jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hi etcet - Thanks for your questions!

Our DC is located in Tampa, Florida. We'll be looking at expansion to further regions as growth continues. Our disk space is using RAID 10 SATA and use KVM Virtualisation and I'm pleased to say that we can provide backups. At the minute these need to be individually requested but we want to automate this in an upcoming release.
Examples such as Daniel Kish suggest otherwise -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-P2a6Mrjs
This one worked quite nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8721379
That’s an apple to oranges comparison. You should be comparing it to the median freelance hourly rate for each respective industry.
The same as between Nazism and neo-Nazism. Not much in essence, slightly different mimicry, identical roots.
That used to be the case. They recently (last year?) changed it to make it much harder.
quote: He wrote that, overall, the parents seemed perfectionistic and preoccupied with abstractions, rather than showing a genuine interest in people.

I find this sentence interesting in comparison to the phrase "dumb people talk about people, average people talk about things, smart people talk about ideas" that I've seen in various forms on the internet.

Hot take: People are over-optimizing for grand impact, while neglecting the more profound impact on the local level. Most people will not be senators, but I think many people, with some work, can run for office as an alderman, mayor, or county representative.
> there’s a general truth to sexual attractiveness in there

Even a cursory consideration of the numerous bald celebrities should be sufficient to disabuse yourself of this notion. There is no general truth to sexual attractiveness as related to hair, or height, or skin colour, or weight, or…
I'd say your experience isn't unique to google. I think at some point we are going to hit a place where people realize the convenience of the cloud doesn't outweigh the additional cost of having a mostly predatory business partner.
So the explanation is more important than the spanking (or other discipline).
>By more people working, we created more opportunities for more people to work?

Yes, because more workers = more people with money = more people who stimulate production through spending.

The issue with the "economies of scale" argument is the same issue that the original lump of labour argument has - it assumes that there is a sensible upper bound on the amount of work people want done at any one time.

The only reason more efficient workers would lead to less work per worker is if the work to be done is bounded. What history shows is that instead, more efficient workers work the same amount and produce more, and the consumption of the product of that work is effectively unbounded.

For an example in tech: advancements in programming theory and practice over the last ~50 years have made it so that the modern programmer is easily able to produce the kind of programs that computers used 50 years ago in a fraction of the time it originally took to code them. Does this mean we need a fraction of the number of programmers compared to 50 years ago? No, because the improvements in efficiency have been completely offset by the demand for more complicated programs. In general, there doesn't seem to be any kind of bound on program complexity - the easier the programmer's job becomes, the greater their requirements become.
Craigslist for millennials. I mean, the UI is nice, but what does it offer that Craigslist doesn't?

Also, it isn't clear without a little bit of research that it isn't actually a Craiglist clone, and is in fact a way to get people to take pictures and videos for you in locations that they live near. [1] That's a good idea, while branching out to Craigslist before you get that first part down isn't.

[1]: https://medium.com/@mankhool/your-smartphone-photos-could-ma...
Boy isn't this the truth. My last job the project manager was great at getting everything in writing and a signed contract up front. It made life so much easier. When they came back with we want this too. He would just point at the contract and say, once we've completed this contract we can make a new one for the additional items you would like. Worked like a charm.
Especially in music I think a large portion is how whether you were involved in music as a young child. Forming that baseline of literacy when your brain is still plastic is really critical for having an intuitive sense of it later in life.
It's my personal preference, so it's true whether you doubt it or not. :-p

Using undocumented code is like programming in a language I hate. Mentally it's a really shitty experience and I'm not in a position where I have to settle for that. If I needed to do it to put food on the table, obviously I would.

You're also creating this false dichotomy between getting stuff done and documenting your code. I've never been in a position to have to choose between the two. If you have time to write a good program but not enough time to document it, I would question whether the program you wrote is actually good. If I'm writing a paper, sure I can spew shit out on a page for a couple hours and produce a "paper". But realistically if I'm actually going to produce a paper I need time for outlining and proofreading.

(Note that "documentation" isn't really what matters, it's that the code is understandable. If the code is self-documenting or the program is small enough, I consider that documented code.)
I saw them baffled by what teachers said they wanted ([snip]), which often seemed
to mask what they really wanted (“elegantly analyze these stories and compose,
in formal prose, a well-supported argument that will not only engage the
ambiguities without resolving them but delight and surprise me”)

My essays would always concentrate on resolving ambiguities... this glib comment sort of makes me wonder
If a delivery pipeline is compromised such that the APK received through automatic updates in the Play Store no longer matches the published source code, the Contacts permission we already granted allows the app to start exfiltrating our contact lists. People who build from source (or regularly compare Play Store APKs to vetted builds before installing/updating) are the only ones who really have the assurance you're describing.

