jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd prefer to have the moving company pay the movers a living wage such that a tip would be unnecessary and politely refused.

Clearly, you have no idea of how the moving industry works. Everybody's a contractor of a contractor of a franchisee. The person who picks up your stuff is not always the person who delivers it.

When I move (frequently), I make sure to tip each person packing my stuff $50, each person loading my stuff $50, and the driver $100 for < 1,000 miles, or $200 > 2,000 miles.

Lifting and carrying and handling other people's prized possessions isn't an easy job. This is how I show appreciation when the job is done well.
Is there data about that? Growing up in the 90s I thought we could usually by something for less than the MSRP. When I watched the show in the 90s I always felt the actual prices were high.
TIL. In India, they print the MRP (Maximum Retail Price) so I always assumed the M in MSRP was "maximum"
Stop thinking ourselves? No, but just humbly consider that that flash of insight you may have just had might have been considered, named, and much more eloquently stated hundreds of years ago.
I'm not really fond of the fact that the "About Us" page doesn't actually say anything about them. Who are you and why should I trust you?
Yep. Same thing happened with baked beans and corn chips recently. Shrink the size while offering a small discount (still more expensive per unit weight) and then a little later introduce a new jumbo size for more than the old price.
They will use the Chromium engine, so it will be fast and render pages well.

If they stick an ad blocker by default, something the Mozilla Corporation hasn't got the balls to do, they will definitely get some market share.
Here's the snopes article on it, with a great example at the end from when the contract wasn't followed:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
no related news in china so far(8:30 am Nov 25). not even one piece.
Your way of thinking seems to involve substituting portentous phrases for actual argument.

We know spills can be bad; while the degree of damage resulting from this one should certainly be factored into cost-benefit calculations, and prospective drillers required to plan and put up security for such eventualities, we still need to consider probability too. The fact is that incidents of this kind are quite rare in developed countries nowadays.

"Obama = coroporate shill" is just as stupid and mindless as "drill baby drill". 'Systematic review...significant reassessment' - mere buzzwords. If you think his policy should be to just halt deepwater drilling then OK, I can respect that point of view even if I don't fully agree. But please stop hiding behind a mask of pseudo-objectivity.
For what it's worth, there were a few other bans yesterday:

* The top moderator of /r/conspiracy (just gonna quote the SRD thread: "At times this mod would spam over 100 pro-Trump posts a day, deleting their posts and spamming them over and over until they got the response they wanted, all while banning dozens of people per post. Anyone that openly challenged them or Trump would be immediacy banned.") [0]

* /r/GenerationNazbol (Nazbol = "Nazi Bolshevik" = racist tankies) [1]

* /r/PinkPillFeminism (ban evasion sub for /r/GenderCritical, which was banned in June) [2]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ksk6ur/top_...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/kskd...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ksl3...
the consumption is very SQLish based. "operational toil is higher with Spark" <- I agree with this, this is why I'm leaning towards Redshift. Throwing away half the codebase in favor of some SQL statements is tempting.
I don't think it's entirely fair to suggest that thedonald.win represents the 70 million Trump voters. It represents the attitudes of a few million of the weirdos, distorted further by roleplayers/trolls and international infiltrators.

Your average Trump voter is just a normal Republican. They voted for Trump because there was an R next to his name and defended him because he was on their team. The Democratic voters would be no different if the dems ran an equally ghastly candidate. (They obviously have not done so, and I am not making the claim that's random. I'm not saying 'both sides are the same' in this post.)

It might be useful to understand the thedonald.win crowd, but it ain't 70MM of your countrymen, Americans.
If they would not disclose a) no-one would believe it b) apple would kick them out if they don’t disclose
A post about hard work and diligent learning about CS concepts followed by an offer from a top-tier tech company will always be greeted by a bunch of dinosaur software engineers who feel entitled to a job in this industry for life purely because they have some arbitrary number of working years.

If you're applying for an IC role, code or shut up. I don't care if you have solved wicked problems before, it's all talking and hand-waving. Can you take a hard problem, and apply CS concepts and good ole problem solving to produce working, succinct and well written code? That's what you're being hired to do, stop complaining.
Don’t you have to know the relative strengths of each so you can weight the information as you read it? That sounds like implicitly choosing which is better or worse.

Another interesting point you brought up: how long a go should we look? Is today’s NYT still culpable for mistakes made nearly 20 years ago? (Not defending them, as I’m sure there are more recent examples. But when has enough time passed?)
This is probably the solution to getting something like this off the ground. If the minimum PoW is zero (so not participating) and a >0 PoW is seen as a positive flag in spam filters. However I guess that most Spammers don't even setup DKIM etc. or fail it. So whoever would implement the PoW to send legitimate emails is probably doing other stuff already that get their emails flagged as legitimate.
You assume that a million generates $40k to $60k, inflation-adjusted, for the next 40 years?

