jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your comment makes me nostalgic for the times when much of anything was traded based on an objective assessment of its underlying value. Despite the crash of 08 and subsequent deleveraging, we are still several generations removed from trading on fundamentals. Trading today is more about AI trader bots battling each other for a fraction of a cent of spread in the millisecond timescale than making a rational projection about the future profit potential of the company at the year or decade timescale. Like most other derivatives, this is a side bet, and Wall Street loves offering side bets on anything. You can even buy weather derivatives to hedge against rainy days, if that matters to you.
It would be funny if Twitter would make a Clubhouse clone for Android faster than Clubhouse coming out with an Android app
yep, cloud run is pretty good. unfortunately, it doesnt cover all cases. (i.e. stateful stuff like: websockets and chunking, and recurring jobs)

for these case, i still have gke cluster around.
Allow anyone to immigrate, require they be paid an equal wage as a citizen of similar skill (hard to enforce I know), and then charge the employer a tax on the wage (10%?). This would force employers in any industry to only take people who are at least 10% more valuable to the company. You can change the tax appropriately to get the desired result.
Technic pieces won't float because they have no internal air pockets, but Lego has produced quite a few boat sets with floating hull pieces. Here's a list: http://brickset.com/sets/list-5930

I would imagine that you could also make a floating contraption with enough bricks stuck together in such a way as to make the internal spaces airtight, but I've never tried it.
How was Texas created again? Someone remind me....

I think it had something to do with open borders...
3 years ago, I received a very similar e-mail to this on the grad student mailing list at my university. I was naive enough to respond.

I spent a year neglecting my PhD and churning out code for this "startup" while the founders moved gradually further away from the idea of a social network and towards something akin to the million dollar home page. When I eventually quit, they couldn't find anybody naive enough to replace me and none of the other three guys (2 marketing, 1 graphic design) knew the first thing about programming, so the whole thing imploded.

I learned some good lessons from the experience, though.
"gira a la derecha" is correct but not idiomatic in every country; in Mexico we say "da vuelta a la derecha".
I just use a textfile in Dropbox. There's a sweet iPhone app called Nebulous Notes, specifically for editing text files in Dropbox, and bam - access to my text files everywhere.

This is especially handy, since I'm a little old-fashioned and work best via text files anyhow.
I don't think you're going to get a good data set with a poll. Just get the one with the lowest ping times from your location.
Are you planning on doing RSS feeds for each page? They're pretty vital for reposting to other sites.
Bio for one of the Pinboard creators:

Peter Gadjokov (pvg) co-founded del.icio.us in 2003. His previous projects include Bigbook, Infoscape, Weathernews, and the internal networking protocols for an Austrian tank.
Your comment about prices being too high is echoed by basically everyone I've asked. I've calculated my prices based on pessimistic "how much would it cost me if resources were going to be used to the max" + margin calculation, but it seems they're definitely too high for people.

So I'm going to try with lower prices (this time, based on "probably not everyone is going to use up every minute and every MB and every download available). I've slashed the prices in half ($1.5 for 5 min, $4 for an hour). On estimated average case, I should be doing okay, and in worst case I can adjust the prices again if I start going into red.

Thanks again to you, ScottWhigham and others for the feedback about this :)
I think you are vastly underestimating their abilities. You install git, virtual box, and vagrant. Clone the repo and type vagrant up. If they've never done it they can refer to the wiki page you typed up for everybody. I know every QA person at my workplace could easily do it.
> It's just that users who seek privacy should know how to evaluate it.

No. It's the vulnerable, the young, the naive, those just starting out that should be protected by default.
How does privacy fit into their mission of keeping the Internet open and accessible? It is an orthogonal issue.
Jake Vanderplas did something similar many years ago in python [1]. I miss his blog posts (must be busy doing something great).

[1] https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i...
You might want to have a look at Taiwan.
By that logic, all areas of Russia where the non-Russian ethnicity is dominant (of which there are a lot) should all be written out in their respective languages.

Also, the argument "well it was like that since <some time t>" does not really have traction. Why choose an arbitrary time point? Usually, these arguments fall apart when you suggest to look at <t - dt>.
It's not just being unable to work, it's about all savings:
"66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were tied to medical issues"
Why is owning an Amazon Echo any worse for privacy than owning a smartphone?
What would you generally consider senior SWE work in this case?
Good suggestion - I agree. Would this cost more?
Oh FFS. It doesn't matter if it more or less likely, it matters that it does happen and therefore should be investigated to protect people now and in the future.. You want them to wait until number of ICE vs EV fires are equal to start investigating this? Why not do it now, and fix the problem? Not only it will potentially make EVs safer now, but it will potentially make EV companies more profitable in the long term ( less legal fees, recalls etc).
I think icegreentea might be wondering why there is outrage now, when this sort of thing has been going on for really a long time.

eg. A fellow Australian (David Hicks) was held for years at Guantanamo without charge or trial. Rightly or wrongly, it feels like: no one cared then, why care now?
digg was losing to reddit well before all of that. It is actually why I think they took such a huge (and in hindsight stupid) risk with the design. The way they implemented the new design and how they reacted to users frustration that was the last straw.

