jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know exactly what the poster meant by "these people", but my own experience having worked at a defense contractor was that the facility I was at (which designed and made missles), all of the managers were upset that there wasn't presently a war going on. I suspect that the past few years have been better for morale there.

Every day they would have meetings going over global hot spots and assess whether there was any chance that the U.S. would have to intervene, and therefore purchase more armaments from them. This was not an objective, collective discussion, but a pleading.

I found that at least at that particular company, by and large, "these kind of people" were shitbags.

I will say, that contrasted with work I've done with other defense contractors in the ensuing years, they are not all uniform.
I have to agree that they where very up front about the fact that they are jerks and that the turn over was high for the position. The culture probably revolves around the owner or partners in a relatively flat hierarchy like a law firm. Which makes fixing the culture nearly impossible.

There are people that just flat out love being authoritarian jerks, I have seen it in law more than other professions so there may be some draw to law by that personality type.

I am still floored by the syringe part though, do they not have a janitor? who would make their assistant go into the parking lot and pick up medical waste, I mean for god sakes this is a person that will be bringing you coffee, a person that you have already admitted that you are going to yell at and you are going to have them pick up contaminated waste, at some point one of those turn over statistics is going to get a bright idea to combine tasks.

That is what always astonishes me about this personality type. Do they know how much spit they consume when they are a jerk to someone that handles their food. While the lowly don't have power to confront them directly, they will find a way to get back at them. People with this attitude believe they walk around with impunity, as if they are smarter than the rest, mean while the dumb asses are having everything they touch tampered with by saboteurs. I know because my first career was in food and I still clearly remember the revelry by some of the staff at sabotaging the food of people with this personality defect. Contrary to popular belief by people like this, people generally don't roll over and take it, they just even the score when they know they have the upper hand. All actions have consequences, that was a valuable lesson I learned early on.
Any particular reason you changed the title? Some people might find it offensive, but they've already semi-censored it with the title "F*ck You. Pay me."
I wonder whether this would allow Netflix to more easily bring their streaming video service to Android...
headphones in, volume up, only vim open.

could be in the middle of a war zone, or my office that frequently mimics such, as long as I am interested in the problem at hand I can get in the zone.
I was really happy that you were so open about the revenue you got from bingocardcreator, and while I totally respect your decision to not do so this time, can I ask why?

Rereading your old blog posts proved to me that a lonely programmer could build a business as a side project which was incredibly motivating at the time.
Yes, but at the end of the day, both django and node get used to handle concurrent requests. It pays off to know how they compare in this task.
Right. (Sorry if I didn't make that explicit before: I take for granted that SEO can provide value for users, too.)

A very optimistic person could say that the search results are due not just to Google's algorithms but the cooperation of Google's algorithms and webmasters optimizing for them, and that without both of these elements, the Internet would be a much poorer place than it is currently.

One example is meta description tags. That is useful for site owners (good snippets increase CTR), useful for users (good snippets make the search results magically better by telling you what you're going to get before the click), and useful for Google. Good meta description tags only exist because of SEOs and do not follow under the frequently argued "Meh, that is just a common web usability guideline" shibboleth. To the best of my knowledge no common user agent surfaces them anywhere users can see them. They exist because they're used for search engine result pages, and that's all.
This appears to be a theoretical term. Is there any empirical chart that demonstrates this, or more generally, "money demand"?
Searching for Eric Harris just finds the murderer. Is that who you meant?
Performance in standardized tests is not “tightly bound to wealth.” Most of the Asians at the NYC test-based schools, for example, are lower income: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/stuyve.... It’s true most people at TJ are solidly upper middle class, but so are most families in Fairfax County (the median family income of the whole county is $150,000). It’s not like families at TJ are richer than those at McLean, Great Falls, Langley, etc.

Random lotteries don’t level the playing field, they eliminate opportunities for people to distinguish themselves. Societies that eschew objective metrics don’t just have radically flat mobility, they have rigid social frameworks based on non-objective indicators. Imagine the “holistic admissions” factors colleges use to exclude Asians (“leadership personality” or whatever) applied on a wider scale.
On one hand, I've heard E. Allen Emerson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Allen_Emerson) complain that he was hoping with tenure he'd be able to just go off and work on whatever interested him.

On the other...there is no other hand.
Eight of those ten are not even complete sentences, let alone "not blockquotes". Every quote need not be a complete sentence or paragraph, but including almost none strikes me as poor journalism. A good writer would include a bit more information and give Alexander's statements a chance to speak for themselves.
> A lot of the commentators say Moloch represents capitalism. This is definitely a piece of it, even a big piece. But it doesn’t quite fit. Capitalism, whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen? Capitalism in whom I am a consciousness without a body? Capitalism, therefore granite cocks?

