jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You may be surprised to know there's evidence that moderate consumption of alcohol has health benefits, especially for the heart. Of course, excessive alcohol intake is known to be detrimental.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healt...

Interestingly the same can be said for aerobic exercise. 30 minutes of aerobic exercise four times per week has positive health effects. Running 100 miles per week (the training schedule of a serious marathon runner) is bad in the long run (pardon the pun).

Of course, all this is for an average person. If you have a family history of liver cancer or alcoholism, it's probably a good idea to be a teetotaler. If you have bad joints, certain heart conditions or are too heavy it's possible that running is a net negative for you.
got one F and i was told i couldn't continue
I'm curious. Was it something that existing across many JVM updates ? Given the stability of the language if I have ever seen an issue (rare) there's always been a choice of 10-20 JVM versions to pick from.
> You have Android, iOS and PinePhones.

I mean, Parler is a CRUD app. You are posting a comment on another CRUD app that doesn't even have an official mobile app client!
An awful lot of work to protect my system from myself.
What? 8- and 16-bit are never 32-bit aligned nor sized.
I'm certainly not an expert but I think you're comparing apples and oranges a little.

Js and canvas is a code execution environment, but Flash had a polished authoring environment which I believe made it easier for less-technical people to get stuff happening.
Woa,that looks great.

One can even contribute by hosting a server if I understand this correct.

I'l check it out.
Thanks very much.
This topic is fun. There are lots of rabbit holes, but https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ is a glimpse into a valiant effort to figure out a path from minimal resources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delet...

> Expired PROD, concern was: The only reference is primary, as are all external links. No indication that this is more than a personal project. Article was created by Jordinas, whose contributions all involve adding links to jq from other pages; COI likely.
> Someone else centralises the data and you have to trust them to keep it safe. Email doesn't have this problem because I can take my emails elsewhere and/or change my address, something I've done plenty of times.

I'm not going to defend any social network, and I think that in essence you are right; but using email is a terrible idea.

Is just that people don't understand email any more

When I've been added to a email chain (last time at the end of the 2010s), it was an awful experience: you can't get out, people including addresses in "To" so they get added to all recipients address book (they keep a copy of each email, security depends on each user of the chain!), windows users get infected with viruses and you start getting those as well, nobody will remove anything from the emails so you get huge emails with top-posts without context on what they are replying to, ... it was a mess!

I have no reasons to think things have improved.

So perhaps a better email is needed, and I wonder if it may look like a social network.
> If you don't like this, I'd advise you that your only option is to hire me and/or pay be enough money to become disinterested in finishing the creation of the software.

So, I think you just lost my trust. You're coming at this from the wrong angle, instead of coming from a princpled stance you're approaching this as a value proposition.

Too bad, up to there you had my attention.
> Is it ok to reject a job because I don’t like their software?

Definitely yes. Orgs using outdated/user hostile/plain bad software is a definite red flag when judging fit.

> Is it ok to send feedback that I don’t really want to work with that software?

What purpose would it serve? Either the person has influence over it or they don't. And either they want to change it to something better or they don't. But even if it's yes to both, unless they are a tiny company they are going to be stuck with it for the foreseeable, if only because of organisational inertia.
Yeah I mean science literate. I could * mic drop with this * https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/kansas-lawmakers-att...
I think you're reading it wrong.

After a long life of rock climbing, there's no significant risk of doing it one last time or 10 last times (ignoring the effect of old age itself and whatever).

But when you're in earlier stages of your life, you're asking a different question: You're asking, is this something I want to do hundreds or thousands of times in my life, knowing that each of those times has a small chance of ending my life? This becomes a completely different question.

If I'm 35, maybe I will climb 30 times per year on average for 30 years until I'm 65. That's 900 climbs in total. If my goal is to not die or experience serious injury from rock climbing even once in my life, I have to consider the chance that any one of those 900 climbs will result in serious injury or death. I don't know the numbers for the risks involved, but it seems reasonable to be cautious.

Maybe I don't want to give up on rock climbing altogether, but maybe I can scale it back. If I limit myself to 1 climb per year, that's 30 climbs in total. Much lower risk than with 900 climbs.

This is not a logical fallacy.
Can anyone recommend a good manual on the semiconductor industry? Sort of like this but long form.
Likewise it's fascinating to me to see today an assumed, "expansion of property and its financialization are natural progressions of human societies." This factoid is itself baked into the fabric of our current society and presents itself as assumed knowledge. In reality no such natural progression exists any more than people believe that the universe is just, or that nature is cruel.
Playing around with Blender. Writing.
> Qatar has the worst CO2 emissions per capita, so clearly that's where you should focus your efforts.

