jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If it's a technical subject and something genuinely new for the viewer/reader, comprehension and learning are probably the bottlenecks, not ease of consumption.

If this opinion is popular, maybe there's a good reason for it?
According to this http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/12/22/ Opera already moved to the new codebase, but still no hardware acceleration at the moment.
I agree that paying by cash can help move things along, but that's the only one (in my opinion) argument for this kind of payments. I don't want to say: 'don't take cash', just: 'give your customers a choice. give them a chance to pay at least by cash, or by card'.

As for an amount of purchase... I understand transaction fee problems related to these kind of things. That's why I think that people need to realize that if they want to pay by card - they need to buy something more then just a newspaper. Unfortunately we can't jump over the bank charges.

However... it would be a really good idea to build a system, which would take money from your bank account or a credit card once a month for all the things you bought in that month.
"lein repl" and gedit open in another window. These complicated Clojure setups with slime and so forth are unnecessary.
Perhaps you shouldn't be countering but making an argument about timing. 'I think that is a good idea when we reach milestone X and this is how and why we would do it then'

You seem to acknowledge the need for it, yet don't want to start right now. So make that argument.
That's because dimensions are not ordered. There is no first dimension, or second, or third. For a flatlander, time is what he perceives as a third dimension. Depth may be a fourth dimension. If you wanted to do the same trick to you, you would have to flip yourself in a non-time higher dimensional space. I think any dimensional space would do.

But it's early in the morning and I haven't had breakfast. Talk to you when my brain joins me.

To perceive time as a dimension is useful because it helps you realize you actually perceive four dimensions the same way a flatlander perceives three.
Son got through Scratch book and then got bored. Has not been interested at all in programming after that.

Daughter did some scratch and some web programming and then got bored.

Lego Mindstorms - son built through the robots that were included and then got bored.

Hour of code (both) - did some basic exercises and then got bored.

Both love to build stuff in Minecraft and enjoy making quite elaborate machines there (elaborate in the context of Minecraft).

Both are doing fairly well in school. Programming just does not seem to be intrinsically interesting to them. And that's just fine.

Basic language skills and math is far more important for professionals when they get to workforce rather than low level tinkering in the general context. If they don't show inbuilt desire to program I don't see any reason why I should push them there. I started programming only after turning 20 and have a pretty good career at it. If you love programming it's never too late to start :)
Its url shorteners all the way down...
The manual actually answers this very question: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/His...
If you have someone in charge who knows how to run things and help people do their jobs better while having a vision of the future you have a much better chance of success.
I'm more than pleased with how Android looks and behaves on the Nexus One. Obviously it can only get better from here, but I really hope that Google tries to avoid going the exact same route of Apple with their iOS. Apple has a lot of desirable features on the iPhone, but also many quirks that I can never, ever get over.

On top of this, I'm not a huge fan of how they're doing multi-tasking, and the introduction of "wallpapers" make the new iOS look ridiculous. They should have stuck with what they had before, in my opinion.
It's easier to make them agree on an intermediate language. Mostly because one can make such VM as a BSD licensed plugin.

Just make the DOM available as some virtualized "system calls" and you'll avoid the fate of Java and Flash.
For the longest time they thrived and were considered the de-facto standard.

But the politicization of that whole field, trough FUD about "social bots" and "fake news", made that very difficult to keep up.

Case in point; Liveleak is now gone, with it at lot of content that's now hidden away in private archives of data hoarders.

Now, one can handwave that away as just a bunch of snuff and gore porn, but there was so much more there than that; Controversial livestreams that were deleted from the original platform also serve as evidence, war footage, all the things authorities and governments often don't want people to see.

Like footage from the Syrian civil war on YouTube; Google scrubbed massive amounts of that, possibly including evidence for war crimes [0]

By now it's reached a point where even documentaries about certain wars get an automatic age-lock from YouTube, the only way to watch those is to confirm your real identity with Google.

On that end the surface web has lost so much of its "bite", it hardly feels like the web anymore.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-socialmedia-rights...
Of course there are -- and thats great. But... the point is the same. Not many businesses these days are using a linux stack. Is it unfortunate? Yes. Do I like it? no. But working in IT in any capacity means that you have to adapt... thats my main point.
>Big, slow, rich companies can do stuff like that but the development work will be more bureaucratic.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding! You hit the nail on the head. I'm currently working at such a company and you're 100% right. And the bureaucratic nature of it all drives me pretty mental. It's not a good environment for me at all. I'm going back to a smaller company.
Ooh, that is good. I figured that +- would be invalid but nerdle accepts it.
I think the best known illustration for this concept is actually called "The boy who cried wolf"
Section 3 are library calls, section 2 has the actual syscalls.
This is indeed an issue, though with a modern cloud based infrastructure and management systems there is no longer a need to create backups from your production servers.
They can be automatically recreated and no important data is stored on them.
So I was reading an article about information Snowden released the other day about how the US is gearing up for cyberwar. It occurred to me that it has to be obvious that NSA is aware aware of its limitations in performing counterterrorism using this needle/haystack approach. While there have been some documented abuses of the system, it's not clear that they have been systematically useful to its operators on a scale large enough to justify the program's spending and civil rights implications. President Obama is a constitutional scholar, but he backs the rhetoric even as he tries to close Guantanamo Bay.

