jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I believe that these conventions (at least for dates) are indeed the most
practical for their respective languages.

Take for example "October the third, two thousand nine" (10/3/2009, MDY). In German
one would pronounce this as "der dritte Oktober zweitausendneun" (3.10.2009, DMY).
In Hungarian "kétezer-kilenc október harmadika" (2009. 10. 03., YMD). All of these
pronunciations reflect the order numerical dates are written: using any other
convention would simply make them less natural to pronounce.

Now it is certainly not unheard of that the order of pronunciation also changes
(see the British "the third of October"), but changing language is a lot harder
­ in some cases impossible without breaking grammar ­ than changing written
numerical representations.
The things you read I swear.

> If you are unhappy with the terms or products of a company, you are free to shop or work elsewhere.

If you don't work you starve, or at the very least lose your house, car, maybe even your kids. There is no "freedom" of choice, and this is painfully obvious to anybody who is not stuck neck-deep in dogmatic ideology.

> If you believe those companies will capture so much surplus, you could also buy some of their stock and participate.

Sure, let me just get a small loan of 300 mil a month to build my competitor to Uber.

If you're not independently wealthy you probably cannot even get 100k of credit to open a restaurant or a similar small business. Again, that access to capital (nevermind to education, connections, etc) is profoundly unequal, and thus that "just start your own business" is am absurd statement, is also obvious to anyone who isn't blinded by ideology.

> "Capture of surplus" is hate speech

Ahahahaha
That point was covered in the article.

>In a further step, the researchers tried ?retraining? the DNN by showing it fooling images and labeling them as such. This produced some improvement, but the researchers said that even these new, retrained networks often could be fooled.
Yeah HTML/CSS/Javascript and PHP are some of the worst
possible examples of "coding"

So sad to see similar statements. I am the only one who loves working with
HTML and CSS? I wouldn't say I love PHP, sure it is not the best language out there, but it is not that bad. Unless you never bothered to check
out what's in PHP 5 (or 5.3) and keep going with PHP 4 code.

Don't dismiss HTML. Sure, it is not programming, but so often good programmers produce crap HTML maybe dismissing it as trivial and not
worth learning properly. However producing page in HTML and CSS involves a lot of similar activity: you evaluate the whole system (layout) you have to build, identify different parts, decide how to code them in proper, semantic way, avoiding unnecessary elements,
then style it all in CSS, maybe enhance with some Javascript. At the
same time you don't forget about progressive enhancement and graceful
degradation, cross browser support (this is less fun part).

I think the task of splitting that finished visual picture of design into
proper HTML structure and CSS decoration is the actual difficulty some
are facing, but mistakenly thinking thats the problem with CSS.

And now, with HTML5 on the doorstep and all the fun CSS3 allows front-end coding is even more exciting. My recent interest — client-side optimization
adds to this excitement. I learned about programming by reading code in some magazines (had no access to computers till my first year at university), now
I've been coding for 20 years, doing web work for 14, went all the way from first HTML being rendered in Netscape 2 through table layouts (oh those nested tables to get 1px border in IE and 1x1 GIFs…) to CSS3 layouts with fun effects rendered in WebKit nightly. I am equally well versed in both client side and server side development, but I'd say that even after all these years I still think client-side work is a lot of fun.

I initially was attracted to web because I enjoyed learning and trying a wide range of technologies: from working with graphics in Photoshop to setting up and configuring Apache. Still feeling the same.
It's not fair, but it's (almost) true. Fair or not: send the silly letter. I barely read them but I remember the people who send them and chalk up an informal "professionalism" point for it.

The "don't call more than once a week" advice is lethal and you follow it at your peril.

• Figure out exactly how often it's reasonable to contact the hiring manager.

• If they go even a little bit dark, contact them at least that often. Don't nag. Nagging is bad. Rub a couple brain cells together and come up with valid reasons for getting back in touch, and time-box that Q&A so that you and the employer have a notion of when the next time you'll talk is.

• In any position you actually want, you cannot lose points for asking questions and keeping in touch.

• In any position anywhere, you can lose points for going dark yourself, even if nobody asks you any questions.

• It's your job to create a demand for your talents. If you give a potential employer the option on hiring you, they'll hold the option until they have to execute it, and you can't blame them for that.

This one (overblown) recommendation is the piece of advice I feel most compelled to offer. It is, I think, so critically misunderstood that it is practically the only reason I jump into job-hunting discussions online. People treat job applications like a junior high school prom. They sit on one side of the gym, and the managers sit on the other. People, that is, except for the ones who know how to land roles.
The ui is very nice, I really like the ability to add more chat windows side by side. The obvious problem is that there don't seem to be very many people online.
The problem is that I dislike coding. I find it to be very boring.