That's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that no one country, or even small group of countries, can stop climate change alone, at least not without causing massive harm to their citizens. The entire world needs to participate, and countries that are producing the most GHG for the least amount of people need to do so most of all (though of course once you get to really really small countries, say Luxembourg, other factors become dominant).

My point is that India, particularly, can't realistically reduce emissions (without harming their citizens tremendously in the short term) by more than a few percents. Meanwhile, Europe, the Middle Eastern oil states, Russia, and the USA have much more room to reduce their emissions more drastically, and, combined, they will have a bigger effect, with much less harm to their own people. China absolutely needs to do more as well, and for them in particular green energy generation is lower hanging fruit (since so much of their emissions are coming from this).

The goal of this whole thing is to move as fast as possible to ensure the planet remains livable 100 years from now, without sacrificing poor peasants' already meager lifestyles in China and India (and anywhere else) today.

And now sure, an argument could be made that rather than building nucelar reactors in France, French money could be better invested in building nuclear reactors in China - that is, that the world's limited capacity for building green energy should be best invested in the places that need power the most while currently having the worst way of getting it. I would be amenable to such an argument, though I think it's more utopic than my previous ones.
Any reasoning (genuine curiosity)?
I was more concerned with how this would be applicable to a non Facebook site, particularly one that relies significantly on SEO for traffic. I would think Facebook would have solved this for the pages they do want to SEO (Pages, Questions, etc)
It's not surprise. Just sadness at the incredible potential that isn't.
I don't find this childish but "creepy" was actually the first word that came to my mind when I saw that. Before I even read the article. Under the "open and connected" disguise you clearly see the "one ring to rule them all". It even has Facebook's name on it!

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I think this logo is quite accurate.
Same way we filter normal submissions (I used the same terminology as the guidelines).

Your examples (stock trader / fisherman / drug dealer) strike me as pretty interesting careers, outliers if you will - they would flag my intellectual curiosity :)
This reminds me a bit of Edge Side Includes (ESI), although I realize this is done on the client side more than the server side.

ESI got alot of attention about 10 years ago, but then sort of fell out of favor in the tech media/blogs. Some big companies are still using them like Akamai, and the Varnish HTTP accelerator has some basic support for it.

I always liked the idea of breaking up my page into smaller segments, and then caching each part independently, and assembling the page from the cache. The cache could request only the parts of the page that aren't in cache/expired/uncachable, but otherwise pull everything from a super-fast cache.
The huge newegg deal (was that Christmas?) was unbelievable. After deals/coupons/cashback I got a (low-budget but nice) 24 inch Samsung 1080p monitor for 170 USD (the cheapest 24" monitor on newegg now is 205 USD), and my friend spent about 1800 USD and thus got considerable cashback. Clearly that money was just straight from Microsoft's coffers, and I never once visited Bing (I learned of it from newegg's facebook page).
Not sure i see how that can be fixed in software, if the attacker has control over the hardware (or sit closer to it than the software you are using).
What a kill-joy. Rules! Permission! We can't just have people running around doing epic shit! What if everybody did it?!
cut the clothing off, while you're in the harness.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer ?
There are lists available that block the same things as Ghostery. So yes, it does replace that.

Not NoScript, though.
> Also, GitHub becomes sort of a borg. If some Russian kid decides to mess with it like Homakov did a while back, we are all screwed.

Congrats on you not having a clue what git is.
Arguably, we should be taxing based on the value of only the land itself, and not considering improvements (buildings, etc.) made to the land, in order to not (mildly) disincentivize making improvements to land one owns.
It's possible. But if they just attract drive-by patches that people like, that's fine too. Contributions from a wider range of people, that add features they're looking for (no matter how minor) will make the project more appealing to more people.

The GitHub workflow for this - submitting a patch to a project you're not heavily involved with - is very good, and probably a large contributor to the way GitHub is eating everything. No need to subscribe to a mailing list, and no need to get involved with discussions you might not be interested in. But you can easily commit to staying subscribed to your pull request/issue thread.

Of course, that may not suit all changes - but as a default, I think this arrangement a good one.
Many European countries already have a form of basic income for children: you get $X per child, unconditionally (or with very few strings). Yes, there are people that complain about welfare moms and immigrants having children just to get the benefit, but the vast majority of Europeans would agree that child benefits are a good idea.

Another proposal is that the BI for children should partially go towards that child's education.
> because AA helped save me from life-threatening alcoholism

Given that there's pretty good evidence at this point that AA doesn't work on average, either a) AA didn't actually help you (you would have done it on your own anyway) or b) AA did help you, but that is balanced by an equal amount of harm so that the average still comes out as "not effective".

