jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very cool quote from the book:

"One of the facts that never fails to blow my mind is the realization that a piece of software is, after all, just a very cleverly composed number. Thus you can sum Adobe Photoshop to Google Chrome, although the result won’t probably make much sense. That is also why there exist such a thing as an “illegal number” [1]."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
I've learned two things in life about people like this editor:

1. I will never understand how their brain puts them in the right for every situation they've ever been in

2. No amount of arguing or facts will get in the way of #1
The contra position would be that honey bees are responsible for supporting less than 1/3 all food production (which is a bit easier to prove). Bees are important pollinators but there are other pollinators and the case that the absence of honey bees would result in the absence of 1/3 of crop production is very weak, since the absence of competition from honey bees would likely result in some degree of compensation from other pollinator species (such as wasps).

The 2nd reference is the best so far, it provides some quantitative information about how dominant the honey bee is as a pollinator of commercial crops.

Personally I think bees are hugely important and it's quite sad the way bee populations have been mistreated, but it doesn't help to overstate the case (the case for being kind to bees is already very strong).
This seems to be written from the "Engineers are monkeys" perspective. As if they spend their time flinging poo and you really need "solid" boing technology that's already well designed so the poo doesn't mess it up.

You shouldn't choose node.js or MongoDB because they are "innovative"-- but because they are poorly engineered. (Erlang did what node does but much better, and MongoDB is poorly engineered global write lock mess that is probably better now but whose hype way exceeded its quality for many years.)

The engineers are monkey's idea is that engineers can't tell the difference-- and it seems to be supported by the popularity of those two technologies.

But if you know what you're doing, you choose good technologies-- Elixir is less than a year old but its built on the boring 20 years of work that has been done in Erlang. Couchbase is very innovative but it's built on nearly a decade of couchdb and memcache work.

You choose the right technologies and they become silver bullets that really make your project much more productive.

Boring technologies often have a performance (in time to market terms) cost to them.

Really you can't apply rules of thumb like this and the "innovation tokens" idea is silly.

I say this having done a product in 6 months with 4 people that should have taken 12 people 12 months to do, using Elixir (not even close to 1.0 of elixir even) and couchbase and trying out some of my "wacky" ideas for how a web platform should be built-- yes, I was using cutting edge new ideas in this thing that we took to production very quickly.

The difference?

Those four engineers were all good. Not all experienced-- one had been programming less than a year-- but all good.

Seems everyone talks about finding good talent and how important that is but they don't seem to be able to do it. I don't know.

I do know is, don't use "engineers are monkies" rules of thumb-- just hire human engineers.
Hi, I'm one of the devs working on the Braintree docs. You're absolutely right, the information flow in our docs isn't in a great state right now.

We're actively trying to fix the flow issues by consolidating information so you don't have to go tab-hopping to find what you need. If all goes well, hopefully you'll see some improvements showing up very soon™.

If there's a specific problem you'd like to share, I'd welcome the feedback. Either way, we'll keep forging ahead on another rev that's a little easier to follow.
No, not all 1.5MM are publicly available.
I took Odersky's class because I wanted to learn Scala and functional programming from Odersky. I trusted his judgement as to what was important and what wasn't. I could find programming exercises and Scala tutorials using Google. There are even free Scala ebooks and I own a hard copy of SICP. What I can't get on my own is Odersky.

BTW, I found the format of the exercises for that class tedious and overly dependent on SBT. I walked away knowing some Scala and more functional programming but configuring the IDE to start a new very simple Scala project wasn't covered, unfortunately.

I will also add that Odersky's videos were a bit confusing because they were disconnected from the bricks and mortar class where they are also used, apparently. Curtailing the subject matter for the MOOC may make sense, but the those videos show how tempting it is to avoid the effort that editing video entails.

I think Grossman's class was much better designed. The slide based format without human body parts allows more flexibility with regard to editing. Taking body parts off the screen allows more flexible combination.
One is local and we meet up for drinks every 2-3 weeks. It was initiated by one of the others in the group.

The other is online and focused on WordPress products (plugins and SaaS services). We meet about every month and we'll see each other in person at a conference in October.

Both are pretty small right now (3 of us in each), but we'd probably do 4 if another person fit in.