"The problem is that I dislike practical work - making or fixing things with my hands. I find it to be very boring. Where's the fun in messy, practical things?"

Different strokes for different folks. If you don't find programming inherently interesting, it's probably not your schtick. It sounds like you might prefer SEO, content architecture, or a similar related discipline that's not code based.
Thanks! When I first set out to make it, I thought JavaScript would be involved - but turns out a new stylesheet was sufficient. There's JS on the page to replicate the bookmarklet maker, of course, but swapping the stylesheet URL in an existing Readability bookmarklet amounts to the same thing.

It is interesting to see the initial reaction (aversion) here and elsewhere to horizontal scrolling. I guess I concur that it is annoying in most contexts, but hadn't noticed it here. Maybe it's a difference between browsing/skimming behavior and prolonged reading?
I run into plenty of situations where I have multiple lines, and I'd like the respective elements to align. It's not limited to tabular data, but it's the easiest example
ctrl-a (beginning of line), ctrl-e (end of line), ctrl-k (kill/copy line), ctrl-y (yank/paste line) are standard emacs keybindings. On OS X, they work in any standard NS text field as well. More at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

BTW, when using screen, ctrl-a is its default action key, so use ctrl-a ctrl-a to send a real ctrl-a, or change the default screen action key in your .screenrc.
Every time I turn my back on freemium, something makes me turn my head again..
I will make no illusions to the fact that in my situation, not getting paid will not put me behind a months rent or cause me serious financial harm. But to me working and not getting paid is worse than not, working at all or in my case working on my own projects. I am sure if my financial situation where different, I would still feel the same. To me, wasting my time chasing bad money no matter the prospects of alternatives is just not worth the risk when my time could be applied to productive endeavors. If I am going to risk not getting paid I am going to risk it on my project with far more potential upside than a wage. The way I see it, that client is putting the risk of the project on your shoulder, they are putting you in a pay for performance situation after the fact. That or they are committing outright wage theft.
Delete and disable cookies for nytimes.com
Hi HN! I'm the post author, and if I would've known someone was submitting this to HN, I would've researched a bit more! This was more for my reference. Thanks for all the tips though, got to learn a lot from this thread..
Try removing opera-static first.
I got into a bad situation last year, when I was letting my client go 30 days paying me. That is 60 days really: 30 days of work, then I send the invoice, then they have 30 days to pay me. A client can run up a big debt over 60 days. I was working on the mybailiwick.com site and they ran out of money. They owed me $8,000, which I never got paid. After that, I decided, I would never let a client run up a debt beyond about $4,000. It is just too painful to work for several weeks and then not get paid for any of it.
^Like everything else, writing a really excellent assignment is an iterative process. After two or three offerings, you finally have something your users (ie, students) really value: an assignment that teaches well.

New assignments should be just that, another iteration on the original, excellent assignment. I had a few assignments in undergrad for which even solutions to previous versions were essentially useless unless you understood the underlying principles. The professor made this quite clear from the beginning. Minor changes in input/intermediate/output structures and changing constraints on the expected solutions easily confound the copy-pasters. I think this method even enhanced the learning experience for me by highlighting early on how a subtle difference in an algorithm can make all the difference in the world.
It was EMP related. IIRC, it was explained previously in the film and I believe that there was some special effect to suggest an explosion had taken place in the stratosphere.

By the way, Jason Robard's character did one educational thing: bending (I hope that's the right word) as much as he can behind the dashboard.

Also the movie featured prominently a white noodle-like dust rain that had that charming effect of making people bald.

There was another film with William Hart (can anybody remember the title?) about a post-apocalyptic world where most electronics are fried due to EMP.
Firstly, because we had a valid pretext for war (Taliban et al). But very important too is the fact that wars are profitable. And not from a resource standpoint; war production itself (e.g. weapons manufacturers, engineering firms to rebuild, etc) is highly lucrative and there certainly were agents lobbying on behalf of those companies, and pivoting themselves to be in a position to provide services "in the event of a conflict". That resources were actually discovered during occupation is just icing on the cake.
;)

Wasn't quite expecting the violent downvoting though. Humour never goes well on HN.
http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/
This seems like a case where Watson might be helpful, although the effort to train the system is considerable; out-of-the-box, Watson does not really know how to answer any kinds of questions, so the recommended approach is to (manually) walk it through thousands of Q&As. And even clearing that hurdle, would there be any payoff for the user _or_ for IBM above the Google results for "system z db2 requirements"?
It occurs to me, reading your comment, that an interesting exercise for a software development school program would be to assign a project for first-year students; then, in second year, assign the students to take the same project from the previous year and modify it.
To your first point, if you have two phone numbers then you're probably keeping them separate for a reason, and so their contacts should be kept separate by the app too.

