jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I want to know, too! After typing in all the programs from the tutorial that came with my computer, I used to buy the Commodore magazine to type in the BASIC programs. One magasine even featured code to write your own windowing toolkit!
Maybe now (and that's a big maybe.) But there were at least several years of growth during which Facebook could've been "taken down".

Besides, MySpace also had a huge network effect, and lost to Facebook.
Is being acquired the absolute ultimate aim for everybody's (YC) start up? Surely being profitable is enough for many people? I also think there's an extremely important distinction between "being funded" and "profitable", which this chart seems to ignore.
Do you want to stay at the same company? There's always the option of moving on to something new with more opportunities. Being able to do that opens a lot of doors and one can climb the ladder quicker rather than waiting for someone to retire/leave. The reason I say this is because many companies only promote people based upon the company's need and not the individual worker's merit.
This was discussed two weeks ago as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866103
I remember reading this when I was 11 or 12-years old (about 25 years ago). I had to ask my mom what 'Russian Roulette' was, which made her a little nervous about what I was reading.

My favorite line is from that game:
32 PRINT " CHICKEN!!!"

The charm of a Jr. High kid armed with BASIC programming skills!
I don't but I also don't see why that's "famously" if it's from 2006.

I did a grad school paper on automation/relocation/innovation regarding union busting and this stuff has been predicted since the microchip.
I like tree style tabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Well, I'm by no means defending Facebook's business, but they did open-source a couple little projects called React, GraphQL, and PyTorch (and a bunch of other lesser-known stuff), so technically it's not _all_ bad. :P
Yeah, I think that was a widespread issue, fair enough.
I keep eyeing the Librem 5, but just can't shake the feeling that it would be a massive inconvenience to leave the android/iphone ecosystem at this point in tech history, monopolies and virtualization notwithstanding.

Anyone have feedback on how it fares as a daily use smartphone for your tech savvy lay person?
While traditional keyword research focuses more on monthly average search volume, savvy SEOs know that a deep-dive into the past can reveal many hidden secrets.
Apps cannot use the microphone on iOS 14 without your awareness. There is a little dot that will show up at the top of the screen if an app has recently used microphone or camera. Hopefully this can assuage your paranoia.
What do you mean by "they destroy minds"? That seems like a difficult thing to quantify.
I wonder what would happen if all partied just came clean.

This isn't about privacy or user data, it's a disagreement over how revenue is shared.

So rather than this sort of wording from the article: centers on the iPhone data of millions of people and whether companies should be able to track

We be read something like this: Facebook and Google go to war with Apple over revenue sharing agreement.
I will consider a Mac the day Apple wants to sell me a CPU/GPU combo I want to buy, at a price it makes sense.
When you're dealing with a totally new field, there's a lot of low-level, seemingly-obvious junk to sort out. And immature fields haven't developed common tools or proof techniques, so everything looks harder than it should be. Give it some time, the field might get more approachable, expressive, and useful as it matures.
Can I sort all tlds for a cheapest registrar?
Clubhouse is just Discord rooms for "Gurus"
Clubhouse is just discord rooms for "Gurus"
Yes, Clubhouse feels like the perfect trap for the VC/PM class. It is a product that is extremely appealing to the them, but for which probability of widespread adoption seems low. And, of course, that group of people is one of the loudest on social media, so anyone within a few degrees of separation from them will "hear" them singing Clubhouse's praises.
> ...so I uninstalled it.

That right there is one reason why I've never even tried it. I refuse to use app-only networks. Give me a web site that I can use from anywhere. Let me control what content my device downloads. There's no fucking way I'm buying into an app-only future.
I actually agree with you that they're apples and oranges. But I also think it doesn't make any sense to complain about Bitcoin's energy usage as I see it as well worth the investment.
So I hadn't heard of Clubhouse before so I googled it. I didnt even click the link and Google told me;

> Clubhouse is an invitation-only audio-chat social networking app launched in 2020 by software developers Alpha Exploration Co. As of December 2020, it was valued at nearly $100 million. On January 21, 2021, the valuation hit one billion US dollars.

$100m to $1b value increase in a month? What happened?
Image Search. It took a massive hit to utility years back when Google removed the “view image” feature. It’s even worse now though: it’s basically essential to filter/blacklist Pinterest to prevent 50% of the your search from being polluted with unusable garbage.

That said, I also wish I could just turn off AMP (I try to avoid most news) and the QA thing.
Persistent storage doesn't have to be powered on all the time, though, which makes the environmental impact a known thing. Factor in the cost of building + populating the drives along with having to replace them periodically and you know the cost of that storage. In comparison, PoW's future cost can skyrocket as the network expands and the difficulty goes up.

Storing the whole chain takes a bunch of space anyway, so you have a similar storage problem there too.

