jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm a construction worker, and I'm the guy who fixes everyone else's screw ups. We're normally the guys who're called in when the first guy did a hack job.

I love building things. I think the maker movement is just making it more accessible, and more specifically less time consuming.

One of my dreams is to build my own house, and I've got sketches and diagrams, etc. piling up. And the other day I had the thought "I wish I had a 3D printer, because it would be so easy to print out a model." There's no way in hell I'm going to spend days of work hand assembling a model. I would spend an evening making a design to print out, and then spend a couple hours painting it.
Such admissions can arise, for example, when an employee takes a polygraph tests as part of a renewal of a security clearance.

Interestingly, this is very illegal for private companies to do under EEPA. Why should government employers get an exception?
The problem is that you lose ranking information. These are just a bunch of URLs unsorted (or maybe lexicographically sorted) in a file. It would be quite hard to seamlessly include the URLs.

AFAIK ddg does not take down search results based on DMCA notices but I'm not sure about that.
> If a simulation cannot produce consciousness, what is special about life that makes it unrepresentable with physics?

Authors can write stories with believable worlds and compelling characters. Given infinite time, an author could detail how a character would react to every possible situation. But no matter how much they wrote down, their words would just be words. There isn't some breaking point where the author writes enough to create a pocket universe.

Why are turing machines different?

Just because the universe is governed by physics does not mean that physics are sufficient to construct a universe. I expect that "physicality" is a real property of some kind, which doesn't appear just because you described it accurately.

So much of this is guesswork, I may well be wrong—but it strikes me as the most logical conclusion.
Gov takes some time.
Why is it absurd? Because there's no evidence of it taking place. It's the same reason we don't believe in unicorns.
What really twists the knife for me is the idea that a belief in privacy is unpatriotic.

"Of course, they'll want to subvert private communications. They're patriots."

The world needs a hell of a lot less patriotism right about now.
If you want to read more about this kind of thing happening in Russia, I recommend the book "Putin's Labyrinth" by Steve Levine.
Some of the leaked images have ad copy like "most developer friendly console" and "easy porting from PC and Xbox 360".

All of which suggests one thing.

Nintendo licensed Direct3D.
Saw the same RDS behavior nostromo saw: was actually truly interesting. After 2 days of arguing with the RDS database I actually spun up a new local storage instance, logged in over the mysql console at a shell (which actually worked, surprisingly enough) and then found out that a single table (this is a Wordpress instance) was hung: I guess the RDS instance couldn't access the disk file for that table (it was MyISAM which I guess isn't in memory?) so any requests for that specific table hung. As it so happens that was the wp_options table, so there was no way to get past that.

So I sat there with mysqldump and exported each table separately, then spun up a new MySQL instance in another AZ and then imported each table piecemeal. I then re-created the wp_options table from another dump (from an early prototype on Linode, actually) and then manually fudged the values till it all worked. That eventually worked for me.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [1], law no. 2:

To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong.

[1] http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/academics/akins_laws....
Creative, but including any sort of photograph would instantly bar any applicant from receiving an interview here in The States, in compliance with equal opportunity laws.
It depends on what the lighting conditions are. I couldn't read my Nook e-ink display with a 60-watt light bulb (text wasn't dark enough / background too silver). Apparently the newer e-ink display on the latest Kindle is better. But on the flip side I have a hard time with the Nook Color outside in the sunlight -- for that the e-ink works better. Also, the e-ink is good for a few weeks, instead of 8 hours.
Oh no, Joe! We actually might still be here when you come. Please still let us know what you're schedule will be when you're down here. We'd love to see you and pay you back for all the hospitality you showed us when we visited Mountain View!
If you're under contract, the rate or the mechanism to change the rate should be baked in for the protection of both parties. That's the point of a contract - defined terms over defined times.

Separate to that, if you're working ad-hoc (as is surprisingly common) it might be unprofessional to jack up your rates in an instant, but it's not necessarily a moral wrong since it's your life, your time, and you're no-one's slave (unless under contract). It's on a par with just ditching a client outright.
You can opt to create a swipegood.com account instead of connecting via facebook.
I am mostly developing business applications. The user decided to view a couple of orders, orders reference products and some of the orders reference the same product. Who owns the product? Definitely non of the orders and neither the form showing the order. Well, I could attach them to the main form, but now they stay in scope until you close the application. This is not what we wanted. I could implement referencing counting - use shared_ptr - but well, the designers of garbage collectors tried it and found reference counting garbage collectors perform worse than collecting garbage collectors. Am I missing a obvious solution?
>tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology.

Nurture vs Nature.....

