jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
AS a Truck Guy who has owned a lot of Trucks and Currently owns a F-150 XLT 4x4 and has Owns no less than 8 other Trucks and SUV's from Ford....

This is going to flop, big time. This is the worst looking Truck I have seen in a LONG time, this will not appeal to people that buy the Best selling Truck on the market, The F-150.

I have no interest in buying this, and i would not drive it even if they gave me one for free. Sure the performance is there, ofcourse when Ford and other manufactures release their Electric Trucks then when can do a Apple to Apple comparison.

I will be waiting on the Electric F-150, which should have comparable specs to the Rivian, and I would much rather have a Rivian Truck than this monstrosity
Launch/recover it from a van, parked at a random location each time. Seems simple enough.
When I used to access the Internet via dial-up modem, and pay for every second online, I'd always browse via WWWOFFLE[1] and then be able to just return to where I had been after going offline. I think I remember putting something in a CHAP script to tell WWWOFFLE I was on/offline.

[1] http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/
It would be interesting to see those metrics on sync adoption.

I can tell you from my own personal, anecdotal experience, it's one of those things as soon as someone knows about (and fully understands) they typically become Chrome users everywhere because of it. I found this to be the case for our Apps domain users at work and even friends & family who just have personal Google accounts and maybe even use iPhones, etc. It's powerful to show someone that your history, bookmarks, and even open tabs across devices stay in sync. I find that if one isn't "creeped out" by that, they usually think it's extremely convenient.
To give an example of the language. Let's say you want a room where the player is eaten by a grue if they linger too long:

A room has a number called grue counter. The grue counter of a room is usually 0.
A room can be grue infested. A room is usually not grue infested.

Every turn while the player is in a grue infested room:
Increase the grue counter of the location by one.

The dungeon is a room. "You stand in a basic medieval dungeon." The dungeon is grue infested.

The first time the player enters the dungeon:
try looking;
say "It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

Grue lunch is a scene. Grue lunch begins when the grue counter of the dungeon is greater than 10.
When grue lunch begins:
say "A large, smelly, foul tempered creature resembling a cross between a troll and an orc lumbers out from one of the open passageways. It sniffs the air, catches your scent, and looses a mighty roar! Before you are able to do anything else, it quickly lunges forward, chomping down on your head with a sickening [bold type]*crunch*"	;
end the story saying "You have been eaten by a grue."

This is the actual syntax, and it is surprisingly readable. Getting used to what the parser wants you to say can be tricky sometimes - just because the language is english like doesn't mean you can write your code in completely free-form english, but it's damn close!

Once you've gotten your head around a few of the foibles, it's a lot less like writing a program and a lot more like just writing a book. In any case, agreed heartily with parent, it's a lot of fun to play around with!
"Promotion rate flights are for first time flyers only and limted to a single use. Other terms and conditions may apply."

So what's the standard rate?
In challenge 3, I got the following error:

There is a problem with your code: .init@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/app.js line 66 > eval:12:9
createWorldController/controller.start@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/world.js:185:13
app.startChallenge@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/app.js:175:9
@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/app.js:216:13
riot.observable/el.trigger@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/libs/riot.js:45:1
pop@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/libs/riot.js:89:31
Tazing or tackling would probably take him out of RFID range.
> But those who insist that deflation is terrible are hardly going to agree that the depression was made worse by all the ham fisted attempts to fix it.

Pretty much everyone, everywhere on the political spectrum, irrespective of what they think about deflation, agrees that the depression was made worse by "all the ham fisted attempts to fix it".

There's some disagreement about which of the particular policy responses fall into the category of "ham fisted attempts", sure, but the Fed's initial deflationary policy is one of the most widely accepted (I mean, its a point on which Keynesians and Hayek agree.)
I think you're totally right about the pricing. interesting idea on the timeline as well. We'll look into both of these ideas.
Currencies are not as save bet IMHO. For years and years Central Banks have printed money (Quantative Easing). When people start to distrust a currency like Dollar or Euro we will see a economic downturn as not seen since 1929.
Only if your refund doesn't go to you but directly in the pockets of the workers, then yes.
While they have competent infrastructure, an IaaS offering needs a platform whose capabilities are more complex than one where you're running only first-party applications. And even if they spent the time and effort, they'd be entering a commoditified, crowded field. All the big players can run servers, the value-add is from SaaS and/or surrounding PaaS, the latter of which they'd have to build from scratch.

Their previous forays into PaaS, done at a time when Twitter was also in this space, have faltered. And Facebook's pre-existing services are too far up the stack to be relevant to any IaaS ambition.

