jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The fact that you're being downvoted shows how much of a socialist hell-hole HN has become.

No one is forcing people to drive for uber and no one is forcing the rider to use uber. In my city, Accra, Taxis were so expensive until uber came to the market and forced down the price.

The only system that puts the consumer (read: common man) first is the free market (if and only if politicians would allow it to work).
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> My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site.

This is the funniest sentence in the history of the web.
Excellent post and advice. The Self 1 / Self 2 comparison reminded me of the book Switch by Chip and Dan Heath. They discuss both a rider and elephant, the intellectual and emotional sides of the self. The metaphor is useful in that it shows how effective motivating or controlling that self 2/elephant can be.
Nothing's black and white - it's easy to forget just how much better Google were than the competition at the time.
It's probably because their particular product takes the concept of launching very, very seriously. :)
California has been running budget surpluses since 2011.
Buying a house shouldn't make your net worth go negative (unless it massively depreciates, I guess). The mortgage balance is debt, but it's backed by the value of the house.
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I went through them to get my first tech job. I highly recommend them, though I’ve seen enough negative reports on HN to say your mileage may vary with them. I certainly think they have a much higher caliber crop of companies hiring on their platform than other platforms like Hired.
Work wanted a cloud office provider, Went to M$ and they quoted 35 dollars per user. Thinking they own the market they price gouged us. Google gave us 15. This is for 20K+ users, guess what email solution we went with. 9 months later, M$ Came back and offered to match the price of google, after we already deployed to google office.

3 years later, Work is now thinking about switching the mobile iron (google phone management) piece to microsoft, since we are finished our windows10 upgrades, and switching from wsus to sccm with microsoft security/patching on azure. Fixes our remote laptop patching issue this way, since sales folks dont vpn in.

Dont get me started on the ssl cert authentication installed on every laptop for gmail, with no password for gmail, just the oauth just the ssl cert password.

Microsoft costs do come in play.
This isn't a computerization of the game, its a computerization of the recording of the game. Big difference and has nothing to do with computer chess engines. It could be used to detect cheating by comparing played moves to engine lines. Also a board camera isn't the the only way this could be implemented, rfid's in the pieces or a pressure sensitive board would both work. Players could still take their own game notes. It would also eliminate errors in the recording of the game and provide records for blitz and time pressure situations.
Many people if asked can't articulate what they want, and yet know or recognize it when they see it.
The article just skims over this part:

"To start off with, Goodfellow and co place some limits on the task at hand to keep it as simple as possible. For example, they assume that the building number has already been spotted and the image cropped so that the number is at least one-third the width of the resulting frame. They also assume that the number is no more than five digits long, a reasonable assumption in most parts of the world."

This seems like a huge task. Someone has to go through all the thousands of images and first crop them? During that time, it would seem like they could just input the number into a database.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I read the "cracked" part to be a totally automated system that scans all the pictures and pulls the numbers with no human manipulation.
imo the most lucrative thing to manufacture would be parts for larger orbital stations and for satellites/rockets. The most expensive part of space is getting there - if you could manufacture the payload (aka body of the rocket) in orbit, there would be no need for a stage 1 or 2.
Hah. Erm.. not sure how that’s broken it’s just a page with a form on it..

Yeah the site it redirects to needs a fair share of love. Honestly might shutter it if OP’s site works well for me, I too just wanted a place to bung images that wasn’t imgur
> But we all know our number by memory.

I don't. And I use my passport as an ID when two forms of ID is required.
If they were smart this all would have been moot a long time ago. They would start a subscription-based private tracker, add a URL handler so that things opened in the torrent program automatically, and everything would have been fine and nice and great and they'd be making much more money.

Instead of doing this and making pirate methods obscure, they insist on wasting everyone's time and money by implementing DRM schemes that cause incompatibilities, only to be broken a short while later, and suing people, which ultimately just gives the pirate sources more time to grow and more media exposure, especially when they sue and/or force prosecution of these pirate sources directly instead of just pursuing average filesharers, a la The Pirate Bay.
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Right, I can imagine one would come to something similar in that settings. It was much less noble but a lot more funny getting there from the other end. The mileage you get out of a single carrot using 1 slice every other day. 1 cm from a 4 euro 40 cm salami sausage is 10 cents. I use it ideally on 1/3 of the pizzas. Its not enough to finish it before it expires.

