jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The one thing I like so much about Brennan's writing is the focus on win-win and quality, professional attributes I was very fond of already but "Double Your Freelancing Rate" helped me tremendously to actually implement the measures needed and to internalize what it means to become the consulter I wanted to become - so I guess I second those recommendations :)

Next goal, recurring revenue!
I hadn't realized how much equity the CEO retained, 82%?. Am I interpreting this number wrong? This seems like as good of a reason as any to suspect either his team was grossly incompetent or significantly underpaid. Karpeles doesn't strike me as being a Zuckerberg, and you don't get to Mt. Gox market cap without giving up a little share to your collaborators.
TANSTAAFL doesn't require all beneficiaries to pay, just that someone must.
When reading comments on articles like this, I wonder if I'm in the minority, or whether people just don't want to get caught publicly supporting a social taboo in front of potential customers and employers.

There's something degrading about it, and I've never done it, but I don't particularly care if others cheat on homework. Many good teachers know that grade systems cheat students out of serious educations. (And incentivize them to become cheaters.) Yet few win enough power to teach as they think best and neutralize this whole class of problems.

Coincidentally, I'm taking an ungraded class. Though I didn't really notice until now. There is homework, but doing it is completely at our discretion. It could only possibly work if we're self-motivated, and it works fine.

Come to think of it, it's unlikely that my viewpoint is shared by only a tiny minority. After all, commenters here cite astonishingly high rates of plagiarism, like "literally... more than half". (Not to mention the papers which are so unoriginal that they might as well have been plagiarized.) Maybe some enterprising hackers here wrote emacs plugins to help rephrase text, in order to maximize the time they have to pursue important studies and projects.
is the [Internet Censorship] added to make this BS somehow relevant to HN?

I'm flagging it nonetheless.
Nice, I just stumbled across them earlier today looking for a web/cloud based customizable dashboard. Will check out.

What I really want though is something that can both pull data into itself and take data I push, and save the data so I'll have a nice history. I might end up building something using GAE and Google's chart API.
On that note, you might think about talking to troyd (a HN user) who is working on a similar app at http://cloverapp.com/ ..
> It shows that people are still struggling with changing the way in which they write software to the "rust" way.

It shows no such thing.

I generally work on relatively small ~1MLOC C++ codebases. There are codebases out there measured in the hundreds of MLOC. These are not the comparatively tiny javascript codebases you find React used in - where additional milliseconds of download / parse / evaluation time has a measurable effect on your user retention statistics. There is no "near instant" at 100M+ LOC scales. There is only incremental rewrites, and incremental rewrites means making your new code talk to your old code, and to other people's existing code.

This means interop with existing C ABIs. There is no such thing as a C "replacement" that can't talk to an existing C ABI, or expose an existing C ABI.

Of course, a C ABI doesn't mean C. It's more frequently C++ in my ecosystem, for example. But it could just as easily be Rust, or any number of other languages capable of exposing a C ABI.
I think that "simple" rather than "minimal" is an important distinction that is sometimes overlooked. Sometimes adding something new will let you reduce a lot of friction.

For example, a paper journal or a plain text to-do list is very minimal, but I've found that having a dedicated to-do app is the best way for me to simplify my workflow.

* I can dump in new tasks with a quick keystroke as they come up and manage them later

* I can set a date for upcoming things and get automatic reminders

* I can make recurring tasks repeat automatically

* I can keep a backlog of completed tasks out of sight until I need to refer to something

Or, when my room is messy that usually means things are left out where I use them and are usually within reach. When I tidy up and put things away, I need to spend effort thinking about where something is, go get it, and put it away again when I'm done with it. Messy can be simpler than clean.
That's the insane part. That they wouldn't take a vote so plainly in their political self interest, that was also in the spirit of the Constitution by increasing representation.
I wish you had kept reading. In the end, you nitpicked about precisely the thing which the author ended up explaining.

The point about using infinite memory to store an irrational number is just a rhetorical device / presentation style to keep the novice reader engaged, and following along. And then you say, "Next we will explain how to solve this impossibility...," and such.

It's a good technique for writing, and presenting, but doesn't work if your audience already knows where you're going and gets impatient with you!
> “well, he and I are friends.”

Hasn’t Mark said in public that he didn’t remember McNamee, that he was barely invested early on in Facebook and left when they switched business model?

