jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
yeah, but protein-dense plants cause flatulence
Jeez how many do people usually have? There are just shy of 200 'interests' in my list. I'm not particularly interested in helping them out by editing it though. From what I saw the list is accurate in that it doesn't really contain anything I hate, but it's inaccurate since it's only a broken impression of all the things I like with many gaps.
You clearly never read his blog; dude is the biggest sci-fi dork and continuously plugs Charlie Stross. :)
YouTube is a monopoly in the same way that iTMS is a monopoly. Many of the terms (like the release-here-first) ones are reminiscent of how Amazon and iTMS do their pricing.
With github pages isn't that just a few setup steps away?
3 weeks without work is a nice feature so long as one has options/opportunities to work.

It is possible to earn a professional livable wage on Elance, however the professions for which freelancers are being employed via Elance are frequently menial / not complex software projects (and thus the wages are closer to $5-50/h as opposed to $100+). I am unable to find more than 11 jobs on Elance in IT that pay > $150/h. I receive about that many requests from companies by email weekly.

I don't believe Elance, as a platform, is conducive/setup to address involved problems which require rigorous testing & best practices to begin with. What Elance does well is aggregates supply and demand and provides a method of finding work.

I believe the best option is to build a network / partner with other agencies who have different skill sets and refer opportunities within your network. This is how we've been addressing the problem of continuous opportunities with Hackerlist. We partner with tons of independent consultancies with domain specific expertise and forward them work.

Also, freelancing picks up over time. Almost every client we've worked with has turned into a return customer (which we're really grateful for).
To each his own...
And so does the US:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201022/mask-use-by-america...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/27/more-americ...

Break it down by county or state, and you'll find that many of the the areas with the highest reported compliance have the worst overall metrics:

https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/?date=20210209&region=42003...

(and before anyone says it: sure, you can argue that mask-wearing correlates with population density or some other factor that leads to greater disease prevalence, but doesn't that just beg the original question? People are wearing masks the most in the places with the highest disease prevalence. If "the reason" that Vietnam did well is mask compliance...well, why didn't it work just as well here?)
You mean they can ban someone from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and all other services with live streaming option? That's not really the case.
Any ray that might damage a ccd would also impact film stock, exposing sections into bright dots. Did kodak also not ship film by air?
The Republican position isn't so idiotic when you consider that a consequence would be that (supposedly Democrat-supporting) Big Tech companies would be unable to provide platforms for the free spreading of ideas, reducing their attention and revenue, and making it harder for citizens to organize and hold their government to account.

It makes even more sense when you consider that the second-order effect would be that people migrate their discussions to sites operated from countries outside the US, which have their own political agendas. Perhaps you can think of a country that has advanced cyber capabilities, strong control over local platforms, and resentment of US global influence.

This MO of triggering national self-destruction becomes more obvious the more examples you see, such as the spreading of misinformation about 5G or vaccines/masks, in order to radicalize citizens into destroying their own communications infrastructure and overwhelm their health services.
Did I say it was censorship? I think the original post is misguided, but it is true that Apple withholds press access from outlets that do things it doesn't like.
Well, first, I don't have a high opinion of Neo4j. Secondly, SparQL queries are pretty distinct, and while, yes, they can be translated into generic graph queries, I'm pretty sure there are some fun optimizations to be had if you focus on their patterns 100%. Thirdly, because it'd be a hell of a lot of fun! Why else would anyone write a database...
I can sell an app on Apple's appstore without Apple getting a 30% cut if I use stripe?

Do you have a source for that that you can link me to? Because from this, I get the impression that is not the case: https://support.stripe.com/questions/apple-and-stripe-tos-an...
Sort of the equivalent of being able to transmit your own VHF signal, but having enough power to get it in getting off enough people to pay for it....
I’m thinking about the future.

What skills will dominate the software market 10-20 years from now?

- Big companies use C++ heavily, besides being the language for deep learning/GPU programming. Will Rust/Go replace it anytime soon?

- Will React still dominate front end development?

- What about Python and the data analysis ecosystem?
It remains weird and disturbing to me that "AWS" is treated as a skill. Not "cloud system management", but "AWS".

