jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I fly short distances quite a lot which have no meals and require no preparations. Over the years, the experience has gotten so boring that I usually fall asleep during taxing or takeoff.

Long-haul still has me going giddy with excitement at how this massive metal construction can ever get up into the air, that makes it harder to get some sleep. :-) A neck pillow is the best investment I've ever made there though, it stops you from waking up when your head falls forward.

Also, I'm disturbed by the amount of people who simply don't know how to pop their ears and sit and try to swallow or rub their ears or whatever else crap they're doing. Just hold your nose, blow out, done.
I don't think it is "ideas",it is knowledge and experience, Steve has a lot of that.

You are making a fallacy, it is not ideas like I just dream and there it is:ideas, it is ideas like newton calculus ideas as a result of all their life working on them.

Steve is trained in figure it out what people need (marketing), materializing it and testing in the real world. Not as easy at it sounds because of unconscious incompetence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence

I have seen companies with superb scientist and technical people struggle and fail because of bad managers, like a yacht with 700hp engines and broken rudder.
being n°2 can be a huge advantage !
if you keep track of what n°1 is doing you can avoid lots of mistakes, cut cost on marketing (no need to evangelize the market), implement features that users of n°1 are beging for but that n°1 couldnt implement first, ...

Every n°1 have a good n°2 (except maybe Ebay)
This assumption is a mix of broken societal wisdom and an association fallacy. FWIW, there's another fallacy committed when they themselves become unemployed; everyone else unemployed is a antisocial lunatic, but they are a good person who has simply fallen on rough times -- total cognitive dissonance, but they don't notice, even when it is pointed out to them.

There's something generational in it, as well. Going on rough estimates and statistics I've heard-- although there's no hard basis for these numbers because no one can predict what the employment climate will look like in 2050-- a 22-year-old can expect, over the next 40 years:

* To be fired (not laid off, but personally fired) once.

* To be laid off, or to lose a job because his employer goes out of business, 3 times.

* To quit 3 jobs because of a negative job situation or otherwise pre-emptively (boredom, passed over for a promotion, risk of being laid off).

* To quit 3 jobs because a substantially better offer comes along.

* To quit twice because he needs a break (and won't be allowed to take ~3 months unpaid leave) or is considering career change.

* To leave 1 job to go into school.

* To have at least one spell of unemployment exceed 4 months.

That's 4 involuntary job losses, and 4-7 (the firing, and the there pre-emptive quits are the four; the layoffs are the "maybe" +3) that could be taken to reflect negatively on him and his career. This is what I suspect to be the average case over a 40-year career, with most of the disruptive breaks early on in it.

I don't think this is a bad thing. I think job volatility is, if it's limited and no one gets blackballed or rendered unable to make a living, a good thing. Just as no one is expected to marry their high school sweetheart, people are increasingly "dating" jobs and careers. And although breakups hurt like hell, the fact that they can happen when necessary (as opposed to a world where people marry in their late teens and stay together even if miserable) means people find better matches in the long run.

The result is that we're looking at a generation where everyone will have the experience of being unemployed at some point. But many people in their 40s and 50s got started in a different career environment and have never experienced it.
Am I the only one who sees a direct connection between little bets and the lean startup movement? When you test your assumptions you are making a series of small bets. When you build a minimum viable product that is in effect making a small bet.
Guess Apple isn't as good down under. Terrible support from Apple in Singapore and Australia, from my personal experience.
It's highly addictive
Well, DDA should use fixed point, not doubles. Old stack based x87 FPU is just slow and converting doubles into integers in a loop... Well, I guess you can understand where the time is spent in the version you linked! I meant of course IDIV and fixed point, not FDIV FADD FISTP etc. madness!
Another interesting bike not mentioned in this article is Agility Motors Saietta - http://www.agilitymotors.com/bikes/saietta-r.html?8712236

Does 0-60 in 3 seconds and is designed with Agni Racing, the current winner in the electric category of the Isle of Man TT.
Nothing fancy :

- contribute at one open source project. I use OSS so much that I feel I should give back even a little.

