jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It was one of the hardest things I've ever learned, surprisingly. My path took about two years and was reading up as much as I could, then doing "field work" for a few weeks, then alternating back to theory. After a while it all starts clicking.

Read all the archives of Roissy, Assanova, RooshV, PaulTheKing, KrauserPUA, ApproachAnxiety.com. Pay especial attention to the videos posted on Krauser's site and try to imitate his body language, vocal tone, and everything to the dot. It doesn't mean you can't have your own personality, but it helps you get that "dominance." Go overboard on the aggressiveness in the early phases. Learn perfect posture and don't apologize for a week. Buy Diesel jeans that make your ass look good. Find a style. Get a good haircut.

For you, the easiest "field work" path would be day game. Start by saying "hi" to everyone that passes by. People will look at you funny, but do it until you don't care anymore. Grab a camera and ask 100 people if you can take a picture with them ("it's for a bet, I need 100 pictures of me with a stranger"). Walk up to girls that are sitting and tell them they're cute and you had to say hi. Do the same but with walking girls. Get phone numbers. Stop caring about phone numbers and go for instant dates (get a coffee 10 minutes into the conversation). Make plans for second dates. You will get flakes. Keep reading and keep trying.

Note: If you read anything by LoveSystems or other commercial guys, know that it may be good as a beginner but it probably won't get you laid (especially Jeremy Soul's stuff). Go for bloggers and free material. If you can find Chopan's posts from fastseduction.com, they are gold. Lines and routines are useful as you're learning, but don't rely on them as you grow.

Go to attractionforums's sections on day game and read through past high-voted posts. Read Jon117's journal. Read Natural Game by Gambler (email me for a PDF).

As you're reading all of this, know that field work is always more important, but reading is easy and field work is hard, so while you're making up excuses and being a chickenshit at least use that time to keep reading.

Like I said, it's not easy. I probably put more effort into this than most undergraduates put into their degree.

Extra Credit: For shits and giggles, try the apocalypse opener until you don't get a negative reaction (when it works, you feel like Neo from the Matrix--and when it fails, I've had girls say "I...I can't...I'm sorry! :(" in an apologizing tone after I asked them, without any prior convo, "What are you doing later? Do you want to come home with me?" in an assertive manner.)

Extra Credit 2: Read all important high-commented topics on attractionforums's Online Game section. Set up an OkCupid account and try it with their suggestions. Online game worked so well for me that I had to check my inbox several times a day as I'd send out 20 messages and 15 would reply. It became too much of a hassle as I struggled to keep track of who was who and usually ended up on a date with girls that were much uglier or boring than their profile suggested. But it's fun to try.
bknr-datastore works on the same principle as cl-prevalence, but is actively developed: http://www.cliki.net/bknr-datastore
Ohh, I see the confusion there, but I like the ambiguity it causes. It reminds me of "Pretty little girl's school"
Angular is a pretty big beast in an of itself, have you considered something a bit slimmer? Ala backbone, knockout.js?

And learning about DSL's will come in handy, considering Rspec and the like use them!
to be fair, I'm sure the training on insurrection defense for a staffer was lacking since this hasn't happened since the early 1800s.
No moderation means it will be overrun with trolls and spammers. This is true of any discussion system. Once you grow beyond a certain point, typically a few dozen users or so moderation is necessary to avoid having the signal to noise ratio drop so low that all of the quality people leave.
> If the left-leaning subreddits were also promoting hate, misinformation and violence then they would be banned too.

There's plenty of hate and misinformation in those subreddits. None of them have been banned yet.
You think the full missile command chain being loyal to him today?
Eh, curation and moderation is a valuable service that many are willing to pay for.

The issue isn't that service providers are arbiters, the problem is that there are so few service providers that one can meaningfully choose from due in large part to the difficulty of taking one's social network along with you.

If service providers had federated communication then it would be a different story.
What a fantastic rant
What is a "SCIF"?
With "Problematic" being subjective, it is indeed scary.
Actually yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action. Not saying what happened on /r/donaldtrump actually met that criteria (that's up to a court to decide), but the precedent to silence people (by the government no less) is definitely there.
Last time I checked [1], CLISP did not do general tail call optimization, which is a deal-breaker for me.

[1] https://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html#sec-2-3
No mention of full-disk encryption? Hardly encrypting your life.
You are significantly underestimating the experts working on evaluating these cases:

> The number of these cases after vaccination with COVID-19 AstraZeneca is statistically significantly higher than the number of cerebral venous thromboses that normally occur in the unvaccinated population. For this purpose, an observed-versus-expected analysis was performed, comparing the number of cases expected without vaccination in a 14-day time window with the number of cases reported after approximately 1.6 million AstraZeneca vaccinations in Germany. About one case would have been expected, and seven cases had been reported.

https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronaviru...

