jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about this too. I'm familiar with the economic concept of diminishing marginal utility, and I get that the $10k you get from $120-$130k/yr is much less valuable to you than the $10 from $40-50k. But there still seemed (to my Stats 101-level interpretation) that there was a decent-enough jump between $75k and $130k and beyond that happiness/utility increased significantly as income did beyond the commonly cited figure.

For those of you who earn the requisite amount, is it true that it's easier to get a significant raise at the higher income levels? I live in a fairly rural area but I've found as my income rises the degree to which I need to fight for marginal pay increases has diminished, which seems counter-intuitive since each point gets more and more expensive, obviously.
I don't look at it while coding, but what about when you need to adjust the volume when watching a film?
I usually need backlighting if I'm trying to find a special character.
Google doesn't need the paltry revenue from the NSA for their bottom line, Assange plays guilt by association, but doesn't address motives.

I have no doubt that Google is trying to stay on Congress's good side, after all, Microsoft funded an array of lobbyist organizations trying to get the government to shakedown Google, and their increase in lobbying spending is no doubt a response. It's pretty clear how this game works with regulatory capture, Congress threatens to regulate your business, you in turn, are forced to donate to their re-election campaign for 'protection'.

Less clear is whether playing nice with the State Department buys you anything. Assange makes it sound like Chomsky's conspiracy theories over pipelines, that Google has fruit plantations or oil pipelines abroad that need State Department protection, and somehow the State Department has some quid pro quo. But what can the State Department actually offer Google? They have no control over some of Google's biggest foreign issues: Chinese and Russian markets, foreign taxes. At best, the executive branch could back off investigations or approve mergers. But the evidence is mixed. Obama just veto'ed the Samsung ban on Apple, but allowed Apple's ITC ban on some Motorola devices to continue.

And what to make of the Cohen thing. So, Google is supposedly being contracted by the State Department or CIA to cause foreign uprisings now? Isn't it far more likely that the social, economic, and culture conditions that are fueling these uprisings have been boiling for years and that Google had little to do with them? Google, Facebook, and Twitter basically want users, and to promote digital media, and these uprisings which heavily used their services actually was good PR for social media overall.

I dislike the way many people analyze the motivations of those in other nations so as to remove local agency. Those same people will tell you, how dare you, look down on people in these countries, at the same time, viewing all local politics and local agendas as really being driven by the plans of external actors.

If Cohen was meeting with people in Iran and Azerbaijan, why does it have to be for some ominous CIA purpose. Couldn't it have been for existing projects Google Ideas already had? Google has been going all over the developing world evangelizing use of things like Google Maps for tracking local issues, like human, gun, or drug trafficking, environmental degradation, or even vanishing languages. Cohen's previous job would have given him the right contacts to make foreign connections in foreign governments, and is the perfect reason why Silicon Valley companies would hire people from the State Department who have foreign service experience. How many MBA grads working in Silicon Valley actually have any experience navigating say, foreign government officials in Kenya? For the same reason, the government hires Silicon Valley workers to work on government IT projects, because you go where the experience is. (e.g. data.gov)

None of this disproves anything, but I find the dots being connected here to be very tenuous.
Adobe used to have the Stack Ranking System until a couple of years, which they eventually ditched: http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534355695
Remember that everything anyone ever did seemed like a good idea to them at the time. It's hard to remember, but true.
How about 7. I might have information on what you'd like, so can give you a gift that you'd buy yourself had you known you'd like it / that it existed / that it actually worked.
All four of those conditions sre "spherical cow" assumptions. You won't actually see them in the real world.
Sounds like you're projecting a lot of personal stuff into this. I don't see why anybody would defend darknet dealers. You can't be a responsible dealer if you don't know who you're selling to. Simple as that.

The next two paragraphs you wrote a bullshit though. You said you "made a choice." I suppose that was after you did some time, yes? What did you do before that? Deflecting and ignoring perhaps? Give them a chance to learn.
IF everybody else is using Windows, Outlook and Excel then the company is stuck in the 1990s and their other business practices (eg: emailing RTFs for specs instead of putting them in version control) are also going to be out of date.

But as someone who has used a Mac in an office full of people using Windows and Outlook, it didn't increase friction. And I was even using OS X.

Your perspective forgets that you can run Windows on a Mac. I said "Let me use a Mac", I didn't say I wouldn't dual boot into windows (though having to use windows all the time is a separate requirement.)

I put that down there because it is the machine that makes me more productive.

You're saying forcing me to use windows, which isn't even unix, makes me more productive simply because my pointy haired boss uses it?

And you call me "fixed-minded"?

