jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An unofficial biography is not the same thing as a work of fiction. In fact, it might be less fictional than an account by that person. So long as the author has not invented anything he put's into the book and has fact-checked all of his claims, then it's at least as much a biography as nearly every book you've ever read about a now dead historical figure.
Dude is a 'life coach'... There's absolutely zero reason to trust anything he says
implemented (as a little button above the graph, not to scare the casual users). Now you can more easily see how the "zombie apocalypse" is going to play out
"We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."

He didn't say it's necessarily man on Mars.
Oh yeah, but the margins in arbitrage always come under pressure.
This is going to be massively abused. The one good thing about making people pay for domains is that you can generally link their registration to a credit/debit card.
Along this line of thought, it'd be good to see a permissions feature in Github - some parts of a project are shaded out basically depending on who's viewing.
In the account settings, you should automatically determine the language, country and timezone. You should not even ask for gender or d-o-b as it's none of your business. Why "First Name", "Last Name" and "Full Name" ?
Very enjoyable. Image manipulation/detection/recognition is a field that actually starts out pretty simple (I was surprised, I assumed it would be fiendishly math-heavy), but scales well into the dissertation-level.

The article is a pretty cool highlight of some low-hanging fruit. I'd like to see something using a n-neighbor-aware technique instead of pixel-by-pixel to detect shifting/scaling/rotation in a direction in addition to color change, but I'm sure those are much longer articles.
I love Panic, and it heartens me to read things like this, from the bottom of the post that describes Panic's status board:

"And no, it didn’t slow down development on [insert the app you want the most here]. Check the board!"

Whenever Panic shows off something cool, they get a flurry of comments from people who want the next version of Transmit or Coda (that would be me) or, now that it's released, Prompt.

Panic's stuff is so good that their customers don't want them wasting their time doing anything but getting out the next version of [insert the app you want most here]. A lot of people don't realize, however, that you need to take time out to do these sorts of side projects if you hope to maintain your motivation and morale. Panic's work is a labor of love, not the result of a death march.
The obvious solution is to sleep all day long.

But then you'll get bed sores. Bah, this world is buggy.
> This is a plain fact.

A plain fact that requires looking realistically at how colloquialisms are used combined with a little bit of technical know how. How many businesses do you know actually "sell data"? The only market I can think of are companies like Zoominfo. Outside of that there really aren't that many companies that "sell your data". However, you'll see a ton of social justice campaigns against "stop companies selling your data". They aren't going after Zoominfo, they're going after Facebook.

Does facebook capture data? Yes.

Do they literally take that data and sell it byte for byte to other people? No.

Is that data absolutely necessary to sell their products or services? Yes.

So, in effect, its easier to say to the common person "they're selling your data" than "they're harvesting their data so they can sell products and services". Facebook is trying to defend itself in the public eye by responding to this slogan - not by the real factor that matters.
> How many managers

Or customers, for that matter. Sucks when there's weeks' worth of reworking guts, refactoring, and testing to be done and you need to bill someone for the time.
Having previously been in a position where an ad agency thought we were sending trash data and literally threatened to boot our millions-of-dollars-worth contract, that shit ain't no joke. And having that previous knowledge, I would very much approve of sending fake data instead of blocking. That can 100% tank entire companies that don't have the engineering capacity to deal with this in time. We literally had a week or two to clean up our data or be gone.
3000 years old: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/05/iran-qanat-i...

> The technology spread, through Silk Road trade and Muslim conquest, and qanats can be found as far as Morocco and Spain.
Including a copy of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and some green field vs factory slides seems to be .. overselling it a bit?

Fortunately it pulls back towards a "what are the easy wins" approach: in-memory initialising (rather than stream zeroes over the bus, ask the memory to zero itself) and in-memory copy.

The three real problems are:

- this is only useful if the whole stack "knows" about it, or can be transparently optimised to use it. Otherwise the person running a Javascript for loop to set values to zero will ruin it.

- this relies on the data being in DRAM-row-size chunks, and moving it around within the same physical chip. That may also require re-architecting to make that common enough to be useful. Locality issues are the downside to distributed systems; the whole CPU architecture is oriented towards continuing to pretend that everything happens in a defined order in a single place.

- possible security issues (rowhammer?): may seem far off, but if you don't think about it upfront it gets very expensive later.

