jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The problem with this form of hyper-libertarianism is that a large percentage of the people your are consigning to your "unproductive" ghetto are children who are not productive in or out of these neighborhoods and who had no agency in the process that got them placed there.

So you've doubled down on the hardship these children have to overcome. Even if you are ok with this from a moral perspective (which is a pretty high bar to get over in my opinion) it seems like a pretty ineffective way to limit the number of "unproductive" in your society.
People aren't using Adblock to conserve resources. They're using it to block ads and most are willing to take a performance hit to do so.
let me put it this way: if you're really a passionate programmer, what you study is rather irrelevant. you're going to be working on one of your own projects anyway, whether you're majoring in liberal arts or computer science. I think what really matters, is how much time you have left besides your studies.
Not playing devil's advocate here, but a deep concern:

Today's world is full of programmers posing as production administrators, while the solution is to employ administrators and move on. I've seen so many production failures because of admin-posed programmers wishful thinking or not having a sufficiently broad perspective to prepare themselves for the disaster. It was regardless if it was a simple Apache+PHP, hairy Weblogic+Oracle stack or some new sexy Erlangish stuff.

I have nothing against programmers and I am both admin & programmer myself, but many (most?) coders just lack some operational perspective & experience. Is is possible that selling new solutions as "don't plan, deploy & pray" will make this trend worse?
The Korean games remain fun to play. 9/10ths of things on sale are one-offs like a longer duration healing spell or a temporary strength booster. They generally didn't alter the gameplay hugely. Sure it meant a same-level player could pawn you, but it didn't guarantee it and in most cases the player using these specials wasn't a match for an actual hardcore gamer.

Then there was the marginal 1/10th of products that were like a level 15 armor but a level 12 could wear it. It didn't genuinely change much again, because when I played these games I frequently attacked well out of my level range for the huge XP you'd get because I was genuinely good at fighting in them.

I see Nexon cash cards in 7/11, Bestbuy, Zellers and even in pharmacies. I see Zynga getting sued for millions of dollars for ripping off competitors ideas (Mob Wars, etc).
Well it's better than 'social promotion', taking your most accomplished and most experienced workers and peter-principling them into incompetent newbie managers just because that's the next title in the series.
"The blogs and websites I read, the google alerts I use, the social networks I frequent, all give me this experience already today. I don’t need a newspaper to deliver it to me in one package."

That has a nice ring to it, but it's short-sighted. If newspapers (paper or non-paper) die, then we'd most likely see the wire servies go down with them. With newspapers gone and wire services gone, investigative journalism would largely die along with it because it is expensive and some of the best stories span continents. Many of the insightful stories we take for granted as being freely available and at our fingertips would just disappear and people reporting eyewitness events, information the government spoon feeds us, and "stories" that are nothing more than anonymous tips that are seldom second-sourced would fill much of the void. As we know, there are so many things that are never witnessed unless someone takes a shovel and digs deep. Also, hard-hitting journalism aside, where will you find people who spend the money to create pieces like this about architecture that I found on the front page of the NYTimes today? http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/27/arts/design/mu...

IMHO, you should be careful what you wish for.

I, for one, not only love reading papers online, I'm also one of the few willing to shell out what little my paper of choice will ask me to pay (25 or 50 cents a day?) to give me news that changes my perspective instead of news that just keeps me up-to-date.

p.s. - I agree with you about that mock-up shown in the video -- very uninspiring, but that doesn't mean that all future potential takes on the idea will be uninspiring as well. That's like saying that everything that can be invented has been invented. :-)
_The Little Schemer_, _The Seasoned Schemer_, _The Little MLer_. Those are made to be burned through, though. Probably not one sitting (many ideas need time to sink in), but only a couple sessions each.

More recently, _Land of Lisp_. I already knew much of the material, but a very fun read. (Nice stickers, too!) I'd suggest this as a starting point for people new to Lisp, maybe even before _The Little Schemer_ (!).