(The whole “You know what’s cool, a billion dollars?” and refusing Yahoo!’s offer was actually a big internal shift that ostracised a lot of early employees and investors.)
Not exactly. While you could claim that due to technological advances a person working a low skilled job at full time in 2019 is better off than someone doing an equivalent job in 1980, you fail to take into account that in 2019 that person would be by major guidelines in a much worse position, ie, no hope of owning a house, taking public transit, can't support a family in a city, less likely to be in a supportive union, and so on. In the things that matter, the person in 2019 is worse off. And at the same time, a worker in 2019 has wildly increased productivity compared to one in 1980. So in a sense, purely by the standard of what they produce, they make more but has less baseline property and amenities. This is an issue. It's no coincidence that rich people have proportionally gotten much much richer in these 40 years, and it has 100% come at a cost to the majority.
shortage is real. We can't find anyone worth interviewing

That's an odd statement. Unless you are flying somebody in, the cost of an interview is trivial compared to broader onboarding costs.

Perhaps a mention of your specialty and location is in order. Your HN public profile is blank.
> I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting

Toxic masculinity and macho-isms, submissive femininity and repressed sexuality, hard-to-maintain body types, glamorizing hazards like fast cars and wreckless driving or acting like an asshole.

Much has been said elsewhere about and against these topics.
Regarding the out-of-print book mentioned, Making Common Sense of Japan, there's a scanned pdf of it on Library Genesis.
Drugs will ruin your life, and if by chance they don't, the Government will finish the job.
It would be interesting to find what kinds of stories give a user who submits more karma. negative or positive? It would be quite ironic if creating negativity on Hacker News is what builds karma.
Well, if we're being pedantic, the fact that you have never noticed a bug in Vim, grep, and PostgreSQL does not mean they don't exist. If you google, e.g., "postgresql bug" you will find evidence of this.

The charitable reading of GP's comment is, of course, that virtually all software has bugs, or that all complex software has bugs. Or, even better, that it is extremely difficult to write bug-free code, and this difficulty rapidly increases with the complexity of the software.
Every release since SL has been met with the same vague complaints.
Posting snarky replies on HN is beneficial?
I guess there is no way to use the multiple version management with other languages?
We stand up and knock it on its ass. This is a blatant violation of due process.
dup of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945112 (see discussion there)

Interesting to see that this submission made it to #3 while the original submission (same link - single page) isn't on the top page :)
You know, there is actually something WE can do. Yeah, we. It would be easy to setup DecorMyEyesScams.tld and google bomb it to the top of google's SERPs.
I always crack up at GLS's joke whenever I see the word "fellow".

There is something like "Gerry Susman is a research fellow at MIT. Guy Steele is a jolly good fellow".
Neat idea, now someone needs to setup DNS on a short domain to point to the correct IP, e.x.

http://LICK.GORY.ULAN.MUTT.4lw.com would point to 174.143.242.193

Of course, this won't work on virtual hosts.

Edit: or you could just setup a parallel DNS under your own namespace, e.x.

rabidgremlin.com.4lw.com would point to 174.143.242.193

Of course that requires manual administration.
Hadoop is extremely complex to do anything requiring communication. My favorite example is ranking: say you have a set of <set (string), id (string), score (float in [0,1])> tuples and for each unique class, you want to rank ids by their scores. This is trivial on a single core. Now try doing it on hadoop: first thing you'll do is try to do it all on the head node, but that won't work if you're doing this on more than a trivial amount of data. Next you may try partitioning by score, but scores aren't distributed uniformly. Partitioning by set won't work since you have more data than a single node can possibly handle.

It took me a week's worth of work to write a distributed ranker that will work on billions of ids in hundreds of sets; the algorithm is not obvious. On a single node you'd write a for loop that did a sort.

Those are the sort of obstacles that the hadoop programming model introduces. Again, if you haven't used it for real work, you'll be surprised at how few tasks are truly parallelizable without communication. The model is very simple, but accomplishing tasks that don't quite fit in the model is difficult.

Another example is a matrix mult. There is no way to segment the data to eliminate internode communication. It can be accomplished in an iterative fashion, but it's decidedly nontrivial. Or most optimization problems -- I don't think there even are known algorithms for no communication parallelization.
Newscientist also covered this. They have a couple more masks to look at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16911-schizophrenics-s...
Well not really but the only other real bargaining chip is the employment contract.
I think a better one is to just never auto-charge after the trial, and lock down your service asking them to start a plan for the main service after the trial.
Afaik nowadays hardware decoding is a magic black box you shove bytestream into affair. Its all hidden away in binary driver/firmware blobs.
> Today it isn't even close to 2.x

So are you saying that it's clearly "pulled ahead" in the race? Or that Python 3.x is a significant regression? Your "technological churn" comment makes it seem like you think it's just treading water, which I would interpret to mean a lack of progress vs. a step forward (or back).
I guess you meant that C++ is verbose.. But silicon is designed such that you do not write more lines than you would in Go, Nodejs or Ruby frameworks.
FWIW I also did a test of Node:master and that performance was within 2% of what I measured for io.js.

Interesting background about typed-arrays. I didn't know that. Thanks!
It would be interesting if policy debates focused more on cost benefit ratios. Of course a big problem is that dollar values placed on benefits can be pretty debatable, but it should often be possible to at least establish the likely range.

