jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
(Reply to my original comment since I couldn't edit anymore)

I should point out that my comment is simply about perspective, not complacency. Of course we should strive to fix and hold gov't officials repsonsible, fix the mess that led to the GFC etc etc...I was more or less pointing out that if we are myopic in our views we cannot take stock and realize the good we do have it. It is hard sometimes for someone who was born in the US to realize how much we simply take for granted (ask any recent immigrant from war torn countries or very oppressive regimes about their experiences and what they can and cannot do etc etc).
It may be worth pointing out that legal justice is really a post facto affair. The question is not whether bad things sometimes happen in the US, but how the legal system reacts to it after the fact.

In both the cases you've cited, the book is far from closed on the incidents. It's hardly even opened.

To establish anecdotal evidence of real injustice, you need to cite cases where the legal system failed to provide any sort of redress. Which with more effort you certainly could; I'm not claiming otherwise, nor am I claiming that you can't build a more comprehensive fact-based case against the US on some grounds. My point is simply that the implicit standard you are using by citing two things that haven't been through the system can't be used to score points for or against the system yet. The question is less "can you be put in jail" than "can you be kept in jail", and the corresponding second-order effects that has on society.

I am not entirely satisfied with the US; I am simultaneously not aware of any place that strikes me as obviously better, or even obviously on a better long-term trajectory. (Some places are better in some ways but end up being worse than others.)
This is really nice:
"The implication is that physical law does not reflect the order in the universe, instead it is derived from the order imposed by our description of the universe."

btw to download this:
curl http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.5161v1 > infophysics.pdf
I agree that there are troubling abuses of police power in the U.S. but you can still say whatever you want about George Washington in public.
I looked this up in Visajourney.com, and yes, you are correct. Also, leaving the US triggers the 10 year ban.
Have you tried ipdb?

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipdb
I'm surprised once again by the nice and helpful community on HN. I anticipated most comments would be people telling me to get my head out of my ass and get to work.

I hope you find a way to chill through life.
> I can have a new electron app up and running and on 3 platforms in under an hour.

I do the same with Lazarus, except that my app will have a richer interface with better widgets.
What is your take on the Ray Dalio view? The way I understand it:
1. Lending to the US government (buying treasuries) at low interest rates is not profitable, as you will be paid back in devalued currency. As is, real rates are negative.

2. Investors demand higher interest rates to make it worth their while.

3. US government has to roll over its debt or borrow more, but has to do it at higher interest rates that it cannot afford (what rate would that be?). Fed comes to the rescue by buying treasuries with new money, creating more demand and driving interest rates down.

4. That makes points 1 and 2 even more valid, so fewer 'real' investors turn up to buy treasuries, and those that hold treasuries try to sell them (you don't want to be getting fixed returns in currency that is losing value). That increases supply of treasuries even more.

5. Recognizing this dynamic, people rush to 'cash in' their dollars - buy anything tangible they can. US stocks sell off relative to 'hard' assets, as companies reporting in dollars are not be able to operate effectively.

6. This results in hyperinflation. The above unfolds relatively quickly with no advance warning (you don't want to alert others as you are trying to offload your dollars), turning low inflation into hyperinflation.
I think it's probably fairly random. I.e. you're just as likely to have a "do nothing" job in a FAANG as in some other random corps. But I don't think you can start doing nothing right after being hired - usually people are hired because there's more work in a team that the existing headcount can handle. So, you have to work for some time and then count on "falling into the cracks" - landing in a place where there's less work than people capable of doing it.

BTW I recommend against startups (pre big funding). In startups, the owners watch costs like hawks and there's zero chance of slacking off.

BTW2: if you're good with people, I recommend a Scrum master role. From my observations over the years, these folks have almost zero workload and absolutely zero responsibility for anything. It's slacker's paradise - you just have to be comfortable with babbling on meetings/calls for the majority of the day.
Some media was quite anti brexit - The Guardian, The Independent, the FT, the BBC a bit. People had a choice as to which to read.
> Here’s Why

Reason: Because Substack is 'encouraging a culture of anti-trans 'bigotry' with little to no 'content moderation'.

Solution: Going to Ghost.

End of story.
It surprises me that so many people are outraged by a Chrome extension that highlights names - and does nothing more as far as I know - denouncing it with all of the righteous anger that Hacker News can muster (including wanting to blacklist anyone who contributed to the extension, and wanting to see everyone with progressive politics purged from free software entirely) yet no one seems too bothered when RMS supporters want to have Molly de Blanc arrested for simply writing a petition[0] to begin with.

The hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance among Stallman's supporters never ceases to astonish.

edit: fixed the link.