I honestly think whoever was in charge got pressured and acted with money and greed in mind instead of the actual users. Karma is a bitch.
The most recent incarnation of German government wasn't started by traitors. It was started by essentially the people who were chosen by the winners of the last war.
It's probably worth distinguishing between a big company where you're working on the core business (i.e. an engineering company) and a big company where you're working in a pure cost centre, like IT. I suspect that may explain the diverging views of the article and some of the commenters here.
I worked for a startup where it felt like I was being crushed. Most of my co-workers and people running the company were average to poor, we didn't have a choice in technology and I saw a person who downloaded porn all day, was barely at the office and was caught with child porn on his computer promoted to senior management.

That's not a good enough reason. I worked for a large company and know others who work for large companies and find the work very rewarding.

The choice of what experiences will best suit you on your way to starting your own company is more personal than black and white comparisons. Not all big companies are evil empires designed to crush you (e.g. Google) and not all startups are rosy playgrounds for engineers.

In the end, as expressed by several people here, it's a personal choice that has to fit your own values and which experiences you want.
NYT headline is an extremely powerful tool. It puts things into a spotlight. Why? There could be various reasons, to shift attention from an oil spill, for example. =)

And of course everyone who are spending (or were spent) money for a war (British, Russian, US) were aware what they would get as a reward.
The HN comments are on page 2, though.
I think it goes both ways. Our company Agile Media Lab is in Chandigarh and we are having a lot of difficulty to find highly qualified resources. We normally do around 100 interviews for each hire and we still have several positions open we still can't fill. We do pay at the top of the market.

Currently we are trying to bring in talent from Delhi and Bangalore.

You can email me at klaas@agilemedialab.in if you are interested.
Do market research by checking out potential competition and find what niche you can specialize in (narrower is way better than broad and all encompassing). Go out and talk to your prospective customers. Get some kind of commitment from those who are interested.
Write better code that doesn't need support
> [less palatable animal products could be] reformulated into food pellets that could, albeit controversially, help alleviate world hunger.

People would literally rather die than be dehumanized. We established that loud and clear in the 80's, tried to do better in the 90's, but it took some doing for us to get it. Sounds like we are due for a booster shot.

Beggars can be choosers. They do it all the time. If you agree that there are things worse than death, how can you also think that people should do anything and everything to avoid death, just because you think they should?
I didn't know micro:bit works with Scratch, thanks a lot!!!

I had plans to make some kind of board with STM32 that could be programmed with Scratch but maybe I will put that project off and use micro:bit instead.
It's also downright illegal in many (all?) European countries, as US companies often like to find out. Not the kind of 'mistake' that just gets your company fined either - it's the kind that can land you in prison.

Even the US has some forms of protections, which is likely why that is not how that "union avoidance" service is described very differently by the company itself.
Simply asserting this without evidence does not make it so.

If Apple truly had this strategy they're doing a horrible job at it. Mostly since you are free to boot (or work on doing so at least) NetBSD and countless other things on practically every Mac they've ever released, including the latest ones. They're doing a horrible job at communicating this strategy too, because they're communicating the opposite. For this Apple Silicon phase, it seems they've also missed a huge opportunity to finally execute on this strategy by spending a little time and money to develop the tools to do the opposite of that strategy and give users a way to boot unsigned kernels.

I just don't buy it, sorry. I don't even get why Apple would want to do this outside of sheer malice.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Could you please not create accounts to do that with? We're trying for a different kind of site here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The cloud is seriously the most irrational thing we've done to ourselves and the investors merrily agreed to it's fascinating design and threw money at it makin the problem worse, maybe.
With Newtons 3rd law :) You use opposite of a vacuum to decelerate the objects. I.E. shoot gas moving in other direction at them.
https://i.imgur.com/flzI2O4.png
quite obviously being attack by foreign governments

Nothing is "obvious".

For all we know this could be a bored teenager sitting in his basement in New York, Paris, Tokyo or Moscow.