(Substitute other OSes as able.)
I also submitted it here in 2017[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542
Love VW, smog scandals aside, but is silly to mention the ID.4 and the Beetle together. The latter is arguably the most important car ever made and had a multi-decade run as such. The other may be a decent selling electric, and is certainly important to VW, but it is a tax break away from being the same price as the Model Y.
> I wish I had.

But you didn't. Why do you think that is?
This is true. Grugq on a very short list of infosec people who have my implicit trust.
I was basically the same, although I think we upgraded it somehow to 16K. I remember typing in source code from magazines (Rainbow, in particular).

I thought MS Extended Basic on the CoCo was pretty cool.

Ended up moving to Apple ][ a few years after that, but still have very fond memories of the CoCo, even though everyone else I knew had something else and liked to refer to my computer as a Trash 80.
Can't imagine that doing so is going over well for people using screen-readers.
Exploitation has no place in business. You offer a trade. The other party takes it or not. You can't tell them what to do or not do.

> Someone is always left holding the bag when these trends fizzle out.

Funny it's the same thing a lot of people told me when I decided to go all in crypto - that I'd be the fool left holding the bag.

I proved them wrong, but they still don't get it. About 6 month ago, to someone here asking for genuine advice, I told them to put no more than they can lose, about 4 grands IIRC, in BTC to buy a car after the next bull market that was due soon due to the halving.

They laughed, and said it was too uncertain. If they had done so, they'd have their new car by now.

I find it sad that people can't notice and exploit trends, especially geeks who think so highly of their intellectual prowess.
If there is a way to list my disliked videos I would give you at least a dozen examples just from this week alone.
"Compared to tire installation that takes more time, tooling, and personal risk,"

Don't forget liability, most failure modes involving tires cascade into personal injury auto accident. I would guess the most likely epic fail of similar likelihood for a TV installation would be dropping the TV while installing it. Or maybe drilling into a water pipe while installing it, either way death is quite possible with cars and highly unlikely with a TV.

Two things always "get" me about hiring a pro even though I can afford it. The first is I do it exactly the way I want it. Not possible to install my TV 3 inches too far to the right or some idiot company policy to minimize liability or whatever. The second is the opportunity cost of hiring a pro is astounding. A pro is going to have a 4 hour window 9-1 next Tuesday so I need to take time off work and cancel my life for four continuous weekday hours, but I have a SSD awaiting installation on my desk at home and if I get a half hour wednesday night around 8:14pm I'm fine, my window for me to do it is dynamic and hyperflexible and much narrower than a pro and if I'm interrupted its simply not an issue. Its just more convenient to do it myself than to deal with someone else. I could afford to hire someone to take the trash bag from my kitchen to the trash can by the garage, but the hassle of contracting with another person exceeds the minimal hassle of walking it out there myself.
There is much more benefit in focussing in energy production and heating. Coal makes up for 40% of carbon emissions. Nobody will care whether their electricity comes from coal or renewables. We can get rid of those 40% of emissions without imposing restrictions on people.
Christmas you would most likely see a significant rise in activity and pollution as people mass travel, mass consume, and mass buy. How many turkeys were slaughtered for Christmas dinner? That's activity for the entire food chain.

For ALL of the service industries, Christmas and New Year are when they make a huge bulk of revenue.

Christmas is only a break for those who are privileged. Talk to you neighbourhood restaurant server. Ask them how restful Christmas season is and they will tell you that Christmas is their most stressful time in the entire year.
For me, the gross step was dual booting using different machines...or a Windows machine and a Linux machine. Because dual booting is worse (for me). It means abandoning everything I'm working on in Windows to use Linux. It means abandoning everything I'm working on in Linux to use Windows. It means shutting down and restarting and waiting if I want to switch. It means mucking about with different formats of partitions.

And of course it means fooling around with Grub every so often. Two machines is just easier for me in pretty much every way except "isn't it amazing that a machine can dual boot." Two machines is a better abstraction because it's not clever.

And not being clever probably makes this a disappointing response even though it will solve most of the problem if not all of it.
Might be an age/generational thing. At least my generation (20s and 30s) it’s definitely not commonly done outside of formal business meetings.
I would start by cutting academic salaries at elite schools. These are $150k-$200k for a typical professor, and $1 million at the top. Maybe $100k at the bottom.

I'd place these at $60k-$100k: enough to live on, but not enough to go into it for anything other than love-of-science. A university president might hit $200k.

I'd hire many more academics, and given them much more freedom. Not as much publish-or-perish, and more intellectual exploration. Anyone qualified to do research should have the option to do so in their field of interest.

That's kind of how academia used to work before massive endowments.

