jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I used to get annoyed at people cutting me off and used to try to close the gap in front of me.

That is just known as tailgating, it is 100% more dangerous, and the mentality that leads to it is a minor form of road rage -- getting annoyed at other drivers and rationalizing dangerous behavior because of it. And all you're doing is, very definitively, rationalization -- tailgating is never safer. That is a form of "I am very clever and counterintuitive" rationalization or how otherwise fairly smart people wind up making dumb decisions.

If you allow enough space -- which should really be well over a semi-trailer of space -- then you allow people to "cut you off" but everyone is ultimately safer.

You get where you're going at basically exactly the same time as well. Even if you get caught at a light, you'll probably make it up at some other light where you'd never make it anyway because the backup is 2+ lights long anyway (or else you're driving somewhere at some without any traffic and it doesn't matter anyway).

It also greatly helps to just get the fuck out of the left lane entirely and get out of the mentality where you give any fucks over it. That goes equally as to if you are one of the left-lane speed police OR if you're one of the left-lane-is-for-passing police. Both of those people are actually road ragers. Stick with one of the other lanes and open up a nice wide gap in front of you and watch people zip over to the left lane and get into each other's headspaces.

And you'll get to wherever you're going within a minute or two of whatever your maps app predicts.

And often the left lane isn't any faster because half the people think they drive faster than everyone else and zip over there and crowd it up.

> Note that I've never rear-ended anybody, but I've certainly had some exciting panic stops.

I can't remember the last time I ever had an "exciting panic stop". I'm pretty certain I can guess which of us is a generally safer driver. So that should be your answer.
OMG I love this.
Hmm, the middle mouse button is bound to "paste text from buffer" on Linux (probably X11 more accurately), so I keep pasting random text into the edit box or terminal window. And if I click on that middle button, then change my mind about scrolling the window, then release that button, it pastes the buffer. It looks like I have to move the trackpoint just slightly to change my mind

I don't know. Maybe people can be trained to workaround all this, but it seems very fragile and unintuitive to me. If there was a way to bind the middle button to one of the modifier keys (e.g. Alt, Ctrl, Shift, Fn, Super/Window), I can see that being a better UX. Then I can hit the modifier key, then change my mind without affecting anything.
Check out FullStory - I recently left the company but we were looking for an iOS role that would involve a ton of Rust, and embedded systems people were definitely a good fit for that position.
Really interesting, but I wish the decision had been to go down the path of using AMD Ryzen rather than Intel: Cheaper, faster, and better battery life.
What did you buy? I'm suddenly interested...
Even better is Pandora. I switched to Apple Music mostly because my car forced me to use some shitshow built in Pandora mode that works poorly and locks out the Pandora interface on the phone!

I hate driving and fill the navigator/DJ role in the car. Assuming I’m driving in a 7 passenger car is dumb.
They're promising they'll only promote speech they've determined is civil, reasoned, fact based, and for the common good.

Free speech is not a goal, much less freedom to spread misinformation.

To the extent it matters I don't know, but I would assume they'd never enhance Firefox or launch any products that enable unsavory speech.
Orchestrating in secrets, OK; but pumping in secret??
To me it seems to be being somewhat intolerant. Which is a powerful way for minorities to effect change. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
>I started using Telegram a couple of years ago to prevent my "online status" on Whatsapp being visible to everyone.

FWIW you can just disable this in the settings.
What if I think it doesn't matter at all whether people believe the correct, government-approved, blue-checkmark truth vs. their own interpretation? Since when do we all have to believe the same things for the world to function?

You sound like a high-church advocate getting mad that angry parishioners have started to question the orthodoxy. You should understand that America was founded on that kind of questioning and that kind of rejection of power in favour of open discourse, even by people who are wrong.

> amplified by radicals

Meanwhile the propaganda side is amplified by the people who own the media; ten thousand times louder than any dissident.