Edit: I do understand why it can be lucrative to have expertise with a specific cloud provider. It's just the status quo of these services being their own unique silos that disturbs me: I would personally be wary of making "ability to effectively use Amazon's servers" a pillar of my career.
This is how wall safes are supposed to work too, which is why you can't be compelled to reveal the combination.
They aren’t measuring your ability to create value but in how you approach problems you don’t know the answer to. In many cases you will get a pass even if you don’t solve the problem, but can talk about what the solution would look like, what the interesting parts of the problem are, and so forth.
To the extent that YouTube is just a user-generated content delivery platform, paying for premium makes them stop injecting their own ads. Ads that are part of the videos are outside their purview. It's a defensible, and I think reasonable position to take (and I say this as someone who hates advertising in general).
Oops, my bad. You are right, I didn't read the article fully and presumed it didn't talk about spreading oneself thinly. Thanks for pointing it out ;)
Agree. Same in ruby

Object.define_method('env') { { RUBYOPT: "-e puts 123" } }

Though ruby rejects it

$ RUBYOPT="-e 'puts 123'" env ruby
Traceback (most recent call last):
ruby: invalid switch in RUBYOPT: -e (RuntimeError)

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/b753929806d0e42cdfde3f1a8d...

And to use -r file needs to be .rb
Many Open Source licenses require attribution. Here is a summary of some of the popular ones attribution requirements: https://www.nexb.com/blog/oss_attribution_obligations.html

As you can see here, plagiarism is not inherent to Open Source, and often times it is barred by the many of the most popular licenses.
IO monads aren't the only way. If all you want is print it's even quite easy.
Using the terms a two year old will use

I worked in a hospital for four years with a 50% patient load who were kids, most of who were around two years old (that's when the test I performed had it's greatest effect) and often distressed. You know what the naughty word two-year-olds use is? It's "No". I never heard a two-year-old say 'fuck' or any such derivative, and I saw families from all walks of life.

I'm tired of how moralisers make this kind of bullshit up. If you don't like the language, fine, say that. Say it directly. But this kind of demeaning crap is passive-aggressive - ironically not something that a mature commentary should involve.
They found me listed at the "DevelopersForHire" wiki page:

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DevelopersForHire
> knowing how much evil was done in the name of religion

I always wonder about this stance. Are you against property ownership because of the evil done by those wanting to own what others own? Against money (lots of evil done in it's quest), etc? This really seems like a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I agree the normal prices are very high, but I've learned that the key to Audible seems to be waiting for good sales to come around. They have members-only daily deals and other sales fairly regularly. I bought several books today because they are having a $6.95 members-only sale on a lot of popular titles right now.
I was exactly wondering about mono when I viewed the README. The toolsets needed are already there.

Perhaps this was done to make it easier to port to other OS later?
What I notice:

- blur for privacy: bad default in flameshot, I usually blur twice with it. If you are not careful text on the edge of your blur at least will remain very readable.

- I still like putting mouse pointer image and number markers quickly

- all the text upload stuff

- I like annotating first, and only than picking the area to shoot.

- highlighting does not multiply colors making highlighted passages less readable (looks foggy).
"A) Perceiving, people in this group are not interested in general organization unless necessary. GTD will not work well for these individuals. "

This describes me. I did the same sort of thing where I used it for a while and gradually burned out on it. I still try to keep files for organizing papers, one of the few parts of GTD that I kept.

Generally I do not have enough tasks that I am going crazy trying to remember them all. I am more interested in a methodology that keeps me on track and keeps me from procrastinating, especially as I am ADHD
> As long as capitalism keeps working, and our governments keep catering to the rich and powerful, the market will recover after it tanks hard. As of 2021, this is a pretty safe bet to make

This is what I have believed for a while now. "Stonks only go up" is a meme, but I think there's at least an inkling of truth to it.

There's too much wealth tied up in the stock market for it to actually fail.
Both obvious nonsense and nuanced misinformation can be harmful, they are just targeting different audiences. Not sure why one has to pick and choose, you can report any content you deem harmful.
A lot of people seem against this approach, but I'm all for it.

In some sense, that's exactly how top level frameworks like react and Django get made- experts build them to make it easier for the rest of us to write the business-specific logic.
That's not so obvious, the abstractions for multi-dimensional indexing are better than (I think) you're imagining.

Here's a nice recent example: a new reverse!(A; dims) function, which is fast and works on arrays with any number of dimensions. And is completely indifferent to where the indices start:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/37367/files#diff-eb9...
Individual still has to pay NI on their charitable contributions though.
There may be a longer family history here where support networks got burned - two most common I've seen are drug use and mental health issues. Criminal justice involvement much lower on list.

For transitional job programs - you don't get kicked out w out a reason - they work with lots of people. They agree not usually as ocial workers though - program is about jobs and employers usually.

Ok to use them for mail like onboarding paperwork from employers. Because of liability and other risks (folks can be hustling etc still) usually not ok too use mail service for other reasons.
Creator here,
Thank you!
When engaging in cultural protectionism, I think you should consider the opposite side of what you are telling people to do. In this case, sites cooler than HN-classic should not be made, and if they are made, people shouldn't visit them, because that might hurt HN-classic.

Is that really a sensible position to be taking? If HN can only survive by people purposely not visiting better sites, HN doesn't deserve to survive.

