jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It’d make more sense if your parents directed your savings to the stock market or in some other asset. Saving by itself is worthless if you can’t put the money to work.
While they both target the tech audience, they focus on different parts of it. Slashdot attracts a lot more of the detail focused folks who are implementing tech "in the trenches" but have a greater tendency to obsess over minor details (often very important to implementation). The quite visible scoring system tends reward hive thinking and a sense of self-righteousness. Places like HN, consciously or not, appear to have learned from the worst of Slashdot's forced consensus model and made adjustments to weaken that tendency. Of course it still happens, just look at how the lab leak theory was handled here. HN is still quite susceptible to hive thinking and resulting poor moderating (sorry Dang, but you did fuck you there, hope you learned from it) but it is nothing on the scale of places like Slashdot.

The above is in addition to all of the meta problems the site has had with change of ownership, management, catering the advertisers, etc.
But it's a lesson in the same category as "You'd better learn how to do equations on paper and long form because you won't always have a calculator with you." If the underpinning is obvious bunk, it does nothing to reinforce the desired behavior and can in fact be counterproductive.

The reason to do long form math on paper is to get a feeling for the mechanics of math so that you can extrapolate it to more complicated math. The reason to save is that there are minimum barriers to cost for investiture in capital, and capital pays dividends and grows in a way consumables don't (unless it doesn't! Nobody wins in a civil war).
Likewise, they always take effectively the 0th percentile wages among workers (minimum wage earners), and compare that to the 50th percentile housing units. If 0th percentile earners are expected to be renting the 50th percentile units, who exactly is going to be living in the 40th percentile and below units?
I think it's a shallow analysis of science fiction which in fact has a lot of depth as anyone who has read any substantial subset ought to be able to attest.

I also think that there is no connection between fiction that opts to focus on technology as opposed to people and the characteristics that one would call toxic.

Both chemistry and code are about technology more than people but neither staring at test tubes nor code makes you an asshole. What normally makes people an assholes is either damage or social intellectual and cultural structures that explain ignore or justify immoral behavior and we pick that up not from science fiction which tends towards idealism but from dysfunctional cultures especially family and other groups wherein we are part of the in group and that group promotes this dysfunction.

You have noted that toxic tech bros tend to like science fiction and have other cultural characteristics often common in white middle class+ America and have decided this must be causative instead of correlated.

If you have an older relation from the era that believed rock music was destroying our morality buy them a beer or coffee and commiserate over the fact that some errors are universal and eternal.
It sounds like you want lower latency?
C being speed of light
Young people, new programmers, and other groups who have no power are not responsible for the nature of a field.

Old people control the nature of every field. Old greybeards are the ones who made computer science this way--it's just those greybeards that this man disaproves of.

This man isn't a billionaire VC, a tenured Comp Sci professor, an author of programming books, or a CEO hiring and training the kinds of employees he wants.

This guy isn't in charge, so he blames young people and assumes they are in charge. Ridiculous. Young people are just followers. They follow the money, they do what they're told, they adopt fashions in order to SURVIVE, not out of some kind of "strange entitlement."
Title is misleading; should be "Meta says Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU"
Yeah but entrepreneurs have a shitty experience with anything that isn't their own startup. We think and judge too much.

It's ok, I doubt we're their target market.
That's a regional Federal Reserve Bank, not "the Fed". Also, you leave out that those share holders get at most 6% annual return for their investment, since it's capped by law.
Well, what if you were the investor in a start-up, which failed, and you lost your invested money? Would you consider that the market working as intended? What if you loaned someone some money, and they failed and got bankruptcy, meaning you lost your loan. Is that the market working as intended?

We've created this kind of weird deal with banks, where you loan people money at super-low rates, but in return you're insulated from the normal consequences of failure, and have a ton of flexibility in terms of when you can demand repayment of your loan -- to the point where most people don't probably consider their bank balances a loan.

I'm not here to say that this is a good or a bad thing. Mt. Gox was more like a normal loan or almost every other financial instrument in the world, and less like a bank. It seems hard to suggest that it's uniquely bad for Mt. Gox to act like almost every other financial instrument in the world -- as long as expectations are aligned that it's not the curious anomaly known as a "bank."
If depositors didn't have mandated insurance, they would pay more attention to the credit-worthiness of the bank they work with, and we might have avoided the 2008 debacle.
What do you do if you want to add extra arguments when your cursor's at the end? Navigate back near (not to) the beginning? I usually just put them at the end, as almost every program I've used supports it. I add extra arguments after running commands constantly; after pressing up to get it back, you're at the end.
EULA's and T&C's should have stricter restrictions on them, as they are written unilaterally and the consumers have no chance of objecting to any clauses - especially with digitally offered contracts where you can't cross over anything.

