jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
[opinion] Good Science Fiction adds layers of abstraction onto the narrative which asks the reader to think differently about a given topic than a "reality-based" fiction narrative might. Intelligent/Bright people are good at this kind of multi-tasking and get enjoyment out of the process. This doesn't mean that a requisite hallmark of intelligence is enjoying sci-fi, it just means that to really appreciate it you may need to be smarter than the average bear[/opinion]
I can now confirm that I've met Captain Crunch, or at least seen him in person. We were at DEFCON 17 and a friend of mine was talking to him. Apparently they had lunch together, and he's a really down-to-earth, fun guy.
Asking for a "summary of its appeal" is essentially asking for a whole lot
of subjective hand waiving. Worse yet, when one appreciates many aspects
and each is appealing in some way, short listing favorites is like naming
your favorite child -- it's not nice and not fair. Since I've known and
met a number of the OpenBSD developers, I won't put the work of one over
the work of another. I appreciate all of their efforts.

The very best advice I can give you is try it yourself, and keep at it
for a while. It will take some time, but you'll get the chance to form
your own opinions through experience. You may or may not have the
required time, effort or curiosity to get into any of the BSD's, and
that's perfectly fine if you're perfectly content with what you're
running. On the other hand, you might wonder why HN is running on a BSD
(FreeBSD). Maybe PG and RTM know something?
Agreed. I used my iPad a lot before I got a smartphone. After getting an iPhone (which is always in arm's reach), I just don't tend to use the iPad much anymore. Especially since app data doesn't sync between them except stuff on the cloud, so I need to play a game or whatnot on whatever platform I used before.
I think I remember that the labels are actually from Trevor.
OK, I've added detail charts - one for each metric - so you can easily compare metrics for each country side-by-side.
iPhone is for utilities, iPad for immersion.
There are lots of laws that are going unenforced that have had far more severe consequences to this country than allowing people to play a game of skill for money.

So coming down on the DOJ for selective enforcement is absolutely appropriate.
I'm just curious - why do you need one that's higher quality?

You know what's exactly on it and I mean it's a white board drawing... you could go out and buy your own white board and some markers and make the exact same diagram yourself!
My parents are still on voice-only phone plans and not even texting. The mandatory data plans for a smartphone would add $20-30 and there is definitely no interest in that.
Absolutely a giant jobs program, but, as importantly, it's a conservative-friendly jobs program.

Republicans (nominally) care about spending, but make an exception for defense. Democrats care less about spending, and are afraid of being attacked for being "weak on defense".

Neither party has any incentive to rein this sort of spending in, so they don't.
RFERL. Enough said.
I plan to be there. thanks. :)
How did they manage to literally work 24x7 for a month?

Didn't they need to take breaks to eat and sleep?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286912/WORLD-CUP-20...
The wheels were rather impressive. I can't wait until they or something similar become the norm in personal mobility. Going to have the sweetest little scooter for going to the shops with when I'm much older.
There are a lot of cheap VPS providers out there. You might be interested in trying burst.net : https://www.burst.net/linvps.shtml
Ah yes, I can't imagine there is a person in the world who don't read httpd logs on the regular.
Hmm that's extremely interesting. My company has developed technology to extract structured data from business websites, data types such as postal addresses, contact details (person name, phone, fax, email, job title, headshot), company logo, products (product name, prices & descriptions), food and drink on menus, business description, keywords/tags and so on. There's a fair amount of text and language analysis, machine learning, clustering algorithms. We can process a million sites (~100 million pages) in a few days.

One of the pivots we were considering for this was Word/pdf docs, specifically CVs. We figured that these big recruitment companies and websites must have to process millions of loosely structured CV documents, and would need to extract specific data from these. I don't know what they do now, but I reckon we could do it pretty well.
Uhh... am I in bizarro world? The general public and gov consensus has finally wised up that tech companies with free reign have been pretty dangerous. While I get a majority of NV is a wasteland (driven through a good part of it when I was a truck driver for a little while), this is just stupid for their own state gov. No matter where this tech dystopia happens, the water infrastructure required will be a testament to anti-environmentalism and unsustainability. Vegas already is unsustainable. Another city, profit centric needing vast amounts of water?

This doesn't get into the new veil of secrecy tech giants will be given. That's going to create an even bigger hurdle for whistle blowers and investigators to stop tech giants from hijacking both the economy and public discourse.

What's that I smell from clear across the country? Smells like large stacks of undeclared cash in envelopes traded hands. I wonder where that smell is coming from? We all know the history of Vegas and the state of Nevada is the epitome of law, honor and corruption busting practices.

