jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> When you state an opinion, you don't need to provide a link. It's an opinion. Yours is different. There we go.

If we try to be charitable and assume your interlocutor knows this perfectly well, what could he/she possibly mean? Easy, they're asking what gave you that opinion. Answer that instead of being so adversarial.

> But everyone else who's not a pro wouldn't have to see that feature and feel they OUGHT to understand it.

You're generalizing from your own feelings. Can you imagine that lots of people actually don't get this feeling?
McDonald's in the US only uses white meat for chicken nuggets, which is part of why they're not as tasty anymore. I don't know if that's gone global yet, but when I was in India ten years ago, it certainly wasn't and I had some really tasty McNuggets.
Pretty surprising though. With the amount of stick the Playbook got before its release and all the adverts for the other two, didn't see that coming at all.
Um, no. 'Disappear' as a transitive verb predates all of that by many decades. E.g.:
1897 Chem. News 19 Mar. 143 "We progressively disappear the faces of the dodecahedron."

See also: lighten up, Francis.
Earth only has 196,900,000 square miles. A 580 square mile circle is 580^2 * 3.14 so a little over 1 million square miles. At a minimum that 12,000 satellite network means ~60 are within range at the same time. At 42,000 your at ~210 overhead at the same time. While nobody can see every part of the sky, across tens of thousands of people plenty will get at least a slice near the horizon. So, you can include satellites out over the ocean and exclude people with access to high speed internet already.

Overall a 42,000 satellite network could connect something like 1/2 the “1.3 million people in California without access to a wired connection capable of 25 Mbps download speeds.” As I doubt 1/2 those households are going to want to pay 100$/month for internet the 42,000 satellite network should cover California just fine.

PS: Of note their ground receiver can only point to a slice of the sky, but I suspect plenty of people near the ocean will focus on that slice of the sky for better bandwidth.
Generally it's not worth using a credit card for something less than $1.5 per month. Various cloud services will give you 100GB for free.
I’m in a similar situation.

Does anyone know of a service that can be made to automatically pick up a Twitter name as it becomes available?
I've heard this argument before but I don't get it. Could you please explain how it is a religious belief in particular or provide a pointer to where I can find out more? Thanks
I don't see a reason why it should stop. If environmental problems cause issues making tons of stuff, costs for those items will increase, dropping demand for them and increasing demand for more sustainable things. That's the way the economy goes, and it's bad for business to have a lot of unemployed people.

I see no reason to be bearish on equities long term, but I do know that certain industries will run into serious problems, I just don't know which ones that will be necessarily. I buy broad index funds because I'm bullish on the market in general, but not on any particular sector.
Small companies more easily provide perks such as part/flex-time and remote work.
I made a similar move a while ago, though I was not at the same level that you are and worked at startups before joining FAANG.

> Second, what are some of the surprises post-FANG that I would be in for if I wanted to start a company?

The biggest changes for me were psychological. I'm a competitive person by nature, and where I worked, most people were the same. It mattered a lot to me that I was keeping up with my coworkers, both in terms of salary and peer recognition. This was unconscious, and I never truly realized this until quitting.

As a result, it had become difficult for me to enjoy my free time. I would hate myself for doing nothing and wasting time. Let me give you an example. When I was younger, I loved playing videogames. After quitting I thought it's finally time to catch up with all those games I had missed. But after having worked in tech for so long I found myself unable to enjoy them on the same level I had before. Instead of taking my time appreciating the game and its art and discoveries, I felt pressure to complete it with 100% as quickly as possible, in the most efficient way possible. I believe that's what tech culture did to me. It made me into a robot trying to compete. That also spilled over into my relationships, where I would regularly cancel dates or leave early in order to optimize my time.

Getting away from this mindset took a long time and I'm still working on it. I am now slowly learning to enjoy the small things again, relax without worrying about wasting time, or keeping up with everyone else around me.
Indeed, UVA being a public institution is the only reason why such legal recourse was possible in the first place.
Windows NT/2000/98 would run really well on 512MB of RAM.
Strangely on my system `lstopo` shows only 7 CPU cores (0-6), instead of 8.
Alt+Tab is usually bound to "Switch applications", which means all of the target application's windows come to the front, possibly sending every other application window out of view.

Sometimes a more direct approach is to use the action "Switch windows" by assigning it a shortcut Keyboard settings.
The top media mention is "UFO". The series had a wonderful sense of style, especially characters' uniforms and clothing. It's worth a look-see.
Who has principles that state it’s ok to take someone else’s personal pics from social media and post them as effectively porn?
It doesn’t seem like the left values discourse. I don’t know if they care to respond to market incentive if that’s what you’re suggesting.

This has been apparent for some time and is a complete reversal from when conservatives were the conformist squares policing speech and society broadly.
The flip side of that coin is that it also makes it harder to recruit people from broader platforms.

