jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I dunno. Sam Walton (founder of Wal-mart) famously drove an old truck long after he was rich. He said he liked it and didn't care about driving something fancier.

Probably this attitude had helped him get where he was.
The point of my example was simple - Go's gross mishandling of whitespace is a permanent trap for the unwary and a huge liability for people coming from other languages.

When D was nascent, many people proposed various schemes for making semicolons optional. I think it's great D didn't fall for such.
Research done more than 20 years ago (and repeated and confirmed) already found that teachers have very little effect on educational outcomes. The biggest correlative factor is socioeconomic status and education level of the parents. Everything else is hit or miss

But hey, let’s publish a pointless paper... because academia.
Exactly. The problem with "both sides" reasoning is that often times it really is only one side to any meaningful degree.
So much this. In addition, these tiny issues are often purely technical in nature. I still have to meet the first security engineer who is able to identify informations security risks at the business level and view vulnerabilities in their proper context.
> Systems are buggy, their inputs aren't reliable, they have no understanding

Unfortunately this gets less and less acknowledged by many of today's technicians and engineers (I'm a programmer myself). People need not necessarily focus that much only on the Kafka-like stories or on the Bentham-inspired panopticon (both of these being real problems, I agree), but instead they should also go back to (re-)read Stanislaw Lem's "The Cyberiad" [1] in order to see what unreliable and buggy systems can do to a society that relies too much on them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad
> If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

We didn't take into account loss of sales and reputation, the equation is not (should not) be that simple
I think this is specific to person, age, other aspects of life e.g. level of stress and sleep quality that affects recovery. If you go to failure but you can train that main muscle group on the same week, I think you are fine as ideal set number for intermediate athletes are between 12-20 per muscle group (according to Dr. Mike Israetel @ Juggernaut Method).
Oh Wikileaks, why would you publish more material that harms the leaders of the Russian state? It's as if you don't even care that you're contradicting the constant media accounts of your pro-Russian bias. Corporate-media stenographers have families to feed!
Absolutely not, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1450.ht... explains why in section D. Implementation difficulty
I think you're missing the point of the feedback. You need a tour, some screenshots, or some better copy to allow interested folks to get a better sense of what's going to happen if they become a user.
I’m curious how this looks on ARM64. (Sorry, Aarch64.). x86 context switches are overcomplicated and inherently slow.
io_uring will help a lot here.
That doesn't sound right. SQLite's lock for writes is not the best, but it is still pthread mutex under the hood. Are you sure your compilation options for SQLite is right? One common pitfall is compiling without `-DHAVE_USLEEP`. In absence of that flag, SQLite will use sleep in case of conflict, and that will have time resolution of 1 second, causing 1s delay on every lock contention. That flag tells SQLite to use usleep instead, and it is substantially faster on busy timeout.

Here is my SQLite compilation flags: https://github.com/liuliu/dflat/blob/unstable/external/sqlit...

Here is where the flag used: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/d46beb06aab941bf165a9d...
Neanderthals were humans. Sex with them would maybe have been weird, but certainly not bestiality. I don't understand why you're comparing it with that - please elaborate?
> people don’t actually care about absolute inequality

People care about fairness. Hell, even monkeys care about fairness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

Extreme income inequality is unfair. Jeff Bezos is not 1,000,000,000% "more worthy" of wealth than Richard Feynman—and everyone knows it. Very little about financial capitalism is fair.
Now it does. If you have the `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variable set to a personal access token or if you happen to use the hubs github cli it will work
Well, I cannot judge what is good for you, and neither can you for me. Its an individual choice, not something that is forced upon. The point is, 40 hours/week is a completely arbitrary number. I enjoy working extra hours, it allows me to work on multiple projects simultaneously that I otherwise couldn't do in an 8 hour day.

If Michael Jordan wasn't such a workaholic would he still have become 'The' Michael Jordan. No data, but I find it unlikely. (No, I'm not comparing myself to Jordan)
The author needs to be careful in what model they are using to show asymptotic runtime. Sure, this reduces to O(log n) matrix multiplications, but matrix multiplication is not a constant time operation (and is actually between quadratic/cubic in the dimension of the matrix, assuming arithmetic operations are performed in constant time, which is also not always a great assumption).
Why didn't you and your friends found companies in your home country? You do realize many h1b visa programmers, and the ones they want in the future, are just being taken advantage of to drive wages down?

What is wrong with immigrating to Europe / Asia? As an American, if I had many foreign associates that wanted to work for / with me, I would not hesitate to relocate with them to some country that lets us, that would the be US's loss.

