jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
TFA? If there is ever an exploit on phone codes, it will be massive. I removed my phone number as a TFA from most services within the last few days.
Every time I see a site like this I wonder if the site is legit, or does it "match" the phone number with an IP.
Inheritance and adoption was probably cut from the feature set for simplicity. Without an heir you "lose"and I suspect adoption to force an heir would break some lose scenarios
Timing, IIRC. Lotus was late to Windows, opening the door for Excel.
The real solution is to use the ISO week calendar for everything.
This is very direct and honest, thank you!

You make a very good point. Whatever I manage to build is going to be experimental.

You're also right that therapy is a common way to create that self awareness, but it's not the only way. Some techniques work well without a guide like meditation and journalling, and others require a little guidance but nothing as in-depth as therapy (Byron Katie's Work and Sedona Method are two that I've personally found very effective).
Switzerland is not a good example to support your idea, they are not very small, have no high density of population and they provide better services than US to their citizens for a lot less money (lower tax rate). They are more efficient and spend wiser.
> Indians are not a person and do not act uniformly in the interests of India.

No, but they can act uniformly if they so choose. That's the entire point. The US Constitution doesn't ascribe group assignments, but the argument is that if people self associate into groups (non-profits, corporations, religions, etc) then the rights that extended to them as individuals also extend to them acting as a group.

In other words, I'm not suggesting that Indians are some sort of hive mind, but if one day all of the Indians in America decided to Neuralink themselves into some sort of a hive mind, the rights that extended to each one of them by the US Constitution also extend to them in their hive mind capacity.

As an Indian, I welcome this freedom!
> "I think it’s unfair to say they support policies that favor the already wealthy."

it's not unfair to call a spade a spade. opposing tax cuts can be done for a myriad of supportive or unsupportive reasons, so that doesn't provide a useful counter-argument.

and "minimum wage increases" sounds great on the surface. but the underlying purpose of a minimum wage is to paper over gross systemic equities that have only grown over time and keep us from even discussing policies for creating more fair and dynamic markets that would naturally distribute wealth more widely and efficiently, and neatly obviate such a distortion-producing bandaid of a policy.

but the central point is that no significant party and nearly no politician is addressing systemic issues that has promoted winner-take-all dynamics in our politicoeconomy for at least the last 50 years. even obamacare was so browbeaten and laden with special interest provisions, our healthcare costs have only soared, all to append zeroes onto bank accounts that abosolutely don't need, and more pointedly don't deserve, them.
Greece isn't a sovereign state. It's part of the EU. Very different than the USA which controls it's own currency. US debt in the form of treasury bonds just provides the private sector (usually wealthy) with an interest bearing checking account. US doesn't even have to sell bonds. In fact, it spends first and THEN sells bonds.
It makes me chuckle when they perceive it to be something of an innovation when it has been in languages long before Rust, in a much better way; I mean, just look at Ada, really. You even have formal verification in Ada/SPARK.
Cultural appropriation of something that many members of a culture promote is good. Without it, the only cultural symbols that people can get an intro to are those from European cultures.

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That said, I encourage people to read the Bhagavad Gita. As someone who has long appreciated meditation from a secular perspective, I've recently started reading it and am finding it valuable.
They're not unreasonable assumptions. Especially considering that there is evidence of interbreeding between homo sapiens and neanderthals. There's DNA evidence, and now there's fossil evidence. If they're genetically somewhat compatible, it seems likely that it would have happened, and not really a good reason why it wouldn't.
That's now either part of poppler-utils or also provided through poppler-utils. On my Debian box, the manpage still references Xpdf, though pdftotext is provided by poppler-utils.

That said, yes, it's quite handy.
Not just _from_ Gmail, also to it: Google+ onboarding asked me for my email credentials when I went through it for a throwaway account.
> Currency of my country lost 250% of its value over last 7 years.

I doubt population of your country at large can afford bitcoin transaction fees for their daily shopping.

BTW, are you saying that your currency has negative value now? I assume you mean a 2.5x inflation multiplier over 7 years, or +14% per year. That's mild compared to an order of magnitude walk of the BTC-USD rate over just one year.

The only real use case for BTC I see is moving capital between jurisdictions.
The atrocities and genocides that Europeans brought to the world for centuries should be focused on deeply. Context: I am European and disgusted with the way we treat our impact on the world.

I think among the most striking examples here aside from the obvious one (Holocaust), is Belgium, because it just seems to slip under a lot of people's radar. Belgium has an evil, brutal and vile history, especially in relation to its colonialism and the included human rights violations which in my opinion are massive compared to the country's size and geopolitical abilities.

