jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On a wide screen (1680x1050) the text "Zolidays - Have budget, want holiday." is still visible on the screen.
But how badly did you get screwed on the price? Did you pay the two grand list price, or grab one at $1,199? http://dealnews.com/Loaded-HP-ENVY-15-Core-i7-Quad-1.6-GHz-1...

This practice of obscure and arbitrary discounting is at least as annoying as the obscure and arbitrary lineups.
To have deep sleep you have to lower your body temperature gradually. Use thinner blanket but not too thin.

Also tensing all muscles in your body for 10 seconds 3 times, will help you to get to some sort of physical equilibrium.

Thoughts running in your head on their own - unresolved issues from the day. Ask yourself what is in your head and visualize how you would deal with it. Just think of what you will be the next step and they will go away.

Failing all these things, calming overexciting nervous system - valerian root can do wonders for calming down.
I think that the common thread for many businesses that have bootstrapped to high-profit profitability in very short order, with little startup capital is enterprise software that the founding team has either A) created and has a very good unique value proposition or B) services very well and in either case, has dedicated sales staff.

Most other businesses take a fair amount of money for either equipment or marketing. Logik talks instead about how it's first sale was around $45,000.
I also got NoScript's cross-site scripting filter kicking in which is never a good thing...
Technically, it doesn't. In practice, using a unified and polished interface like Github make things easier.
Thank you. I'm totally stealing this next time someone uses that "cloud is for idiots" line.

This is an excellent metaphor.
Very cool - but never ever ever forget about grep/sed/awk/wc...
I set up auto scaling for a kube cluster and it didn’t feel like switching on a feature that was included, it felt more like building a semi-custom solution out of some publicly available parts.
I'm in the very beginning of a search for a new job now, but already feel like things have changed a lot over the last few years, in some socio-economic sense, that I can't quite put my finger on.

I never had any problems with passing technical interviews, so that's not what bothers me. My gripe is with the job ads, that are 100% relevant to my experience on paper, and yet somehow my applications seem to go into a black hole.

I'm not comfortable with carpet bombing 100s of companies and hoping that someone will hire me for some _arbitrary_ job. I want this _specific_ job. I have pretty specific professional interests (in an area that I'm quite experienced in) and aiming high, so there is not a lot of vacancies, that I'd be willing to consider. After filtering for remote-friendliness, what I'm left with is just a few positions. And yet, the seeming randomness of the process makes it unlikely, that I'll be even considered to be put into the interview loop.

One friend of mine, who happens to be a head of the HR at a medium-sized company, told me, that for each publicly posted SWE job ad they get several 100s of applications. So they don't even bother to review the submitted applications anymore (!). Instead, they merely wait for the recruitment agencies to pick up the ad and find some reasonable number of "vetted" candidates via their own channels and bring them in to an interview.

Overall, I think that the "market" for jobs depends a bit too much on the middlemen lately. Needless to say, that most of these middlemen are not interested in catering to candidates' aspirations, nor are they going to spend too much time looking for a perfect match. The end result is (a) total mess with regards to matching jobs to people and (b) little hope for proper career progression, because the whole process is pretty much random.
See my other comments, it can definitely be part of the defense. Yours specifically.
It doesn't matter how good your own habits are if your roommate doesn't share them, for example, and not everyone has the power to quickly change their circumstance.

Just saying there's room for a little sympathy here.
There were more deaths and more crime than what is just officially attributed to CHAZ. CHAZ also left behind a massive tent encampment that took over Cal Anderson park (adjacent to CHAZ), which at one point was used for riot staging. Police found a weapons cache hidden inside a tent that appeared to be for the homeless but wasn’t (https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-antifa-stored-weapons...). The sprawling homeless camp became its own controversy, with black bloc/antifa affiliated activists trying to set up a new autonomous zone following something similar in Portland (https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/12/18/296959-n296959). All this chaos and the park being taken over as an illegal homeless encampment provided cover for a homicide-suicide (https://thepostmillennial.com/homicide-suspect-in-seattle-sl...). The person committing the homicide was Travis Berge, a repeat offender who was featured in the documentary “Seattle is Dying” as a prime example of permissive restorative justice policies don’t work (https://komonews.com/news/local/travis-berge-repeat-offender...). He killed a woman that was allegedly his “girlfriend” before killing himself.
You might want to check the "portions" of Nintendo business to realize why not. Even in core console gaming, they're notorious for not actually owning many studios, including some you would assume they do given how long they're worked together.