Nope.
Well, with receipts you have a 90 day window ... so if he's returning them within that window, then he's really not doing anything sketchy because that's really Home Depot's policy and intent. They tend to be pretty lax with returns. He may have brought the receipts, been outside of that window, and the cashier simply told him to take away the receipts because it was too long ago, scanned his driver's license, and gave him store credit anyway.

Lowes, Ikea, Bed Bath and Beyond, they all operate the same way. They'd much rather you buy lots of stuff and return some of it, then buy a few things.
If BTC is to ever become a serious currency it needs stability and market penetration. You don't "invest" in a currency, that's really not very useful for doing the things currency is useful for (i.e buying necessities). All of the people treating BTC as a speculative asset, hording it and playing market games to make huge gains off the idiots that buy high and sell low; these are the people actively hurting the chance of wide adoption. The investments you're seeing, in the infrastructure, that is the smart choice. Not just for the investor but also for the success of the currency. In short, there is no game of chicken going on, just smart investors continuing the smart investing and knowledge of money that made them huge players in the first place.
If Facebook charged 2$ a month for their services, would they not make more than their operational costs? They choose to exploit and straddle areas that are morally and legally dubious because they want more money.
>Bitfinex as an organization ‘printing’ free money and using it to pump the market.

How?
My idea was:

1. Technician writes down their diagnosis

2. They submit it to the system

3. AI comes with its own analysis

4. Technician sees the outcome, they can update their assessment

5. Everything is saved into the system

If one of technicians has too much errors in their initial assessments, it should raise a concern.
This is not the slam dunk comment you appear to think it is. I've lived for many years without a single death, but this fact wouldn't serve to nullify the fact I died when it does happen.
Ahem! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET
That Dijkstra's phrase is genius because at first sight it just seems a pedantic point made by the professor, a_boutade_ if you will, but the more you think about it the truer it is, even obvious.
I think what people are actually buying with an NFT is only marginally related to do with the art - I think people are buying the top spot of a specific ledger and the art etc...is an avatar used to represent the ledger.
Also worth mentioning that since we're cloud-based, we can shore up our threat assessment models to include browser fingerprinting, device details, IP address history, what network the user is on, etc. to better detect threats/spoofing.
Thank god. I always suspected that those loading times were cause by some retarded implementation detail. GTA5 is not that complex to justify that kind of loading times. Even the hardware has scaled massively since their launch and it doesn't even matter.
It's not uncommon to see high alcohol (8%+, so getting similar to wine) beers, often served as 8 oz. or so be getting to $10+ in big cities. And it's not even just a matter of alcohol content, though it often is. Why should the best craft beers be a lot less than middling wines?
> What does his position on masks have to do with the arguments he is making here?

The Internet doesn't have a shortage of rants. If you're wrong about other areas then why should I care about your opinions on technology?
reminds me of this: http://www.generation5.org/content/2003/gahelloworld.asp

where a c++ program is 'evolved' to output "hello world"
Probably a bit of hn hug, it went fast just now.
Well, I'm still waiting for the fellowship of LSD-fueled Übermenschen to emerge. Until then I'll just try to eat well, exercise more and get enough sleep. That seems to be the key for most elite developers I've encountered.
The chip this uses , the i7-4770HQ , uses vt-d. According to invisible labs[1], vt-d can allow certain malware attacks. Afaik, even after being informed of this by invisible labs researchers, intel did nothing(afaik) to solve this.

[1]http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.co.il/2011/05/following-w...
Removing the monetization option is one thing. It's not nice, but I think they have the right to say "this is a service where artists upload all their music..." If it had started that way, it wouldn't be terrible.

OTOH, allowing artists to use the tech to find infringing videos and deal with them by taking them down or leaving them up with a "song by xyz" credit shouldn't be contingent on this. That technology is Youtube's way of complying with copyright. It shouldn't go away if users don't participate in this program and agree to these onerous terms.

This is not Not Being Evil.
In practice is a long nonsense sentence of English words really any better than an equally long coherent sentence of English words? Are cracking tools really that intelligent?
when this happened a while back for wikipedia and filesharing sites i wrote a script that lets you add, update, dump, and share entries in your local hosts file (you can even put the text on a website and pull it from a url). it's not really much use since the sites will be moving anyway if no-one else can contact them, but in case someone finds it useful - https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet
Online gambling is legal almost everywhere - how does the FBI have the ability to do this?
Constitutional law is so much more complicated than, "this is what the document says". What is happening is here is reprehensible, but I don't think you will find any defense against it in due process.
As a speaker, let me just say that I have yet to figure out how to handle this. When I'm presenting, I want people listening to me, not reading the slides. When people are consuming the slides online afterwards, they can quickly get misconstrued without the context of my spoken words. All of that said, I'll add a link to the video from the blog post :)
the author only considers common words attacks, what about common phrases attacks? with a database consisting of common sentences, (eg. from reuters) those passwords could be broken in a much shorter timeframe than claimed in the article.
One reason why this isn't the perfect solution it may sound like is that often different size icons have slightly different designs.

