jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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Stocks aren’t necessarily an indicator of economic strength. The S&P 500 is in an earnings recession right now, but continues trading at all-time highs. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.
This is a little more awk-ish:

awk -F, '$2 == "F" {$0=(($1-32)*5/9)",C"} {print}'
And we are not?
Immediately after that it settles down and starts talking about Greenwave. FWIW, I think Bren Smith might be on to something and I'd be interested in your take on it in particular, given what you were saying the other day about your background/experience in farming.
I'm very weak when it comes to stuff at this level but this sounds like it might be something I really want to know. If I want to run Python or Ruby, what is the practical downside to Alpine? Am I understanding correctly that Python or Ruby interpreters built to run on Alpine use musl instead of glibc, and that might have very noticeable performance impacts?

This thread is opening my eyes, I kind of assumed as long as I was running the right version of those interpreters, I was getting more or less the same thing. That feels like a very bad assumption now.
the same rule applies for snails (the same kind) and sea urchin in Italy.
> You've selected the phrase "a Technological Singularity" and stretched the metaphor to create your definition.

If you consider the example I gave and expand it to other fields, it's the same thing. As I said, it's analogous to black holes.

My point is, how does creativity fit into all of this?
I've mentioned elsewhere that someone did a study in Norway, comparing salary later in life to age when starting school, and found no statistically significant correlation.

This was published as part of discussion on reducing the school starting age. Basically there's very little apparent benefit - at the age most kids start school, brain development appears to be the big brake on learning speed.
(the irritating html-escaping bug will be fixed as soon as voting's over - couldn't squeeze the fix inside 10 lines!)
Good Reddit discussion as well:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ccoxw/ann_sendtools_...
I'm sorry you feel that way. I thought it might gratify someone's intellectual curiosity.
Reading more recent comments, I see a common theme, the "I don't code for glory", this isn't a rant about fame, it is a rant about recognition, from within the industry.

I worked as a dog groomer years ago and we had competitions and awards and yes there were even famous dog groomers.

Nobody codes for glory, lol, but recognition is a different thing, I read once "people will crawl over broken glass for recognition", which is funny because it seems that programmers run away from recognition.

The things you write do not need to be ground-breaking, game-changing or revolutionary to garner recognition, you deserve recognition for putting the time in, for creating something that people rely on, that works.

Somewhere there is a disconnect, everybody DESERVES recognition, it is not about ego, or fame, or fortunes, or groupies, it is about connecting with someone within your own field and saying "hey, you did a good job, I appreciate it".
"Just my perception, but Zed seems to get weirder with every post he writes."

I don't think this one is that weird. It is a logical extension of the rant about not getting paid:

http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-13.html

when he found out how many people were using Mongrel commercially without even putting him in the credits.
The solution to this problem is really simple. Don't use onHover for anything important... But, the same could be said for flash or even plain old JavaScript etc.

I think the real solution is focus on the most basic browsers. Most websites work just fine as a simple web 1.0 website and while you can add optional features from there which fail gracefully. Rather than the normal approach of starting with the feature rich site and try to be useful as you strip away pieces.
I'll also highly recommend FastSpring, their customer service has been phenomenal and the store features have saved me loads of time.

You'd be crazy to try and build a store like it yourself. Instead, go with FastSpring and spend the time you've saved on your product.
Yep, just a system administrator

Well then. Nice to know Zed looks down his nose at operations.
I absolutely get why people choose brands and just stick with them - especially for relatively cheap and occasional things like these. But you do have a point.

There's a washing detergent I usually buy because it tends to be cheap and does the job well. But this weekend in my local supermarket it seemed more expensive than usual and another similar one was on sale. I figured I'd take a look - turns out they're both owned by procter&gamble, their ingredients are identical and they claim to do exactly the same thing with the same amount of liquid. My assumption is they're bottled from the same vat, they're certainly interchangeable for me.

I'm not saying go analyse every product on the shelves instead of just picking up whatever, but if you're not in a rush it's worth checking special offers if they're really similar to what you were going to buy.

And it's definitely worth being aware of the megacorporations that own the brands on the supermarket shelves - most of the well known brands are owned by a few umbrella organisations and not really competing at a high level.

I doubt this is a surprise to anyone, but as a couple of examples PG [0] own BOSS Black, Christina Aguilera, Hugo and Old Spice fragrances; as well as Bold, Daz, Fairy, Flash and Lenor detergents. There are nowhere near as many competitors as there are brands on supermarket shelves.