I guess another big problem is that getting people in the feels is a much more effective persuasion technique than pointing out that something is a sound investment.
I think this is a good idea. It reminds me of the "sharkskin" suits used in swimming that were expensive, single use, very effective and allowed enormous improvements in performance. Then had to be banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-technology_swimwear_fabri...
It's definitely entitlement! Nothing against the OP, but some of the stuff people shared, is even hard to believe. I haven't got much work for the past year because of the pandemic and it's been extremely hard. During the same period, interviewing been painful, absolute waste of time. Everything seems so pointless.
People can, and do. At any given moment you can probably find at least one hashtag campaign excoriating Twitch for having not banned some streamer for something for other.
This video needs to be taken down immediately. For one, it normalizes a bloated police apparatus. The concept of a Ferrari police car is an abomination. Secondly, it presents a distorted view of fluid dynamics, Newtonian physics, and material science. Why does the paint move like that? Why is the reflective car absorbing paint like a sponge? Why doesn't the car follow a ballistic trajectory? Kids need to be protected from these things.

If you think this concern is overblown, just look at what Wile E. Coyote did to a generation of children. People grow up thinking you can walk off a cliff and not fall to your doom until you look down. We were told it was just a joke, but look at the dire consequences.
Nix helps with this. Or at least it intends to. I still need to track down what's vulnerable and what isn't, but most of my setup is reproducible thanks to Nix.
Your argument is basically that since something is hard it is impossible?
Why so many VPS instances?

Does it work out cheaper than increasing the
vcpu/ram of one or two units?

Is it in case crashes?
But then there is no failover I can see.
Isn't it because of the effects we've seen from nicotine and alcohol that we should be so vigilant about mainstreaming new vices in society?
Oh my god, the pushback in every single article that even mentions bicycles are so predictable.

As soon as one straw man argument is adressed, it's changed to the next one.

- First, But what if you need to move a sofa, or are disabled??

- Then, but what if you have 20 miles to your job, and 20 miles in the opposite direction for groceries??

- But what if you have four kids?

- What if it rains sometimes?

- What if you live in Sahara or north of the Polar circle?

- What if your e-bike gets stolen?

Next Up: what if someone gets offended by seing a bicycle?
I saw some another video where the claim was that there’s already enough elements in the soil to last thousands of years, but they require the right mixture of microorganisms to become available to the plants. It’s only the lack of microorganisms that forces us to add those nutrients.

[0] https://youtu.be/x2H60ritjag
> If there weren't plenty of good, modern options I would be all for Links but there are, so I'm not.

What are the good, modern alternatives to Lynx?
For sure, I encountered a related issue about 18 years ago, I had been working for a company that was paying well, but that had closed down the project I was working on, as part of due diligence I was talking to other companies in addition to considering lateral moves. Several of the other companies were very clear that they couldn't pay me what I was accustomed to, and that was a show-stopper for them, regardless of whether I was interested in taking a lower income
I have experienced no ISP-related issues for self-hosted mail on Rackspace, Linode, and Vultr in U.S. DCs.

Note that I've heard Vultr in EU requires trouble ticket to open mail ports.
Black cabs are in their own category due to The Knowledge and the general vetting process, but if what you say is true, why don't we see Addison Lee, minicabs, Kapten, Bolt and Ola getting the same level of scrutiny? Do we have any reason to believe that any of those have implemented policies and procedures that make them more fit and proper?
If you measure it in calories or other form of nutrition, did it triple?

If you define poverty not by an absolute standard of living but the poverty trap (the range where the rest of society trivially exploits you, intentionally or not, and you cannot advance as they do), does it triple?
This seems more like a feature than a bug. Shipping proprietary software to end-users is unethical. The license is working as designed.
They could offer a digitally signed binary that is free (as in beer ... which would presumably be supported by ads that could not easily be stripped out) and a parallel open-source (ad-free) version that charges users directly for API access (preferably with an "always free" tier of use).
I'm not claiming all tech is evil, just pointing out that I see this more and more as just being the accepted viewpoint these days. I also find it a pretty absurd claim, that's what I'm saying.
It is my shame that I have not read George Eliot. I move to correct the omission, late but not too late.
I run an Internet TV Station for Latin Indie Music Fans here in Austin (estereobit.tv), and one of the core services is live broadcasting, so these sort of apps interest me a lot.

I tried Meerkat during SXSW, but yeah, I'm switching to Periscope. I had users complaining about broken streams, and how they couldn't get the video on time. This could have been due to internet traffic because it's off the charts during SXSW; I'm not sure how it does on smaller events.

Reach worries me for sure. I don't know the details of how that is going down with Twitter though. Another thing that worries me is that I can't save videos. A good show can keep accumulating views forever so having that footage available is important.