Near the end of this post:

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/branding-firefox

Compare the 128x128 and 48x48 icons, and then compare the 48x48 and 16x16. As you go from 128 to 48 much of the detail in the fox's fur goes away, and as you go from 48 to 16 it becomes a simple gradient and the detail on the planet disappears as well.

If they simple resized a vector image, the 16px would be a muddy mess.

(There are probably much better examples somewhere, but this is just the one I've used in the past- apparently, for the last 10+ years...)
Any information on https://tardisgo.github.io/ ? They target Haxe, so I guess they have a bit more ambition, but it does mean a lot more moving parts. It looks like GopherJS is more mature, though.
You may not agree with the submission which is ok. But HN guidelines says the following:

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

Whether this is interesting to hackers, we leave that upto the audience to decide.
Elaborate? I don't understand what you're suggesting.
There is an immense amount of redundant 'crap' in app stores and I really wish they would get away from boasting about how many apps are in the app store.

I do wonder if the solution is to 'wrap' the app inside a container that reports some sort of user id/app id hash back to the store when it is fired up.
I work with a lot of translation services. While the machine translation services are easy to deal with, the professional translation agencies _love_ XML. They also generally know f--- all about building usable web APIs. This looks pretty useful.
Am I the only one to read that an Oracle employee has caused damages to an open source organisation ?
The article has a completely misleading headline. It was parking tickets and towing fees and the car was in an airport employee parking lot.
What do you mean?

I think that they aren't medieval precisely because we have trial by jury, jury nullification, etc.

I would expect trials in non-common-law countries to feel much more medieval.
You're right that software engineering is currently much more profitable in the US, but as far as careers go SWE is a bit of an anomaly. Most other careers don't have nearly the same pay disparity, if any.

That said, many companies that hire American SWEs tend to pay better, especially if you have experience working at a big Silicon Valley tech company. Pre-covid there were quite a few job postings for senior developers above the $100k usd mark, which will get you quite far in Tokyo.
The BBC was banned from broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin MPs who had been elected to the UK parliament.

So starting from the vantage of a news service banning interviews with members of its own country's parliament, outlets like Russia Today have to be below that bar.

A number of Russian outlets are listed as unreliable - perhaps some of them are tabloids like English language tabloids, but it seems that all Russian outlets with a standard mild or heavy support of their government are not OK, whereas this is not the case for the US and UK outlets with the same mild to heavy view of things from their country's vantage. It is just the myopic view of the English speaking countries.
> But where is the line?

The line is: what has been formally specified by the language spec as being part of the language.
I'm not sure what you mean.

I was meaning to differentiate between a vanilla search vs tracking data augmenting the search/ad delivery process.

Obviously the search term itself is used, and often location is required for queries such as "taxis near me". It's also essential for advertisers to know if you're in their geographical market.

That's just my opinion on what kind of data is OK to share, the point was that no further information is generally needed. The CMA reports highlight the fact that insidious tracking and the subsequent ROI tends to cement the dominant position of those who use it.
There are some regions for which storage requirements are relatively small, and would be perfect for 100% solar rollout targets.

Phoenix and Las Vegas come to mind - places where incident solar flux and electricity demand (due to heavy air conditioner use) almost perfectly coincide (peaks are separated by only ~50 minutes)
As an Electron app, you can make the official client do literally anything with a bit of effort.
This is an awesome resource but the general Python section could use some work.

I am assuming that target audience are scientists with a modicum of programming knowledge.

The list and especially dictionary section is a bit bare.

In the optimization section have a discussion on when to use lists, dictionaries, tuples and sets.
(for example the difference between
"needle" in my_list vs "needle" in my_set)

When to use something from collections and when to use ndarray.
(the short answer being - it depends)
So as source for the claim that you "can't redeem tether", you are linking to something that says you can redeem tether?
If not wanting your tapwater to be something you can light on fire with a match makes one a "NIMBY", then I might have a confession to make...
To get a grasp, nice talk by Dr.Ingraffea (Cornell) about fracking issues/absurdities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWmXpEkEPg
2.5% growth rate is slow when the population is young, space and food is abundant, and birth control is non existent.

European recovery was faster and much more complex than that after the Black Death. Europe’s population was 78.7 million in 1300, 70.7 million in 1350, and back to 78.1 million in 1400. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography A closer look into the numbers shows 80% recovery was quite fast even in areas that where devastated, but after that wars etc knocked the population back down.

It’s the classic S curve where growth is exponential up to carrying capacity and slows as you approach it.