I read most of chapters 3, 4, and 5 of SICP in one night and the following morning. (I'm on the second pass, doing most of the exercises, and nearly done with chapter 2. I'm taking a break, though.)

_Thinking Forth_, by Leo Brodie et al.

_The Awk Programming Language_ by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan.

_Programming Pearls_ and _More Programming Pearls_ by Jon Bentley.

I couldn't put _CTM_ (http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html) down, either. It took a while to get through, though - It's quite large. I tend to read two or three books in tandem and switch between them, but I was on that sucker 100% cover to cover. What a wonderful book!

I'm currently reading _Erlang and OTP in Action_ by Logan, Merritt, and Carlsson. I just got it in the mail yesterday, but quite good so far.

Also: When you're reading hard programming books, do the exercises! You don't have to do them all, though at least half is a good idea. It reinforces what you've read, and shows you what you actually know vs. what you just think you do. I tend to read the book first, then do exercises on the second pass.
Average karma triggers one behavior: you can submit a lot to get karma points (no negative effect), and to keep you average up, you comment only when you think you'll be upvoted... It reinforces a HN readers cliché conformism (even if it is the conformism of being contrarian) about what one thinks HNers like.
Vite replacing Webpack has made adopting Vue much easier FWIW. Webpack 5 was never properly supported with Vue 2 in my experience with Rails.

But Vite was a basically adding a single gem and it worked. I wasted so much time with broken Webpack stuff.

Ecosystem is as important as the frameworks.
This is very interesting! I work for Hired (Hired.com - check it out) here in SF and am leading our efforts in launching our Contract Category. I'd be more than happy to help with painless1099.com, great idea! I would also love to get your perspective on several things. Let me know if you are up for chatting sometime?
Why shouldn't pets be a protected class? What are the requirements for something being a protected class?
Author of Data Science at the Command Line here. Thanks for the nice blog post and for mentioning my book here. While we're talking about the subject of education, allow me to shamelessly promote a two-day workshop that I'll be giving next month in London: http://datascienceatthecommandline.com/#workshop
The critic is not to YC (which are actually the only ones that recognize the problem) but on the system. We (include myself) have to play by this rules but we shouldn't have to.
We could effectively try to incorporate more Latinos and blacks into the selection by encouraging or helping them to apply. If we keep going on the same path it will certainly not change.
I'd say it's a dream of every developer.

I'm currently working full-time developer for a single product. But trying to find at least a few evenings a week to work on my side project that miiight just take off. I'm a bit sceptical about the success but you never know! At least I'm having fun doing it, right?
What if a person did not earn, but inherited wealth?

Nearly 50% of the Forbes 500 have inherited their wealth. The Walton children will soon be inheriting a sum equal to the combined wealth of the bottom 3/4 of all black American families.
I learned QBasic from a Boy Scout magazine when I was in 4th grade. It was a letter jumble game and my dad helped me on our old Windows 3.1 machine. Never looked back.
I'm sure I'm not alone in finding this piece incredibly obnoxious. Complaining about folks being judgmental and condescending while yourself being judgmental and condescending isn't profound.
We're a fintech company based in Germany and we've helped a few employees move to Germany from outside EU. If their annual salary is greater than €44k the process is fairly easy. If I recall, we've applied first for their Germany work permit (takes 1-3 weeks in our experience) and then soon after arriving they apply for a Blue Card which allows them to work/travel across the EU.

You should get in touch with some of the local recruiters, we've found some great candidates that way.
I don't believe that I have ever seen RMS using this argument regarding GPL.
Unless you're from a country with an extensive visa-free agreement for Schengen. In those cases you enter the country as a tourist, and then apply for a work permit (not visa) at a local government office. It is generally not possible to get a visa from the embassy if you're from a country where this is possible.
The platforms are designed to show you more of what you engage with. I can understand that for people who are addicted to outrage-bait, blocking might be the only way to break out of that, but if you engage with the parts you want to see more of and not with the parts you don't, facebook learns pretty quickly, IME.
a monorepo also solves that same organisational scaling problem, but without introducing the artificial problem of basic function calls having to traverse the network, and having to keep tons of different services online and talking to each other.
I agree about svelte. It leverages the foundations of the web - html and css - and adds some amazing reactive sugar!
The README on GitHub looks useful:

https://github.com/google/wuffs
> You try to force RMS to say some words?

