jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Also, if you've ever had the misfortune of helping run a forum, you would know that this isn't really workable. (...) a tiny minority of individuals will just take over the space and completely ruin it for everyone.

I've seen this happen, but forums never had the universal user base that modern social media companies do. If you get banned from a forum, you get cut off from maybe 500 members of your target audience. If the same happens with a social media platform, you lose access to hundreds of thousands or even millions of members. The impact of the ban is disproportionate, except in the cases of the most extreme speech (like calling for literal heads to roll, for instance).
Yeah. How much of the M1's spectacular showing is process advantage, how much is superior design, and is any of this sustainable?

I think the M2 series chips will give us a pretty good idea.

Of course it's also worth noting that the M1 didn't come from nowhere. We already have lots of other data points. Apple's A-series processors have been competing very well with x86 for a while now. For example, here's the A14 compared to its x86 contemporaries in 2020:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

Raw performance was very close, and perf/watt was stellar relative to x86. And these were Apple's mobile chips; they weren't even targeting laptop/desktop performance at that point. So from a CPU perspective it suggests that they've had the ability to compete with Intel on more than favorable footing for quite some time now, and I wouldn't expect that advantage to dissipate soon either.
There isn’t a worthy discussion left to be had about crypto that isn’t discussing its role in fraud.
I actually hate this with a passion. Because it breaks the order of my virtual desktops, the new temporary one gets inserted after the one you maximised the application from. So the order gets completely messed up after that.

I love using many virtual desktops so YMMV.
> they should be sued for price gouging

Price gouging laws relate to raising prices in an emergency, which is not something they've done, or for people in a monopoly position for the product, which is not Apple as there's a huge market of laptops.

It's not illegal to price something higher than you'd like.
It wasn't necessarily weakly encrypted. The key may have been compromised, which I find more likely.
Why old 13” instead of the new 14”?

Same size but bigger screen with less bezels, and new keyboard
That's not really accurate. I have a few modest Indie PC games for sale and I still need to remove dozens of torrent links every few months from Google, often for the same sites over and over again (just with a slight URL variation).

Google should just de-list well-known torrent sites completely.
Tooling for showing that breadcrumbing would be handy.

Just a link to the written content doesn't give a lot of context to how reliable that content is.

I think it's very profitable for social media sites to promote hard to verify information though, so it's unlikely to change
It seems to me that software engineering is one of the only fields with people arrogant enough to assume that employers should hire folks without being able to see what they've actually accomplished.

A "portfolio" does not have to, and should not, consist of side projects. Don't have any real code that you are allowed to share? Obviously, many employers won't hire engineers without reviewing existing code or having you engage in a coding exercise, but here's an idea: take a bunch of screenshots of public-facing applications/functionality you've built for your current and/or past employers. With WordPress and a $25 portfolio theme, you can have a decent-looking showcase of your work product up and running in a matter of hours.

If you have absolutely nothing that you can share (code, screenshots, a URL, a "case study") with a prospective employer, it's not the prospective employer that has a problem.
Actually, Japan were ready to throw in the towel as a result of the tripartite pact being enacted, and Russia joining the fray. Sakhalin was the trigger, and their worst fears were confirmed when the soviets raped and pillaged their way through the island, killing some 20,000 civvies. Atrocious.

They surrendered because of Stalin and his unending and brutal (and brutalised, the Red Army was not a happy place) cannon-fodder, not the bomb.

Nuking two civilian populations was unnecessary, barbaric, and inexcusable, and I'm afraid to say pointless.

A fourth grade history student would know exactly what you say. A heavily read historian would say something quite different - or agree. It's pretty divisive, but outside of the US the majority agree that the USSR caused the surrender.

Here's a pretty decent source on the topic - have only skimmed it, after writing this and wanting to back up my statements, but it's pretty balanced. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Tsuyoshi-Hasegawa/2501
Wow, pretty incredible stuff. Well done.
I've never liked the tech interview format. Throughout my career I've run four different companies, all small, all resource constrained, so I never had the luxury of competing for the A+ talent.

I ask people for a list of projects that they designed and coded (live projects, so I can see how they function), to get a sense for how good they are overall, then will look at the underlying code. I value readability and documentation over fancy tricks meant to show off the author's MENSA status.

When it comes to the interview, that's all about assessing their personality, work habits, and broader interests. Friendly personality, good work ethic and broader interests = someone who is flexible, which is vital in a small company where everyone has to do a bit of everything.
The article is from 1993. Is this different from the usual graphical integration methods? Was this a interesting idea in 1993??
It was something that was just said on #rubinius (IRC):

http://irclog.whitequark.org/rubinius/2014-12-27#1419712465-...