If you want to see how cheap persistent storage can get, look up the cost of Amazon Glacier. It's shockingly cheap - $0.005 per GB or even less.
I'm not sure that is accurate...

"As an example, he demonstrated how he could use his fake fingerprint to unlock his iPhone — that features a ‘Touch ID’ fingerprint sensor integrated into its home button."

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/12/hackers-reproduce-fingerp...

It isn't entirely clear which fake fingerprint was used. I guess we should probably watch the CCC talk.
Fun read. Should add the Marc Andreessen message.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.infosystems.wais/...
I think HAL as a standard will go a long way to properly shape the RESTful API community because of its embedded links and curies
IS300. I’ve had some older ISes and always been a fan so this was a dream purchase for me.
Something tells me a trip to Mars and life inside an artificial habitat won’t feel like the open road.
It should be usable for "cloud config" files long before that! :) But yes changing existing code at the lower distro level has a lot more inertia.

The cloud is basically built on top of Linux distros, so that part is easier to change and is rapidly evolving.

You could say that the = issue is deliberate, but I'd say the core problem is that shell didn't start out as a programming language, or at least it was a very impoverished one without variables.

The original paper from the 70's on the Thompson shell shows that. Shell had "goto" but no variables! So name=value had to be grafted on later without breaking too many things. Words were already split by spaces, so I guess they just made

name=value

a "pseudo-word" that becomes an assignment, whereas

name = value

remained 3 words.
Smaller fan will require much more RPM for the same airflow and pressure and this will cause more (and more annoying) noise.

What you want is a fan that is designed for particular circumstance.

https://images.app.goo.gl/ULuRqRvEA6m3qYnQ8

Since HEPA filter is significant obstruction you want a fan that is designed for static pressure (which is ability to push air against a force/obstruction).
A handful of the largest investors knew me virtually and colluded behind my back, err, had a conference phone call among themselves, and sent the judge faxes asking him to appoint me. I had taken a board seat to figure out what was going on when the price was not reflecting buys properly at the request of the largest shareholder who lived in Europe. I though I'd get a good education about things - I guess I did, but it was OJT. Anyway, during my first board meeting the CEO figured out I wasn't going to ignore what I thought were financial discrepancies and during lunch skipped off to Mexico with the literal suitcase full of cash. When I started looking for him, his secretary told me what he'd done, with some consternation. I held the board meeting anyway, and by chance the company attorney, who was an SEC specialist, knew an SEC investigator well enough to get me a meeting the next morning. They got me in front of a judge that afternoon (never seen a court move so quickly since). I'd told the largest shareholder what was going on and he'd contacted the others and had the appointment surprise waiting for me. A lot of people lost a lot of money when all was done, including me with a total loss as I spent my own money and time for a year on travel to find yachts and houses bought with corporate fund, and at the end with me able to recover less than 10%. A ridiculous amount went to the bankruptcy attorney to put it all to bed.
I'm sorry but why would you ecen use GPT-X for a chatbot? It's open-ended and only gives answers that are statistically likely; not answers that are actually true because it has no real understanding of meaning. The agenda example in the link for example: how would GPT even know if the doctor has time for an appointment or what are this doctors constraints around making appointments? It doesnt.
I don't think they're great, it seems like a way of obfuscating what the app really does. Your approach might work for savvy or paranoid users, but not everyone notices much beyond "contains ads" or such.

Apple needs to force them to be up front from the very beginning that their stupid game or screensaver or else is also a tracking app. And boot any app that uses your phone to do anything beyond what they told you they would do in the app store description.
Must be a good design - I have that one because it has proven to be very effective in various tests. I think the DIY one could copy another aspect of it - the washable, "coarse" fabric filter you put around the entire device that catches bigger dust particles.
I grew up in an area that 5-8 feet of snow annually and drove old cars in it. Don’t listen to internet nerds arguing about what a super skilled driver can do. A pile of snow pushed in front of a wheel isn’t stopping a car.

After front wheel drive, ABS is one of the major ways to improve winter driving. Not only in snow, but in black ice and similar conditions. The big issue is driving too fast and losing control and going into the ditch or a spin.

ABS makes it easier for you to know you have a problem and to avoid it. It may or may not bring you to a full stop in a shorter timeframe, but it will shed speed so you regain control.

After ABS, all season tires and AWD are the most important enhancements.
Well client-side there seems to be progress but to my knowledge so far Riot was the only feature-complete client, and it's REALLY heavy/slow especially on high-latency links. Loading app.element.io before logging in is already 9MB. Also element responsiveness in general is really tied to latency and is therefore not pleasant to use on bad connections and/or Tor.

Server-side, many smaller hosting coops went into matrix but later dropped it because of synapse using too much resources. I know individual selfhosters who were really sad to drop it because their raspberry pi didn't have enough RAM (512MB-1GB) for selfhosting synapse.