This is a nice step in the right direction, and I hope this ruling applies even when users are forced to "read" a twenty page contract just to call a cab.
Using YouTube with Firefox Containers is in no way anonymous. Instead try to use it with the Tor Browser (also checkout the Invidious project).
So confused. The argument is simple. Something of value requires effort to create. That effort is called labor. One way we quantify the value created by the labor of people is with money.

I think the argument can be boiled down to, “What is an army without soldiers? Or workers to maintain the robots?”
I might be misunderstanding you, but there are no real-world voices on the site? All of them are of characters.
I prefer using the best technology over endless virtue signaling.
I mean, you’re not wrong. But this outcome is far from covering his losses.

Being charitable isn’t always a give all, take none situation. In this case is clear that there’s some positive outcome for the doctor by forgiving debts. This doctor gets some positive PR, can write off this as a loss for tax purposes and the patients are relieved from their debts.

Seems like a win-win for a hopeless situation.

So
Nothing stops you putting the code on GH and let people self deploy it.

However I’d also wondered if there’s a scenario where several independent devs might band together and use a single organisational dev account to ship their own apps. Obviously trust (between devs who are otherwise strangers to each other) is an issue here but I’m sure you’re not the only one in that scenario.
Separate question - is this English only? It looks like you can feed in phonemes but I assume this has been trained with English audio.
The spam for openings in other states is particularly frustrating for me. I'm job-hunting, and I have notifications enabled for email - I get my hopes up, then see that it's (frequently) that one recruiter who just cannot remember our previous conversations about "I live in San Francisco, and I'm not moving." Frustrating!
The page is kind of light on details. I'd like to see specifically what bills are in progress or what committees are working on.
And for those who couldn't make it to Hamburg there is more information on how to get info on the congress outside of CCH here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:Congress_ever...
Also note that HTTP parsing is done completely in Common Lisp, not in C. Woo uses fast-http, which is by the same author.

https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http
Just extend PG rating and be done with it.

I once had severe trauma after I started reading comments on polish equivalent of yahoo. I was struck by existential fear after confronted with sheer stupidity of people's opinions and their own reports if how they fscked up their life. That was shock at least on par with seeing pornography for the first time. I consider it to be formative experience.
I don't think it's fair to compare Java with Haskell or OCaml since they don't share the same objectives. But even if you did compare them, you should try to match Java's subtyping with Haskell's more-or-less dependent types. Java's type system is apparently strong enough to express co- and contra-variance, which is quite an accomplishment.

Talking about ActiveRecord: I've come to understand this system has been the focal-point of insecurity by design issues (http://railspikes.com/2008/9/22/is-your-rails-application-sa...)

To answer your question, I'd strongly suggest to have a look at Scala. It's clean code, easy to read, fast and as expressive as ActiveRecord (plus the type-safety).
Compared to solutions like runit, it is.
I was an early low user-id user on slashdot (friends and family IPO for those that remember those days).

The key for me is are folks willing to have a conversation and does the site support that.

The ideological people (apple is evil, masks don't work (now turned into they do work), the lab leak theory is misinformation (now somewhere in between?), a fair bit of anti-racism stuff) can really drown out the conversation. When a site gets more popular that seems to happen?

Someone is definitely keeping some of the politics out of here which is a relief.
It's a real shame when protocols like zigbee and z-wave can offer exactly the same functionality without requiring any third-party services.
We all are dying slowly doing meaningless things. The trick is not to pay attention.

You gotta keep looking around — without desperation, but with curiosity. Charity, chess, spying for New Zealand, exploring nudism and Rust — until you've tried everything it's too early to feel bored.

I'm clinically depressed / adhd, slowly finishing up my savings, and not sure if I'll be able to recover and start earning and enjoying life. Started posing at HN to not lose the ability to speak.

Don't be me. It starts with small things, and then entraps.

Socialize with positive people, care about your body, run like Phoebe from 'Friends', and never ever allow anyone — including yourself — to doubt you. Fuck everybody¹, enjoy everything.

