jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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The average person tends not to care too much about their privacy. It's an abstract problem, and it'd take an extreme like video evidence of a Facebook employee jacking it to a nude photo they discretely captured from your webcam while you were in the bathroom.

Just look at the Oculus Rift. The "sensors" are literally webcams connected to a Facebook app that you point at your living room, your bedroom, your kids, etc. Yet people see a new toy and none of that matters. Even tech-savvy and privacy conscious people will contort their world views to justify the purchase.
About ~1 Billion of that cited number is from global warming costs. The larger portions is from health costs associated with air pollution which accounts for ~2 Billion. You can find a break down of the sources of that subsidy at the bottom of page 21 of the linked article.
Being a hero does not require extreme competence. It requires courage to stand up for what you believe even at great personal risk or cost and a moral compass pointed in the right direction.
Why does vim exist anymore? Neovim exists and has more and newer features. We should just get rid of vim, and have Bram focus all his efforts on nvim instead.

Some of us don't like VS Code (for lots of reasons) but do like Atom. From Microsoft's perspective, they just bought a golden goose (GitHub) that can bring them a lot of developer goodwill. If they kill off that golden goose, they lose all the goodwill they just bought. Atom is a part of what GitHub stands for. It's a hackable editor for the 21st century. And when you're one of the richest companies on earth, you can afford to pay a few developers' salaries for a lot of goodwill.
The hard part is international collaboration. Getting China and India on board has been a non-starter so far, and they're far and away the largest contributors.
Two fires were mentioned in OP, 2012-2019. Even if it's 200 that get surfaced, look at the alternative: about 180,000 highway vehicle fires per year in the US. Having a compartment full of leaky flammable fluids and hot exhaust components might tend to do that on occasion.

The bigger story might be the risk/reward tradeoff of those few battery fires vs everyone's charge capacity.

source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/377006/nmber-of-us-highw...
I quite agree. I'm a longtime environmentalist, and when climate change first became a major story I was all for it because CO2 emissions are an excellent proxy for pollution and resource depletion. Now I feel like what should be an integrative approach to a hairball of multiple wicked problems has been simplified to an obtuse marketing campaign, driven by the idea that if enough people agree on the scope of the problem they'll suddenly all pull in the same direction and we'll be most of the way to a solution.

I hate to say it, but I feel that climate change has become a distraction from doing real and necessary environmental work.
Thanks, I wrote a blog post[1] recently about the benefits of using different aliases as opposed to plus-addresses and that was one of the issues I mentioned.

[1] https://anonaddy.com/blog/why-you-should-use-a-different-ema...
And when there was a hole in the ozone layer, for the first time ever the whole world agreed on a measure to stop it. That too was a global climate problem.
If the parents don't prioritize education, the kids won't, and whether they're naturally gifted/intelligent or not, they won't do the points listed above, and they won't end up in the programs.
That's because the voters, the people who should actually have the right to say how they want their government to run, have either voted for legislators who write laws that do not punish repeat offenders, or have voted for prosecutors who use their discretion, or have voted for judges who use their discretion.

That is the right of the voters. The police (and certainly not the police unions!) do not have any power in a republican society to override that.

It is certainly true that the way that Seattle police (and SF police, and NYC police, and NJ police, and...) want to maintain public order is different from the way that the voters want to maintain public order. But that is the very problem at hand - as the comment above says: 'current police culture basically says "Let me do my job however I want, without consequences, or I just won't do my job"'.

Police overpolicing because they don't want to do their jobs as they're told is not very different from police underpolicing because they don't want to do their jobs as they're told.
Well, one problem is that practically every teacher wants to teach the easy, gifted students that already know most of the material anyway. No one wants to deal with the not-so-easy ones, where teacher quality and proper discipline actually makes a huge difference to quality of education. That's why explicit tracking is so unpopular - it exposes these not-so-comfortable dynamics.
On Linux I’m a now full time sway-user, and a former i3 user.

While on Windows I never found a good i3-replacement, I found a fairly mature and stable tiling WM I’ve been contributing too, although it’s more in the style of xmonad.

So if you’re into tiling WMs and you’re stuck on Windows you may want to give that one a try too:

https://workspacer.org/
Or 0.5 per hour on Earth at sea level. That's only 2 orders of magnitude difference. Given that we don't expect radiation damage to be a major source of failures in Earthbound consumer or commercial electronics, it's a bit surprising it's such a big deal in space.
Caprover is also nice, you use docker files instead of heroku build packs and it has a nice gui.
No it is still attached to the rover.
>A priori, I'd say the goal of an idealized education system

All sane people agree with you. However, those who prioritize "equity of outcome" disagree.
> It feels a little bit to me that we’ve so eroded our personal lives compared to professional lives that people are starting to have a hard time distinguishing the two.

