jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, because you have a greater capacity to retain your values despite overwhelming incentives not to do so.

Gambling in this way destroys people and their families, much like drug addiction. You might say those people are "vulnerable" in some special inherent way, but really, they just happen to be in different circumstances than you.

My view is that your enjoyment here has a cost: it preserves environments we know cause human animals to change for the worse. I don't see that as, empirically, a controversial point.

Casinos take a healthy rat in, and frequently, an unhealthy rat leaves.

Behind all this "decision making" is the reality of human psychology, and of abuse, trauma, and health. And it is no hidden thing that gambling, opioid over-prescription, prostitution... as environments take in healthy desperate animals and exist deeply unhealthy ones.

This transition preserves "freedom" in the libertarian sense -- and it is my view therefore that this sense is pathological and misunderstands people.

What you are saying is that pre-post casino you retain your freedom (in the intuitive, healthy sense). Alas very many people do not.

When environments cause people to give up on values that keep them healthy, those environments are sick and make people sick. Humans are not blank slate masters of everything: we're animals. And what we need isnt arbitrary and different and unique and special.

There are some values so essential that when we see people giving them up, we ought regard the perpetrators of that changes as abusive manipulators; or at least, naively engaging in abuse.
I found that useful. But why is 2 true? Was that proven by experiment or by math equations? It doesn’t seem intuitively true to me.
Via Twitter, whoworks.at just let me know that they also plan to provide Firefox and Safari extensions, as well as a bookmarklet version: https://twitter.com/#!/whoworksat/status/59728620968615936
Are 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C related to 5-HT2B at all? Don't psychedelics like LSD, DMT, and MDMA non-selectively target those receptors?
I really understand and empathize with this sentiment, because for at least five years, I had pretty bad experiences with recruiters. But I'd caution you to not throw out the baby with the bathwater -- they're out there.

At the past few companies I've been at, I've had the chance to work with some really thoughtful, practical and productive recruiters. Secondly, at companies I've worked at with great recruiters, we overwhelmingly were able to build a great organization of engineers who I genuinely enjoyed collaborating with. I think getting to the root of there being so few good recruiters requires a bit of reframing -- why are there so many shockingly subpar recruiters out there?

If you think about it that way, there's so many shockingly subpar recruiters out there for the same reason there are so many shockingly subpar companies. The internal economics of a company allow it to "remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" -- but just as equally, it could force to company to hire in a savvy manner to arbitrage an edge in the talent market that bigger, more complacent actors are leaving untapped.

There can be a lot of problems with VC funded rocket-ship companies that can end up being pseudo-cult like entities that crash and burn like WeWork. And yet, I've consistently had great luck getting amazing opportunities at growth stage startups that would be very hard to get at established companies that could really care less about losing me (or anyone else) as a candidate -- with a recruitment process that belies that apathy in a very palpable manner. Conversely, these growth stage startups actually fought to hire me, as well as the organization that I saw develop around me. I know that not every such company is like this, but I guess what I'll say is that I've had better luck with them than with the big companies.
A suitable replacement? "Personal Blocklist (not by Google)": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
> Either Vitalik is extremely smart or he just doesn't know what he's talking about. Overall, his opinions are just confusing and distracting like the whole Ethereum ecosystem.

Vitalik started out years ago with writings consisting entirely of self-citing the Ethereum echo-chamber. Judging by the citations here he's starting to understand the value in the works of the established institutions, tenured university professors, and career cryptographers -- people whom it's obvious in his circles are either loathed as some irrelevant elites or simply, wholly unknown.

Now that Vitalik has spent the last few years actually surveying the last decades of theoretical achievements in the literature, maybe it's time to build a secure distributed world-computer. Oh wait.
>>From a design point of view, that's not a good thing, you want a data store to do just what it is - a data store, all joining and such can happen somewhere else - just make sure it's in the same transaction.

See, that's exactly why I indicated I'm not a theoretician and do not feel comfortable making such a sweeping "Should" statement (much as I would've made an opposite one:).

Immediately my question is "Why?" and "What data do you have to back it up?". I understand model-view-controller etc is a design pattern, but are we certain that it's always the right one?

From my trenches perspective: relational RDBMS has been around for neigh half a century. It's an INCREDIBLY mature, optimized, understood (by experts), common, standardized (for all the individual RDBMS differences), safe technology. I have team members who have been doing hard-core SQL for 20+ years, and a market full of similar, serious, hardened experts. And it'll survive changes in the higher-up stacks - in my own meager career of ~20 years, relational RDBMS has been the most stable part of the stack.

I can get a 3-5 year 'expert' on a particular programming stack, or a 20-year expert on SQL, who has seen things and will safeguard customer's data and business priorities with their life. Again, a very personal experience, but the dozens of clients I've been with, have broadly similar priorities, objectives and concerns on database level; and occasionally vastly different ones on layers above. It's a brilliant unifying common denominator.

