jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Pretty much. We're seeing the result of institutional decay at every level.

"In the middle of the 20th century, a cadre of credentialed experts was created to replace citizens. This was a mistake. The selection mechanism for entry into this cadre selects against bravery and original thinking. Experts should be consulted, but what use is an expert unwilling to consult on a grand vision? The American system of the 2020s through the city, county, state, and up to the federal level has been staffed with people who know how to speak and make themselves appear blameless, but not how to act."

https://americanmind.org/features/the-coronacrisis-and-our-f...
"Computer Science could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems."
There’s this idea thats not even close to correct that we as a country have somehow tracked and accounted for all masks. Someone sent me some N-95 masks like around 9 days ago (which I didn’t ask for) which they got from industrial suppliers. This is a coordination and information problem not a capacity issue so I expect to see more like this.
https://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_populati...

"It's a great pleasure to be here, and to have a chance just to share with you some very simple ideas about the problems we're facing. Some of these problems are local, some are national, some are global.

They're all tied together. They're tied together by arithmetic, and the arithmetic isn't very difficult. What I hope to do is, I hope to be able to convince you that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

Most people I try to explain the current problems are really not able to understand. I explain that the spread is exponential, and that the problem is that is grows so fast. I say look at the graph from China, look at the graph from Italy.

They answer "ah, the Chinese maybe hid some numbers."

I say, it just doesn't matter, only the shape of the curve matters, and it repeats in every land. Even if the Chinese hid half of the cases, that difference disappears in only three-four days in our locations, where it grows so fast, as it grew in China before they did their measures, much harder than ours.

They don't understand still. They think only "80000 in China is more than "50000 in Italy" and it stops there. That Italy will get from 50K to 100K in four days, that's what they don't understand until they'd see it happened, but it would still, sadly, not convince them in anything.

Whereas, not only it's just the shape of the curve that matters, we know exactly why the spread is exponential, and what has to be done to change the shape: manage to stop the people who have it to transmit the virus to the rest of the population. It's "just" people who spread it -- the virus is not a bacteria, it doesn't live or multiply by itself, it needs a host which will replicate it, and the only host spreading it among the humans is human. There's nothing else that we know to work than that.

The major danger is that 4 from 5 carriers of the virus won't feel so bad to think that they should really stay at home. Most of the carriers aren't aware what they do. They all have their lives where what they do at the moment is "urgent" and "must be done." As soon as the droplets they produce enter the lungs of other people, the virus is spread. The droplets are tiny enough to be normally invisible to us, of course.

It doesn't help at all that the most of the highest politicians, across many different countries, downplayed the seriousness of the situation for a long time. Even less that the scientific ignorance was promoted as a virtue for even longer times.
There are people who live in situations where they have no stove or no room in or access to a fridge. Historically many people got food from the market each day.
It's working very well against South Korea, KT(ISP)
It's kind of easy - spam.

Spam protection is hard. Forcing to use phone numbers is a "easy" protection against spam. It's harder to get thousands of SIMs than thousands of usernames.
Hmm, it seems I unintentionally flag as well (about 5 posts in total).

I also remember to have intentionally flagged a few posts, but I don’t recognize them.

I don’t understand this view fully.
Assuming most animals experience similar emotions in much the same way as humans, why is it okay to inflict pain and suffering only on the less intelligent animals, but not the more intelligent ones?

Does harming them make you uncomfortable because you have an easier time relating to them? Or is it because they are possibly intelligent enough to blame humans for what we've been doing to them, and that makes you uncomfortable?

Either way, intelligence can't be bar to use, because that argument would exclude mentally retarded humans from enjoying human rights as well.

That may sound harsh, but I strongly believe humanity should stop and think on the why for a moment.

Are we doing something because it is right, because the alternative makes us feel bad, or because doing so will make us look better? The first motivation is altruistic, the other is egoistic, and the last egotistic. Do all three align in this case? What about other examples?

I imagine even reflecting on one's own motivations will be uncomfortable to some. It certainly was to me.

