluator? A calculator essentially? Or any other kind of evaluator? A text template engine perhaps?

They all have plenty in common and exist along a continuum of complexity that includes scripting languages and goes all the way to general purpose.
I was hacking a low code Volunteer management system.

https://github.com/crowd-tasking/awesome-crowdtasking

Feel free to check it out, its open source.
Same with video streaming. With Netflix you aren't guaranteed the show won't suddenly just disappear before you finish it -- happened multiple times for me. I've been partly going back to Blu-ray for better availability and picture quality. Netflix is still very good for exploratory watching though, but Blu-ray is very very good for stuff like classic HBO series and BBC nature documentaries.
What shared services that are available differs from system to system, just like which are supported differ from applucation to application. Filesystem access may be through an xdg-portal, may support KIO or GVFS integrations, may use framework internal pickers, and so forth. Many decisions for the developers to make.

Filesystem drivers are much further down the stack, but that's just a different group of developers making all the decisions.
That would not be very smart, in the first place.
One shouldn't include Social Security in government expenditures because it's a pension system that is funded largely by the recipients. It's also not in trouble. Medicare and Medicaid have problems but not Social Security. Social Security is a government run pension system so it is included in budget numbers.

It is for the reasons I've stated that Social Security is not part of the discretionary budget. The discretionary budget is dwarfed by defense related spending. And this is just the 'on the books' spending in defense related activities. When one factors in the supplemental spending on defense activities then the share of defense spending is even greater.

Highways, national defense, and education are a large majority of the discretionary budget.

Edit: I'm only talking about federal spending as that is what the topic of discussion appears to be.
Level of social services, like social security, universal healthcare, etc. Are you disputing the claim?
pain in the ass.
for web dev , rails/php are better choices. for a beginner, they are really simple.
Supposedly, Adrian Lamo had submitted the logs to Wikileaks to pose this conundrum before giving them over to Wired.
still the same, man. the fact is it's hard to make it run on my mac and hard to find cheap asp.net hosting just prevent me and some other ppl loving it.

asp.net is a nice platform, i admit but i will still recommend php/rails for beginner.
Facebook seems to be following the same trajectory that Google did. I remember ~10 years ago Google used to put out such puzzles; if you solved them, your chances of getting hired at El Goog went up significantly.

In another, say, 5 years, expect to hear about Facebook giving out massive retention bonuses to top engineers who are defecting en masse to a hot new startup... :-D
I've just finished Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga and it's definitely one of the best books I've read in a long time.

The first three Dune novels are particularly good. Dune has a tendency to get more philosophical in the later volumes (plans within plans within plans).

If I had to choose an all time favorite I would probably go with Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red/Green/Blue Mars). An extremely well researched view of how Mars colonization and terraforming might proceed in a realistic way.

He also has a trilogy on the possible/likely consequences of runaway global warming (Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting) but RGB Mars is definitely better.

Edit: "The content of Green Mars and the cover artwork for Red Mars are included on the Phoenix DVD, carried onboard Phoenix, a NASA lander that successfully touched down on Mars in May 2008. The First Interplanetary Library is intended to be a sort of time capsule for future Mars explorers and colonists." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy#On_Phoenix_spacecr...
> I stopped hearing music in my head. I usually have a soundtrack of some kind in my brain, and it just stopped.

This sounds wonderful to me. I'm always thinking to the beat of one song or another and sometimes it really bothers me, as if I'm wasting brain cycles.
My mother recently came to the US and set off an explosive detector. It took her just a few minutes to get cleared and she was not at all harassed like the author of the post was. Although she comes from Brazil, she is white, blonde and blue-eyed (a descendent of German immigrants). So I guess there is a difference in treatment according to race.

What set off the explosives detector? She had no idea, as that had never happened before to her. The only different thing she had touched hours before was the wipes they gave her during the flight to clean her hands before a meal.