jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> solve [...], otherwise everything will keep going up

This implies that markets going up is a problem that needs to be solved.
I had the feeling he was complaining about the value amount, not the exclusivity requirement.

It's pretty hypocrital but still... Sort of hypocrital
The CPI absolutely crashed in April 2020

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
The downside is that Mozilla tracks thousands of open tickets, most of which are probably obsolete. But who is going to start now with reviewing stuff from 20 years ago?

As much as it pains me (I’m still tracking multiple bugs I reported) to say this, but all tickets with no activity for some reasonable time period must simply be closed. Things are _already_ out of control.
To paraphrase Lenin, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang ourselves."
Ok, now I have to ask: do you guys actually think high taxes are good? Please respond with comments, rather than just up/down voting this.
Yes, until it is disrupted.
I think you got it the wrong way around.

The neighbouring town publishes data on water quality, and you pity the poor souls because the data shoes their water quality is horrible. Thing is, you are using the same water source. If anything, your water is likely worse because there is no transparency and some of the pipes might be leaded and you wouldn't even know it.

Same with cookies. The internet is polluted with aggressive tracking everywhere. In the EU you see how horrible it is - in the rest of the world people aren't even half as aware.

That said, people either start using browser plugins or just click yes and sacrifice their soul to the gods of dark patterns. In either case you don't see those banners as frequently unless you use private browsing.
We’ll, a good example would be goose neck trailers won’t treat that bedside well. In fact, there’s many, many reasons beds are fairly standardized.

Just one off the cuff supporting detail to my gut reaction. :)
The most important reason why I give unsolicited advice -- is to get feedback on my own advice (what mistakes does my advice contain?)

If a person does not want to discuss my advice - they cannot give me feedback about my advice.

If I cannot get that feedback - why do I need that person in my life in the first place?

So when I give unsolicited advice -- I implicitly encourage people I do not need in my life - to disconnect from me. That frees my attention to people who are good with using advise as a tool for improvement.
The included air compressor and security lock on the bed does mean it could be quite popular with contractors especially given the competitive price.

It does have way too much of the "in case I need to flee the mob to my private jet to flee to New Zealand" flavor to it though.
With a 6.5s 0-60 time, it won't be smoking too many sports cars on the track.
I know a lot of folks are walking away from the puzzling aesthetic but I think that’s the point. Existing Tesla owners with a taste for existing design cues won’t push Tesla sales any further. They’ve got to expand the demographic and this design has a chance to do this.

Think of all the wrangler, hummer, truck buyers who want a militaristic, rough, unpolished steel look and this is that flavor taken to an extreme.

Other buyers still have the S3XYs to choose from so we can all have our favorite toys from the same company. No cannibalization.
The DA is in the judicial branch?
I wonder if they cut the presentation a little short because of the glass issue . Then again, Musk isn't exactly the greatest presenter so I don't think he could play off someone talking in his ear to cut it short.
You don't even need that. Mars' atmosphere is very thin. Windspeeds can be extreme but there is so little mass being moved that the generated forces are pretty minimal.
What kind of design would you have gone for?
from a programming perspecting it looks really un-readable if you don't use FP.

I don't mean this as a slight, and I myself am slacking in the same regard, but it's depressing to me that this attitude is so prevalent among professionals.

There might be some good engineering reasons that tools like Docker and Kubernetes have much more traction than Nix, but "it's unfamiliar if you don't use FP" is a terrible one. It doesn't require that much investment to become familiar, and there seems to be many fantastic advantages to functional approaches.

Why does our industry tolerate this laziness?
VoltDB has fantastic HA, but yes, not in the OSS version.

You might be surprised how many apps deploy on VoltDB with cross-partition transactions making up a solid chunk of their workload. Yes, they're slower than partitioned operations, but they're still faster than MySQL much of the time.

Most of the apps we see partition very well, especially for writes. The fact that they can run 10k distributed aggregates a second to get a global view is something few other systems can touch.
working on it!

Pillsbury is a good start, they are awesome. Email us at the main contact address (ambassadors@proudlymadeindc.com) and we'll refer you to some poeple
Since .com/.net/org are controlled by a US company, you'd probably have to use a ccTLD like .ly and make sure to use a non-US registrar.
we'll have you back :-)
I can't speak for the nation as a whole, but in Silicon Valley people are very competitive. There's a mentality that I too partake in sometimes of "why do it, if you can't do it well". (and 'well' has been pushed to the extreme of 'be one of the best') The influx of Asian students driven mercilessly by their parents has not exactly helped reverse this trend.
That's absolutely right. Generally speaking though, you need to be popular (a lot of customers) in order to generate significant profits.

