jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My guess is the sign on the hill doesn't read "H O L L Y W O O D."

https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/blob/main/Backgr...
The first videos are popping up on https://video.fosdem.org/2021 as we speak.

P.S. The FOSDEM 2021 video team was three people. With day jobs. Humans. One of us with kids. Not perfect. Volunteering our time. During a pandemic. One of us of was at a funeral service on Saturday morning. A close friend had died of covid-19 . Another had professional obligations on Sunday afternoon. It was great fun though, so chances are you'll see us again at FOSDEM 2022...
I know right, can't even discuss how best to enrich uranium these days without it being made all political or getting assassinated.
It's becoming more and more clear that hybrid WFH is the way of the future, and I couldn't be happier. It's the best of both worlds.
Tools are capital. Land is capital.

> No capital, no ownership (no words to even express the concept).

My understanding is that the Australian government is continuing to expropriate their land (capital). So it seems to be a basic fact that they did own it before, and that is no longer the case.
The image says "Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either 'I wish I had' or 'I'm glad I did'."

But another way to interpret this graph is to spend less time attempting to cultivate relationships (which yield less and less value over the long term) and spend more time developing interests and skills that keeps you happy and occupied as on average we tend to age in isolation.
2k/household is rather different from 5k/household, no?

606 was the portion taken from the general fund. 606/0.88 gets 688 megabucks. The remaining difference could just be precision on the 88% figure.
> The outcome is that communities that have seen decades of development will soon price out the resident who paid for its development in taxes only to reward people who are taking advantage of inequality.

Sounds like the plight of poor people from developing/poor nations who have to contend with people from developed/rich nations.
Slightly off topic:

This post says "13 hours ago" but when I do an HN search for it, it says 1 day ago.

I also recall reading many of the comments way earlier than the postrd date/time being shown.

Is this an HN bug? Or am I going crazy?
It would be nice if I could click on a state on not just pre-selected towns or could put in the url such as my town WalthamMA and show those in Waltham MA (two towns over from cambridge).
Essentially what happened was you had to have a manager approved justification for running a windows machine, whereas previously it was left entirely up to user choice.

Google also has a habit of releasing information to the public as if it's current, whereas it's actually what they were doing a few years previously. I wouldn't be surprised if that video segment was three or four years old.
Any particular reason the main site defaults to Philly? Also, what is the utility of grouping users by physical location? Novelty?
> It's not even nice for your actual customers who come the same day and pay the full price just to discover that they got screwed because they could have paid half by going to groupon.

Precisely. I went to a burger place in SF the other day and the line was 20 people deep, all paying with Groupons. The restaurant's price was already relatively high, so I felt annoyed at having missed out (even though I was planning on eating there anyway.)

I think it may be detrimental to run ridiculous coupon deals ever -- if you have ever given away (or basically given away) your product, then people that know about that recalibrate the 'real cost' of it to that. This is especially true, I'd wager, in places that 'seem like' they should have a high margin anyway (like tours, or spas, or other more service-oriented places.)
I'm a senior developer in Salzburg, Austria (about a 1 hour drive from Munich).
50400 Euros before taxes, which means I'm only taking home 31870 a year. No matter how you look at it, Europe rewards lazy people and punishes the ones doing the work.
I'd stay in California, if I had a chance.
Reddit is not a startup anymore.
Aerial maps view of Davis Monthan: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=pbskp45rxh0y&lvl=16...
It would be cool to have an input of my account and have it spit out users that live near me that have contributed to projects I own or contributed to projects I also have contributed to or am watching. It would be fun to meet up with some devs in person. Really taking the 'social' context of coding to the next level.
Pijul (and Darcs) operate on sets of patches. As a simple example, git commits have at least one 'parent', which imposes an order, e.g. let's say I edit file X in commit x and file Y in commit y; if I want both of those changes, git forces me to apply them in a particular order, e.g. [x, y]. If someone else applied those same two commits in a different order, they'll get a different commit ID, which may cause problems e.g. when trying to merge their changes with ours.

If we treat x and y as (sets of) patches instead, then the set {x, y} is the same as the set {y, x}; the order doesn't matter (we say those patches commute).

The idea of commuting patches is really useful, since we can rearrange patches to a more convenient form. For example, if we commit something we shouldn't (like a password, or a huge binary), then later remove it, a system like git makes it hard to remove that file from the history. If we're dealing with sets of patches, we can simply swap them around until the 'add file' and 'remove file' patches are next to each other, then merge those two patches. Voila, the file no longer appears, the rest of the history remains intact, the branch's content is guaranteed to remain unchanged (since we only swapped commuting patches, which doesn't change anything; and merged two patches, which doesn't change anything).
We know that fundamentally it's our endurance that gives us a physical edge, but I am curious...