- manage successfully to reach day 14 of my fasting experiment that started December 26th then continue to fast one day a week

- finally start the side project that is bugging me since 2007 !

- find an alternative source of income (this is sorely needed and might be provided by the side project)

- get better at my hobby

- Learn the Ada programming language (just because)
> Theoretically, most countries emissions could go to zero with nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, and/or geothermal.

I think this is the bad assumption that is causing you to think emissions per capita are not important. Power generation is only a fraction of the problem. Most clearly, GHG emissions from cows and pigs will not go down even if all electricity energy is produced with 0 emissions. Incidentally, India's widespread vegetarianism may be a big component of how its emissions are so low.

Then, transportation will not magically become electric even if the whole grid is green. Perhaps cars are a solved problem, but electric trucks, electric air planes, and electric cargo boats are definitely not solved problem, not for anywhere near today's costs.

There are of course numerous other industrial processes which emit massive amounts of CO2 that can't be electrified at all - cement production, smelting, plastic recycling, many chemical processes etc.

Also, new nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind are not competitive with already built coal or natural gas power plants - so moving to a new entirely green grid would massively increase the costs of electricity, which in turn will increase the costs of basically all consumer goods.

And while many in the USA and Europe could afford to pay twice the price of electricity and all basic necessities (though nowhere close to all), few would in India or China.

Now, would it be important and good to pressure and fund China, US and India to replace what they can of their electrical grids with nuclear and other green energies? Absolutely! But it only addresses a small part of the problem, and does so at tremendous cost.

Edit: electricity generation accounts for ~50% of China's GHG emissions, ~35% of India's and ~25% of the US's. So even entirely greenifying their grids will not reduce world GHG emissions by anywhere near 50%.
I kind of like the idea, but at the same time it is something I would be ashamed if people needed to work with me.

I definitely have my own issues but I try to present a standard reliable interface outward, hiding my weaknesses and instead encourage people to let me help them using my strong sides.
I do find the idea that showing up counts for a lot, quite romantic (in a good way). Even in the more dubious cases like Viktor Bout [0]. But for the most case it's not an area where I'd personally want to "show up" in. I'd much rather we semi-privatized disaster relief than war.

[0] That documentary with all the home footage is pretty cool, so is "bulletproof salesman".
Mostly mobile from a risk perspective. If you connect to other people's WiFi networks or even have your own configured to auto-connect it's possible to use devices like the WiFi Pineapple and more to man-in-the-middle (MitM) your connection. If you aren't using a VPN, and lets face it, nobody really does, then a bad guy MitM could inject JavaScript of choice into the HTTP response for major sites, thus using them as a gateway to execute exploit code within the context of your browser. Many modern exploits don't rely on writing to disk and instead remain resident in memory so AV really doesn't even save you. If everyone on the web only supported HTTPS the risk of an evil MitM compromising your device while on WiFi goes down fairly significantly so long as you don't do something stupid and install a rogue root CA or accept browser crypto warnings and continue.

It also helps mitigate things like rogue advertisement injection by hotels, ISPs, etc.
> I really don't understand why people think monad is a "fancy scary term".

The reason could be that the term "monad" comes from category theory, and that is a topic not everybody is too familiar with...
This can go too far in the other direction too.

My latest project was a sunglasses/eyewear design site, where people could design their own glasses (I had a tech stack on the backend to make the glasses in my studio - the company is an experiment in mass customization).

I went to great lengths to allow people to use the software without creating an account. In the end, I probably spent two weeks trying to get it to work properly with all the edge cases - saving the anonymous design when they do finally create an account, locking out certain features that required identity, appropriate warning dialogs when work was going to be lost, etc.