This sums up a deeply held belief of mine that is majorly in contrast to current popular philosophy in a way that I was never able to articulate.
Having lived through an actual armed insurrection: I hope you get treated for whatever mental illness has caused you to lose touch with reality.
Ignore the politics, foreign affairs and opinion sections of the NYT. They basically peddle outright lies and exaggerations with ridiculous levels of bias.

Stick to the non-environment science pieces. Admittedly, not much of the paper left, but whats left is rather good. Until those writers get fired.
Always a good time to mention that hearing damage is cumulative and irreversible. If it hurts, you need to put earplugs in. Consistent noise can damage your hearing at lower levels than a single loud noise, which means you still might need hearing protection to do things like use saws or run air compressors.

And while we can’t yet reverse hearing damage, that’s no excuse to not protect your ears if you’ve already done damage. We can’t fix if, but you can still make it worse with repeated exposure.
Welcome to politics, DT's words are constantly taken out of context and used to enflame the masses.

That's why this censorship ordeal is scary. Both sides deserve to be heard so people can listen, hear both sides, sift through the bullshit and decide for themselves.
> If 100% of that medium is controlled and censored by two companies

Except you can sideload on Android.
The nefarious actor is Trump and his cronies who most likely directed Federal agencies not to act. He already paused the National Guard deployment
As far as I can tell the video only provides evidence of one person with ties to "Insurgence USA" (a left wing group) being inside the capital during the protest. No evidence for 'antifa' and no evidence that there was any organized left-wing presence.
Well, we could simply treat them the same as phone companies, using our existing laws.

Social media companies are indeed large communication platforms. There are a lot of similarities, even if they aren't exactly the same.

Or do you believe that our existing laws that apply to phone companies are somehow a tyrannical infringement on their rights?
True, but I think that one was protecting the inner rooms, close to where pence was
it's really sad that you've reached the point of cynicism where the court putting legal and democratic principles over partisanship is so inconceivable that you think they're sympathetic to the other side.
Given that there were literally millions of protestors on the streets over the summer, 20 is a pretty tiny number. Multiple people have already died from the DC attacks, just in two days in one city, with a much smaller number of people.

That’s just comparing the number of deaths, and putting aside that one was a massive distributed protest of government brutality and the other was an attempted coup.
> It talks a lot about decentralization and protocol development, but I doubt it will be able to best Matrix in this regard. Matrix has bridges

XMPP has had bridges for more than a decade. That was actually one of the core promises of the XMPP protocol, compared to others (like IRC). Both XMPP and matrix have exactly the same promise to be the only and ultimate federated protocol you will ever need, so there's no real distinction on this front.

> without many users or features that appeal to a mass audience

Many people were (are?) unconsciously using Jabber/XMPP on a daily basis. What plagued XMPP is open standards with closed-source implementations: i.e. private companies ripping off the benefits of specifications. There's a ton of fancy new features in the Jabber/XMPP ecosystem, including some unique stuff like federated forging: https://staticadventures.netlib.re/blog/decentralized-forge/
> weed out the chaff from their existing team of .net developers

This is scala equivalent of HN/pg lisp folklore.
I love the public bathroom Dyson thingies. They kinda became a standard for me now, love how quickly they dry hands. Way better than paper, towels or weak fans.
But yeah, the other stuff is a bit gimmicky.
>That sounds superficially reasonable, but would you get what appears to be a vaccination from some random stranger that shows up with a syringe?

With ID, sure. Besides, he's been the medical director of the Covid response for the county since April. His job was to put procedures to handle situations like this in place.
Thanks - I've read your original post and I agree with your write-up. I still suspect that Zed basically skim-read and misinterpreted your message - he probably has a knee-jerk reaction to the phrase "don't roll your own crypto" and dived on twitter to respond to that, which IMO is a behaviour twitter trains/incentivises people to do (hot takes). The idea that "quantum woo crackpots in crypto are bad" is basically universally agreeable to any reasonable person, including Zed, hence why I think he just knee-jerked in this case.
It would be so simple to have a system where everyone can sign up with the local health department to receive extra doses at the end of the day. If there are extra doses, you receive a text message and have 10 minutes to confirm that you'll be there within the hour, otherwise it moves on to the next person. There should be no reason a single dose of this stuff should ever go to waste.
this is an issue I have battled as well. Docker is great for normalizing the execution environment; which should be a huge boon for developer tooling but on MacOS having your laptop sound like a hovercraft just to have some files watched for hot rebuilds is no bueno.
I came here thinking this was a separate attempt and was going to share that Marcan has already started working on it and that there could be some collaboration.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Legislativ...