Edit: Also I don't believe any of these motivations are inherently bad, but often one is dishonest about which one it really is.
They are asking about two user accounts on the same site, not with two websites on the same server. As in two GMail accounts.
I’d love to hear about a project that produced zero code. I can’t even imagine it outside of compliance or regulation maybe.
Wow 2 YC partners leaving on the same day? Even Adora Cheung announced that she's leaving YC [1]

[1] - https://twitter.com/nolimits/status/1360317612060737537
The article discusses T shaped engineers. It's pretty good, I suggest reading it!
That's great! Like you, it did take me a while to get to 100%. Old habits die hard, I guess. You really know you're there when you realize you forgot to think about RSI for a whole week/month/whatever.
Glad someone noticed :)

I got it from some else's personal site that's offline now, and definitely keeps the bots away. Some humans too.
Hey, nice to see you here! Thanks for your help.
The scanners may not do a good job of it, but it's pretty clear that one of the things they were sold as doing is detecting explosives.
> Over 99.7% of hosts hitting Google.com are IPv4 only.

Is it the hosts, or is it the mid-span links ? I'm sitting here in a fast-food place with a Macbook is certainly IPv6 capable, but I suspect the cable-modem and/or the AP they use here isn't. How many last mile providers are IPv6 capable today ?
:-) highly context-dependent
128 rounds of Blowfish would still be a password-equivalent hash. You should read up on SRP. Smart people who have spent much more time thinking about this problem than we did have been studying it for over a decade. It's very elegant, it addresses exactly the problem you're talking about, and it's a standards-track technology.

It's true, by the way. "Argument" to me is "disagreement with Thomas Ptacek". It would be pretty weird if argument meant something else to me.

A long time ago, I was on a comp.security.unix thread when Daniel J. Bernstein said something that has been stuck in my head ever since. Responding to "You appear to be absolutely incapable of realising that there are people in this world who can see more than one side to a question...", he wrote:

On the contrary. I see both sides, and I have evaluated both sides, and I have found that one side is vastly superior to the other. This may seem ruthless, but that's how engineering works.
It seems likely that most HN users are familiar with naive computer users, whether at work or as the tech guru for friends and family, and as such are painfully aware of what they can understand. What they want is another question and is too vague to be of much use without specifics. Naive users can also be impaired users (intoxicated or half-asleep) too. Drink up, we have to do usability tests later.
I don't want to be a part of a community where supposedly respectable members might try to phish me if they don't like my attitude.

The particulars in this situation only keep me from being angry. Was it malicious or harmful? No. But is it irritating to know that crap like this going on and that I might be punished for not lurking the right IRC channels? Hell yeah. I don't need that kind of attention-theft in my life.
As much as I love DDG, I personally find it a hard pill to swallow knowing that it's not truly an independent search engine and just an API relay of Google's stuff. I do take comfort that Google isn't getting data from 90% of my online searches, but it would be awesome to know that DDG was truly its own entity and won't be cut off for some reason in the future, like we've seen with Scroogle (which, I believe, was mostly due to API changes, not ToS violations).
I'm guessing you came to that realization from actually having to do it? I was just saying that sometimes the prospect of having to do all of that "extra stuff" in the beginning isn't enticing. Once you get going you find that it is actually addictive and exciting (for some).
A few things:

1. I always work with recruiting agencies. Might sound odd, but they have a direct line to managers and their incentives align with yours. To that end you only submit a handful of resumes. I’ll submit some outside of the recruiting agencies as well, but generally they get the bulk of my interviews.

2. I always interview a few times a year (2-5), so I always have offers on the table. This let’s you negotiate and keeps your skills up.

3. Regarding your pass rate. You may not be applying to the correct roles and / or there are some other key-words you’re missing in your resume. Try to pack keywords where you can, because NLP is used to filter resumes as a lot of places.

4. Find someone to professionally review your resume. A recruiting agency will do this for free!

5. Practice coding interviews on leetcode (website), cracking the coding interview (book), etc.

6. Practice mock white board interviews if you can, I actually have a 6ft white board at home (for general use, but good practice)

7. What you’re seeing is normal, you’ll always face rejection. If you’re a dev, facing 50% to 90% rejection is fairly normal (From top of funnel) depending where you apply and you’re skill set.

I for one always apply to the best jobs I can get. This means I face probably higher rejection rates than average.

Note, none of this is really about your skill at the job. That can come into play for high-end niche jobs, but full-stack developers will always face the same default problem set, found on leetcode and the like.
I'm really not sure I understand the rationale here. The Dem field is already very crowded and it's pretty late for a new candidate to start up. Yes, he has good name recognition, experience, and a ton of money, but he also had some controversial policies during his time. Much more interesting would be if he ran as a Republican (as he did when he was NYC Mayor) because that field challenging Trump is incredibly weak right now. Some of the political pundits I listen to also argue he should just buy Fox News and de-radicalize it, not sure if that'd be helpful or just lead to everyone watching a different network but an interesting idea
I think the problem here is that YouTube alone isn’t profitable. I think the only thing keeping it going is as an additional vector of ad placements for Google. YouTube is an extremely expensive service to run as well. No one really has a chance to compete with the sheer volume of content and inertia of YouTube.