(Worth recapping: the silicon is fundamentally differently-processed for DRAM, such that implementing complex logic is slow and expensive.)
The compile-time code evaluation in Lisp usually is just normal Lisp code evaluation, since the compile-time environment is also just Lisp. Thus the usual debugging tools apply.
PHP's behavior is configurable, it can be soft on errors or hard on errors. Unfortunately many lazy developers choose the former.
Any thoughts towards allowing people to promote their videos to that top list you've got there on the homepage? I'm er.. asking for a friend!
Rush Limbaugh had a show in 1992 where he photoshopped mocking photos of politicians and made montages of politicians "debating" themselves saying contradictory thing.
There are ways to talk about it that help developers understand. Instead of focusing on the pattern overall, talk about the core dependency manager as often as possible. If a junior or mid-level developer gets it pounded into their heads that there's a magical piece of code doing some stuff they can't see, then they might just figure things out.

But that's only a band-aid. It's my experience that they still won't truly understand why they can't just call A from B and they certainly don't understand how to get B in A through an injection.
That's been my experience of Gradle too. It's always been slower than Maven for me. In any case, 90% of build time is unit tests for the projects I've worked on, so switching tools offer minimal benefit in that regard.
The app is called PIN Identification Program. It isn't redundant.
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> Is this some sort of a social response to how terrible and bleak reality seems to be?

Yep, a distraction to increasing alienation and atomization under Kapital.
I don't understand why Sahara and Soviet Union are on this list?
100%. There’s an assumption in articles like this that you even want to work for said FAANG company. Additionally, these posts assume a one-way interview process, which is a sure fire way to end up places you don’t want to be. Jump through all the hoops like a good little show pony, then maybe if you’re good enough, you get an offer and... what? Congrats, now you work for a terrible organization at a level where you’ll never be able to affect real change - you’re a literal cog. Bravo.

Do the research and learning out of a genuine kernel of curiosity and self-betterment, not to whore yourself out to some corporation.
While I agree that is the proper solution, most analytics do not respect the Do Not Track header. Beyond it being mostly ignored, Safari (which currently has 20% global browser share) removed support for Do Not Track in 12.1. So even though Matomo might respect the header request, there is no way for me to send that header on many of my devices. Blocking is the only solution left to me to 'opt out' of tracking regardless of the good intentions of Matomo.
Well, in development, it's all about experience. Any way you can get experience is a plus. Don't think about the companies you're going to work for, if you can learn about agile, work on a small team and deal with source control issues, bugs and get some real world project experience, you're salary requirements will escalate pretty quickly.

Just as an FYI, I'm a self starter. Got a huge break at a large corporation. My salary was mid 50K there. After two years, I left and got a startup gig in the 70's. After six months there, I left and did contracting. My first agile, big project work was paying $45/hour. Less than five years into my dev career, and I'm already at six figures.

Sure you start at 50K, but you will move up fast. Also, if you're sigle, with no family and can move, I'd look at going to where the jobs are - it will make a huge difference. More open spots, less developers means a big leap in what companies need to pay to get warm bodies in seats.

Either way, just keep pushing forward, it will be worth it, trust me.
Sounds like she will be getting plenty of socialization in this new program, and because she is finishing highschool online she is going to get a well rounded education. I don't see this any different than a Montessori or a trade school route.

It may not be the right trend to set for everyone but I think it's just as naïve to think that traditional public / private highschool or homeschool / online school is the right path for everyone. It's a case by case basis, Our school system as we know it hasn't been around for very long and as a matter of a fact is criticized pretty heavy for being inefficient. I wasn't around in the Greek / Roman days but I'm sure they did things pretty different and they probably had inefficiencies and benefits to what they did.

Lastly I feel a lot of the criticism comes from FUD. Finding something you love to do is not as common as you might think and is a huge factor in success. I took an unconventional education myself and found the most important aspect of all my of learning was that I did something I loved and I tackled it hard which lit my desires for all kinds of other knowledge.
My impression is that the proponents of guaranteed minimum income would blame the current system on all that TV watching.

People right now would sometimes be discouraged from earning a little money if it reduces benefits. What else can be done? Volunteering, experimenting, even education (if not 100% applicable for job-hunt) is not encouraged or regarded highly as people are under pressure to find work. Finally, being unemployed is automatically a failure on some level, and if that persists, hopelessness and maybe a mild depression might set in.

So the idea would be to remove that pressure and see if people are really intrinsically lazy, or in general let's see if that changes society in a cool way.