>Proposition 12 (1949), a ballot initiative that established DST in California, needed to be repealed. In California, a ballot initiative cannot be repealed without the consent of voters. Therefore, the state legislature could not take action to change time policy unless voters approved Proposition 7. This applied to both permanent daylight savings time and permanent standard time.[1]

As I understand, Prop 7 was needed to undo Prop 12, which then gave the CA state legislature the power to go with DST all year around, which they have indicated they want to since 2016:

>In 2016, the California State Legislature asked the President and Congress to pass an act that would allow California to adopt year-round DST.[2]

It seems that it's the federal government preventing the states from doing what they want to do, hence my quip about states' rights.
So glad Matt Levine is back! I missed the newsletter a lot
How is it at all Trump's failure? The states have these doses, and it is the state health departments which are just refusing to give the vaccines to people out of "fairness".

In my state, Arizona, the injection sites are open from 8-5 every day, and were closed on New Years Day.

This is so far past frustrating to me that I don't have words for it. Get the fucking vaccines into people's arms YESTERDAY. Don't take one minute of rest until you have to as you wait to get resupplied.

Here's a tracker: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

We were giving 400,000 vaccine doses. So far we have used 1/4 of them. 75% of our supply is sitting on a shelf while people go home every day at 5:00, or take a day off to celebrate the new year.

Not acceptable.

I just absolutely do not understand why these state health departments won't get going. For the love of god this is NOT the time to be taking vacation days. I just cannot even wrap my head around that. This pandemic is so awful that we are locking people in their homes, doing who knows what sort of damage to an entire generation of children, locking the elderly in nursing homes isolated from the world, destroying businesses, neglecting cancer treatments and screenings, and sprinting as fast as we can towards a collapsing economy.

We have the solution sitting in a freezer. Instead of putting it into practice, people are going on vacation.

Is this a catastrophic global pandemic or not? Why are people seriously taking VACATION time during something which is causing the collapse of our society?

Here's a story from 5 days ago where a New Mexico man has had to sue for the ability to touch his wife (https://www.fox19.com/2020/12/31/husband-sues-right-touch-wi...). And people are going on vacation instead of solving this? They're going home at 5:00?
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> The idea is most people will assess the value of their house at a premium

This seems a bit unlikely to me since you're directly raising your taxes by doing this. I'd expect the opposite, most people undervaluing their house on the assumption that "it won't happen to me". Also, if I bought for $200k 10 years ago then it can't possibly access for $450k today right? People don't have a good grasp on how fast a market can inflate given the conditions.

I would expect a lot more anti-tax guys who access their property at $1 and if someone comes up to take it they pull out their shotgun.

For this to work at all the government would have to provide a minimum and possibly maximum based on traditional assessments. Basically the system we have now except that you can say that you've done some work to spruce up your house so it's worth more and you like paying more taxes. But it also has the "feature" where you can be evicted by a person with money at any time. Can you imagine this in Silicon Valley? Old people being kicked out of their home by tech-bros would be a daily story.
Homebrew can "bottle" binary packages and "pour" them on install also.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/h...
You're basically arguing a technicality at this point. How important is it that it takes N time to do X and N+epsilon time to do Y? And how much should this affect one's decision for choosing which programming language to use?
Quite the opposite, to me this sort of thing is go's killer app. Simple command line tools written in go are considerably easier to both build and use than ones written in ruby, python, or node.js in my experience. I'd much rather have the dependency hell happen at build time than run time. Keeping up a virtualenv/rvm/etc. setup to use some command line tool, or worse having their entire dep tree come bundled with them ala vagrant in a custom ruby install prefix, is a complete pain in the ass.
Also done by http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/rankings/people/all/all/-3000/... at MIT.

To compare here are the top 4 from each:

whoisbigger:

1. Jesus

2. Napolean

3. Shakespeare

4. Mohammed

Pantheon:

1. Aristotle

2. Plato

3. Jesus

4. Socrates
Be as carefull choosing coofounders as choosing a spouse.
Wintel vs. MacArm: Intel throwing its marketing might against Apple indicates a fear of an exodus from Wintel. Remote work has increased demand for laptops during the pandemic.

We may have entered a phase similar to automobiles where brand stickiness is correlated to first purchase. I wonder if the ads will continue after the pandemic subsides and whether the exodus is significant.
but also far less effort and money than buying physical copies of music
isn't it still faster to just move your hand and rotate the temperature knob than using a voice command "XXXX increase temperature by X degrees"? Using muscle memory feels to me like using the least resources while articulating a phrase utilizes more resources.
You’re right, the Danish mask study showed that masks are consistent with every outcome
ranging from an increase in infection to a reduction.