I pray this sort of thing just ends up pushing people towards decentralized platforms where they can speak their mind without censors, moderators, and goody-two-shoes apparatchiks complaining about "misinformation". It's so patronizing.
I think these are fair points. I'll mention that I predominately use the desktop client and it works well since I frequently leave my phone somewhere else. But doesn't seem like a right fit for you until usernames and multiple device signup. Both are in the works though so maybe good for you in the future but not now.
As for me, there are no alternatives to Hacker's Keyboard yet.
"Another property is that there is no synthesizable subset in Cx. As far as I know, this is very rare in languages for hardware design, but the language is entirely synthesizable. You never have to think about synthesis versus simulation. Exactly like in software, nobody ever wonders if they can write code that won't run on the processor :-)"

This is scary. I want the tool to tell me "I can't synthesize this" because when it does, it might infer characteristics of the design that I might not want.

Do you have some kind of paper or detailed explanation about this part?

Sometimes a bad design is not bad because it's badly written, it's bad because it's not complying with some timing constraints or because the synthesis tool decided to infer some crazy system from the code the designer wrote.
If you pigeonhole yourself as a Python Programmer or a PHP Programmer or a Ruby Programmer you've failed as a programmer.

A programmer programs. You should have the confidence to pick the right tools for the job and, if necessary, learn a new language if that's the right thing to do.

Likewise, you should have the confidence in your team regardless of their gender or language background. A good programmer is a good programmer. Period.
My site is static too. I had... uh... a bad experience with Wordpress about 7 years ago.

I think most competent professionals know that you should use static sites when you can get away with them. Look how many static site generators there are:

https://staticsitegenerators.net/

(You can also go look and find all the tools that will render a static site from a hidden Wordpress install).

To me, Vixie's take here is not very interesting, nor is it very useful. If you're the type of person to learn something from an ACM post, and you have a dynamic site, chances are it's dynamic because it needs to be.

But then I'm a little biased towards reading this article as a "get off my lawn" piece, and that's not very fair either.
What would you expect if you are not paying for the cert? For me revocation was not an issue. I just got a new cert under a different subdomain as I don't use subdomains on my personal site and the main domain is added as an alt name.
Nitpick alert!

Competetive bearding is not a sport... yet.

It's spelled "competitive."
tbh. If it wasn't CMOs it would have been something else.

The fundamental problem here is systematic risk, a bank should be able to fail without bring down other banks, unfortunately the system wasn't able to cope with the failure of a large number of banks who were all exposed to the same risk.

If a bunch of the big US car companies failed we may well have seen the same thing, because a lot of the US banks are heavily exposed to that sector. It just so happened it was mortgages that happened to be the tipping point this time.

Imagine your a bank and you have a bunch of other banks you deal with, you assign them all individually a "credit risk score" so you know how much extra to charge them to protect you against the risk of them failing before they have a chance to pay you what they owe you (much the same way as credit scores work for people).

But you have no-way of understanding the correlation between the risks, if all the banks your dealing with are actually exposed to the same underlying risk (i.e the CMO market) then the risk your exposed to is actually far higher than the sum of the individual risks. But obviously the banks you're dealing with can't tell you what their underlying risks are because that's propriety information, so all you have to go on is the risk rating given by ratings agencies.

This is a fundamentally hard problem to solve. No-one really has a good solution. It's much easier to say "let's ban CMOs" than to admit we don't really know how to solve the problem.
(This has been known about for ages.)
Glad to see you so responsive - and thanks for an elegant image hosting service!
This is actually pretty interesting as I've been testing this for the last 2 years. I've been on The Today Show, ABC News (once/week), G4TV, PBS, CBS Early Show, etc. Most of the time, the anchors/screen will say my domain, http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com.

In general, you will not get nearly as much direct traffic as you would think. For example, if I showed you the traffic from the week where I was on a national morning show, you likely wouldn't be able to pick out which day I was on.

However, media works in very interesting ways. It does affect book sales, particularly in retail stores. And media begets more media, since producers watch other TV shows.