Maybe some stable, smaller country could go ahead and try it out?
The History taught in High School is knowingly inaccurate. I have a friend who is a historian and he refuses to teach High School because in his words "college curriculum requires that you teach inaccuracies, but High School curriculum requires that you literally lie to the students."
Ya good idea. I'm a moderator there so if you need tips about promoting it correctly without being spammy let me know. Also, posting your picks to oddsportal picks (e.g. http://www.oddsportal.com/profile/DPT/), certain facebook groups, reddit, relevant forums and so on would be good to raise your profile.
Study cited in the BBC article:

The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2021

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/or...
> Taiwan is not part of China -- at least as far as the sanctions are concerned.

Also as far as anything else is concerned (except spineless organizations like the UN).
That's excellent to hear, thanks! If you have a public URL with such a statement I'd link to it from the post... (hint hint) =)
There are pre-made circuits which come with a temperature sensor and can control fan speed to accomplish the same kind of thing.
e.g. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077SLWWXL/
There is nothing a school can spend money on to fix this problem.

Likewise, there is nothing the occupying US army can spend money on to solve extremism in Iraq.

They would have to entirely reinvent their organization to be something that it’s not. This is the NAACP unwisely putting pressure where it’s not needed (schools) instead of where it is needed (legislators). Blame the NAACP for failing at the governmental level and trying to backdoor into the schooling level.
>- A friend of mine, when showing him the statement 'x = x + 1' was confused; surely, x cannot also equal x+1.

I think the best thing that my CS 101 prof did was always refer to the assignment operator as "gets" so you'd say "eks gets eks plus one" out loud. It really helped divorce assignment and equality in my mind.
I was reading about who supports i915 and it looks like it was started by a company Tungsten Graphics which got sold to VMWare in 2008. I'm curious if over time the people at VMWare working on it left or put less effort into the codebase (they did a big shakeup of the company in 2016).

If that's the case hopefully it gets more attention eventually. Often with OSS it's some random developer working at some big company supporting these various drivers, not just people in their spare time.

This will always be problem with all software that changes, especially ones supporting hardware that also constantly evolves.
I've been using linux as my primary operating system for a long time now. The last two laptops I installed linux on, I've had have had multiple problems, even using Pop OS. Dell inspiron bought from costco was awful, had to switch it back to windows. The graphics card never worked, the wifi was flaky. I got a thinkpad e495. Lots of issues, the whole computer freezes when you open chrome, reinstalled everything several times, tried the latest kernel, it won't come back from sleep sometimes and I lose all the things I had open.

If system76 can offer solid experience in terms of hardware support on modern specs, I'm happy to pay a premium to get the best experience. I guess it would be also useful if there was some site that ranked new laptops by linux compatibility, I don't want to pay a premium either if it takes 10 minutes to install linux from a USB stick, and people could confirm a machine works well.
Cloud storage is good for many things, but storing financial records, health information and other sensitive data is not one of them.
Interesting they're saying 20 years and beyond.
I wonder if other browser developers are thinking that far ahead.
But will it still have the iconic

H|A
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C|K

entrance that the old building had?
Last century most apps absolutely did need multiple front-ends. Don't you remember the days when there was a Windows version, a Mac version, a Java version, if you were lucky a Linux version, and maybe a web version for the bleeding-edge developers?

Relatively fewer apps were network-enabled, but even then, there were a bunch of technologies like CORBA, DCOM, and RMI to marshal communications. There were also a bunch of custom binary protocols; back then, it was common for software developers to work on all levels of the stack, and the culture of library re-use was not as entrenched (at least in the enterprise) as it is today.
The word "growth" is confusing people. In this context it doesn't mean more stuff or more money. Instead it could mean higher efficiency, cheaper solar panels so we'd use less fossil fuel; better, cheaper education so more young people could achieve bigger dreams; better, cheaper medical care so we could cure chronic disease and prevent premature death; improved manufacturing that uses less resources; and so forth.

Technically we're talking about improved "total factor productivity" not more GDP or "things". We get more GDP or things if that is how we spend our improved productivity.
Citation needed. The cartels do plenty of killing regardless of the number of sellers on the street. Read books like El Narco, that document their intimidation of villages and towns into being involved in their grow and production operations.

This, to me, is much more "Hey, look at this, Drugs 2.0, no harm!" with little to no evidence to back it up.
People can say any phrase that catches our eyes and we'll believe it. Tech news is learning from Buzzfeed and people are taking it seriously. Also, I'm not too impressed with the watch. I'm sure there could be some Spritz (http://www.spritzinc.com/) type browser that will come up.
I contacted them via the "feedback" form and got a call within an hour. This service is apparently offered to the Seattle region only. I wish I had a bunch of goats to go. :)
https://archive.today/pcCwW
glad i pasted this here, found a typo :)
Can we please reference to this event as the "Shlacking"?
By not implementing the suggestion, presumably.