I don't think this is anything but a negatively nurtured situation....
But can't you use the same argument for mass? Why focus on calories and not kilograms?
Doesn't RES have this?
Awesome. Looking to the dev activity, I must conclude this project is red-hot in development.
We have mycoheteroytrophs in the U.S. also, e.g. monotropa uniflora (Indian pipes). They grow in a symbiotic relationship with Russula mushrooms.
Dart? Who's Dart?

The Web couldn't care less.
> I'd say the HN community has a higher than average grasp of statistics

No, just no. From my experience as an engineer that's transitioned into finance, I assure you that engineers and developers have the WORST pre-conceptions about statistics as applied to investing. All of those have to be unlearned fast at the start of a finance career. Took me years to fully adjust.
You misspelled admirable.
Primary-Secondary Morality
It would be ironic if Khosla woke up one day to find a continuously-growing fleet of recreational and commercial boats including party barges with beach anchors, lights, speakers, generators and tons of booze using the beach, ferrying anyone who desired it to get to the beach from nearby beaches/docks, turning it into the worst destination party-scape he was trying to avoid tepid versions of in the first place. He just made it clear via the case that water access was permitted, he doesn't privately own the beach itself, and there are plenty of waterborne partiers in CA who would take him up on the "offer" of partying on an "exclusive" beach.

People pay big bucks on cruises to get to "exclusive" beaches, and there are any number of "entrepreneurs" who will jump at the chance to turn a quick dollar to ferry people to exactly such a beach (albeit created through a legal technicality than natural features), plus throw in the gratuitous "ogle a billionaire's house" in marketing schticks on top to goose the customer buy rate.

There might be a corollary of the Streisand Effect at work here...
> The author of this piece is a left-wing statist

How familiar are you with the author's work? I'm not familiar with it, but Wikipedia says they are a conservative and former Trump supporter.

Most people seem to consider American Affairs a conservative journal, and the author is its editor.
Yeah, it's clearly a knockoff. They even borrowed the idea of having five red, dot-separated letters above the screen. S.U.P.E.R. probably means nothing, but if Casio has it, Kenko must have it too.
I assume it's not a real desktop, but a full-screen window of their app. And I guess it basically works via two-way machine control. Each person's computer is actually driving their own windows, but the software allows everyone to control everyone's (shared) windows, just like one-sided remote-control apps. It's a pretty clever idea!
Put a new ski-doo in the back and that’s a sick rig! After living through so many rusted out car bodies I was in to the aluminum f150s but stainless steel is even better. No paint to worry about scratching up on narrow deactivates logging roads.
Just want to be clear, a good quality natural wood home can last hundreds of years. But I am talking about "log cabin"-style homes built out of natural cuts of strong woods (typically with few joins or sections).

The stuff that goes into most US homes is not wood in that vein, it is the "leftover" wood chips crushed back into wood-like substance and used as walls.

As to your source, there are some here:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-lifespan-of-a-US-h...

But you won't in general find many homes built like that beyond 50 years. In places around military bases where at one point in home most houses were built in that style, you notice that most of them aren't around now and the few that are are in really bad shape.

Contrast that with much of Europe where in many places your average house is over 100 years old and are still in great shape. But again brick constructed homes last.
> In much of Europe both new and old homes are built using brick(!). These homes have already lasted over one hundred years and will likely last at least another fifty or more with normal maintenance (e.g. roof repair, replacing some plumbing, etc).

AIUI, Brick construction is actually less resistant than wood-frame to many kinds of things including -- particularly relevant to California residents -- earthquakes.

Its less resistant to axes, sure, but then that just means that modifications are less expensive -- but its not exactly like hostile attacks by axe against homes are that common.
This is interesting. Do you have a reference for this? It seems logical because humans give off moisture a lot and if the air is not exchanged it will accumulate.
Good point. The more local they are and the more transparent/obvious the outcome, the better the justification for taxes.
Backblaze is an excellent service and your blog posts are a favour to the world. Thanks for being awesome. Also, thanks for adding dates to your blog posts :)
No. But that's beside the point, unless there can be a quantifiable, specific, report on the number of those events, especially compared to other releases.

Apart from that it's just BS isolated impressions.

For Apple those are even magnified, because whereas for Vista people were running it in 10.000 different configurations (different PC vendors, cards, logic boards, etc) each with a miniscule user base, OS X 10.9 runs in about 20 different configurations (previous 5 years of MBP, Air, iMac etc models), each of them selling in the multiple millions.

If 20% of the users with MB Air 2013 and a particular router have a Wi-Fi that doesn't mean OS X is not perfectly fine as far as an iMac user is concerned. Etc.
Probably a blanket clause that says that you can't disclose classified information at all after you've lost clearance. It's pretty plausible that in an attempt to keep security tight, they're not allowed to discuss it at all to anyone --- situations like FOGBANK are probably the exception.
and replace "good design" with "anything good".
WTF? You are extremely recklessly wrong and should be ashamed of it...