I suppose that's one assumption to make. You know that the last time the US GDP grew more than 4% was back in 2000, right? And 2010 worldwide? Both with a continued downward trend since at least the 60's?

(This obviously doesn't preclude >4% ROI, but that in turn means increasing income inequality, and at some point, there's a price to be paid for that)
Don’t forget the calls for Total War and Trial by Combat from his son and lawyer.
Probably not going to pass by LEGO's review board, like a lot of these aircraft projects.
Actually, exactly. I'm in the business of writing software that's useful to people. The way they tell me it's useful to them is by paying me. At any point you may determine it isn't useful to you. Just don't pay me.
Good point. This is still a highish risk investment, but again if you have faith in the government long term and distribute your investments, you should come out ahead.
flu already was wreaking massive havoc, it's just a cost we've internalized. Like driving.
Bankruptcy doesn't mean the company's assets are thrown in the trash. It just means the current equity & bond holders get rinsed. Other presumably smarter people can then come in and run the company.
It's frustrating because we would have been fine without this if people weren't choosing to be selfish jerks. Honestly I feel the people taking holidays by the seaside and congregating in parks should have been arrested for reckless endangerment.
Yes. Old people are still people. And a lot of people that don't die still end up in ICU and can look forward to long term damage.

Having spent a few days in hospital last year for a comparatively mild pneumonia, I'm definitely not looking forward for a repeat.
Do they have a 4k version? After using a 4k laptop for 5 years I just can't go back to 1080p
My objection to labeling AIDS as a pandemic is the "rapidly" part of the definition of epidemic. I don't think AIDS spread all that rapidly. It took decades to become a problem in sub-Saharan Africa. And it was probably spreading for years among male homosexuals before anybody noticed anything. That would put it on the slower end of the continuum when measured against most communicable diseases that I can think of.
>This is not too hard for someone comfortable with a soldering iron, someone who isn’t scared of drilling a hole in their TV.

And who is comfortable working with EHT. Let's not forget that.
Google Code was never a core business of Google.

The free-as-in-beer parts of github.com are not (guaranteed to be) a core business of Github either. Just look how lousy Atlassian is with bitbucket.org; their core business is Stash.
I suppose work like this is demonstrating that, contrary to what e.g. the creators of Docker say, a virtual machine image is not too heavyweight to be our industry's equivalent of a shipping container. What is too heavyweight is a VM image of a conventional operating system distribution with all of the baggage that it brings.

Would these fine-grained unikernels also run well on KVM, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, or bhyve (FreeBSD's new VMM)? Or is Xen uniquely suited to this kind of thing?
You might enjoy the r/elimath subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elimath/

Someone already asked about the p-adics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elimath/comments/2rhavm/explain_pad...
Infrastructure makes the difference not taxation.

If biking is a pleasant experience people will adopt it en masses. If it's a drag on their life then people want to drive instead. Simplez.

Give me a nice bike path network throughout the city and I get rid of my car tomorrow. But those kind of projects are too complex for lazy politicians who seek to fix everything with taxation and call it a day.
I guess the video isn't up yet?
Armor Games has been porting classics to Steam. We've got Scriptwelder games and Crush the Castle.
But there's relatively few consoles out there, which makes the situation much more tolerable.

On the PC, all formats are theoretically supported, but there's always that one person with an outdated AMD driver and Korean Windows XP.

I'll take a small handful of weird but very specific specs over the PC situation any day of the week.
Odoo is also written in Python.
I did a bit of travelling, and after a while I felt I was just going through the motions. I'm a bit like OP, and if I followed your list I would have to wonder, are these things just things I'm doing to distract myself? I was travelling and I wondered what I was doing, I was making memories but in a few decades (fingers crossed if all goes well) these memories will go with me when I die...

I guess I'm answering my own question, we just need to distract ourselves and have fun/find fulfillment so long as we're capable of experiencing things (i.e. as long as our brains can be stimulated, which will end when we die).
You see a car, you expect engine noise, that's all.
There are two (plus one) market niches that exist, which another random number service (random.org) fills fairly well.

1.) People who don't know anything at all about random number generation, and just want a web form where they can press the button and get a random number.

You hardly need a hardware random number generator for this, or any kind of serious randomness.

2.) Acting as a neutral, trusted third party, for contests, etc. Dooce just did a big Microsoft-sponsored Kinect giveaway PR circus bullshit event, and they used random.org to pick the winners.

Unlike 1, there might be actual money in this, and is one of the few, amusing, businesses where the more money you charge, the higher the perceived utility.