This is rolling your own crypto, which is universally bad. To paraphrase Bruce Schneier, anyone can write a crypto algorithm they themselves can't break. Peppering a password hash destroys any future maintainability.
The article doesn't at all suggest we shouldn't try, and explicitly points out that there will likely be a lot of benefits to science and neurosurgery due to this influx in funding.

The point is to remind us that all of the hype around this is just that: hype.
By that logic we should all be driving Priuses. People buy cars for recreational all the time.
Actually everyone does.

China is not just a source of cheap labour. But a source of cheap labour highly skilled in manufacturing which other countries all but abandoned over the previous decades.
Good thoughts, well-articulated.
> We need to discard the destructive idea that isolating some subpopulation is a viable strategy in this epidemic.

Why? Tell me how long are you going to isolate everyone? Years? COVID-19 isn't disappearing after a month or two. It can flare up again.

> There's no place to isolate people but their homes, essentially. You either isolate everyone or you're going effectively no one.

This is a false dichotomy. You need to build herd immunity in the long run, otherwise you will have to isolate everyone indefinitely to prevent it from spreading again.

Of course herd immunity can be achieved by a vaccine, but a "generally considered safe" vaccine will likely take at least a year to materialize and then it is unclear how many people actually want to get it.

The idea that "it's just a flu" is still attractive in people's heads. People aren't good at estimating personal risk.

> Yeah, these are the deluded and despicable ideas going around. No, the economic cost of dealing with the massive death of any group would be huge.

Facts aren't "deluded or despicable". I'm just pointing it out. People over 70 generally are not economically productive, but they do cost a lot in terms of health care and social security, a lot of which is unfunded liabilities. Of course that's an uncomfortable fact, but that doesn't make it any less true.

Today this might be something that people are not comfortable pointing out, of course the ruling elite are essentially senior citizens. At some point though, the pitchforks are going to come out. That's what I'm warning you about.

I'll point out another fact: During the plague, Jews were big creditors. You can read up on what happened to them. If a crisis meets opportunity, morals go out the window. Count on it.
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"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It may not have been the most substantive comment, but you've grossly overinterpreted it in an uncharitable direction.
Here we go. This one has constant stream of new videos: https://twitter.com/PhdParody
I grew up playing tower defense games on Kongregate and Warcraft 3. I loved building an intricate maze of towers, optimizing it's structure to get the maximum efficiency, and building on my mastery of the game. Even more than that, I loved how players could collaborate and build these mazes together to form an even better structure. I've been working on an indie tower defense game that I hope captures this essence of strategy and multiplayer. I'll be releasing this game on Android within the next week and iOS shortly after!
Ok sure. Still inaccurate to assume it’s SARS-Cov2.

This is not a game of assumptions.

Furthermore, Italy tested over 200,000 samples in a little less than 14 days? Don’t think so.

Numbers aren’t making sense. At all.
The amazon link is not working. One that works. [1]

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While I sympathize with immunocompromised, this argument fails to stick as COVID-19 is not as transmissible/contagious as many other pathogens.

Regarding pregnancy, We won’t know about the long term effects there for years
I don't get this take. Your bank, employer, ISP, pretty much any tech company, etc. would also share your data with law enforcement if court ordered.
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Or use a different example, inclusive zoning in Japan is generally very mixed, with good outcomes for walking/cycling/transit. The only exclusive zoning areas is for industrial.

https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm...
No, the one from Jena was a controlled study, and they tried to exclude any biases like neighboring cities. It’s “synthetic” because you can’t create two equal cities and population to test, unfortunately.

Again, did you actually open and read the link? It’s pointless to discuss your feelings in place of the studies. You’re dismissing all of the data in that report based on.. what? Again, the increase in total cases tells you nothing about the efficacy of the measures. The controlled study does that.

Studies like these can be invalidated by further studies, or systematic reviews. They are not invalidated by popular feelings over news reports. Show me one of those statistically-backed rebuttals and I’ll believe you.

(The WaPo link was posted by yourself, most of those are self-reported. It’s good that you notice because it also weakens your own argument if you think about it)
Most wouldn't pay because there are alternative free services with a somewhat similar model. This analysis would be more interesting if all these 'free' alternatives go away.