jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the US, >67% people own their homes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

Homeowners view this as a zero-sum game. If the 33% of non-homeowners are losing (and they definitely are), than the 67% of homeowners feel they must be winning (even though, arguably, the majority of them aren't).
A step in the right direction. We could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide with better contact tracing.
Do Americans always have fixed interest rates?
Yeah, but he's wrong.
What would you do if Netflix/Amazon/Google/Apple started thinking it was acceptable to both display ads and charge you?
Good lord!

Don't confuse envy with hatred. I don't hate old people, I envy them! I envy Wedge Martin who got into tech in a time when it was professionally acceptable and viable to drill down into details. I envy a time when you could have a career based on fundamentals rather than buzzwords and rapidly learning frameworks.

I have tremendous respect for greybeard, which is precisely why I recognize that greybears are NOT all the same.

There are different kinds of greybeards. There is especially a wide gulf between the greybeards that have POWER and INFLUENCE and the ones that have been SIDELINED by other greybeards.

The field is not run by the young. The young dance to the tune of money and expertise. But not all greybeards are allowed into the club of influence.

The ageism is not something that is pushed by 20-somethings. it is pushed by employers and those holding the purse-strings. The employers also pull the strings of the teachers, like my computer science professors (greybeards) who taught us that we should not worry about peeking into the black box. Who taught me the waterfall method. Who taught me the agile method too. Who taught me everything I know.

Powerful and influential greybeards (money & position) taught me everything I know. Other greybeards then get mad at me when they don't like what I was taught.

>If you don't like the way you perceive the game being played, then you are completely free to change the rules of the game.

This is just absurd. No one is free to change the rules of the game, or those rules wouldn't be rules.

The rules of this game are set down by those with the most power. A small handful of elite tech winners at the top of industry, academia, and finance.

C'est la vie
Oh my yes. I've half played with the idea of aping it for beginning R programmers, replacing some of the examples with suitably analogous data-y examples.

Book has definitely improved my coding.
I for one support the yahoos on both sides. Burn it all down.
Someone go dig up John Candy!
The post claims focus and reduced overhead can be more important than scale. But there are also other factors arguing against pure economies of scale;as Freeman Dyson put it in Infinite In All Directions, "Never sacrifice economies of speed to achieve economies of scale."
When working at home, I find it a nice break walking over to the coffee maker or teapot to make myself a fresh cup.
This is nothing special, nor is it an official URL. You can type anything you want there and the link will still work.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/this-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/so-wi...

Same thing in StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5711120/this-is-not-reall...

The difference is that StackOverflow has the good sense to not display the typed-in URL.
I found it easier to just use DDG.

With tor and google you also have to deal with the location of the exit node you're using.
Since this has come up a few times already:
ab -c 5 -n 10 http://127.0.0.1:3000/widgets/http

That's not a benchmark, it's a proof of concept:
http://github.com/igrigorik/async-rails/blob/master/app/cont...

/widgets/http makes an http request to /widgets, which does a 1s sleep query inside of mysql. All of this is happening on the same reactor loop, and finishes with ~2s, aka, the sleeps are not blocking the reactor and hence the "async stack".
I have seen it a million times. For example, version 1.0 gets build for an in house app. version 2.0 is going to be sold to other companies. In house uses Oracle, said developer uses a lot of PL/SQL only because it allowed him to shave 30 hrs of the project. Adds 100hrs to 2.0 because the logic has to be build and the database layer has to be retrofitted to existing logic, not to mentioned QA'ed stable code will now be rewritten in 2.0 so it does not have the burn in that 1.0 provided. I walked into environments where that one has happened no less that 15 times I am sure.

That is just one example, but there are a multitude of core Architecture decision that can be affected by not knowing the entire road map. I am not saying you go out and build every hook for ever feature that will be invented but not knowing the road map is a universally bad idea.

A good example of one that we dealt with when building a reservation system for one of the big online travel companies was the idea of optimal discount pattern. The hotel industry has millions of permutations of these discounts like stay 7 nights get 2 free, or stay 5 and get 25% off or stay 4 and kids are free.