Notoriously, Nintendo didn't own Rare (who was a big studio for Nintendo bound games), didn't want to buy when they wanted to sold, and they ended up at Microsoft which is an acquisition that's very hard to spin as a success.
The Vaporwave aesthetic goes beyond mere 80's nostalgia into a sort of fetishism. Normally, targeting fetishists is a bit niche; but Tesla has hit on a lot of success targeting market segments that everyone else thought were tiny niches.
I 100% disagree, and believe what you're doing is the classic English Major grasping for meaning where none was implied.

I think what we're seeing is what happens when there is no one around to say 'no' to a company. Tesla is being fed, by everyone in at least the US, that they are the future and are prophets of what is to come.

So you take the attitude of 'I can do nothing wrong' and add a dash of Musk's inherent God-Complex, and mix it into the culture there.

And this is what you get.

That's my theory.
If you live in an apartment in an urban area, where are you going to store a trailer when you're not using it?
It could be somewhat important/interesting to change your public endpoint with the internet to pass country-based filters.

Besides that, as others pointed out, it's a safe way to get out of a compromised network.

And with a DNS blocker on the VPN endpoint, you are also able to block ads/tracking scripts (think of PiHole).
I agree with the author that the simplicity of learning the language is not the only type of simplicity. There are other types of simplicity like the simplicity of how consistent the language is. For instance, I've felt for some time that Python has become too complex. I started out quite simple, and there are now like 3-4 different ways to write a method signature.
Non-clickbait title:

> "Humans Can Survive Below Sealevel"

Actual article's point:

> An academic paper exaggerated and now we're focusing too much on avoiding greenhouse-emissions and should instead focus on protecting below-sealevel areas.

..... Weird article.
What if it just looks cool because angular things made out of metal look cool, not because we are death fetishists or living in a dangerous society?

Also, weapons and weaponry can be aesthetically pleasing without accepting the inevitability of violence.
EEE is when a proprietary addition is made that affects interop with other conformant implementations of an open standard. This privacy feature does not alter how Chrome, FF, or Safari will render HTML or run Javascript, so it is not EEE. There's nothing stopping Chrome from implementing a similar (or better) feature in order to maintain or grow its market share!

We're in funny territory that Microsoft is using a Google open source project in a consumer-positive way that also happens to hurt Google's primary business, but because the feature addition to Edge does not affect interop with other browsers, I don't see how this is EEE.
It's horribly spammy. I just cannot imagine working for a company like Pinterest.
If someone here works for Pinterest, I would love to know what it's like.
I guess sure even with your calculation that is still a considerable expense while on youtube the user might be getting some money for their video
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It's tedious and we don't want it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While I was also under the impression that this is probably not true (since you can't actually log in with Newpipe), I've been waiting for them to crack down on it from the day I learned of it. Wouldn't surprise me if it stopped working when enough people start to use it.

Related, a few weeks ago they cracked down on Yalp (a Play Store front-end: basically an open source implementation of their internal APIs). I'm not sure if/when they're going to ease up on that, but until then, it looks like I'm stuck with whatever selection of apps (and versions) I've got at the moment.
It doesn't redraw the whole canvas. The optimizations are really needed when 'filling' a shape. If you draw a large polygon, it may take a little longer to fill it with bricks.
Optimizations can be made by using WebGL instead.
A couple of weeks ago. Locked my phone in my house along with my keys. I'm glad they're still around; when they're useful, they're very useful.
Notch is in Sweden (GMT + 1) and your comment was made while he was fast asleep. He codes most of the day his time, which is most of the night for America. You're seeing a loop because he's asleep -- well he was when you were commenting.
Comparing the total deaths caused by two different activities is nonsensical. A comparison that makes sense is deaths caused per minute of the activity.

Whether cycling is safe depends on whether you live in a cyclist friendly or cyclist hostile country. It is also known that the health benefits of cycling outweigh the risks in expected life span: http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.0901...

In the Netherlands there are about 1.6 deaths per 100 million kilometers cycled (that number in the US is about 10x as large). If we generously assume an average velocity of 20 km/h, that's 3*10^6 hours of cycling giving on average 1 death. The human life span is about 10^6 hours. So even if you cycled day and night for your entire life, the probability of dying in a cycling accident would be about 30%. And note that only tourists wear helmets in the Netherlands, wearing a helmet is not worth the additional safety.

But really the important point is that when you're cycling you are taking the risk. Cyclists cause much fewer other deaths per km than drivers. When you let your pitbull play with a kid, other people are taking the risk.

> I expect people here to be open towards other people pointing out their different POV

I am open to other people's point of view, but when I find out that all the evidence is completely contrary to their point of view, like that pitbulls are not more dangerous than other dogs, then I decide that perhaps their POV is wrong. Note that I'm not saying that dogs are dangerous. I'm just saying that pitbulls are more dangerous than other dogs.
anything else ?

