jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can't keep humans in place, who don't want to stay in place. If you paid some benighted town in the Great Plains $500/head to accept your homeless, that town would just buy each transplanted San Francisco resident a sandwich and a bus ticket, pocketing the rest. It would soon become a joke on SF streets, "yeah I just got back from Nebraska!"
And your problem is???
That article is from nov 18th versus 5th?

Besides, for credibility they should have been writing about the obvious problems with Epstein, and everyone but fringe outlets were basically silent over the last decade(s), and in some cases complicit (abc news).
What compilers are people using for FPGAs? It seems all the compilers are proprietary, and not much fun to use on Linux.
>CS + Operations Research

this is me. I can't recommend it enough.
Nope. It's pointless to sue a private individual for 100 million dollars. Even if those losses were real, there's no way to recoup them from an unemployed engineer. Tesla is going to spend a lot of money on legal fees with no potential upside -- except that they can fuck up Tripp's life.

It's pretty clear that the goal of these lawsuits is not to recoup losses, but instead to silence critics, and to attack someone that alledgedly "betrayed" Tesla.

This is not normal corporate behavior. Normal companies don't try to swat their ex-employees. Normal companies don't start lawsuits on the whim of their CEO.

Normal companies either don't talk at all about employees that make crazy allegations, or they make a press release thanking the whistleblower, stating that they investigated the allegations and determined that there are no problems and everything is fine!
Layer 7 network prioritization isn't new, its just slow.
HN is already monetized. It's one of a couple effective vehicles for YC awareness. I have no doubt that many applicants first encounter YC via HN.

That's a radically different monetization model than you might be thinking of, but many other shorter term models would have a negative impact on the HN experience and the YC promotion effect.
Sorry, i'm probably weird, but I could see my vim experience described quite accurately in this post. It was funny and disturbing at the same time.

I particularly enjoyed:

"hjkl movement becomes natural. you mysteriously lose the ability to ice skate"

"oh balls. my .vimrc isn’t on the mainframez so all my cool shit is gone when I ssh to edit some configs."

"publishes obligatory blog post about how special and unique setup is"
Anybody who uses paypal should be aware that there is not an adequate system in place to insure an honest and amicable transaction occurs between the buyer and sell. That's just a risk you take for using the worlds biggest online auction site.

The way the poster went about getting his money back was absolutely stupid. Whether it was amoral or not, he could be criminally prosecuted for his actions.
but having to choose between 2 similar products, going with the one that's open-source is a no-brainer in most cases.

Is it? First, you have to define "similar".

Would you rather have Quake (open source) or Black Ops? Both shooters with zombie like monsters.

Is MySQL the same as the SQL Server? Sure, to the uninitiated they look the same, but there are lots of little differences that, depending on your goals, can make one vastly more valuable than the other.

Would you prefer Mono or the CLR? While Mono has an enthusiastic and strong dev community, I bet dollars to donuts that even among informed devs, most would chose the CLR for the job at hand. And I bet even among informed CIOs they'd prefer the CLR for their shops.

OpenOffice Calc or Excel? Again, depending on your usage scenario, there are things you can do in Excel that simply aren't there in a reasonable way in Calc, although again, to the unitiated they're both spreadsheets.

My point? You rarely have the option of choosing between a closed source version and open source version of identical products. What you do tend to do is to look at two (or more products) and figure out what addresses your need the most, with open source being one of many metrics. When I decide which spreadsheet for my org to use, of course we consider OpenOffice, but the fact that it is open source has very little impact on our decision. The probability of us fixing a bug in OpenOffice is about equal to the chance that the bug fixes it self through the right sequence of bits being affected by cosmic ray. But maybe for you the fact that you can go and implement missing features in OpenOffice is important.
Being a sucker for retro I went for the green screen 1630A myself. Plus the 1650As go for hundreds of pounds here in the UK.

I like your twitter image .. I used the same one (but from my 1630A) :D (http://twitter.com/andrew_rose)
If this was actually in response to my psyops comment, I didn't reference spying, I referenced psychological operations. It was just a not-necessarily-plausible thought I tossed out there, hoping for discussion.