I doubt the 'trust issues' contribute significantly in Facebook's decision to not offer this, but I agree they'd be a factor for potential customers once the offering came to be. Facebook's branding is odd in that they've doubled down on the Facebook brand despite acquiring services that flourished in part for being "not Facebook". They seem resistant to rebrand into a holding company, and their choice supports the view that the company's tech mission is to remain tightly coupled with their flagship social network.
You'll need to use the barrel charger for applying firmware updates. The Lemur Pro has additional circuitry to support changing the battery even if it completely drained.
Oh yea, smoking too. That would also explain what we observed in China. Almost everyone who smokes in China is a man because there is a stigma that the only women who smoke are prostitutes (or at least that was the case when I lived there over a decade ago). Something like 30% of China smokes, but almost all of those are men, making it over 50% of men smoking.

"In 2015, smoking prevalence was 27.7% (52.1% among men and 2.7% among women)"
ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546632/
If you mean the rule at the top, it's not up there to prevent comments like this, but rather the complaints that people sometimes post about their previous opinions/experiences with a company in reply to a job posting. We don't allow those because we don't have any way of knowing which are justified and which aren't. Bad corporate behavior is a thing, disgruntled commenters are a thing (the kind who are good at telling only one misleading side of the story), and the two can be hard to tell apart. Sometimes the community can sort things out through the informal adjudication process that arises in HN threads around controversial questions—but those are lengthy and Who Is Hiring threads are not the place for it.
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~40 years from now: unexpected economic shock.

Boom! You failed to time the market.
For most use cases, you’d just give up serializability and implement an eventually consistent model. For anything that requires something more strict, you just wait. Longer. Processing a check used to take several days. Processing an earth bank check from mars would need to take about half an hour on average. Though that’s perhaps not the best example, because even today we process checks using an eventual consistency model.

Edit: A strict consistency earth > mars transaction would actually take longer, because 30 minutes is just an average round trip, and you’d need more than one.
I'm not here to spoon feed you.
Total market value.
I mean the whole software development industry, and arguably developers working worldwide on "line of business Java applications at huge insurance companies" and the like far outnumber the developers in "startups where software development is a profit center".

And even in greenfield development in new companies you still routinely see things like simple SQL injections or hardware with hardcoded trivial credentials. The future is already here, but it's not evenly distributed, and lots of new things are still made with very not-modern development practices - it's not only about legacy code, there's lots of new sloppy insecure stuff being written every day.
This is not a surprising development, there has been speculation that Poole has been readying the site for sale in the past few months. He has taken action to sanitize the site by suppressing discussion of Gamergate and 8chan (mention of either was a bannable offense), and more recently a purge of /pol/ (that board had been a haven for conspiracy theorists and neo-nazis). The theory had been that he was making the board more attractive to a mainstream audience to attract potential buyers, however, this announcement, along with the new requirements for "volunteers" suggests that something else is at play.

I would speculate that recent decisions have been driven more by IRL peer pressure and a desire for social acceptance than any kind of business shark/ Homo Economicus reason.
Same here. Microsoft would have to deliver a phenomenal OS for me to switch back.
It's likely that epidemiologists already use those tools. They are, after all, a sort of applied statisticians.
In the interest of being fair, shouldn't you include the full quote you responded to?

> Of the 2mm+ people in prison, almost none of them should be there _for as long as they are and many should not be there at all_.
Yes. I agree. None of us were tested for the flu either so we don't really know. We all did have our flu shots however in November. I've never had the loss the smell taste though with the flu. This also didn't hit me like the flu. I felt kind of tired for a few days before I got really sick. My wife ended up with just a dry cough for a week. She would be very tied randomly some nights.
Yes definitely. "Remove cards" and "you don't need to take a card every time" are both good early tips.

There's definitely a lot of depth that you have to unlock over time. I sometimes watch Jorbs on YouTube as background noise and he'll often think over a single turn for 15 minutes or more. I don't have that patience.
I don’t think so. People are all agreeing on that based on good judgment. As someone who accepts the current restrictions, there’s no way I’ll accept some random other abuse afterwards.

I reckon our society will be in for majors discussion in who takes the rewards and who is critically important.
I hope Google and Apple will consider putting in place a solid way of navigating the UI with physical buttons. As much as I love Android Auto, I feel like I'm always constrained to use voice commands which I hate with a passion, and I already stick to my steering wheel buttons to control music playback.
I had a daughter last week. Lots of work, but the ROI is amazing!
I'm working on a service that generates a static version from any site in one click, then keeps them updated when content changes [1]. It's currently used in production for a few sites, and I plan to launch the beta soon.