The company was fine with us adding a predefined set of these and just finding the longest duration and applying that one for the minimum viable product. We did some more digging and pressed them on this an sure enough it release 3 they where going to build out the routine to find the most optimal savings as well as the ability to add them dynamically via a rules engine. We added 10hrs to the project to make this a plug-in architecture where these patterns could be added as a plug-in. We estimated that it saved 500hrs given that all of the predefined ones where built as plug-ins and did not have to be touched or QA'ed in subsequent releases. Had we not known about that architectural need it would have been a mess to rip out that code and replace it with a plug-able architecture.
What is the difference between the medical profession and the legal services profession? It is just as pricey to become a lawyer. Yet even lawyers have the concept of "pro bono".
"If you've owned a computer for the last six months at least, and haven't already learned at least some programming then I'd suggest you probably don't have a particular aptitude for it"

I don't think that's been true since the 1980's or so. There are so many things to do with a computer that writing programs might be something that takes years to get to, and not all systems make it all that obvious or easy how to start. The days when your computer had only a handful of programs and a BASIC so you could write your own are long gone.
Edison was not as wonderful as common history proclaims him to be. None of his inventions worked well, and most of them were invented by his staff but accredited to him, he was an arsonist and he unfairly slandered his competitors. I really hope people today avoid him as a role model.
"Infatuation" has a slightly different meaning distinct from "love" while "limerence" is a distinct and precise form of "love". Just like love can be an umbrella term for a number of similar but different emotions (love like siblings, love between parents and children, love between friends, etc.), "limerence" might also be called a "crush" or "puppy love" (if I read the article correctly).

I think you can probably use it loosely as a synonym with infatuation in most contexts but the meaning is ever so slightly different.

I never heard it before today either, English has a far too many words.
Yes. Each time someone clicks on your little up triangle, whether a comment or a submission, you get +1 karma.

Users with a lot of karma also see "down" triangles and can downvote comments (though not submissions), so try and stay within the guidelines.
That video was shockingly slanted. The guy presenting it was also very punchable-looking.
True. That's why they aren't good examples for a limited influence and power of concentrated wealth.
"Today even the poor will get antibiotics at the ER when dying of infection"

You're moving the goal posts a bit aren't you? For starters, those antibiotics will be followed by bankruptcy for the poor person in most cases. And most importantly, that alone isn't convincing me that quality of life for the poor is better than ever. I also didn't mention in my last comment that who is really seeing their quality of life decrease is the blue collar middle class, not the poor.
> I will offer a pre-counterpoint: equality is not (should not be) about everyone being the same or at the same level, but more "from each according to their ability" — but at the same time considering the 100% effort from everyone to be (nearly) as valuable.

Honestly, I'm not sure how to reply to that, because I don't think any single human in history has ever given anything near 100% effort or achieved 100% of their potential.

Maybe a rare few individuals - da Vinci? Jefferson? Tokugawa? Socrates?

But I'm not so sure of that, even. No matter how good you get, you can always make another incremental improvement.

Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of major breakthroughs come from individuals or small teams, and I think anything that stifles excellence to potentially help get more out of everyone is misguided. Again, though, I realize that I hold the minority position on this idea.
What you're arguing is the semantics of a very personal word that means different things to very different people. To the poor, wealth == money; to the rich, wealth == all of the other things that one can think about when you don't have to worry about a roof over your head.

Don't take this as an attack -- just as a my personal opinion.
Maybe he is scared. Governments change, many civilization's have been left poor and defenseless by politicians. Seeking liberty is a form of self defense.
What is the decision procedure for if some memory is "autobiographical"? I don't understand why, if the person read a long list of numbers, they wouldn't be able to remember them, yet they can remember a long list of things they ate, the weather, or what TV shows they watched.

I wish the article went into more detail about how "perfect" these memories are. Of course, other than big events (series premieres, awards ceremonies) and well-recorded things like the weather, it's very difficult to verify their accuracy.

I have other questions. Is there an "alertness level" required for memories to be committed? I've gone several days in a row just sitting around my house lazy and completely unaware of what day of the week or date was. If I had this "perfect memory," would I be able to recall decades later the day of the week or the date?
What surprises me (and makes me most skeptical) is that they can remember days by date. Did these people actually know what the date was every year of their lives? This implies to me that it is not just a camcorder-like memory that these people possess, but an efficient, numerical search ability on those memories. It makes me wonder how much one could duplicate this ability by purposefully associating numbers with days in a hierarchical structure (analogous to building an explicit tree structure on them).

Also fascinating to me is how this links with OCD-like behavior. My memory has always been considered very good (though not like these people), and I had extremely mild OCD during my preteen years, which changed its form when I became a teenager until I stopped manifesting most symptoms.

I also wonder what would happen if these people were asked to gather days by an arbitrary filter. For example, on which days during 1999 did it rain? Would they have to step through day-by-day and check each day, or would they be able to instantly run through the rainy days? The latter seems almost too powerful.
Exactly, and the term "needier" conveys an extra piece of the puzzle that these data do not support. Steve Jobs is poorer than Bill Gates by an order of magnitude, but he's hardly needy.
If you want to argue that policies which reduce income inequality should be repealed it could be an interesting essay.