[0] full list: http://www.pg.com/en_UK/brands/all-brands.shtml
I don't find this particular lawsuit or issue all that interesting or important, but there is a curious meta-topic surrounding its reception on HN and Reddit. Users on Reddit are claiming that admins (note, employee admins, not mods) are censoring the subject, and I noticed a highly upvoted story about it here on HN the other day vanished as soon as it hit the top spot. Any admins or mods here want to weigh in on why this can't be discussed?

Edit: It seems like this thread is already sliding down the rankings against its popularity. Is this due to people flagging it or has a mod/admin set it to fall faster manually?
iPhone needs a little printer that prints a QR code that represents an NFT that was just minted in blockchain
archive.is blocks 1.1.1.1

1.1.1.1 (CloudFlare) respects archive.is's agency and doesn't try to work around it
Would circumventing the ban be considered a serious offence? Not that it would be easy to determine who is doing so, or that they care enough to try.
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The kindle/amazon is not always a solution either. I live in Canada and there is nothing I hate more than being given a suggestion (from amazon) about a book for my kindle, only to find that it's "not available in your area" when I go to purchase. I normally rage a bit, then find a torrent.
We all retire and let the computers run the economy for us, and devote our lives to the pursuit of happiness, art, love and other non-practical endeavours.

And when the computers start caring about art too, they'll join us, no doubt.
Bah. Yes, thanks!
Didn't Jedburg say that they could reduce the failure by spending with Amazon.

I wonder if Rackspace really want this particular traffic burden. It seems that if Reddit choose not to pay for the load they need then you get lot's of bad press for it ... perhaps I'm seeing it wrong.

Rubbish analogy: Kinda like if I was doing a haulage business and you called out for a wheelbarrow to carry some elephants, then when the barrows broke we got bad press despite. If you'd paid for a heavy animal transport package ... OK it's all going wrong, you get the idea.
No, CoffeeScript and jQuery will both be defaults in Rails 3.1
Maybe this is the cynic in me, and people will come back to this as they did with Slashdot's famous "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame" for the original iPod, but I can't fathom how they could beat YouTube. There's already seemingly an endless amount of other video sites as it is that hold a piece of the market (Vimeo, Metacafe, Break, DailyMotion, etc), and I can't imagine any feature that would make me switch over (although I've always wanted an online fully featured video editor).

Id much sooner believe that the 1bn data center is for Cloud iTunes than for a YouTube competitor.
Does google give employees options or just restricted stock?

It is a bit demoralizing to have your company's stock tank right after annual bonus options are priced.
This is the one I like. :D

I have interviewed people, but I gave up asking coding questions, since no one could ever do them. And if you keep thumbs-downing people, you don't really get invited to interview any more people.

Thanks again!
Bug #1, Haha. I deliberately didn't do any polishing. I just C-P the first thing that compiled without warning and ran the embedded test case.

Not so sure about nitpick #1. I'll need to pull out K&R...

nitpick #2, sure.

nitpick #3, is that really what idiomatic C looks like? Yikes.
> OP is saying something like "when I cook things with my freezer they don't get hot." It's that non-sensical.

No, OP is saying "when I cook my food in the microwave for 3 minutes, I get it to a very different temperature than if I cook it for 1.5 minutes first and then another 1.5 minutes"
Why should I use this instead of http://pingdom.com/ ?
The (American) meaning I associate with "punting" is to defer the responsibility to someone else.
If only Apple would make the Terminal.app user interface not suck donkey balls. How about a way to resize the property window profile title scrolling list width so it doesn't clip every title after the first few characters and make them extremely difficult to identify and edit, and stop wasting so much of the width on a huge useless icon instead of the title? Is it so hard to make the whole dialog resizable? Didn't Apple invent a way to do that a few years back? Oh and maybe a fucking border around the window edge so overlapping windows don't all merge together? And a way to drag a window with only one tab (which collapses to zero tabs) into another window with only one tab to make one window with two tabs? And figure out why emacs gets confused about the screen width/wrapping and corrupts the display? Maybe fix a few critical usability bugs before wasting time on bullshit like transparency and background images?

...Well at least it's not as bad as the XView cmdtool.
We know that short-term small doses of X rays results in
increased probability of developing skin cancer.

An increase that is so minute that we don't mind the dentist or doctor X-raying us. An increase that is so minute that we would accept it, if it actually reduced our chances of dying due to a terrorist attack. The radiation is not the problem: it is the intended goal that we have no reason to believe in.

We know that prolonged exposure to low-level radiation
sources increases your probability of developing skin
cancer

Do we? Not WiFi or the low-energy spectrum of the sun. What energy is 'low' in this respect?. And how long is 'prolonged exposure'? These claims are undoubtedly true for some values of the aforementioned quoted terms, but are they relevant here? Do most of the people repeating this stuff even wonder about that? Again, the problem is a slightly increased risk. But why is that increased risk a problem in the first place?