Those also come to mind:

https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/ruby-isnt-dead
https://twitter.com/the_zenspider/status/547527644535726080

I don't understand why everyone is like "Ruby is dying" lately.

Perl is old and doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
I do, above.
Very cool - just installed both.
Then there's the situation in industrial control systems where sometimes you really itch to do that, but you can't because the return statements mess up the tight timing :)
Possibly yes. There was a case where a monkey picked up a camera and took a selfie, and the photographer who placed the camera had trouble claiming the copyright on the photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

Personally I think the photographer could probably win if they sued, but it's not totally clear.
Sometimes, the devs can sneak in a hidden fix. For example, remember back when VS 2012 made menus ALL CAPS? Officially, that was the brave new world everybody was supposed to live in (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-design-with-al...). Users hated it with a passion.

And then it turned out that there's an undocumented registry key to re-enable the old behavior, that was leaked without much fanfare (https://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-...). It was never mentioned in any official documentation, but word of mouth spread it far and wide, and its existence probably spared the worst in terms of angry user rants.

Ironically, the outcry over the caps was big enough that this setting eventually got an official checkbox in a major release sometime later, and then became the default behavior again.
I'd love to know the reason. Slightly off topic though admittedly.
Amazing collection! I'm learning about backprop in neural networks and I'm reading how that kind of optimization may not be biologically 'implementable'. Are non-gradient based optimizers an alternative proposal for biological learning? How do they compare to backprop?
Thanks for the suggestion! Unlike uxn, there's a C compiler for ZPU: https://github.com/zylin/zpugcc
Unfortunately they’ll never keep up with the ‘demand’ for market manipulation unless they fix the ‘supply’ of scared people that have no stable store of value. What you’re witnessing, is a vote of no confidence in monetary policy, and a scared populace, unfortunate breeding grounds for small time scammers as in these stonks. I’m sure there’s more; people don’t know anything about what they’re investing in. That includes top investors and analysts. It’s all pump and dump, just more elaborate as it gets bigger.

I don’t know what the fed’s objective is anymore (actually ever), but a successful nation is one in which people are not concerned with finances at all, except that they put their minds and hands to socially-positive activity. Now our savings account is an endless gamble on stocks. Might as well be sports betting; that’s at least a lot more transparent.

I don’t want to put 10 seconds a year into thoughts about finances, taxes, housing costs, inflation, deflation, interest rates, stocks, bonds, Bitcoin, or whatever. But their policies are forcing me and so many other people to put our whole lives into it. It’s probably 80% of the economy right now, totally wasted on a few people’s failed theories about macroeconomics, the same people over and over again, covering for their mistakes with new failing theories and policies. Unfortunately we can’t just write it down mathematically, program it into a computer, release source, and be done with it. No; it’s based on their personal feelings at any given moment. Oh and by the way, it all just so happens to make them and their families and friends and business and religious associates impossibly wealthy. Must be because they “understand” more than we do. Sure.

I wonder if they ever think, “hey, maybe if we want less financial manipulation, we should stop doing it ourselves.” (Not the SEC; they just react.)

You should not be an investor. You should save until you have everything you’ll ever need, and then invest in things you know about, and only because the money is going toward something productive and socially-valuable, as in the society that you, individually, want to live in. This is the most powerful form of voting. Index funds don’t solve the problem. That’s just paying someone else to steal your vote.
>For a public intellectual like Will Wilkinson all press is good press; he lives in a world of ceaseless self-promotion, and is not properly situated to understand what being targeted by an international media outlet feels like for folks outside of that world.

Will Wilkinson was fired few weeks ago based on one tweet. He knows. He has also been close to the rationalist community from the start and has no ill will. He is in good position to criticize and he does it well. His criticism probably hurts most because it's so insightful.
Thanks! You're right about the PC, misread the table.
Because it was written by a journalist. Practically by definition, there will be an astonishingly large amount of incorrect data.
If you're going to @PhillyTechWeek, which I expect you are, hit me up via email.
They are not in error if you are trying to get a 0. This is yet another good technique for obfuscated code.
I provide media streaming services via EC2 to a few customers - basically all of the non-live streams are unavailable.
Sure would. They're totally different things.

In one, google was the first, the inventor if you like, and gathered the customer base slowly, in the other, they have competition, are late to the game, and probably besides tech savy people who read hacker news or other tech magazines very few people would know that Google Offers even exists without some massive ad campaign.
It's like tying the Hindenberg to the Titanic.
And Lustig, in this podcast, talks about how fiber and fructose tend to go together in nature, which is why whole foods are good as they usually have both. He gives two examples where they don't though... grapes and honey. But he says that honey is protected by bees. But no answer for why grapes make it easy to get fructose without fiber.
I'll agree what I've created doesn't have much benefit :) but it does allow me to create HTML the way I'd always wanted, and I thought I'd share it in case someone else likes it too.