This entire line of logic is silly when you actually translate it into concrete recommendations you are making to real people.
There can be value in simplicity. Years ago I worked for a company that had to do a monthly teleconference with its largest client. The setup and hardware required was expensive and the experience wasn't even that great. It's a testament to how fast technology moves when now anyone with a computer can teleconference.
I recall this most recent emacs effort the best of all the previous attempts (Viper etc). I believe there was one thing I couldn't fix:

When in command mode (such as when you type :e etc), hitting back space stops at the last deletion. In Vim, if you continue pressing backspace, the editor cursor starts moving back (as if you're pressing `h` in normal mode). (Did you figure out how to fix this?)

It's the little things like this that have become ingrained in our muscle memory over the course of more than a decade.

I do agree that emacs' scripting environment is better than Vim Script.
I really want to see Txn Size / Employee.
Equity never gets meted out equally across employees. However as a worker bee I am the 'dog that eat the scraps from the table'. When the $/employee is high, even non-founder, non-dev#1 employees make out well.
IMHO, the last such exit was YouTube, before WhatsApp ofcourse.
Then I guess only native English speakers can have many "second" language. In many other countries there are 1st foreign language and 2nd foreign language classes in the school. And those books are called "English as a foreign language" (Englisch als Fremdsprache).
I've been wanting an easy way to gauge opinions and ideas on a topic between a small group of friends/co-workers without creating accounts on a service.

For example, I want to ask "what are your thoughts on the new logo?" and have my co-workers leave comments and upvote/downvote each other's opinions.

Ideally, like a HN/Reddit-style upvote/downvote comment system where they could just type their name in and comment/vote.
1. How fast can a satellite travel up the tether? Let's say 50km/h, and it's going to an altitude of 35,000km. That's a month just in travel time. Using the tether for that period of time would be extremely costly. Currently, around 125 satellites launch a year, so they would need to be going up the tether at 500km/h, one after the other, day and night. And if we need to wait for a platform to descend, they need to be moving at 1,000km/h. Otherwise, we need multiple space elevators, or multiple shipments climbing at once and passing one another to meet current demand.

2. What's the cost of building and maintaining a space elevator?

3. What's the cost of having a satellite climb the tether to an altitude of 35,000km? That's a lot of energy.

Taking this into consideration, is it tantalizingly cheap compared to strapping on a rocket? SpaceX has run tests with a reusable Falcon 9 rocket. Cost of fuel for a launch is $200,000. I'm skeptical the space elevator would be much cheaper.

The magic of SpaceX...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4

Downside of a rocket, it's heavy, and most of the energy is wasted lifting the rocket, and not the payload. Advantage, you don't have to pay to maintain cables that are long enough to wrap around the entire Earth.
No info whether the 2 main factors:

From inside and/or outside influence

How is the two's proportion

hunch or guess is that long-term child time has significant role and affected and influenced that
That's good to hear! I could imagine that a good chunk of the industry gradually got more professional as the trading pits went away. It certainly would have made being a big, loud guy less useful.
There are highly specific valuable toys and dolls, generally they weren't made to feed a mania like beanie babies. If you have an old mamod steam engine, or hornby 0 gauge clockwork (or more expensive German ones) or some dinky cast model cars made early in their production cycle, they may have appreciated above CPI. Most won't have.

That whole "Toy Story" sub-plot about the Japanese market for dolls has a thin edge of truth: Akihabera has/had a man whose entire stock of vintage hifi valves would fit in one suitcase, but a single KT66 valve sells for ¥100,000

Investment in anything this quirky is risky. You'd trivially outperform most purchase with more rational investment. Art investment works, at the medium high end but the cost of certification and ownership is non zero. You need climate control, conservation, insurance.

Wine is a bit of a busted flush. Lots of fakes, and substitution in storage, or outright fantasy of existence before purchase even: imaginary wine being sold amongst investors sight unseen, buyer and seller mutually unaware the market facilitator was lying.

Pink Diamonds are scarce: the Argyll mine shut down. Hard to know if the whole diamond scam is going to explode or not, it's been on the brink since the 60s.

Gold jewellery and diamonds sold for use sell massively below owners inflated expectations. Antique jewellery like collectibles and antiques depends on certification and forgery was rampant right back in the 18th century.

I wonder how many stamp and coin collections turn out to be harmless valueless hobbies?

I'm holding on to a huge box of pdp8 and pdp11 "flip chip" modules in original DEC cardboard boxes. I doubt they will ever be worth selling, but sentiment plays its part too. Unboxed they list for $5, arguably below cost!
That relies on you being able to guess. You can retroactively see which collectibles gained value, but you are unlikely to know that ahead of time. If you somehow do know - congrats, you’ve hit the jackpot. Maybe you have a place in the art community that introduces you to rising artists before they hit it big. Maybe you have access to sales data for toys before it gets published.