> We don't need this vaccine.

I don't know who is "we", but we definitely do need this vaccine, because you are more likely to die in a car crash than from the AZ vaccine.
The Quest 2 doesn't necessitate the overhead of having a computer with a powerful GPU, HDMI/USB-C cables, and also bring back memories of "outside-in" tracking cameras placed all around the home.
After reading the negative comments I feel like a misfit. We have two standups a day and it has been great so far. After a year into this social appocalipse I am just happy to see faces. We do not have any issues with severe noise or hardware though.

For the usual noise, like keyboard, Krisp [1] has been a pleasure to use (beware, shameless referal link plug)!

[1] https://ref.krisp.ai/u/u2fa290c46
Oh, interesting. I like the concept of open source game mechanics!
Why not just delete your email accounts from the phone?
Their paper doesn't "disprove the entire big bang theory."

It does find some problems with the prevailing inflationary model (in which a short period of rapid inflation follows the big bang). Their model gives another way to solve the problems that the inflationary model solved. Other models might also work. And so science proceeds...
Also, what a good set of books!
The article says they will be kicked out if they don’t abide by the contract.

We’ll see if that actually happens.
I've come to really enjoy grocery shopping, planning a week worth of meals, being adaptive when good deals come up, trying new things, working to minimize waste. Eating a healthy diet.

One of the things I like about grocery shopping is practicing mental math, and I calculate price per quantity mentally when choosing between different brands/sizes. It's good mental exercise, and the ability to do that sort of division mentally occasionally is helpful in other contexts.
As I learned here recently the premise may well have been to fund international arms trafficking.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...
> 'MSRP stands for the average suggested retail price and that because it's an average, sometimes the actual price will be higher.'

It stands for manufacturer's suggested retail price, but I guess your point stands because it is only a _suggested_ price. Still, I can't remember ever being charged more than MSRP, although perhaps it's happened without me noticing.
The "spaceness," of the business needs definition. Maybe you build drones to defend asteroid mining claims and equipment, stealth communications for space prospecting, cryptographically sovereign networks for space supply chains, low gravity weapons and anti-piracy defences, solar sails, a navigation scheme and commercial beacon network, etc.

The nearest term use case for commercial space tech is going to be regulatory arbitrage, so if you can deliver content and secure a physical space jurisdiction for a legal system, it will be the new off shore.
You can search for Wordpress plugins that do the above and then look at their documentation to learn the rules. Shopify has a setting you can enable to email a 15% off code to anyone who adds and item to their cart but doesn’t check out.
This is excellent advice which has even been echoed by Warren Buffet [0]. Time is a finite resource and therefore everything we do is a trade-off between depth and breadth. In a given day, you could spend 1 hour learning 24 subjects, or 24 hours learning 1 subject. One isn't necessarily better than the other, but it's a constraint we all operate around. Learning 24 subjects may be interesting and fulfilling to some, but from a professional standpoint those that tend to be most influential in their respective fields are those that devote the most time towards their subjects. There are exceptions of course, but this is the general advice for the general population.

Recently, I've started to adopt a similar perspective by rigorously evaluating everything with a simple question: "20 years from now, will my kids be proud that I did this?" If the answer is no, I stop it. So far, I've stopped playing video games and using social media, and I've noticed that I've gotten an extra 10-15 hours per week to spend on things that will make me a better person in the long term, like reading, working out, and spending time with my friends and family.

The same approach could be used with any endeavor: "In X years, will I be better at <subject> if I continue to do Y?"

[0] https://jamesclear.com/buffett-focus
Personally I’ve never had any trouble with the distinction between who and whom.

I like the fact that the English language contains all these little shibboleths that tell you about the class and/or education level of the person speaking.
There are simple mechanisms to prevent "penis flood" without censorship: categorization (18+/SFW categories), and sybil attack prevention/popularity ratings (just because 1 guy wants to upload his penis 1000 times, doesn't mean it must appear 1000 times in the global feed. Trolls can attract a lot of attention, but most people aren't trolls).
>>Presumably company-paid travel leads to better tips.

Companies I've worked for have mandated the tip size (15% both places) that they'll allow for reimbursed travel, although I'm not sure how universal that is.
LGPL is problematic for App Store, since the user should be able to relink the app with a newer version [of QT] if they wanted to.
Begin by aggressively saving your ridiculous income. This sort of compensation can work either as a trap (since few companies will match it) or a tool for freedom. Start doing this now!

Everything else can be figured out once you can quit and not worry about money.
> Do you mean that you'd search Google's entire codebase monorepo for code examples

As another former Googler, yes, searching the entire monorepo was a frequent occurrence. Internal code search is pretty good (it's a search company, after all) but I have to say that I don't miss it so much now that Sourcegraph exists.
I really don't understand people fascination with idolization. There is no such thing as "one person alone invented this great technology".
You could leave a 1-star review explaining the product was garbage and they tried to entice you into a good review for money?