Facebook also hired some PHP founders to "get rid of PHP by using PHP" , eventually some new compiler was developed,

was that the reason they hired Lerdorf - too late to chage the language and to to minimize the damage that comes from being a PHP-based startup ?
Seems like this could be true - because as you mentioned:

"Rasmus Lerdorf released a deployment tool he developed there written in PHP because Capistrano couldn't do everything he needed."
It may not be? Yeah, dream on.
'I created an ordering based on the length of the lines, so that longer lines were drawn “behind” the shorter, more local lines. Then I used colorRampPalette() to generate a
color palette from black to blue to white, and colored the lines according to order they were drawn.'

If I am understanding this correctly (I'm probably not), longer lines would never be as bright as short lines. Why? Let's say hypothetically, that all Bostonians had at least 10 friends in Madrid, then wouldn't we want to see that as a white line on the chart? Please correct me if I am wrong.
Why is this called a "paper"? (the title, and one of the first commenters use the term) Does paper just mean "blog post with some notes formated like citations"?
Too bad all of those attacks have nothing to do with 802.11 and, given the necessity and equipment, can be carried out with almost any connection medium. Public WiFi is just more popular and easier target.

Just don't think your colleague (who hates you) or nearest BOFH at the job, technically can't stealthly plug out your cable while you're out, hook up his router performing a MitM attack, and have his fun and profit. Yeah, that's childish, much less probable, and incomparably more risky than just sitting with laptop at cafe, but the point is that every one of said attacks can still be carried out.

Just because the whole world's relying on the obscurity as a primary security measure.
While I can't comment on the details of this case, it is perhaps worth noting that lots of people confess to crimes they didn't commit for a variety of reasons including coercion and/or mental illness.
Many shareholders would cram his index finger inside his own penis hole at walgreens
The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. ~ Ecclesiastes 1:9

George Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2egRZia504
The thing with these tests that people don't seem to "get" is they're not pass/fail, not really. If someone has good work to show it may be perfectly fine - they were on the right track, hit a snag, but it's clear they know what they're doing and would get somewhere.

In my experience with these questions, it is painfully obvious very quickly those who will and those who won't.
The state of Pennsylvania governs a much larger population than just a bunch of local jurisdictions acting in unison. Unless you mean entire countries by "local jurisdictions."
Interesting tool.

Though I'm not sure KDB+ users will be happy with the name.
Really appreciate the feedback. But the big problem I see with all the professions is exactly that, they are professions that end up costing way too much as a service for people who are probably struggling to afford this and that. Also, the fact that they are professional services makes the barrier higher for people who are less inclined to seek help.

My vision is to provide something very low-barrier, both in cost and accessibility in general. It'll be something I provide for free, online, and can be instrumental in helping someone who's lost to at least get a sense of where to look. Something like that. :)
The problem with an example like this is that a (hypothetical) friend of yours could have bought into Apple or Amazon or MSFT back then and had a ton of money now :) .
I was about to suggest index funds but looks like the FTSE-100 has been sh$t for the last 22 years, too (~10 percent
total return). No luck there for your friend even if he had invested in index funds :(
Obviously someone has bribed the lawmakers for that exemption. Simple.
there's already something like this (no surprise)
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes/restore-on...

i'm guessing pretty much only CA enforces it and generally to make $ the way police do from ticketing.

credit cards are the market solution here. they work. virtual cards are even better. more effective and efficient legislation would be to simply enforce processors to accept and not differentiate virtual mastercard / visa / amex cards!
Just curious, have you seen the new tools in UE5 for prototyping levels? I haven't used older game engines, but these are rapid enough for me for blocking out a level.

https://twitter.com/highlyspammable/status/14963145572410982...
Looks very nice!
May I ask how fast it is?
If Units can convert between currencies, how does it source the exchange rates? They change on sub-second time scales and bid/ask spreads make the notion of a rate somewhat uncertain.

Edit: answering my own question. There are multiple providers, some requiring API-key signup, but the answer is far from definitive: https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/html_node/Currency...
Useless use of echo there.
I just learned something. Is it correct to call both of the first order? Or is that term really only to be used for the underlying polynomials?
Doesnt seems to work for me. Get directed to a page saying I don't have WhatsApp installed (I do).

Android v8, Firefox v68.6.
It's pretty amazing to see what came out of the cypherpunk movement of the 90's and how much it has grown.

And we're not just talking cryptocurrencies.