> We are not the fastest. Not the strongest. Not the best swimmers or climbers.

Are humans the best in aggregate at all of these? Sure, there is always going to be an animal that is faster in one aspect, but are there other animals that are better than humans at all of them?
People using git think that commits are patches. But that isn’t how git works. Git sometimes tries to let you treat a commit like the diff between it and it’s parent and lets you try to rewrite history but these are really making new commits with new ids and this confuses people.

In pijul, the objects you interact with actually are diffs (aka patches) and then snapshots are well-formed sets of patches. Here, well-formed means that if a patch is in the set then so are it’s dependencies (these dependencies aren’t like parent commits in git, they’re more like you need to add line 3 before you can delete it). So removing or modifying a patch in a branch isn’t a horrific interactive rebase operation anymore.

When you move a patch in pijul it doesn’t affect any of the patches written before or after it (unless they depend on it). When you “move a patch” in git you rewrite the history and create new commits, so if I was talking about a commit (id) before the move, I would be talking about some dangling commit after the move and would need to update my id to the corresponding new post-move commit.
Who's job is it to track the net worth of celebrities?
Given that the New Yorker is often a political publication, I thought that the context of why the question is posed was obvious and not in need of being explicitly explained.

By raising the possibility that the reflexively conservative might be correct, a compelling case is made to all that research is in order.
People can be smart and selfish at the same time. I've worked with some extremely smart people who realized that what made work satisfying to them was getting paid to be clever all day. Being smart, they found ways to do that, at the expense of their employers and coworkers. I wasted an hour of my afternoon writing a long and angry screed about my professional experience with functional programming (in Scala) but at the end of the day, sadly, it can be summed up as that, smart people scamming companies for the opportunity to be clever all day. I see mainstream programming benefiting more and more from the influence of functional ideas, so I still think that FP might become the default for professional programmers at some point in the future, at least for some kinds of work, and I think the work I've invested in it has made me a better programmer, but I'm fed up with the kinds of people I've found myself working with along the way.
We know pandemics happen but we have no idea which viruses will become pandemic viruses - until one emerges, we're generally confident that there is not an imminent pandemic.
They have not extradited Snowden. If it is politically favorable they would grant residency. There are other few other countries who who do the same, but only one or two like Russia could withstand U.S. pressure if they harbor such a high profile figure.

Of course Putin will take all the money anyway, so what is the point ? Getting the mob for support never ends well.

Also to note one of them is a dual Russian citizen so it more complex than the hypothetical
The fact that I haven't done any serious work involving hinting with this font may have something to do with this issue as well. I'll have to look at this later.
> Is that extremely petty and spoiled?

When I interview, I put a price on every chore, inconvenience and petty indignity a given workplace will expose me to.

Then I subtract that from the salary and see if the offer is still competitive.

They want me to do a bunch of business travel by plane? I hate airports, so travelling once per year is equivalent to a 3% pay cut. They want me to browse the web without an ad blocker? That's about a 20% pay cut. I can't have local admin on my work machine? That's 8%. Join an on call rota that gets between 1 and 3 calls per week? 7%. I gotta take a company-issued phone? 5%.

You don't like Teams - but would you pay $10,000 a year to avoid using it? Because you were offered a job that paid $10,000 more and you rejected it because of Teams, that's what you're doing.

That way, I'm never turning down a job because I'm petty and spoiled. I'm turning down a job because unfortunately, the price wasn't right.
> LISP's also has a long history of popping up all over the place because they are extremely implementation-friendly

This is a LIE.

I get tired of hearing this over and over. Broken Lisps are easy to implement.

Try implementing a real s-expression parser in C. I'll wait.

For example, this library: http://sexpr.sourceforge.net/ takes 5000+ lines of code. And it doesn't even handle dotted pairs! (For good reason, handling dotted pairs without recursion is extremely difficult.)

I have written entire languages in that number of lines. So, have many others.

Lisp does not count as small.
This actually seemed pretty convincing to me:

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/470/maybe-window...

"The reason Microsoft didn’t adopt Blink is simple: Google.

Aside from the obvious issues these two companies have with each other, consider a few other relevant details. Google had split Blink from WebKit earlier because it was always fighting with Apple and wanted control. But now Google is doing what it wants with Blink—as Apple did/does with WebKit—because it’s strategically important to Google. That is, Google could only be counted on to do what was best for Google at all times, and not what was best for Blink generally, and the community of companies using it."

Given how Apple and Google had the public divorce over WebKit, it makes sense that Microsoft didn't trust Google enough to base their new browser on Blink.
Wow what an insane example.

First, there a major difference between restrictions placed on convicted criminals, and restrictions placed on every citizen of an entire country.