You spins the wheel, you takes your chances, I guess...
Matthew 5:17.

The Bible can be made to say anything.
Which is why I said excuses being made up and down the thread. I didn't mean to imply that you were excusing it, but many people were saying that Apple was being more reasonable that the developer which is why I spoke out in defense of the developer.

I don't buy your explanation. I'd like to, but all over this thread there are highly upvoted comments that explain that this guy was out of lining by expecting anything at all, even though Apple continually led him on. They could have sent two teeny-tiny bytes 'N' 'o' and been done. But instead they were dicks.

I don't really see why my reply was unfair. If you weren't making excuses for apple, fine, but there were dozens of posters on this topic that are/were.
Hopefully not. While I'm disappointed that Twitter is supporting xAuth, the move to OAuth should bring well needed security enhancements. Twitter has had the previous date set for at least six months now I think, and now they're even extending it.
That's a great advertisement. It's too bad that groups like Westinghouse's R&D division and Bell Labs aren't around anymore. Are there any real corporate research groups doing basic research anymore?
How can you start off saying Gruber is awful for spinning superficially supported arguments, then go on to claim "nobody is going to use video calling" as a fact.

Especially when the whole point of Gruber's article is that nobody uses video calling because it's a confusing and complex mess, and when it isn't so (e.g. skype) it gets used, and when iPhone 4 comes out it will get used a lot more.

So let's compare-

Apple iPhone 4 - instantly popular with millions of people using the exact same make and model with the same software within a few months. Video calling baked in as a single button visible on every phonecall, advertised as a primary feature, designed for easy use.

Evo 4G - Phone with camera on the front. Not such a one-off instantly popular hit. Video calling not possible until specific apps heard of, downloaded and installed, configured, then still different and more hassle to use than a normal phonecall. Other features vary by app.

And only the truly antiApple could suggest that people are calling Apple's take "done" in any final sense as if nobody believes it will ever change ever.
Nah, US sized cars are being driven down here in the Netherlands and it is not a problem at all.
I'm not sure I really buy it, if you want to use the libraries/frameworks others are using that's easy, there's plenty of content out there that pushes you in the right direction. You can also take a punt on a framework/library that hasn't been maintained, or doesn't seem to have much interest, but that's your choice.
Well, a more expensive phone has way more (hardware) features, and thus way more points of failure. Makes perfect sense to me, though I do understand your position.

Snow Leopard has been praised as the best OS X release for focusing almost solely on bug fixing. I wish releases such as this were more common both in soft- and in hardware.
Ok then I understand :-)
> Ubuntu and RedHat, but also on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, Solaris, SunOS, Tru64, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX,

So if you dropped SunOS, Tru64, HP-UX, IRIX, and AIX how many users would you use? How much of that configuration garbage would go away?
I won't take a definite stance, but would probably agree with you that the USSR had a bigger role defeating Germany than the US/UK. However, I would contend that "casualties says it all" is the wrong way to look at it.

The Russians liked to send humans into the meat grinder ill equipped to deal with war (ex. having two soldiers share a rifle during the battle of Stalingrad). I haven't looked, but it would be more interesting to see total german casualties on the western and eastern fronts. And further more, how many of those casualties were caused my the miserable russian winter vs actual combat.
I'd submit for your consideration that there's quite a lot stopping someone from just starting a twitch competitor.

Even beyond the tech challenges, there are thousands of posts out there describing the network effect and trend towards winner-takes-all in a given social networking market.

I'm honestly curious about the mindset that leads one to just say 'nothing stopping you, make your own twitch, no biggie'. Is it lack of sympathy for those cast out? Idealistic belief in free markets and meritocracy? Genuine belief that it's easy? What's the underlying angle?
I know that this isn't skilled labor at the level of systems or network administration, but $15/hr sounds low for data center techs swapping out hard drives. I'm sure it's all very scripted, but still, I'm surprised to learn that the grunt labor in the cages is making something resembling the Seattle minimum wage.
>really make it hard for quality content to succeed

It's the opposite. Quality content goes viral where bad content will stop getting recommended to people.

>Cheap and almost copied content gets rewarded the most

What gets rewarded the most is entertaining videos. YouTube doesn't care if that video took 10 minutes to make or 10 months. It just sees how good the video is at entertaining people.
"Discriminates against"?

Or rather "does not discriminate in favor of"?.

I think it's the second, which seems to be perfectly right: hire the best person for the job.
The only reliable way to find truth in fitness and bodybuilding is to experiment for yourself and find what works for you given your genetics, diet, recovery regimen, and supplementation (including use of AAS) or lack thereof.