When the_donald left reddit, it became impossible for them to get their propaganda seen on the front page of reddit and seen by people who might join them. People won't casually stumble into a cesspool of lies and BS. Now they have to know it exists and actively seek it out.

I just googled "the donald" and they aren't even on the first page. Seems like deplatforming kind of worked....
Nobody killed a cop. A cop killed a protester.
I have come to this realization recently as well. "Deplatforming" people of significant real-world power, or largely any world leader, is notably different than deplatforming an average person. A lot of comments I feel are conflating the effects of banning an average person, or an average person trying to become more well-known ("candidate Trump"), with an established world leader.

People with power have real consequences on the life of each individual. I admit I don't know how to treat those two groups but I don't think the arguments used for the average person are the same arguments that should be applied to world leaders, and vice versa.
> The capitol was clearly barred+fenced off. They FORCED their way in.

Neither of these facts are in dispute by anything that I said.

All I was saying was that it did not start after the rally, but during.
Someone should inform The Open Group about this violation of POSIX ;)

Another fun fact: glibc does this too, if you compile with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2. However, since Linux lacks the nice vm_region APIs the code opens up /proc/self/maps :/
It's a question of how you frame it, but that doesn't mean all ways are equally valid in every context.

A pound of apples and a pound of lead may amount to the same thing for a counterweight, but that doesn't mean they are equally good for a pie.
Intel's 7 nm process has also essentially failed; it's years behind schedule.
https://www.techspot.com/news/89173-amd-admits-zen-3-cpus-vu...

Just took the first link on DDG, if you're curious you can research deeper.
I agree with you in terms of using what you already know best.

> If you're not already familiar with these tools consider using a managed platform first, for example Render or DigitalOcean's App Platform (not affiliated, just heard great things about both). They will help you focus on your product, and still gain many of the benefits I talk about here.

And:

> I use Kubernetes on AWS, but don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need this. I learned these tools over several years mentored by a very patient team. I'm productive because this is what I know best, and I can focus on shipping stuff instead. Your mileage may vary.

I actually spend very little time on infrastructure after the initial setup (a week of part time work, since then a couple of hours per month tops).

For comparison, this post describing what I did took nearly a month of on-and-off work. But I might just be slow at writing :)
Or speaking of paranoia (you weren't but I did in my other comment) maybe they DO want it to be public domain, because maybe this whole anti-Spotify campaign is created by Facebook, because Facebook doesn't want a Spotify patent to prevent Facebook from doing this technology themselves.
Yeah seriously it was awesome in a very straightforward/organic way. Took 2g worth of liquid extract, which was nearly a perfect amount, maybe .5g more. Any more than that and I think I would be too distracted to swim/stabilize in the tide.

The best was right in the beginning as I was getting a little uncomfortable come up, there was a Sea Turtle right beneath me that my buddy pointed out. Came within 10 feet and was curiously looking at us. They hold their breath like us.

Really let's you relate at a deep level to the other animals/beings on earth and feel at ease as you "just do it" in life. Then all your neurotic life scenarios just seem silly afterwards.
It'd be nice if I could check shipping costs/ability before entering a bunch of personal info, but I guess that's life.

But yeah, doesn't look like they ship to the US; no options come up for shipping methods (and clicking Continue anyway just loops back to the shipping method selection page without any sort of error message).
Your source says this:

>It's unclear exactly what the age breakdown is when it comes to this variant strain

It seems you need to spend more than 10 seconds researching your ideas.

The rest of what you've said in response to my requests for further information and sources is just personal opinion, presented as "reasonable" arguments.

>Becomming less deadly is a typical direction viruses evolve but at a time scale of hundreds and thousands of years, not few months.

An idea not supported by my 10 seconds of research:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2252699-covid-19-is-bec...

>There were initially hopes that this virus won't be capable of evolving this fast.

I would ask for some sources to back that statement up too, but I don't hold much hope for a reasonable reply. Influenza is a non error-checking RNA virus, coronaviruses are error-checking RNA viruses. The slowest to mutate are DNA viruses. The relative speed of mutation of these types is well understood.

>You never heard that while viruses evolve they sometimes gain ability to spread to organisms they had trouble infecting before?

Yes, I have, but never in the context of "younger examples of the existing infected organism". Even so, and as I've already said, we don't even know if younger people are already being infected with the existing strains, so I can't get myself too worked up about hypothetical possible future variants.

You've also mixed in your personal opinions on supposedly how bad life was before Covid, how little you value small businesses, and how life should be drastically re-modelled so that everyone works and learns remotely. I disagree, but that's ok, it's opinion. I think that remote (learning or working) places people at a huge disadvantage - against those who already have in-person connections, and against institutions that have the sense not to do such a thing.