That Zencoding looks quite interesting, the main problem I can see is that to work in Zencode you have to be using a compatible editor (not always an option) where as QuickTag can be edited anywhere as it's interpreted on the server.
Entropy is always breathing in your neck, you better do something about it, reducing exposure surface.

That's if you even care about your job. And it's hard.
Scott Alexander was recently exposed as horrifyingly racist and naive among other things. Just FYI.

https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001
It used to be common for the academic week to begin at noon on Wednesday. So that's not as unlikely an idea as one might think.
At my large corp, we try to figure out and align stakeholders on the target tech architecture we want, and then sort the org structure out second as our way of mitigating the distortions that come with Conway's law.

More towards your question, having also been in a mildly successful startup, I think there is a certain amount of layering in your architecture that you can setup on day one (frontend vs backend), but so much success rests on execution and product fit and such that it's not worth wasting too many cycles overoptimizing the architecture if you aren't already opinionated on it. Go with the architecture that you can iterate rapidly with.

While I haven't been a solo dev, I'd ask myself the question "what work will I offload once I can afford to, and what architecture do I need to create so that next 1-3 persons able to work without a ton of my time?" Iterate from there.
They don't filter the same things, which may or may not be an issue for you.
Price point may be another important factor. 2D Design apps like Photoshop are not as pricy as the 3D counterparts, last time I checked. Hence there's more motivation to find an alternative to Maya, Max for the hobbyist then there is to replace photoshop.
It doesn't seem to be relevant. The US may have been trying to go energy independent, but their actions towards SA were not indicating that in the least. If anything the administration seemed to be trying to improve relations with oil dictators like MBS and Putin.
This can be difficult because the money is often funneled through other entities (as LPs to VC and growth funds, etc.)

I've had more than one VC tell me they couldn't guarantee that there was no Saudi money in their fund, even though they didn't have any direct KSA LPs.
Meaning what?

> Less than 1 year $103,269

Sounds like it's pretty hot!

https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries
More accurately: lack of religeous beliefs?
I really want a combination of Google docs + wiki for my online collaboration. Basically the ease of use and simultaneous editing of Google docs, plus a structured resource of a wiki where we can link to the other docs, not have to set the permissions of each page, etc.
The goals of BSA are many and varied; boys don't persue arbitrary goals at all.

And Eagle Scout is awarded to recognize those that go above and beyond; the Scout must perform an important service to the community that is important to him. He gets to choose.
Buffett's argument wasn't just that active investors don't beat the market over a long enough timeframe (I think some do, he prob agrees).

His argument was that those active investors, minus the fees they charge, won't beat the market over a long timeframe. I agree with him there as well.
It's true, I used to use Jekyll myself. Unfortunately, this won't work for the site I'm building for my girlfriend's father...
Read without restraint, understand rhetoric, and have intuitive grasp of proper syntax. Look to modern papers for terms of art. Study speeches, classical and modern, to learn how to craft a cogent argument.
Do you read with no threshold, and read through entire threads? Read sorted by worst (or lowest or whatever it is)?

I used to. I stopped when the noise got too annoying to sift through, but I would see good comments hidden to most people by downvotes more often than never.

The "don't downvote this guy" reversal happens often, and it's really a very nice thing about the Reddit community, but a solid comment or argument is not guaranteed that treatment by any means, and sometimes that reversal doesn't actually work.
Puppy Linux is a good choice for a very lightweight distro.

The latest release only weighs 130 MB and there is a large choice of distributions (puplets) including one specifically tailored to netbooks (Puppeee).
It seems like you could fake tagging in any hierarchical file system by using directories for tag names and hard links to files (not symbolic links).

A hard link basically gives multiple paths to the same data, sharing attributes like the owner and permissions. Using any linked path will change the file. The exception is that "rm" deletes just one link (hence the system call "unlink"), and the file is only lost when all its links are gone.
I never understand the hiring requirement of a degree for a startup - that is a silly way to hold your company back. The best coders and designers I have worked with have either had no degree or have an irrelevant degree. Skilled people with sharp minds will train themselves to do the things that interest them.
I use knopix once in a while. You can boot it off of cd/DVD and can also be installed on hard disc. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix
yes I am, I know how serious hacker-news entrepreneurs are,
so I would be thrilled to help. please send me some details, is this a
casual gaming site like playfish/zynga? also, are you needing design for the website or the games themself? you can discuss here, or email me.
I've just added my email to my profile.
Difference is, what percent of revenue for the internet comes from spam? Spam is the USPS's bread and butter.