In either case the conclusion is unescapable that AA should not be relied on at all. At best, you're going to get nothing out of it and you're wasting psychological resources you can't spare. At worst, you're gambling that you're the kind of person it helps, rather than the kind of person it makes things worse for.

I don't want to sound harsh here, but people who have both used AA and recovered from alcoholism seem to have a rationality blindspot around it. From an objective perspective, this is not all that different from a cancer survivor crediting their remission to the "energy crystals" their guru recommended.

I'm super glad for you that your cancer cleared up, but I'm going to keep telling people that those crystals are bullshit.
Holy shit:

"This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding, they
more than likely caught wind of the fact that those backdoors were
present and didn't want to create any derivative products based upon
the same."

At the time (2003) this was blamed on Theo criticizing the Iraq war in the Canadian press.

The impact of this if true is going to be huge.
When I realized that I hadn't learned languages, I'd learned techniques, and I could just change languages given a bit of time to bootstrap and some common starting points.

Basically, paradigms were my Aha. Kinda lame, but apparently there are a lot of developers who haven't figured them out yet.
The author made sure Braid worked on Linux for the bundle. I was very pleased to hear about that.

(And yes, having bought the bundle I can verify the download exists.)
Is TNW a serious news source or a spoof? This seems rather too easily generated from just the information that was in the README file.
My company is currently getting folded into a dev shop with... sub par developers/management that follows pretty much every paragraph you've written (except the F# thing, but I have similar newer code that would weird managers out to some degree).

It's depressing, the framework is great but it's like there are external forces that cause the framework to be used poorly.

I feel like .NET is solid for smaller shops, but once you get bigger those shops seem to want to fold weaker devs in and that tends to put up a lot of barriers/management.
If anyone is wondering how it works: the vim script (vmail.vim) sets up a series of buffers. It uses regular Unix shell commands to vmail_client to populate them and interact with mail, such as flagging messages. vmail_client is some Ruby code that communicates with the Ruby vmail server process using DRb. The vmail server does the heavy lifting of interacting with gmail itself.
Funny timing.

I've been a .net developer, mostly web - some desktop, since the first release. I am currently going through the interview process with a company that focuses on rails.

Part of me is excited, I've been wanting to get away from MS technologies for a couple of years now. Part of me wonders if I am going to miss the safety net of the compiler and IDE, and if the grass truely is greener. I started out doing perl/cgi and the asp/vbscript, so it almost seems like a step backwards tool wise, but with much better languages and libraries than I had the first time around.

If anyone has any insight, it would be much apprecaited.
I agree with you. Alot of the applications seem to contradict themselves with massive descriptions on the features it contains, then because of the clause in which they say (this is only a toy) it somehow exempts them from providing any actual features that they have listed.

I wonder though, if any people are actually flagging these apps for apple to review and if so, why aren't they being audited and amended to show a true description of what the app really does.

I think the major issue is people's general lack of reading and research before they purchase these apps. They will read the brief description and think it's some savvy app.

BUYERS BEWARE! You must always read the full description!!!!
GCC targets way more platforms and compiles way more languages than the Intel and MS compilers do. That's not an apples and oranges comparison.
One of those technology El Dorados like the Fast Breeder Reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_large_floating_structure

my favorite occurence in fiction so far is

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Aether_Paradise

VLFS is well developed when it comes to this sort of thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Horse_PDQ

and in principle the cost could be brought down a lot, but the people who make them now have a perfectly good business that they don't need to "disrupt".

These are distinct from ships (potentially cheaper) in that they aren't easy to "move away" and I think the idea that you can "make them in a port a world and tow them to where needed" looks cheap compared to old alternatives but will keep them expensive compared to land.

They might be solutions for places where it is impossible to build an airport; the Gazans could certainly use another strip, the question would be paying for it.
In my family all the cooking/frying is done with clarified butter. Butter, cheese, definitely no margarine/crisco, plant oil only for salads. So far no cardiovascular problems.
> Here's the current ethnic makeup of the PAC:

> Three Latinas

> Three white women

> Two African Americans

> One Asian American

> One Pacific Islander

> All current members of the PAC are women. Brenzel would have been the only man, and he happens to be white.

How do you even parody this?

> About 33% of SFUSD students are Asian, 28% are Latino, 15% are white and 6% are African American. The school board argued that adding a white male would tip the balance in the PAC. Whites would then become the "dominating race."

What if we didn't encourage a world in which people identified with and advocated for their own race? I.e., you have some extra white people (or whatever race) on the board but it's not really a problem because they aren't lobbying for "white interests" (whatever that means). In what world is segregating everyone to their own racial lane going to deliver more equitable outcomes for individuals? Surely this is only going to enforce antiquated, racist ideas that race is a useful predictor for anything at an individual level (i.e., "I know everything I need to know about a person from their race"). Surely this is the very essence of racism? Do these people really not understand that they're being far more racist than their broader society? Or are they aware of their racism but using terms like "anti-racism" and "equity" deceitfully?