As for your second: what are the "ends" you're taking about with this "end to end encrypted contacts" idea?

Certainly, a contact list has to be visible at the device--otherwise it's useless. Where else would you want it to be visible?
I believe it also showed us the limit of individual action on climate change. It's doubtful I could have gotten 100% work from home out of my employers sans pandemic. My partner stopped going to work because her industry was on government provided life support.

Despite that CO2 emissions in 2020 dropped by 6%. A change which would be wiped out in a few years by the natural growth.

Getting individuals to do anything meaningful about climate change is like those people telling millennials to stop buying Starbucks and cancel Netflix in order to buy a home.
What does submarine mean in this context?
> The smarter question to ask is what problems require a global append-only database with code execution capabilities

Global financial systems?

> how much value there is in that

Value is subjective.

> there has to be a really compelling answer to that question to be worth the extra cost and risk.

Somehow I sense that you're not compelled. That's okay.
As I see it, being kind means being empathetic, asking ourselves how the other person is going to feel when receiving our communication, and therefore adjusting in a way to avoid emotional damage. I believe this is especially important when being critical. The goal of a criticism should be to help the other/the community/the discourse grow, keeping our ego out of the equation.
"Safety" is quite a wide concept. I heard a professional drug researcher say that aspirin wouldn't pass the trials today, and certainly not as an over-the-counter drug. Too many side effects.

If we can use a software analogy, mess like Windows 95 wouldn't see the light of the day. But they were useful nonetheless.
I think the most important insight about medieval warfare is that it too was a constant arms-race, it was not some sort of static period with knights and swords that magically disappeared one day to be replaced with musketeers and riflemen. There are so many weird myths and ideas, and it's always nice to see people who know what they're talking about. :)
> Anyone else think bootstrap stock format (is that what this is?) has turned into a negative connotation?

For the very small proportion of the population who both are designer/developers and care about it, perhaps.

For the general public, it's no different than the fact that many apps on their computers and smartphones share similar looking UI elements and they really don't care at all.
Well, if by "real" you don't mean "constrained by the limitations of physical reality" then sure. But that also depends on what your definition of money is. Note, it might not be the same as others'.
...and with almost absolute predictability anything that even remotely challenges Musk/Tesla is down-voted on HN.

This is a legitimate question. This robotic snake problem is solving a problem that does not exist.

And, please, don't invoke the handicapped card as someone already did. They manage just fine today. Anyone, handicapped or not, who qualifies to drive a car can handle plugging a cord into a socket. A 7 year old kid can do it.

So why throw a $30,000+ robot at a non-existing problem. I'll tell you why:

Musk understands marketing. With oil prices so low and nothing significant coming out of Tesla they all but evaporated from public view. There is/was no news to be had about Tesla. The SUV is tanking. That's a non-story. So, how do we get people talking about Tesla again. We put out outrageous-yet-brilliant-sounding futuristic ideas that are easy to consume by the average Joe and blog writers can parrot liberally. Musk/Tesla sound like geniuses and the general public doesn't even take a millisecond to apply critical thinking to what they just read.

The ONLY way a complex robotic auto-charge system might have a tenuous level of applicability is in the context of self driving cars AND "driven" by people so extremely handicapped that they would not be allowed to drive a car today. In other words, paraplegic, severe Parkinsons or other ailments.

That scenario is decades away. And, even then, a simple drive-on docking station would be far cheaper, reliable and easier to install than some kind of a robotic snake rig.

I love technology as much as anyone on HN and i have been involved in industrial and educational robotics my entire adult life. Yet, I have to be honest with myself and not treat everything like a nail just because I have a hammer.

So Tesla will sell you a $30,000 robotic snake for your $80,000 car while Toyota will probably sell you a $3,000 floor-mounted docking station for their $30,000 car. And so will all other manufacturers. Because it makes sense.
* I've dedicated my life to ... building products that can help people.*

You need to ask yourself if that's really true. If it is, then your success is easy to measure: number of people helped. If you haven't helped enough people to feel satisfied, then your course of action is also clear: help more people.

raised a bunch of money... is all over the press... in some cases has achieved real success

The root of all unhappiness is believing something that isn't true. What's more likely, that you've dedicated your life to helping people, or that your motivation is money and recognition? One litmus test is to ask whether you'd be happy making a fortune (complete with a big house, million dollar income, maybe a writeup in Forbes) writing software for, oh, I don't know, a paycheck cashing firm.