Without a fun discussion over a drink and whiteboard, and it could be my inability to see forest for the trees, but I'm just not convinced that "all joining and such should happen somewhere else" :-\

[note, I didn't downvote your comment - I don't necessarily share the same conclusions, but I think it contributes to discussion :-]
Eat a couple of “enemies” is way better than mass incarceration in my opinion. I mean it’s just meat and only a few dozen people were killed...
I'm glad they mentioned the Star Trek paperback where each of the crew members remembers their own experience with the Kobayashi Maru.

It didn't just start with "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". It was really central to that movie's theme. (Captain Kirk's insistence that he doesn't believe in no-win scenarios.) It was such a good distillation of his character that I wasn't surprised they brought it back for the first movie in the rebooted franchise.
So? Your original comment still say hit piece when it was in no way that and you seem to acknowledge that in the follow up.
In practice, performance is excellent - Dear ImGui's OpenGL implementation trounces most other GUI libraries in terms of performance (we're talking 2 orders of magnitude faster than Qt, let alone Electron et al).
They weren’t, but did achieve something remarkable that’s still underappreciated by many.
At some point one gets a knock on the front door, sees a journalist holding a guillotine and pike, but just can't muster the old outrage. The field of heads is vast, most of them had less power than the journalists who decapitated them, and is it really necessary to fight another battle in the culture war over a tiny bakery doing naughty things? Can I really trust you when you say Elon Musk's union-busting is bad, or am I going to give it a quick google and find out that GM and Ford are worse, and you're going after Elon because he's a celebrity CEO who smoked weed with Joe Rogan once? Would you tell me if a modern-day Kissinger was committing a modern day institutional mass murder? Why did you drop Hong Kong as soon as COVID happened?

If your paper has power, then in some loose sense it governs, and have you kept the consent of the governed? And if you've lost it, why?
Tabelog lead to some amazing dinners in Japan.
I'm genuinely curious where you're sending money that a wire transfer using IBAN+SWIFT doesn't work but Bitcoin does.

What country has the banking infrastructure to support easy $50k-equivalent withdrawals from a local Bitcoin exchange, but not for receiving wires?
Back when scandium bikes were a thing they were cheaper then Ti bikes.

Also, from the article:

Any time you ride a high-quality aluminum racing frame made of welded 7005 series aluminum, you're probably riding on a little scandium. A lot of 6061 grade aluminums use scandium too. In fact, the bicycle industry is one of the biggest scandium markets, still.
ERCOT does have several HVDC links, which when I checked a couple hours ago were exporting power. Also, I believe that with modern technology HVDC is more efficient than synchronous AC connections (largely because of higher voltage interconnects)
>Or did he look at an Asian woman and immediately start attacking China?

I don't think that's entirely fair. I suspect his answer would be pretty much the same no matter who asked it. He was pre

>Marshalling private militias to attack people is fascism, however, and it's a practice Trump shares with both Hitler and Mussolini.

"LIBERATE MICHIGAN", anyone?

Though, in fairness, the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor didn't start until two whole two months after he sent that Tweet. The Blackshirts carrying rifles through the capitol building were largely peaceful.
Do you really believe this phone is designed for you? Hint: it's not.
For point 3, I think it's a benefit. I sell myself as a particular kind of programming specifically because I do not want to work on lame projects that don't interest me at all. I think it's perfectly valid to self-identify as a "systems programmer" or "web programmer" because, unless you're under certain situations, you probably don't want any ol' programming job. These days I even specify what languages I want to work in because I'm so nitpicky.
Its not all about you. There are a lot of reasons you could have been rejected. Its difficult to say what went wrong. You need to try this ten more times. If you get rejected all ten times try modifying your approach.
Problem I have with this log is that legitimately slow queries, in my case usually those where I have concatenated 100's or 1000's or inserts into one query, make it hard to use in a meaningful way.

It's possible I'm using it wrong, did get much past trying it out. Fairly easy to roll my own rough timer in a DB wrapper, haven't got around to finishing this yet though.
That won't work. Somehow we've gotten into Lord of the Rings Mode -- "one ring to rule them all"

We have effectively turned a distributed system into a monolithic piece of spaghetti. And now folks are suggesting that what we need -- wait for it -- is more testing.

We're effectively having all the same conversations large organizations have when creating billion-dollar POS centralized software development systems. Should we focus on requirements (listen to the voters). Should we be more clear on the impact of the change (environmental, financial, etc)? Maybe we just need some super-smart people put in the right spots. That'll fix it.

Many times I wonder: are people doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again just in slightly different settings? (sigh)
While I think comparing sales on a platform that is years old to a platform that is months old is silly, he has a good point with how the store works. It is 1 step away from actively working towards killing Indie games.
Thanks for the comment, much appreciated. I guess I'm not that familiar with what repels some developers as I don't recall ever feeling that repulsion towards TDD myself.