I started up the 2nd because of the focus on WordPress and a little more frequency of connecting with like-minded entrepreneurs.

I like the idea of more regular spontaneous chats on hangouts or campfire though, especially if guys like bdunn and patio11 are doing it.
poverty is a mega trend that will cause revolutions if not fixed;
This is typical posturing from Monsanto - what else can they do, when confronted with the potential that they've been poisoning the earth with cancer-causing mass-profit-generationg chemicals, which form the basis of their stock value? It should come as no surprise that they are calling for this report to be retracted, as they must attempt to defend the value of their organization at all costs, regardless, or face the wrath of their masters - the shareholders - when the stock takes a hit.

There are, as mentioned, multiple reports and findings that put Monsanto in hot water on this issue. They deserve to have this dirty laundry aired, considering the massive investment they have made in covering up the problems with their products. This is not a company that will go lightly into the chambers of justice - it will fight all the way for its own position to be held in the public eye, because that is one of the things it does, as a company, to build the value it has achieved so far. Monsanto is not just a biological-product producer; they're also masters at manipulating public opinion, owning politicians, and defining their PR on their own terms. Just like they manipulate the genetics of organisms for their own gain, they manipulate the general publics point of view in the same light. It will take true science to defeat them, and this is a case where it looks like its happening. Finally.
Like making comments in discussions on hobbies you don't like?
I created a soccer app that provides information on betting. It trickled along nicely and then in November it jumped to £3k (~$4.5k) then December it jumped to £7.7k (~$11k) and looks to be on that line still as it is on £2k after 5 days of January!
Why was the launch window that short? Matching trajectory with ISS?
Might as well serve it from Amazon S3 with Cloudflare in front of it.
Isn't syntax one of the big reasons people use Coffeescript? That doesn't seem to change.
This is similar to USA, but the slaves mostly stay in Asia and Latin Americs, and their work is imported to USA.
That's pretty cool. How did you market it? What's your net looking like(assuming 80k is gross sales)?
Hey, fair point!

So far it just checks whether the site itself is reachable - I might add the ability to check functionality in the future.
> Removing everyone else doesn’t take as much work as I expected, as long as you’re not hesitant to unfollow (or even block) those who distract from your desired timeline.

It's also not even necessarily them. Twitter is enthusiastic in assuming that, because you're engaging with one person, you must also be interested in what they're engaging with.

My efforts to have reasoned debate with one person in my life who was becoming more and more aggressively MAGA (prior to some rather extreme takes on... well, several different incidents) did not in any way equate to having even a remote interest in being flooded with content from Ben Shapiro or Turning Point USA, just because she happened to give it fake Internet points.

I gave up on her Twitter well before I gave up on her as a person for this exact reason.
Yeah they managed to find their way into circulation somehow. ;)

Not sure what I really had to add with that whole bit up there. I suppose it’s that sometimes intermediary units are a fun part of the story!

Anyway, very cool project.
Assuming that Apple want to sell their chip to you. And that’s almost certainly a no.
Yes, people love getting stuff cheap. But if, say, an auto shop was offering cheap oil changes because they're just dumping the used oil down the sewer instead of properly disposing of it, "people like cheap oil changes" isn't justification for the continued harm.
This. No reason to say "the server's gone!" when your user's not doing anything in which that matters. Do notify them _before_ trying to execute on a task that requires the server to be up, but that's not the case that was getting described.
Also I know what you mean about the job security and so on, but this industry was previously provided by the restaurant/businesses which would offer a base salary and then tips were there's lets say. But deliveroo uber and co, offered the riders a means to earn more money with less job-security, the restaraunts to reduce the fees of delivery..

It was a pretty balanced trade-off.. To which both concerned parties did agree.. Goverment wasn't even needed here. I feel worse for the delivery people in all this because they wont have that extra money, instead deliveroo and co will just reduce their earnings to compensate.

It's stupid.
> please dont buy too much into the marketing.

I'm confused, I thought the entire premise of the comment was that they actually measured the performances of these routers instead of looking at marketing?
My implication was that the fact that many people use trackpads doesn’t somehow prove that trackpads are a good tool (as reaperducer seemed to imply) (despite the fact that people can’t easily get laptops without them) any more than the fact that many people use non-Apple trackpads somehow proves that non-Apple trackpads are better (despite the fact that many people can’t easily get laptops they like without them).
Not just that, but there also a lot of cases that the local-first software will perform much better given the resources might be cached.

