jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have a USD denominated checking account with Citibank UK, any EU citizen can open one, and there are no fees for paying in USD cheques.

I also have a US bank account with Chase. I'm an EU citizen. I just walked into a branch in Midtown Manhattan and said I needed an account to receive approximately $10,000 per month and suddenly the need for a US passport, SSN, etc evaporated. YMMV.
Zed is to now as Eric S. Raymond was to the 90's
Pulse is not an Apple application.
I disagree with point 2. You only alienate the talent if you don't have a culture of exploration. On several occassions I've hired exceptionally bright people, with no clear idea what they might do. In every case they figure out what to do, usually by finding a gap that we didn't even know we had.
Was thinking the same thing. Unbelievable. And the 'frame' clearly even includes the ads in the NY Times website.

Pulse is giving them both free content and free ad distribution, and they're bitching about $4.

To paraphrase the creepy paperboy, "Four dollars! I want my four dollars!" Is that what the NY Times has come to?

Unbelievable.
I got recognized in an airport on a city I've never been to just this week.

There are degrees.
"I care about the dots/pixel"
Yes, but those are two different dots you're talking about. What you actually care about is how many printer dots you get for each image pixel.

There is a distinction, and I'm all for precision in language, but it's nothing more than a language distinction for the sake of clarity.

It is not a technical distinction, is my point, and people like Bray aren't wrong to call this a 300dpi display. The worst you can say is they are slightly less precise in their speech than is optimal.
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Resume: I lead Marketing and Data at a startup from seed to series B, scaling revenue >100x. I'm looking for growth or data opportunities.
email: growthdatastartup@gmail.com
There are powerful, influential people down-playing the seriousness of the epidemic while they unload stock. Pointlessly murder a few people by puncturing ambulance tires or profitably contribute statistically to the death of millions, there seem to be some deeply evil people around.
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We're hiring a team lead to manage and scale up our existing team of 7 developers (local & remote). You should be full-stack but most comfortable with back-end (Spring Boot, Java, Hibernate, jOOQ, AWS).

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Well yeah.. it is likely higher.. let's say it's 50% or even 200%. That could still be within the variance. If you can't tell me what this variance is, then it is not obvious at all that the situation in Italy is far beyond "reasonable variance"! So far you have not given me any evidence that proves this statistically. Also you're misinterpreting the statement "it is likely higher" and assume this means it is definitely higher.
I wouldn't use Hangouts even if I'd have to pay for it.
A lot of users went for this because they were already familiar with their meeting software ( over the last 5 years,I only had maybe one meeting that used Hangouts,the rest were always Zoom). I must admit it's more user friendly than MS Teams as well. In the end,it does work and does the job well enough without havit to train people for 5 hours on it. It's incredible how few companies manage to get it right on such a software.
I am with you on that. I recently had to write a bunch of Vue and scrolling up and down really annoyed me. But, fortunately it is becoming a moot point a bit, at least in React world, with more focus on presentational components. Right now I am working on a project where there is a UI Kit and the application is a separate entity and I really-really like this approach. With the `styled-system` library this produces quiet sane-looking styled code.
Not sure how it translates into Vue world, but I would say - make presentational components with as little logic as possible.
I don't think it was related to TCP fragmentation. It must have been a different network issue, timeout, crash, or other bug that caused the connection to close.

They were relying on the server side to verify the http Content-Length header to avoid partial writes, which never happened and they consider this to be a bug in the golang http handler.

Quoted from the writeup:
"""
We determined that the connection was reset after sending the first packet, but before the second packet could be sent.
"""

My bet is when they say "packet" here they really mean write/send. They describe the old version as doing one write for the http headers and one for the body. The new version makes just one write.
First, yes. Like many other investments of capital, (such as research) it provides economic opportunities.

Second, absolutely yes. This has been the dream of telecommuting for, what, a decade? But rather than increasing discretionary income, remember that perfect telecommuting brings with it increased competition, which drives down compensation. So you would probably not see 2014 San Francisco tech salaries being paid to all those remote workers. A real part of today's high SV salaries is simple cost-of-living adjustment that would be unnecessary with remote hires in Nowhere, USA.
I always thought those voluntary retirement schemes were weird! Another interesting feature of the schemes is that they need to be individually approved by the taxation office,[1], probably because payments under them are tax-free,[2] while 'normal' redundancy payments are often taxed at about 30%.[2]

It's hard to see how it is in the public interest to promote these schemes with tax incentives. It would be interesting to see an official rationale for them.

[1] eg. http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?docid=%22CLR%2FCR20137...

[2] https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Working/Working-as-an-emp...