And I still had edge cases. I burned two or three weeks trying to accommodate account-averse people, then had to spend another two days yanking it. That effort was based on my personal distaste at having ten billion website accounts, a distaste probably widely shared here on HN and likely nowhere else.

(This isn't an argument with Ben's points - his example use cases clearly don't need accounts.)
That depends on what your trust model is. Somebody is resolving the DNS query, and then the result gets transmitted to you. If all you're worried about the result being MITM'd during transit, then encryption is sufficient. You can set up DNSCrypt to deal with this today [1].

But often the provider resolving the query is itself untrustworthy. Most providers these days (including OpenDNS) redirect invalid queries to their own landing pages (which poisons caches and has other bad effects). Providers may "censor" certain domains. Or be subverted by state-level actors (see: Belgacom). In DNSSEC, the root of trust is the administrator of the DNS root zone (e.g., Verisign, whom you're probably already trusting anyway).

[1] But encryption is not a panacea. As soon as you visit the address(es) returned, someone will get a pretty good idea what you looked up.
I wouldn't call it a cult. I find a lot of people who write CL / SBCL don't care much for Clojure. That was a few years ago though, so maybe this has changed?
When I was an MS dev (8 to 18 years ago), Visual Studio had nothing to do with "real work" on Windows systems programming.

Quite a few people used a rather obscure editor called Source Insight (http://www.sourceinsight.com/) because of its code-navigation abilities, which were similar to an IDE's but worked on huge codebases that would take hours to actually parse and analyze "properly". Sort of a supercharged ctags.
That may be because most men never get any offspring. It's evolutionarily convenient to only have the genetically best men get women pregnant. A common theory is that the reason we have marriage/monogamy is that the men who get left out of sex don't much like this arrangement and would prefer equal allocation of women.
We have added an echo feature, which shows similar shouts based on the context of the given shout. Feel free to try it! It's really easy.
Always look forward to these so I can compare my solutions afterwards. Sometimes it's almost frustrating to see how clean and concise the mess I made could have been, but I do learn a lot. It's like he gets as close to golfing as possible, without the obfuscation.

Too bad he punted on 20... one of the few difficult problems this year. Usually the hard problems are where you really see the contrast between his solutions and the rest of us plebs. Do I sense a hit of frustration in his comment? ;)

"too tedious for too little reward...."
"sea monster as characters inelegant"
I found this part the most interesting:

> Conner's existing record of 45 hours and 16 minutes set in a Tesla Model 3 Long Range

So this is comparing a luxury sports car to an entry level mass-market car, and they beat it by only a few percent.
The guy wearing a Navistar badge was identified by the company and promptly fired.
> for not letting people pass who signal they intend to.

That's not what you get ticketed for. As long as you're overtaking the cars in the lane to your right at a reasonable speed, you can stay in your lane. If there is a gap between cars that you can safely enter, then you have to move to the right. There is a duty to let people pass if you're driving very slowly, but this is meant for a tractor driving 15 km/h, not for someone driving 5 under the speed limit.

Especially if there are two lanes, no speed limit, the right lane has heavy truck traffic going 80 and you're going 130, the Ferrari has to wait until you're done overtaking, even if that takes you until the end of the no-speedlimit section. And if the Ferrari gets pushy (e.g. honking/high-beams), they are risking not just a ticket but criminal prosecution (on top of any penalties for violating the minimum safe distance).
People can have flaws and do things wrong and still be right about some things. Indeed, everyone has flaws and does things wrong, so if you're looking for someone who doesn't before you consider any advice, you're unlikely to ever be able to learn anything.

If someone failed out of school and tells you to study hard, are you going to discount their advice because they failed to live up to it?
This is precisely it. There have been insurrections before with zero consequences, such as in Wilmington where white supremacists were upset that Black people were allowed to be elected and take positions in government:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1...

Yesterday there was a confederate flag in the capitol halls, something that didn't even happen during the US civil war. Pictures abound of neo-nazi symbols, like a T-shirt celebrating Auschwitz.