But it's very mysterious and much more of a black art than direct traffic/measurable media.
The current state of affairs is entirely of police's own making. It's not like that in many other countries, where cops are genuinely respected.

And maybe we do need radical measures to fix things. Georgia (the country) had a similar problem with their traffic police. They solved it by literally firing the entire force overnight, then raising both the hiring standards and the pay, and rebuilding it all from scratch.
Let's not forget that the old money institutions are very much stuck in their ways, and there is a culture that goes with it - which is their norm.
Newer fintech companies are happy to challenge that norm and modernise it - removing some of that outdated culture.

On the other hand, I can see why a large money firm would want to have people in the office using devices/assets that are under their control/watchful eye.
Scott Galloway met a lot of backlash on Twitter for his take on the GameStop debacle but I’m starting to think he’s right:

https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1354532507723640835

There are a lot of frustrated men who spend most of their weekdays staring at a stock price go up and down and then post about it on Reddit instead of doing something productive. There’s no motivation to save money to buy a house with your significant other.
That data makes it seem that cancer is highly associated with corpulence.
Parler asks for an absurd amount of PII. I always figured it was a way for the Mercer crowd to assemble a dossier on the extreme right for use in future highly targeted mobilization efforts.
This works with the smart contracts with USDC, it's just that there's an authority which has permission to update the state to deny transfers from a specific address.

This is because USDC is a centralized stablecoin (as is USDT). There are decentralized stablecoins such as UST and MIM (and I believe DAI as well).
So what happens if you want to hire a second dev to help you? Or you want to sell the codebase?
Convenience and privacy are NOT mutually exclusive, the details are in the implementation.
Web design has changed dramatically over the past 10 years. Now no coding knowlegde is required to set a powerful website to enhance the online presence of any business. I personally set my own website using Wix and spent no money at all. Btw, here is the article on web design and how to do it for free - http://www.beautifullife.info/web-design/15-best-free-websit...
Search the LinkedIn ads in summer 2021.
In the UK my current debit card for my good bank is a flat black rectangle with the Mastercard Logo (overlapping circles) the name of the bank, the chip connector, and an arrow (for those with reasonable vision to determine correct orientation if they've never seen a chip before). From a Tactile point of view it has an indentation (orientation again) and a single Braille-like bump signifying "This is your debit card" (other cards may have more bumps).

On the back though it has a lot of details about the account, who I am, validity and so on, so all the same data is on the card, just not on the front and not embossed.

Current era bank cards aren't bright enough to change their numbers though, many of them are scarcely "smarter" than they were when they were completely passive, just barely enough going on to make it trickier to counterfeit them, not really any attempt to actually make that truly impossible for the majority of banks and customers. From the bank's point of view if they spend $5 per card to avoid $3 per card of fraud, they wasted $2 per card, and if half that fraud lands on the customer (because Mrs Smith didn't notice or the bank successfully prevented her claiming her money back and blamed her for the loss instead) they wasted $3.50.
I'm a 70K rep contributor to a Stack Exchange site.

StackExchange is composed of contributions from the Internet at large. I've appreciated over the years how StackExchange took this stewardship very seriously without hoarding it behind paywalls - the ethical thing to do.

One of the reasons I was motivated to contribute is because 10-12 years ago, putting tech questions in Google often led to Experts Exchange, a site that takes contributions from the public and makes you pay to see them. (Really need a StackExchange-type site to take on Pinterest now ...)

So ... no, they should not stop publishing updates. People need to bookmark sites and go directly to them instead of relying on an increasingly broken search engine that's past its heyday.
So, hypothetically, if these guys were to completely cash out these coins somehow, and then pay tax to the IRS, would they be immune from tax fraud and IRS involvement? I know similar things happen with stolen property and illegal drugs (Sullivan v. United States).
I think it's pretty presumptuous to claim that this person is suffering from RSI and should just "find a healthy posture".