We don't have that many homeless people in the Netherlands but I've been pondering a business plan for a free or crazy cheap restaurant. There are lots of weird legal constructs if people are not buying food. It is the moment you start selling a product it becomes a business.
Being a doctor is always valuable, though I'm not sure it's that easy to retrain into one...

More importantly, knowing how to live frugally is valuable in and of itself, assuming we do end up with a once-in-a-century-type depression.

Not impossible, according to some (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22655670) but then forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.
Yep, I have a tool that is similar to this and this is what I did.

Unfortunately, if you are working with daily returns you need consecutive returns for way more than a week. You have correlated returns, in particular there are Friday-next Monday correlations that are important in the tails. You also have volatility clustering/asymmetries over daily periods (i.e. high volatility tends to be followed by higher volatility and the volatility responds differently to up vs down moves) and this tends to last way longer than a week.

It is very tricky stuff. In the real world, you will often find managers grouping based on their knowledge (i.e. X-Y was the 2008 crisis) and testing their portfolios against that. It is rather unscientific but it works (i.e. in this case, you might do something like a Markov model with a transition matrix of the daily probability of moving between volatility states, and then sample longer blocks from groups based on the state).

A simpler option (what I did) is to just look at yearly returns, and sample across countries (just using the US is horrible cherrypicking).
"two is a coincidence three is a conspiracy"
My bad, last time I heard an expert talking about it that the act was created exactly for this kind of event and Trump was resisting invoking it to not affect private companies. I'm glad he changed his mind.

Still, I think he should stay at home in other states. LA county seems to assume it is beyond containment and now only tests people if that would affect the treatment.
I recommend brave to all my non technical friends and family. Of all the options it has the best out-of-the-box privacy settings. If Firefox's rise in the late 2000s taught us anything it's that being the recommended choice of technical people can spur on pretty big growth.
Get a job in technical sales or PM or some other part of tech! Tons of tech jobs that desperately need social people. As a solo founder I had to spend a lot of time talking to customers etc until we grew a fair bit.
More privacy has been one of the perks of not having a roommate since... forever. This isn't a new consequence of technology.
The difference between my claims and yours is I challenge readers to validate the claims themselves instead of taking my word for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614951
I think you are looking for something like middesk.com
it's true that very few people are truly irreplaceable and it's a good hedge for knowledge to be well distributed. at the same time, small companies rarely have the luxury of employing (and keeping busy) multiple senior architects. unless you're at a very large company, there's always going to be a bus factor somewhere - it's just the reality for 90% of small businesses. either that or you have lock-in to outside consulting companies and services and no one with deep technical insight - just someone who's a consultant coordinator.

i'm not saying it's good to be that bus factor (you're on-call basically 24/7), but it also has undeniable perks for the employee (not the employer).

in reality my bus factor is not that high. the nice thing about well-designed systems is that they seldomly need attention, and there's another dev here who's more than capable of bug fixing and maintaining what's already in place.
> June can reach 120f

In case anyone was curious, the temperature in Phoenix has reached 120F on three days in recorded history: June 25--26, 1990 and July 28, 1995.
What percentage of TV users generate any content on television?

Many people just spectate, whether it’s TV or social.
You may downvote me all you wish, I stick by my comment. haha. These are really bad takes.
I've written some about this here: https://www.jefftk.com/p/value-of-working-in-ads
You should also check https://github.com/kubevious/kubevious
Probably something about "Equitable math".

Teaching that math problems have a correct solution ("1+1=2") is considered racist by some, because… I can't tell you, because I didn't understand that when it was discussed some time ago.

Maybe someone else remembers the structure of the argument and can provide an explanation?
If you're already a programmer, it's not for you. If you're not already a programmer, no, absolutely it is not a joke. Having taught people to program for many years it's some of the best advice I've seen.
I used the emacs/vim tools on win64 but since I am not a vim/emacs specialist I failed. In any case Komodo Edit and Atom have golang support.

Lite IDE rocks but keep an eye on the others too.
_NB_ it could utterly shape the next 5-10 years of your life and in doing so drastically alter the path of of your life 70 years from now.

(Depending on the exam, but if the exam defines college entry it is not an unreasonable statement. Of course the trick is to realise that success doesn't mean a better life, and failure doesn't mean a worse one. It's like Rimmer getting held down a year at school and becoming Ace instead...)
I hate advice like this. Hate it. It should not be my job to worry about how things will eventually be rendered, that's the job of the type-setter, page renderer, or someone else.

