jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'll take this up a few notches and proclaim that almost all commonly used languages offer "high impedance" when it comes to the jump from thought to the expression of that thought for a machine to execute. This does not mean that they are not useful. It does mean that they are very primitive in many ways.

My life as a programmer and hardware designer started when I hand-built (wire wrapped) my first 8080-based computer way-back-when. Coding was done typing in hex codes into a hexadecimal keypad. Pretty amazing what you could write that way. Wanting more, I wrote a simple version of Forth. Wow! The productivity gain was impressive.
Meanwhile, in College, we had to take FORTRAN. I hated it for some reason. Then my Physics professor offered an alternative: If you signed-up for his APL class you could get equivalent credit. Out went FORTRAN, in with APL. I would not learn C until three years later.

The fact that my real programming life started with exposure to the extremes represented by hand-coded hex, Forth and APL probably made me think very differently once I got to C and other languages. APL allows you to think and translate those thoughts and ideas to computer instructions with very little to distract you. The process of programming in C-like languages can be very mechanism oriented rather than problem oriented. By this I mean that you spend a log of time working on how to get the mechanics of the thing to work rather than focusing on the problem domain.

I learned and programmed in Lisp extensively later in life. It was the AutoCAD version of Lisp. I wrote all sort of tools and utilities for AutoCAD and can say that I enjoyed using the language. In terms of productivity and the ability to quickly express ideas, I think it did pretty well. Is it the realm of geniuses? Nothing is.
Just gotta get me one of those Gibson's baby........hack some heavy metal!
Want to move to CO?
In Clojure, hash maps are functions of their keys. If you use keywords as keys, then keywords are also functions of maps.

({:a 1} :a)
=> 1

(:a {:a 1})
=> 1

(map {2 4} [1 2 3])
=> (nil 4 nil)

(map {:a 1 :b 2 :c 3} [:a :b :c])
=> (1 2 3)
Site is down for now.
If that is true then I don't think you would expect to see people who are 10X more productive than the average. The tails of the normal distribution fall off very quickly. I think most people who have worked in the industry can think of at least one programmer that they have worked with who was 10X more productive than the average.
wonder how they rank compared to .com's.
I don't see any information on the licensing of the adapter card / inter-module interfaces.

Can others build a Framework laptop without approval? Can others build cards without approval? Will it be a platform?

Tell me how this isn't a Nespresso machine for silicon pods. :-)

Edit: To be clear, even a "we have a generic base laptop and you can pick your I/O" concept is potentially a nice value prop, but it'd be good if the picture (and roadmap) was clear.
Remote work isn't a solution to immigration, and I'm not sure that was the point of the article.

For me remote is the solution to the so called talent shortage in the Valley. If companies were really interested in hiring the best developers they'd drop their archaic view of remote work and remove location-dicated working.
That's interesting.

Do you feel the same way about a company refusing to serve Jews or Blacks? Is it their right?
Not a Trump supporter by any means but this makes me really uncomfortable. Cancel/Deplatform culture is escalating quickly. All is well and good until the tools of oppression turn on you.
Not to mention the fact that our modern definition of murder is based on hundreds of years of trial and error. Is dueling murder? Is killing your slave murder? Is it murder if you get drunk and kill somebody with your car? etc. etc.
Not if you've been socialized by 4chan and Zucc's algorithms
"You can't make them listen."

You are correct about that but why are you so set on making other adults think the way you do?
This is pretty well put. I definitely agree with your points here.

I would like to point out that Nazism and Stalinism are localized versions of the same thing: fascism. trump is the current leader of American Fascism. He should have his voice on major platforms cut off.

What people don't seem to realize about democracy is that fascism is the weak point.
Hopefully you see what you did there as well.

Makes sense to me in the context of an assault on speech. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I suggest we all go to the Brain Slug planet -- just walk around, not wearing a helmet.
For slow loading using client side includes with JS to load non-core pieces of the page is a pretty common perceptual speed up technique- if the main content loads quickly, we can wait for the shared elements to render.

Client side includes didn't make it into HTML5. Maybe in HTML6? Check this space in 2020.
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-Aug...
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/home/ says it's a plane.
It's tricky to make a living doing web development if all your clients go 'HOW MUCH FOR A DOMAIN?!' and run away.

US$500 for a .com would have set back widespread adoption of the internet immensely, maybe even fatally.
Details and citations in case anyone is curious...

"December 23, 2008 – NASA today announced its selection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS) Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) contract award. The contract is for a guaranteed minimum of 20,000 kg to be carried to the International Space Station. The firm contracted value is $1.6 billion and NASA may elect to order additional missions for a cumulative total contract value of up to $3.1 billion."

http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20081223

and:

"The $1.6 billion contract represents a minimum of 12 flights..."

http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php
I use the Android version of Embark. Oh dear. Time to find a new app (that doesn't repeatedly crash, hopefully)

An interesting purchase- Embark doesn't have any valuable data, or user details, etc. I can only assume Apple bought them because they have great UI/design instincts, and might be able to help rescue Apple Maps.