It comes up a lot on this site that a job is just a job, and thus you shouldn't focus so much on it to find meaning, fulfillment, etc., but I'll consider this when it doesn't take up majority of my daylight hours.
This is more or less the same thing as a steganographic file system, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganographic_file_system
Maybe less so now, but the early ones were most certainly distinctive. Especially the Camel book! (Programming Perl)
Here's a link to the author's blog post on the subject, which has the text from the talk (in addition to the examples contained in the PDF slides): https://oleksandrmanzyuk.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/from-objec...
For those like me who are out of the loop:

* Webmentions are like pingbacks, but use a simple POST instead of an XMLRPC call;

* They're not particularly new (2013ish);

* Webmention.io is a service to make it easier to participate in webmentions without operating your own POST endpoint.
Murdoch has now practically purchased the Australian Government, Google and Facebook.

I wouldn't be surprised if the talks behind the scenes were 'if you want to hear anything good from news about Facebook, just pay us'.

So much for the 'trust' in any one of them.
I'm curious, does your conclusion preclude sleep training, which frequently involves some amount of "crying it out"?
If you have the LaTex, you can more easily convert that to EPUB.
Ctrl+L/F6 already supports that use case and more quickly since you'll need to paste or edit.
It doesn't have to apply to all experienced engineers to make a big difference. Say that only 50% of engineers on the job market are bad, but the bad ones apply for 100 jobs and the good ones apply to 2. Then of the interviews conducted, 98% of them will be with bad engineers.
Or it could be automated.
this is nice - it looks like it's linked against at least one GPL lib (fuzzywuzzy) though, so the MIT license almost certainly isn't allowed. looks like there's only one usage though, the other is an unused import, so may be easy to change
That's right; as I said "these problems are not (or at least very unlikely to be) the result of a direct conspiracy by some elite group."

Further: "I don't think history supports that view, and I don't believe people are particularly capable of maintaining such a conspiracy for so long a period of time. It should be clear, however, that the "conspiracy" could itself be an emergent part of the system - a higher order structure that has managed to persist itself (thus far) without continuous direct human intervention, however that would make it not a conspiracy in the traditional sense of the word."

I will also reiterate that just because there isn't a genuine conspiracy does not mean, as some (not you, here) conclude, that "the system" is as good as uncorrupted and can't be improved.

I'm not enough of a scholar of Marxism to disagree with your reading of it, but for my own part I would say that people are (obviously in my view) capable of acting in more than their own self interest, unless one insists on almost ridiculous contortions of their motives. This capability for action in the wider good can and should be harnessed by society, and my preference would be for this to take place in step with a broader decentralisation of power (and wealth).

Finally, I think a tiresome strand to this debate (not brought by you) is the idea that any kind of social improvement inevitably leads to some kind of totalitarianism. I know this view is a little pass é, but I really see this as part of a set of propaganda disseminated by the powerful intended to counter challenges to their power. This certainly has historical precedent, and it is pretty clear that similar things happen today, often through support to favourable political parties, which comes with an influence over those parties' message. Of course, lots of other people buy into the propaganda, because it also serves their own (much smaller) interests.
What good will the management engine stealing my keys be to Intel or anyone if I never even put the computer I’m using to sign transactions or generate the public key online? The signed transaction can be transferred manually in hexadecimal to an internet-connected computer which broadcasts the transaction (but never sees the private key ever).

Secondly, you can use computer hardware from before even the invention of Bitcoin, and then code the software on that hardware, developing the libraries yourself.

Third, you can use computers simple enough that it’s not feasible to hide any management engine trickery in it.

Fourth, yes, you CAN actually build your own computer, which I’m trying to do. :)

But to further your point, I still haven’t proven to myself the argument that the elliptic curve used by Bitcoin hasn’t been intentionally compromised like the NIST curves were. I take the word of the Internet for granted there... But I suppose I could prove that myself.
> Aren't RDS and Aurora two different things?

NO, RDS includes non-Aurora versions of many DBs, plus MySQL and Postgres-compatible Aurora servers, plus MySQL and Postgres compatible Aurora Serverless.
Well yes, but your website has a dozen pages, wasn't updated in 6 years, and is as interactive as a sheet of paper. Do consider that some people tackle slightly harder problems.
> I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing was the reason they split Messenger from the main Facebook app in the first place.

It was. Your entire post hit the nail on the head btw.
Really poor title, because the tldr is that he says he is not censoring himself for Apple.
> I would also like to point out that studies show early agricultural societies had notably worse health than hunter-gatherers. This would make it unlikely that a successful, happy tribe would adopt agriculture just so they could "get more".