You mean like “GNU/Linux”? It's really not a big leap from RMS’s thinking he gets to name other people’s things without their consent (and insist that other people folloq his preference) to his thinking he gets to name other people without their consent, and its truly backwards to think that either of those stems from people trying to “force” anything on Stallman.
I know I'm old fashion, but I still don't like it when JavaScript and HTML is mixed. HTML comes first, then maybe some JavaScript to enhance features and finally CSS to make things look pretty. It's probably not a good way to built modern websites, but that's sort of the model I understand.

Also any mention of NPM makes me not want to use something. Frankly the tooling around JavaScript is horribly confusing, especially for someone who learned HTML 22 years ago.
context: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1365425470318272514
We still doing the blame the intern thing eh?
I don't think you could do multi-sig transactions on Bitcoin until 2011:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0011
You were really running up against DOS memory limits in the 90s, so there were all sorts of tricks to make use of some of the memory range above 640K. There was also the expanded memory spec which allowed memory from an expansion card to be basically paged into the usual memory range. So people ended up having a bunch of config files that they booted into depending upon what they were doing.
>This is apparently more than the performance of two years old Nvidia GeForce GT 1030.

Almost 4 years old...

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-1030.c2954

"The GeForce GT 1030 is an entry-level graphics card by NVIDIA, launched in May 2017."
Sapiens by Yuval Harari, is a good intro to some aspects of this. I would then go to books on Civilizations, and history of Civilizations (after having a solid a history background to reference events across time). I think this starts building a big picture of the evolution of humans into the modern world.
I only sometimes take Magnesium & Vitamin D3. Lions Mane and Vegan Omega 3 DHA & EPA is nice too. Sometimes psychedelic mushrooms (although not strictly a nootropic).

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/health/nutrition/supplements
Mozilla has such a service: https://relay.firefox.com/

I also remember seeing one Show HN recently that offered similar functionality, but couldn't find it via search. The problem is that if the e-mail alias provider becomes popular enough, their subdomains are soon disqualified from being used when registering to sites.
How do you justify the death penalty morally?
Could you elaborate on what that situation is?
But it’s not Estonian burglary law. It’s about racism. Your dancing around hypotheticals hides the core issues.

So you’re right and you’re wrong. The people in this example don’t care about racist activities of people they support, which in itself is indirect support to mainstreaming these issues.

Not understanding Estonian burglary law is understandable and forgivable, not understanding the negative impacts of racism is not. It would take willful determination to avoid learning even the basics of recent world history or current events and why it’s been such a problem.

It’s not that hard to say “I find some of the ideas by X interesting and useful, but also I don’t support racism in any way.” I get that they don’t want to do it, but that’s the level support that enables the problematic culture to be pervasive.
where have i known you before :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O25Wm42m3qE
Same. With a side of seeing senior scientists whose work was mediocre but who were well-connected surviving, while seeing senior scientists whose work was good failing to renew their grants.
While Chinese authorities may very well be to blame for this, your reasoning is flawed. Governments hide a lot of things for a lot of reasons, whether nefarious or not, especially when it comes to sharing with foreign powers.

The "argument" that "if you've got nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about" is is just as worthless when promoting encryption backdoors as it is now.
It has always fascinated me how the moment you introduce two friends to each other, suddenly they start worrying who you spend more time with, etc. I prefer to have my friendships 1 on 1, of course that might be "concealment" in a way, since I do exist outside of that one friendship.

Virtually every "group" of friends I have been a part of had some sort of leader, and fragmented into smaller cliques somehow.
> Giving up the fight for personal development and economic relevance for a steady check is the first step onto the plantation.

Please don't
Even Java and Rust ended up with Turing-complete generics.
Ah. I think I was being so pedantic it was confusing.