I wonder if this concept of total information awareness justified by terrorism is in fact primarily a way to set up information warfare capabilities in a way that is palatable to the public. E.g. PRISM is a way to monitor network traffic globally, very useful in a war. NSA and the executive branch clearly believe they are doing something so righteous that it justifies excessive breaches of civil liberties, lying to congress, and more. While I strongly disagree with them, I am beginning to suspect that these are preparations for some kind of global cyber war. If the preparations are good, the executive branch would be convinced that history would vindicate them, otherwise I'm fairly sure without sufficient justification, historians would see this as a 1984 scenario and punish their legacies harshly.
Mansplaining isn't about joy in knowledge. Read, as an example, the Solnit piece which led to the coining of the term:

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/13/opinion/op-solnit13

That wasn't about joy in knowledge. He interrupted her to expound about a book he hadn't even read, while energetically ignoring explicit statements that she not only the author of a book on the same topic, but the author of the very book he was mansplaining about. And then, when he finally realized that an expert on the topic was in front of him, he still wouldn't shut up.

I know a lot of smart people who take joy in knowledge. Who take joy in sharing knowledge. But every one of them can also shut up and listen.

Mansplaining is about social dominance, not joy.
Now that's awesome!
> What is quite shocking is that the device I use the most for reading is a new 55 inches LG OLED screen, rotated 90 degrees.

Is that because you prefer to focus at a longer distance?

> I love it because I control it. I could analyze my documents, I could index them, I could organize them as I want. I could mark them too on my tablet.

Do you store them as PDFs? What software do you use for indexing/ocr?
The new interface requires more clicks than the last one in order to select the options, and since I don't agree with the default options, it is quite annoying. The contrast for the drop down options is really, really bad. The fixed headers are an enormous waste of screen real estate for small laptops, and when this is coupled with the smaller line width, the effect is that information density is a lot worse.

On the front page of Hacker News, the number of points and the time an item was posted are not a links, but on your search results page, they are. They're not underlined, so you just have to guess that they are links. The little heart, person, and clock icons make it harder for the eye to scan across the line, and since they're not links, they don't really serve any purpose.

If the changes must stay, I would appreciate a "classic style" search option, preferably at at different URL, so that I don't have to switch to the old style every time.
I spent a good deal of last week comparing these two for a side project. I found that while p2.js supports a bit more that I need (specifically compound objects) It was harder to get going since you have to handle your own rendering. Whereas matter.js has it's own swappable rendering engine.
I'm impressed with how well they make their research public. This could have just been some people with a high speed camera and some mathematical models answering a curiosity and releasing a paper. Like this they present it in a way that even primary schoolers can understand, and even manage to link it to current affairs in the end. 👍
In Africa it's a hard proposition to find a government that definitively has less nefarious motives than Google...
lol. hitting a pedestrian and killing them is essentially a traffic ticket in the US
I know you are just responding to the argument made by the comment you are responding to. But I would argue that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how the Nobel family feels about the Prize. The Ecenomics Prize is sham regardless, and if the Nobel family participate in that sham, it doesn't make it less so.
I live in the same part of the country, and while everyone has a truck, I'd say about 1 out of 5 owners actually use them for utility purposes.

The rest are pristine showroom objects that have never even touched a gravel road, let alone dirt.
Anyone got a link to the original video of this event?

Seems to have vanished from the net.
NYC is constantly choked for public parking and the rise of SUVs has made it so much worse. If every Ford Explorer owner bought a Mini Cooper we'd get 10,000 parking spaces back and less smog too.
... unless the army starts buying them
"becoming the new SQL quickly" - Prisma, who led the way on that front, abandoned this pursuit.

"Learn GraphQL" - I'm not sure you need to learn GraphQL. You need to now that GraphQL is a powerful tool for APIs consumed by third party devs, such as the GitHub or Facebook API. But for internal APIs (and more than 98% of APIs are internal!), GraphQL (and even REST) is overkill and you'd be better off with RPC, such as Wildcard API [1] or gRPC [2]. Many developers will never have to build a GraphQL API in they entire career. Only few companies need to expose their data to third parties.