The fact is that you are selfish, greedy, egotistical. I don't say this to be mean, but to be honest - it's true for 99.9% of humans. Each of us wants to be special, to be the winner of our peer group; we all want to be envied (which is precisely how people shape their image on social media).

One possible reconciliation is to firmly assert that people spend money on things that they think will benefit them. Money is the primordial "like" button. This implies that if you have a lot of money either: 1) you've provided real value to lots of people, or 2) someone with lots of money believes you can provide lots of value to people (e.g. a raise). (This doesn't always seem to be the case; in fact, much of the wealthy people in the world don't appear to be doing much for it, although software firms are a clear exception there.)

Bon chance.
That's all Fedora - https://usefedora.com/
I'm sorry, but this lacks all perspective. We have, on occassion, done some of the same kind of things as NK, but not typically to the same extent, with the same level of brutality and control, let alone all at the same time, today.

When, for example, have we done this?

> The government practices collective punishment, sending to forced labor camps not only the offender but also their parents, spouse, children, and even grandchildren. These camps are notorious for horrific living conditions and abuse, including induced starvation, little or no medical care, lack of proper housing and clothes, continuous mistreatment and torture by guards, and executions. Forced labor at the kwan-li-so often involves difficult physical labor such as mining, logging, and agricultural work, all done with rudimentary tools in often dangerous and harsh conditions. Death rates in these camps are reportedly extremely high.

Or this?

> All media and publications are state controlled, and unauthorized access to non-state radio or TV broadcasts is punished. North Koreans are punished if found with mobile media such as DVDs or computer ‘flash drives’ containing unauthorized TV programs, such as South Korean drama and entertainment shows.

Or this?

> North Korea criminalizes leaving the country without state permission.

Or this?

> people arrested in North Korea are routinely tortured by officials seeking confessions, bribes, and obedience. Common forms of torture include sleep deprivation, beatings with iron rods or sticks, kicking and slapping, and enforced sitting or standing for hours. Guards also sexually abuse female detainees.

(Yes, I realize we have done some of these things to CIA detainees overseas, which is truly terrible. But we're talking here about all arrest in NK.)

Or this?

> Forced labor is essentially the norm in the country, and workers are systematically denied freedom of association and the right to organize and collectively bargain.
I think OP was making a statement about how things are rather than how they should be.

I agree with you that this shouldn’t be the case, but right now it absolutely is the case in India.
Not unless you’re also trying to demonstrate the magic of fork.
Is getting your mail sent from your own e-mail server past the GMail and Outlook spam filters trivial? I always hear about the aggressive spam filters that these providers have which makes it hard to set up your own server. Not saying it's not possible, but I am assuming it is somewhat difficult to set up and their is probably some maintenance that goes along with it. So much so that paying for a provider makes sense. As long as my subscription is the only revenue stream, I see no issue with using a "cloud service" to run email for my custom domain.

I'm willing to be the other services have similar situations where you might as well just pay someone to do it for you. $160 to not have to maintain a server room seems like a nice deal to me.
Anyone knows if there is a source code to reproduce something like this?
I suggest adding an interactive mode!

Aside: I tried to go through the samples and was having trouble running them successfully.
Is this horizontal gene transfer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
90% efficacy does not mean that 100% of the population is 90% able to fight off the disease. It means that 90% of the vaccine recipients are ~100% immune, while 10% are ~0% immune. This has a biological basis: did they seroconvert or not.

It simply isn't workable to reason from lighter symptoms to "partial immunity." Let's pretend the vaccine didn't exist. Take someone with a mild case of covid. Would you say this person is partially immune? Or consider someone with no symptoms at all--are they completely immune? Since the vast majority of cases are mild or asymptomatic, are you prepared to argue that "immunity" is actually very widespread?

Again, your "some people win the race, some lose" analogy is on the mark. It's pointless to talk about "partial victory"
That's like saying RIP in peace.
I'd say you need to create 2 childs in order to work towards a dominance of hackers on earth.
I'm really surprised over the complete lack of thought shown by people who spend time writing about this.

The problem isn't really about having . in your path, but the old mistake of having it AS THE FIRST THING in your path, before your shell has a chance to reach its usual important locations (/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin and so forth). Put it as the last thing in your path variable and you won't be having any problems worth mentioning (hey, even the OpenBSD guys finally went with this solution after having banished . entirely for years).