jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my understanding, the United Auto Workers union were one big reason why the US automakers were bailed out in 2008.

So if anything, they're (partly) responsible for keeping a dead/dying industry on life support. Can't blame them for not wanting thousands of people to lose their jobs, but market forces were definitely not favorable to American automakers at the time.

Then again, American automakers seem to be figuring things out. The problem with counterfactuals is that you can never actually observe them...
Another fun aspect of non-breaking[1] and other less common spaces that I’ve realized recently…

If you’re ever trying to use a short or previously-used username: many signups will strip out a regular space, but they won’t always catch a ZERO WIDTH SPACE or HAIRLINE SPACE or many of the other options[2]. It usually takes a few tries, but eventually one will get through.

1. https://practicaltypography.com/nonbreaking-spaces.html

2. https://jkorpela.fi/chars/spaces.html
This is a great insight, but there's a third angle too: a lot of these 80s tools assumed you'd invest in them, and not just in cash: you'd give them a lot of time and attention and learning and hence reap expert-user rewards. The world simply isn't like that now, except in niches.

And if you're niche, you can't establish a new file format in a networked world, so you end up having to be interoperable, with markdown in text or xls for spreadsheets. And if you're interoperable, you end up shrinking your market even further: people your users are sharing with don't need to use you.

You really can't build much of a moat on "powerful UX that boils down to a sharable file format". The only way to make space for yourself then is to become a platform in your own right (see emacs/vscode etc).

And what prevents spreadsheets becoming a platform? The install base of Excel, for a kickoff, but also the enormous limitations of csv on the other hand.

In short, the conditions that allowed all those 1980s applications to flourish – bespoke file formats, invested users, no truly dominant players, less networked sharing - have all gone. And so have the apps.
Hey Henry! See you are still working towards that chestnut.
It's not the app or company, it's the network [of people].

You can't switch unless you can convince literally everyone you know (I'm in UK) to switch.
They had a plan, albeit an insane one, a leader, albeit an insane one, demands (change the election result), and a credible way to win (abduct or kill senators in order to change the outcome of votes). It's all very "we took six of the seven control rods out of the reactor and nothing happened!"
That was a justified shooting. With an armed and shouting crowd right there at the chambers, the consequences of rushing over the final barricade towards the men with guns were pretty predictable.

I’m surprised they only shot once. In such a tense situation, I don’t believe I personally would have such restraint.
> police are happy to work with or at least to allow fascist mobs to storm the government

Correct me if I'm wrong but a dozen or so cops standing down in front of hundreds of protestors != compliance.

> The protesters should have never even been allowed to get near the Capitol building while Congress was in session

That's absolutely right.
>The violating content they removed was trump repeating the same stolen election crud he's been saying for a month and then __urging the protesters to go home peacefully, preserve law and order, etc__.

There were two more tweets that led to the definitive suspension of the account, per the NYT. This is one tweet that was taken down almost immediately around 6:00PM.

“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” he tweeted. “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”

I mean, 'Remember this day forever'? Like it's the Alamo? Really?
A nabob is a conspicuously wealthy man deriving his fortune in the east, especially in India during the 18th century with the privately held East India Company.

In late 19th century San Francisco, rapid urbanization led to an exclusive enclave of the rich and famous on the west coast who built large mansions in the Nob Hill neighborhood. This included prominent tycoons such as Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University and other members of The Big Four who were known as nabobs, which was shortened to nob, giving the area its eventual name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabob
I'm 41 and I have heard of whatsapp but I have never used it. Never heard of anyone else (that I know) using it. just anecdata for you.

Edit: US - sorry I was just catching up on the rest of this giant thread and it looks like SE Asia S America are the main usage places.
If you want flame wars and care about upvotes/downvotes, there are plenty of other websites that will oblige.

Here posts are supposed to add something to the discussion, not to "tease" or provoke a response.
If I were the OP i would sell his "speed enhanced" laptop right after this operation. He mentions having to heat mainboard in the oven. Actually this operation doesn't work for any long term period and during each heating session he risks frying some other components on the board.
PG should write a corollary to the Ronco essay about how the greatest individuals in highly competitive skill-based fields are all aholes.
But they showed footage "through the eyes of the wearer" and they let press have a hands on demonstration, so it's not like they can really fake anything.

I did see a tiny bit of judder in the footage that was supposed to be exactly what the person wearing the glasses would see, but it was hard to tell.
Stay with your job for one year more and be more selective in freelancing. In the meanwhile just 2 kinds of jobs:

- The ones that can improve your knowledge / portfolio

- The ones that pay VERY well.

In this case you will increase your freelance experience and have enough time to decide what to do.
> What subjects were these PhDs in by the way?