>sars-cov-2 is so mild in objective terms

We certainly agree here.
Building on the way Dynamicland makes assembling programs a physical thing, I wonder why this couldn't fairly easily be extended to something like scratch[i]/snap![ii]/blocks[iii]?

[i] https://scratch.mit.edu/developers

[ii] https://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/understanding-blocks.htm...

[iii] https://snap.berkeley.edu/
It makes it really difficult to tell which tab is selected IME too. It's a shame.
It's worse than that. It's meant for the consumption of media that Apple sells/approves.
A lot of Lulu customers don't market their books, they just use the service to print private copies of family memoirs, documentation or other one-off products. No break-out hits that I'm aware of. Some indy RPG publishers sell reasonable numbers. Wil Wheaton's book ran pretty well...
Humor is a great strategy. Once you have people laughing, you can get away with a few minor hiccups.

It reminds me of a rafting trip I took. The buses being used to transport us from the office to the rafting location were really old and almost falling apart. The guides had a brilliant story about how the buses went from high schools->some backwater in mexico->some other really random places and were finally bought by the rafting company. The funny story had people laughing all the way there than crib about how crappy the buses were.
I believe any chatrouletter subdomain creates a "channel" for that specific subdomain.
Is the trouble really worth it to save $200? It has to be one of those "just because I can" things for most people who do this, right?
I knew I couldn't be the only person waiting for a blu-ray mini. There are aftermarket options, but I'd rather not go there...
I've also been looking for a HTPC sort of solution, and came across the Dune Player which looks promising - blu-ray drive plus network streaming running on Linux:

http://www.duneplayer.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=2

I would have seriously considered the new Mac mini for that sort of duty otherwise.
This is all well and good -- and a similar post a few months ago relating how Malcolm Gladwell practices his lectures had much of the same information -- but to be completely honest, with the amount of multitasking most people do these days, almost none of the presentations we give are much more than information sharing via PowerPoint/Impress/Pages. The extra time spent rehearsing and preparing backup plans would be a complete waste.

It would be smarter for most people to practice their public speaking more generally so that when they're giving these innocuous, boring presentations they at least don't come off as buffoons (whether the demos work or not).
I haven't thought of Joost in a while. What I recall: lack of content, and a clunky user-interface that gobbled far too many resources.
Great idea, lets go on our gut feelings rather than science. Lets apply this to other fields too. Driving a car will become much more exiting when it can explode any second. Homeopathy is medicine with very low statistical properties, but it's so much fun! I love it, it's so useful! And the car engineers and pharmaceutical scientists will no longer have to do that boring math and statistics. Lets leave empirically validated methods behind us!

Hint: if the statistics show that the results are pathetic, then the results are pathetic. Ignoring statistics merely sweeps that under the rug, it doesn't fix it.
I've written an OAuth2 server implementation and to be honest, I still don't really understand why people use OAuth2 instead of OAuth1.0a. The minimum amount of work you have to do to write an implementation that complies with the spec leaves you open to all sorts of security issues (as Homakov continues to detail), no two providers implement the same parts of the spec so writing clients isn't really all that easy, and the "security" features don't really seem all that secure. For example, refresh tokens, what the fuck? If an attacker can steal your access token why would you assume that your refresh tokens are safe? How is it ok to say "well, even if your access token is stolen at least it will expire eventually, so don't worry"?

/rant.
I think the problem will "address" itself as a large population of qualified programmers ages, and the total numbers of programmers stabilize. This field has experienced explosive growth over the past couple of decades, and that growth was mostly fueled by the young people, so it's no wonder the industry is geared towards them.

Disclosure: I'm in my mid-40s, self employed, but no shortage of clients.
You can enter without a phone and pay for items with cash. I found this information on the internet. But feel free to have a 20 deep discussion about it.
I've thought for a long time that eventually there will be profile providers and network providers, to which you plug your profile information into with varying degrees of exposure.

This may evolve such that Facebook becomes more open as demand for openness increases, or there could be a Diaspora-like force that blows the closed-garden open, but like the online services of the 80s and 90s I think that openness will out. Facebook's challenge is to stay ahead of this curve such that their garden appears to be more open than it is in order to stem attrition, but there are still lots of people who aren't interested in likes or tweeting or any other form of information-disgorgement toward a private company. Couple this with possible (and possibly inevitable) privacy breaches and Facebook remains vulnerable. Think of where Google was five years ago and where they stand today, as a less-than-total (and possibly decreasing) presence.

There is an ebb-and-flow to these developments, and Facebook users constitute thin-clients in the continuing historical battle between centralization and nodal power.

EDIT: clarified 'thin-client' relationship
I recently did this manually by piping responses to a temp file called before and after, and then using vimdiff as my differ which proved quite effective.