[0]https://debian.community/molly-de-blanc-arrest-and-prosecuti...
What browser, version and OS? The server is setup with pretty strict TLS settings, but modern browsers should work.
If it was saying 31st I would consider that an option, but I'm 8 hours behind AUS and it says 30th for me.
> religious beliefs != informed opinions

Opinions are beliefs, and beliefs aren't by necessity religious.

> Your boss or project maintainer in an open source project starts spreading conspiracy theories on the internet (Q, Flat Earth, whatever), to the point he becomes a public embarassment. Do you want to continue working with him?

Thank you for the example. This never used to be an issue. 15 years ago, one didn't care what a colleague believed, so long as they conducted business in a professional manner. Nowadays one feels a need to distance ones self at all costs lest one be tarred with the same brush and similarly punished (as we see happening all around us these days - and in fact specifically in your earlier Chrome extension example).
That promo video looks like a low grade 90's commercial, doesn't really inspire for security and trust.

I'm using Avast security, how will this do a better job, I think a server grade security is a bit of an overkill.

"are you tired of the security model that leaves you as the owner of your mobile devices/computer trapped on a security treadmill that requires continual updates to try to keep up with the latest exploit?" What? That's kind of what a security program is supposed to do, keep up with the latest threats and update their clients.

They claim that they want to go on a crusade to eliminating cyber-threats & invasions. I failed to see how you are going accomplish that.

This also fails to explain to backers what Process Based Security is and how its more effective than every other security protocol and applications out there.

ps. And a hack-proof Android? Isn't that an oxymoron, a hack-proof open-source OS?
Impromptu was pretty nice as a scripting env for Core Graphics (I sued it as such at some point).

I also coordinated an effort to save it from being deleted from Wikipedia, along with Andrew Sorensen's "Study in Keith" video.

Andrew who's also the author of Impromptu and Extempore, had gifted the recording of a live coding performance to Wikipedia, under a CC license. Some editors wanted to have it removed because it was "personal research". Go figure... Sanity prevailed thankfully.

Edit: also, you should listen to "A study in Keith", it's a damn good piece. You can follow along as Andrew tweaks the grammar/Markov chains that make up the music, but it isn't necessary. The music starts at 1:56 (since the piece is written from scratch, there are a couple minutes of silent video while the author sets up the initial code).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Study_in...
Well. . .depends on what you include in "soft skills". The approach you describe works for some soft skills, but not all. For example, I don't think you can really be taught to be naturally empathetic. Some people may seem more empathetic because they are better at reading people, etc. But I don't think you can teach empathy. You can teach some skills that fall under the umbrella of communication - and I would call them soft skills. Effective facilitation of discussions. . .recognizing when you need to re-word what you're saying on the fly - and then doing it. . .looking for the value in differing opinions/approaches,even if you don't always find it. . .those are soft skills. Some people are naturally good in those areas; others need to be taught. Some may never be "good" or "best", but they can improve.
This is a rant. They must not have much worth sharing on GitHub.

These days if I interviewed 2 developers and one had a very nice resume full of recommendations and stories about successful projects and the other developer had an active GitHub account with their own active projects with many watching them as well as multiple accepted Pull Requests for other projects... I would easily lean toward the developer who has been actively writing code, sharing and interacting with other developers. It shows they have passion, drive, dedication and an eagerness to learn from others and contribute back to the community.

A fancy resume cannot replace all of that.
> It's simply too profitable...

For something so profitable there's a lot of people losing a lot of money.

eg. http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/analysis-how-fracking...
You know what will end the fracking boom? It won't be politicians. The only things that will end it are 1) running out of gas/oil 2) the method becomes too costly to be profitable 3) a much much more profitable way to extract the resources is discovered.
For development we use grunt-connect-rewrite. It is a middleware for connect (which yeoman uses) that allows you to write custom rules similarly to how you would implement them in Apache.

You can see our connect setup in this gist

https://gist.github.com/TheAlphaNerd/6322927
I run my own mail server so there’s also a chance that I end up in your spam folder instead when I send you a mail, if you do spam filtering :p
Money is fundamentally a technology. My concern is that the US-central system may simply become obsolete in the face of China's digital currency.

Then there could be a fight to preserve the older dollar system in the form of a war. And since it's an inferior technology, the US would be on the wrong side of history.

The war would not be justified with financial arguments but rather propaganda as all wars have. So both Chinese and American citizens would feel a strong moral imperative to attempt to kill as many millions on the other side as possible in order to stop their "evil" ways.

Another aspect of this is the still unfortunately strong propagation of Social Darwinist perspectives that fundamentally do not value human life.