These people expect no consequences, and they are probably right. They are still upset that Obama got into the White House.
No, taking the US Capitol by force is insurrection.
Bug report:

Neither the "See our decks" nor "Why Deckmill?" buttons do anything on my desktop setup. After inspecting, it seems they scroll but my screen is tall enough that there is no scroll behavior (or scrollbar).

I expected they'd take me to a more detailed version of what's on the homepage.
Facebook has pioneered multiple languages and programming API packages. I'm certain they have had to implement library functions "from scratch" multiple times.

I can assure you that the growth rate has not slowed. Do not use the USA as a proxy for global behaviors.
Griefers gonna grief. Some people aren't happy unless they're making someone else miserable :(
There are two very good comments at the bottom of the article. Here for your consumption:

Author: (Unknown)
2015-01-19 12:54 UTC

io.js based on node v0.11, so you need compare

- v0.10 (nodejs)- v0.11 (nodejs)
- v0.11 (nodejs)- v1.0 (iojs)

Author: Michael Schöbel
2015-01-19 13:01 UTC

I also downloaded sources and compiled the latest master branch of Node yesterday evening. Performance was within 2% of io.js for all three tests.

But most people won't compile themselves. Most will use the latest stable release.
How do you redeploy without some sort of remote access?
> It makes your site inaccessible to people who don't have TLS stacks. I can write and carefully audit an HTTP/1.0 client in a weekend; auditing even the bare minimum the code needed to speak TLS would take months or years.

What about the HTML 5 parsing, the CSS parsing and layout, and the JavaScript virtual machine? I doubt you could write and carefully audit all that in a weekend.

Most sites are already inaccessible to people who don't have modern web browsers, which all include a TLS stack.
What is your problem with this? This is how dates are communicated in large swaths of the world (dd-mm-yyyy), including my home country. Sure, it would be better to use ISO8601 in a standard like this, but you don't see non-Americans responding with "seriously?" when an American uses "mm/dd/yyyy" (which happens a lot).

Perhaps try to be a little more open minded, and if you do decide to deliver criticism then perhaps do so in a constructive manner, instead of "seriously?".
Location: Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, React/React Native, Node, GraphQL/REST, Git, SASS/TailwindCSS,

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wXfzMCncTOOFo83x6t_jXxYQ3d4...

Email: krz.cisek@gmail.com

I’m looking for a junior-level position as a frontend/fullstack developer. I’ve been working as a frontend developer with React/Typescript for almost 6 months. I’m currently trying in my free time to play with React Native.
It seems like almost everybody who replied is a web developer, and assumes your son wants to build websites. Let me suggest something different.

Figure out which part of programming he's interested in, why he likes it. Is he good in maths/physics, does he want to write games, websites, apps, etc.

If he's just interested in "programming" in general, get him a nice book on algorithms and suggest different languages he can use to implement them (something C-like, a scripting language, a functional one, a modern Lisp dialect).

Oh right, get him to use Linux or BSD, as that will give him access to a ton of free development tools. I also mention free because I don't think he should focus on making money at 15, but find something he enjoys learning. If necessary, you could provide incentives to learn this properly, instead of following possibly short-lived market trends.
one would have to design everything from the logic chips up from scratch

You mean like http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html ?

Stallman's endorsement of Chinese hardware illustrates tho' that he values software freedom over, y'know, political freedom, which puts him on dodgy ground IMHO.
If I am reading the material correctly, the light appears to have passed completely through the object if and only if you happen to be sending the beam of light of the wavelength they are expecting from exactly the position they expecting.