Belgian citizens are oblivious, but at least slowly "waking up" as the BBC calls it [1]. To be clear, it's the system and leadership that I struggle with. Not the citizens.

To this day, Belgian schools do not in any way teach that Belgium is solely responsible for the Rwandan genocide in the early 90s. It was the sick Belgians who separated fake ethnic groups in Rwanda in the first place, depending on how ethnically white the shape of your skull appeared. And later they used these synthetic groups for political purposes and control.

The Belgian government/leadership has a long history of inhuman behavior, violence and murder that goes nearly completely ignored within Europe and it sort of rubs me the wrong way. Guy Verhofstadt said 'I beg your pardon' once in Rwanda, and that was basically it. 800,000+ are dead and Belgium says 'sorry' once. What?

Belgium isn't about chocolate, it's a country which is completely fine with not teaching its citizens about the common practice of chopping off children's arms for not meeting labor goals for the day. When Belgians travel to places like Rwanda they are dumbfounded by the realities of their own history.

And those people want to tell China something about human rights, yelling from some tower in Brussels. It's breathtaking.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53017188
I've once implemented a regular expression engine based directly on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative – it's straightforward to implement both intersection and negation this way.
Sometimes I think people are not aware that Apple also has an ad business.

https://searchads.apple.com/
They do employee people (office staff), but they are not employers of the drivers. It would be more accurate to call them the contractee.

At least, this is the argument that Uber/Lyft will/does make to shield them from general liability for their contractors' actions as well as tax liability[1].

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...
I think you would be interested in reading this post (it contains almost all the information you are interested in) - https://ivypanda.com/essays/e-mail-spam-what-it-is-and-how-i...
More than a couple of hours, no, it’s a scam.
Maybe(and this is just a guess) it is because even the staff at McDonalds that is working at the worst possible positions knows that they don't need to collect food stamps to survive, that whatever happens they have 21+ days of paid holidays per year and unlimited sick leave with free healthcare. I mean, the pay might be shit, but at least you are not worrying about what will happen if you get sick.
MiniHack is my favorite. Works great.
There're two posts on Facebook's engineering blog that discuss this (they're from 2013 when they first started working on the feature):

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...
>some kind of interpreted language which made it very difficult to fathom

Oh, Andy… It was compiled C. :-) I thought the structure was nice, actually.
I have a recommendation for everyone:

The courses at ADUni are really awesome. Though the resolution totally sucks and it feels rather old, they're the best thing around the Internet thats a tutorial on CS. They have everything from Algorithms and Discrete Maths to OOP and stuff. Check those out at http://www.aduni.org I'll probably send a pull request to whoever's maintaining the repo. Great job though, you've listed quite a lot of courses... ;)
> because mutability may break homoiconicity (which is required for purity)

Are you sure you meant that? My (admittedly weak) understanding of homoiconicity is that it's unrelated to either purity or (im)mutability. Isn't homoiconicity related to the program text and its AST? Aren't there languages such as Haskell which encourage pure functions but are not homoiconic?

I'm pretty sure you meant something else...
You don't think the ability to use photographs of hands/fingers and used for fingerprint readers is relevant to a quote about using fingerprints as passwords has a security gap of consent? I'm sorry but what? We've seen many times that fingerprint readers can be fooled, and pointing out that pictures of hands/fingers could be used against you is highly relevant to a decision of securing something with fingerprints or not.
"One beautiful feature of the language-based approach is that we start with a very familiar model of computation, the evaluation of polynomials over the reals. It’s very familiar for all students, and I think they find it very satisfying precisely because it has a direct computational flavor."

Don't know how true this is at other universities, but this doesn't sound like my experience at all. :)
I replied on your identical submission over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8911129
How does that work?

You invest some time to fill the bug and then someone decides that it's obsolete. Then, if you still care, you reopen it? Is that right?

Now what message do I get from this besides: "We don't care about your shitty two year old phone. Buy a new one now. It will be shit again in just two years. And don't bother sending bug reports. We're in the business of selling phones not fixing bugs."
Programmers are used to recompiling all the time. What's the problem here?
I think the author is talking about something else (or is confused), the Motorola 68K processors were big-endian and the PowerPC had a big-endian mode (which was used by both PowerMacs and other POWER architecture systems).