What I would like to see instead is a return of self-hosted videos from creators’ own websites plus a site like YouTube that is really just an aggregator of those videos. That way you can also have smaller businesses that provide YouTube-like services for those that don’t want to self-host, but those videos still get included in that aggregator. I think that would be the best ecosystem for competition.

However, I have no idea how feasible that is. It’s just an idea that came to mind.
Businesses that cannot turn a profit without paying their employees enough to cover basic expenses (leaving aside whether this is higher or lower than the current minimum wage) do not deserve to exist. Having those jobs automated away or passing the cost of living of the employees on to the customers are both reasonable alternatives.
stupid + immoral. You need both to get scammed.
Many government sites uses matomo in Denmark. It's good.
> proper skilled developers who can manage to write modern C++ [...] not by "casual web developers" who are used to writing subpar code because the web and the browsers let them get away with it.

what a strange thing to say
Just FYI, the argument for a minimum wage is that the market for workers is not a competitive market, allowing firms to pay low wages and putting the difference between the competitive wage and market wage into profit.

Kind of funny that you'd refer to Silicon Valley as an example. Aside from having no practical implications (you can't snap your fingers and make markets act the way you want) they had one of the most famous cases of employers colluding to drive down wages.
"uBlock Origin" shouldn't be changed to "uBlock" in the HN title since they're two different things.

(As of this comment, the title is "Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Firefox with uBlock can stop it.")
The day I or any academic on the poster circuit have $35/month to spend on a freaking POSTER, I question the very fabric of reality. Which, admittedly, I do at most biomed conferences.

But for $35/month I can get Illustrator and a bored CS undergrad trying to get some actual impact points in.
How is it risky? It's not like the R&D was all that substantial a fraction of their war chest.
Perhaps your assumptions are wrong? Not everything should be measured against a monetary value standard.
I'm not talking about the market between you and your ISP, which I agree is not very free. I'm talking about the market between the ISP and the other ISP, or between an ISP and a CDN. I think every participant should be allowed to make their own decision whether to pay, and the other side shouldn't be forced to carry traffic it isn't paid for from that side.

I've argued elsewhere that throttling based on content shouldn't be allowed for reasons similar to what you're saying, but I don't want to extend that to paid peering or prioritization.
Big companies buy startups for several reasons;
1. to get a headstart over the competitors. it take quite a lot of talents, cost, etc to kick start a new innovation and technology. by acquiring a startup, it shorten the process a lot.
2. to create a monopoly. if the startup is a niche biz or something revolutionary, by acquiring the startup, they just create a monopoly, what's left is just to milk it.. $$$.
Being a big company, what do you think they really care more? innovation or p/l?
Rent versus buy is a function of how long you plan to stay in the property. If you know you're going to live in San Francisco for the rest of your life, buy as soon as you can and rent out any rooms needed to make it possible. If you plan to follow opportunity where it leads, you'll never want to buy.
Sorry, that's exactly the error I was getting, and signing in to gchat once in Gmail seemed to have fixed it.
Sorry, no, when I say slide I'm looking at the photo of Steve Jobs with a big screen behind him showing two letter 'a's. One is heavily pixellated, and the other one is smooth in comparison - at the resolution of the slide display. Given the size of the old pixels, the new pixels should be easily visible but aren't.

Of course it could be a misleading screen-grab and the slide was not purporting to show old iPhone resolution next to new iPhone resolution here. Maybe it's 'old' compared to 'perfect'.

(I should point out, my participation in this crucial discussion is dependent entirely on the slowness of my compiler).
Agreed. Better advice would be "stay behind the curve." Right now, if you want a Wii, it's expensive. If you're happy playing Playstation 2, it's cheap. A Wii will be cheap 5 years from now when something cooler is out. Same kind of thing applies to computers.
In an emergency event you are most likely to forget secret codes. Some kind of biometric sensor would be better, although then attackers could take the authorized person hostage, so it is best to have it shared among two random crew people, simply by voice recognition.
Holy shit, are you serious?
Because I meant it should be easy for the guys who wrote this article, not for me. If I did them no one would believe me (and they shouldn't!).
I had a read of the website, but I don't really understand what people use Shen for, but presumably, it has some benefits over other lisps?