The archive of the mailing list is a must read:

https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/
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Versatile full-stack developer with experience with devops, and some machine learning via api's like Rekog to categorize/tag images. Mainly I'm a full-stack dev though with crud. My current focuses/interests in learning are de-fi/blockchain and rust/golang microservices.

As a full-stack dev I can jump in any side of the stack, but backend is probably the strongest if I had to pick.

Open to product management as well, and automated testing, scraping, etc. As I have a lot of experience pulling in data from multiple sources.
One of my projects mentioned also uses libgdx. Have you tried the libgdx discord? The community is pretty helpful.
How does it affect someone if they don't have Facebook account or even have the FB app installed? (i.e. someone using just WhatsApp.) Does FB still get my data via WhatsApp?
That's just incredibly obtuse. Obviously "patriot" isn't an epithet but applying to the people you just incited to an armed revolt against our elected government makes this absolute worst thing he's ever said.
The firearms are concealed, sure, but you can still talk to people. :) I do know a reasonable number of people who have concealed-carry permits, and none of them carry a gun regularly, if they're telling the truth, because it's too much of a hassle and they don't normally feel a need to. They got the permit so they can, but it doesn't obligate them to actually do so. My guess (but it's a guess) extrapolating from that is that only a small fraction of permit holders actually carry at any given time. But it would be nice to have a more solid estimate, I agree. The number of permit holders itself is about 2% of the population, but I haven't found an estimate of the utilization rate.
Ok. I have been waiting since 2002 so what is another 6 months? :-)
Yes, that's what many devs do. That is of varied efficiency to different people. In laboratory settings, noise has been repeatedly tied to reduced cognitive performance [1].

Also, what happens during flu season? How many people are gone and how often vs private office setting? I'd love to see a study on this.

[1] http://eab.sagepub.com/content/40/2/151.abstract
Who's figuring out shipping at 23andme... It costs about the same amount to ship the package to Canada as it does to get the tests done.
> What the author should focus on is the lack of agility that prevents companies from experimenting and failing quickly.

Wow weird someone should totally think about that, maybe it doesn't even have much to do with the programming language

http://mcfunley.com/data-driven-products-now

http://mcfunley.com/design-for-continuous-experimentation
Apples and oranges.

Vine is about a curated video with some kind of very short & punchy narrative. Then spreading that as much as possible.

Periscope/Meerkat is about 'teleporting' yourself into something... the fact that you know it's live gives you a sense of curiosity and waiting to see if something fun will happen. Furthermore, you can comment on it and have the person broadcasting see it so thus you can actually affect the video while it's happening. Being part of it is essential to the experience.
They're good dog books, John.
It reads a bit like, my brain is so fast that it's becoming a problem for me. A bit sheldonesque.

Anyway, when talking to crowds, I think the main thing is to always remember that it's a two way communication; you say something, the crowd reacts, and you move ahead, depending on how the crowd just reacted. Not word by word, exactly, but on overall. You need to sense whether the crowd is with you or not, only then can you know how to pace your presentation, and when to slow down or speed up.
>I would expect that radio stations in general were suffering from people switching to other forms of media. If that's the case, would it perhaps drive the licensing price down?

Actually, I kinda doubt it. I think radio is a lot like landline telephones: it's "dying", but it's taking a long time because there's a bunch of dinosaurs who still use it and won't quit until they're dead. (Disclaimer: I listen to radio in my car sometimes, but only NPR, not anything commercial.)

So basically there's a captive audience here that won't go away any time soon, and is getting older and easier to manipulate into buying stuff. It's not a growth sector for sure, but it is something a company can put minimal investment into and milk for profit. This is seen now with landline phone service: it's gotten really unreliable in many places these days because the infrastructure is decaying and companies are spending the absolute minimum to keep it going, but they're milking it for profit from all the dinosaurs who refuse to give it up.
The “surface“ of my sites is usually small enough to just visual-check manually. I get that it might be necessary in some cases- note that I did say “as close to zero as possible” and not simply “zero”. My criticisms are that it is just such a Rube Goldberg-esque approach to testing something that its use should be minimized. It would be great if all browsers had to pass some standardized spec before being considered viable, that is the source of the cross-browser nondeterminism IMHO.
> Well, sure, and with IPv6 you are "typically assigned a single IPv6 address via SLAAC"!?

Unlike DHCP, SLAAC doesn't assign specific addresses to hosts. It communicates the network prefix via periodic broadcasts, and hosts choose their own addresses within that prefix.
“We have miserably spent 3 years of our lives and are still ashamed of the result.”

This should come with a trigger warning.
Beats Jira any day. Lack of features is a blessing.
They literally built it to solve problems like this. From the project page, it was designed to provide "scalable cross-language services development".