Intel x86 processors are little-endian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_and_hardw...
That's assuming that "figuring it out for us" is decidable. Many of the things we wish the compiler could do for us are not.
Why is it so complicated? Seems unnecessarily byzantine.
gg GG no re
1) Log in (or create an apple account)
2) download from itunes

i guess providing video over the internet is hard for apple (especially using html5, that they grandstand from the stage)
I found the site design quite ok. The logo needed a bit of spicing up to convey what you do, but other than that the site was clear at laying out what your service was all about. The width was the only issue that caught/poked me in the eye.
You're doing it again - I suggest you stop doing this and think harder about how you appear to others. Here's a link to what I wrote on one of your earlier submissions of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907596
I keep thinking that, too. But this time, most of the silly stuff is profitable. In the first dot-com boom, companies went public long before they were profitable. (I had a program to track that, Downside's Deathwatch: http://www.downside.com/deathwatch.html). There are lots of failures, but they fail small, with YCombinator-sized funding. We're not seeing failures the size of Webvan or Excite@Home this time around.

The first dot-com collapse was spectacular. Empty streets in San Jose and San Francisco. Huge, empty office complexes. Excite@Home built a huge headquarters facility at the end of Seaport Drive in Redwood City, bigger than Facebook or Oracle. It was vacant for years. About 40% of the twentysomethings in SF left town. The excess furniture ended up at Consolidated Office Outfitters in San Jose, which had a warehouse covering an entire city block full of partitions, desks, and chairs. The computers went to Weird Stuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale, where you can get all the parts for a previous-generation data center cheaply.

That doesn't seem to be happening this time. Most of the startups can cover their operating costs. Many are overvalued, though, because their future growth may not be that large.
If a bubble can last "years and years", what's to stop it lasting 50 years or 100 years? If it lasts over 50 years then is it even worthwhile to make the distinction? The speculation surely will outlive you. It could become an intergenerational scheme like fiat currencies...

There is a point where the economy is no longer serving regular people, it's all focused on rich people. When that happens, speculation becomes the main purpose of the economy. Everyone is forced to participate in what is essentially a game for rich people... Kind of like Westworld.

And there is a point when the speculation is more than that. It's a scheme, it's a hack... Participants find ways to constantly bring new money into this scheme. Recruit new generations. Like a cult.

With a constant stream of new money entering the economy via bank loans and government spending, the economy we have today is already a centrally planned speculative scheme (having many of the bureaucratic characteristics of communism). People are either not smart enough to understand it or they have too much skin in the game to acknowledge it and it seems that the next generation won't be any different.
You ommitted Go. I think Go has the best chance of replacing Python in the long run as it is very similar to Python and is often used as a replacement. In time I think we might see Google implementing most of the Python numeric and scientific libraries in Go.
People generally seemed to like Windows 3.11 → Windows 95 I guess? Also Mozilla Suite → Firefox (though some people still prefer the old way). It's just that when things are actually improved people tend to not remember them.
> I don't understand how NFTs change anything, though? Like, why do I care that Bob technically "owns" the file that I have a bit-for-bit identical version of?

Yeah. And Bob just has some blockchain token that signifies nothing, except maybe to enthusiasts of this NFT technology. There's no actual ownership of the file there, not even "technically."

I suppose you could create a Torrens title system that uses NFTs, but all the force will come from the law not the NFT technology.
How about not trying to use the intellect to stop the suffering that comes from trying and using the intellect?
There is a long story a buddhist monk tells about a professor on a ship who has learned all about the constellations, cetations and land formations, and looks down on the sailors who "don't think" about that stuff. The ship sinks and the professor drowns because he didn't learn how to swim.
The point is to that there's things to learn first, absolutely before anything else - which is how to get find the pleasure in life and not feel too much pain due to the negatives, how to not cause yourself suffering by your thinking. Foster Wallace is a guy who couldn't figure out the first thing.
Be aware that directly linking to external resources without user confirmation can be considered a GDPR violation.
The official reason is that California had required Diablo Canyon to rebuild their cooling system, to minimize continued impact on reef habitat. PG&E solicited bid proposals for a new cooling system, received some obscene number, and subsequently made the formal decision not to seek renewal of the relevant licensing.

But everybody knows the real reason is because of anti-nuclear activist pressure. If PG&E was strongly motivated to keep Diablo Canyon open, they probably could have, but they'd deplete whatever remains of their political capital. In the end it just wasn't worth the bother. They have bigger problems to deal with, and more important battles to fight. And they drew that conclusion before some of the more recent wildfire fiascoes.
> That implies that there's no artificial limit on supply of coins, either. Just fork or spin up a new blockchain if there's ever a real supply crunch for cryptocurrency in general.

I agree and this is the argument that I haven’t heard a good response to. If Bitcoin has value and utility, why shouldn’t a second chain, with the same parameters, have roughly equal value and utility?