However someone said in another thread that synapse resource usage is really better these days. Would you recommend it on such low-end hardware? (ActivityPub/XMPP servers fare really well in such conditions)
Danny Spitzberg & Nathan Schneider suggest cooperative ownership by the user community might be the best model.

https://www.wired.com/story/you-yes-you-would-be-a-better-ow...
I think Manjaro is the best of both worlds: the software ubiquity and stability (unironic[0]) of Arch with the user-friendliness of Ubuntu.

0: It turns out that new software is paradoxically more stable than older software, likely because devs' limited attention is always fixed on the latest versions. Rolling release distros have all the newest versions of software.
Are they going to accept that counter-complaint, coming from a third party? (yes, I should probably read up on DMCA procedures)
If they're so stingy with the equity upfront, won't that make you suspicious they'll just try to screw you out of it later?
Here is the Github repo https://github.com/mesosphere/mesos-dns
The thing that gets me with OS X vs Linux or Windows is that the muscle memory in my hands works well with Windows and Linux shortcuts and window management. I have a MBP circa 2010 and love the hardware but the OS is meh. I really love how I can just close the lid to hibernate and it will stay like that for days. I haven't seen Windows or Linux be able to do that, although Windows on SSD boot up is very fast.

I use vagrant based VM's on Windows and OS X for development. Much better alternative than cygwin or similar. And you can custom build the vagrant VM to match your production environment.

When you are copying files, opening/closing windows, etc. all of that should be done without thinking. When it comes to differences in the OS you should go with what you are most comfortable with. They are all pretty much the same under the hood.
In a sense, yes. When I was there the company had a ton of other issues too. Mostly how to monetize the service. They couldn’t figure out how to make money, but they were spending money like they were Facebook.

Facebook at least had ad revenue. Twitter really couldn’t figure out how to sell ads.

The concern was to me, fake accounts and fake retweets/followers creating fake user growth. That’s purely my perspective and likely not how the company saw it. I wasn’t comfortable investing my time into a place that gave me that feeling.
I'm fairly certain that they're working towards letting anyone sign up to use it. Of course I've no idea what the pricing will actually look like once they get there, but I doubt it will be that bad.

The real expense is in integrating with lots of different environments; Roc mentioned that integrations with Github and Travis were already working, but not Gitlab yet. (On the other hand you can do without any integration at all. Take a look at https://github.com/Pernosco/pernosco-submit/; it will upload the source from your computer to your debugging session if it's not cloned from a recognized git/hg host.)
The bad news is that this will happen everywhere where you work for someone else, especially in large companies.

And this cannot be avoided while working as an employee, it's part of the system.

The good news is that there is one way to avoid this (the only way AFIK) is to start your own company, there you get to call all the shots for good or for bad.

It doesn't have to be a big company though, it can be just you and a laptop for starters.

Other than that, as an emotional coping mechanism and to preserve their mental sanity, people will simply become disengaged and cynical.

Take longer breaks and try to have a laugh with your colleagues to blow some pressure and make friends.

Also, because things work badly in those environments, there is a lot of blame deflection going on, which is one of the main causes of stress and burnout.

Again, part of the system, not much that you can do about it other than learning to deflect responsibilities to others.

Getting rid of the hot potato is a very important skill in these corporate settings.

Usually on a team, it's always the same people getting the short end of the stick. Try not to be one of them if you can, but often that's easier said than done.

Also, try to get promoted, you will get more responsibility and might even be able to fix some of these things, that's another positive attitude towards chaos that helps a lot of people cope with it.
In our math classes in Hungary we could use any calculator we wanted, it doesn't cost too much to get one that can do trig functions and logarithm. One popular model was the Casio fx-82MS for $10-$20, but you can get cheaper models as well.

And the "problem" that teachers would not know how your particular brand works sounds weird. There are so many ways to figure this out. I mean the student can read the manual. Or ask for help from fellow students.

And our standardized secondary school graduation exam defines what you can do with calculators:

> On solving the problems, you may use a calculator that cannot store and display textual information. You may also use any edition of the four-digit data tables. The use of any other electronic device or printed or written material is forbidden!

> The use of calculators in the reasoning behind a particular solution may be accepted without further mathematical explanation in case of the following operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, calculating powers and roots, n!, n-choose-k, replacing the tables found in the 4-digit Data Booklet (sin, cos, tan, log, and their inverse functions), approximate values of the numbers π and e, finding the solutions of the standard quadratic equation. No further explanation is needed when the calculator is used to find the mean and the standard deviation, as long as the text of the question does not explicitly require the candidate to show detailed work. In any other cases, results obtained through the use of a calculator are considered as unexplained and points for such results will not be awarded.