If you mix the two crowds: the people that actually care with the people that will just want faster apps, you get a powerful bootstrap traction.

Lets also not forget that things might just vanish and when we are able to collect them and make personal relations that make sense to us, we will want to be secure that things that matter to us wont go away because we are keeping them. Its pure psychology.

The parent poster is forgetting that before we get use of how things are right now in the digital realm, we had to deal with the material world and thats how we shaped our minds. And in that world we learn how important is to keep things nearby and have mnemonics to help our minds that needs to keep so much information that our devices become our second brains.

I'm working on a fancy chromium inspired prototype to tackle this exact issue and just with what i got here working in "prototype mode" i kind of don't want anything else.. it's just.. another level.

Its technologically superior and even ordinary, unaware people will just want this. Cloud have its place of course, but "local-first" will eat a lot of their lunch in the coming years.
It is right.

US public companies are judged by the efficiency and timeframe of their returns on capital, which means that big long-term projects have to be carefully planned and justified.

That's not the case when the government gets involved. We've already seen China build a lot of other infrastructure for no reason. Highways, skyscrapers...

Additionally, Chinese companies operate in an environment where it's OK to steal foreign IP as long as the Chinese government approves of your business activity. So it's not just capital that the government uses to fertilize growth in its corporate nursery.
nmh does not support maildir; it uses its own (rather similar) format known as “mh”.

I’ve used nmh for over a decade, but mostly due to inertia. nmh has some issues displaying and (especially) replying to some of the crazier modern formats, although it does a much better job now than even just a few years ago.

At this point I’m experimenting with alternatives. I too have concerns about its security (I fear anything from crufty C exploits to MIME parsing exploits to spec‐compliant misfeatures that leak privacy). Maildir is supported by a variety of software I’m interested in (mblaze, mu, notmuch), and honestly I think it’s a better format: the good things about mh format (easy shell manipulation with one mail per file) without some of the less desirable parts (for instance, Maildir keeps flags in the filename, while mh marks the message with custom headers, thus modifying the content).
They make you call support to delete a “cloud server” - glad I’ll only have to do that once more.
Why is analytics only numbers / quantitative data to you? I've used services like HotJar that record the interactions of the user on the site or app which is qualitative analytics at scale, and it helped me identify how the user was actually using the product. I wouldn't not call this analytics simply because it's not numbers driven.
It’s not revisionist, but I see now where the misunderstanding is. Partisanship means “commitment to an ideology”.
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fwiw, I started using Vue 3 recently for a project and the new composition API + new script setup feature makes Vue 3 comparable to Svelte in a lot of ways in terms of lines of code. Script setup definitely reduces boilerplate and once I was able to wrap my head around it, I really liked that.

That said, I don't think their documentation at the moment conveys why script setup is so useful (at the time of writing this comment). For example a lot of their examples in their documentation used their old API.

In my opinion, script setup + composition API is really nice. I haven't used React in a few years, so I'm not sure how it compares, but using Vue 3 features decreases the number of lines of code you have to write and maintain (in comparison to Vue 2), and I'm generally always for that. I would go as far and say that they would officially come out and say that the old API is deprecated.

I guess my only quandary is whether to use Vue 3 or just bite the bullet and use Svelte instead. If Vue 2 => Vue 3 is a decrease in 60% of the code, Vue 2 => Svelte seems to be a decrease of 65% ish. Is that extra 5% worth it? I don't know.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051054

i thought that was just recent
I'm aware of the cartel and their lobbying. Unfortunately I doubt FreeTaxUSA will work for me as ex-patriot in a slightly complicated situation and there are no CPAs here. I'll check it out though, thanks.
> The sensible move would be to keep disability, etc. as a form of insurance where costs are spread across the populace.

And now you're back where you started—you haven't eliminated these need-based programs at all, or reduced the bureaucracy. You've just added the UBI as an extra expense.
> Do you want me to continue?

Yes actually.