Gold is on the periodic table of elements. You can’t make another gold.
You are proposing the use of malformed HTML, which often leads to weird, and hilarious problems further down the road.
They do all over the world, France for example recently.
Replying to myself: I felt so bad about asking people that I felt I had to try again to find the name of this game.

And I found it : "Seed of Andromeda".

https://www.seedofandromeda.com/
DITTO TO ALL! Thank goodness somebody posted this here!
As a non-white person in a white majority country, I can't wrap my head around thinking like this.
Holy moly, the JS-in-CSS one is wild! Thank you for sharing, a lot of these are really cool.

https://css-houdini.rocks/js-in-css
I think that's it: it's sort of an intel vs AMD interest piece. It's newsworthy in that it's a market signal, not a technology signal. The desktop CPU market segment is seeing a lot of transformation as secondary purpose built processors and SBCs become more and more of the market, so this is just sort of a fun puff piece.

Thanks for helping me answer the question.
You can downclock and/or undervolt the CPU if you need these many threads, but could bite relatively small single core performance reduction.
>And I don't think this is abnormal either, a little searching on reddit/facebook/twitter and you can find report after report of such activity on the various ride platforms.
>winds are empirically worse in New York and San Francisco.

Well New York isn't exactly famous for great weather either...
Time management, mental and physical energy management, planning and organizing are very underrated skills in tech. No matter how clever you are if you don't have the above, you are going to hit the ceiling fast in a demanding environment.

The dreaded word! Processes and systems, better figure out systems and processes that work for you fast.

You must figure out what works for you, here's a few for me.

I use a trello board to manage home tasks and personal tasks.
I schedule things I need to do in my calendar.
I use checklist to keep track of things I need to do.
I even schedule fun activities so I don't burn out.
When I can tell I'm running low on sleep, I schedule sleep alarms to remind me to go to bed.
To dive deep into something when you don't have the time is tough, but you can do so by scheduling smaller times and keep detailed notes which you can reference to remember what you have done and where you were.
> I think technical people often demonstrate a complete misunderstanding and/or disregard for the subject. [...] it can also be a rationalization for social ineptitude.

I guess, but I personally find it hard to really wrap my head around the political landscape at various jobs and have found myself in the path of the lawnmower blade more than a few times.

This is, from what I can tell, because there's not really a rhyme/reason from an observer's perspective to the politics at play. Any given meeting has several options for outcomes, and the optimal one depends on what today's politics look like instead of the obvious "what's good for the company/good for customers/etc." You can really mess yourself up good advocating for a position that seems reasonable when the current is, sometimes unbeknownst to you, flowing a different direction.

> There’s more to being effective than technical excellence.

I agree, but there's more to being politically savvy than just being nice & sociable.
I largely agree but to predefined windows. For example, on Ubuntu Ctrl-Alt-9 snaps a window to the top right. I find this really useful to open a terminal, text editor and video tutorial all at the same time and quickly snap them in place.
Seems like this narrative hasn't been explored and could have legs. I'm not holding my breath, but I'd like to see a solid media piece that hammered this idea home for the American-folk.
I have experimented transpiling PHP to Lua and it worked quite well. LPeg makes things very easy for parsing and the all-tables style makes it fairly easy to model any kind of class/OO.
Any reason why North America has such little activity compared to Europe?
Guess what - in the time that it took me to read this post, Moore's Law solved the problem.

Next.
Functionally equivalent? ... why couldn't you just design a PCB that's pinout-compatible?
I can't begin to imagine why someone would build a note-taking app that wasn't build on a standard version control system such as mercurial or git.

Is there a rationale for paperwork not doing this? I'd like to hear it.
My point of view with this is that it is more of a problem with government rather than a problem with the wealthy. If a government is bought off by the rich, it isn't a government for the people in the beginning to start off with.
I love how american and european chauvinism continues to conquer reason in the 21th century. Why mention Africa when most of the world's malnourished people are in Asia? With the great variance that can occur on a continent why mention continents at all? If one must it is irresponsible to omit that both continents were forced into producing cash crops for export to Western Europe.

Does that mean that the Western European models of governance work? Duh!
What ever happened to being innocent until proven guilty? Once you give up freedoms they are almost impossible to get back.
"assuming they are well behaved"

This is the key statement: in NYC a large portion (perhaps even a majority) of the dogs that I encounter are poorly behaved and improperly trained.

Given how many 'bad apples' there are, I'm not surprised by blanket bans.
Sorry to hear about your bad Amazon experience. I looked around a bit more, though, and the late UK release of Paul Simon's album is not an Amazon thing, it's UK-wide: HMV and Sainsbury both have the same release date in the UK as Amazon does.
I retract that response. It was clouded by passion.