So did early industrial societies compared to previous societies. In both cases, however, there were individuals who benefited immensely and got more; its the individual desire to get more, that is relevant in this discussion.

(Anyhow, the negative health impacts of the change would not have been obvious in advance, so would not have played a role in whether the motive to get more would have advocated in favor of driving adoption of the techniques.)
Webstorm has CoffeeScript support too.

https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/help/coffeescript-support...
As far as I can tell, that would not be secure – wouldn't it end up being essentially cryptographically secure random timing noise? We already know that random jitter doesn't work, because it can be averaged out given enough samples.

I'm not a cryptography guy though, so I could well be wrong!
I avoid making phone calls as much as possible. I think that's a growing trend.

If I can interact with a business solely through textual communication I will do so, even if it's significantly slower.
Agreed that Google's facing a serious threat and that a CEO approaches things differently in that situation than when everything's booming. I'm not sure about the peacetime/wartime stuff though. First of all if you want to use military analogies, Google has been at war with Microsoft since 2005 or earlier, and with Apple for a few years as well; now they've got another major front with Facebook -- and they're losing. It's a very different situation than Intel's, so the CEO may need to have different skills and attitude.

And then the list of differences between a wartime and peacetime CEO is just silly. "Peacetime CEO spends time defining the culture. Wartime CEO lets the war define the culture" ... hmm, seems to me that George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Winston Churchill all did a lot of culture defining, and so did Andy Grove.

It's interesting though to look at the list in light of his self-description that "One could easily argue that I failed as a peacetime CEO, but succeeded as a wartime one." To me it seems like he's describing the CEO he became, and arguing that it was optimal to become that way because they were at war. And quite possibly it was optimal for him and his company in that situation. But going from there to "these are the characteristics a CEO needs when at peace/at war" is over-generalizing.
The only situation where I can imagine it being a pain is if you aren't already following good security procedures.

If your ops/DevOps guys are experienced pros, they're probably going to be pretty close to compliant, just out of habit. That said I guess it's not terribly hard to envision a scenario where there's no firewall, bad user access controls, and a host of other crap that could be painful to fix if you only have junior-level ops talent.
My small firm has never had cash flow problems and we've never had a client successfully avoid payment. (EDIT: We've had cash flow problems in the beginning due to being a startup, but never from non-payment).

There are a few things that we do that have created this scenario:

1) Stipulate a 10 day payment policy. We don't really expect people to pay that quickly, but prospects/clients always bring it up. It give us the opportunity to communicate how serious we are about getting paid. We then flex the policy to something more realistic, although we make them fight to get the time beyond 10 days.

2) Payment is made regardless of the client's invoice status. We work with a lot of creative agencies so we're not always contracted to the ultimate payer. We make it very clear that we will be paid on time regardless of the status of their invoices. This is a really big thing to look out for it you work with agencies; they want to try to wait to pay you until they've been paid. We make it crystal clear that we will not allow their collection issues to become our collection issues.

3) Meet with your clients face-to-face and build relationships and in some cases friendships with them. It's a lot harder to screw over someone you have to look in the eye. Also, in my case I'm a pretty big dude, ex-lock (rugby), and it's also harder to screw over someone who could break you in half. It's primitive, but it works. :)

4) ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS get money up front. We have a sliding scale for this based on total contract size, but it ranges from 25-50% as an initial payment.

5) Don't start the clock or work until you get paid. We guarantee delivery time, however our clock doesn't start until we've deposited payment, and our contracts stipulate this.

6) Follow up on invoices. We follow up on invoices at 15 day intervals. This is a good thing for so many reasons. It reminds them you're serious. It allows you to communicate before you have to go to the mattresses. It keeps you on top of your A/R because it's too easy to go "oh, it'll be okay, they'll pay" and go back to the IDE.
>We still have under 500 employees

I read that as, "we have almost 500 employees but still no revenue model." Absolute madness.
Worth pointing out that I made this very point in my article a few days after the iPad was launched:

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0015-ipad-an-apple-for-mom.htm...

The only question, in my my mind, is, what will these people do when their cheap old Dell finally clonks out? Right now, to use an iPad and iPhone effectively, it seems you still need some kind of base station. So when the old Dell gives up the ghost, will people buy another one? Pony up for an expensive Mac? Or simply decide that the iPad is good enough and they don’t want another laptop?