I often look at the one star reviews to see if anything is up with a product.
I haven't read through most of the other comments, I'm getting my day started at one of the FANG companies. (: But I do have a very brief suggestion.

Just for the hell of it, why not find some hungry 30-60 employee startup? I've worked at two of those, and it's anything but boring.
Where would you draw the line? Mostly true? Some true? Mostly false? 100% false? What if there are facts surface later and this changes the truthiness?
It's opt-in because you don't have to use brew if you don't want to. It helps the devs do their jobs better (a job they do for free), and it is a free tool someone is under no obligation to use.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720
Thanks OP for this
He's referring to conference organizers asking for the slides, not individuals.
Good idea, it is not obvious, thanks :-)
I have enough trouble dual-booting encrypted internal disks on the same machine... any changes to the TPM, or say booting one disk as a virtual machine from within the other disks OS running natively, breaks all AAD and windows hello authentication for me. Have to remove accounts and add them back in from settings on windows 10. So I’d be quite surprised if you’ve figured out a seamless way to boot an encrypted disk on multiple machines...

For example, with bitlocker, won’t you need to enter the recovery key when trying to boot from a new machine? And have to sign out and back in to all relevant OS level accounts? Even then I face authentication issues at times

I really would like this to work seamlessly because moving my internal SSD work disk to an external one would be far safer than lugging it around inside my personal laptop all the time. But the work disk has to be encrypted...

Also, for hardware compatibility’s sake, I’d think Linux would be a far superior daily driver OS to ‘multi-hardware boot’, considering relevant drivers are loaded from kernel on boot rather than selectively pre-installed at OS creation time for that one device, increasing plug and play compatibility
> What are the limits of control that the Australian Government has over the operations of private companies?

I mean a company can surely not doing business in a country, then what power does the country's government hold against them? I guess very little.
>It reminds me of something in Eric Raymonds "The Art of Unix Programming" (I don't have time to find the link right now) where it discussed an approach from the earlier days of Linux filesystems where you had a limit on the number of iNodes that could exist in a single directory and corresponding performance. The work around was to create a subdirectory structure to store files based on the filename. But then you tended to get many files starting with the same characters all in the same directories. What turned out to be a better way to distribute the files evenly in the directory structure was to take the first and _last_ character of the file name and use those to create the subdirectories. This way you were more likely to spread the files evenly across the structure.

Interesting. I have been pondering over filesystem performance and inode limits in servers/home-servers since a long time. This seems useful infomration
> Russia has no GDPR or something. So you could put (special key in) a cookie?

It is entirely permissible under the GDPR to use cookies for security purposes.
Doesn't have to dominate the world to make enough money to make it worth the effort :). Especially since I doubt it will be insanely high maintenance.

Totally understandable on targeting non-standard parts of the developer ecosystem instead of doing the same old IDE/Bug Tracking and similar types of tools that are so popular for ways to monetize. Hell, if this took off wouldn't be surprised to see others try similar ideas for other languages.
”How do you design a form of Twitter, how do you change the retweet system, so that Twitter will end up gathering a body of reasoned debate?”

We have this system - Its called Quora.
Two coups and arming the Ukraine to the teeth later, and now we want to de-escalate? LOL you have quite a sense of humor. This is just a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis, a test to see if Putler has the balls to push the button.
Seems like a response to Mike Cohn's recent post: http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum-alliance-update
It's opinion, of course; I use MS's web-based editors quite a lot, and they work well for me. I almost always have access to the local client software, too, so most of the time it doesn't even really matter; skydrive is just a great cloud-storage thingy for my documents. For the times I don't have a copy of office on the machine, the web editors are fine.

I haven't yet run into the concurrent editing problem, but it may well be a showstopper for some features. For note-taking (which is the common case I can think of), OneNote is arguably a better choice, and it supports concurrent editing.
Only then, and most courses are not straight progressions.

In high school and particularly AP, those courses are blatant cycles of 1) cram, 2) test, and 3) forget all but the core of what that section was about.

(If you want to say, "You should learn it all for the final" keep in mind nobody does, nor are final exams built around remembering everything from the whole course.)
Related startup story.

I just spent two days in a long email conversation with Amazon.

I signed up for AWS 4 days before they started their freebie special, so once I realized this, I begged and pleaded with them to help my startup by grandfathering me in and letting me take advantage of the promotion.

All I got was form letters and BS.

I could have used another Amazon account, but I'm not going to cheat. I love the AWS stack, but as far as I'm concerned the folks at Amazon may be keen on PR, but they're no friends of startups, neither bootstrapped or otherwise, no matter how many contests they run. I also feel like the AWS guys are a completely different bunch than the rest of Amazon, who seem to care about their customers a lot more. And while I love the stack, I'm not impressed with the customer service at all. 99% of retailers will grandfather customers into a promotion if they ordered within a few days of the promotion starting.