If a large group of US nationals were mirroring Wikileaks content, and happened to be using OpenBSD for their infrastructure, it might be an interesting "warning".
Same story, several sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332 - google.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637 - nytimes.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930 - datacenterknowledge.com - This one has a comment.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407 - bloomberg.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005281 - yahoo.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007338 - killed

Additionally, related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004783
There's no need for violence or space rockets. Rather apply a more boring approach: cut supplies and wait patiently, which basically amounts to doing nothing. If the space ship/colony is self sufficient and can operate without supllies, then it can probably declare independence. Anyone not content with that can apply diplomatic pressure or start a space war over it.
> These bans will always result in users using alternative platforms

No it won't. There are two app stores of consequence. Google just nuked free speech supporting Parler from their app store for example, trying to force them into ideological censorship compliance.

When aggressive monopolies are doing the censoring in tandem, it's identical to an act of violence by the companies in question as there are not reasonable other channels left. It stops being a matter of a stray private corporation merely controlling how its property is used and becomes a matter for the government to defend the people being assaulted.

Monopolies are always ultimately a matter of force and the sole way to deal with them short-term is to call upon the government to use its legal powers to stop the violent monopolists.

A coup definitely occurred the other day, just not the one the laughable headlines proclaim ('unmasked, unarmed man in buffalo hat and jeans conquers US Government in daring toppling of superpower!'); rather, by big tech over speech. They've all been waiting for this moment of convenience (it's a Patriot Act kind of moment). From here on out they'll unabashedly use their co-monopoly over everything online to dictate speech.

Quick question for everyone on HN: who actually seized power given our present context? The clown in the buffalo hat, or the billion & trillion dollar corporations that control most of the channels of communication? Now that that power move is taken care of some of the interested parties in the government will put the companies to work on more interesting privacy-destroying tasks.
I think the best gift is your expertise. Maybe you can write something interesting for her like a website (you chose a technology and let she fill it with a content). If you have no time for that, a little bit of cryptocurrency in a cold wallet may also be useful.
It's important to remember that the unemployed are just one small part of all non-workers that social-welfare programs are intended to assist. In addition to the unemployed, you have children, the elderly, the disabled, students, and unpaid caretakers. In the US at least, the burden for supporting many of these non-workers falls on their individual families. Why do you think such attention is paid to "welfare queens (and kings)" whenever the welfare state is brought up, even though they are just a fraction of one group that the welfare state is intended to support? Do you think it could be precisely because there's an easy narrative that gets people viscerally worked up about unfairness?
To be fair. The scam websites are hosted by Medium.

Ie.:
https://elon-now.com/
http://elonbonus.club/
I deny your premise. All those companies can and already do leverage software engineering talent for the same multipliers or orders of magnitude impact on revenue that tech companies get out of it.

They are just using rent seeking opportunities to disingenuously pay uncompetitive salaries and reap surplus for executive pay.

Either those companies will get better management and leaders who successfully rebuild the business model to account for this, or else executive and manager pay will go way down to reflect the reality that competition for high leverage software talent takes away the cushy executive surplus, or else the market in general will deem the company to be unwanted and not useful and it will decay out of business or get acquired.

The company has no right or expectation for things to stay in the current unfair state. The “cost of living wage” free lunch is ending, so adapt or fold.
Everyone talks about the billionaires soaking up the windfall for the last 40 years, but really it's the upper middle class that's leading the charge here.

Massive wealth inequality in this country is being driven by an increasingly prosperous upper middle class [0].

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-dangerous-separation-...
"Management through walking around" comes from Hewlett-Packard. At least as practiced by at Packard and Hewlett, it was supposedly more about learning from individual contributors in labs and on factory floors -- without only getting information filtered through middle management -- not "getting up in people's faces and demanding they perform better."
Out of genuine curiosity what are examples of the control being implemented under the veil of COVID? Sure lockdowns and such are being ordered but once the vaccination is completed those won't be continued. I don't see the same type of issues as the patriot act after 9/11 which had clear long term impact.
It makes problems because political hay can be made over how campaigns are financed. Most people want the gov't to have a large degree of control over how others conduct their affairs. Politicians believe that making reforms to campaign finance is a platform on which they can be elected. The issue is not whether campaign finance reform actually works, or improves the situation, the issue is whether you can be elected for promoting it.

People don't like the gov't but believe that it's a matter of who is in charge rather than the structure of the system.
I was trying to show somebody DuckDuckGo today and I could not even find it with Google as the name had escaped me. In fact, all I could think of was Go Dog Go. It has its disadvantages too.
That seems a good explanation of the lifetime offer on appsumo a couple weeks ago...

Beside that thank you Mixpanel :) !!
I have always been under the impression that the limited nature of ipv4 is very detrimental for creating infrastructure in poor parts of the world.

It's not. IPv4 is approximately free today; it's the smallest part of the cost of running Internet infrastructure.