Arguing against a "goal of total [income] equality" wouldn't be as interesting though: pushing for total income equality is not a mainstream policy position.
How about a service that took annotated source docs at commit and automatically updated a hosted public-facing documentation reference?
Incidentally, if you're in NYC this coming week you can come see Kenny Werner play during his residency at The Stone (thestonenyc.com).
I'm adding this here because you gave me the idea indirectly... but what if there were a Linux Distro that targeted OS X? To make a Linux or FreeBSD version of the "Just Works" experience?
I worked on the full screen feature in 10.7 through 10.9!

Full screen in 10.7 and 10.8 did render secondary displays useless. But it was a new feature in 10.7, so there was nothing to reverse. You can't take Safari, Mail, etc. full screen in 10.6.

Perhaps there was an app you used that switched from a custom full screen implementation to the system one, and so regressed on secondary displays?
Winamp is still my preference.
It would be interesting to compute the value (in MWh for example) of the energy used for this attack. Seems massive to me. Not just the traffic but the job performed by each computer.
i guess it wouldn't matter in this particular example, but some browsers apply different security restrictions to the file:// protocol than they do to http.
> Which raises the question: when will the rest of the world kick China of the internet?

Careful with that, because the moment some nation can kick out another nation out of the internet for whatever reason we're toasted.

Plus, it's better to wait and see some hard evidence (if any can be found) before jumping into conclusions.
It is not a bug in the JVM, it is an obscure bug in the JNI-ed code. As to why this happens - perhaps read the blog post?
Sorry, and not to pick on you, but this is part of the going around in circles. People have been making the exact same points for literally decades. Combine that repetition with the superficiality and hair-triggerness of internet discussion, and we get a recipe for tedious flamewar, which is definitely off topic here.

It's part of the general principle about canned arguments. Intellectual curiosity is all about diffs, and the diff between threads with canned arguments and threads without them is significant. The latter are much better.
Its perfectly possible that they have known about these monitoring stations for years, but lacked confirmation, or a narrative.
I'm not one to apologise for the post glass-stegal investment banks, but your're comment is confusing. Are you saying the banks tied the interest rtates on basic loans to companies purchases of other banking products? As a general rule, the financial crisis was caused by <loans that were too cheap>. Not by derivatives. The issue of derivitives is a more incidental role in the whole story. To use an analogy, something else caused the accident. Derivatives were like the airbag not deploying. Still a problem, but not in the way you are implying.

It is also arguably the case that loans were too cheap because the banks were like a supermarket selling one product at a loss (debt) to get customers in the store (so called "loss-leader" product). And then they took advantage of the less educated consumers (ie, selling derivatives to people that should have known better). This is of course, why glass-stegal was in fact originally law. To prevent ths type of bundling.

One thing this article fails to point out, though, is that the clinton administration got this model by copying it from the brits and europeans who long favoured the so-called "universal banking" model. so in that sense, its dis-ingenous to imply the usa was imposing or exporting this model via the WTO (it was the staus quo in Asia, too). For historical reasons, the continentals (eg, Germany), the Japaneese and others, never split off teh i-banks from the lending banks [1,2]. As a rsult, the CEOs of those combined banks were paid more than their US counterparts. This whole fiasco was driven by the US ceo's of the debt banks who were missing out on the windfalls accorded to the Investment Bank CEOs during internet 1.0 bubble. If you look at the history, the banks bought up the i-banks (as they had much larger balance sheets) and the CEO pay skyrocketed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_bank
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
If you must prevent it, then unplug the house from the internet. That's the way parenting works.

If that seems too drastic, then you think about how you might deal with Australian dildo babes in a more reasonable manner. That's also the way parenting works.

There's theory and there's reality. In the reality, what matters is what actually benefits a specific living breathing individual child who is experiencing both normal maturation and stressful social/family circumstances. What matters is what really matters.

To put it another way, for some kids the only responsible course of action might be cutting the wire. For others, the only responsible course may be buying more bandwidth. Once they're in your home, kids cease being an abstraction.

But before going any further, stop and consider that most foster parents and actual parents aren't building the great firewall on their home networks. Instead, they're dealing with it in the great tradition of parenting - by muddling along until a reaction is necessary.