By the way these sheets are publicly available even in English, e.g. from Spring 2019:

Basic level: http://dload.oktatas.educatio.hu/erettsegi/feladatok_2019tav...
Advanced level: http://dload.oktatas.educatio.hu/erettsegi/feladatok_2019tav...
The fundamental problem is IT is engineered at a price-point two to three orders of magnitude lower than what the complexity demands.
I dunno. I've had a truly expensive wine exactly once, at a wine cellar tasting in Würzburg, Germany, and I may have been fooled by the fact that they told me it was expensive, but it was pretty damn good wine. (But roughly equivalent to (far cheaper) Hungarian Tokaji, if you ask me, and that's not just loyalty to my wife's nation.)
Yeah, smalltalk blocks are almost identical to ruby blocks.

Article just acted like that was a ruby invention (which they corrected)

My comment had nothing to do with perl.
A bit of a perspective from a professional Russian :)

Taste of the vodka is irrelevant. You drink it to get drunk, not to enjoy the taste. So, for example, vodka on the rocks makes as much sense as deep fried caviar - it's a pointless waste of a product. Secondly, and most importantly, you are looking at whether you get a hangover in the morning or not. That's it. So the criteria for a good vodka is (a) doesn't make you cringe when drunk and (b) no hangover.

Stick with Wyborowa or Stolichnaya. If not, get a really cheap one and put it through Brita filter a couple of times. This removes all impurities (specifically - the fusel oils, which is what actually hurts the head in the morning), and it will be as good as high-grade commercial product.

(edit) By the way, another way to filter cheap vodka is to mix it with cranberries (ideally the wild ones), mush them and let sit for 24 hours. Filter and enjoy. Cranberries absorb the oils and infuse vodka, so not only this reduces the hangover effects, it also makes the vodka significantly more pleasant to drink.
His book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" is a must read. It's the best advocate for critical thinking.
Not sure if there are any.

But I know for sure that I wouldn't want this technology to be sold to my neighbor with anger issues ;)
Hasn't it already been done? Now we somehow have to take "power" (whatever it means) into account to decide if something is racist or not.
501(c)(4)
One can read from it that many people attribute HTML to, say, military - if it's in particular MIL-STD, not just random STD.
There's a great Sci-Fi short story by Ted Chiang called, "Liking What You See: A Documentary".

It's about a reversible procedure that inhibits the ability for people to detect prettiness 'calliagnosia'. They talk about 'lookism'.

It does an interesting job exploring what this would mean and the good and bad associated with it (which I think Ted Chiang always does a great job of).

It's definitely worth reading.
Speaking as a parent of 5. Parental mental health has a much bigger effect on the child than choice of methodologies. You really need to look after yourself before you can look after them - so if you are suffering from sleep deprivation, doing what you have to do is the right thing to do.

Put your own oxygen mask on first.
Eh, I wouldn't be so quick to hide under that tree for protection in the lightning rich environment of civil rights violations as a whole.

I think laws should be challenged in order to force coming to terms with second and higher order effects, and as a matter of course be measured and revisited for reconsideration over time.

That being said, from a heuristic driven, rhetorically defensive perspective, I totally get, and second your perspective in this case.

The "Thou dost protest too much" bell is strong with this one.
A majority with no standing in the matter should have zero influence over the rights of a minority whose interests are directly affected. You're advocating the two wolves vs. one sheep model of unchecked direct democracy, which is pretty much the worst of all possible choices short of a malevolent oligopoly or dictatorship. When people speak fondly of "democracy" what most of them have in mind is a representative, republican form of government with at least some legal protection for the rights of minorities, even when the majority disagree.

This is orthogonal to the issue of whether voting should be mandatory or (pseudo-)voluntary[1]. Mandatory voting ensures higher participation at the expense of encouraging less informed voting on average. It also masks the absence of consent which would be implied by abstaining. (You can turn in a blank/voided ballot in protest under most mandatory systems but there is no record of who did that, whereas there must be a record of who did or did not vote.) "Voter suppression" is frankly not a very plausible explanation for why a majority of outsiders with no particular interest in the matter have thus failed to vote to set aside local planning rules (which for the most part don't affect them) and force cities to allow more high-density construction. Even if you made voting mandatory it's unlikely that this would change. And are you going to require everyone in the state (or country, or world) to take the time to vote yes or no on every trivial local ordinance? Besides being impractical, that would certainly generate a great deal of resentment regarding both the mandatory voting and the outside interference in local affairs.

[1] "Pseudo-voluntary" because to be actually voluntary the majority would need to respect the preexisting rights of those who didn't participate in the vote and the absence of their consent, and refrain from infringing on those rights as they attempt to carry out the majority's will. Since in practice you'll be made to conform to the result whether or not you participate, and others will insist that you accept the majority's will because "you had your chance to be represented" regardless of the degree of influence you did or (more likely) did not have on the outcome of the vote, it can't really be considered voluntary.