This might actually make large corporations (and more so governments) interested in preventing competitors from rising in foreign lands.

Yeah, the only thing stopping Africa from kicking the US's butt in technology is a lack of IP addresses...
"...then it's a violation of Iraqi sovereignty not to hand him over to the Iraqi authorities. "

Ha. Funny.

"...they have to accept that some torture and other human rights violations will occur."

I'm reminded of Bush writing, "Let freedom ring" on the memo he got after the new Iraq government was instituted.
I have to agree with you on context, especially for technical and energy-issues stories. And yes, journalists are exceptionally lacking and poor in this regard.

That said, there are tools out there which help. There's an immense wealth of information available online -- we can look up the population of Beijing (20 million, via Wikipedia), the International Energy Agency and other sources have various energy statistics.

A favorite tool of mine is gnu 'units', a commandline calculator that many people associate with simple transformations from feet to meters. But that misses out on its key capabilities -- it's really an advanced units-aware calculator with a large number of built-in values. I just found earlier today that this includes paper sizes:

$ units 'A4paper'
Definition: 210 mm 297 mm = 0.06237 m^2

It's also extensible -- I've added 'hiroshima' as an energy unit. Given the context of the current discussion, that in tons of coal equivalent:

$ units '1 hiroshima' 'toncoal'
* 1942.6672
/ 0.0005147562

For more discussion, features, and use:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1x9u0f/gnu_uni...

Getting back to your question, how does one 845 MW plan compare with Beijing's energy usage?

You have: 845MW / 20 million
You want: watt
* 42.25
/ 0.023668639

... I presume China's power supply exceeds 42 watts per capita (though I happen to know from context that third-world nations are at roughly this level). Wikipedia again tells us that the national average is 458 watts/person, which probably includes less-developed rural areas. So it's likely that the shuttered power plant is at best 1/10 Beijing's power supply, quite possibly less than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

That said, yes, poor and sloppy contextualization on the part of Bloomberg and Feifei Shen.
Excellent app. Very clean interface. It's like your default note app, but connected with Evernote
Yes I am. Just sent you an email. The email address is learc83@gmail.
> because the moon is the major contributor to the tides

No. Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.
Of course! What impressionable, geeky teenager didn't? :)
I assumed the same thing. I bet you read Wired magazine in the 90s too, right?
The difficulty is not making a decision, it’s living with the consequences.

- Micah Baldwin (@micah)

http://startupquote.com/post/1577310141
Lesson, don't let your CI machine talk to your production servers (firewalls are good at this).
Good thing git is distributed. I've been working on my code all day and never even noticed!
a fair point, but where the hell do the ~6,500 female stanford students go every night/weekend?
Suppose Congress is going to pass a law. They don't realize it, but it will devastate your industry by changing the rules midgame. Think about what Ubercab ("illegal cab") or AirBnb ("illegal hotel") recently went through.

Now, imagine that you can't sound the alarm. This is going to put people out of work and ruin your business, but you can't say anything.

That's what it means to prohibit lobbying.

To stop lobbying, you need to stop Congressmen from getting power-drunk and passing random rules and regulations that affect the economy based on something they just read in the New York Times (like the recent debit/credit thing). Companies generally don't want to lobby, they just do it as a defensive measure.
Advent calendars are known in the U.S. as well, although I can't vouch for how widespread they are.
Have a nice Holiday break everyone!
It's always great to get feedback, but if a random stranger is able to point out flaws in your business plan or product that you weren't able to uncover through your own thinking, planning, and discussions with friends, partners, etc. Then I'd say you haven't done your homework.

Some people think your friends will just agree with you so they don't hurt your feelings, but in my experience that is not the case. But be sure to ask them to play devils advocate. If all you're getting is positive feedback, tell them that you don't want to hear about what is great about the idea, that you know. Ask specifically why they think it won't work.
Man, why do I keep getting overlooked? Sure I may not have fancy investors, or google in my name, but my wiki database has demos and online reports =).

http://www.formlis.com/
Looks a lot like the Durex logo. http://popsop.ru/wp-content/uploads/durex_logo_old.jpg
One thing that bugs me is that the Y logo is still on an orange background. It makes sense, but it doesn't work on the red bar. It stands out too much.
"Any of those things would be worth trillions."

So where's the investment capital for them then? They're all chronically underfunded.