Since "making something people want" is generally considered a harder problem than monetizing that service when you have something people want, it's not entirely irrational to focus on the former before the latter, even if it doesn't always pan out.
Looks awesome :)

I started the ball rolling tagging people last week (http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/12/07/recently-tagged-pho...). Ended up messing with Mashable's profile and next thing you know everyone's doing this. If I wasn't so busy I would have built this, but then again if I wasn't so busy everyone would be rich, happy, and content. Good job!
My company has an opening also, it's still a company, but I need someone I can work with to do rapid prototypes, very entrepreneurial environment. Let me know if that's something you're interested in.
If you've seen a fair few kick-ins, do you have an opinion on the effectiveness of kickstops?
That may be true; another reason that they might be redacted is the "national security concern" of people (aka terrorists) avoiding those ISPs.
> People do what they want, less women want to program

Fewer women want to program because they're taught from a very young age that they can't.

As a result, we're losing out on a bunch of great programmers, which I think is a loss. I also think it's sad that girls are made to feel like these things are off-limits to them. I think the world would be a better place if every kid thought they could do whatever job they wanted to.
I also like it for sites that have ads everywhere. But the outright intrusive ads are the worst.
They didn't deny the person who leaked about Abu Ghraib.

Nor the Pfc. who leaked details of a heinous rape/murder/arson committed by U.S. troops in Iraq.
So if we ever invent artificial gravity that we can turn on and off with a switch all that stuff he said breaks down? And we get some really strange behavior?
> Perhaps OS virtualization is a new technology for you [...] some of us have been doing this for a while

Your comment makes a fair point, but it's really diminished by your condescending tone.
So I went to an undergrad for engineering, and my freshman class was 72% male, 28% female, and my major was probably 85% male, 15% female. At my first job, we never broke two women out of a team that was maybe a dozen engineers by the time we left. At my second job, there was briefly one woman but the rest of the time it was zero out of 8-9 engineers.

My law school class was 55% male, 45% female, and my firm was pretty close to even.

My experience makes me believe that the reason that there aren't more women programmers is mostly that there aren't more women programmers. I think men and women, generally, interact socially in different ways. By the time I left engineering, I found the fairly homogenous and almost exclusively-male mode of social interaction rather tiring. It was refreshing to be in an environment with a diversity of people who had different ways of interacting socially.

I don't think most of the typical canards really matter. Yes, programming is a nerdy profession that rewards people who can work solitarily for long hours on detail-intensive work. But so is law, so is medicine, so is accounting, and those fields have almost even ratios of men and women. I don't think there is anything about the work that deters women.
As a web devloper from a relatively small town, I run in to number 3 quite a lot. I usually answer questions about my job saying "I make websites". Even then people take me as a wizard of all things electrical and ask me general computer questions.

As for the correct percentage of gender/race/whatever in programming, I don't think that really matters. I think a certain amount of people in general have the mindset to be a programmer and think the way a programmer does, and I don't really see anything like gender or race playing a part in someones ability to be a programmer.
My entry into programming was through making website layouts as a teenager. This was back in the days of geocities, expage, angelfire. There were lots of girls around my age doing this kind of thing, making personal pages, fanpages, CSS templates for other people. Then livejournal appeared, and now tumblr. Some of us made the transition from CSS to learning Ruby on Rails, but not a lot. I don't know why. But I don't think it's fair to say that girls aren't interested in code.
Probably not, because it is still up.
Yes, this is certainly not anything approaching the consensus of "serious historians", this sounds like a crank theory put out likely by a single individual who is publishing popular books on the subject.

The Pauline epistles are indeed though usually cited as the works in the New Testament that were the earliest written down, but there's plenty of reason to doubt the academic consensus, which has shifted over time, and like all historical subjects, somewhat subject to fads. (After all, you can't gain notoriety or publish a new paper that simply says "yeah, what's written is likely true, or the closest approximation to the truth we're likely to ever have, and the people who came before me were right.)

Take the Gospel of Mark, usually cited as the earliest gospel. One of the strongest held reasons that it's believed to have been written after 70 AD is because Jesus prophesies what sounds like the Siege of Jerusalem. That's it. It certainly doesn't seem crazy even from a one hundred percent secular worldview that Jesus correctly or even accidentally predicted the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans via one hundred percent natural means, given the contemporary political situation. If anything, you can understand how the 1 of 100 prophets who completely by chance made an accurate prediction would become more popular afterward.

Or consider the gospel of John - one of the strongest held arguments against Johannine authorship is about the only biographical information we know about him is that he's a fisherman, and the author of John sounds like an intelligent Greek writer. That's it. I don't think it's radically implausible that he may have been employed at the time as a fisherman, and still had an educated background. Scholars usually call it "anonymous", even though the author clearly focuses on John and refers to him in a special way..and the ends the book by claiming that this is the disciple which testifies these things, and wrote these things. He also repeatedly humblebrags that John beat Peter in race...the kind of detail that doesn't seem like a religious community would find worth highlighting.