I think that the sane way to move forward is to apply our technology and social infrastructure towards resolving the political, philosophical and logistical conflicts directly. And I suppose it's quite unlikely. But this would mean leveraging things like smart cryptocurrencies and decentralization technologies (which in fact have large potential now for the next paradigm of government).
> Encouraging tech illiterate people to enter ID / CC details on shady websites sounds like a disaster waiting to happen even when you ignore the other more glaring issues surrounding the government and these sort of things in the past

Most people who'd do this would be the ones voting for this crap, so maybe it's not so bad and essentially a case of natural selection?
I'm very curious to know what has influenced your priors that you would suggest moneychangers are refusing filthy profit on account of conscience.
>its possible to convince people of really anything with enough exposure

Not really. You can spend days, weeks, and months; millions of dollars; thousands of paid shill accounts; all geared towards selling a single lie. And that lie can be exposed to millions of people in 10 seconds for free. But only if there is free speech.
Well, there is https://geekli.st/ and https://coderwall.com/welcome not sure what would be the use case for something that github cannot do.
Are you a <some definition of normal> developer?

Personally, I am much more interested in mathematics than necessarily coding and a lot of my "this is super boring" rants are related to that. Automation for me (in the job context), for instance, is not nearly as interesting as it would be for someone else.

I am working on a large side project (in mathematical agriculture) that would aim to correct this personal imbalance, but I also wouldn't be upset if that failed and in 5 years from now I work for a big company, but with the ability to use my mathematics skills.

Maybe I am too young? Having said that, my current job is boring. I think that the "my end goal is pointless" only becomes relevant after one ends the "at least I am learning skills" phase.
It seems unlikely to me that biological systems wouldn't exploit digital (e.g. genomic/DNA/RNA) kinds of memory storage, given that the materials are there and the energy costs of maintaining and accessing that kind of storage can be fantastically low. Keeping memory alive in neural circuits would seem much more difficult. Surely that's happening to a large degree though. I'm just highlighting the possibility of an alternative basis for certain kinds of memory in the brain.
Anyone who tells you they’re doing a massive refactor is full of shit. The point at which you should stop trusting them is the moment that phrase escapes their lips or is used to describe them.

And I say that as someone who has committed a few, in both senses of the word.

The point is to be deterministic, and it can only be deterministic if it is small.
And users should not need to care (too much). I drive a care and while I know some of the inner workings of an ICE, most people who drive do not and that's FINE. The car is a utility that people just want to work.

Why is software expected to be different? Why should it be? Why does your grandma require a basic understanding of password security anyways?
Duplicity and Borg use two very distinct technologies under the hood - duplicity does differential partial backup archives (which all require a full backup AND a full list of all previous differential archives) and Borg uses deduplication. So yes it is much more efficient in many ways, not simply because it is newer and somehow is more efficiently coded, it is so because it uses different technology and backup model.
> neurons appear to serve as both CPU and memory storage

I'm not sure this is really certain. But that uncertainty is more because it's hard to prove that there isn't another means of recording memory than something we know.

There has been speculation that there might be some genetic or biopolymer based system in the hippocampus, but I'm not familiar with anything more than speculation on that topic.
Yes, that's what I thought as well.I'll just have to suck it up until the test environments are up again and provide a proof of concept exploit.

I'm just impatient because it's a really clever and somewhat complex hack that challenges some multi-threading and transactionability assumptions some people mande and I can't really talk about it(which I'd love to share with my peers).
Yeah just have a partnership with Skill Share and Science Journals and other companies to host only content that has been approved specifically for prisons. I can't wait to see the future wave of hermit-like self taught scientists who spent 20 years doing nothing but theoretical physics.
A quick google reveals this for IE8+ everything else.

http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/

Not terrible but still a hack. Should just be a simple way of doing this by now... Still, this technique is better than a spacer gif!
And sometimes we need to check our facts before we make ill informed decisions.

A world class pianist makes 25 to 75k per show. Far more than any developer lazy or not.

A concert pianist makes 50k a year. Getting a seat is the hard part.

And someone majoring in math can go as far as someone majoring in engineering. Your college doesn't teach how to code, you need to do that on your own.
Ugh. Yes, that sucks. Benefit of the doubt, patience/curiosity to understand, and fair view are rare as supermodels with PhD's flying jet aircraft these days.

Up/down vote I think is too ambiguous: there ought to be an agree/disagree metric and a relevant-interesting/irrelevant-uninteresting one too. Maybe even get rid of displayed karma and simply vote on multiple properties (insightful, agreed, brave, well-reasoned, informative, primary source anecdote)
The librem 14 has what looks to be full-sized arrow keys: https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/11300004-edited.j...
> Incognito is about not saving browser history locally. Totally separate.

They're totally separate now, but it's not clear that they should be, and it seems pretty clear that they're not separate in the minds of users.