I am talking specifically about Computer Science. This is not even a modern instance. The first case I've heard about is in 1999.
From what little I know: 10 Gbps is more commonly associated with business service. For residential, 100 Mbps is more typical. It's also symmetric (you see it up and down).

I'm reporting on 1) what their site claims (10 Mbps residential, 10 Gbps elsewhere), and what actual experiences are (they're delivering more than they promise).

Given that most DSL/Cable options are still a small fraction of that, it's a considerable improvement.
I believe the GP is referring to writing a non-optimising compiler in C. Not compiling your C code using a non-optimising compiler.
They happen in parallel. You can be working on feature B while someone else is drafting a spec for feature C, and feature A is with the tester already. meanwhile the wishlist (features F, G, to ZomgPonies) is going onto the backlog in vague outline form for use in future iterations.

meeting with the customer to figure out if they want an accounting system or a CMS

That's an exaggeration. You seen some vision of what broad need the software fills before you start, and an initial backlog of high-priority features to get you going.
They decide based upon the same criteria everyone uses; how close a threat is to their power, self agency...

Trump attempting to overthrow the election is much more of a threat to Twitter than Trump being an otherwise typical GOP rage monger until now
True. I was thinking they'd be using their centralized accounts once they reach the OS logon screen, thus no post-it necessary, but maybe that's not the case.
That's a mistatement of what many of us are saying.

I certainly am not advocating that social media companies should have even more control over our lives. I would like them to have less, which presumably happens either because (a) we stop using social media (at least in the current sense) and/or (b) more options for "social media" platforms emerge.

Since (a) is unlikely in the near term, that probably means (b). I don't how Twitter banning anyone (including POTUS) from their platform does anything but encourage that.

I also don't see how "large corporations that have used psychological manipulation and network effects to become really popular must be consider public utilities, despite no law to that effect" really lines up with free speech. Do you believe that the NY Times should be required to print my op-ed's in their online version? How about my comments on their articles?
Wrong. They came to the same conclusion at the same time because their side of the battle finally won and now they can punish their enemies safely. That's all there is to it. Anything else is a rationalization. In the future if the other side ever wins again it should act the same way and punish their enemies too, in a stronger and more vindictive manner. And this should escalate until one side seizes total control or a split happens in the country. This is the logical conclusion of this and thus it is what should happen and likely will happen.
Who is "We"? Why do you assume HN users aren't Trump supporters? Many people see this from a totally different perspective. In most countries, these recent events would be called a coup, performed by the blue faction of the establishment.
> Sunstein ... his basic ideology is rule by experts, and this is exactly what it is.

Do you mean basic as in 'fundamental'? Or you mean basic as in 'what he writes reduces / is equivalent to'? Something else?

I'm not seeing either interpretation as adequately explaining Sunstein's views [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein#Views
I feel the real underlying issue is economic disparity. When breads and circuses stop, you will see riots. It gets worse when media has a hard time getting eye balls unless they can show outrage.
Hard disagree. Permanent reminders of these failure need to be installed in very public places. The ideas and things that have resulted in the 37th of December (because 2020 didn't really stop) must be addressed. They are as a part of the US as the 3/5ths compromise on human life. Trying to power wash these stains away is not going to help the US. Meandering, uncomfortable, long, and difficult conversations are the best cure. There are no cheats to this, and there are no deferrals. Each US citizen is in this birthright.
It's easy to draw an arbitrary line based on market dominance. Compare to abortion laws — at some point, a fetus is considered a person. The exact point is contentious and arbitrary, but the line has to be drawn somewhere.
actually, this was what I wanted to mention as well. Examine has all the right talent in nutrition.... openfoodfacts has the technical talent.

you guys should find a way to collaborate ... or even power the next gen Examine
I remember raising sea level in San Andreas.

Weapon damage was also controllable. I accidentally discovered a hack I used in the multiplayer (MTA mod) that made me receive 0 damage from non-projectile weapons.
> but they'll be useless because 99% of software today is practically single-threaded.

I used to joke developers should get workstations with SPARC Niagaras or Xeon Phis for that reason: core count is going up and a CPU with a dozen small cores is much cheaper to build than one with 4 beefy ones. Now some of the low-end chips Intel is pushing have 4 SMT2 cores. HEDT is on the 16 SMT2 core range and, if our software continues to be single threaded, there will be a lot of silicon being used for nothing more than spreading heat.
Speaking of mad genius ideas, my mind was blown by https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html a boot loader able to compile and boot a Linux kernel directly from source code.
The boring database favored by engineering managers is Postgresql.

React + MobX provides, I think, a good answer to the problem of "how do i update the user interface to reflect changes to the application state?" on the front end.

Commercially I have seen Java used almost exclusively for web back ends, really because it handles the kind of concurrency that matter for servers well. .NET is about the same but less popular.