[1]: https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api

[2]: https://grpc.io/
But this isn't a free trial period. My understanding is that if you upgrade in the first year then you have a fully licensed version of Windows for the lifetime of the "device". But what is the lifetime of a virtual machine?
If you can be legally compelled to provide what's in your mind (password) and what's in your pocket (2FA device) then what's to stop them from compelling you to instruct your legal counsel (or whoever else is providing your "login escrow") to comply as well? It sounds like a ludicrous request but it's still in the realm of possibility.
I can't be the only person that was really hoping they'd just use Web-kit and help "standardize" how websites render...

really tired of having:

<!--[if IE x]><html class="please-dont-make-my-site-look-awful"><![endif]-->

Now instead we'll have:

<!--[if SPARTAN x]><html class="please-dont-make-my-site-look-awful"><![endif]-->
Hasn't happened?

http://gawker.com/8channers-sent-cops-to-wrong-house-in-atte...

http://feministing.com/2015/01/16/things-have-happened-in-th...
Goodness I'd have even gotten busted by that. That's quite clever.
Investigating how a great scientist thought is interesting, but should come with a YMMV warning. We see the same thing in the business press that focuses on "the characteristics of successful CEOs" and the like.

The interesting question is not "How many successful people in field X have characteristics Y?" but "How many unsuccessful people in field X also have characteristics Y?" If we don't have an answer to that--and we generally don't, because unsuccessful people are relatively hard to identify compared to the successful ones, and are generally considered a less interesting subject to study--then we can't say much about the degree to which characteristics Y contribute to success in field X.

There is no doubt Einstein's doggedness, patience, willingness to learn new methods, physical intuition and deep study of the physics of his time all contributed to his success, but there were likely quite a few people who had similar characteristics. That Einstein succeeded where they did not may be due to various factors, including various forms of luck.

As the article suggests, Einstein's strengths were well-suited to the problems he focused on in his early career, and less well-suited to the problems he focused on in his later career. That is a form of luck, albeit a more subtle and powerful one than "his guesses just happened to be right."
That seems like a failure to express intent properly. You can have a strong personality and powerfully seek feedback or clarification. Not mutually exclusive.
The amount of curation hasn't changed that much since I've been around, and pg used to do a lot as well. HN has always been a curated/moderated/whatever-term-you-prefer site.
I can see that, but the headline[1] and much of the first half of the article[2] strongly imply it (imo).

[1] The Californians Are Coming. So Is Their Housing Crisis
[2] Example: According to a recent study by Redfin, the national real estate brokerage, the budget for out-of-town home buyers moving to Boise is 50 percent higher than locals’ — $738,000 versus $494,000. In Nashville, out-of-towners also have a budget that is 50 percent higher than locals. In Austin it’s 32 percent, Denver 26 percent and Phoenix 23 percent.
Him dancing around and celebrating at the end of his 5 minute explanation of YouTube IDs [1] is such an uplifting thing to watch.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8
Those two statements capture perfectly what I think of Bitcoin too with its ridiculously deflationary block reward-halving algorithm.

Anyway, yes, I agree that 99% percent of existing cryptocurrency implementations are at least partially affected by short-sighted greed.

However, I think it's important to note that there is no technological constraint preventing the potential success of more egalitarian implementations. In that sense, it's at least disappointing to see technological potential for societal benefit being so categorically dismissed due to the flaws of early prototypes such as Bitcoin.
> so I’m not subsidizing Comma customers

Is this a thing outside of a tiny subset of hackerspace?
> How can you possibly be surprised that people don't want the things they like about the place they live to change?

People can and should obviously get upset (or excited!) about specific changes. What I'm more surprised at is the idea that some people have that any change at all is unacceptable. It's not like the town that one loved sprung up into existence as is, it took change to get the parts that you like in the first place! No one has an affirmative right for their town to remain as-is from their favorite point in time, as that's just not how life works.

I'm specifically thinking of my time in Santa Monica, with the residents thinking that they should be able to keep their small town vibe despite living close to one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. It struck me as neigh upon delusional to think that one can live near a major city and demand that the city halt expansion wherever it might be convenient to you. That's just not how humanity has ever worked, ever. Cities expand, live too close to them at your own peril.
I'm surprised to see such an optimistic outlook for UIPath; Microsoft has started encroaching on the space with their Power Automate platform and their desktop automation flows. They use similar-looking UIs (I believe it's Windows Workflow Foundation) and given that Power Automate has the added bonus of natively integrated connections with the rest of the O365 suite, I expected UIPath's outlook to take a hit like Slack did when MS Teams was rolled out.
Did it lower prices for non-landlord home buyers?
No, the description "lacks intelligence and awareness" is not at all what the poster wanted to convey. Not even close. As I said elsewhere, "extreme, inexplicable, self-destructive foolishness" might be an adequate substitute, but I think simply "retarded" is also effective and concise, uttered not in a spirit of wanton bullying, but rather for the purpose of vivid illustration of behaviour that is, in fact, profoundly stupid.