The difference, I think, is risk. Any one of those would be worth trillions if it worked, but the risk of any approach failing is very high.
That page of text with ads took about 10 seconds to load and render on a 50-megabit internet connection with a 3.4 ghz i7 CPU and 16 gb memory. Let's start laughing at Fortune's web development team instead.
I rarely make use of stacked windows, multiple virtual desktops and a tiling window manager work much better for me, even then if I'm using two panes it's almost always an editor in one and a shell to compile and run the other.
That stat shocked me too, and from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Statistics, it appears to be false. However, that table isn't sourced very well either.

Looking at the source, he seems to be lumping shorter plane rides in with the long-distance (safer) ones. The danger is largely in takeoff and landing, as far as I understand. I also can't tell if the source takes into account private jets, which are less regulated and likely more risky than passenger jets. I'd also imagine the statistic varies a lot of you limit yourself to flights involving the US and our colonies[1].

Or the source could just be wrong - he could have mistakenly used the chance of being involved in a crash, rather than the chance of dying. That would put it in the right order or magnitude, I think.

[1] With all the "evil empire" rhetoric flying around lately...
It is interesting! Both making same mistake.
His employer is an idiot for thinking that this actually achieves anything. I used to do 50 hour work weeks, now I do 40. Those mere 10 hours have made a massive difference in the amount of usable work that I get done.

Either work out something with your employer, or better yet, find a job somewhere else and "educate" your current coworkers about work hours.

More time = less done. In a creative job 40 hours is already pushing the boundaries.
funny how the second answer links back to a discussion on Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7311780
> I'm doing fine, I'm not broke in terms of money. I would say from the materialistic side, I have good life.

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

- Albert Einsten
The path can still be lightly tested because every such system may have configured away the OOM killer with
vm.overcommit_memory=2
There was a discussion of Riot yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8928433

I can see Riot taking it's fair share of the market with the websites that have not-so-complex structure and can benefit from code/size optimization, like various search engines, sharing apps, financial tools, etc.

The key here would be faster than React sever-side rendering - isomorphic apps seem to be the uprising trend at the moment.
Lone parent of 2 kids (5 & 2) juggling a full time job and freelance on the side just to make enough to cover the bills and mortgage (which I'm trying to buy my ex out of).

Yeah, I know tired.

Don't have any advice, but you're not alone, and it's certainly not restricted to the SF location.
Location: Pacific Northwest
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So not the Minecraft Notch, then?
Just wow... And here I was thinking I was living in a tech bubble.
Yes, it's a useful response. What happens if they use traffic shaping to limit Tor traffic to a manageable share of their resources? This might ultimately deter the attacker since the end outcome would simply be a variable amount of inconvenience for legitimate Tor users.
I'm 40 with 20 years of real and varied industry experience (big and small companies; crossing systems, desktop, and much web/distributed dev), rabidly curious, and deeply study (and use on real, often side projects) bleeding edge this and that. What I think is my core value is the long-developed ability to build sound/robust architectures fast, with very good estimation and delivery prediction, and using latest tools, platforms, and technologies.

I know this may sound self-promoting, egotistical perhaps but I believe it's true. Less experience brings a lot of risk in the form of opportunity cost -- without hard-won experience, you simply don't yet have the ability to predict delivery or make the kind of "don't-look-back" decisions and optimal prioritizations that comes with mastery.

I can go to market and find a few companies that can pay my current salary. But the jobs I've been interested in (often medium-sized companies) seem to be trying to fill out a slate of 5 junior/mid-level roles, implicitly devaluing the kind of experience that I have.

I don't blame them. How do you demonstrate that you can truly "make better prioritized decisions" or "build sound architectures quickly" -- I can do these things, but the proofs are all counterfactuals. I know people in the industry for more than 20 years who did not cultivate their skill set. So how does a company first differentiate between me* and the other 20-year veteran? On the job you'll experience the difference in talent between him and me, but how do you a priori tell?

We need a way to show the houses we've built in our careers. How I can I show you that the 100,000 LOC code base(s) that I built or refactored at my last job(s) is stucturally sound with little leaks and supports agile development? As opposed to the other guy who left his spavined˜ construction to a company in misery trying to maintain it?

Then the second thing is how do get these companies to value the skill set? "Working" is the mantra of the day, but "working" code that's not "sound" doesn't just start bleeding you in a year or two but in weeks from now. In other words, 20 years is worth paying for.

* Swap "me" for "some guy who _has_ mastered his craft to the level I'm describing".
Yes, needs definition, but assume there is a definition.
I was glad to see they honored his request.
I agree, I dont have a mic and webcam on the current computer