There are very many causes for wrist pain, ranging from carpal tunnel syndrome to osteoarthritis. A bad posture might contribute to wrist pain, but even the best posture won't cure someone suffering from gout.

The author hasn't shared the reason for her wrist pain, most likely because she doesn't know the reason herself. She knows that her wrists hurt when she uses them too much.

Please don't belittle other people's ways of coping with imperfections.
One thing go's flag's package does that deserves a lot of blame is to automatically sort the flags alphabetically when looking at -help. And the fact that you need to hack your away around it instead of there being simply an option like nosort=true or whatever is even worse. The whole idea is crazy and basically equivalent to the statement that there order of parameters in -help serves no useful purpose.
And why there are dedicated tools for finding unused CSS that can safely (hopefully) be removed without breaking anything

https://www.google.com/search?q=find+unused+css
Video to GIF

SET filters="fps=%4,scale=%3:-1:flags=lanczos"
ffmpeg -v warning -i %1 -vf "%filters%,palettegen" -y palette.png
ffmpeg -v warning -i %1 -i palette.png -lavfi "%filters% \[x\]; \[x\]\[1:v\] paletteuse" -y %2
DEL palette.png

togif.bat <input.mp4> <output.gif> <width> <fps>

Extract audio from a video

ffmpeg -i "path\to\my_input_video_file.mp4" "path\to\my_output_audio_only.wav"

Extract specific video and audio stream

ffmpeg -i "path\to\my_input_video_file.mp4" -map 0:0 -c copy video.mp4 -map 0:1 -c copy audio0.m4a -map 0:2 -c copy audio1.m4a

Concatenate two or more video clips

(echo file 'first file.mp4' & echo file 'second file.mp4' )>list.txt
ffmpeg -safe 0 -f concat -i list.txt -c copy output.mp4

Convert 10-bit H.265 to 10-bit H.264

ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -c:a copy output.mkv

Convert 10-bit H.265 to 8-bit H.265

ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx265 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a copy output.mkv

Convert 10-bit H.265 to 8-bit H.264

ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a copy output.mkv
I'm looking forward to this. Is it going to be possible to run local Postgres (or one of the distributed dbs that are PG compatable) read instances alongside the Elixir instances?
Have you considered Nix and NixOS? It also has a high learning curve, but it provides better reproducibility.
> Hint: in French it is better to avoid spelling out the letter 'Q'.

For those who are wondering, 'Q' in French is pronounced the same as the word 'cul,' meaning 'ass.'
Not to mention it seems to be total thefts, not per capita. We already know lots of people live in London.
If you want a summary of the changes that were made you can find it here:

https://asahilinux.org/2021/03/progress-report-january-febru...
What a rubbish headline. And to think the owner is quoted in the same article saying ""They weren't in for a free-for-all". Bad reporting.

And I have no idea how this came to be a religious debate. New Zealand is pretty much secular and religion has almost no bearing on the lives of the majority and is pretty much absent from politics. Especially in Hamilton. Go there on a Friday when there is a holiday and petty theft will seem tame!

Edit: a slighty better version of story. Wow they open early.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Computer-glitch-opens-Hamilton-Pak-n-...
I love it, but it has still quite some room for improvements.

From a blog I expect at least an RSS feed of posts, a publishing date on each post, and comments.

You could also embrace the possibilities of git, and for example provide previous versions of blog posts, or even highlight differences between versions.
I guess it is the business project that made the difference and eventually how well it was thought and prepared. The goal should be the business not to be accepted by YC ;)
That really isn't anything. For example: http://www.speedtest.net/result/842209723.png

Not to mention SoftLayer offers servers in Dallas with 10Gbps uplinks.
>"it looks like an innovative and amazing idea..."

What a different perspective you get living in Silicon Valley. I personally know the founders of half a dozen competitors to Munchery in the same geographical area, and there are probably dozens of serious competitors that I don't know about.