I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where a user would want to hide their local history, but are totally cool with people who don't have physical access getting access to their activities.
you’d be wrong, as far as i’m aware. almost all anime in the current system is an adaptation of a manga or LN - the anime comes at the end of the multimedia expansion project.
> we're trying to assess Kubernetes' value proposition (i.e., to answer "does it suck?").

Well, I'm not, since I already know that, but if you don't know that yet, then your position makes more sense. (That is, using "dismiss" in the sense of finding out that it sucks, rather than (as I read it) in the sense of justifying a refusal to use technology that you already know sucks.)

Unfortunately, due to market-for-lemons dynamics, it's usually not possible to convey knowledge that a particular technology sucks until things have already gone horribly wrong. See eg COBOL or (the Java-style corruption of) Object Oriented Programming.
1. You can request authors reprint in email and they usually send it. This is a common practice most people don't know about.

2. You can use sci-hub. [https://sci-hub.se/] + [DOI of the paper]. For example if the doi is 10.1177/0146167219880191 you do https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/0146167219880191
Thanks for any thought out responses. Trying to snag a junior position just a bit less wide eyed.
Ok. By what mechanism could Google prevent themselves from ever being able to do this? The browser can be updated to do anything. It could start deleting hard drives tomorrow with a malicious update!
So, did you end up getting a full-time offer?
I believe they were referring to bogosort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
>SF is dirty because the people prefer low taxes to real government services

New Yorkers pay similar taxes as San Franciscans. Yet our service level is substantially better. I think it comes down to city governments that are willing to make trade-offs (versus those that tend to get locked down by incumbent interests and populist temptations).
No, special-purpose functional units are very well power-gated on modern chips. They don't draw appreciably more power when not in use than when fused off.
For WSJ, just google the title and the first hit will generally be the article. When you come in with Google as your referrer, the full article loads instead of the paywall'd version.
I dunno, those who preserve the past are less likely to repeat it?
SQLite supports a single writer at a time, so writing large amounts of data limits your write throughput. A file system can cache data for several files concurrently and fsync them independently when you're done.

I believe SQLite also has to write the data twice, using the WAL. Maybe there is an optimization to avoid that though.
Not necessarily similar, just new Sci-Fi novels, I'm familiar with the classics: Herbert, Asimov, P.K. Dick ...
I believe 7digital use MVC on Mono in production with success.
The world today is such a wicked place.
Fighting going on between the human race.
People got to work just to earn their bread.
While people just across the sea are counting their dead.

A politician's job they say is very high.
'Cos he has to choose who's got to go and die.
They can put a man on the moon quite easy,
While people here on earth are dying of old diseases.

A woman goes to work every day after day.
She just goes to work just to earn her pay.
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder.
He doesn't even know who is his father.

- Black Sabbath's "Wicked World" (1970)

I'm a fan of manned spaceflight and exploration (slash finding a high availability arrangement for life from Earth). However, I believe we have more pressing matters to tend at the moment. In the meantime, it seems we need more Encyclopedists. ;-)
I think the real benefit of sites like this are accountability and historic research. Having the ability to see what has been omitted or taken down is far more interesting.
Was there a reason why they did it that way? And did you have a reason to find it lacking?
> Back in the 60s/70s, it was not possible to do an automatic hook-up of modules in space.

Well, maybe not for Americans. The first Soviet space docking (October 30, 1967, a year and a half after the first US space docking, with Gemini 8 on March 16, 1966) was between the unmanned Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 and was automated.

Soviet moon missions using multiple launches and automated docking were considered, at least briefly: http://www.astronautix.com/articles/theoblem.htm
While I agree with your initial numbers, you can get a decent apartment in White Plains around $1700 (or less if you find a deal, have lower standards, don't mind commuting, etc.).

Source: used to live/work there and just checked on craigslist.
For me, I don't bother with terms of < 6 months for rentals...I don't do commercial

Well there you go. The standard in residential is 6 months - year, so what are you talking about?

It sounds like someone trashed your residential house and you're personally angry about it.

Being screwed over is a risk of doing any business and you can't take it personally. Some people will screw you over, not pay invoices, bills, etc.

You can't base all your future dealings off that one event.
I was thinking about that the other day, that would be awesome something that builds it at every step and converts it to an animated gif
> "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and the first variable"

Wouldn't that be "... and the first constant"? ;-)
Between $10 and $300/month, depending on how fancy (or crosfitty) you want, and where you’re located. The really expensive gyms near me seem to be heavily populated by very attractive young people, so I guess that’s an ancillary benefit if you care about that. I wonder if they offer hot-person subsidies…
Yea, but in this case the old timers have chosen Black so what's the difference?
No. Something it could turn in to without much of a stretch.
And of course, that's exactly why people were recommending Signal. Of all the practically frictionless apps it provided best encryption.