I might also do something about tenure. It seems like an obsolete idea as structured right now. It's not a horrible idea, but it's obsolete in a lot of ways. It forces people to put in massive efforts early-career. That, for example, it doesn't line up with biological clocks, and puts in many other bizarre incentives. I don't mind someone gaining tenure if they've done fantastic work, mind you, but it shouldn't be a 7-year clock. For example, perhaps you're a professor with a 5-year renewable contract. If you do fantastic work, you become a professor-with-tenure, whether that's 4 years in or 40.
Also, you can check out my recent post about my messenger, which presents another design of iOS Login Page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516065
I'm worried that is only true in the absence of a competing marketing budget. When nobody was pushing browsers, we had a voice. Now, it's hard to compete with the indoctrination of pervasive advertising of other browsers.
Absolutely. I suspect that 8 months or so we just accept dead people.
I guess giving it a catchy name may help, but it's really just 'mentorship' with one person being younger, which challenges our standard notion of mentorship. One might even call it "two way mentoring" if indeed each party learns from the other.
To be honest, I'm not especially bothered by this. You could (and many cable news and talk radio hosts have) make the case that this is just plain wrong, but isn't there worse things than having the children of affluent foreigners be American citizens? We're still a "nation of immigrants", I say the richer the better!

I'll admit my analysis of this is only cursory, so feel free to correct my reasoning.

Obviously if these children just take advantage of the system, get a cheap(er) education and return to China, it's a net loss for the USA, but it seems to me that a great many would stay here, presumably as "productive citizens".
"... that have not generated more than $10 million USD (approximately 7,584,950 EUR) in gross annual revenues and no more than $10 million USD (approximately 7,584,950 EUR) in outside funding."

I didn't want my own words to be the only source for this claim, so above is a cut'n'paste from the rulebook.

But still, LabSlice (and I believe one or two others) aren't near these figures and did get some sort of nomination.
YC has "partnered" with Facebook only as much as it benefits YC companies tremendously to have inside access and help from the largest and most dominant social network. Partnering with them can hardly be construed as an endorsement of everything Facebook does.

Also, it's only fair to disclose that you have a very public history with Facebook and would have plenty of reasons to lobby this criticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Aaron_Gre...
I recently (in the past month) flew back into the US from a couple of places:

Guadalajara --> Houston: no security besides customs & immigration
São Paulo --> Houston: no security besides customs & immigration
Brussels --> JFK: no security besides customs & immigration

(sort of off topic, but the thing that's been really annoying me lately is when you are forced -- due to the airport's layout -- to leave the secure area when transferring between terminals. This, coupled with gate areas that don't have arrival/departure boards, is freaking annoying.)
Thanks for that - I've edited the title.

I hadn't seen the previous discussions, but the last one was two years ago, so maybe it's worth having this here so people can add any new thoughts or comments.
Adam Curtis is entertaining but his generalised sweeping statements are silly and unnecessary.

Yes the world is complex, but it’s not impossible to understand. For example, Brexit: there were many contributing factors but we can identify major ones: globalisation and those left behind feeling resentful; lack of an outlet for those voices due to a rigged electoral system; anti immigration feeling amidst unprecedented high immigration from the EU; propaganda made possible by unethical social media platforms like Facebook; and ruling class power games.

Most of those problems have plausible corresponding solutions. Complicated, but not insurmountable.
Regarding collaboration, the datastream is available like this:

http://vifero.no/RQ/dt/bef/SELECT%20ToPropertyStream().json

(all picture books with user id 'bef')

Please feel free to incorporate this in your app.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232104
They can detain you under the limitations set out in PACE but, as far as I know, they still have to arrest you first and then the custody officer has to accept the arrest. And if they're arresting you for no reason you can then go on to sue them for wrongful arrest.
I've signed up, I'm hopeful it will spur me to write and worry less about how it looks.

Have you given any thought to being able to import existing posts that are in markdown format? I'm currently using scriptogr.am and have a number of posts that ideally I'd like to import.
Anecdata, but I recently went to wifi6 and even though I didn't notice until now, I'm pretty sure our wifi lights respond quicker than they used to. It's maybe only a second or 2, but I remember being annoyed at how long they took sometimes before, and I haven't felt that way since I got this new router.

However, the old router was a Google mesh and 1 of them definitely died slowly, so that could have been causing the delay for a while before it fully died on us.
> Analytics are the equivalent of a computer following you around the store, watching what you look at, how long you look at it, what you pick up, what you pull out of your cart and put back...