EDIT: Looks like TFA was flagged off of the front page, which is really too bad because this seems like a very important topic and very relevant to much of this forum (considering how frequently we deal with racial employment policies in tech or the broader BLM threads over the summer or general SF/SV happenings).
I thought about migrating Radial Menu [1] to SVG once, after 1 hour fiddling with the code I kinda gave up. What a mess. I remember reading somewhere "if you are coming from canvas programming, you might find drawing a circle counter intuitive" - yeah, I did.

1 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radialMenu
Very nice! The results look similar to my experiments in applying feedback to style transfer networks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGSXbYDpI9c), though the self-healing properties of CA make this more interesting!
> "Embrace, extend, extinguish" has never been uttered in any conversation I've been part of at Amazon.

We are not talking about internal corporate PR. Enron also had great set of values [1] that were preached to the employees. It's about the actions, not the words uttered.

[1] https://hbr.org/2002/07/make-your-values-mean-something
We've been using Redshift + Looker a lot lately at my company and it's been great. We've also added DynamoDb to our pipeline so that we're about to move data from DynamoDb -> Redshift -> Looker for running reports and analytics on NoSQL data
Holochain is a distributed version control system for the development of social applications / protocols. Imagine if Uber or Airbnb were just protocols, able to be used without the company in the middle - in a fully peer to peer context. You could evolve and improve the rules together with others peers, and start playing new economic and social ‘games’ without any central authority being able to block you from experimenting/doing so.

Holochain’s novelty lies in its use of DHT’s to create, store and retrieve data. Like Git source chains, it then uses cryptography to guarantee data integrity in this distributed application context. You’re basically agreeing in advance on which functions to use. Instead of using proprietary functions that are kept secret behind a firewall or limited through an API, Holochain allows you to create and use apps that directly enforce and verify open rules in a 100% distributed peer to peer way. To the best of my knowledge this sort of system hasn’t been seen or invented before.

Thy have great descriptions on their website:

[from https://holo.host/faq/]

“Holochain maintains data integrity without the need for global consensus. It uses an agent-centric approach, combining ideas from BitTorrent and Git, along with cryptographic signatures, peer validation, and gossip.

An overview:

- hApps have validation rules.

- Agents have their own local, tamper-resistant hash-chains recording their actions, built upon hApp rules.

- Each hash-chain entry is cryptographically signed (multi-party actions, like transactions, are mutually countersigned).

- Data is shared to random peers who validate it.

- Validators gossip to share good data, warn against bad data, and blacklist bad actors.“

Their code is free software, available on Github here: https://github.com/holochain
Yes, agents for software developers are massively common. In most major cities you'll find heaps of them. Especially in big cities like London/Tokyo.

I have an agent. I make no where near that much of course.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/african-student-tran...

Note: Lome is the capital of Togo, not rural or isolated.
Privoxy blocks ads, too.
Lots of hot desert, salt water and pipeline/shipping infrastructure in the Gulf states.
So, once again, the Saudis win? :)
By far, limiting the IP clause is most important thing to get while you're in the negotiation stage. HR and legal will move mountains to get a key hire made, but once you're in, all the power is in their hands.

I recommend asking to exclude any ideas developed on personal time OR not formally documented or manifested in specs or code.

You don't want to be worried that if you have a conversation with a colleague about some problem which sparks an idea for a product that just the vague idea becomes company property.

Any of your ethereal ideas that your employer doesn't execute on should never be at risk of getting claimed later if you decide to do something with them. Get that in writing before you start.
I would think conditionally linking to it, that's what immediately came to mind while reading this. Within your HTML template and preferably using a built-in variable that indicates you're running in DEBUG or DEV mode.
That letter is so geeky, I doubt if 90% of amazon investors would get the things he was explaining.
As a geek though, I love it.
Right, the key here is that goodwill is measurable. Opportunity costs are not.
Those are also nice. But I always find something missing in the available tutorials. Sometimes it's vacation auto reply, sometimes DKIM signing, etc...

And of course the tutorial for Debian Squeeze is not yet available.

Disclosure: I am the author of the book this link points to.
http://news.google.com/news/search?q=royal+wedding
While sociopaths can plan ruthlessly they're not necessarily more longterm oriented than non-sociopaths (since they bore more easily I would even expect them to tend to be less longterm oriented). So I consider it highly unlikely that a sociopath would play nice to everyone for years and years.