Company towns have never worked! This is bullshit! Am I the only one that reads history books or am I taking crazy pills!?!?
You've been posting only about one thing for months. Special-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, especially when dedicated to inflammatory topics. Please don't do this here.
The context is that Apple doesn't have the balls to say things as they are.
Clickable link in case anyone wants to check it out: http://www.ffthrowdown.com/
Walking around in pure terror is one option, but is probably more media inspired than reality based.

You could also be optimistic in the face of the future. We are here because of a long line of good fortune and optimism, despite war, disease, famine. The human race has really faced some incredible odds. And technology while an accelerant for destruction could also be our liberator. Solve energy problems, get us off this planet, etc..

I think instilling that optimism in your kids is most important.
> TL;DR - money is already digital, what central banks really want is centralized accounts that they can helicopter money into

That is not a matter of centralised accounts, but policy. Central banks could just as well have mailed a check, but they are simply not allowed to.

> The reason being that Central Banks have unleashed interventions that 20 years ago were unfathomable. And yet, deflation is everywhere and money velocity barely has a pulse

Because they are tasked with monetary stability, and they used the only interventions they were allowed to. And that was challenged at court.
It would have been the governments job to drive the economy up, because quite evidently, it was not a lack of credit-lines which staled it.
But up until recently there was no political will to do so.
AWS SES has a plain SMTP interface and it works fine for low volume (rare notification emails in our case)
Correction: https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/rest/reference/billing/ap...

Also, I have no idea how that API works, because I, like grandparent, always email support when there is a refund request.

Why is this not a simple button in the partner admin page?
> electroplatting gold and silver jewellery.

Electroplating requires a much higher voltage than whatever these batteries would have put out. Apologies for the meme-y video, but Electroboom explains the issues quite well regardless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFOOfqfx3s&t=5m30s
What a load of bollocks and incredibly sad way of looking at things.
> firmware/os dev stuff

Can I ask which IDE do you use for writing code and for debugging? I read your book (which I think is a great starting point), and now I wanted to start playing with Rust, but for embedded (ARM, bare-metal). I have ~20 years of experience writing mostly C for embedded.

What I want is something that allows me to inspect memory, view disassembly, stack trace, setting breakpoints, watching expressions. Much like Eclipse + ARM GCC (GDB) + OpenOCD does, or KEIL uVision, or IAR EW, to name a few IDEs. IDEs I found now supporting Rust are more oriented towards desktop/server development and very limited on the debugging side. I cannot rely on println! since it would require semihosting and I don't want to walk that path yet.

I need something more low-level to really understand and learn what's going on and how it's achieved. Thanks.
Heading to the docs again, looks like they were consolidated. I remember you had to run coordinator nodes, data nodes, log storage nodes, cluster controller etc.
I'd definitely agree. BBC Micro - total sales 1 million. CBM-64 between 10 and 17 million. Meanwhile Raspberry Pis are well over 30 million.
The comment was about being restricted by sponsorship, not pay.

According to public records, the average salary for a visa holder is around 140k at Apple. At that level I wouldn't expect stock and bonus to be particularly earth-shattering, though I'm sure it's nice.
IMO that's not a good interview question even f2f, let alone on email. As an interviewer I would learn nothing from that, and I agree it's unreasonable to give an interviewee homework.

As far as I know, that is not SOP for FANG interviews.
ARM gives a huge discount if you buy their CPU and GPU together. Hard to compete with that on price, so cheap Chinese SoC use ARM.

Qualcomm bought adreno from AMD (interestingly an anagram for radeon).

Samsung struck a deal to buy from AMD.

Intel moved from PowerVR to their own designs.

And just like that we're out of major chip makers other than Apple or the occasional specialized SoC that probably doesn't sell in huge volume or rake in the cash.

Making things worse, their really cool patents related to early geometry culling expire soon.
Some of the Republican leadership, including the President, have presented evidence of election irregularities. Much of this evidence is worrisome, even if it does not impact a single vote. For instance - if you run a poll monitoring system and the county operations team cheers and claps when one party's monitors are asked to leave, it does not inspire confidence in the process. If you rely on a voting machine vendor whom both parties have expressed strong reservations against, it does not inspire confidence either.

When people do not have confidence in the most basic aspect of democracy, you start to see what you did in DC. Regardless of party or country. Absolutely nothing has been done to assuage these concerns, and most responses have been dismissive. It is most likely going to reoccur whenever something like this happens.