We actually spend about 70 billion on education.
If you look at this department of education's website, you can find a .pdf or excel sheet of the actual budget. It is here:

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/history/index.html

If you look at the department of defense's website here:
http://comptroller.defense.gov/budget.html

You will notice that its budget is around 700 billion.
(Meaning we could multiply the DoE's budget by 10 and be about equal). That is just DoD, and does not include departments like homeland security or the FBI.

I will probably get down-voted for this comment, but seriously, check your fucking sources, check their biases, and go to any primary sources available. Don't just click the first link out of Google machine.

This is a clear failing of the education system, as you should have been taught this before exiting high school!

Government expenditures are quite obviously freely available...

There is no need to go to a '.com' website for them. If you actually see who is behind the site:
'http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/.

The proprietor of your cited source (Christopher Chantrill), has a notable political bias.

http://www.christopherchantrill.com/

Going by your research ability, I'd say you aren't the best and aren't that bright.
It does say "Member since 2003" - I'm not sure anyone would have set up a fake Mark Zuckerberg profile in 2003 - unless it's a repurposed profile for someone else.
Can you email me at jsheehan@twilio.com? I want to look into this.
My computer's browser opens to 3 tabs that pertain to my work and interests.

My home computer, where my wife and kids use it all the time defaults to Yahoo.

Different worlds.
"However, if you look at how defensive this prof is, that would have been quite risky for that student."

Defensive suggests he acts like he thinks he did something wrong. He clearly thinks his students did something wrong.

What is it with this thread and using words to mean things other than their plain meaning in normal conversation? It's getting very Clintonian in here.
Generally yes, but not always.

The blind belief that getting a "hard" degree is a guaranteed path to gainful employment is fraught with much of the same false logic as people getting "soft" degrees. I saw much of this during my time in college.

The majority of the class did the work they were assigned and that was that. There was very little effort put towards professional development, networking with industry people, or building a solid portfolio of past work that is key to succeeding in any enterprise.

When I left school, the people who were passionate about the subject - people who pursued applications of their craft above and beyond the paltry requirements of getting the degree, they were the ones who found jobs easily. Of my peers from university, many are still underemployed today, or are employed with poor prospects of either vertical or horizontal movement.

This goes beyond "hard" degrees. I'm heavily into photography besides being a coder, and the number of people who go to art school for a photography degree, clearly have not shot enough pictures, or put together a substantial portfolio, but expecting to find employment or contracts is pretty absurd.

I see the same problem in CS and engineering - people who are under the incredibly false presumption that just by finishing the degree that they are employable. They're only more employable right now because of the gigantic shortage of qualified coders, but this situation won't last forever.
Nothing in what you say suggests that the students did not cheat. You say the professor was lazy. That statement in no way contradicts the statement "the students cheated."
Worst thing is: Nobody likes doing these manual tasks. They get the junior/paralegals/interns to do them but they all could be doing more valuable stuff.
MobileCoin foundation website:

"At MobileCoin, we believe governments have a legitimate interest in regulating the economic lives of their citizens."

https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1379795248252080130
Would you be ok with businesses refusing to serve accused/convicted criminals? How about illegal immigrants? If the standard is law-breaking does it meet the definition of non-discriminatory?
There's a point where this kind of ostracism becomes worse than jail. For many Twitch users, streaming is a substantial part of their social environment or even their full-time job. If I had to choose between a couple weeks in jail and a lifetime ban from working in my industry, or a couple weeks in jail and being banned from all my friend group chats, I'd take jail in a heartbeat.
Somewhat OT, but I actually liked that talk. You know Steve Jobs does the same thing at home when he is alone, except the chant is "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs". And it's not the underarm region that gets stained.
That's an ironic comparison considering Bruce Lee was a serious weight-lifting fiend. (He just went for strength rather than bulk.) That said, I'm a big fan of yoga, more for the fitness than for appearances. It's hard to overstate the functional change yoga makes.

Edit: IIRC, Lee described running as the best exercise.
I kind of like Gruber. He looks good when compared to the really hardcore Apple fanbois. Jobs' "insightful and not negative" characterization captures Gruber perfectly.

I think he has had a bit too much Kool-Aid, but he is nowhere near the LD50 yet.
On the other hand, especially for hard parts (and not for lame stories), persistence can be rewarding.
Spelunky takes ages: You can't just stop after one game of Spelunky.
I appreciate it travis. if you ever want an invite to try it out, just ping me ben (at) pinterest (dot) com.
Professionally a Sysadmin, in my spare time a growing developer.
Blog comments are a horrible idea. Why should some random schmuck be able to attach any random rant to a polished piece of literature? (Not that I'm saying this article is, but there are a lot of great blogs with horrible comments.)