Assholes.

There. That bit of venting made me feel better. :)

Hope it had the same effect on the OP.

The point being that sometimes venting and sour grapes serve a useful purpose.
Okay, interesting post that left me with a "Well, yes and no" response.

The accusation is, that the "scrum master/coach" role in agile has gone from being an in-team activity to being a project management activity. I do think that is true. I also agree that Agile has become a buzzword that companies are adopting without truly understanding it (in the vein of http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/ )

But the reason Agile won't be killed is the same reason Waterfall hasn't been killed: it's the optimal choice in some scenarios.

(And before you sneer at Waterfall, go build me a nuclear power station with Agile).
I wasn't aware that penny auctions are continuously winnable at all.
Dropbox syncs over a LAN if available and the long sync time is only for initialization. When I get a new computer, I'll just make sure to have the old computer there. This is part of the process of getting a new one already, but people need to move stuff over manually sometimes.

As far as what you can do today with facebook, if you download the beta builds from the forums you can get access to a new sharing model. You can publish links of files to facebook & twitter. This page will change a lot when we launch this properly, but you can see what i mean:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/owdlzphfhiw2ao4/koalabox.PNG

Facebook and twitter are great for sharing, so it makes sense for Dropbox to leverage them when people want to share files. Photos is a good example application where sharing often means pushing to a social network.
Is that a joke? How many different interfaces are there to popen(3)? How many different ways to get the current time? If Ruby's standard library is a ghetto, Python's is a jungle.

If you like Python, I don't know why you'd even think about "committing to Ruby for the long term"; you're a Python dev. They're practically the same language. Stop trying to pick fights.
The kmi quneo and qunexus have some of that sort of hackable vibe.
He's a particle theorist, so it's not too surprising he focuses on things he knows more about.
Just picked this up, but the early adopters pay $250 for lifetime use. So it's not necessarily $30k/yr, just $30k.

Not sure how this is a sustainable model.
I said "basic configurations", not "default configurations".

I will say that I have run into this issue twice. In both cases, the solution was to eliminate fix code that were flooding the heap with unnecessary allocations.

There are certainly cases where you would want to increase the heap size, but those really are 0.01% use cases. More often than not, you should fix the code that's using so much memory. If your criticism of the JVM is that you wrote shitty code and your shitty fix for your shitty code was to configure the JVM, I'm not feeling a lot of sympathy for you. If that's the case, go be happy with Go, by all means. And if your use case really was one of the cases where increasing the heap size makes sense: well, that kind of project is going to cause issues for Go, too. Just because it silently allows you to pile your heap into the stratosphere doesn't mean it's going to deal well with your larger heap size. In fact, given that it's parallel mark-and-sweep (and not generational) you're almost guaranteed to have performance issues in larger heaps--it's geared toward low overhead and performance on smaller heaps.

As an aside: Azul systems produces a really cool JVM implementation called Zing that does some amazing stuff with pauseless GC. Worth checking out for anyone interested in GC implementation.
Does Texas allow home owners to push power back onto the grid? I know this is common in some places, particularly for solar, but is that a thing in Texas?

The cost of the equipment to allow customers to sell energy back onto the grid has got to be far more expensive than the savings from adding an individual 9.5 kW system. Particularly a gas powered system that won’t be consistently available.
Outside of HN, no one I've ever talked to has mentioned any of those as reasons for using Chrome. The two most common reasons I've heard are "dunno" followed distantly by "I use ten hundred thousand million tabs and Firefox crashed on me once fifteen years ago."

I suspect the rise of mobile browsing, with Chrome as the default, plus users' Google account having strong integration with Chrome--not to mention Google pushing Chrome across all of their properties--have a lot more to do with Chrome's popularity than a button on Firefox's toolbar that you don't like.
“aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS at the API level”
Using blockchain to identify ownership of digital art is imo the first use case that makes sense. Who would want to own a coin number when you can own a masterpiece.
https://gimons.booth.pm/ ships them worldwide from Japan.
Lots of good suggestions in this thread.

If you have a pair of binoculars already, get some kind of tripod for them, or improvise something with a reclining lawn chair -- anything that can stabilize the binos and let you point them upwards comfortably. It's surprising how much you can see with medium-quality binocular if you can keep them rock-steady.

A six or eight inch Dobsonian telescope is a good next step. The entry-level models are cheaper than they look, and the optical reach greatly exceeds that of cheap department-store refractors. Last I checked, pandemic reality had made them hard to find new, but they occasionally go for a song on Craigslist.

Look up a forum called Cloudy Nights for much, much more info.