Kudos to them for achieving their goal - giving away an ad-free transit planning app could only have one aim, really.
To be fair, that was not unimaginable torment. I think most people can readily imagine what it would feel like to go through what he went through.
As far as I can tell, it looks like someone at Microsoft made a poor-man's Bootstrap clone.
Status 429, Rate limit error.
I generally agree with this, however it doesn't explain the "Rainman" aka Kim Peek, geniuses; this level of mental strength can't be gained purely from hard work.
great. easy to use and simple.

Have you seen yardsellr?

How are you different?

The right hand side of the page and tagline (about etc) took a long time to load for me.
You could still using something like org-mode style editing to have this "tables approach" and still keep the code in plain text.
No mention of Tasker? It does some bit more than Locale, I believe, and can even run Locale plugins. Not free, but worth it if you're into phone micro-management.
Sorry I keep replying (am I really?)...I was looking at dish network, and they offer pretty much everything you listed with a better DVR that can stream to Android or iPhone devices...

http://www.dishnetwork.com/tveverywhere/vip922/default.aspx

http://www.dishnetwork.com/tveverywhere/remoteaccess/

Here is a list of HD packages, and if you scroll to the bottom, you can add all those othr HD channels for another $10...

http://www.dishnetwork.com/hdtv/default.aspx
Yes, and yes. These are both now on my list. Thanks!
Thanks for reporting, does it work for other links?
Things like
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10763042
make me not convinced the BP was just an accident that could have happened to any of the oil companies.
I'm going to second this. If you hire mediocre people without enough work, you'll waste money, it's true, but consider Google. They hire brilliant people, and through their 20% time they end up with amazing things (I think Gmail and Maps are two examples).

Now imagine what an excellent employee could do with 100% time and support from the rest of your organization.
From danh
"Pulse mysteriously appears again in App store, without explanation.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/pulse-ipad-2/ "
OK, what did I do? When Doug Bowman left Google he wrote a rather revealing critique of their attitude toward design, and the general disregard for it in their corporate culture:

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

Given that, is it really all that unreasonable to point out that Google's UI problems probably are not going to be solved by one person, no matter how much the general community likes him (after all, Bowman's pretty well-loved in the design community, and look what happened to him)?
It's not only kind of website. There are also huge geographical differences.

I cringe whenever I hear "Opera has <1% market share (period)", because in my part of the world it has nearly 10%, and reaches 40% in some countries.

http://people.opera.com/dstorey/images/OperaMarketShareEE.sv...
@ youdontknowme123,

What is important is having had the wherewithall to get to where you are. Now what do you do with that knowledge? Finding VC money isn't necessarily the way to go. In fact, it's rarely the way to go unless Stress is something you just can't do without.

The fact that someone else (SquareUp) has beaten you to market is irrelevant. Square isn't out of the woods yet.... Visa, for example will have something to say about it. Their reader is also not unique, and iPhones will all have the capacity to read cards, without external gadgets.

IMHO, you should go after an "alliance" with someone in the financial transaction business. It's not an easy game to play in, as one your posters has pointed out. I'm not in that business but can help you find someone on that front. And no, I don't want anything for the help, but I've been an entrepreneur and sometimes when you're in the trenches, you can't see the forest, not because of the trees, but because the muck and mud are up to your eyebrows. :-) jdebar AT telus.net

And good luck giving air to your entrepreneurial spirit.
This is why I read only HN, avoid Facebook, etc., and own a mobile phone which isn't useful for anything except phone calls.
A lot of restrictions have been lifted, but not all of them. http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-english/2009/April/20090...
I'm amazed that the iPhone is still a contender without free turn-by-turn navigation. That and internet access are the only thing I use my phone for.
This is the sort of thing SMTP relaying would be useful for, if it hadn't been effectively shut down by spammer abuse.
Do you at least require a password?
Nothing protects small country better than enabled dual citizenship with heavy-weight countries. Who would want to attack a country if majority of its population have dual citizenship with the US or UK or any other well-developed country?
Markets are two-sided. If you pay a single, global rate, you may find yourself setting that rate such that you’re priced out of certain markets and lack access to money-motivated talent there.

You will be part of the market that’s eating it.
> There simply isn't enough value to pay them more.

Why? If your answer is “Because a T-shirt isn’t valuable”, then that’s a circular argument.
I came back to edit my comment and remove the harsh words, but you left a very kind response. Sorry.

This is actually a fascinating example: https://lucywang000.github.io/clj-statecharts/docs/get-start...

... because it highlights precisely my criticism.