I'll hazard a guess here and say there's close to zero
probability that backscatter machines are lowering your
risk of cancer.

And I agree. But the "we don't know for sure" argument is pretty shallow, when we accept certain risks on a daily basis and when we all know certainty doesn't exist and we all take aspirin to prevent a second heart-attack, even though a thousand doctors will argue with another thousand doctors about whether that actually works, all citing studies supporting their side, and the net effect is quite small even according to the side affirming it works.
What's happening? Where is the Hacker News I knew? I have up-voted at least 4 grayed-out comments that were opposing the prevalent view (that TSA is pure tyranny, an US government by extension) but nothing our of the ordinary - people contributing their opinion to the conversation.

Don't downvote if you disagree!
The client is open source [1], so you can verify that it's doing what they claim. You can also build it yourself if you want to be really careful. I don't think messing with the servers would do any good (except for metadata) when the clients are handling the encryption.

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/
Yes. Yes, he did.
I wish I were wealthy enough to buy you a return ticket to Rome Ciampino airport, or Pisa for that matter and let you experience some of the easiest airports I've ever been to. Not like taking the train, but close…
Anywhere else I've been including UK, US, Ukraine Odessa, etc, there's intimidation in the air, ready to hit. And that's really unpleasant.
It would be nice if there were some sort of dead man's switch functionality in-case phone access was denied. I'm not sure exactly how this would work, but I think it's an interesting idea.
What we are trying to stop has shifted from someone hijacking the plane to someone trying to blow it up. However, this is not a new threat at all, and there are always more ways of getting a bomb on the plane as well as more targets.
Would a website dedicated to providing IP addresses to websites whose domains were seized be seized?

Just have a directory on an IP-address-accessed server and you've circumscribed the law.

Nevertheless, this law is farking redonkulous. Aren't there already processes for removing illegal content from websites? Surely shutting down domains isn't the most effective way.

There must be some alternative, nefarious motive for this legislation, and I will tell all my friends who in my state voted for this joke of a bill.
Actually, it's very important that the vilified robber baron of the week can declare bankruptcy too. High income people need to be able to walk away from a bad deal, too, as much for societies good as their own.

I'm sure you're right to put a lot of blame on the lenders though. If the loans weren't federally guaranteed I'm pretty sure they'd be looking at data more granularly than, 'four year degree' or 'two year degree' (though I have to admit that commercial bankers aren't leading in data analysis).
Win Vista & 7 don't have this problem (just checked).
Did you try A-B testing to verify that the SEO tweaks actually did produce improvements? Seems to me that the absence of testing makes it difficult to verify the improvements that any specific SEO attempt might make. Unfortunately, there are too many SEO 'hand-wavers' trying to cash in on the widespread ignorance. From what I've seen genuine SEO results are a lot harder work than the SEO-oil salesmen would admit.
You're really on a roll today.
Alex is a friend of mine (and a fellow New Zealander) who I worked with on SingStar. He has just become an independent contractor and could be of great assistance to any startup looking to get a great online image.

I hope that this HN "advertisement" is mutually beneficial both for Alex and any startups needing a great image.
You dare rob the municipalities of this important income with your good communication?
That research is incorrect in my experience. People _do_ care why they can't park, because if the restriction is for street cleaning, and the street has already been cleaned, you can park (in my city). If the restriction is for construction, and work hasn't begun by 10am, you can park. So you do need to know _why_ you can't park, if you want to park in certain cases.
Isn't that exactly the argument this site is making? Their fake packages have a low-end service that only includes social media, a middle tier that includes streaming video, and a top tier that allows "any site," and is presumably what you'd require for VPNs.
Really looking forward to this.

Great new design.

Trident without the legacy bits.

And free upgrades to get people onto the latest software as quickly as possible.

I'm liking this new Microsoft.
Nice != Good

Niceness is about worrying about how other people feel. Sometimes caring about other people's feelings (especially in the short term) can lead to duplicitous, decietful, dihonest, fraudulent, counterproductive or wasteful behaviors.

Being "good" in a sense is optimizing against those behaviors, which usually is an orthogonal concern to niceness, but sometimes leads to distinctly being not nice. I can't say one way or another if Linus is overoptimizing, but given a choice between niceness and goodness, I pick goodness.
I'm sad that America is maybe the only one to go the other way -- to have been founded on the principles of The Enlightenment and to slip into plutocracy.