But to open the proverbial floodgates is to let entrenched interests win and all the potential startups and growth elsewhere wither and die. It is not like you are going to be founding the next big thing while bound to employment at one of the big three to stay in the country.
All: much of this thread is of low quality, below the standard that Hacker News discussion should adhere to, because it doesn't engage with what pg's essay actually says. It merely uses it as a trigger point for passions about other things, like H1Bs and Infosys. In other words it goes on a generic tangent, and generic tangents are the vectors we most need to avoid if we want discussions that are substantive instead of a handful of always-the-sames.

When I see cases like this, I've been asking: would the Principle of Charity [1] have helped here? The answer is usually yes. In this case, the idea of pg lobbying to flood the market with cheap programming labor is not only demonstrably wrong from the article (which talks about a much smaller order of magnitude and endorses lowering H1B-style quotas), it fails a laugh test for anyone familiar with his arguments in general.

The essay may be wrong, impractical, or impolitic; if you want to criticize it, there are plenty of legit criticisms you could make, starting with: how are we to objectively evaluate who the great programmers are, when it has often been argued (including by a certain essayist) that this can't be measured?

But if you're going to dispute an article—any article—on Hacker News, you have a responsibility to engage with what it really says. The Principle of Charity is the best way I know of to formalize this requirement, and unless someone can make a case for any bad consequences of doing so, we're planning to add it officially to the HN Guidelines in the new year.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity and http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html
It doesn't matter all that much what your average daily drive is, if you have several road trips a year where an EV's range is prohibitive. That is, of course, until the EV saves you enough money over a full-time gas car that you can afford to buy or rent a spare gas car for your road trips. Or until charger or battery hot swap stations are everywhere.
Excellent programmers are only paid well if they have a good internal idea of their value and are able to negotiate.

I've known countless great developers with terrible self-esteem and/or total inability to effectively negotiate. Far more, in fact, than the reverse.
Agree. We have them on our 2012 Camry hybrid and they are terrible. Tread is almost gone at 24000 miles and road grip is the worst. The tires squeal while reversing because of the turn radius. Maybe there is a better tire brand but I will be opting out of LRR when we have to replace the tires.
> current research shows to be highly nonplastic via education or training

I'd be very interested to see what you're referring to. Citation needed.

edit: The only thing I can thing I can think of that you might be referring to is the recent meta-study of the impact of practice on performance:

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/06/30/095679761453...

I don't have access to the full article so I don't know if they looked at programmers specifically. (Anyone?) They found that, depending on the activity, practice accounted for about 0-25% of the performance. (Depending on where programmers fall in that range, if excellent programmers are 1000x more productive, I'd take deliberate practice for 250x, Alex.)

However, the assumption that, if practice as measured in these studies isn't the answer, then talent is, is obviously false. Quoting this response piece by Alfie Kohn:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/07/...

"That’s not necessarily true, however. The question posed by Macnamara and her colleagues was appropriately open-ended: “We have empirical evidence that deliberate practice, while important, …does not largely account for individual differences in performance. The question now is what else matters.” And there are many possible answers. One is how early in life you were introduced to the activity — which, as the researchers explain, appears to have effects that go beyond how many years of practice you booked. Others include how open you are to collaborating and learning from others, and how much you enjoy the activity."

I recommend the entire article.
I think this article is comparing apples to oranges.

The promise pattern is not meant to speed up callback-based code, or to eliminate callbacks altogether.

The purpose of a promise is to allow an asynchronous operation to be cancelled. In the old way, there'd be no standard way to cancel something like this,

xhr.get(url, function (data) {
// do something with the data
});

If we have a promise, we can cancel it,

getPromise = xhr.get(...);

// later...
getPromise.cancel();

By creating a standard promise pattern, you can have any number of heterogeneous asynchronous operations chained or canceled together uniformly.
I lived there for about a year. During that year I traveled to Rome to see a girl. She said "so the expression 'smoke like a Turk' is true!" Apparently it was an Italian expression and I was living proof of it. (I quit cold 'turkey' a couple of years later)
Sure, but then there's the [applicable to anyone] subtitle in this post...
Google is indexing Facebook's "Opt out of emails from Facebook" page for email addresses that were submitted using the "Find a friend" feature.

I checked out the Google site and saw a few addresses in the format name.secret@blogger.com, which indicates these are the SECRET email addresses people use to post to their blogger sites. Pretty bad.
There are clear reasons why not everyone is an artist, patience and endurance is are a huge part of it.
The thing is, I'm not convinced that it's youtube's fault; apparently he converted it to mp4 on his own computer after the download from youtube, before re-uploading it. I wonder if he'd have had the same effect if he'd uploaded the same format he ripped from youtube.
You might be onto something. In my old city I used to go to an older gym with mainly people who wanted to workout and get strong. The bars had rust on them and the crowd was all very friendly, not big family friendly but they would all say hey when you showed up.