The word is only "problematic" to people like you who want to emphasisze its historical baggage. I suspect that there are a whole lot of other words you place off-limits. The words "stupid" and "dumb", for example, are used just as often to bully people with mental handicaps and illnesses.

If all such problematic words are to be policed out of circulation, we might actually be left with such dry descriptions as "lacks intelligence and awareness". I personally appreciate the emphasis and efficiency of the stronger phrasing.
Individual success for a member of an NFL team is the difference between $22,000,000 and $405,000. Per year. That's a massive incentive to act as an individual.

It great that you enjoy what you do, but a better comparison would be kickball teams, because everybody's there for the same reasons.
That's solvable with negative income tax.
In a more controlled environment where you are writing shell scripts all of the time, it seems like this could be something useful. For example, you could distribute it with your "dotfiles" to use in your .bashrc / .zshrc files. Or you could make sure it's installed on all of your Linux/*BSD servers.

It's obviously not so great for distributing around to random places where it probably won't be installed.

Edit: Right in the README is this:

> fatten[1], to make standalone shell scripts

[1] https://github.com/shellfire-dev/fatten
Only because we live in a very artificial economy. In reality milk should cost less than a dollar a gallon but for artificial scarcity.
Here's another anecdote, for what it's worth:

I started smoking at age 21, when I graduated college a year early, and smoked nonstop after graduation until age 23.

At that point, my life basically fell apart, and it was definitely related to being high 24/7.

So I quit cold turkey. By age 25, I had started my own web business that was very successful. SaaS business, recurring revenue, amazing growth, etc. I was driving a fancy car, living in Palo Alto, and was on track to being a millionaire by my late 20's, almost guaranteed, just based on the growth of the business. I was so financially secure that I even got married and had a kid very young.

Of course, running the business (plus starting a business at the same time) was stressful. There were customers, partners, employees, etc., to deal with. And a toddler, and new wife.

I had very little support or mentors. None of my family or friends were entrepreneurs and I had no connections.

Eventually, I started getting migraine headaches on a regular basis. Around age 27. I convinced myself that smoking marijuana again was a logical thing to do, despite the fact that it had literally destroyed my life after college, and I had to rebuild my life back up again already.

I was smoking large quantities of high grade stuff. I had a lot of money from my business, so I went all out. Oils, kiefs, fancy bongs, the whole deal.

Being high all day, I started making terrible decisions and being really reckless with my business.

Long story short: within 12 months I went from a highly profitable, debt-free, lifestyle business that allowed me to effortlessly live in the heart of Silicon Valley (out of choice -- I could have lived anywhere I wanted to), to having a nervous breakdown, bankrupting my business, and ending up $250,000 in debt.

Today, I am 34. I am still paying off the debt from that mistake. I have no business, and work a "shitty" (meaning, comfortable six figures, but no real ownership) job as a software engineer. I am regularly depressed when I think about what I lost, and how foolish I was to lose it.

This is an extreme case, and of course only an anecdote. But it's pretty black and white: smoking a lot of marijuana all the time made me dumb and caused me to make really bad decisions.

As for weaning off of marijuana and its resultant impact on the sharpness of mind:

I found that after 3 days, there is a very noticeable difference. You are probably about 70-90% recovered at that point. But it takes a good 6-12 months to get that back that really sharp "edge" that you once had, the remaining 10-30%.

But, as I hope I have related in this story, it's not just about getting back the intelligence and sharpness of mind. It's that even when you get that stuff back, you will still be left with the consequences of whatever dumb shit you did while living your life high all the time.
Because, in many cases, no kind of communication software can supplant the face-to-face interaction, especially when multiple people are involved. The best distributed teams I've worked with are those that organise live meetups at least every few months.
Wow, wish this was reported more broadly. That's quite the repudiation from the Orange County community.
It shouldn't matter whether or not it's hilarious. Attempts at humor often fall flat on the internet and are somewhat frowned on per HN guidelines. You're objectively wrong and anyone who agrees should chime in to say so. Disagree? Fine, but come to this thread to tell us why. #s
The Paradox of Tolerance comes to mind, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony
I have yet to read any reports on how the PCR amplification cycle reduction from 40 to 35 has affected the daily numbers.
I want to review the studies because I don't trust the claims of media or other authorities, not because I don't trust studies.

That said, I do intend to be critical of the studies as well--anyone should be. I want to review replication, funding, methodology, etc...

I'd like to know what the actual evidence is for long term safety of the current recommended vaccine schedule.