If the "Gell-Mann amnesia" technically refers to your tendency to forget the unreliability of the source, then the takeaway when you learn about it is to be wary of your own forgetting. But in common parlance, "Gell-Mann" has started to mean "Gell-Mann awareness", so you might well read "wary of Gell-Mann" as "wary of skepticism", not "wary of credulity".

Is that where we're getting mixed up?
Shouldn't we have a unicode symbol for "digit separator", or whatever it's called? That way we could build a more localized Web, that would show you content according to your expectations.

Thats not really how Unicode is supposed to work. Its a character set, where each glyph is supposed to have one symbol, not a different symbol per localization.
AFAIK Mt. Gox doesn't have any license(s) in any of the markets they serve. Afraid it's just going to get worse for them.
>>>A MSFT share was worth about $35 dollars when Ballmer took over

This is incorrect.

In December of 1999 the shares were selling around $58/share. Even in March after he took over the stock still hovered around $53/share. By May, the price had crashed to around $30/share - which coincides with the first dot com bubble bursting.
Brave of you to share. Hope you get your photo back soon and some free flyer miles or something. You deserve better. We all do.
OpenBSD's pkg_tools handle dependencies correctly, allowing you to do things like upgrade packages, dependencies, etc. It provides the same level of experience as apt.
Well it could be worse. (Nokia, RIM.)

I think he made one hideous strategic mistake -- deciding Microsoft was the Windows company instead of the Office (or "whatever makes money") company. If he had reacted to iOS and Android by selling Office for those platforms Microsoft would probably be making money off the mobile revolution instead of facing oblivion (or at least irrelevance). (Recall that Microsoft makes, or used to make, more money per Mac than per Windows PC.) Instead by emphasizing Windows over Office he made a whole bunch of people realize that they don't need Office to get through their days.
I agree, that's why it's Flash too. Beginning designers statistically think the flashier (no pun intended) the design, the better.
Not if you run an operating system/code with 64 bit time_t, like NetBSD or OpenBSD. I can't imagine you would run an OS on it though.
Did you take a look at the repo? It doesn't track new laws, it tracks the entire Code Civil and considers each new law a "commit", so it works perfectly. Here, as an example, the commit/law that legalizes same-sex marriage :

https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/b805ecf05...

You can clearly see that the "commit/law" changes the wordings of various files to replace "mother and father" by "parents" and "husband and wife" by "spouses".
Goethe (german), here's a translation of the Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

That old sorcerer has vanished
And for once has gone away!
Spirits called by him, now banished,
My commands shall soon obey.
Every step and saying
That he used, I know,
And with sprites obeying
My arts I will show.

Flow, flow onward
Stretches many
Spare not any
Water rushing,
Ever streaming fully downward
Toward the pool in current gushing.

Come, old broomstick, you are needed,
Take these rags and wrap them round you!
Long my orders you have heeded,
By my wishes now I've bound you.
Have two legs and stand,
And a head for you.
Run, and in your hand
Hold a bucket too.

Flow, flow onward
Stretches many,
Spare not any
Water rushing,
Ever streaming fully downward
Toward the pool in current gushing.

See him, toward the shore he's racing
There, he's at the stream already,
Back like lightning he is chasing,
Pouring water fast and steady.
Once again he hastens!
How the water spills,
How the water basins
Brimming full he fills!

Stop now, hear me!
Ample measure
Of your treasure
We have gotten!
Ah, I see it, dear me, dear me.
Master's word I have forgotten!

Ah, the word with which the master
Makes the broom a broom once more!
Ah, he runs and fetches faster!
Be a broomstick as before!
Ever new the torrents
That by him are fed,
Ah, a hundred currents
Pour upon my head!

No, no longer
Can I please him,
I will seize him!
That is spiteful!
My misgivings grow the stronger.
What a mien, his eyes how frightful!

Brood of hell, you're not a mortal!
Shall the entire house go under?
Over threshold over portal
Streams of water rush and thunder.
Broom accurst and mean,
Who will have his will,
Stick that you have been,
Once again stand still!