With regard to hacking something up quickly, I see no issue with this. I spike code all the time to prove a point or try out something new. If it's worthy of putting into production I'll engage in that 'ceremony' you mention. Though, theres not much that's ceremonial about it :)
Many developers have the initial gut reaction to build instead of buy. I've found that many people don't really fully understand the ramifications though. Even if some of these places only have 3-5 developers working on this full time - that's still probably FAR more resources than another company, especially a startup, can devote to the problem. You also now need resources to maintain and update it. All of this takes resources away from whatever it is your business actually does.

I guess the hard part is really determining what is trivial vs what is worth letting someone else take over. Some people may look at the above services and feel like they look pretty easy - and then a week or a month down the line they realize there is more to it than they first thought.

Other aspects people often don't think about - dashboards and admin sections usable by a non-developer.

I'm not vouching for any of these services as I have never needed to use any of them, but I would definitely guard against blind "not invented here" syndrome.
Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" crops are not the only place roundup (glyphosate) is used.

If engineering herbicide resistance into plants is such a bad thing, what's your alternative? Do you want to return to the methods we used before we discovered modern genetics?

Monsanto has done some nasty things in the modern era, but their genetics (including their "Roundup Ready" products) are not one of them. If you want to complain about Monsanto, I suggest starting with the changes that Romney (Bain & Company) made to the companies business practices.
They’re pretty selective in rule enforcement though - as long as you have the “right” viewpoint.
Nice!

Can you please explain to a rookie what the ord('1') is for? Is it just a way of writing a magic number of value 49, or is there some significance to it?
Why national?
Well put, I concur
I really hope they have a record with playback at higher speed/skip speaker function. I don’t know if it will hurt their growth at this point, but it would make Clubhouse usable for me. Otherwise, there’s too much noise for the value of the signal
Not necessarily California specific, but more in touristy spots: They're also being let out on AirBnB to short term tourists. It's done a huge number on available housing in many markets. Dublin, for instance, say the long-term rental supply double from August of 2019 to August of 2020 because of all the AirBnB residences looking to keep making money and thus returning to the long-term rental market. Hopefully they'll stay on that market (and more will follow), and AirBnB can disappear.
It's a shame nobody came up with an OS that runs entirely on a GPU.
Do you notice the importance of "nor" in this?
Watch for a request for an immunity deal. Objectively this guy should be in a ton of trouble.
I specifically said "california money" on purpose.
As Linus already acknowledged the kernel is getting dangerously bloated.
Yes I did mean that. I didn't mean to insult the intelligence of HNers though. Just thought it wouldn't be prudent to mention here!
Aren't there just too many cases where this doesn't happen to make this appeal to probability flawed?

For example, hate speech laws in Canada (or many other countries), or anti-discrimination laws? While they might have their detractors, it's a stretch to claim that they (in particular) have led us to a freedom apocalypse.
What about parody that a reasonable person would recognise as such, but a small number of fools might not? For example [1] or [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWfKdKWJEkM
This was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing!

> This means that whenever I call this function, I need to provide together with a and b a proof that b isn’t zero.

What might such a proof look like? And is this supposed to work at compile-time?
Wow, I have no use of paper books, but would easily donate a few $ as a thanks for the free e-book. No donate button?
With the X220, you can get a beefy i7 full of ram quite cheap on ebay. Not as happy as with the X60, but the upgrade was worth it.
There is a strong correlation between people experiencing frequent deja-vu and epilepsy. The reason I remembered all this is that a friends child was diagnosed with epilepsy a while ago and I read everything I could on the subject and one of the offshoots of all that reading was a bunch of stuff about deja-vu.

Maybe that would be a good starting subject for some 'light reading'.
I don't think the PDF was saying that it could violate energy conservation, nor was the actual content implying something from nothing (the title did though), but it did imply that there is a possibility that the forces present in an existing system (i.e. non conducting plates within a region of space under the influence of an external field), could be transferred to a much smaller system without the experimenter using energy to apply a force. I think that because something else is going on that can't be explained for, is the reason why people are looking in the first place. Here's an example of that[0]:

"Surprisingly, with pyrrole the predicted ‘activation barriers’ were way out, with calculations “less than a third of the measured value”. After much head scratching, puzzled scientists turned to a purely quantum phenomenon called ‘zero-point energy’.

In classical physics, an object losing energy can continue to do so until it can be thought of as sitting perfectly still. In the quantum world, this is never the case: everything always retains some form of residual – even undetectable – energy, known as ‘zero-point energy’.

While ‘zero-point energy’ is well known to be associated with motion of the atoms contained in molecules, it was previously believed that such tiny amounts of energy simply don’t affect the molecule as a whole to any measurable extent, unless the molecule broke apart.