Second, one represents a danger to the physical safety of others, and the other represents something that you would prefer your child not to see - do you not see a stark difference between a child being kidnapped and raped, and a child accidentally clicking onto a pornographic website?

Its not that complicated - we punish those who have committed crimes, we do not do so preemptively to entire populations.
All datasheets should be uploaded to libgen or similar platforms so that they're always accessible to anyone needing them.
Hey, thanks! I think a "lucid dreaming-based" video game would be really awesome. I'm pretty sure there are already indie projects like this actually, but I haven't tried them yet.

So it would be fun, but for actual LD training... I'm not convinced. I don't think it's sufficient. Just training yourself to do reality checks often is not enough. I've had countless dreams in which I mindlessly did an RC and then went about my dream business just as non-lucidly.

It could be a training aid though. Games as a form of interactive storytelling could help grow the player's metacognition / critical self-reflection, which might lead to more lucidity. And there have been some studies that show video games can help with LD induction (example [0])

If you decide to work on a dreaming-related project like that, definitely send me a message :)

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333001762_Relations...
They are more scary the same way a tiger is more scary than a cat even though both are Felidae.
Intel had the right idea with its Compute Card [0], but decided to sunset it a couple of years ago. It's clear that the way we're manufacturing these devices now is not the way forward. We're putting computers in televisions and refrigerators that can barely keep up with today's requirements, yet the general population expects these devices to have a lifespan of >10 years. With global warming as it is this is starting to border on criminal negligence.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-compute-card-bad-ide...
How the authenticity of IP address is established then? Wouldn’t the server need a certificate for its IP?
They burn a lot of coal to make the stuff we buy.

We have to look at the entire supply chain if we want to reduce our emissions.
There are some very poorly run companies about the place ...
Given the popularity of digital sales it's hard to see the business model where this would make sense.

I have a bog standard internet connection with a download speed of 1000gb. Most games download faster than it would take me to go to the store or order a package.
> There's nothing scary about these robots

How would you feel if the dance contained some choreographed "mow the people down" moves?
I wouldn’t call it dangerous, just meaningless. A lot of the discussion in this thread dives deeply into the technicalities of Unicode. All of that is correct, but a bit besides the point IMO.

I think the real issue is that “reversing text” is fundamentally an operation that only makes sense in Western alphabets — the complexities of Unicode just reflect that. This is a bit hard to fathom for people who grew up with such an alphabet (this includes me), where there’s a rich tradition of games based on shuffling letters. It’s not just reversing; my understanding is that you can’t meaningfully define the concept of an anagram in many writing systems.
Well Sim tower had range limit elevators. This game doesn't.
People here are complaining about a 4.7" screen phone and you counter with... a 4.6" screen phone. I think you've demonstrated baddox's point.
The concern here isn't so much about fishing (though it may be a problem) as much as it is what the nets are treated with, which might affect fish populations, other species, and the very humans they're intended to protect. The article explicitly states that permethrin is highly toxic to cold-blooded animals, fish in particular, and could over-stress local populations. If the fish they don't catch die from exposure to insecticides, the situation is liable to get much worse.

I understand why the nets were treated with insecticide, but it seems a bit foolhardy to have done so when there was a possibility the nets might not be used for their intended purpose. Although I suspect no one involved considered such a possibility, or if they did that it wouldn't be nearly as wide spread.

I think this represents one of the major problems with our current means of providing foreign aid. Although well-meaning, providing mosquito nets to people in effort to protect them from a disease that is likely to kill them versus starving to death (which definitely will kill them), the people are going to address their immediate concerns first. I don't know what the solution is, but it seems that just attacking one particular problem at a time isn't working. I agree with other comments here that eliminating malaria probably means dealing with food stability and access to clean water first and foremost, then addressing malaria (in parallel, possibly). I respect the organizations that are trying to help, but the solutions don't come easily.

But then you also have the other problem that these are impoverished, sometimes war-torn areas that have threats even beyond the scope of access to food and water...
The iPhone 5S is the most comfortable phone I've ever had. It's not perfect and the battery could last a bit longer, but it's sufficient and it charges up quickly enough that I don't really have any hassle with it. iOS is nimble and I have no complaints about it.

Ages ago I had a Lumia 800 and I liked it. It was a good one-handed size, and Windows Phone was also quite minimalistic and smooth to use, but when it became clear that the phone was basically deprecated and would never receive Windows Phone 8, I abandoned it and switched to an iPhone 5S.

Last year I received a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 as a gift and ended up returning it after a month because it was simply ridiculous. Couldn't safely keep it in my pocket, couldn't even dream of using it with one hand and in all it was just a horrible experience--though some part of the crappy experience I chalk down to Android. Even if I had rooted it and removed all the junk that comes preinstalled, the lag is simply not something I could tolerate after iOS and Windows Phone.