My new gym is a big box gym. It's super nice, and I keep telling a friend of mine that really it's too nice. The people aren't very friendly, but I think that's because there are so many more people working out here that you rarely see the same person enough times to form any relationship. Plus, many people are there to just hang out and act like they are working out. One time I actually overheard a guy ask another guy for a spot and the guy told him no and then walked over to another bench and just sat down. I was stunned and in all my years of working out had never seen someone not help another when asked.

Even in their most competitive days I couldn't imagine Arnold telling Lou no if he needed a spot.
It's 1300 people, not 3254 people. The way the idea bank works is that when you make a new account you get 10 votes, and can allocate up to three of them per idea, which is what happened here.
Yoga is perfectly good for "getting into shape" and there are several varieties with emphasis on strength, especially static strength.

(Of course, "in shape" means different things to different people. I prefer endurance/cardio, many others think more in terms of strength/musculature.)

As a gross oversimplification of the body types attained, yoga == Bruce Lee, weights == Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This is pretty much the greatest change ever.

I'd consider myself a heavy iPhone user, and yet the most data I've ever used in a month is 175MB. Why?

* My email is set to download manually.
* I buy and purchase apps and music using the computer instead of over the 3G. I update my apps over the computer as well.
* I don't stream music, and I don't use YouTube very often.

Despite the fact that it's not uncommon for me to be surfing the web on my phone for more than an hour a day, I've never come close to the limit. For me, not only am I going to save $15 a month but the service is going to get a ton faster too. How can anyone consider this a bad thing? Just plug your phone into the computer when you want to update your apps, and that's pretty much the only change most people will need to make to save $15 a month.
...and banned on my trackers because of its peer-id spoofing feature.
Wozniak paints a similiar picture of him in iWoz. Smelly, eccentric, skilled (pp. 108).
No, it got autokilled because it had Nike in the title, which is extremely popular with spammers.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915138

BTW, if you have questions about stuff getting killed, would you just email us directly?

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm going to kill this now.
Also, article like this remind one that it's a great time to get involved in the startup space... or maybe a bad time! http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/11/17/the-daily-sta...
This is actually a well known phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect). It's why, in a crisis, you should always single people out to do tasks instead of saying "someone do this". Otherwise everyone will just assume that someone else will do it.
It's not whether businesses could do something different. It's how much time and money it would cost them to make the transition.
Wow, I suppose I chose the wrong Hacker News user name...
As chance would have it, I'm at my parents and we were digging through beanie babies joking about how we could be sitting on a gold mine (sorry reader, we weren't). Even have that price estimate book.

We had one "rare" beanie, it last sold on eBay for 15 dollars. I can't image who was selling some for $1000 1 bid this year. If I had to guess: money laundering on eBay.
> it is evidently easier to put something on a personal blog than get it into Wikipedia.

I mean, that seems reasonable right? You have complete control and authority over a personal blog.

Personally I haven't had trouble making edits, but I often make edits on articles with not a lot of information. But I've also had success eg. adding new graphics to eg. the page on Lithium. I wonder if maybe it's specific types of pages that are less accepting of edits? I've definitely also had issues with other editors disagreeing and not understanding what I've added (usually on Wikidata, where I've made more edits), but generally for a small minority of my edits.
So, what's the actual conclusion? It's okay to keep pushing Russian until they fire off the nukes?!
I get the urge to collect, and I totally get why people feel their collections are valuable. But having personal feelings of value are not correlated well with financial returns! Indeed, as the Beanie Babies example shows, the more people have feelings of value the more incentive there is for others to profitably reduce the correlation.

In high school I worked in a library. Every once in a while somebody would want to donate their National Geographic collection. (For those unfamiliar, it is a high-grade, highbrow magazine that has been published for more than a century.) After subscribing for decades and lining them up on the shelf, they really valued those well-made treasuries of knowledge. But we were a library, so we already had sets. At least then, there wasn't much in the way of a secondary market. So we had to break their hearts and explain that we couldn't help them.
Check this out, friend. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30412165
Best of luck.
Is Rust Web3 yet?
If you insist on being able to fully rationalize your love, you are putting a pretty low ceiling on it.
organizer speed is awesome. Is it possible to integrate with shell (folder context menu)
seconded. in addition, it feels arrogant. highlight how nice and fun it is, not how super-special-awesome.
'You don’t want to hear from your CTO: “Sorry I can’t work on Sunday – I’ve promised to take the kids to the Zoo…” so take all factors carefully into consideration.'

Yeh right...