In other words, big whoop.
I second this. My wife and I also have an elliptical, and it's much easier to handle in the morning, rather than running. Although in the spring/summer/fall I tend to enjoy running outside in the morning over the elliptical.
The prizes (Macbook Air & iPad); are these for US residents only? Unable to find any info in either the FAQs or the T&C
Education sales combines all the wonderful fun of multi-year Big Freaking Enterprise consultative sales cycles with the vast untapped budget of your local pizza shop. Your product, if it is going to be effective, is virtually certain to threaten the continued employment of a stakeholder who has veto authority over deploying it. Educational institutions and educators are not rewarded for doing education well -- indeed, if they have greater than minimal competency, improving just gets their budgets cut.
Couldn't have happened to a better bunch of guys. Really great news, congrats gents.
I haven't followed reddit in years, and reddit.com's not letting me log in to search for the posts where I raised this speculation, but I think that any business which controls a website like reddit has a huge marketing advantage. I saw some high-scoring posts which I believed didn't merit much attention and which seemed to be shilling for Conde Nast products. So they may be getting value out of the site without explicit monetization.
Ahhh ok -- fixed! Thanks again for that feedback.
From my reading, in this case the light still bounces off the material in question. The reflected light follows the path which it would if the object were not there, but presumably the object still absorbs some of it.
Good tips! Yes, if Ubuntu from the Store is your flavor, then your setup makes huge sense.

I am obsessed with experimenting with methods that can work on a variety of WSL distros. Give it a couple months, and I may be back to your straightforward suggestion. For now, I am really satisfied with my present configuration, though. Time will tell.
Interesting. In combination with this, it could make writing bash scripts way easier https://argbash.io/

I can picture documenting the stuff with your tool, then one click and POP! All you need is the implementation.
you missinterpreted that graph; spinach, chards, celery, parsley, letucce, endive, watercress, brassica, all are in Eudicots order. The outliers are scallions (onions, garlic etc.) that are in Monocots order.
I don't mean to pile on here, but this text reminded me of The Inertia Variations poems by John Tottemham:

-----

BORN WINNER, SELF-MADE LOSER

There was a time when I thought

I might have done something by now;

But that was long ago, and over the intervening

Decades I have shifted from prodigy to late-bloomer

To non-bloomer; I have passed my peak without having peaked

Or even begun the ascent, and unless there is something inherently

Salutary to the energy I expend in frustrating myself then

My sacrifices have all been in vain.

-----

I recommend listening to Matt Johnsons reading of them: https://open.spotify.com/track/3XrxjjUHhJ5tFVRki44ljA?si=d1f...
Maybe they should pay their artists more, instead of their employees.
Everything's bigger in Texas, except the electricity grid.
When 99% of modern Ti bikes have a carbon fork I don't think this argument holds up much. The advantage of Ti for me is that it is a metal bike (metal wears beautifully) without the weight penalty of steel. The downside is the cost...
Not really, because toilet paper was a different issue, there was plenty of supply. With vaccines I want the 300 million doses made in the US the day it is approved. Then nothing for three weeks and then make the booster all at once . That isn't possible, but it is what we want. (As each country approves repeat for them)
Lenovo (IBM) has the best naming convention of the ones I've dealt with. Dell's site is so confusing and abyssmal that I simply could not help a friend buy a PC - had to go with HP.

This will be the last Windows PC I help somebody buy.
I put my iPhone in Airplane Mode and Silent Mode, and set an alarm to wake me. Works great :)
I've got a X100e. The hardware's alright, but the linux compatibility is awful. Ubuntu 9.10 worked well enough, except it wanted its wireless drivers to be manually installed, and it crashed every time it autoslept.

10.04, wireless worked out of the box, but crashed when you adjusted the brightness, or did anything with ACPI. Installing the proprietary drivers let me adjust brightness, but it still doesn't like sleeping. And now the headphone jack doesn't work.
> Feynnman (kinda) calls him out on this: Complexity research doesn't need its own institute, because complexity research is a pseudoscience

I think you're reading a lot more into Feynman's comment than is there. All Feynman says is that the organization of science does not inhibit complexity research.