It's also not surprising that different accounts of something that occurred over a long timespan contain differences or highlight different things. You see this all the time from eyewitnesses today and throughout history. I was just reading the Landmark Edition of Anabasis that just came out, and there's a whole appendix about how Xenophon and Cyrus's doctor narrate a battle differently and make different claims about how Cyrus was wounded. But they were both eyewitnesses, or the closest to it you could ever hope to get for an event that happened 2500 years ago.
The increase in the world’s entropy is not priced into the commuting costs, so it is artificially cheap living. Assuming an inhabitable planet with clean air and water is a goal, then commuting 3 hours would not be cheap.
No, taking the code from the copyright office wasn't OK, but by the time the court cases were making progress the NES didn't really matter any more and they settled outside of court.

Also, recording the numbers doesn't necessarily work. The chip is essentially an algorithm.

I haven't dug through the source to understand the algorithm, but imagine a basic scenario where the algorithm is "challenge * 3"

If the challenge is "1 2 3" and you record a response of "3 6 9", that response won't work if the next challenge is "2 4 6". If you actually dig into the chip and copy their algorithm, that can be copyright infringement (yes there's clean room reverse engineering, but if the logic is convoluted enough that can be rather difficult and take time)
What a pathetic [1] argument!

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pathetic
| It clearly must be easy to outdo vodka distillers. Dave Arnold at the French Culinary managed to make extremely high-quality flavored vodka out of pure food-grade alcohol --- an industrial supply! --- for a couple bucks a gallon. So there's an easy counterexample.

In the US, by law, flavored alcohol is not "vodka". Vodka is a tasteless, colorless combination of ethanol and water. (Trace quantities of various things are allowed.) Furthermore, vodka with additives is illegal in many jurisdictions.

This necessarily leads to a shortage of distinctive vodkas.
Good anecdotes, but whether people use Groupon isn't really in question (this question typically gets resolved when companies do their A round, not their G round).

The question with Groupon is whether their model is defensible; that is to say, is it possible for 100 competitors to spring up and chip away at their business (or would it be possible for Google, eBay, or another BigCo to leverage their existing users to take a large chunk of their business in a short time).
There isn't a magic bullet to 'fix' a boss who doesn't understand how to manage staff. The best you can do is lead by 'reverse example' and suggestions.

ie keep asking your boss for the long term goal/strategy plan, give constructive suggestions to your boss (Boss, it would really help if you could define what our long term goal is ...) etc. You can also lead by reverse example - if you boss fails to set an agenda/goal, then go ahead and define one yourself and publicise it ... your boss will either agree with it, or if he disagrees, will hopefully come up with his own - either way, you have the long term goal. Other things you can do is coach (constructively) your team mates, recognise the work they do etc.

When reading through the article, employees should realise that their 'motivation' is not dependent solely on the boss - almost all of what the article describes can and should be practised by employees as well.
When Ford decided to make a new division decades ago, they had to give it a name (alongside the low-end "Ford", middling "Mercury", and high end "Lincoln"). The first suggestion was old Henry's son Edsel's name. No one liked that so they brainstormed endless names, and brought executives into dark rooms with projectors, flashing one name after another. Eventually they flashed, "BUICK" to see if anyone was awake. Nobody was.

Then they asked poet Marianne Moore for suggestions. She came up with such names as "Utopian Turtletop", "Pastelogram", "Turcotinga" and "Mongoose Civique".

Eventually they just went with Edsel.
All this from a single tooth?
> Here’s the deal: Haskell doesn’t allow side-effects. At all.

I disagree with this, and it was Eric Meijer's "Fundamentalist Functional Programming" lecture that really changed my mind. The point isn't that Haskell prevents side effects. It's that it requires you to be explicit about them. Indeed, some advocates say that Haskell is "the best imperative langauge". I don't know that I would go that far though.
I'm curious how to deal with fraud in these types of systems. Especially systems that give credits / money. What measures can you put in place to prevent people from taking advantage?
Thank you for your very interesting worldview.
Barszcz is one of the most traditional Polish foods as well. I guess it's a slavic thing.
Not sure in what world 2400 layoffs without redundancy counts as “job creation”, with the remainder having little to no job security in a company losing 5k on each new customer.

Trying to work out the leaps of logic: I guess you're assuming all WeWork employees were unemployable before starting there, and that all other potential beneficiaries of Softbank investment would invariably have been zero-employee operations...?
[NSFW] https://www.redbled.com/dead-pornstars/

Look especially at "Cause of Death" and "Age". So similar to STEM folks, right?
Could you give me some examples?
"Recreation.gov is a travel site for the USA's national parks with easy access to maps, permits, tours and activities."

