jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I know someone who had to show up 8 hours a day for 20 years without anything to do

Well, now don't keep us in suspense! What was his job? How did he get it? That's kinda the point of this whole thread ;-)

Also, yes to your part about people being dead inside because of their job (these exist as well and there life basically ends when they retire... can be equally sad).

As for the ancient Greeks, well, that's a bit like saying "Bill Gates is free from menial work". Yes, true in theory but with little to no relevance for our daily lives because his (and equally the ancient Greeks') circumstances are just so different. In case of the Greeks, their system was heavily based on slave labor. A comparable level of freedom nowadays (10+ full-time domestic staff plus people who dress you and carry you around in a litter) requires you to be a multi-millionaire and at least slightly deranged ;-)

Also, it's not like they did nothing all day. Studying, philosophy, military and political careers were incredibly important in ancient Rome and Greece, and I am certain that many an aristocratic young man would rather have spent time in the bath houses or on the forum than practising Greek declensions with his "Paedagogi" (teacher slaves) ;-)

The next time we (all) might have a chance to get close to ancient levels of "dolce far niente" for a majority of people, is probably in a post-scarcity society with fully autonomous robot assistants (if they don't murder us first). Sure would be nice to focus on wine and philosophy all day, no doubt about it.
Not an expert on the subject, but AFAIK Jetbrains runs their own Java VM by default.

To run intellij on Wayland you do need _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in your env. It works, but has some quirks as I wrote above.
I change my phone number every year and I get spam calls all the time.
Eh, not surprised, you expect fair play from Apple?
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Just got back from dinner in the city to find myself at the top of HN for leaving a great company. Hopefully one day soon it'll be for successfully building a great one of my own. Thanks again.
All this Metaverse buzz also reminds me of SecondLife[1][2] which was quite popular for a short period of time, then quickly vanished from horizon.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

[2] https://secondlife.com/
The answer to your question lies in the Greek/Latin roots of the word encyclopedia itself, doesn't it?
It isn't weird if the explorer design is being retired. I fully expect them to stop selling the current model.
I'm not sure I really get what the author's point is...?

Her website didn't seem any clearer: http://www.tedtoons.com/hive5project/about.php

Basically I'm just not sure what she is complaining about with the "current internet" nor what she wants to do with that hive project...
To be sure, those interchanges are the most pleasant to drive through, but at a cost of land. The interchange design presented in the NPR article is much more feasible in urban centers where you might be constrained by existing structures. The accel/decel ramps can run parallel to the freeway, leading to nearly-right angle turns at street level. (It's not drawn this way in the article, but it doesn't take much imagination to picture it.)
I feel stupider for having read this. There's no point in even debating with someone so deluded about reality, and I'm angered by own temptation to do so. Flagged with impunity.
So you are saying you want to prevent me from talking to someone over a private communication channel I paid for?

Unless it's a war, good luck with getting that past a court review.
Theoretically, that would mean that none of the victims were defrauded of any money, or the ones that received money fraudulently could conceivably be forced to return it. But that's not my understanding of what has happened.
Opening .psd files also requires you to sign up and upload the files to Adobe© Cloud©. Other than that, Brackets has a ton of usability issues and bugs.
The ChromeBit looks pretty cool though. Entire computer in a flash drive.
Not necessarily.

I do virtually all my work split between my home office and an actual workplace office. Currently I drag a laptop back and forth between the two, but having a monitor/keyboard/mouse at both (which I already do and dock the laptop into) and just bringing a small stick literally in my pocket that I can plug in to either place and get my full, familiar, always-up-to-date development environment is very appealing.

Obviously YMMV depending upon use case, for me a full laptop (even a small one) is overkill for what I need for a work machine, since I never really use it anyplace other than work or home and in both places I plug it into "full-sized" keyboard/mouse/monitors anyway.

Since I do Android development, ChromeOS isn't the ideal platform for this, but I suspect these sticks will run crouton like other ChromeOS devices...
Housing and rental costs have been a substantial drain on what would otherwise be the new middle class. For the most part they don't (yet) own homes, lower prices can only help them.

Consider how much doesn't get invested by the poor and middle class into education, paying down debts, or retirement savings accounts. It feels rather absurd to suggest that they would somehow benefit from continually raising the price of something they need to buy.
Sounds fascinating. Some recommendations? (not kidding)
If I was going to try and look for scientific backing for my dating technique, I would use behavioral psychology like the OP rather than evolutionary psychology. Evo-psych is a decent source of hypotheses, but until those hypotheses are empirically verified case-by-case they don't count for much. It's not a theory that's particularly good at picking out one hypothesis as better than the other because you can make up equally plausible evo-psych stories for a lot of hypotheses before-the-fact.