It is easy to write small servers in Python and you can do really fun things with async/await (e.g. bridge message queues) but because Python is fundamentally single threaded the concurrency story is worse than Java. With node.JS you could write both your front-end and back-end in the same language, which sounds appealing, but hardly anybody does it.
What does "serie" mean? It's not an English word.
All it takes is for 5% of your requests to require a uncached database fetch for your concurrency model and I/O handling to be more important than rendering or other CPU bound activities in the process of serving a request on the frontend.

Wrong priorities in the absence of circumstantial profiling.
Obvious to us hackers. I'm not so sure that this would be obvious to a not-so-computer-savvy person who thinks he is just buying a used computer.

After all his iphone is locked. Why shouldn't his Mac be?
For a great example of where things are heading, look at RedBox. They've found a way to produce machines that bring more benefit than they cost. It's forseeable that a burger machine could be made in the near future with similar economics.
Out of curiosity, I just checked out Scalatra: looks like a good framework for simple RESTful web apps and to implement web services. Thanks for the reference.
No bias there. =) Shouldn't have said "copy", maybe just "another company doing the same idea". Best of luck to your investment.
I find it amusing how hyper-specific he gets in the comments defending PHPs speed, saying comparing it to even Python is unfair because it bytecode compiles to save time.

To me, that sounds more like a flaw in PHP that it doesn't save bytecode and reuse that if the underlying source has not changed, not a defensible reason to claim it is faster than other "similar" languages.
Not even close to this one :)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...

I love the idea for your concept though!
Well, if Johnny is very good at algorithms, then the stereotype says Johnny is not very good at interacting with people and, in general, not good at figuring out what's going on in other people's heads.

I might be biased, but I always held this as axiomatic truth.
Thanks! I didn't know of that url. How did you find it? It doesn't seem to be linked anywhere in the site.
The irony of course is that the CIA did hack into the US Senate's computers.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/cia-admits-it-improperly...
development kid (i.e. you donated $$$)

Anyone got any numbers on that? What does it take to become a development kid...
I took a major pay cut so I wouldn't have to work with certain popular commercial languages ever again, and now enjoy working in a small studio where we create DSLs in Scheme. Every week I discover something new about Lisp and then use it on independent hobby projects, whereas before I didn't even want to look at a computer after work.
I love how ResEdit provides a physical address for sending bug reports. I'm curious how many they got and how the interactions were back and forth to repro. I'm sure they were much more detailed reports than most of the one liners I get these days.
> Buffer overflows in trusted code have to go. This means getting rid of the languages with buffer overflow problems.

In the meantime, since moving away from C will take years, we need to invest in better exploit-mitigation technology instead of relying on bug-hunting-driven-security. That means OS/kernel developers need to start taking security seriously and keeping up with attackers. This means adding proactive measures instead of slowly reacting only when a new CVE comes out. Which sadly far from the reality at the moment.

For example, OpenBSD made headlines for adding W^X to the whole kernel but hackers have already been bypassing W^X on iOS for years:

http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6723643&cid=48812833

>> These protections may guard against a (very small subset of) casual attackers, but they're just another minor hurdle for determined attackers.

In addition we need to move away from signature-based AV towards host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS). It is not accident that all the feds who left government cybersecurity jobs in recent years moved to build private companies creating HIDS products and making millions selling them to big corps (FireEye, Crowdstrike, etc).

The only options available for consumers and the average sys admin are security tools easily bypassed by any semi-sophisticated adversary (for ex: Anti-virus/RKhunter/SELinux/most trusted computing code-integrity systems/etc).
> they can assert copyright over the scans of the film without asserting copyright over the original images themselves

No they can't. Scanning a photo is not a creative work subject to copyright.
My money is on Apple's music streaming service, but it seems awfully quick since the LaLa acquisition.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." Anon.
Wait, you don't just look at the load average?
It's different when you're outside the US, though. A lot of magazines don't seem to cater to customers outside the US, which seems crazy to me, especially in the age of Kindle et al.

I tend to read a lot and it always bugs me to find out that magazines charge about 200-300% on top just for shipping it to EU countries. Also, there is nearly always no digital alternative - no WSJ on the Kindle in Europe, no Barrons in the EU, no digital student rebate for Foreign Affairs, huge shipping costs for Foreign Policy, Reason Magazine etc.
I'm a ruby programmer and I'd be interested to relocate to Berlin for a while... Do you have something for me? Even just some suggestions on how to get a gig would be very appreciated.

This is my github account http://www.github.com/bolthar . My expertise with RoR is limited but I know ASP.NET MVC very well and they're similar.
I'm trying to think of a single thing this could be that I would care about. I'll get back to you.
OTOH, the tax code is complicated mainly because of all the special cases that were introduced to pander to people's individual best interests. Like the whole deductions side of the 1040.
>The luck variable represents everything outside of your control.