This tool looks great, but would not have worked with my particular use case, which was doing some migration of user data, and diffing the user accounts to make sure that they had changed in the expected way.

It might be an idea to add the ability to query the same host twice, but have a user input trigger when to test each host.
> The energy costs of a block are not in relation with the amount of transactions in it. Just because you have two numbers, doesn‘t mean you should divide them.

Right, they are unrelated. The energy costs are driven by how much Bitcoin is valued, so the more Bitcoin succeeds, the higher the energy costs go. The transaction rate does not increase, it stays around 400K/day, enough for everybody in Russia to make one transaction a year. Or for another example, for every business in the US to make 5 transactions a year. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

The solution to Bitcoin's extremely low capacity for transactions is for it to be only actually traded on-chain by the largest institutions, like gold moving between vaults in the old days of metal-backed currencies. But in that world, most companies and certainly most individuals would trade using layers upon layers of complex systems built on top of Bitcoin, not Bitcoin itself. Very likely those layers will involve some form of centralization. So what's the point of all this elegance?
Absolutely.

Where it currently is assembled into the vehicle requires either:

1) much longer expected service life, make it a non issue

, or

2) greater ease of replacement, and or more graceful, utilitarian failure mode performance.

1) Is tolerable, and still shitty,

2) is, or could be, reasonable, and an annoyance tops.

As things are now, the whole affair is a big dodge. I would be very unhappy.

Fail fast, and all that rapid innovation culture has implications the mature auto manufacturers know well. I have friends with these cars and they are having a lot of fun. When the fun started, I talked about real costs and risks yet to play out.

Well, now they are.

Some of those people can afford the adventure. Ok fine, they got what they paid for. And they have options.

Many secondary adopters may feel the pinch of these things far more. Sad day for them. Hope Tesla recognizes who they are selling to now and ups their game.

I am a fan. The cars are fun, but there is no way I would own one personally. Maybe someday.

Transportation to me needs to be cheap ass dollars per mile and either highly reliable, or easy for me to fix and maintain.

I do not care too much about which it is.
"Less cobalt" is another one in there that the battery industry has been working on, and has made a lot of progress. (It's related to price, but also related to not wanting to be constrained by the availability of a conflict mineral.)
> both less complex and simpler

Did you mean "easier"? Because complex and simpler are antonyms, so it seems kind of redundant to use both words.

> the complexity is hidden in the underlying technology

The complexity is there. Maybe not all get involved with it, but it's still there.

> Sewing with a sewing machine is usually [simpler] than sewing by hand

The technology is more complex. The operation is maybe on par, though I would think it's also more complex. I may be biased in that I've hand-stitched many times and I find it super-simple, but I'm still a bit intimidated at the prospect of learning the basic use of a sewing machine. For very basic hand-stitching, you just put the thread through the needle, and the needle through the clothes in some pattern. That's it. For the sewing machine, I guess you have to lead the thread through some parts of the machinery, select some stuff through the knobs, etc. I think there certainly is a need to know a bit on the construction and workings of the sewing machine to be able to fix issues that arise.

> If you count the complexity of the hardware and the operating system and compiler, nothing in development is simple.

Complex and simple are relative terms, after all. If you refer to the last example of CLI vs GUI, they both involve the OS and compiler, etc. so that cancels out and we can refer to one as simpler or more complex than the other just based on the differences. Now, if you compare software development to making a sandwich, then sure, nothing in software development is as simple as making a sandwich.

> The easy way is to copy the existing class and make the small necessary changes in the copy. The simple way would be to refactor and put all the differences in delegates.

I agree to that, and that also aligns with the examples I gave. The complexity is mainly in how the thing is constructed. Duplicated code adds complexity to how the program is constructed. When you want to make a change to the common code, you have to make the change twice, maybe with a few differences. That makes development of the program also more complex.

It's the same as a sewing machine, or a stick blender with chopper attachment. Their construction and maybe operation is more complex than their counterparts.
+1

This move barely makes a dent to the automobile or racing industry.

VW doesn't really have extensive racing programs comparing to other marques like BMW, Mercedes, and of course VW group's own Audi and Porsche.
Local police. If they send it back, you keep any paperwork and throw it away, since now you have proof that you tried.
Thats also the reason why the market can never go to 100% passively managed money.
Reread the comment again, do you know much about Monero?

Otherwise I buy BTC on Bisq without asking anyones permission nor handing over license + passport details.
this is an exploit that allows an attacker to disrupt the electrical grid - even if it's only to the substation, that effects all of your neighbors that didn't encourage you to blindly support Tesla's endeavour. it's highly irresponsible to have this kind of control behind such a trivial login on something that connects to your power lines, something extremely dangerous. far from a "nitpick"