[1]: https://sitesauce.app
Let's first address the elephant in the room.

If it weren't for the ridiculous power of the copyright industry, there would be no problem.

Because non-live streaming doesn't make sense except as an artificial way to control copyright.

There literally is no other reason why you would download an entire movie and then throw it away.

Instead of this bullshit, people could easily have a small box of microSDs with their favourite films and series. You could exchange them with friends, it would be fun. Again, why did Netflix used to be mailing around DVDs instead of much more efficient read-only SDs? Oh yeah, copyright bullshit.

It's very easy to forget that everybody together made up this one completely artificial rule that, unlike normal data, this is "magical data" that we have to pretend cannot be copied or stored. What ever.
It is not a shortener. It is a small condom. That's what the .co stands for.
Commodities are worth consideration, just not maximal optimization when there are switching costs involved. My core point was, editing code isn't the bottleneck in building quality software efficiently, so optimizing that process beyond a certain point is premature and wasteful.
They already know what everyones clicking on.

Except maybe in the twitter clients.
You're right that the Xbox is now profitable. (When I first googled this I came up with some links that suggested recent non-profitability, but I had misread the dates on them.) But at this point it still doesn't look to me like the kind of product line that can grow into something to sustain the Microsoft we are used to.

As for the critics, they missed what was obvious to me at the time. The main purpose of the Xbox was not initially to make money. Few remember now, but a decade ago Microsoft and Sony were butting heads in many different areas. (Particularly ones involving DRM, storage formats, and other things of interest for media providers.) In typical Microsoft fashion, they went after Sony's air supply. Competition from the Xbox forced Sony to slash prices on the playstation, which cut Sony's profits in half. This distracted Sony, which made them a less dangerous competitor in areas where Microsoft was going head to head with them.

(Of course in the end Apple did an end run about both by demonstrating with iTunes that you can deliver content without DRM and make everyone happy. Microsoft never sold the world on DRM everywhere, all the time. And Sony learned the hard way that people really don't like having a rootkit slipped on your computer without your permission...)
> * Don't hire until you've had to endure the pain of doing the job well yourself. If you don't know how to do the job right, you don't know how to hire for it.

Sounds completely unworkable. A quaint aphorism but nothing more - never hire a company lawyer unless you've been to law school and worked as the company lawyer yourself?? If you can't plant the flowerbeds outside your office well yourself then you can't hire a gardener??

That sounds like the writer has not clue what they're talking about; I must have misunderstood!?
From users' perspective, the big thing here is that clients can now show where links in tweets actually lead. For brevity, the link text should probably just be the domain it leads to, but it should make things a whole lot more readable.

Before - This is a great news site: http://bit.ly/2Mp91y

After - This is a great news site: news.ycombinator.com

A loss for URL shortener services, but a win for users.
Being rich is not the problem, being rich and using that to pit Americans against one another for profit, greed, or entertainment, is the problem.
Comparing Django vs SQLAlchemy, Django's weakest point is its extremely static ORM syntax. The double underscore separation (e.g. user__group__name__icontains) for query parameters is likely my biggest pet peeve as it requires me to unroll unchecked strings together into a big garbled mess. I would have much appreciated being able to use more code-verbose query tools; the moment you have to go into building more dynamic user-defined query systems, Django's ORM just becomes a hindrance.

I also noticed the second part of the comment: Django does a lot of Python magic in the background through extensive use of reflection and class-level declarations, this hides away the abstractions (again) at the propose benefit of ease of use. And well, it is easy to use. For certain applications. I just personally found a lot of footguns trying to work with more advanced Postgres functionality (mainly around JSON) and it took a while to write my own abstractions atop the Django ORM to get to a comfortable level.
It's good to have an internet connected computer on hand, and I haven't been in a situation in decades where that wasn't the case (even if it was just a mobile device for looking up documentation). Yet there is a bit of a difference between it being a good idea and it being required. There is an even bigger difference between it being required and requiring equipment from a particular vendor.

Requiring specialized tooling should not be required for replacing a modular component. I understand that this case involves the security chip, but surely Apple would be able to implement a solution that is integrated into the system's firmware. Macs are already capable of connecting to a wireless access point to download and install the operating system via the Internet[1], so this seems like a reasonable approach.