CTOs need downtime too

Some of my best thinking happens when I'm not in the office e.g. driving to work, digging the garden or playing with the kids
nice work, consider providing some help on usage
Marvelous. I am glad to see someone emphasizing structure and practice in early math curricula. While it is possible to overemphasize memorization and rote practice, the pendulum has certainly swung too far the other direction as a reaction against the Victorian knuckle-rapping methods.
Hmm... I don't doubt that this happened to you, or that it does happen often, but as someone who was in charge of a fairly successful online community with tens of thousands of community members and upwards of a million posts, I'm happy to say that I never went back. I did the same as moot in this situation - I prepped the people who I wanted to take over and made the transition slowly until I was doing almost nothing myself. Then one day I made a post and I was gone.

I didn't revoke my own access, though I doubt that I still have it (this was about 8 years ago). Even if I did have access, I certainly wouldn't want to go back and start changing things. I cared deeply about my members and fully trusted my administrative team to do what they thought was best, and sometimes that meant putting aside my own beliefs and trying something different.

It all depends on the person that's retiring, I suppose, but I wanted to offer something to counter your experiences.
I don't know but I know this: A bank would not give me a $75,000 loan so I could invest in Bitcoin or the S&P 500.

Respectfully that is what college really is, an investment in yourself and right now the market is down and their are a lot of sketchy investments out there (Read as for profit diploma mills and art academies.)
> true. this is like indicting twitter because someone posted criminal sites downtime notes.

Defense attorneys specialize in shedding just enough doubt over the defendant's involvement that the jury won't reach a conviction. It doesn't always work (hence why trials sometimes seem so unpredictable to those of us watching from the outside), but when the burden of proof is "beyond a reasonable doubt," any substantial doubt may be enough to convince the jury to acquit.

This trial could go either way. So it's fascinating to watch.
Agreed, although the potential $15-20B+ acquisition price is still too steep.
Things which were at one point considered "dangerous misinformation":

1) Slavery is immoral

2) Black people should be allowed to vote

3) Women should be allowed to vote

4) Bacteria exists

5) The earth is round

6) You can question the church

etc. Now that is not to say that "vaccines may carry more risk than is being reported" is correct, and should be placed next to "black people should be allowed to vote". However, if the anti-misinformation crowd is allowed to reach their conclusion, then we will never be able to challenge the orthodoxy again.

As a side note; is this all the result of people not learning philosophy in school? It's legitimately horrifying to me that so many people have no concept of what it means for something to even be true, or how we could reach consensus on that. What does it mean to "know" something, what is the purpose of dialog, etc.
Thank you, but I know what a tree is. I believe they were specifically referring to https://treenotation.org/

That's the thing I hadn't heard of and would be interested to hear if someone had tried applying it in real world scenarios.
SolarWinds is the most sophisticated hack by Russian/China/Nirth Korea. Stuxnet was the most sophisticated hack by the US/Israel.

The US does not need to hack SolarWinds because they probably could use a court order for the same outcome to distribute rigged binaries for political enemies.
For a lot of "one off" tasks (like analyzing a big log file), just configuring a full blown DBMS like MySQL or Postgres would take longer than it would to write a script using an in memory SQLite DB and running the necessary queries.

I'm not sure MySQL and Postgres are faster enough to justify the extra setup work when everything fits in memory. My intuition is that they may even be slower, because they still have to write everything to disk, where SQLite can be memory only.
surely the big picture for "trust the science" is not "science is always right" (as the writer notes,) but that the PROCESS of testing and revising scientific theories can be trusted.

As sabine hossenfelder says.. science doesn't tell you not to pee on electric fences, it just points out that urine is a decent conductor of electricity...

(or words to that effect)

I trust the "best available science"... as a rule. (YMMV)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Although of course Wikipedia is also not a perfect source when things are policitally controversial.
Ok

I am jantibey
Fantastic definition.
Am I off the mark in guessing your mother, in her 70’s has some strong opinions about one Senator Joe McCarthy or Hoover? Has she ever spoken much about living through that period-assuming your family are American?

My apologies for the imposition if that’s not the case.
Many business incorporate in Delaware since they have very friendly business taxes. If i remember right, they also have no personal income tax, like Texas and Tennessee.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=best+states+to+be+self+employed&t=...
Press release this was ripped from: https://www.bcg.com/en-us/press/6january2021-more-than-half-...
I saw it once, I think it might have been in an interview with Scale API?
The big "enabler" was their mass-purchase of 5nm lithography across the board. Even still though, 4ghz*8c isn't anything new, and isn't really that remarkable besides the low TDP (which is incidentally dwarfed by the display, which draws up to 5x more power than the CPU does). I think the big issue is that Apple has painted themselves into a corner here: ARM won't play nice with the larger CPUs they want to make, and the pressure for them to provide a competent graphics solution on custom silicon is mounting. They spent a lot of time this generation marketing their "energy efficiency" and battery life, but many consumers/professionals (myself included) don't really care about either of these things.