Can anyone enlighten me?
When StackOverflow first arrived on the scene, I spent a bunch of time trying to catch Jon Skeet. I found that answering the questions was a great way of procrastinating, and in some ways, good therapy for dealing with a tedious work environment. While I found it satisfying to start with, eventually I realized that it was just an impedance on my work day and there were many more interesting endeavors to pour my energy into.
What's wrong with the current selection order?
Most people run into this at some point. Many times a business will try and take advantage of freelancers and beat you down on rate because "some guy" is 50% cheaper or whatever. You have to learn to walk away from these deals, that is part of what changes you from freelancer to consultant. A consultant knows to walk away from these deals or arguments because you cannot win in a race to the bottom. Not that being a consultant is better than being a freelancer, I just feel it is a mental shift in how you approach deals and set them up.

People have suggested building our own product. That is all well and good, and honestly at some point you will want to stop selling your time because your time is finite and can't be scaled. That's when product development becomes more attractive. But if you are still having fun writing other peoples stuff and just want to get out of a rut and increase your rate then you can do that.

Pricing is a skill, we charge weekly rates (based on 32hrs) per person and honestly most clients equate that to an hourly rate in the end. We also set a minimum charge for all projects and bill based upon value delivered instead of hours when appropriate, for example, we just picked up a small project < 1 week in duration where we charged $7k. Every time a potential client starts trying to negotiate our rate down, I move the conversation to value and most of the time I can win solid deals and I don't negotiate my rate down. I have in the past, but once someone knows you will negotiate your rate, they will always go for more and you end up in a death spin to the bottom.
" Is the CODE keyboard available in ISO layouts?
No, we currently only have the CODE available with the standard US ANSI layout. We do not have plans for an ISO layout, but we will try to come up with a solution for that in the future."

sad
"Scuppered" means to prevent from succeeding—also to sink a ship deliberately.

I was quite interested to learn this, because I would always have used the word "scuttled" for the deliberate sinking of a ship.
Yeah, the CAFC rulings aren't precedent in the circuit courts were this would normally be appealed.
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It isn't a fantasy if the US and other high tax rate countries apply pressure in the form of holding at stake economic access at stake.

I'm not in favour of the corporate tax, I would rather have a high progressive consumption tax, a progressive inheritance tax, and a land value tax. (yes I recognize this will never happen...) That said, tax arbitrage across borders is the same kind of global coordination problem as climate policy across borders.

Accepting a race to the bottom and resigning to a climate catastrophe are not solutions; we need countries who want to fix these problems to band together and create carrots and sticks to incentivize misbehaving countries to join in.
you act like capital fleeing to lower-tax locales is a problem? that is what is suppose to happen.

this is just a measure for fiscally irresponsible nations (i.e the US) the are advancing the moronic Magical Monetary Theory err, Modern Monetary Theory a check to ensure global competition for capital does not expose their fraud.
> Out of curiosity, do you believe that people who are scared of dogs are less entitled to use public spaces?

I think it is unreasonable to project your personal views as restrictions on other people. There are plenty of people in the world that are afraid that 5G is going to kill them or brainwash them or something; do you believe that they're less entitled to use public spaces, or should we shut down all the transmitters so they don't have to be afraid? Lots of people are also afraid of cars (as they should be), and yet we let them go pretty much everywhere.

The line between reasonable and unreasonable has to be drawn somewhere. In my opinion, if you're afraid of dogs, demanding that other people keep their pets locked away is unreasonable. That's a you problem, for you to deal with in the same way that if you're afraid of 5G then that's something you need to deal with yourself. There's nothing stopping them from using those public spaces other than themselves. Figure out how to get along with dogs.

Horses scare the shit out of me. I still wouldn't ask anyone to not bring their horse to the park. If that's how you want to use the trails, who am I to stop you? It's a public space for everyone to enjoy. I'll just stay out of kicking range and we can all go on about our day. It's a park, it's full of wild animals. People who are afraid of squirrels can't go; are we going to go shoot all the squirrels so those people aren't "less entitled"?

Or, in a flip, unruly children ruin a lot of stuff for me. Let's mandate a rule that children must be on a leash and quiet, or you have to leave them at home. You should have made sure you could afford a sitter when you wanted to go out before you had children. It doesn't matter that I'm in the minority, or that you really love your children, it makes me uncomfortable so we should just silo them to sitting at home.
The missing updates was enough to kill the brand for me.