[1] At least they had that capability when I purchased a 2012 MacBook. I'm not sure if things have changed since then.
but he refused for Django is "too big and complicated". OK, then. We ended up creating a monstrosity of Flask half-assed packages to include functionality that is already included in Django (think cache, csrf, admin...), plus WTForms, plus SQLAlchemy, plus Alembic, hard to test, hard to keep updated, hard to deploy...

Heh. I've done that. Impressive how quickly you can go from "I literally need three or four REST end points to let users query this SQLite database" to, well that.
Quite useful for Americans. Residents of the infamous North American superpower might be otherwise OTL, lunch being a sometimes-metaphorical meal.
> For a lot of people and teams, having to know about and rely on a bunch of third party dependencies (not seldom the effort of one or a few developers without financial support) is not a positive thing. Not saying these specific gems are a problem.

I think this is a really great discussion point btw because depending on a ton of 3rd party libraries that come and go can be an issue for sure.

But at some point you need to live in the moment and align your expectations with the current reality and think about what happens to your code base if the library stops being maintained.

For example, strong migrations has a 5+ year track record and shows no signs of dying. It doesn't make sense to live your life in fear and avoid 3rd party libraries because one of them might go away in the future because the maintainers get bored or stop using it. Because what happens if that doesn't happen and it ends up being wildly popular and maintained for years?

The reality is a lot of people develop libraries, use it for a while time and then move on. This happens in Elixir too. The ExAWS package comes to mind (the most popular AWS package for Elixir). Similar things happened with Arc (file uploads) too. Eventually those tools got replacements or new maintainers.

If you're developing an application it makes sense to weigh the pros and cons on using certain libraries but it's not like these libraries immediately go away. Usually there's a huge amount of notice before a library becomes officially dead. There's also tons of opportunities to talk with the authors and collaborate with the community to keep it going. And in this case, the outcome is likely a lot better than you trying to develop a custom solution in total isolation that's not open source.

So yeah, there's really no downside to using most 3rd party libraries. Either it fits your app well enough and continues to be maintained while you happily use it (and maybe contribute back changes), or it fizzles out and you got some value out of it and now you have a great head start in implementing a custom solution from it for your unique use case.
If you’re a EU citizen contact your local data protection authority and file a complaint. It literally takes 5 minutes.
>There was once a sense of collegiality among business and labour leaders fighting to rescue the city, he laments. “None of that exists now.”

How is this anything other than the fault of the rich no longer “fighting to rescue the city”? They appear to just be victim blaming and complaining because there is pushback on wealth flowing upwards for decades.

Moving to low tax hellholes won’t make their lives better, it’ll just keep driving the wedge of wealth inequality down further and make the rich have to install water filters and generators. It would be great news to New Yorkers since decreased demand from the rich would start making the city livable. If the rich aren’t giving to the local economy, they are only taking.
This is one of those talks you either love or hate. I was surprised to see it was one of the highest rated TED talks (on another site) because for some reason I found it rather irritating.
I'm not sure what kind of theory you have in mind, but music theory is very much a theory (let's stick to traditional western music theory for now).

Perhaps you compare it with something like Physic's theory. That it is not.

But it's more like a mathematical theory, a set of axioms, and an algebra of relationships and properties that derive from them.

And of course it's a theory as opposed to the actual practice (applying it to playing an instrument).
Good for the owners to be precise.
I made http://PodHound.co to help us find better podcasts. It's currently transcribing about 3000 individual podcasts and will match podcasts based on semantic analysis. Any advice on the best services to use is welcome. I'm currently just using AWS.
I'm a huge 3D printer advocate and hobbyist but...this doesn't really make sense to me. VW (and arguably a lot German based companies) are super in-sourced based. I wouldn't be surprised they have a dedicated plant just for injection molding and they probably make their own tooling in-house. I don't see how 3D printing would be the best choice for their infrastructure. They probably could get usable test shots within a week with the right people working around the clock.
Why not post the verb definitions directly below the noun definitions you posted?

1. To assault or capture suddenly: The troops stormed the fortress. See Synonyms at attack.
2. To travel around (a place) vigorously in an attempt to gain support: The candidates stormed the country.
3. To shout angrily: "Never!" she stormed.

Even if you're pretending that there was no violence in the event that left 5 people dead and many more hospitalized, those all apply.
So, sounds like it's better than not having the tape?
I would be more sympathetic to newspapers and journalists if they were neutral observers, but as you say, the line between news and commentary is blurred and it seems everyone in media has picked a side. I think forcing these papers to do some basic fact checking would slow down the "must report first and damn the facts" mentality. The thinning or elimination of the fact checking people was the canary in the coal mine.