[3] it gets complicated, but see page 6 of https://www.ato.gov.au/uploadedFiles/Content/MEI/downloads/B...
I did it like this because I wanted to create the drawing loop as efficient as possible, without switches or conditionals. That method gets executed per pixel so the less logic the better.

If someone knows a better way I'm all ears!
It's true that I live under a rock, but how have I never heard of this guy?
you can put your files on cloud, there are many free cloud storage tools, you can try one.
> I think it's pretty significant that they are able to run a country with that demographics most of whom were not even educated.

Citation needed :)

As a Chinese native who has friends in almost all provinces across China, I just don't see Chinese is less educated than US. Same K-12 education for almost all (exceptions are rare).
APL (and, its derivatives, I think) evaluate strictly right to left, so

a * b + c

is a * (b + c). It might be jarring at first but I really came to enjoy the consistency, I never had to remember operator precedence, which helps in a language like APL where most functions are infix.
The real book is actually full of egregious mistakes and philosophically speaking is quite questionable. There’s a significant body of great Jazz musicians (eg: Yotam Silberstein) who avoid the book at all costs. My teacher -who’s part of Yotam’s quintet- is also very careful with the book and tries to avoid it.
And the amplification circuitry, that's not trivial. I was actually surprised he got away with having the wiring out in the open without shielding it for EMI.
The mRNA vaccine is designed to enter human cells, while the resulting bacteriophage would not be... but if the RNA must be altered to make it human-compatible, then yeah, that's probably a terrible idea.
Since GPLv3, {L,}GPL have been "grand unified" to simplify things. Like code reuse, LGPLv3 is a just small patch on top of GPLv3 that says "given Condition X, you don't have to follow Clause Y in GPLv3", it's literally just a few short paragraphs. Without the original GPLv3 text, LGPLv3 is meaningless, like a running an executable without its shared library.

Hence, although many people don't realize it, technically every project that licenses itself under LGPLv3 must contain a copy of GPLv3.
Those photos do a great job illustrating what his situation looked like.

Here's to hoping he finds his two friends after all these years!
"Random FTP server"? You mean the GNU FTP server?
...what are you suggesting the moon "is" then?
Without something to juice the Afghan economy, the West is already playing the long game to lose. It can hold parts of Afghanistan at great cost for many years, but it can't indefinitely deny the Taliban influence or bases of operation. At some point, the West will simply lose the will to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into a bottomless hole.

Since there appears to be no stable economy in Afghanistan that is feasible to build, maintain, and defend, the Taliban's supporters have an incentive to invest, and its recruits have incentive to join up. Ambivalent forces in Afghanistan that might help thwart the Taliban are disincentivized to do so, because there's no path to victory, and they'd be subject to reprisals when the effort failed.

Vast mineral resources could change that. Saudi Arabia has approximately the same population as Afghanistan, but enjoys a massively better standard of living, a far stronger central government, and operates an effectively modern social safety net. If mineral investment can set that trend in motion in Afghanistan, the state may have an actual path to stability. Which alters the equation there in a way that disfavors the Taliban.

Everyone seems to be citing the case of the Congo. But the Congo isn't essentially occupied by the rest of Western Civilization. Apart from foreign corporations, which are agnostic to which regime controls the country, nobody has a stake in the Congo. That's not the case in Afghanistan.

This seems like a positive development.
I'm quite eagerly awaiting this, but is it really HN material?

On a side note, their site doesn't work in Chrome 5 for Mac because of a browser detect, which is sorta on-topic for this site. This despite the site working fine if you click through and ignore the warning.
>Cheezburger now has more than 40 employees and has not sought additional investment.

[Teal'c voice]: Indeed.
Web 2.0 isn't "community-coined". The term was invented by Tim O'Reilly to sell conference registrations and books. It's no more of a "brand name" and no more nebulous now than it was when he coined it.

AJAX was coined by Jesse James Garrett. I'm not sure that he would consider himself to be a community.
You mean fewer HTTP requests. The CSS is entirely in the document. So unless you base64 encode the failwhale image and put it in a data: url in an img tag, it's one less request compared to an HTML page containing a single image.
My old man did this work in the Navy (on P-3s) on 'pure science' missions and later on Twin Otters looking for oil. As I understand it they look for slight variations in gravitational pull that represent different densities in the crust of the Earth. The S/N is so bad that even with current computers they couldn't do the analysis on the aircraft. They would have to beam the data to Boston where a room full of computers tackled it.

The main problem the oil industry faces is the density of oil is similar to the density of salt. The only way to tell one from the other is to drill an insanely expensive exploratory well. My dad said half the time they hit salt. Really expensive salt.
It's just the not "!" operator twice.

The first NOT operator (from right to left) casts the following operand to the boolean primitve type and negates the value.