So I stuck with my iPhone 5S and haven't really looked back. It does everything I need it to do. If I couldn't use it as a portable hotspot or if it lacked apps I might consider a Lumia 635 or something--not that I've tried one out, mind you.

I tried an iPhone 6 when it was released and I could tell quite quickly that it would be frustrating as hell, so I didn't upgrade. There was simply no need to increase the size of the phone other than to pander to Samsung people and appeal to the masses. I personally don't think that was what Apple was ever about, and I think the iPhone's small size was a good design decision much like the avoidance of touchscreens on MacBooks.

Now all the Windows Phones are pretty big as well, and my dislike of Android rules out quite a few smaller smartphones available, it looks like I'll be stuck on the iPhone 5S for the foreseeable future.
I doubt this is them trying to block YouTube.

The certificate has SAN entries for things like google-analytics.com, android.com, *.cloud.google.com, goo.gl, g.co, urchin.com, and a plethora more[0].

If they wanted to just block YouTube, there are ways to do that without forging certificates. For example, modern browsers will send the domain name in plain-text even for HTTPS connections for SNI to function. They could easily block based on that.

[0] http://imgur.com/a/C8Tf4
If that was the motivation, why would they redirect to a server with a falsified certificate instead of just dropping the connection?
Apple does the same thing (apparently they request https://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html and see if it returns the correct SSL and contents).
Imagine if Gogo gets compromised and that cert is stolen. Suppose it will end up on a CRL or just quietly replaced?
No, but when you make claims like those in the title then those peer-reviewed facts make all the difference.

There's a ton of pseudo science and outright bs in the anti-aging scene so some references would definitely help in this case.

Articles that don't make grandiose claims don't need to put their evidence up front. For 'most scientists' in the title read 'most scientists that hold a view contrary to that of the author'.
They picked the models and found that they all worked.

They were funded by climate deniers who expected to disprove all of them. They discovered that they actually do work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Institute
The core complaint of the comment which mentioned "$.50 words" wasn't the existence of the words themselves, but the low information density. It's hard to take your criticisms of inanity and irony seriously when you're clearly misunderstanding what people are saying.
Why hello there! I'm the maintainer/developer behind Vagrant and I'm happy to answer any questions there may be about the project whether it be conceptual or directly related to how Vagrant works.

I didn't expect to see this on HN today but I guess I'll just give a giant information dump here for those interested :)

Good links for those interested in what Vagrant is:

* "Why Vagrant?" - http://vagrantup.com/docs/getting-started/why.html

* "Frequently Asked Questions" - http://vagrantup.com/faq.html

* The code - https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant

* The original HN submission when Vagrant was launched (286 days ago) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

And then a quick update for those who want to know whats going on with the project now:

The project has been nonstop since January this year, and the codebase is nearing one year old. Vagrant is now on version 0.6.8. Vagrant is used by many companies worldwide and the 0.6.x series is considered stable. In September 2010 I gained sponsorship for my work on Vagrant by Engine Yard[1]. I've been working very hard for the past 2 months to get the project working with other hypervisors (KVM, VMWare), spurring other open source projects of my own in the process (libvirt-rb, virtuoso, you can find these at my github[2]).

[1]: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/mitchell-hashimoto-joins...

[2]: http://github.com/mitchellh
He'll never make as much off of us as he would have off of keeping the money. I guess I just don't understand his thought processes. It's not like the bank cares that he gave the money back, maybe the manager would have thought about it for a day or so, but they would've written it off or collected it from the spam company. He created a losing situation for himself.

I guess my question is, why would he rather have our money than the bank's? Maybe I just have a different set of morals/ethics.
Finding the Best Chicago Pizza in Chicago:
Go to Pequod's.
Pff. That's, like, your opinion man.
I think these processes are like that Price is Right game Plinko. You're the round little disk and the interviewers are the pegs.

There are thousands of pegs on the board, and your resume predicts the starting position of your disk.

But once you hit the pegs, it's essentially random. Some pegs bounce you towards the jackpot and other pegs bounce you towards 0.

It all depends on if you have a similar background, if the person likes you, if you've heard of the question before or solved something similar, if your chosen language fits the problem domain, etc.

At the end of the day, your ability to actually do things doesn't matter much in the interview process. I've worked at 2 huge well known companies and failed at several other interviews. Hundreds of millions of people use my code every day. After nearly a decade in tech, I've never gotten a bad performance review. But I still plinko'ed into the 0 spot many times.

As I get older, I find it's easiest just to enter orgs from friend's recommendations, preferably at smaller companies. Playing the plinko game with your livelihood is an exhausting waste of time, and often represents the politicking that goes on at these huge companies when review time comes around.