———

¹ Metaphorically speaking.
This is my experience. ES joined the board of my small company based on personal relationships and some reciprocity. To be fair though, I don’t think him being on the board has had any meaningful impact and he’s been very hands off.
Anecdotal, but I consistently get 80mbps on speed.cloudflare.com and 220mbps on fast.com with Spectrum.
I think in a way Slashdot is still a "Web 1.0" site. The way it works was more adapted to the way of thinking of the time

Of course now the users are completely different from the time it started, and the level of discussions there is much shallower than what it was let's say, 15 yrs. ago.
Actually, the Python process eats less than 5 MB of RAM. Most other stuff on the system eats more RAM.

Writing my_init took much more time than you think, and I do not regret choosing Python. My_init not only handles process reaping, but also environment variable handling and bunch of other stuff. Writing text parsers in C is a huge pain (libc has no regexps that are as easy to use as Python).

I do not oppose rewriting it in C, but given limited manpower and the tiny benefits it's not high on my todo list either. If you are worried about resource usage, then I would very much welcome contributions for rewriting it in C.
Writing it in Python also adds a lot of dependencies and bloat to the docker image which don't really need to be there.

Particularly when there are simple init scripts like [1] which could be easily adapted to fill both the reaping and restart problem.

[1] http://git.suckless.org/sinit/tree/sinit.c
The Rust docs have good sections on this:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch08-02-strings.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.char.html

TLDR you can straightforwardly access as bytes, or iterate as "Unicode scalar values" as stored in the 4-byte "char" type.

(But a "Unicode scalar value" is not exactly equal to the colloquial meaning of "character".)

However: If you care about valid UTF-8 inputs not breaking the function or intent of your code, it's probably time to understand the problems Unicode is actually trying to address, and apply those considerations to what you're trying to do. :)
This is likely true, but he would be the first to admit it. Cuomo has been publicly begging the federal government to step in for a while.
The second amendment doesn't guarantee us the right to pack heat at work. There's lots of use cases where it would be considered reasonable to block the use of certain services.
I'm extremely skeptical that the decision of on which platforms Xcode runs would be left in the hands of anyone below the executive level.

Obviously engineers play a role in evaluating the practicality of running it on an iPad, but that's such an incredibly strategic decision for Apple it's hard to imagine it's purely a question of Mac engineers not feeling like doing it.
> Also, Microsoft has a much worse historical record than Google regarding protecting their users.

Google literally forces you into ad transactions. Their entire business model is based around coercing users into giving up their attention to businesses without your consent. This includes critical services such as youtube premium which is $15(!) to just remove the fucking ads. They don’t even offer this for their other services. So no, I can trust google as far as I can throw them.
Check out the Spanish flu. It originated in America...
Considering they just released they had 60 positive tests, they’re still testing.
It's got a reasonable amount of stuff in it. The Debian version of sysvinit (v2.88) is about 10,000 lines of C code. Probably not a huge deal, but it does more than just reaping zombie processes, if that's really all you want.
Yes, lots of people don't use gmail for this reason.

GA does a lot that webmasters couldn't normally do -- specifically: to cross reference those requests with requests to almost every other website, and use that data to build a full profile of the user. (Granted, the full profile is not available to the webmaster, only to Google's ad targeting platform).
SO link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28037475/if-a-callback-ca...
UFOs still exist. Most are explainable as something mundane, aircraft, weather, whatever. There are still a small percentage of strange experiences out there.

But that does not mean they are "aliens" - they are just unexplained. They may be caused by anything - weather, ball-lightning, volcanic activity, marsh gas, psychological oddities. They are deserving of study.
Bluhell is touted as a lighter weight solution. I haven't taken measurements, but Firefox Mobile certainly feels snappier with Bluhell than with Adblock Plus/Edge.
Quite an illustrious group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)

Just pointing out some people have a VERY different opinion of those rich men.
Capitalism as a system has many impersonal qualities, but capitalism per se does not value anything. It just provides mechanism (market prices, investment dollars, and so on) by which the value that people attribute to things can be known.

If "capitalism" values the "wrong" things it's because people at large have the "wrong" values. If that is a problem, it's probably not an economic one, but something deeper.
But you can't, though. uBlock shows the total number of blocked items since you started Firefox. Not the number for a given page or site. Making it a basically superfluous mostly useless datapoint.
Prusik knots are difficult to push up a rope, but there is a simple improvement you can do using a carabiner: https://www.google.com/search?&q=bachmann+hitch&tbm=isch
Also, back then, it wasn't feasible for random people online to put your information into endless databases to be called on repeat by auto-dialers. Back when phone books were prevalent was not the same world. It is an excellent point that phone numbers (and even addresses!) were considered public for a long time. However, I think there is plenty reason for the conscious consumer to want their number to be more private, in light of where we are today. Today, someone can use your phone number and address to steal your identity, harass you, use it to get more information, etc.
I think it is possible https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_P...
That page is a goldmine of involuntary comedy. At the end of the day, the more languages you care about, the more likely you are to find some animal-related term that has become sexual slang somewhere at some point.