As to immunity, I am referring to individual immunity from exposure and survival not genetic immunity. Europe never became immune to smallpox, but by exposing people young they are much more capable of fighting off infections. COVID deaths for people 35-44 are 10x that of people aged 5-14. We don’t think of 35-44 year olds as a high risk group because it just keeps getting dramatically worse as people age. 45-54 year olds are more than twice as likely to die as people 10 years younger. It more than doubles again 55-64, and by 65+ your in the high risk groups.
"We aren't special snowflakes fighting for truth and honour, we are tradesmen settling our services for as much cash as we can get away with"

That seems to align pretty closely with what michaelochurch is saying--except he's saying that we're settling for less than we could get away with. The thrust of his argument is that we shouldn't sell ourselves short. We should stand up for ourselves, recognize the value our work creates, and negotiate accordingly for a bigger share of the rewards. He's pointing out a cultural problem with software developers, who accept lower pay and poorer working conditions than we otherwise would because we are "passionate" about our work and lack the social skills and confidence to stick up for our own best interests.

Calling ourselves "overpaid nerds" (even jokingly) doesn't align with that goal at all.
You and the PC probably would be happy with Groovy, specially with them adding a SQL DSL now: https://github.com/apache/groovy/blob/master/subprojects/gro...

Groovy DSLs are much better than Kotlin's.
> This subject has been bothering me for a while.

I'm reminded of the brilliant Mark Twain line-- "Don't let schooling interfere with your education."

Are you familiar with the UnSchool Guys? You might be interested in Hacking your education for new skills> http://www.uncollege.org/story/#the-book

Still, if it's the simple lack of the credential bothering you. Figure out the most effective, simplest way to complete a BA/BS program and get it done.
Well, I do one hour commute in the morning, eight hours of work plus one to eat, then another hour commute back home, sometimes one and a half if there's traffic. That's eleven hours daily for a job I really like. I would be glad to work those 9.5 if I could get to the office walking. 1.5 extra hours doesn't necessarily mean horrible work life balance, as long as it doesn't turn into 12 every other day.
> I'm a big believer in technical continuity. IMHO, a lot of recent language developments should have instead been extensions of C, C++, Java, or Python.

If that's what you really wanted, and if we always did that, then you would probably want extensions to Perl instead of Python, since it predated it slightly and was much more popular much earlier.

Instead, I think what you're really asking for is language extensions to the things you are familiar with. Those happen to be things a lot of other people are also familiar with, but that doesn't change that the same strategy results in Perl still getting the lion's share of attention. I, for one, would be perfectly happy with that, as I love Perl, but many people would not, and possibly not for any real technical reason.

Anyone that thinks the case for Rust or D is better served by extensions to C or C++ but thinks that Python is objectively a better language than Perl should probably look deeply at exactly why they hold those views.

P.S. That's not really to say you hold those views. Consider this comment less a critique of your specific statement than slight tangent spurred by it.
It doesn't matter if it represents the company because the thing that shareholders care about is how much $ each share represents. This is why a stock will tank when a company talks about diluting their existing shares by creating new shares out of thin air. What you're talking about would be more akin to a stock split.
Very fair points. I see now It was not an equivalent example.
I cannot think of a reason to use signal over xmpp + omemo or pgp

The centralized model of singal is a problem, as is reliance on phone numbers to sign in.

Not to mention them publishing the source code for the server is only useful if you implicitly trust that is the code they publish is what they are running
the backdoor you mean?
Their userland is still majorly based on OSFMK, not FreeBSD - to the point where exactly that assumption recently bit me when trying to run program written for open source BSDs that assumed certain 1993-vintage userland stuff existed on every BSD-declaring system.

Darwin/XNU/macOS are not FreeBSD based, nor NetBSD based, nor OpenBSD based, even if in places it can take pieces of their code.
When you open source your hardware IP, you can buy it from Aliexpress few weeks later. That’s why I’ll never put final design on public github repository. For first prototype it’s ok. Final design brings in a cost of few thousand euros for electromagnetic compatibility measurement and I’ll definitely not give away this one.
Is there a website or plugin that shows google/duckduckgo or google/bing results side by side?
Couple points:

1) If we are talking about central banks such as FED - non-QE QE happening right now in the USA could be good example of why one would not be want to be part of the game.

2) If we are talking about centralized banking as a group of banks operating under the rule of the government - similar question to yours could apply to the general cryptography - why you need it (unless you are a criminal) if the state protects your rights? We seen countless examples where it doesn't quite work like that.

I really want you to consider that desire to not be forced to use the only one available medium of exchange does not mean someone wants to do something illegal (also, try to define illegal in the very general way, that would apply equally in the USA and in Venezuela, and in Russia, and in Somalia =))