;; define the machine
(def machine
(fsm/machine
{:id :lights
:initial :red
:context nil
:states
{:green {:on
{:timer {:target :yellow
:actions (fn [& _]
(println "transitioned to :yellow!"))
}}}
:yellow {:on
{:timer :red}}
:red {:on
{:timer :green}}}

:on {:power-outage :red}
}))

I just ... don't understand why anyone would do it this way. The code itself already says what to do. Adding this sort of data only subtracts from clarity with no additional flexibility.

You might argue that the data model makes it flexible. But I look at that and go, that's what a function is for. The only thing you need is `(println "transitioned to :yellow!")` inside of a function called transition-to-yellow, or if you're feeling adventurous, a function called transition-to which takes yellow as an argument.
If you have a lifetime's savings, the pay isn't what keeps you from teaching at the end of your career. More likely its all the babysitting responsibilities that keep them away.
> I'm surprised there's no work being done on the UI on the roadmap, K-9 looks like an app from the "Ice Cream Sandwich" days of Android.

TBH, that's actually a good thing. Material Design was a mistake.
I prefer audio only, it removes the stress of how you look, and you can do something else while talking (without feeling watched).
Here you go

https://lexfridman.com/brendan-eich/
An anticlimax indeed, but hardly grand.

The NYT piece was a perfunctory, going-through-the-motions rubber hatchet job.

Reading betwen the lines, and looking at his random application of the forms of a hatchet job (out-of-context quotes, misleading connections, scare quotes, etc), Cade what's'isname's heart was not in his work at all; perhaps he only wrote it under duress.

Richelieu[1] it was not.

1. Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
They are doing it for money.
A student is told to do countless things they have absolutely no interest in, 'for their future'.
I dream about buying the nytimes and shutting it down. I’ve thought of this so many times. As a nice daydream.

In the same whimsical tone of the article.

I honestly feel like I share the emotion of the author. I could write for hours about it. There are many other news networks and papers but still, I feel something draws me back to the nytimes as the true spawn point for all that is wrong in the world. It’s this “grey lady” notion. The “paper of record”. It’s not like the others that are unabashedly biased and know that they are.

The times is like an emperor blessed with the divine right to rule over truth and culture. The tone of the writing. The tone of their podcasts. Even in attacking it you must pay your respects to it as Trump did. You must leave the room without turning your back on it.

It doesn’t just evoke the need to reform itself. It evokes such a strong sense of...it needs to be killed and die.
Original commenter here. People don't reach out to me. I reach out to people. I make sure I keep the relationship open. People are way too busy with their lives to maintain connections. Imagine how happy you would be if someone you used to work with reached out to see how you're doing. I'd be very happy. That's why I try to do it...because I know on the other end my former colleague would be happy.

I work at a huge company and have been on many teams and projects. Every few days, weeks - I'd ping people just to see what's up and strike a conversation. I don't do it annoyingly...there's a fine balance. You also need to be able to tell who is social and who is not. If you can read that someone has a social personality I'll talk to them more, be friend them...talk to things besides work. There are those who only like to talk about work, and that's fine. Then we just talk about work. I go out of my way to help them out with any problems at work or outside of work.

For example someone is a first time home buyer...so I gave advice (I've bought 2 homes in my young career). Another, a manager...his son is in med school, I gave advice (my roommates in grad school were in med school). Another had problems with implementing PGP...so I stayed late one night to help her out.
Ah, facepalm! Fords are much more accessible. Here is
a rundown on two large national groups:
https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46185&showal...

There also appear to be a number of state/regional
groups. Decide if your near-term goals are
a) a safe running car
b) a clean looking unrestored car
c) restoration/concours with a big budget
and then try to connect with a retired enthusiast
who has plenty of spare time and a willingness to
share info and advice. Safe travels.

ps. Everything jacquesm wrote, plus grasp the crank
gently with your thumb still next to your index finger,
not around and on the other side of the crank. Avoids
a broken thumb on backfire.
Many of us do not want to enable activities or messages that we are morally opposed to.
Until what date does everything sacca does have to come with a warning about how he allegedly behaved in 2010?
In the financial industry collateral is normally used as the primary means of mitigating counterparty risk as it avoids adding an additional counterparty that you then have to evaluate for creditworthiness, and you have to pay them money instead of just temporarily handing over collateral and getting it back 100% later on.

That being said the collateral doubles as a sort of insurance; if one party's collateral is insufficient to cover the loss, the excess is spread across other market participants. This is one reason why client funds can't be used for this collateral.
In hindsight, I overshot. But not by much. I considered their retraction to be in poor taste and poor faith. All it would have taken is a counter-offer to realign the discussion.
The obvious way to beat Bitcoin is to wait until it’s maximum value at which it can’t leverage further price increases. Once that happens it needs to compete on features, until then it can be pumped as an investment opportunity. I don’t have a specific prediction on this front, but exponential growth simply never lasts long term.