If you want people to care what you think, you should have to earn that; you shouldn't be able to piggyback off of someone else's work. IMHO.

(A discussion site is a whole other ballgame, however. The point is precisely to read other people's opinions, even though you shouldn't care about them. Discussion sites, I like... it seems.)
Since polls allow multiple votes, would be great if tje following could be added:

I'm a Student
I'm a Founder
I'm an Investor
I'm a designer
1/3rd of the Us debt is owned by foreign investors. Of that, I'd be surprised if China own more than 10%. I don't know how much power xi have over private chinese banks, and ho much the debt is diluted in funds, but if half is dumpable it would be interesting.

This much debt will be rolled anyway, and not waiting for debt maturity will cost china more than a supposed increased cost of interest rates.
Communities like this pop up regularly but are naturally unstable. They sometimes (often?) work great while their members are like-minded, young and healthy. Over the years the population inevitably drifts and the community either collapses or becomes more and more embedded in the surrounding society, which has more stable institutions to deal with people not thinking alike.

Check out the Utopia series [0] from "The Theory of Everything" podcast for some examples.

[0] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/series/utopia/
How do you prevent a non-nice majority (especially when growing) that repels "nice" users? E.g. how do you prevent what happened to voat.
The real answer to this question is "Yes." But humanity isn't about optimization for something like intellectual potential. Most of us are just trying to damp down the constant suffering among ourselves and others.

Unfortunately our current system is optimized to create suffering and then sell something to damp it down a little. We create extreme stress by attaching huge consequences to the smallest actions. We start with the kids by constantly grading them. Then once they become adults we slam them with financial pressures and advertisements. We give them jobs where if they make a mistake they will end up out on their ear and destitute. We then give them credit so they can feel anxious about not having enough to pay the credit card bill. Then when they eat the crud from the advertisements to feel better they get fat and anxious about that too!

Factorio and Eve Online are a small balm for those people who haven't found a way out of that spiral of suffering we call western society. If you want to find the Intellectual Potential of a human being we're going to reach that limit not because of Factorio. Instead it will be because we have forced our children and friends to constantly run on a metaphorical treadmill.
Oh boy, those were the days. I imagine you're well aware of the DreamHost debacle around their own home-grown billing engine!

Looking back I'm amazed at how easily companies got off the ground by hiring eager (but exceptionally green) young web devs to write sensitive code for ordering/sign-up, recurring billing, and more.
Many companies present you with the opportunity to "Protect Your Account" with SMS, and for that protection they 'just' need your phone number.

Turns out the phone number is the best unique identifier and is the perfect key for joining up lots of disparate sources of data. It's the kind of thing that you could either sell directly or use as an index to determine things like your estimated income.

It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook has had multiple technical methods for devising/stealing and disingenuous "protect your account" campaigns for willingly turning over users phone numbers.
Obviously this is on the desktop. If you want a presence on the desktop, you have to own the OS like Windows, macOS and Chrome, unless regulators force a choice.
Funny, Common Lisp makes most other languages look archaic. CLOS is what OOP is supposed to be, real macros make every other attempt at metaprogramming look bad, restarts make exceptions feel constraining, and the standard actually thought through how to dynamically work with your code base at the REPL.

It feels like every other language started from the point of "I like lisp, but this one feature is too dangerous, let me remove that."
I do have a JSON (plain text, readable json) output endpoint planned, but that will be GET as well. Pull requests are welcome though.
Forgot to mention some form of HDL, probably Verilog and further delving into problems with parallel code and the various models on offer.
The title of the page is "Go Pee on your ISP".
On a related note, this particular tale will keep you hooked if you have the patience for it, and a reasonable tolerance for cliffhangers:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=543304
I'll be quite honest, I didn't even know that was a problem to begin with. It makes sense, I just haven't seem to run into it yet.
What I want to see is Xiaomi's Macbook AIR clone with 16 gb RAM and a 15 inch screen for $480. It's rumored to run Linux and though the pictures leaked last week are fakes company sources say its still in the works for 2015
Your problem with Korean might have been pronunciation. Korean is a bit harder to pronounce correctly than most people think (and realize, e.g. due to the McGurk effect), especially when learning it at an adult age, when the brain has become quite bad at distinguishing and mimicking new phonemes. It can be quite genuinely hard for Koreans to understand a Westerner speaking Korean correctly, even if you believe there's no difference between how you are pronouncing and they are. The confused looks you get are not mean, then, but just honest.

And a lot of Koreans get really excited when Westerners speak any Korean at all and will praise your Korean. What can be frustrating though is that they will often try to use English to speak to you even when you tried to use Korean, instead of using Korean as well. This can also seem rude/belittling but isn't really - often they're just excited to get to use English.
Did they have to build git? Did they pay for it? What about ruby? No? Rails?