3.) Providing random numbers as an advertisement for your fine line of hardware random number generators. Here it doesn't matter how much money you make, you just want people to buy the hardware that made them. Oddly enough, none of the random number services (and there are quite a few) do this, for some inexplicable reason. There's not even an argument-from-proprietary technology, since HRNGs are supposed to generate perfectly random noise, and there's no way an attacker could stage a replay attack.
I get the impression many of the homeless on Japan are quite a bit tidier than their US counterparts. They try to keep their areas neat and coordinate to keep their surroundings clean as well. Yes, occasionally you can see someone who just doesn’t care about appearances, but that’s more an exception.
Looks perfect to me after ctrl+shift+r. I'm glad you removed that background image, it was rather pointless.
It will stand alone, but I keep in touch with the ScoutSuite folks. I'm thinking at some point I'll build in graph-creation based off of ScoutSuite's data collection.
This is great. Many years ago (5 or 6?) I started pulling down any tweet that had the phrase “there should be an app...” and saving to a database daily with the idea of making something similar to this. The script is still running and I have about 40,000 tweets saved. I think I’ll pick it back up, thanks for the inspiration!
I do same and keep everything in Evernote organized in subfolders and tagged. Quick to find and helps 100% when it's time to rebuild/setup a server.
> In other developed nations the government subsidizes housing for the disadvantaged- and more often than not this investment will pay back in the future.

It depends on who you consider disadvantaged. In Berlin, 20-25% (~776k in 2018) qualify for subsidized housing. The state owns about 320k apartments, though they're mixed and provide subsidized and market-rates (mostly to finance the subsidies).
Isn’t this what we call social work?
The Buddha was pretty much a queen.
Neat overview of some of the core concepts in Git that often go unnoticed. Although I'll say that the fact that commits are technically not diffs doesn't seem to matter much in day to day use. Git does a decent job of abstracting that detail away to the point that you could just as well believe commits are diffs. Also, I want to say that technically I believe Git does use deltas to compress an object's history in the blob store. But the different blobs that comprise an object's history can be thought of somewhat as being separate. Git could just as easily not perform this internal, space-saving optimization and things would all work the same. The SHA hashes would be the same and based on the same input.
How was it so easy to breach the building ? I see some videos of people just smashing basic windows, I really would have expected it to be more secure.

These are supposed to be some of the most secure in the US??

National Guard request was denied apparently.

Anyone remember how many were deployed during BLM protests..

America is now one of 'those' countries. All it took was 4 years. Wow.
https://hereistheevidence.com/ presents some evidences, up to reader to decide if credible/substantial or not
If the marked difference in behaviors of cops, depending on the identity of the protestors, over the last year does not convince you, I don't know what will.
Every last man or woman involved in instigating this must face the harshest possible punishment.
When windows start getting broken, buildings set on fire, etc. From what I can gather thus far, it seems like it's people being where they're not supposed to be and refusing to leave.

edit from downthread

And there we go, they're breaking in now. Time to clean house.
"Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses"
Here's police in front of US capitol during a BLM protest: https://twitter.com/Vanessid/status/1346906560769839107

Compare it to what you see today.
Where are the police? Is the police force and now the national guard not controlled by the DC Mayor's office?

I don't understand how they weather 1000 protests a year in the capitol and weren't prepared for this.
"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

- Przeworski

In other words, the core concept of democracy isn't the elections or any of the other trappings, it's the fact that it's possible for one group to lose power, transition to another group and retain the possibility to transition back in a subsequent election to the original group.
> dental care in Australia is ripoff expensive

I read somewhere that dental issues are universal enough that you don't get nearly the same cost averaging that you can get for other medical problems.

When I looked into it, dental insurance basically amounted to "a payment plan for dental expenses you would pay anyway"
Or less favorable take from Joel Spolsky: "Bad Idea #2: How Much Money Do You Have? Pricing." https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

I too find those companies weird. They seem to have nice product, website boasts how nice it is, but: no publicly available documentation, evaluation SDK, no pricing, only thing that's there is sales@ address. And while their product might be good it isn't really unique. Why I would jump hoops to use it while I can likely implement video playback from libavcodec and generic compression with zstd or LZ4 faster than their sales people will reply?
That capacity is huge, but in the meantime, all fish will be choked by algae blooms.
By all means, go after Obama or Biden if there is merit.

Go for it.

In fact, let's have ALL the presidents be presidents and not kings. How does that sound to you?

Also you are ignoring the fact that Trump DID go after his political opponents after the 2016 election (and again in 2020). Yet somehow, Hillary Clinton remains free, despite his best efforts.

So tell me again about unspoken rules.
Well, if you want all the things, you're going to end up at "write your own", it seems. If you can't find yourself a text editor, of all the things programmers love to write to scratch their own itches and which we have coming out of our metaphorical collective ears....
That couldn't be further from the truth. Lots of people are looking for new careers because they may want to move, want to leave their current situation, may have moved as high up as possible in their current company, etc...