The second NOT operator reverses the truth value of the boolean, in order to regain the original truthiness.

!self.WebAssembly; -> false if self.WebAssembly is truthy (eg. object exists), true otherwise

!!self.WebAssembly; = !(!self.WebAssembly;) = !(false|true) -> true if WebAssembly is defined, false otherwise.
> Late last month, a judge dismissed the charge as groundless, after which the local district attorney vowed to present the matter to a grand jury

Considering that grand juries would indict a ham sandwhich, this seems like the prosecutor is reaching just to prolong the process and pain this doctor is going through. Even assuming the best case argument for the prosecutor that he did “steal it”, he vaccinated 10 people with expiring vials. More realistically, given that it was only 10 expiring vials that went to eligible patients, the doctor should be commended for driving around and finding people who needed it. Who the fuck cares if it was primarily his own community or one of the vials went to his sick wife?

This just looks like the DA was caught being overly aggressive (perhaps even racist given the comments in the article) and is just trying to save face. Dollars to donuts the case is thrown away and I hope the doctor countersues for malicious prosecution, although more realistically he’ll take a plea to avoid going to trial and end this nightmare.
The bit that stands out about the article, to me, is

> Are you suggesting that there were too many Indian names in that group?” Dr. Gokal said he asked.

Exactly, he said he was told.
Though things like this:

> There are a few things that will not be supported in the Wayland version, though. Xsettings has been replaced with GSettings, for example. Wayland doesn't support self-positioning of windows — that is left to the compositor — so Emacs is unable to support options that fix the position of windows.

will break some things in current Emacs packages. (E.g. what equake[1], an elisp drop-down terminal, does.)

[1]: https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake
Looks interesting! Is there no live hosted example site built with Wasp? I didn't see links for deployed versions of the realworld or TodoApp examples which would be nice.

(edit: I found a Medium clone linked on their homepage: https://wasp-rwa.netlify.app/)

Is there any distinction in the language for client- vs server-side routing?
It amazes me how bad the internet experience gets when using a VPN server in the EU.

I thought cookie popups were annoying, but I didn't realize how much more ubiquitous they are when you have an EU origin ip address. If you haven't tried it before, it's worth doing it just to see what those poor people put up with.
See also the Atari 8-bit Bot [0] Apple II BASIC Bot [1] and the turtleSpaces Logo Bot [3]

[0] https://twitter.com/Atari8BitBot
[1] https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot
[2] https://twitter.com/myrtlebot
I've done some startups in interesting places (Anguilla, Sealand, Iraq), and decided to take 6 months to travel around the world diving before going full time on my new startup (in Palo Alto). I figure once I have employees, customers, etc., it will be several years before I can go on a stress-free vacation.

While it's possible to travel and do certain kinds of "lifestyle" startup, I think traveling around the world, or even extensive personal trips, are incompatible with a high-intensity venture funded startup. It's just not fair to the other team members who depend on you, your investors, etc. I can see taking 4 weeks a year off (spread out a bit) as long as you stay reachable, but that's about the limit.
I've created a little series of lessons to teach our Year 8 (12yo) students about cryptography, as a direct response to all this rubbish.

https://bournetocode.com/projects/8-CS-Cryptography/

If there is a second crypto war, I want my students to have a little bit of a head start.
Well, this is what historians do -- try to provide a model of a certain society at a certain time. Yet, it is important to warn of scientism (I really like that word!) When we come up with more quantitative models (as economists do) would we be able to resist the urge to believe they are scientifically predictive?

And economics is a perfect example. It appears easily amenable to quantitative study, yet it does not yield very predictive models, does it (at least not nearly as predictive as we'd like)? And history is more complex than just economics.

Of course we can do clever things at those stable points, but defying math isn't one of them. Predicting presidential elections is a good example. We're not really (generally) able to do that (at least, not yet). The best we do is try to get a valid statistical picture, spot a trend, and extrapolate for very short durations.
A toddler is not the same thing as a dog.
$4,824.14. The total cost of the legal fees was $4,824.14.

(???)

“The only reason Truemors is getting so much coverage is that it’s Guy’s site.”

Too bad it's worthless. If he actually made something new and/or innovative, his celebrity would actually be put to good use.
I think one of the main advantages of the space internet is it will further take over the control of internet access. Regional rulers have to face a harder time on controlling internet. This will be a huge power to hold. And I guess it may reshape the world economically and politically. Any other thoughts regarding this?
There are online communities dedicated to modding and improving casio watches ... here is a modded F-91W:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f17/casio-f91w-mod-negative-dis...
I am probably making a similar point to "gracenotes" here, but as I see it the functions in functional programming are simply a tool that can be used in order to achieve side effect free programming. They are not what really defines functional programming as a concept, even though they share the root name "function".
Tagspaces is nice. Works the same on Linux, Mac, and Android (probably Windows and iOS too, I haven't tried). I like that it doesn't try to tackle note taking and synchronization. You can use dropbox/spideroak/btsync/owncloud/whatever-you-lik for that.
>Conclusion: we don't want to pay related to the value we receive for a certain service, but to the amount of effort involved in the delivery of that service.