I hate to break it to you, but that's already happening too. Many retailers are using NFC/RFID + door scanners combined with CCTV and computer vision to track exactly these sorts of things, as well as patterns of flow. Retail store layout is a critical part of product placement optimization and is used to create particular flows through the store. The most blatant example of store layout controlling flow is how an IKEA is designed, however these things are used very heavily in grocery and mixed retail spaces (Walmart, Target).
My fear is that there are interesting attacks you can do if you control a lot the miner pool, DDOoS it, hack it, are a government that gets access to it, etc. that would destroy confidence in Bitcoin, and it only becomes a bigger and bigger target. Sure, there are others that have mitigated these concerns, but it's the poster child.
Interestingly it looks like it was made with squarespace, I'd assume they would have people in house for something like this.
In SV parlance unions are rent seekers. They are a bandaid over the symptom not the cure.
The specs on the website are target and may change a bit. Latest tests (yesterday) showed that we're having extreme performance at 150kW already, so we may stick with that. I mean, it's only around 400kg in weight
Congrats! \o/

NB: Really refreshing how you created this timeline! You should make a (Gatsby) theme out of it :)
Others have a different experience. The video of this is absolutely chilling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile
Do you have any advice for non-graphics programmers (save for a few undergrad/grad classes) who want to get into graphics? (still fairly early in career)
Okay, but do the devices do this if 'Location Services' are turned off.

And I assume Cydia will now get an app that forces them off if the os ignores the setting.
Cmd-Down open folders and launches apps/docs in Finder too. I've never used Cmd-O/Enter for that task. To me, Alfred seems much more consistent with my use of OSX key commands than Quicksilver's left/right/tab/enter scheme.
I thought they added something in iOS 3 that did encrypt the phone and that's why the erase is so fast now?

I also assume that if you put a passcode on with the 'erase after 10 incorrect attempts' setting that this would be permanently erased if they get your passcode wrong 10 times...?
Right, if QoS were a concern to att, my phone would not drop/fail to make seriously, 75% of the calls.

I am switching to Tmobile because ATT makes me want to go on a rampage. Of course, now using this file, they'll be able to predict where that rampage will occur.
I prefer http://rubular.com/, not because the language, but for '504 Gateway Time-out' when I connect to pythex.org right now. And I always connect to rubular.com successfully.
He is right in saying that PHP is fast. In recent benchmark that we did at my company, mostly between PHP and .NET, i was able to make PHP match .NET speed with little effort, using my own framework.

I have quite a lot of experience using PHP under heavy load, and i know for a fact that Ruby or Python are no match to it, and .net is barely better if not equal.

As a PHP developer, mainly (i also enjoy Python and C), i am aware of a lot of the problems that PHP has, but in the hand of a developer that really understand the language (attend a couple of conference from Rasmus and you'll get an idea on how to develop PHP properly, and that doesn't mean not using frameworks), PHP is really powerful and unmatchable in terms of easiness to use, scalability and speed.
Perhaps its where i live (UK) or maybe its because i purposely buy food that tends to be expensive but $12 (£8) for a day of meals is crazy cheap. Thats around what i spend on lunch every day.
I see lots of comments from people saying that after years of usage they just recently bought a license.

I'm curious what most people are using it for, since the license clearly states that you need to buy a copy for professional use.
Maker here. This is a nice UI based on the open source: https://github.com/koenbok/Cactus/tree/v3

We decided to make it free to fully focus on http://framerjs.com, out prototyping tool: http://cactusformac.com/blog/posts/cactus-and-glueprint.html
Yes. Some rent, some own their condo, and all pay condo fees one way or another.
think that was me :-) day 2 with my board back in Nov, I took it out to Golden Gate Park. the group of kids were skateboarders and people who already ride boards tend to be really curious about this new entrant. good point on kids too small, main thing is foot size as you need to cover the sensor to engage the board.
I thought this was a pretty blatant cheap trick the first time I saw it (similar to restaurants putting tip calculations on bills from 18-25% (which are usually post-tax no less!!)) and on the occasion I am in a cab always punch in "Other," or best option pay cash. Automatic deduction for cabbies who often tip themselves and hand you less change without asking - give me my change in full and I'll tip you, thanks.

To add a data point on tipping amounts I would say I usually tip 10-15% for a good cab ride or less for a bad one, or even zero if the driver "screened" my fare (common from yellow cabs in Queens - keeping the doors locked and asking where you are going before letting you in, which is illegal) or takes unnecessary routes, blatantly excessive slowing to hit red lights, etc. I might venture into 20%+ for a good service ride to/from an airport.

Restaurants I stay around 15% for fair or better service, 20% for good, much less than 15% requires the server to be noticably rude or inattentive. Sometimes I do feel like an outlier or cheapskate as the "norm" service for anything feels like it has become 20%, which I find a little ridiculous. I won't not tip because I don't "believe" in the culture of tipping, because all I would be doing is hurt mostly decent workers; at the same time I won't default to a high tip for average service just because other people are doing it. I try to find a middle ground.
True enough. I wonder how much of the problem comes from trying to be compatible with software packages designed for other systems.
The way politicians describe growth, it is implicit that it is exponential. More people, producing more offspring, living longer, and using more resources, as more of them become middle class.