Looks like people are now arriving at the same conclusion - I guess because the number of people who are happy to have an iPad and no device to plug it into has multiplied.
> MS has no intention of releasing it on Linux

More likely it is the content owners who have no intention of licensing the DRM for Linux.
Suffice it to say that they're substantially more aggressive with email capture and viral mechanics than I would be. All of their normal emails have unsubscribe links. It appears their automated welcome email doesn't -- that is probably a technical oversight, since it also misses all their normal templating, too.
A related article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181243

Openstache and closestache are two very good names for { and }, primarily because they are shorter.
I use SES (from C#) and it integrated very painlessly and seems to work flawlessly.

Between EC2/S3/Cloudfront/SES Amazon offers a very compelling suite of products that no-one else has replicated. Sure they may not be absolutely the best and certainly not the cheapest, but the single vendor benefit is great.
I think if you look at it from a competitive aspect it makes more sense. During Schmidts reign, competition was mostly irrelevant for google. They came on the scene and just won everything. Search, huge market share from nothing very quickly, introduced gmail and people quickly abandoned yahoo and hotmail. They bought YouTube and instantly owned the video market. They haven't really been a competitive company until the last few years.

Now Bing is making inroads into Google's search market, and Facebook is in some ways re-wiring the way we manage information (Googles goal). Though they may be leading in numbers with Android now, they have some very serious competition.
Writer two is not blocked, it is not waiting, it is not being obstructed. It is wait-free. It returns and can do whatever work it wishes.

However the data structure would be corrupt if writer one never completed. This is corruption and not the definition of wait-free.
That's the worst. I have more than enough bandwidth for Netflix, but I frequently hot my data cap.

I don't think there is such a thing as a comcast account without a data cap.
Actually they have two in the Rathaus, a modern one in the front and an older one towards the back. One of the university buildings has one too.
You have started the question on the wrong foot. The internet is a broader system for information exchange than browser-based communications over http that you brought up here. The internet also includes SSH, bittorrent, Usenet, and email. The latter two are not exclusive to the internet, and can layer on top of mesh systems like uucp.

By phrasing the web as the "internet", you more reveal your own lack of understanding than encourage thoughts about change.

I see you also use exclusionary and ageist language. Did you realize that many in your parents' generation, and indeed their parents' generation, used exactly the same language?

The ad revenue systems you complain about are because people who spend half-time or more working on projects need funding, and Kickstarter/Patreon/etc. don't seem to suffice. If we switched to an unconditional basic income, then I predict we would see many changes in how people use the web. It would mean that many more independent developers could work on interesting projects, without worries of where money would come from, and people could spend more time expressing themselves and reading what others do.

However, unlike your dreams of the future, my proposal would not be restricted to the young.
This reminds me of the corporate dystopia described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_%28TV_series%29
Could you ask your marketing staff to stop spamming android developers on LinkedIn?
Agree.
I initially thought it was brave the designer asking a subjective perspective on work and using it to weigh up what was better.
Then I saw I disagreed and instantly thought "Uhhh-ooh". Unfortunately, I didn't pay as much attention to the rest of the article as I perhaps should have.
Better is subjective, everyone processes visual data differently.
I guess the job of a designer is to best fit people best they can.
Thank you for the tip- still a bit confused (and maybe mixing up terms). If I wanted to keep the DB and App server on separate servers, would i leave them out in the open or house them in a private network?
> it is somewhat less safe when using LP gas, since LP gas is heavier than air, and can pool near the floor

But if you're doing it with city gas, it's lighter than air and can pool between joists.

Really, just go mix up the spray bottle of soapy water. It works great for non-flammable gases too.
Isn't all excel data tabular in shape?
This is pretty efficient. She lazily sorts them on first access. They are stored in a thunk and then lazily evaluates them. After that repeated access is efficient.
You mean private prisons? Or did you mean "prison camps in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona"?
That preference is at least in part because if you don't burn the sugar it needs to work to store it as fat. Excess fat in the bloodstream isn't a big problem short term like sugar is. (Long term is different )
Reading the NYT piece was mortifying.[1] They were my primary source of all things news and then published this strange hit that's just... off base. They were the real news that was called fake news in a ridiculous/laughable sort of way. But it just doesn't jive. How can a reliable news source write an article like that? Why throw your reputation down the toilet for what seems like a grudge?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod...
Why are you wasting time on this centralized platform. It's sooo outdated.
It really depends on your naming conventions. If you consistently treat acronyms in the same way as regular words (i.e. "XmlReader", "IoStream" etc), then there's no practical difference with "xml_reader" and "io_stream".
You're right that this could have been stated better. The impacts themselves are something for geologists and other scientists to discuss. Linking the YDB (quaternary extinctions, demographic bottlenecks, and possible conflagrations) to those impacts remains a combination of under-discussed and controversial in the archaeological community.