I don't think that's a fair conclusion. There's much more going on here.

Locks are security for people. If I call a locksmith and he takes over an hour to open or fix my lock, I think, "Oh, good, even a professional is going to take some time to get through this. It's pretty secure!" If the locksmith is done in 10 minutes, I think, "Holy shit! With the right tools and know-how, someone can completely bypass my security in ten minutes!" This isn't so shocking around here, because most people on HN know just how vulnerable most security systems can be. Many people will not have that knowledge and be comforted by a locksmith taking longer.

Also, when you hire a locksmith, you usually watch the locksmith do his work- either because you're locked out of something and have to stand around uselessly, or the guy is in your house and it shouldn't take too long. This makes you invested in his effort- if it takes an hour, you watched the locksmith work for an hour. It's hard not to pay, given that you saw how long it took, and how he was working at it.

The same standard doesn't seem to apply elsewhere- if my steak takes an hour rather than twenty minutes, I'm not going to pay more for it, I'm going to complain to the manager. If the oil change takes too long, I'm not going to be happy about that, either. If I buy a cabinet, I usually don't care if the carpenter took 10 hours or 20, I'm going to want to pay based on the quality of the cabinet.

I think your conclusion is true in some situations, but it's definitely not universal to all work.
Let me find reasons why this can make sense. On one hand, this decreases the motivation to go to banks. On the other, it is possible to outfit each of the opened branches: instate a ticketing system to control the number of persons within the building, instate shifts where only the youngest staff goes to work, etc.
If we agree that masks slow the spread of disease from and to wearers then we are in clear disagreement with the Surgeon General. Masks work and the general populace should be encouraged to wear makeshift masks until such time as there are enough surgical masks for everybody or the crisis is over.
> Is this sarcasm? This is exactly what is happening.

I think this is what is said to be happening in press releases, but not occurring in fact (at least according to the governors who should be the beneficiaries of these acts)
The recommendation is not to use masks unless you are sick.
Camostat plus E-64d was proposed in a paper in Cell around March 5 as a potential superior prophylaxis under investigation because it blockades the virus from using either ACE2 or TMPRSS2, completely denying SARS-CoV-2 from entering human cells.

It's not a vaccine but it seems possible to prevent infection and possibly halt illness. That is, if it doesn't have any yet unknown, horrible side-effects.
"this" is the flagrant disregard for mellenia-old deeply held human values about life and death.

"Skepticism" is distrust of the pharma industry who sees humanity merely as a source of money to extract.
What do you need a body for a closed casket?
This is a great explanation of using floats for layout: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4374976/css.html
There is no talk of blame or fault. All the poster is doing is presenting an opportunity that you could have taken, and hopefully you may attempt if a future situation occurs, that could have improved your experience. People cannot see inside your head and that is why we communicate
Unrelated: In Unicode that would be a pretty difficult problem. The uppercase version of 'ß' is actually two characters "SS". There are a lot of messed up casing rules in the unicode standard. http://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html#11
SPARK aims for that since the 80s. http://www.spark-2014.org provides information about the current version.
There's been a dozen postings about this in the last few days, and the only comment is ColinWright saying "So many submissions, so little discussion" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908019 .
Anything that uses NVidia Physx will have GPU physics in some sense, but very few (if any) of those actually use GPU acceleration for their rigid body simulations
Leave your work at the office.
Would one potential solution be to create a secondary optional gatekeeper?

The basic idea would be - don't submit directly. First submit to the community gatekeepers, they will look over your work, and if they think it will meet approval, they'll pass it on. Otherwise they can give helpful feedback. They can have strong standards about how contributors are treated.

This extra step can be optional - if you don't mind rough treatment or are confident of approval you can skip it...

The result: less work for existing gatekeeper(s) without changing their process, more friendly and helpful interactions for contributors, and no slowdown if you really know what you are doing.

Of course the cost is that people need to volunteer to be that secondary gatekeeper! (and have some tough skin when interfacing with the primary gatekeeper)

==

In an ideal world everyone would have the skills and interest to efficiently be pleasant to everyone else while vetting infinite code. But in this world of finite time and not everyone having every skill it can make sense to have some more "division of labor".

That said - I'm very curious if there are aspects of this that I'm missing that make this perspective insufficient.
Sounds good for shareholders, but bad for the workers that make up Amazon.