I know a number of people looking for new jobs that are currently employed. Not a matter of needing the money; more wanting a better work environment.
>We're Geekbuilt™.

>Developed by network and systems engineers who know what it takes to manage today's dynamic IT environments, SolarWinds has a deep connection to the IT community.

>The result? IT management products that are effective, accessible, and easy to use.

Well yes, very accessible!
Is this something that could be self hosted in the near future?
ATTiny85 - I doubt it. With 8k program memory and 512B data RAM you will have trouble fitting in a single cipher and hash function, let alone the TLS + TCP stack. And ESP has HW acceleration for crypto.
I think the points made in the article are fine, there is something to the way colleges facilitate community and their physical design encourages walkability and enables that... but I would offer one caveat to this which cities should avoid when considering what to imitate and what not to.

I have noticed a correlation between excessive building costs and campaigns and the two industries whose prices have most outpaced inflation the last 20 years: healthcare/hospitals and education/colleges.

Alumni returning to their colleges after 20-50 years may notice the following phenomena: there are a lot more buildings (with donor names on them) but there is an incredible number of empty rooms at any one point in time... many more than when they went to school back in the day. (This also manifests in a lot more time-consuming walking to get around due to the lower density of usable space.)

This trend is neither wise nor sustainable nor just. And college administrators should be held accountable for it, not given a pat on the back for raising money and spending it (despite the nice line on their resume). Alternate metrics of success should be culturally encouraged and measured.

How could this be done? I don't know if LEED certification (which is an award given to buildings meeting various sustainability/efficiency criteria and has Gold/silver/bronze-type ratings which are thus indirectly a bragging right mentioned by anyone in academia who gets buildings built) measures actual building utilization... I suspect not. Typically LEED covers initial construction and is awarded at the end of construction, and thus could not include use-after-buildout metrics/grading, but LEED or something like it should attempt to measure something like that, and that should be a sign of true administrative competence (and also efficient use of donor funds by the way.)

I wonder if the very sensors which are used to shut off lights when people aren't around and any "energy/CO2 savings metrics" from those sensors could be cheaply repurposed and inverted to also measure the creation of just such a building utilization metric (look how much carbon we wasted and continue to waste heating/cooling a building people aren't using?)
Wow, that sounds terrible - sorry that one of our guys (in this case, really sounds like a recruiter than an actual engineer) expected you to know a bunch of random technical facts.

If it makes you feel better, our technical phone interviews + onsites are better; the engineers who you'd talk to care more about you being a smart candidate than trying to get you to rank yourself lower. I'm sure there are some people who scoff at candidates who, say, don't have the CS Ph.D that they do, but we honestly do have an interviewer feedback system that tells those people to knock it off.
Disappointed. I got paired with a newbie who was screwing around.

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0fa3r9l09

The site, though, is beautiful and a joy to play on. My last online chess was at Yahoo Chess, and this feels like walking on air compared to Y! Chess's clunky interface. Beautiful site, very pleasing to use.

A nice feature to keep semi-serious players around would be some way to get scored or sorted, so you somewhat consistently can get decent matches. Overall I really like it though, cheers.

Edit: Got a full game in - http://lichess.org/bsba_b - I was black. Made some mistakes, I'm rusty. But the interface is really a joy, I like it a lot.
When I first saw a "proof" like this, the explanation of its incorrectness was something like "limits don't preserve curve length". I wasn't satisfied with that answer until I took a first course in real analysis, which explained (some of) the reasons behind calculus.

Real analysis was very satisfying, in somewhat the same way that building low-level software or libraries is satisfying -- I got to understand the guts. It was also fun to learn about erroneous historical assumptions made due to insufficient rigor. IIRC, until at least the 1870s, it was believed that any continuous function must be differentiable almost everywhere, and that in fact this should be obvious. It turns out that one can construct continuous functions that are nowhere differentiable!

This was one of my favorite topics in the class:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_real_number...
It depends a lot on the context. If I'm talking to a good friend and start off something with "I hate to say it but..." or "I don't mean to offend, but..." then chances are, yeah, I'm not lying. I really don't want to have to say it, but they're my friend and there's something I think needs to be said because they need to hear it. It doesn't mean I secretly want to offend them. It means "the truth hurts sometimes, and I don't want to hurt you because you're my friend, but because you are my friend, I feel I have a responsibility to tell you." It's nothing less than I would expect from them.
Here's a replay of me playing someone who outclasses and outplays me in every way but becomes overconfident and makes a careless mistake that costs him/her the game. I find it amusing because I don't imagine it being common for a weak player to beat a stronger opponent.

http://lichess.org/analyse/pvpxyq

Once again I make no claim on my ability to play the game of chess. (I suck) This was more luck than anything but it's a good example of how you shouldn't give up/become too cocky before crossing the finish line.