Confounding this, of course, is the huge challenge of overcoming ethnocentrism--you might assume that standard Western behaviors and attitudes around sexuality are universal human things, but in a lot of cases they're just culturally-dependent arbitrary crap. Evo-psych won't help with this. As far as evo-psych helps you, at best it'll help you attract cro-magnon hunter-gatherer chicks, not affluent Westerners with all kinds of cultural influences added on, influences that evo-psych fundamentally has no way of predicting.

Behavioral psych is tricky since any psych study on affluent Western chicks will have conclusions which can only be confidently applied to affluent Western chicks, but if that's who you're trying to pick up that's a help, not a hindrance.
Iwd is much better for WiFi.
That's very promising, thank you for the information. It might come in very handy, though I hope not.
Paraphrase: Write a justification for the use of extreme physical violence against your own population to preserve the current established order. This assignment will be used to determine where you sit in this order.
As an investor in Match Group, and a witness to some of the behind the scenes data on dating apps, I can confidently say most reports of “broken dating apps” can simply be attributed to user error.
To be perfectly frank it is the perfect illustration to why they are such failures of leadership. The policy is foregone lethal force in response to those suffering from their own failures with no consideration of alternatives, only ass covering. The people who are supposed to be making decisions aren't. The situation could make a good uncomfortable ethical scenario question or a nuanced issue but this isn't it.

It is the context which makes it especially odious - a defense attorney position question would have done the same thing and emphasized fair handed protectionism without the brainwashy aspects - noting that deliberate failure to provide a proper defense to the best of their ability because of a dislike of the accused would risk rights and ironically could get them off.
> why are black cabs not also deemed unsafe?

A black cab driver has made a more significant investment in that license and will be much less likely to jeopardise it than some shmuck loaning out his uberx login -- especially when Uber not only doesn't do anything to stop it, but encourages it with more dark patterns.
Rather than working to devise "voice transcription on par with AWS", maybe we can also decide that some things are not necessary and should remain in the scifi realm. The novelty of yelling "Ok google navigate to...." wore off fairly quickly especially when I could just as easily type it. I use the "set an alarm for.." more often though. But really, imagine all the infrastructure required just so people can set alarms and timers with their voices!!!
Known dose, sure. A lot of medical shops are posting independent lab measurements of all of the independent cannabinoids (most importantly: thc, cbd, cbn, cbg). So if you had a mg-accurate scale, and a bit of math, and assuming 100% uptake in a vaporizer, that's nearly a solved problem. With vaporizing the dried flowers, there is literally nothing else in there -- it's not an extract or anything where there could be latent glycols or butane or whatever.

So really, the problem _is_ solved :) It's just that the threshold and effective doses for cannabis mean that mg-specific dosing really isn't that useful.
It's ok.

You belong to the group of people who control half of global wealth :)
Google search for top 1% of income in the world:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082385/We-1--You-ne...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8910476 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912298.
It might be for the best. I heard that the VMWare people are a bit scuzzy and unethical, such as slapping legal threats on authors to take over their github projects. Of course that was from what I thought was a drama queen ex-groovy committer, but now he looks much more sane.

Pivotal is trying to push vert.x now, which I think is a node.js for JVM type of thing.

Since they never did make an awesome configure-spring-with-groovy conversion, I guess this won't be too painful of a split.

Groovy was the #1 JVM language besides Java for quite a while, I think it still is despite Clojure/Scala hype. It was before pivotal took it on, and it probably will be fine.

It's feature set is actually fairly stable. It doesn't need to do Java lambdas, since it has its own, so no major Java cross compatibilities to port from Java8.
If the government has some automatic way of making half the money in people's bank accounts disappear into thin air, then yes, prices can be redenominated. Except for all those long term debts and contracts with future prices agreed; it's not so simple to accept a 50% pay cut when your mortgage stays the same. And in practice, if the government does take half the value of the money in circulation out of people's accounts, most of it will be find its way directly or indirectly into other people's bank accounts, so prices won't go down anywhere near 50%

The major difference between taxing and renormalizing (or printing) money is stabilising the currency's value, but distributional effects are also important and mostly intended
> I'd add the really bad IDE support.

I find IntelliJ support quite excellent.
I also do consultancy, on enterprise projects where using Oracle and SQL Server is a rounding error on project expenses, in a mix of Java, .NET and C++ based solutions.

On my side, I am yet to see a new project done on Core besides some tiny micro-services on department level.

As mentioned on another thread answers, still waiting on SharePoint and Dynamics running on Core.

So yeah, we'll need to disagree.
NY Times? They just do rage-porn now. They don't have the critical thinking skills for anything else.
Two years ago I built a pond, because I have a garden and I had a pond as a kid.