I don't envy startups in that space. It is too sexy; it has the "actor/rockstar" curse. There are too many founders jumping in because they love it and it's fun without thinking carefully about how to build an audience and get traction. Many of them have damn impressive teams, too.

On the other hand if there are that many companies coming up with the idea independently, then maybe it is the "right time" for it and a few will be successful. But from an investor's perspective I don't understand how you pick which one to fund.
I don't see how this "really isn't anything". The speeds at Google are crazy fast in terms of the average high speed. For example, my speedtest.net results are 20 Mbps. The link you posted is just another example of how fast these companies' speeds are. To the average person, it's insane.
-- Sent from my ivory tower
Exactly. In political circles that type of advice is referred to as concern trolling and is summarily dismissed.
http://www.iconlet.com/
Another +1 vote for OpenRESTy, its simply brilliant ..
I'm curious about the mention of shopping with a bootable usb stick. Has anyone else tried this? Where can you do such a thing? I'd be afraid of salesmen thinking I was "hacking" or something.
> Given that nobody's turned an offer down, there's something that your job postings are missing that people are learning during the interview process.

You are quite correct—I haven't yet figured out how to convey the interesting product/technical challenges we're working on in a mass way: especially not well enough to overcome must developers instinctual reaction to "publishing."

If you have a minute, I would love to hear your thoughts on how we could better communicate through our listings: http://www.cafe.com/careers
Just have played with it. It was unexpectedly easy to use and it generated impressive small and fast executables. Very nice.
I find it funny how we're mostly nitpicking over something the author probably didn't spend more than 3 seconds about and are missing what most of the article's even about, including the usually inflammatory women-in-tech initiatives she's trying to jump start in the region.

I don't think it's such a big deal for someone in her position to have such a laptop mostly because she's not exactly going to fix the default constant of failure in government IT and software by coding. She'll probably have a docking station and she can probably afford a decent monitor from there.

Best of luck, but I really hate to see people thrown to the wolves like this politically by being the first in a position with such little political backing to support them. I'll say that she's done her job admirably well when my mother in law knows about her position and staunchly opposes it (she'd vote for a cat if it was Republican and Reagan was on a Democrat ballot, I think she literally said that).
Yet another tool to parse one large string into a map of smaller strings. Trouble with configuration files is rarely caused by insufficient syntax features, but insufficient schema validation seems to be a consistent source of wtf-moments: a mistyped key here, a duplicate key there, that's what is stealing our time (duplicate key: first definition wins? last definition wins? both get concatenated? doesn't matter, if i was aware of having two of them i would have fixed it in a second).

What i want from a configuration helper library is nothing less than an internal DSL for specifying the typed structure of allowed/expected keys, together with their default values and a short "what is this" description available at runtime. This would be enough to generate nice empty configuration templates and create warnings for unexpected keys (be it from typos or from unexpected duplicates).

Fancy syntax features for the configuration files themselves would be only secondary niceties. And candidates for "stupid" preprocessors ("stupid" in that they would not have to know about the appllicaton's configuration schema).
http://recon.cx/2014/slides/Recon%202014%20Skochinsky.pdf

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813029
Yeah ok, leave out the "how" then ;-)
I see their programming stack mentions ASP.Net MVC. Are you guys planning to move to vNext? Which version of IIS are you guys using? Is F# something also used?
What the heck is a "heavy?"
Stealth circumvention tools are even harder to write than just plain old circumvention tools, which we already are struggling with. It's a disaster waiting to happen. See Haystack and this comment by Thomas: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1690871.
"It should also be noted here, that it makes it very, very fast "when compared to other js engines", however, it makes it pretty slow when compared to a ton of other languages/runtimes. It's just misleading marketing speak to omit that."

Actually, I'd disagree on both counts. V8 isn't faster than contemporary JavaScript engines anymore (although it's a tad faster than Safari's Nitro engine, perhaps). However, V8 is much faster than most of the other languages used for web development: Ruby, Python, PHP, and Perl. The only exception is Java.