PS: Dividends and stock buybacks act as an escape value. However, while a 1% dividend simulates exponential growth if you simply buy company stock with it eventually you own the company and are left with a fixed income stream. The same happens with buybacks, eventually if you don’t sell everyone else does and you own the company.
The fact that it's not like the one from '99 doesn't mean that there's no bubble. One of the reasons bubbles happen is because after each one we are looking for that one but a different one occurs.
So, they experienced a Schrödinger situation...
The idea of having an application window more than 1000 pixels away from its menu bar terrifies me. In order for something like that to work (assuming they aren't going for significantly higher pixel densities with GUI elements remaining at their current sizes) OSX would have to solve the usability problem that appears when your app window is too far (perhaps on another monitor) from the menu bar.
As far as the Rails vs. Python framework discussion, I've found that the best choice depends on what sort of app you're building.

For apps that are primarily user facing, I think Rails is way ahead. The framework is well-designed, but more important than that are the plugins--the number and quality of polished, batteries-included, well-documented plugins are unmatched by other frameworks I've looked at. The amount of time and effort this saves is incredible. Ruby is also a great language and though overall it doesn't feel quite as nimble to me as Python, it has added power in some areas (like blocks), and its OO model feels more pure than python's. Heroku is another huge benefit for Rails, as are tight integration with HAML, SASS, and CoffeeScript (much improved syntaxes for HTML, CSS, and JS, respectively).

On the python side, I've used both django and web2py and I found web2py a much more productive framework even though it has a smaller community, so web2py is the basis for my comparisons.

While I've found Rails to shine for primarily user-facing apps, I think python could be a better choice if your app is less user-focused and more oriented towards data processing, number crunching, and other heavy lifting on the back end. Python has a more mature ecosystem of libraries for these kinds of tasks, and given that I find Python to be more fluid and expressive than Ruby, I'd prefer it for writing in complex logic that goes beyond the typical CRUD scenarios.

There is a feeling when participating in Python communities that more emphasis is put on data manipulation and abstraction, and less on ui, user experience, and polish, which tend to receive more utilitarian treatment. In Rails, the pattern is reversed.
Thank you. One of the implicit assumptions of user-generated content sites is that every user should be given a voice. Unfortunately, this creates feedback loops around certain topics (around here, it tends to be Linux/C/vim) because there are too many benefits attached to discussing those topics; namely, karma and [illusory?] in-group status.

One idea is to give each user only a finite number of comments they can make in a time period. As their karma increases, so does their comment allotment.
Absolutely no hate here. I myself wouldn't fly that thing without some considerable preparation. I just mentioned it because the aircraft was designed to fit into Europe's restrictions for the lightest aircraft category there, but it doesn't fit into US definition of ultralight, and the Engadget article linked in another comment says it does.
Well, there's always The Flying Crowbar. Talk about a hellish engine of war, this is it:

https://jalopnik.com/the-flying-crowbar-the-insane-doomsday-...
I guess timing and education matters. People would just click through all those Windows alerts. So they were useless. And maybe people weren't so savvy about privacy and security.

Nowadays, people are more aware about such things, so maybe you can start to assume the users are more comfortable about computing and the internet. So they should change their direction.

I'd agree with the sentiment if it was like Samsung making fun of removing a headphone jack, only to do the same thing less than a year later.
I couldn't find an existing format that had the types I needed, and also an unambiguous text/binary twin format. Then once I got started, my pent-up wish list and gripes over the formats I've used in the past came to the surface ;-)
OK, thanks for making it clear that you don't know whether the bill contains pork or not.
Plenty of people create wealth in the second half of life. But not by going to a regular 9-5 job. Typical middle class behavior leads you to average middle class wealth (i.e. very little). People amass wealth by creating businesses that scale (not necessarily software, either) and focusing on the accumulation of income producing assets. May or may not be possible for you, but it’s not because of your age.
If you say OpenAI will only approve applications for "zero stakes", domains, then you are saying what the parent is saying - it's entirely for entertainment.

If you claim there's some "low but not zero" stakes application, I'd like to know what that is. I mean, it seems clear that if someone asks a GTP-3 customer service bot "so what should I do now", there's a reasonable probability that the bot would say "throw your product in the garbage and buy [competitor X]", since you can find that commentary on the Internet (true or not). That's not a life and death event but whatever stakes you have in that bot, it's thrown them away.
I think you'll be surprised by how many people would turn to cleaning from white collar jobs if you do that.

Mentally demanding is worse that physically demanding for our bodies. All we do is create things to keep us from thinking, GAI being the end goal.
You don't have to go that far, once outside of Buffalo things get really nice. Niagara Falls is a little sketchy but east of that it gets nice real quick.