I should be able to lay down text in whatever format is useful, easy, convenient, or relevant for me, not for them. I put two spaces after periods so I can easily find sentence endings and beginnings. I put two spaces after periods because it helps my flow when I'm writing. I put two spaces after periods because when it's rendered in mono-space on my system it looks better. When I'm writing it's not my place to worry about how it will appear on the page. It's the content.

Have we learned nothing about the separation of concerns, of content from layout?

If I then drop it into HTML, or LaTeX, or LibreOffice, or PDF, or some other document presentation system, that's when I should worry about how it looks, and the two spaces after the period should have no effect.

At least, not if the rendering system is competent and capable.
And still not using python3.X …
> knocking out the gene for one protein and then producing that protein elsewhere

Why does this work?
1. Yes you handled it it wrongly, just as most of us did. Shouldn't matter that much. Now you know, you can adjust.

2. No this is not normal, most managers understand that a new employee needs support to get started.

3. Definitely not, most of us are friendly people, keen to help our co-workers contribute to the projects we work on after all if you don't contribute it means the rest of us have to work harder (ok perhaps I'm not a rock star dev, but I'm pretty good).

Lastly, try to find out what's going on, make sure that you understand the dynamics of the situation so that you can adjust your own behaviour if necessary. But if the working environment is really just toxic rather than simply demanding start looking elsewhere.
There is a difference between magic and automation. Magic is about obfuscation, hiding, and keeping the programmers only using the surface tools.

You can auto-generated code as long as the programmers know the what and why for.
forgive the copy-paste response from elsewhere on thus thread.

an example from https://www.spacemonkey.com/blog/posts/go-space-monkey -

we decided to transliterate our 90k lines of Python directly to Go, line by line

The 90K number includes our tests, but without tests, the Python codebase is 36,784 lines of code. Those same lines
of code became 41,717 lines of Go code. So, not that much of an increase. When you consider that's just 4,933 more lines, it's not crazy to assume most of those are closing braces.

I'd say closing braces and trivial expansions of list comprehensions into 3-5 line loops.

There's a real life example of direct transliteration, not just a rewrite. That's 13.4% more lines. I think that's pretty close.
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb is also on the same theme. He argues that human, and life in general is (or should be) designed for robustness, not for optimal. Note that is not arguing against taking risk, but for better preparation for risks (both known and unknown).
That should only happen if:
1. the driver cannot be loaded
2. the app doesn't start

I included two drivers in the installer, one unsigned for OSX 10.7 and 10.8 and a signed for OSX 10.9 and 10.10.

Which OS X version are you using?
>How about we just prosecute everyone who breaks the law?

That would be a novel and very welcome thing in America.
He also appeared to have a handgun. Combined with the zip tie handcuffs, it sure looks like he wanted to execute people on live stream.
The funny thing is that a few years ago they would’ve all proudly worn scary masks, but now that performative anti-masking is a purity test on the right a lot of them decided to go and conspicuously show their faces.
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About those selfies. The only ones I've seen are those where the Trump supporters were holding the cameras. Have you seen any where the police were taking shots of themselves with the protesters? A police officer standing passively by while someone takes as shot that includes them seems less ... outrageous.
They already are. Also, Trump refused to send in the National Guard claiming “his people” were peaceful and that no one was paying attention to the rioters. You may want to do some digging. All of those woke conspiracy theories being spread by crazy progressives like myself usually come from Trump or QAnon supporters directly.
You’d have a hard time finding a service at scale that wouldn’t kick you off for the kind of things cloudflare does. All the big players remove certain types of content from their platforms.
What are you basing this information on (besides a pinky swear of a corporation which happily forgets their values when it comes to repairability and labor force) ?
no. legislators should be forced to use and run (or obtain from a competent vendor) their own ActivityPub implementations.

It's too bad this post hasn't had more comments in it.
This is simply not true.
https://youtu.be/Ho_CFfdsmc8

With ortholinear this argument holds more without actually twisting your wrists.
Sure I assume so, certainly ones I've been to. I mean the camp obviously wasn't using electric fences to keep the kids in, but the surrounding farmers where using electric fences to keep their cattle/horses/sheep out of the summer camp.
Giving all your information to a single company where it's easily pooled and abused is a win?
Most of the Android ecosystem is on Kotlin at this point. So Java language changes don't really matter for Android. Jvm changes matter even less because Google implements their own runtime.
Sociopaths generally don't make very good parents or partners. Most of them don't directly harm people, sure, but I'm making a value judgment that empathy is a positive trait.
I have a similar anecdote but LSD rather than psilocybin and depression rather than anxiety. Commented on it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996106
>Did I say anything about software?