I understand their predicament and agree it needs a new name though (it’s actually surprising how long they’ve gone before accepting that it’s a problem, in such an anglo-dominated field as computing). I just don’t think they’ll find a solution if they stay “around a farm”... I mean, looking at other names they have, gallina in Italian is a hen, but also a very common negative slang for “stupid woman” - any Italian woman using that language would feel horribly. The whole farm-related imagery is ripe for this sort of thing.
They mentioned using managed Kubernetes. Normally that means the VM provisioning is managed by the cloud provider.
Yeah, defo agree with this. A lot of this is just good life advice for anyone at this stage in their life, but it also is particularly true when you're in the US because:

* Cooking for yourself can be vastly cheaper since there will be steep discounts on food that is about to hit its sell-by date: this food is still usually good for a couple of days. This isn't something you see in every country.

* Gym facilities are really good even in US unis that are only top 50. Like exceptionally good. Squat racks, benches, lots of weights, indoor tracks, sports courts, cheap or free rental equipment. Uni healthcare is also pretty decent unlike general US healthcare.

* The US definitely has a binge drinking problem that is worse than any other country. Participating in many social events will require partaking but if you're smart you can ration the alcohol and still get almost all the social benefit. You definitely don't want to attempt to keep up with the Americans. They are very friendly and will offer you lots but if you've always got a non-empty cup you'll be okay
And what is the delineation between nature and culture?
A simple go project structure setup with all dependencies you need to get your MVP off the ground.

The project is suited as starting point for a simple webapp MVP. Besides the core files needed to get the setup running it contains a simple user module showcasing the intended project structure. Running the project starts the app exposing a REST API using the go-shipped webserver.

Features

- Hot reloading.

- sqllite3 database for local development.

- ORM ready to go.

- A simple database migration system.

- Injection of environment variables into config files.

- Simple spring-like repository structure for convenient database queries.

- Testing setup.

I hope you find it useful.
That sounds awesome!

Wait, so you could actually do all of that and then let it interact with APIs as well? When JS gets involved like this, I can see some crazy applications in my mind packaged as an ".epub" book.

I guess it depends on what reader you're targetting then. A quick cursory search shows that not all of them support JS. Makes sense to me.
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If one chooses 100% serendipity all of the time, creativity ensues, and the vast panoply of `what we want` gets ever more diverse.

Being open to all possibilities is like being at a fork in the road choosing to travel them both.

Destiny is choosing one road, and shutting out any chance of ever tasting and experiencing other paths.

It's the old story of stoics vs epicureans; only not so extreme. There is a lot more room to wiggle in terms of choice these days, because the gatekeepers of old have vanished. If the world was your oyster 10 years ago - you can bet your ass it's 1000% that now.
I'm curious whether you brought this problem up to the attention of erlang maintainers, what where their reactions and whether it will be addressed in the future. GCing large objects on the heap was (perhaps still is despite improvements) a significant problem also on .NET platform. Not sure whether this is the case, but have you considered patching the GC yourself or perhaps moving the problem to BIFs and managing that memory manually (without copying to ETS) ?
"Released" may be a bit of an overstatement. Here's an excerpt:

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Pessimistic because we now live in an "I've got mine, screw you" society where the means justifies the end.
This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion

Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park.

I'd hope our standards could be higher than that. I know several public parks that are best avoided.
After I stopped using Windows, I kind of stopped using windows. On Linux (and my current computer, a Mac) multiple workspaces are smooth and easy enough to set up that windows are a pain. I would rather have my applications organized, taking up as much screen space as possible, and accessible with a quick swipe.

In the browser, I have tabs.

The only time I really use windows anymore is to drag things from one folder to another, and even this would not be necessary if Mac's finder had a "view extra pane" option, like Ubuntu's file explorer.

I find windows to be a clumsy waste of space. Agree with article.
There are hundreds of caps on it, it may be a while before I figure out what went wrong :-)

On a related note, I bought a Carver stereo in the early 80's (M-200t amp and C-1 preamp). I run it every day all day. That's 30 years of daily use. And yet it still works like a champ (I replaced the on-off switch as it wore out). I guess they didn't use cheap caps in it!
Ha! True. Trying to figure out why they do things the way they do is likely an exercise in futility.