Hardly. This is a very traditional political cycle that was first documented by the Greek historians and philosophers. Polybius and Plato aptly named it "Kyklos" (Cycle) and goes from Anarchy -> Democracy -> Aristocracy -> Monarchy.

This period of cycle is different however as there is no more "West" to go and start your anarchic society so it should be interesting to see what happens this time round the cycle.
The rule of thumb of how i personally handle laziness is "lazy in the large, strict in the small". That is, I compose systems in a lazy way, and my inner loops are strict!

Its not a perfect approach, but its a default approach that avoids a lot of style gotchas from being too strict or too lazy globally. I also spend way too much time thinking about how to make the perfect mutable multi dim array libraries for haskell, so I also tend to have a funny perspective :)
> Congratulations for confusing micro and macroeconomics.

This comment would be much better without this acerbic swipe. Please don't do that on Hacker News.
They might also want to consider an education system that prioritises good teaching and not teachers faking impossible exam scores. Exam scores are not what makes a teacher.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but Apple is a company, not a charity. They shouldn't be held high moral standards. In this kidney-rich person scenario, if the homeless person donated(open source) the kidney without hoping for forced payment in any form, who is it to blame the rich person for not handing out money? They gave only a little sure, but they really really don't have the obligation to donate.

It is morally wrong, but morally wrong stuffs are not the reason to got pitchfork on them.

My view is that if they donate a huge lump sum of money, great! If they don't, fine by me too.
Many of the process steps involve rotation so this is impractical.
When a sample is large enough, it becomes representative of the whole and you can start drawing inferences from it.
My turn:

Anyone who finds themselves offended by something like this truly needs to take stock of themselves, their life, and their situation. Here we are in the age of wonders, where a computer can translate text in other languages for you at the click of a button, and all some people can think of is that they are mad that other people want to improve it.
I cannot fathom having this mindset. You have to seriously have nothing else wrong with your life to make this into a bone of contention.

More seriously: why does this bother you so much? Why didn't you just ignore it and keep scrolling?

It's technologically interesting, even if you want to dispute whether it has any social impact. Why does it make you angry that people even discuss the (fascinating!) concept that computers can learn gender bias? Should we stop studying all forms of bias in computing? Does it all offend you this much?
They finally pushed the code out: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commits/master

From an open source perspective Signal-Server is still not open and never was: No outside contributions and no public issues. No community. No installation documentation. etc. ... and recently they seem to have added a dependency to DynamoDB: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/0dcb4b645c... (2 weeks after they were overloaded from user registrations)
That isn’t the general idea of the book. The general idea is to provide a breath of knowledge regarding the state of current sleep research.

If you are speaking literally, the book references short sleeping of < 4, < 5, < 6 hours and describes various levels of disease and impairment. All of these diseases and impairments are reduced at > 7 and there doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of benefit at > 9. That is how the book presents the facts.

You misrepresent this, and pick inconsequential “errors” that don’t change either the overall point or the validity of science, and claim false conclusions from your own opinion.

It’s pretty clear how much we need (on average) > 7 <= 9. But he even points out these are averages, much like calorie recommendations. So yes some people are fine in 6ish and some need 10ish... that’s how standard deviations work.
My entire life is a problem
Adobe derives code from BSD? Or has any working relation with BSD at all? Genuinely curious - hadn't heard the two ever mentioned together before.
I think you can argue that payment privacy is not as paramount as message privacy and can be implemented with regular financial mechanisms. Or at least such option should be given if you are using your own cryptocurrency.
Even if offices are similar summer/winter a tom of other places are not:
- schools ventillate more
- people sit outside vs inside in restaurants and bars
- public transit is way more crowded if you live in a city center (because people don’t walk as much)

Also, at least in Poland, the flu season usually comes
in Autumn and Spring, not Winter, when the temperatures are the lowest.

My personal bet: children go to schools in September, and distribute germs across population in October/November. February-March is an afternath of Christmass and winter holidays in Jan/Feb.
He cut the first clip right before he says 'EASY MONEY'.

A travesty.
Was this based on / inspired by cmap tools?
https://cmap.ihmc.us/
I love combining GraphQL with SwiftUI to make rich, clean, and data-driven applications. In this article, I want to share my setup + tooling so that more people can explore GraphQL. And by the end, we will even have a small prototype with reusable views and working pagination.
I felt like this article was pretty low effort for sure. I didn't see anything close to an objective process for determining the best extensions and add-ons.

I'm curious why you say LastPass is awful from a privacy perspective?

Is it because you send your passwords to a service controlled by a 3rd party? Something more dubious?

Would you say the same about Bitwarden if you were hosting it yourself? Or the built-in browser manager (with syncing disabled)?