But if you’ve read about it in the newspaper, you’re too late.
Interesting. What happens if someone were to yoink part of the code for their own project (either personal or commercial)? Would they then have to open source that project under GPL?

It might just be overthinking on my part, but it'd be a shame to somehow negatively affect the Windows customization community. There's so many paid desktop customization tools out there for Windows and many of the most prominent ricing tools are closed source.
I'm part of the pagedjs team so my outlook is pretty biased :) Perhaps have a look at the docs on the site https://www.pagedjs.org/
Seems like at the moment high-school students in the US have to do two sets of exams - their normal high-school graduation exams, and also the SAT or ACT. Is that right? Why don't they use the results from one for the other? Use SAT for high-school graduation, or use high-school graduation results for university admission.
There's huge wins but the grandiosity of "enabling voice calls" is grating. I don't think this will open many users to voice communication. It will reduce data-costs in a way that has an impact on a significant amount of people's bottom line. But I feel manipulated with the current headline, and by the long extended lack of ability to mix the very real hope with some measure of humility.
You're assuming he works in tech.
There are several ways to increase concurrency: low level and high level. UNIX, for example, provided high level tools for concurrency (processes). You can also use message passing if you want. It is possible to write more concurrent software using safer primitives, instead of relying in low level techniques such as Rust/C++ multithreading.
> "Moxie, as an individual, is a paid technical advisor to MobileCoin"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013

This seems incompatible with the spirit of the quote in the article.
It's pretty cool! Looked at the examples and neat! No distractions that's what we need more in the web. NO ads and distractions.
But if the workload is not CPU-bound then why would they care about upgrading their CPUs to more performant ones, like Ice Lake Xeons?
> shortening the feedback loop drastically

More importantly, forcing you to catch them. Problems at runtime don't get caught until that condition actually occurs during an actual run of the software.
At this point there's little reason a smartphone couldn't last 6 years. My current device (a Sony Xperia Z3) has a quad-core 2.3GHz processor and 3GB of RAM, my desktop computer 6 years ago was less powerful than the device sitting in my pocket!

Sure, I wouldn't expect to play all the fancy high-end mobile games (like I ever play mobile games...) that come out 6 years from now, but I see absolutely no reason I couldn't continue to use the phone for email, web browsing, facebook, etc.
What kind of technology accounts? We might be interested in affiliation. Can you DM me?
Well, there are attempts, especially in France, to pick national champions in different industries and concentrate public funding on them to build up companies that are relevant on the international stage. This has also been tried on a (somewhat) European (but still French-dominated) scale with Airbus and Arianespace. But I think most other European governments view these kinds of activities rather suspiciously.
I agree, hijacking is good when it leads to the expected user behaviour. I kept pressing tab to auto-complete the command, but the cursor jumped to the address bar.
yeah, there is whole army of those brave speech police officers out there
Yeah I was mainly referring to the ones I knew in those days, so Dutch actors as I'm from there, and in those days we didn't get a lot of international TV.

I was watching Jumpin' Jack Flash just a couple days ago and I thought Jeroen Krabbe was pretty bad in it there also.

But good point. Europe is bigger than what I know from those times.
I don't think this blog post is really saying all that much.

> Yet, it's good to write software in such a way, in which it is easy to replace one part with another when a better (for the time being) alternative shows up

I think few would dispute that, but it isn't exactly an easy thing to do. You could spend 100% of your time adding abstractions to even moderately complex pieces of software to make sure that every last functional component could easily be replaced with some other implementation but then you wouldn't actually get anything done since all your time would go to creating and implementing _just the abstractions_. This is pretty impractical so you really have to choose your battles: which components are likely to be replaced in the future and is it worth worrying about it now? I find the vast majority of the time it is really hard to accurately predict future constraints and requirements so I tend to default to very simple choices that make sense given what I already know. When something really feels like it will need work in the future, I might add a relevant abstraction. Otherwise I am basically just wasting time.

In short, I view KISS, in the context of software engineering, as an admission that you can't really predict the future so it isn't worth dwelling too much on preparing yourself for it.

EDIT: typo
I wrote elixir for a couple years in a high scale environment, and I agree with OP on most of what he described. My favorite aspects, ranked:
1) immutable data / actor model paradigm
2) mix (super modern build tool that does it all)
3) pattern matching
I should have put /s at the end of that sentence.

I know all of what you said, but somehow HN still thinks Ads are bad.
I've heard it described as "Fleet Street cocktail party", for anticipating where topics will land across insightful-to-clueless.
Definitely not an easy issue to address but for argument sake, shouldn't the central claim be that of copyright? Is the claimant the copyright owner of the material, or can they become copyright owner by virtue of being depicted in the material?