Within 3 months we had newts! then came the dragonflies. I also had a whole host of frogs and other invertebrates.
Jetbrains has a order of magnitude better internal culture that Google so I hope that never happen.
JetBrains is one of the few NO bullshit company that continually refine it's products for improving the user experience.
They both have precisely the same amount of signal, ie none. One just unconditionally predicts a recession and the other unconditionally predicts good times.
All you say is true, but it is also true if you replace BTC with EUR. It’s just a statement about the non-canonical currency, nothing to do with Bitcoin.
My team uses Kotlin + Dropwizard + Postgres a lot. I would absolutely recommend trying Kotlin out on your next API. You will find the code very easy to learn coming from Java, and it is honestly a joy to work with compared to Java. You will find your code much more concise yet more readable. Also, IntelliJ gives you all kinds of hints for how you can make use of Kotlin language features.

You can also easily handle nulls in Kotlin, since values have to be explicitly nullable in order to be able to have one. This is great for your application model layers. The val/var paradigm is nice so you can stop having to remember to write 'final'.

If you ever get stuck and don't know how to write something in Kotlin, you can just write it in Java and either use it, or just paste the code in IntelliJ and it will convert it to Kotlin.

Lastly, Kotest + Mockk is awesome--super readable testing.
Interesting perspective, so just like Rust then? Seems like Google can just buy board seats then.
Almost 10 years ago Pivotal was doing exactly the same with Groovy, Scala and Clojure, where are Spring Groovy/Scala/Clojure 10 years later?
Serious question: Why were these bills paid by the son who would have no financial obligation in the case of his mother's bankruptcy?

America's health care safety net is bankruptcy and the 'cannot refuse critical treatment based on ability to pay' role of emergency rooms.

Seems the right course to take in these situations is to string along the hospitals until it ends up in bankruptcy and only pay out of pocket from the next generation when a deposit is required before care will be given. I don't like it, but that's the way the system works currently.

Edited to add: I'm clearly ignorant of some of the mechanics here, so longer explanations of how things work with illnesses like this would be very much appreciated.
I believe the main benefit is that it is much easier to customize/change/tweak.
That's a terrible counterexample. How can we possibly draw parallels between Twitter, which has very specific high-education employment requirements, and TJs, which is exactly the opposite? TJs has no need to import labor when it opens a new store - its cheaper to hire locally. Completely different situation.

With regards to your edit: Not sure how no produce is better than produce with a short expiration. Also, anecdotally, I've never had this problem (although I largely eat their bananas, which have easy tells for how long they'll last and are amazingly cheap).
The business has to charge more in order to pay the newly increased wages that are necessary in order to hire the wealthier people who now desire to live in the improved neighbourhood.

I don't think they're afraid of "the neighbourhood getting nicer". I think they're afraid of people who don't know the local situation "helping" them out - "for their own good" of course. It is the same problems that countries face who work with the IMF/World Bank. Who wouldn't want free money?
The global supply of gold determines its value, not the supply one entity has.
> I never said this anywhere. You're confusing the practice of science with a blanket statement I never made.

Poorly worded, I wasn't claiming you said it, I was saying you could claim it and you would because you consider it the null hypothesis.

> Before you go on, learn about the impossibility of proving a negative:

I don't need to research Russell's teapot, I'm well aware, that was a poorly thought out statement on my part is all. I didn't mean to ask you to prove a negative.

> Remember -- all I have ever said is that the possibility of a chance outcome cannot, must not, be dismissed, and to a scientist, it is the first possibility to be considered, not the last.

It's not being dismissed. The issue is whether it's just chance; that Buffet's disciples have also done consistently well disputes the null hypothesis. Please actually read what Buffet has to say[1], he's not stupid and he's not ignoring the null hypothesis.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-on-efficient-m...
> Oh right - WhatsApp is already wildly popular in most of the developing world for mostly this reason.

Not only that, but carriers will often advertise plans with "unlimited Internet for Facebook and WhatsApp" (a punch in the face of net neutrality).

So not only WhatsApp has more impact with audio messages when audio calls are too unstable, audio calls already substitute the bulk of phone calls even for people who have shitty data plans.

This is what my carrier says on their most basic offering:

> What does WhatsApp Unlimited mean?

> The benefit is granted automatically, without the need for activation. And the use of the app is unlimited to send messages, audios, photos, videos, in addition to making voice calls. Only video calls that are discounted from the internet package, as well as access to external links.
I really like your 3 tipped in favor of's.

> If it's so easy, what's a good example of software that rides the line well?

I agree with you that the GP was wrong to claim that it's easy.