Really though anything would be better than just linking a site and repeating its URL. That is just lazy clickbait that implies something so special that no description is needed. I'm not sure why this site seems to be infatuated with mystery titles with no description at all.
https://www.rtlz.nl/algemeen/binnenland/artikel/4394841/poli...

Are you actually living in NL?
The first time I heard of this being noticeable on a human timescale was the movie Interstellar. But I don't no think in real life there is that much of a difference between the rate at which time passes near a large mass.

This answer on Quora says the rate at which time passes on Jupiter is only a few nanoseconds off compared to Earth.

https://www.quora.com/Will-time-pass-slower-if-we-go-to-Jupi...
Sure, but a lot of gaming hardware supports this, and it's a hardware issue. If one is customizing their editor to the point of using arbitrary modifier keys, they will probably be willing to buy a custom keyboard.

Also while on the subject 8 key rollover, which is pretty common, is probably more than enough.
> The healthcare system is broken in ways that are hard to fix.

So we need more of the same old FAANG guys to 'fix' this? Do we really want our health data to be controlled in the hands of these FAANG companies because they are able to disrupt anything they touch? I hope not.

> What should we take away from the 2010 decade?

2010s: Was the discovery of democratising access to anything by 'programming an app for that' with collecting user data from a tool called a smartphone, which brought in a surge of unprofitable app / web companies IPOing everywhere and crazy tech companies raising ridiculous funding rounds with huge losses with little to no profit. I cannot see this continuing on into the 2020s. So my so-called 'machine learning crystal ball' forecasts something else.

2020s: Will have a tech crash due to this hyperactivity of these startups which many of them will shutdown. The transportation market will start to shift to carbon neutral alternatives over fossil-fuel based solutions in the late 2020s. AR will beat VR to consumer mainstream and will overlay our daily lives with wearables. Cryptocurrency becomes a financial alternative in the mid-2020s. Privacy will be more controversial and questioned by many users as we keep giving it away to be collected by FAANG companies and we start to have information which can be easily faked making it easy to spread disinformation, ie. mainstream fake news.

Now if you excuse me, I'm going to buy this cryptocurrency dip and to prepare my tinfoil rucksack and to continue to buy multiple newspapers from the local shop across the street. Hopefully that should be my new-decade's resolution.
> if anything x +² y is IMHO even farther away than (x + y) * 2 !

Yeah, it was just a random example that came to mind, not to be taken seriously. Here's perhaps one example of unicode being used in a way that's pleasing to some and upsetting to others: https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/jqdi4i/y...

> Any way to have (x + y)² or √(x + y) to work ?

The sqrt one works out of the box actually, no new definitions required:

julia> √(1 + 3)
2.0

The second one does not work because we specifically ban identifiers from starting with superscript or subscript numbers. If it was allowed, we could work some black magic with juxtaposition to make it work.

Here's an example with the transpose of an array:

julia> struct ᵀ end

julia> Base.:(*)(x, ::Type{ᵀ}) = transpose(x)

julia> [1, 2, 3, 4]ᵀ
1×4 transpose(::Vector{Int64}) with eltype Int64:
1 2 3 4

Basically, we have a system called 'juxtaposition' where 2x is parsed as 2*x (but not x2). It generalizes in funky ways one can abuse if they really want (kinda discouraged though)
The challenge is that the fed isn't the only factor that determines inflation. It also varies based on supply and demand factors, among other things.

Housing prices, college tuition, and medical care dominate inflation measures. All three of those categories have significant government influence well beyond the fed. If we stopped using federal funds to subsidize college and home loans, tuition prices and housing costs would magically stabilize in no time.

Trying to tame tuition or housing inflation from the fed won't work if the other parts of the government are going to great lengths to subsidize those areas.
Only people in the middle of the IQ spectrum fall for the Tether psyops. HFSP.
The real reason is that the Netherlands have their equivalent of British Overseas Territories, and use them in the same way: as tax-havens / money-laundering channels. That's something that only a few selected countries can vaunt, language or no language. Denmark missed a trick with Greenland...
> So is property. So is language. So is symbolic thought.

Language and symbolic thought are not opinions or value judgments.

> I, of course proudly admit to being a criminal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXTt9OmJis&t=1m18s) insofar living in modern society makes criminals of us all, yourself included, even under duress.

I’m not convinced that it is meaningful to make that assertion. But this is fine, I’m an anarchist because I oppose coercion and you’re a criminal for supporting it.

> Because it's cheaper to provide social programs than to deal with rolling peasant revolts.

And so that makes it moral to suppress peasants with unjust taxation regimes?

> And indeed so. So are you then an anarcho-primitivist? Or anti-propertarian?

I decline to identify as a proponent of any belief system because of the harmful epistemological consequences of group identity.
Churchill was in favour of the EEC (Forerunner to the EU) to prevent future wars. He got it right.
If that day comes, who will be better prepared, those that cleaned their own toilets, or those that used that time for something more productive?