Well, you did say:

"Who'd like to sponsor? Or should I just spin up a GitHub repo for the code and a kickstarter for the prize money?"
I've used GopherJS. I actually gave a talk just this past week about full-stack Go[0] (ie, using Go for native mobile/desktop, and client-side web development in addition to server-side), and GopherJS was, unsurprisingly, a bit part of that.

GopherJS works surprisingly well; the biggest issue for most people will be the unminified file size. But based on my initial profiling, between minifiers, caching, and the fact that many websites are serving large assets (images) already, it's less of an issue than I had anticipated it would be.

The second biggest issue is the fact that almost nobody writes raw Javascript anymore these days in the browser. Most people use not only JQuery (or a similar tool), but something to structure client-side code, like React.js or Angular.js.

GopherJS has an implementation of JQuery[1], which works about as well as JQuery itself does - that is, it does the job, but can get unmaintainable when there is a lot of client-side code. There is a GopherJS implementation of Angular.js, though I haven't used it.

Until a month ago, there was a lingering quirk with the way GopherJS handled asynchronous code (calls to blocking functions had to be specially marked with comments, which meant that parts of the standard library couldn't be used be used without modification). They just fixed this a month ago[2], which is a huge milestone for the project.

React is a bit trickier, given the way that React applications are structured, and the way that React interacts with Javascript-specific features (namely the "this" keyword). It's currently usable, but with insane filesize[3]. I think this could be slimmed down, since almost no work has been done optimizing this so far, but React-on-GopherJS is certainly not production-ready yet.

That said, that's only looking at compiling existing Javascript code to Go. My hope is that the next client-side MVC/MVVC/etc. framework will be written in Go from the start. Go is a great language for structuring client-side code; the only bottleneck (until now) was that there was no way of actually running the code! But now that GopherJS is in a working state, it's a completely green field - very exciting time.

[0] https://chimeracoder.github.io/full-stack-go-client-slides/#...

[1] https://github.com/gopherjs/jquery

[2] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/issues/89

[3] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/issues/118
One of my hats is manager, and I find it amusingly honest. My job is to command, and they obey. Buying someone (chattel slavery) is worse than renting them (wage slavery), but it's a matter of degree.

Ok, I admittedly expend serious effort at inverting my authority... which is hilariously undermined by the devs I manage, because they're trained to be obedient specialist cogs and it's like pulling teeth to get them to act independently outside a narrow range. So there's pressures towards authoritarianism. But I don't manage only devs (and I'm supporting non-devs to become devs), so it's not all bad.
I switched to reading most non-fiction on my ipad, for exactly this reason.
That's the sound of a long bow being drawn.
Your comment if off-topic. Article said, "Microsoft gives NSA exploits which they then use to spy on people". I pointed out that there is not a single recorded instance of that.
> Do we really want our health data to be controlled in the hands of these FAANG

Then we should stop deliberately giving it to them? E.g. in the name of privacy, Google has secured health data access for its own machine learning systems , to the exclusion of everyone else who is working on health ML. Laws like HIPPA were meant to facilitate the anonymous sharing of health data, not to block it. Health feels like a hugely lost opportunity exactly because nobody wants to touch that data with the current legal repercusions.
our kids also have found things like this which lead to YouTube bans in the house - now, they 1.5 and 4yo both seek content that is far more engaging than the above video.

One helpful thing was raising the age for their YouTube kids.. I don't want them just navigating YouTube alone.
What you're describing is Netflix.
I tried Wire and was a bit underwhelmed to be honest. It looks and feels old. I'm much more inclined to use Threema.
Sadly, I have lost more people I knew from drug overdose than from virus during last year.

Most people won't care about to understand the damage that lockdowns have done to vulnerable people. The difference is that covid deaths are direct and lockdown effect are nebulous so harder to prove and understand.

Now the same people are so worried for some vaccine side-effects. It doesn't make sense to me but that's how people think.
Cable is ALWAYS a better choice. Cable to each desk, connected to a docking station. Fast, stable, no nonsense.
You can also do "person is object", which seems to make sense to me.
The thing is, yeah, any one of those verbose things wouldn't be a big deal. But there are actually quite a few and it adds up over time.
Yeah. I want to combine multiple cals into a single cal with only free/busy that i can then publicly share/ give out to my friends/family
> Switching from gas to electric is something I can do all on my own.

There were lots of government subsidies, federally funded academic research, etc. involved in making it a practical choice you can make.