If we understand luck as being in the right place at the right time, the right attitude can transform the wrong place (a frustrating obstacle) into the right place (a challenge worth taking on).
Information needs to move fast today. It was the norm for news to travel slowly in the past. Today the president needs to be able to speak quickly to people.

Besides whitehouse.gov, which he should've been using, he has no other way to quickly, directly communicate to any constituent that wants to see his message.
I love dekotora

3 minute video about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5cu7fiJr0
Why are they still releasing new CPUs with these issues?
Just like Lumen database, the EFF could do it.

ByteDance claims their a Cayman Islands company. But their engineers are based in China.

The text would be computer generated based on a database:

"This app is developed in $locations by $company. Data on this platform is typically hosted in $data_center_location but may be accessed by $company engineers and $country_specific_dangers."

For a remote-first company like GitLab, I would have the following text:

"This app is developed by a team of remote engineers in various countries by GitLab Inc. Data on this platform is typically hosted in geographically nearby data centers (typically Singapore, South Korea), but may be accessed by GitLab engineers, and the governments of the nations in which these engineers live"

There's only 195 countries on Earth, and maybe 1,000 popular applications.

A single individual could build such a database and open-source it. It's not a big task at all and brings much more transparency to end-users.
It'll be just like Kickstarter. Yes there is fraud and yes there are well meaning failures but you also get huge successes like Oculus (and many others).

Just as there are sure to be well publicized stories about people getting fleeced -- there will be stories about other people getting rich.
I just changed the password to some long random string so I’d never be tempted to log in again. Lack of password recovery isn’t a bug there, it’s a feature.

Going to do the same thing. See ya, HN.
You're missing his point about flagging. Flagging is for trolls, spam, etc. It isn't a 'downvote'. He wants downvoting to be the opposite of upvoting, meaning 'I don't like this' or 'I disagree with this'.

As Matt himself says, it is a nuance that is lost on most.
> The first definition is tautological

>With the same same hand-wavy argument, you could define the curvature of space based on electromagnetic field strength, for example, and argue that electromagnetism is not a force.

No. You're very wrong here. You (irritatingly) seem to think that because you have only been exposed to popularized hand-wavy arguments, that physicists necessarily rely on them.

The vast majority of possible forces (including Newtonian gravity and electromagnetism) can not be explained the way gravity is explained. Your confusion probably comes from not understanding how much smaller the space of possible geometries is than the space of possible forces.

In fact, the stunningly beautiful thing about gravity is that it can be derived from knowing only that it is a geometric effect and obeys a few symmetries. Even if you relax some of these symmetries (e.g. Brans-Dicke theory) the resulting parameterizable space of possible geometries is very restricted.
Things come and go in HN, but that cannot be a primary reason to quit HN itself. Today it is TSA, yesterday it was offer hn etc. I have gained more in knowledge than what I have lost in time on HN, as long as it is that way, I am staying.
Tomatoes ARE vegetables. They are also fruits. The noun "vegetable" doesn't have a strict definition and tomatoes fall into that classification.

Botanically speaking they are berries.
> multiple 'once in a lifetime' failures that causes it.

That reminds me of hearing mention of "multiple six-sigma events" I think it was, when things were crashing in 2008: the only sane conclusion is that the models are broken.
The problem is the community can't really do anything about it. Without the ability to downvote a topic all you can do is watch and hope others don't upvote a story like that.

Which itself is a problem because the threshold is so low.
By even the most conservative estimates there are thousands of people visiting the site every day yet it only takes a handful or so to get an item to the front page.

So even if 99.5% of the people here make a "strong commitment" as you put it the front page will still be flooded with all those TSA stories
I think that to some extent the karma average score has encouraged too much homogeneity in the comments. I don't feel like I can disagree for fear of getting downvoted or not upvoted, which would lower my karma average and make my votes in turn worthless

I disagree with HNers(mostly because I offered radical opinions) all the time. Sometime I get downvoted, sometime I got lot of points. There will alway be assholes who downvote people for simply disagreeing but they're outweighed by people who vote me up for adding to the conversation.
My company did as well. We've hired about 5.

2 had 2-3 years experience post boot camp. They are excellent mid-senior devs. They are from Flatiron School.

We have hired 3 juniors straight out of camp. All are on boarding at or exceeding our expectations. 2 are from App Academy, one is from GA.

EDIT: I'm pretty certain our JRs don't make 100k.
>Chromebook sales are constantly rising

Where are the real shipping numbers from Google then? Surely they must know the numbers? Why won't they release it then? The only reason I can think of could be that they aren't all that great.
Sounds like some sort of audio tech?