It could also be a false flag operation by the NSA, to massage the western adolescent nerd's mindset into quietly accepting their next round of mass surveillance ("Must protect from the evil chinese!").

The Chinese openly attacking GitHub is the least plausible scenario, unless you think they are stupid.
My girlfriend works in the US education system (in an other state), and there seem to be a trend were the marketing power of those schools is good enough to attract rich kids from foreign countries paying full tuition, so that on the US side they could maintain appearances of some equality (without touching their budget, it's not on the table).

Of course, one of the problems is that the selection based on money is very different from selection based on school grades, and the whole sport story is set to play again with Saudi students.
Most people figure out as children that claiming the truth of something that is demonstrably false is a losing strategy. It doesn't even count as a rhetorical ploy; 'Go directly to fail' would be a more appropriate characterization.

A simple reading of this thread shows that I have merely been responding to specific claims of yours, in which the comparison of references was neither here nor there, once you chose to make an issue of whether your C++-comparison based explanation was the only feasible one remaining. When you could have left it as an amicable difference of opinions, you chose to double-down and insist that anything other than your opinion was flat-out wrong, which led you to make a series of increasingly poor arguments, culminating in the ridiculous claim that the alternatives would literally be exponentially more complex.

In each case (including the last), after I pointed out the flaws in your claims, you have neither accepted the point, nor offered any counter-argument. Instead, you circled around and tried to make a different argument for the same claim, as if there was not already a growing pile of refutations stacking up against it. If there was any doubt before that you suffer from the obsession you accuse me of, you effectively removed it by this behavior.

There is not much point in discussing anything with someone like you, but your sanctimonious rudeness to me and others makes it worthwhile.

'My prize would have beaten a marshmallow any day.' No surprise there - your juvenile motivations are plain for anyone to see.
I feel like with Godaddy hosting I could make a website in like 2 minutes by pressing a few buttons.
Also a part of history, and a disappointing one at that. It does not, however, change my point about history being a poor way to choose one's roommates.
"They sought warrants to search Heuring’s home and the barn, alleging that there was probable cause that a crime had been committed — that Heuring had committed theft by taking off the GPS tracker. While searching the barn, they found the tracker in a bathroom locker. They also found evidence of drug use: a glass pipe.

A subsequent search, granted by a judge based on the paraphernalia, uncovered bags of methamphetamine, pills, digital scales and a gun. Heuring was charged with drug dealing and with theft."

Smart enough to take the tracker off the car. Dumb enough to keep it on-location with conviction-worthy drug paraphernalia.

Attach it to a hire car. Keep it moving, but as far away from your illegalities as possible, my goodness.
Slavery was very much an accepted practice by a lot of people then.

There are tons of issues that are not clear cut, like, say, the optimal rate of taxation. It's healthy to argue about those things and try different approaches.

Other things, like trying to subvert democracy, are clear as day.
> I understand that I can buy my own domain, host my server or connect O365/GSuite to the address on that domain, but it's complicated

Not complicated unless you want to do self hosting. But if you want to pay a provider the complication amounts to a sum total of installing an MX record into the DNS data for your self-owned domain.

> and doesn't solve the problem of letting everyone know that your email, that you've used for past decade, or more, is now obsolete.

It is not emails fault, nor the current providers fault, that you failed to understand you were being locked in and didn't get out sooner. I've had the same email address for about 20 years now, it has been attached to three different ISP's and about five different IP addresses over that time, but never once have I been locked in to any provider. Why? Because I own the domain.

But if you never go through the conversion, you'll never get unlocked, and the longer you delay, the more troublesome it will be to switch.
This argument is so naïve that I had to create an HN account (downvote ready comment for dissing HN commenters). Do note that I am not dissing the author. He did claim a lack of expertise, but I am sad to see the comments trying to analyze the directly presented facts than being detail driven. E.g. I saw some reference to Allum's process of reusing CO2. What it skips is the fact that it barely effects efficiency, but certainly sees that is better than excusing. I still don't understand how $ among is used to measure environmental impact is a relationship people can think is easy measure. Maybe because short term thinking is rewarded better, hence the success of capitalism (I'm not pro/anti, but that's the root of the philosophy). I am assuming that people understand that Carbon capture doesn't resolve environmental changes. It simply offsets a part of it - the global warming aspect. A LOT of impact is straight up coming from pollution/contamination of water and soil, recurring costs of restructuring landscapes, causing earthquakes to floods and terraforming from receding coastlines, destruction of habitats, leading from contaminated species to complete destruction is food sources. The cascading effect of environmental damages is like paying a loan. As humans we are known to be overconfident of "I can fix it". But remind me historically when THAT had worked? Almost in all cases, it had been "I can forget this". Except in this case, I think if we had to expend that sort of money to "solve the problem", then we might as well just find a new planet to squander. In 50 years, we would have spent trillions of dollars unanimously and probably got to Mars

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> they would both have to both get my password, and do some kind of social engineering attack to get access to my messages.