But now, the researchers have discovered that the “quantum nature” of the molecule's internal motion actually does affect the molecule as a whole as it moves across the surface, defying the ‘classical’ laws that it’s simply too big to feel quantum effects."

[0] http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/movement-of-pyrrole-molec...
Exactly which festivals do better?
You can make a similar list about anything that doesn't exist yet. If it were easy, it probably would have been done.

Eight years ago, you could have made an equivalent list about electric cars. Well, we have electric cars now and that situation is looking pretty good.

Imagine you are an Elon-Musk-alike who wants to make fast air travel happen. Then this article isn't a list of why it's impossible, it is a list of problems you need to solve in order to make it work. I think we have enough examples in recent years to show that if someone with sufficient inventiveness attacks the problem hard, many of these kinds of things really are solvable.
It seems to be blocked for different ISPs. In Chennai, I tried BSNL and Airtel, and got the blank page. For Aircel, it said this site is blocked due to DOT guidelines. But at the moment it seems to be working and has been up for the past 2 days. There is no news anywhere about why it's blocked or who asked for it. It looks like DOT went overboard again like they did to Blogger.com years ago - blocking the entire domain instead of relevant subdomains.
Reposting a dead post which should not have been dead, from abecedarius:

These had high I-want-to-read-itosity, I thought:
Abelson and diSessa, Turtle Geometry
Abelson and Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Aho and Weinberger and Kernighan, The AWK Programming Language
Andrew Appel, Compiling With Continuations
Jon Bentley, More Programming Pearls
Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls
Leo Brodie, Thinking FORTH
W. H. Burge, Recursive Programming Techniques
Carriero and Gelernter, How to Write Parallel Programs
A. K. Dewdney, The New Turing Omnibus
Edsger Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming
Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Computation
Friedman and Felleisen, The Little Schemer
Friedman and Wand and Haynes, Essentials of Programming Languages [1st edition]
James F. Gimpel, Algorithms in Snobol4
Paul Graham, On Lisp
Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
Grune and Jacobs, Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide
Daniel Hillis, The Connection Machine
Kernighan and Pike, The Practice of Programming
Kernighan and Pike, The Unix Programming Environment
Kernighan and Plauger, Software Tools in Pascal
Donald Knuth, Literate Programming
Glenn Krasner (editor), Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
Susan Lammers, Programmers at Work
Wm Leler, Constraint Programming Languages
Liskov and Guttag, Abstraction and Specification in Program Development
Peter Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Chris Okasaki, Purely Functional Data Structures
Richard O'Keefe, The Craft of Prolog
P. J. Plauger, Programming on Purpose I. (and II and III)
P. J. Plauger, The Standard C Library
Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Toby Segaran, Programming Collective Intelligence
Toffoli and Margolus, Cellular Automata Machines
Niklaus Wirth, Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler
Witten, Moffat, & Bell, Managing Gigabytes
(mostly from my old list at http://wry.me/~darius/personal/books.html)
Over two decades of programming, I've read most of the books listed in this thread. Some of them contain real pearls, while others are undeservedly popular. In my opinion, each language is suited to (and perhaps designed for) certain kinds of problems. There is no 'general' software design approach. Each language has developed its own idioms and patterns, which are best learned by tracing through production code of competent programmers who are solving problems that are somewhat similar to yours. Most books actually need to be taken with a grain of salt, as they often sound more authoritative and general than they really are.
I saw two and two. My mistake.
Headline should probably say 'smash Uber car with baseball bats.' At first I thought they were beating up drivers. Smashing up a car is still bad, but very different.
Did you just move this to the business page?
"the evidence indicates that HNC led to an increase in the
total number of vehicles in circulation as well as a change in the composition of vehicles toward
high-emissions vehicles"
Plus I have zero confidence that if I were to turn off what Facebook calls personalized ads, they would stop tracking me.
Once I owned around 3000 movies and 300 discs (music). I digitalized my collection in 2015 and in 2017 made it available via streaming (Plex). I sold the physical copies and got rid of the digital ones (with the exception of 5 movies) last year. I couldn’t be happier. It was a burden to be honest and I never managed to watch more than a couple of times 5% of my collection. I see it as an investment of time and peace of mind for my future self.
Not too many people work for 50 years. Also, the post said every two years: "every two years that goes by at a company you don't like".
> Your user base is unhappy

It isn't the owner user base if it comes from an unsupported third party build.
I currently own and 100% expect to rent something like a low-maintenance condo in a community when older.
Love it! I just googled that quote and you seem to have originated it. I have a little list of quotes and their authors. Do you mind revealing your name so I can attribute it? Or emailing me to the address in my profile?
Just thinking about the amount of work done planning, creating, and deploying this blows my mind!

Incredible achievement!