The problem I'm seeing here with the responses is that people are only thinking of "one move." That first move is creating a anonymous username. Yay. Easy. Now here's the problem. How do I share that while staying anonymous? What conditions do I need? If I can only have one username for all of Signal, does that create a bigger problem? There's a few more "moves" for you and these are what I'm looking for answers to.
Leave it there! I was thinking your motte/moat mnemonic would be really handy as I re-read the article - but now I know the motte is definitely not the moat (actually the moat surrounding the bailey is implicit), it's the castle, so you've helped me to remember the model!
I've seen an ADA and trooper hold a charge on someone even though they knew it was the wrong charge. That charge carried pretrial restrictions that the correct charge did not.
> sucking billions out of the US economy

Nah.

Every-hypothetical-body in the US paying you billions is getting more in value from your SaaS product than they're paying you for your SaaS product.

Otherwise they wouldn't buy it.
The prosecutors don't sentence defendants, judges do.

Additionally, judges would know what was going on and presumably take it under consideration.
And American citizens have the privilege of paying for this barbarism to the tune of ~$40,000/yr.

It is a criminal waste of taxpayer capital, and it is a criminal waste of human life.

A complete fucking for everyone involved, other than the people at the capital getting kick-backs from industries profiting off of the prison industrial complex, and the owners of the prisons themselves.
What stops every driver from checking the "I'm allergic to dogs" box?
> The most common confusion I see is people conflating revenue with profits with assets. For example, they'll complain that a company worth $$$$ only pays $ in income taxes

I agree they get conflated or the articles pick the least favorable comparison. But it's not like this is absolutely broken --- the market values company X (allegedly unprofitable) at $10B but they pay effectively no tax --- could be a legitimate complaint. And people who are upset about things often will make arguments that, when calm, they might know are not strictly true or fair.

Some might even argue that the value of government services they receive are proportional to their asset value, not their income.

> The accounting class was taught by a guy who said he used to be the the salesman at a car dealership. We got to talking, and he said the biggest problem customers had was failing to understand the finance part of the deal. The wealth of the customer was directly related to his understanding of finance.

You have no idea how much trouble I've had just getting dealerships to take a check, because they want to play these games.

> Finally, the manager asked him what his new job was, and my dad relied "head of the finance department at the college."

LOL.
What happened to purchasing something when you can afford it or waiting until it becomes cheaper, eg airs on TV or is available to rent cheaply? I missed Interstellar at the time of release, does that make it OK for me to just download it because it would be convenient for me to do so?

content creator slightly worse off

How did you decide this?
Agreed - maybe an Rails environment similar to http://tryruby.org/ for Ruby IRB?
Besides your point, the only other downside is that the red line is in the navigation bar, not directly below it. If it's a pixel or two tall it's probably fine but if it's 4+ pixels tall it'd probably make the vertical spacing of elements in the nav bar (titles, buttons) appear slightly misaligned.
Your logic sounds consistent with plenty of established principles.

But keep in mind the US part of the internet is by and large a collection of privately held entities. By your logic, it's completely reasonable for Sen. Lieberman's to place calls to Amazon to suggest websites and services they might want to review for ToS violations and take them down.

It cuts both ways dude. One day Dropbox, your ISP, whoever could decide that they don't like something you wrote (in code or in opinion) and "happyfeet" is then in violation of their ToS.

In fact, Dropbox is probably reading your comments in this thread right now. They might just decide your files are in need of review.
Just implemented this change, and I find it much improved. Thanks.

Now the next thing would be to figure out appropriate network metrics to monitor the PSN server. I suppose portscanning Sony would be considered a bad idea though.
I like it. The only problem is getting people to submit content. You may want to focus on one tech savvy city, troll Craiglist for events, go to REI to get events, go to StubHub for events, etc.
Very likely that Github bought SublimeText.
I haven't seen any young and HEALTHY folks needing ICU care. Can you share any cases? Or any stats indicating this is the case?
I think there are plenty of other studies showing that hand washing can make a big difference.

But I don't think that negates the whole paper. It could be that the methodology used for the hand washing data is more flawed than the mask portion.
This is a tough one for me. Math and physics were two subjects that I needed to learn in a classroom. This is one of the reasons why I'm skeptical about the complete demise of traditional education.

One possible idea is to get started learning math through physics. The reason is that physics is more applied than pure theoretical math, but the typical way of learning it makes use of similar math principles. Perhaps seeing this stuff in use will help pull you along when working through the pure math subjects.