I receive mail from the USPS every day. Only about 10 times per year is there something relevant to my interests.
If I'm reading this correctly, you aren't actually asking if it should be illegal to discriminate against people with poor communication skills, but rather people with foreign accents that make people difficult to understand.

Either way it's a tricky subject, because people are super sensitive to these kind of things. But if a teammate on a project can't be understood, than they won't be effective, tasks will get confused and messed up, and the project will eventually suffer because of it. In this avenue, it's perfectly understandable to list communication skills alongside education and work experience

But if you mean just rejecting people because they have a unique accent, but can be understood, than I would agree that is wrong.
Can someone change the title to the actual headline please?
I suppose that's a real use case for a meta search engine: send queries to different search engines, then interlace the results removing duplicates.
I don't know where you got the idea that nation states are the only ones who use cryptography. Plenty of activists, along with other non-state actors do so all the time.

We're not talking about users, we're talking about attackers and developers. Why would users have anything to do with our discussion?

Plenty of cryptography is also designed by individuals not in the service of any nation state (as far as we know, anyway). In fact, some argue that such encryption is more trustworthy than encryption developed by nation states themselves.

Developed by academics, but tested by both academics and the government. The testing is the thing that's actually important.

I can't speak for any and all activists. It's really up to them to acquire such expertise or get advice from people who have such expertise.

The point is that the technical expertise is not available. It's not up to them. It's not available. What you suggest they do is not possible.

That said, the problem here is no different from figuring out which encryption to use. So your criticism applies equally to encryption as it does to steganography.

Nope. Get back to me when we get government backed standards and recommendations for anonymity (hint: we have them for crypto).
I didn't realise it was meant to be a joke. I thought it was a thinly veiled attack on "extroverts", with a jibe at those who consider Google research. Actually quite offensive to both groups really.

Are you saying it is rare to get guys suggesting "this describes my girlfriend perfectly"?
HTTPS is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack if clients don't validate certificates. To ensure you weren't connecting to a rogue access point in some hacker's backpack, every access point would need a certificate that you could verify via a trusted third party, just like certificate authorities such as Verisign verify Google's SSL cert so you known you're talking to Gmail instead of an imposter. It would be a nightmare to administer such a service using the current means of identifying access points (SSIDs). Who would be allowed to register a certificate for joescoffeeshop?
> Whats the crime ratio. How many people get murdered in the US compared to Norway.

The US has a higher murder rate. That tends to push down the lifespan. Are you suggesting that Norwegians in Norway are more likely to be murdered than Norwegian-Americans?
I was hoping for human remains that were around ~6,000 years old. (Abrahamic humor.)

It seems reasonable that over 200,000 years our ancestors could have moved back and forth between Africa & Asia Minor. Definitely interesting.
To me the most interesting part is how people who haven't traditionally published are supposedly starting to see solid sales numbers for self-pubbed ebooks. He's somewhat of an outlier but not as much as many expected him to be when he first started really preaching the ebook self published religion.

Guess I should start polishing my novel and see what I want to do with it ;)
Do note clearly that V8's garbage collector is fairly slow (think old Java GC) so having more instances of node with smaller heaps is a good idea anyways.
It is probably not real http://www.antarctic-circle.org/advert.htm
Sorry to hear about TurboGears. When I first found it I was very excited to use it. I think they lost a lot of momentum and community trust with the changes made going from version 1 to version 2. I know after that I felt I could not use them because I had no way of knowing if version 3 would be something completely done over again.
To be honest, the value proposition with Edge is quite compelling for my use cases. #1, I get a Chromium-based browser; #2) I get a browser that is supported by a big player who can stand on their own two feet; and #3) I get rid of all of the Google tracking that Chrome has built-in.

It does work, I have noticed my experience on Google properties (Android devices included) becoming slowly de-personalized over time. This was the desired effect, and it has worked (at least on the surface) as intended. Now, please understand that my web experience is still largely shaped by Google, just not in the same way.
Go up a few paragraphs to where the author first uses "senior" and the narrative thread to that phrase ("senior at 22") makes a lot more sense.
"Good riddance," you say, waving goodbye to all the Wall Street based jobs that pay Wall Street income tax to support universal pre-K in the Bronx. "We don't need their kind around here anyway ruining society" you say, as the MTA makes overnight service cuts permanent for lack of funding.
I switch from Chrome to Edge and I have never come back. I even use Edge in my macOS for data sync. However, I face some heating problems on my Android device when using Edge.
Hope that there will no "trick" from Google with Edge Chromium like Edge Legacy.
You can become a mechanic or a pilot on the side though. Even a paramedic.
There's a real need for it, though, as I demonstrated. I don't care who you are, you're going to have to explain why you say <video> isn't ready to be used yet! Isn’t <video> + fallback better than <video> or Flash by themselves?