But here is a way to get something better than we have, and that is, GUI control panels that read-and-writes the same text config files that the user can, and do so in a cooperative way. For example, if the grammar of the config file is such that there is NOT-more-than-one-way-to-do-it, then it doesn't matter if either a human or software updates the file.

and if you want the UI to squelch the noisy details of what's happening, that's fine, but keep the log and make sure it's easy to get to.
Another tool along these lines is Galois' Ivory language https://ivorylang.org/ , a Haskell-embedded language for writing safe/reliable C.
NY does not seem to be getting a good bang for its buck.
I haven't seen anything to indicate that was the case, by all accounts they did seem to generally be near break-even on at least a large number of their leases.

That story was also in the New Yorker.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/how-venture-ca...
There was little doubt at the time that DOS based systems were rapidly becoming obsolete, and the future would be 32 bit Windows or OS/2.
I'm currently teaching python to some students on a conversion course who needed a bit of extra help. The most demoralizing thing for them is to keep hearing how easy python is supposed to be.

I had to flip that around from day 1. Python is not "easy". It's just "easier" than, say, C, assuming you already know C and the fundamentals of memory and stuff. If you don't, Python might even be HARDER to learn, because it automates a lot of that intuition about objects and memory away from you.

So you're not struggling because it's easy. You're struggling because it's hard! Like all programming. But also rewarding. Start from the basics, try to get a deep understanding as you go, stick at it, and you'll experience the rewards sooner than you think.
github.io is on the list. *.github.io is not. They are different. The rule only goes one level down.

The github.io rule means foo.github.io cannot share with bar.github.io.

However foo.private-org.github.io can share with bar.private-org.github.io. The *.github.io rule would prevent that.
Parent had mentioned 3d printer. Of course using a modern pcb layout program would be the right tool for the job, as well as a good psychologist to deal with the madness that follows from tracing all those wires.

Then again, I guess one could potentially rig up a program that took gerber files for a many layered pcb design and have it output a 3d model for forming a chunk of multilayer plastic circuit board. You'd need a printer that has multiple heads for depositing conductive materials though. I'd question its reliability in such an environment as an old mini though.
My wife and I are ambitious people, "planners" from childhood who got the grades, got the degrees, and got the high-paying jobs. But our daughter, who was, um, "unplanned," brings us more joy than any of those accomplishments. And the wonderful things about human existence is that having kids and making families is accessible to almost everyone.
I didn't think Linux was vulnerable to the 45-day forced-reboot bug.
Whenever I've been through TSA screening I empty my pockets to a tray.

This report says "I took the set of flashcards from my pocket and handed them to the officers."
To anyone that doesn't already know (I had to look it up). TPTB stands for "The Powers That Be".
From the github: "I didn't want any wallet spending functionality"

Sure wish it did everything. This could be a pretty great educational project, or a nice start to building your own altchain.
Are people up voting this because they like the title or they like the link? Because there's literally more information about what this is in the HN title than the link. Is an anonymous paste the closest this thing has to a homepage?
It is maybe worth noting that triangles are 2D simplices, so for a non-flat mesh, triangles are a simpler solution. Hexagons won't always be flat. There's a literature of progressive mesh transmission that does fun things with mesh topology. Not sure if it's still a live topic but I remember a paper with nice illustrations from 2001:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.5...
>I'm allergic to basically all forms of animal and plant life

From an evolutionary perspective, that's remarkable. Have you looked into the possibility that it's not your allergies, per se, but your microbiome that is the troublemaker?
Wait, I thought that private companies can censor whoever they want? Presumably that means they can also charge people whatever they want, and if you don't like it, build your own ISP.
Here's even someone asking to be scanned/tracked!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5346262
does this make them inherently safer from a 'hack'?
I say this as a front-end dev who has worked on, among other things, several SPAs

Downsides of infinite scroll:

- Requires JavaScript (adds complexity, especially when site doesn't already require dynamic rendering)

- Loose/unpredictable UX behavior can be discomforting (loads when you don't want it to load, doesn't load when you want it to, scroll bar suddenly changes size, etc)

- Reloading the page/clicking the back button loses your position

- Monotonically-growing DOM slows things down eventually, unless you start de-rendering previous "pages", which adds even more complexity and unpredictability (Ctrl+F doesn't behave as expected, for example)

I think it can make sense for some things, but not for a simple and stable website like HN. Even for something like Twitter I wish they hadn't added it.
Yet they stopped packaging accessories with the iPhone to help save the environment lol.

I love my Macs but Apple definitely are not environment focused, for the reasons you state
I recall the ancient Persian having made batteries. Is that right?
On the link above there is a separate section for billing account suspensions and it seems to work how you described.

You can fairly easily swap billing accounts a project is using if you still have an organisation admin account that isn't suspended. I saw this risk coming at a previous company and tried to get them to treat billing accounts like any other important resource and go for redundancy, but the director could not see the value and our Google account manager denied the risk existed, luckily they have been more fortunate and this has not happened to them yet, although it did come close once with some issues with the payments.