Uber parenting requires exerting no more force than necessary.
Working on turning a Sketch document into a REST api to allow automating stuff like linting palette, font styles and maybe some other ideas.
As an additional data point, I live in the area and they just furloughed a lot of employees last week. Not sure the exact percentage, though.
Is this still true under the all statewide ADU legislation that came into effect this year?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2020/03/12...
If I am rich enough to have that done, I would rather have an app that displayed my bank balance on a small lapel button :) I'll be here all week :)

Anyway if a person's only dating criteria is your height and they themselves are not around that height, then I think it is best to stay as far away from that person as possible. I knew couple people like that and over the years they have had lots of relationship issues.
Yes, but still not nearly as many as if say bangladesh floods.
Some supermarkets in Scandinavia have come up with the perfect solution to this. They implemented "anti-sales" on their POS systems, where each additional item from the same line gets more expensive, disincentivizing hoarders.
Eggs and milk are still perishables, especially if electricity is rationed.
It probably wouldn't be that noticeable; there's a lot of natural variation there anyway. I've longer arms and legs that would be normal for my torso; in practice it mostly just manifests in minor problems with clothes (in particular it's very hard to get a shirt that fits).
I would bet on the issue being in the init script itself rather than squid. (I'm assuming squid doesn't run as root by default in rhel) If that's true then it's another point for more sane process managers (upstart/supervisord/systemd/...)
Am I the only one that likes when people post their travel pictures on Facebook? I find it interesting and like to see all the beautiful places that I can't go to now that I'm married.
It is very hard to motivate people to act on a problem decades in the making. With health problems people will continue to smoke and overeat despite their doctor warning them. Besides the time element, climate change is the ultimate example of private gain (your income and consumption) and socialized cost (literally the entire planet).
I think that all it would take for these Googlers is one week as a TVC (temp/vendor/contractor) to get a view as to how Google really looks at things.
> Everyone with unmaintainable COBOL has long since migrated to really bad Java code instead.

I can assure you that’s not correct, as I work in an enterprise that has plenty of unmaintainable COBOL still running, though they’ve supplemented it with lots of really bad .NET code more recently.
'Ordering information'
Yeah, IBM is still IBM.
Good news! I don't write AI or 'AI'. But if flip comments about very real bad human traits are enough to make me 'anti-human' in your eyes, I would encourage you not to talk to me.
Nothing like a walk down the memory hole.
After a week of work at the day job I set out to relax on saturday. Then on sunday I'm relaxed and motivated again to work on my side projects.

On some weeks I get all my day job work done in 4 days (I work from home), relax on friday and have two days for sideprojects :)
I wasn't talking about programming either, pair programming is just an example. Your spreadsheet will work just as well.

You wanted a solution to you wasting time. Get someone to sit besides you as you work. Find someone who has something of their own to work on, so you don't distract each other by talking.

Run a mental experiment. Can you see yourself goofing off with someone besides you? If not, try it out!
Actually, Norway's SWF is required to only invest outside of Norway (in order to avoid Dutch disease) and, although actively managed is ALMOST an index fund. They own very small stakes in many companies, and thus spread risk around.
Web 2.0 is the publishing and content that evolve with the web. For example the Google index gets page rank as a side effect of other pages on the web, rather than an assessment of the content itself.

http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

Hope this helps.
The a priori expected outcome of any government intervention is neutral at best, net negative on average. Worse still, government interventions are sticky - essentially append only. We create government, policy, institutions, and regulations but very rarely remove them. Slow government is a feature, not a bug given the constraints.
How is Christian Horner (Red Bull Racing F1 team principal) a troll of a human being? He’s one of my favorites in F1. He’s blunt and strictly business, but a troll...?

Edit: Ah, never mind!
Of course my death matters if I'm trying to be immortal
If antidepressants really are pervasive as you say, I'd be concerned about what it's doing to us as a species when it comes time to reproduce. Are the offspring of parents who regularly take anti-depressants any worse off than those who don't?

I think these are the sorts of questions that would be useful to know when really mass-prescribing drugs to humanity. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the drugs are inherently harmful to offspring - but it seems like something that would be good to know. If the parents have a chemical dependency, what does that mean for the children?
I think it's unfair to hand-wave a deathly fear of something away as "just work on urself lol." PTSD is a real thing, and it's not as easy as a handful of video chats with a therapist. Not to mention, someone driving for Uber probably doesn't have the resources to be in therapy in the first place.
Interesting to see what this means for Russia in the next 50 years. They'll start losing their influence in Central Asia very quickly and I'd imagine China will be their main trading partner and can set their own terms. I'm sure there are some maps in the CCP planning rooms for chopping the asian half of Russia for some more breathing room for a rising superpower.
> If we treat the tech platforms like utilities, then would that force companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to allow full-on porn on their platform?

Does USPS allow you to ship anything, legal or not, without question? (No)

Do cable companies require that all content be accessed equally, including adult only content? (No)

Will your electric company kick you off your service if you’re running a datacenter in a giant warehouse next to your residence? (Probably, unless you have a non-residential contract with them)
I think Skype P2P relied on super nodes which had the best bandwidth and processing
Is it only tracking whether the zoom window is focused (as in, a Boolean)? Is there evidence of more?