Quality is also a big problem. In low-light settings and with loud music, it's hard to get a good show with just the iPhone. I was thinking of investing in a good camera but I don't know how that would work with these apps. Does anyone have any ideas on how could I get through this hurdle?
We're working on webcam capture, actually. Regarding using flickr/tumblr, it can be done, but it's a decentralized, unfocused, and unorganized way of doing so.
Lots of sites think they need to put up walls to maintain a sense of community.

History all across the Internet (and before the Internet) has shown this to be a fallacy.

Tragedies of the common are avoided by proper structure and accountability tools, not by erecting walls to keep people out.
Anyone who provides data to mylife.com (Pandora on Android) is evil in my book.
You can fill a pitcher with water, and let it sit out overnight in the refrigerator. All the dissolved chlorine will evaporate out.
I am quite confident that bombardment with X-rays of several keV has no effect on the natural background radiation of lead or any other material. Such effects require nuclear interactions with activation energies in the MeV range or greater.
If you say "pie", you mean a pie. If you say "I'd like a 10-inch pie" in a pizza place, you mean a pizza pie. It's context.
Apparently you are not familiar with maxklein.
And until the government came and regulated the word, anyone could describe anything, no matter how produced, as "organic".

And now that there is in fact a government regulation, one cannot.

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/nop

> What is easier to game? one customer (the regulator) or millions of competing customers?

I'm not sure what you're asking here. It's quite clear to me that one regulatory body, which can hire inspectors and food-testers and use economies of scale to regulate an entire industry, is much less easy to fool than individuals purchasing milk, who cannot cost-effectively hire inspectors and food-testers and thus cannot evaluate the quality of the product AT ALL.
I'm not arguing that it's impossible to verify people: it's clearly not. The point is that it will end up being a painful and risky enough process that amateurs will respond by switching to other platforms hosted overseas, outside the reach of law enforcement. This will provide a space where the exact same problem as exists now--commingling of legitimate amateur porn and nonconsensual videos--reproduces itself, except with no tools available to expunge the videos that need to be expunged.

Every proactive approach has this downside. That's why we should focus more on making it easy for victims to report a video and have it and variations of it removed from all sites nearly immediately, as well as making sure laws are on the books making it easy to prosecute offenders.
[2] Feb 2021 issue of WIRED
A big part of the magic of git is that I can run it locally. And sync up with my team much later.

I’m not seeing a way to do anything similar with dolthub.
The current prison systems in the US (and the UK to a lesser extent) are insane and counterproductive. It’s hard to imagine how someone would make it through a sentence in one of these places without becoming a hardened criminal, a drug addict, or both.

Our prisons are factories which churn out career criminals. It has to be stopped. Countless lives are being lost to, or permanently ruined by, ex-prisoners who might otherwise have been rehabilitated into a more normal life, after serving their time.

Prison should not be fun. Perhaps it shouldn’t even be comfortable. But we can’t go on with prisons like they are now.
They aren't resources they are material we then invent methods to turn into resources or optimize or cultivate to provide better outputs, aquafarming, restoring forests (the world have gotten 14% greener because of increased CO2) etc.

How do you think we were able feed the amount of people we are doing today if it wasn't for our ability to transform things like dead animal goo into energy to power our machines which then again provide wealth which gives us time to do other things.
What would they patent exactly? Group voice chat? I imagine someone patented that decades ago and if anything, Clubhouse will be licensing or fighting patent trolls soon if they aren't already.
This .PDF is incomplete. My edition, an earlier one, has 96-pages.

A google search on "site:cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/store" returns a folder full of Economist Guides, truncated at 15-25 pages.
China is also poking India too.
> How much mental stimuli did you have sitting in the forest and doing menial labour much of the day,

Quite a bit, I imagine.

We tend to discount the complexity of tasks we don't have to do. In the same way you dismiss the complexities of living off the land as "sitting in a forest", someone could uncharitably describe your day as "sitting in front of a computer."

Also, be careful not to confuse the importance of the subject matter or tool with the difficulty of the task. Reading about the discovery of Neptune or a political scandal likely requires much less mental activity than identifying an animal by its tracks and then tracking it though a forest.
Yes they can and yes they have: Sarah Palin.
It is fiction, it's meant to make you think. The specific scissor statements would be specific to a given forum/company/etc. in any case.
That's not very nice. Surely you wouldn't look a real person you barely know in the eyes and call them annoying and desperate for something that trivial.

Regardless, I was hesitant to add the nag, but I've only received positive feedback, e.g.:

https://twitter.com/TweetsOfSumit/status/534623233920598017

https://twitter.com/DanTheOther/status/550807053812252673

But, thanks for your opinion. It's interesting to hear what people think about it.