When you examine the specific actions here, the President's remarks immediately prior to the incident exonerate him because he said in plain language to "peacefully and patriotically protest at the Capitol". There is no way to credibly accuse him of inciting a mob to be violent, but one could certainly accuse him of inciting a protest. This would not be unusual since there have been many peaceful protests at the Capitol during supreme court hearings and gun control related protests.
And where are we going to get all these jail cells exactly?
It's called "nonverbal communication", the stuff in between the words. It works.
They were prosecuted.
What's wrong with their monetization plans?
To clarify: I don't know much about the situation but I don't see any indication that the Paris councilwomen were selected purely because they are women. They may very well be qualified.

But there is a clear hypocrisy in what they were saying. Do gender quotas help equality or not? If so, then the fine is fair. If not, then the people involved are admitting they were first supporting it only to push their agenda. Do you believe a council full of men is biased towards men's needs? If so, then a council full of women shouldn't be much different.

I'm not even saying that gender quotas are good or bad, I'm saying by their own logic this doesn't make any sense.
Well, matrix can to multi-device usage great and has E2E, so I don't see why that would be a hard requirement or even any kind of requirement.
'Ubuntu is "user friendly"-ier than Windos for ONE thing setup a dev environment.'

Well, apt-get is pretty sweet in general.

More to the point, while Windows Ruby dev is certainly doable (and I did it for years with comparatively no more hassle than on Ubuntu), the advantage of developing on Ubuntu is that it is far more likely to match your server environment.

It sucks big time to be cruising along and then discover that some plug-in or tool that would solve a dozen problems for you requires a C compiler and a POSIX environment.
Thanks for the actual cover shot, I got my copy in the mail this morning while running out the door to go write a midterm. I noticed PG on the cover and spent half the day wondering if anything new was in the article.
The decreased risk of a regular salary mitigates it - consultants don't really have job security, and it's hard to be fully employed all the time as a consultant.

Also, there are a large number of paper millionaire FB employees, from the stock options. It's a hell of a bonus that I'm pretty sure isn't included in these numbers.
Hehe, I meant 'improving' not 'increasing'.

I'll admit it's less convenient in some ways, but not significantly so.

At any rate, it being my personal site, I'm going to make experimental engineering decisions. I like the aesthetic of S3 and CF as an ultra-minimalist deployment stack. If all I wanted was 'easy' I'd have stayed w/ my VPS at Rackspace, or gotten a Dreamhost account.

You'd probably be crazy to do this in production for a real site however, at least until cache invalidation with CF gives you more control.
Is it too casual if they're wildly successful?
Only utility patents protect ideas. No other intellectual property does. It's unfortunate that there aren't stronger penalties for rights-holders who make claims wildly beyond the scope of the licenses they're granted. They cause a lot of confusion and unnecessary animosity toward what are very pro-consumer concepts [1].

[1] Conceptually and originally at least.
You must be new to the parenthood :)

There are two types of games - those that kids can figure out on their own and those that need to be explained by their parents. Former get boring quickly (in a matter of minutes) and latter will interfere with the dining. Varies by a child of course, but the rule of thumb is to stick to the games kids are already familiar with if you want to keep them occupied.

(edit) But on a more general note - are these devices just to keep kids entertained? Might not be a bad idea, but it needs to be positioned as such.
+1 this - mostly because they're all in the second or third iteration of the conference.

Take a look at the last few years' videos to get an idea of why this is worth attending, which is probably the harder detail for people who have to travel to attend conferences.
No mention of any compiled languages? Scripting languages are good for beginners, but to be a mature programmer you should have at least touched a compiler at some point.

Also link to Mozilla Docs instead of W3Schools.
If we're getting technical it's merely in the same family as methamphetamine. Meth causes a _much_ larger dopamine response which among other reasons is why people find it awesome and addictive.
Omg I can’t believe I missed that! iOS/Safari puts it there, but then hides it rather quickly. Embarrassing how much time I could have saved. Thanks buddy!
Have you learned nothing from the twentieth century, when millions of lives were sacrificed on the altar of the ends justifying the means?
Did you reply to the wrong person?

This is a cool one-liner though!
If Marx feels like orthodoxy you either haven't read a significant amount of Marx or you haven't been paying attention to who controls the capital in society. I say this as somebody who does not identify as a Marxist, but used to.
Best to refrain from flippant sarcasm when dealing with such sensitive matters, especially online.
When I started my first job flipping burgers I was paid “over minimum wage” ($6.50/hr at the time). My pay? $6.51/hr.

So yes, I’m sure there are not that many people “on minimum wage”. I think a more relevant metric might be: what % of people saw their pay increase when minimum wage went up.
Even in 2009 the adjustment wasn't sufficient to bring minimum wage back to 1970 levels, adjusted for inflation. Picking the last rate change isn't a good way to measure minimum wage.