Can I never, Broom, appease you?
I will seize you,
Hold and whack you,
And your ancient wood
I'll sever,
With a whetted axe I'll crack you.

He returns, more water dragging!
Now I'll throw myself upon you!
Soon, 0 goblin, you'll be sagging.
Crash! The sharp axe has undone you.
What a good blow, truly!
There, he's split, I see.
Hope now rises newly,
And my breathing's free.

Woe betide me!
Both halves scurry
In a hurry,
Rise like towers
There beside me.
Help me, help, eternal powers!

Off they run, till wet and wetter
Hall and steps immersed are Iying.
What a flood that naught can fetter!
Lord and master, hear me crying! -
Ah, he comes excited.
Sir, my need is sore.
Spirits that I've cited
My commands ignore.

"To the lonely
Corner, broom!
Hear your doom.
As a spirit
When he wills, your master only
Calls you, then 'tis time to hear it."
Google is estimated to have about $33 billion in cash (maybe $31 billion now).

Google manages its money like a private hedge fund. Considering currency fluctuations, real estate is often considered a good hedge against inflation so it may seem like a smart move in the future.

http://www.silobreaker.com/google-net-cash-reserves-up-70-pc...

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/06/07/google-the-...
The banks are momentarily paralyzed because their solvency is uncertain and their underlying capital is frozen. The liquidation of bad debt will happen eventually, but the Fed just wants to inflate at all costs. When liquidation starts to happen, all this money will flood into the real economy, with the multiplier at full throttle.

Instead, the US Government and Fed should have allowed the liquidation to happen, preferably sooner than later. In our timeline, we get both frozen credit (and collapse) and inflation. In a better scenario, we would have gotten just a sudden collapse, with faster recovery.
While your joke is humorous, it's not particularly applicable to this situation. The affidavit only highlighted four "infringing" songs, and according to TechDirt, every single one was explicitly provided to the blog by the record label (or in one case, the unsigned artist) for promotional purposes.

The fact that they refused to post links to all but the permitted songs does actually demonstrate a desire to comply with intellectual property laws.
The correct way to do this is to install Mozilla's Add-on Compatibility Reporter. It lets you selectively disable and report those add-ons that aren't working correctly on new versions.
Good point. Also, "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." (e.g. religion)
ODF word processors have similar validation problems: http://idippedut.dk/post.aspx?id=b7af4c8c-c081-4389-8c46-a3f...
How does Hipmunk make money? Commissions on flights are extremely, extremely low. That's why sites like Kayak, Orbitz, etc. are plastered with ads - they make the majority of their money through advertising and upselling.
Granted, Dianabol and Trenbolone were both approved for a time, but neither was ever really in meaningful widespread use for any legitimate medical purpose, which is in no small part why they are no longer approved. And there are lots of performance enhancing drugs that have straight up never been used at all or even approved for use.

As far as anabolic steroids go the only one that is in relatively widespread legitimate use is testosterone (and even then, there's no doubt some people who go on TRT don't truly need to) and maybe Anavar for very niche conditions like burn victims and people with muscle wasting etc.

As for how wrong broscientists are, some of the most obvious ones are how high they think the doses need to be, how they combine steroids from the same branch of the family tree for a "cycle", how they switch steroids halfway through a "cycle", how they think SHBG and estrogen are bad and deliberately wipe them out using ancillary drugs, how they think milk thistle and other nonsense supplements will "protect the liver", how bad their understanding of the HPTA and "PCT" is etc etc.

I'm all for people being allowed to use many drugs that are currently illegal, but I also think both for recreational and performance enhancing drugs, there's a lot of people who think they know enough about them and that they're making informed choices knowing about the risks etc, but actually don't, and end up making preventable mistakes with potentially very severe consequences for their health and lives.
My kids have been using it on a regular basis for a couple of years now, the core engine is stable and I didn't find any bug, and there are nice games and non-buggy mods.