You must have not followed any SIM-jacking story, which is the point of this entire thread.

1. They don’t need your password because their goal is a password reset through your recovery phone, or recovery email address “secured” by a recovery phone.

2. They do social engineering on telecom employees (or outright buy them out for a pittance) to not only get access to your messages, but take over your entire link to your cellular network. You’re not involved in any of this.

TL;DR: the second factor makes you less secure, not more. It’s a downgrade from a secure password. It makes you defenseless.
> You appear to have copy-pasted

Wikipedia pretty much defines it the same way: "McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence."

> specifically treasonous

Treason is one small dimension, use as a rhetorical device to make the real villain stand out - accusations without evidence.
Most of the time my C# code uses most of the functional paradigms. I write pure functions when i can and use LINQ almost everywhere. Recently i created a F# API with the dotnet CLI, but the syntax is not even close. I get the concepts, but syntax is a little bit to much to just try it when i have to write a new microservice. Am i the only one?
Remember that even if you have a thousand factories, one will be first. Meaning that there will be a time when there appears to be just one.

That's why it feels like that right now. There are many factories around the world gearing up to mass-produce various vaccines. Some will inevitably take a few more months than others to start shipments. Others were being prepared to produce vaccine candidates that ended up failing and are now being re-engineered to produce the vaccines that turned out to work. And the factories that are already producing are constantly working to expand their throughput as well.

Right now the world is being supplied entirely by the first factories. Over the next few months that will change and the total rate of production will be much higher than it is right now.
Doubtless. Did I say or imply otherwise?
One reason is search engines. With a 301 redirect for example, you are telling them that your content has permanently moved from example.com to about.me/example. Your efforts to promote your page and acquire backlinks will only aid about.me not your own domain. If about.me were to shut down or you were to decide to build your own homepage, you'd be starting from zero SEO-wise. Furthermore, people may bookmark about.me/example (it's where they landed after all) or link directly to it bypassing your domain name.

There are also other considerations, mostly related to the user expectations and experience.
"the prosecutor won't even comment on 'hypothetical situations'"

Which is ironic, since that is the core part of his job, to present a hypothetical scenario (an alleged crime) and argue it actually happened.
> advice, time, hands-on experience with the gadget

Only if I can trust that the advice, time are all beneficial to me and not the store, which I can't, especially if I'm not dealing with a specialty store. More to the point, does the higher price justify the less then trustworthy advice provided?

If brick and mortar stores are only offering questionable advice and a hands on experience in exchange for the same product at a higher price then the online store with lower cost, then they have to compete with that. If they are providing real value, then they'll do fine.

The problem is, no one wants to pay for advice.

The assumption here is that this is just with online stores. Offline stores also compete as well, and not just using price, but real value-added services. If I got to store-x to learn about a product, an then end up purchasing at store-y because they provide greater value, am I doing wrong?
It's because android does not take advantage of the GPU to render the scrolling effect. The iPhone does. This was a design decision early on, and has caused plenty of ire.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914

Another reason this was a poor decision is that since the phone has to use the main CPU to render the scrolling effect, the battery drains very quickly while scrolling through a webpage. Scrolling around on webpages for around 20 minutes usually drains my battery 25% or more on my HTC EVO.

Rumor is that android will use the GPU for its UI in honeycomb, and looking at the tablet they were showing off, the effects and scrolling looked very fluid.
Oh. So, er, "I will always do web programming" actually meant "I'm not really going to be doing much of any sort of programming from now on". Fair enough, and that may well be a very wise career decision, but I don't think I can really be faulted for misunderstanding you.
This article is amateur hour. Let me show you...

This is one of the examples given why the nexus s is "Ugly":

"The software has a pervasive lime green and flourescent orange color theme. Some people may like this; I personally prefer more subtle colors and will change the theme."

And here is one on why it is "Buggy":

"Tech support is non-existent so far. T-Mobile doesn't support this phone because it's a Best Buy exclusive, but Best Buy just says "you'll need to ask Google"."

And finally one of the reasons it is "Slow":

"T-Mobile says my Nexus S needs service to fix the broken Home button, which means mailing the phone to Google and waiting for Google to mail back a replacement phone. This could take several days or more, which is much slower than a normal same-day in-store T-Mobile replacement."
My.

God.