In inflation-adjusted dollars, in 1970 the minimum wage was $10.66. So it is very accurate to say that the minimum wage has eroded due to inflation; currently it is $7.25, which is significantly lower.

Some Democrats propose raising it even higher than it was in 1970, but that doesn't refute the claim that modern, current minimum wage has been eroded — it has, significantly.
I think they really meant it. It was the antithesis to the Microsoft of the early aughts. But now they have other, broader goals to work for. Arguably they have become more borg-ish than MS of the 00's.

But they’ve come to realize that at a certain point in size idealism doesn’t scale (coöperatives, hippie communes, etc) and others will eat your lunch if you encumber yourself with idealism (which can also go in the negative direction (when idealists find conflict amongst themselves and a loser is defined).
But this software is vapor.

If you are running forwards slower than a treadmill is taking you back, are you advancing?
This seems to happen a lot to projects that are written in C++ but have C APIs. Another good example of this would be ZeroMQ. I wonder why this happens.
Why did someone downvote this?
Interesting that they chose hbase (not theirs; a bigtable clone) over cassandra ("open sourced by Facebook in 2008").

Good for them, choosing the better tech over the in-house tech.
I think an article is deleted when it reaches 10 flags (could be less, not sure) before reaching 10 votes. After 10 votes, it can't be flagged to death anymore.
I also wonder when we are going to move beyond being so amazingly dramatic about contemporary artistic decisions in films and art in general.
It depends on what you want out of a search engine. Do you want a search that tries to give you what it thinks you want? Or do you want a search that functions more like a library index where you're going to get what you searched for, even if that might ironically not really be exactly what you wanted - so the onus of creating a more correct search term is on you.

This isn't a rhetorical question of course. There are major arguments for both. But I think a pretty good chunk of DDG users were more often after the library index than what ideally would be a librarian recommendation, but in reality is more like a stereotypical used car salesman style recommendation.
One useful first step in becoming a better writer - in particular if your subject is complex - is to to delete your Twitter account and never look at another Twitter thread. Character limits kill creativity and complexity.

The presentation does leave out one very necessary requirement for becoming a good-to-great writer: you have to do a lot of reading. If you're going to write about a complex scientific or technical subject, you should have some examples in mind of great texts that you've read. What did other writers do that you liked or that stuck with you? Equally true, what are some really bad examples, some things to avoid?

For example, here's what I think is an excellent popular history book, and if I ever wrote something with a historical bent, I'd flip though it first:
"By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia" by Barry Cunliffe

https://www.amazon.com/Steppe-Desert-Ocean-Birth-Eurasia/dp/...

The point about Twitter is really this: you have to develop the skill of composing a paragraph as a coherent entity in order to become a decent writer, and Twitter doesn't allow for paragraphs, just sentences (and short ones at that). Paragraphs should have an internal cohesion to help the reader absorb the concept being presented. Once you have that, you can start chaining paragraphs together, reordering the sequence of paragraphs, with the goal of constructing a path that the reader can follow through the whole essay or chapter. Getting the order right is important for complex topics, as point D might rely on a good understanding of points A and B, and so on. Your goal should be to make the reader feel smart.

Of course that's just advice for non-fiction writing; if you're doing fiction or poetry basically anything goes. The public might like it or hate it, but the literary critics can safely be ignored.
I remember reading that PTSD rates are influenced a lot by perceived levels of control over the situation. It is not just how violent it was, but also whether you felt helpless.

PTSD is complicated.
None of the cars I owned had this. I hadn't fiddled with the rented cars keys so those might have had it.
We replaced the title, which has a whiff of press release about it, with what appears to be a representative phrase from the article body. If there's a more representative phrase, we can change it again.
The sentence "Microsoft [...] informs the US government of security holes in its products well before it issues fixes so that government agencies take advantage of the holes and get what they’re looking for." kind of suggests how credible the source is.
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Probably just hasty typing, but in order to "repossess", one must first "possess", either actually or as a point of law. Obama and/or the federal government never possessed either the operation or the engineering information.

However under all the various and sundry legislation enacted over many years governing environmental matters and matters on the high seas, you would think somewhere in there the POTUS has power to make some sort of executive action that would have taken more control (and that this is still possible to do).
Currently, I decide what items I want to buy by gathering information from any number of sources, then only go to amazon once I've decided, to buy - because I trust them and because their prices are generally good.

What I'd like to do, though, is to actually browse Amazon to, you know, find products to buy! But it's just so little fun.
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