jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First, not an expert, just armchair critic so take what I say with a large pinch of salt, but...

I think something US should take out of this is consider what Russia do with their monkey model strategy. Basically with something like tank/jet they do 2 models, one with all the bells and whistles and the other is a simple version.

This has 2 main uses;

1) Export market so they can sell simpler/cheaper and not share all tech. America does this somewhat but more on the tech protection side I believe.

2) Manufacturing output potential, so in a war countries win in the either the first strike or attrition. If you hit the attrition stage you want simplified options so factories can output faster vs the multiples the premium version take in time and resource.

If they had this, it might have given a low cost daily driver option while not forgoing the top end capability.

The other thing I thing Russia does I feel countries like mine (Australia) and other western nations should do more of is work out how to expand military into absorbing civilians. This way you can scale down the size generally whilst having solid plans on how to scale up quickly beyond the usual reserves. I've raised this before but people say military tech is too advanced. But I feel humans are smart and adaptable, I've little doubt if they look into this they would realise maybe women in their 60's (example/guess as far from normal military recruits) might make great radio operators with minimal training or drive supply lorries. Having this knowledge would give a huge force multiplier to armies if they want to scale fast and ideally help reduce the need for as large standing forces.
>...neither do tens of millions of other Americans...

Because they've been propagandized to think that way by a president with a conflicted interest. The number of people who hold an opinion has no bearing on whether it is factual.

Again, all you've done is to reiterate the same conspiracy theory without any evidence.
> Launched generic TLDs that actually have customers owning their domains will never disappear.

Thank you. That provides significant comfort. Want to use it for email so possibility of them pulling the plug would be not awesome

Glad that does directly apply as a possibility

Price increase - well I guess if it’s not absolutely insane increases I’ve got at least a year to transition
I was taking a university computer studies course and the cengage curriculum had a project that required setting up a LinkedIn account.

I wrote a letter saying this sort of data mining for marks was stupid and abhorrent.

I received no comment on my objection, just a zero.
All of this was covered in TFA.
The problem with this "they don't intend to use this overly-broad power in that way" line of thinking is that, even if you could be completely assured that it is true, there is no telling who will come into power in the future. You don't leave a gun laying around in the open.
What does Valve / Steam have to Discord?
That list is incomplete. CSGO is the most played game on Steam and is now free to play. I would not be surprised in the slightest if more people have CSGO.
What is breaking backward compatibility? Using new python features? Using new C features? Bug fixes?

To have any sanity as a maintainer, you have to draw the line somewhere.
The hardest part of building a design system is getting the organizational willpower to commit to it. There will always be another high priority feature to build, so to get it done you generally need executive level sponsorship.

Design systems are valuable but ultimately best tackled as an accelerant (/luxury) investment at scale. Your customers are unlikely to buy your product or churn from it due to not having a design system in place, so you really need to look at overall design/dev productivity as the benchmark of whether the investment is worthwhile.
The point of the article is to counter the general imbalance in the company/interviewee relationship by making sure the interviewee interviews the company back.

Your rebuttal however feels very much from the company's perspective.

If the company squirms or is concerned because they're asked questions like this, I think it's actually worrying. Companies will ask why you stayed at a company for a short period of time. Asking about tools is a good way to evaluate how easy it would be to get things done: if a company won't spend an extra $2k on a new computer of your choice, it's not a good sign. Asking about work/life balance is the same thing: you won't get a definite answer but you should get a glimpse of if you'll be asked to travel across the country at the last minute on your daughter's birthday or not.

In the end, you won't get completely truthful answers but the way they are answered will give you hints. (and to be fair, interviewees also embellish their answers)

Asking "what's in it for me?" seems a fair question. Generally, the feeling is that the risk is on the company's part, but as an employee you might be wasting your time, your opportunities and later you'll have to explain why you worked for only three months at a company.
>EDIT: come on HN, since when did we start downvoting stuff you don't want to hear? This is a valid point, if you have critizism just leave a comment. If you want to downvote something, do it on the summary comments. Sheesh.

You must be new to HN, any post that can be construed as criticizing Apple, whether legitimate or not will either be ignored or downvoted. On the other hand, anything justifying Apple's actions, whether true or not will be heavily upvoted.
This issue also matters within the computer - the bandwidth between main memory and a GPU connected by PCI Express is close to the bandwidth between main memory and the CPU. (On one machine I used for experiments PCI Express was 8 GB/s while the front-side bus was 12 GB/s.)

But the difference in latency is so big that you have to use different memory transfer strategies when using the GPU for computations than when using the CPU.
Great clear response from Apple. Patch is a good outcome, turning off location service actually stopping tracking and limitation to 7 days are very good moves.
See, but that would be crazy. If what they're saying is true (and there's no reason to doubt it at this point), they're using this in order to provide you with a service: the ability for your phone to know where you are in your city. Calling it "tracking data" is wrong, even.

Given their description of how the cell tower/hotspot data is used, it seems like deleting "this cache entirely when Location Services is turned off" is the opt-out you are looking for.
Any good books or pointers on accelerated learning you would like to share?
The fact Android is a niche player in the current market is more or less irrelevant. What's relevant is the desktop market will become less and less important because of a shift towards server-based computing and mobile (or thin) clients.

This threatens the survival of Microsoft like no previous player (like you mentioned, Apple, Palm and RIM) did and that alone is enough to explain Microsoft's lack of action at the time. Mobile devices and easy connectivity signal the end of the only market Microsoft has been able to dominate completely.

What would you do in their shoes?
If by 'accountability' you mean the ability for site ops to unilaterally de-anonymise Tor users, then no; Tor users will never agree to that.

If SE executives are really concerned about spam and vandalism by anonymous actors, then SE could Tor users to post assets in escrow (e.g. Monero) before posting. Similarly, if SE executives are concerned about denial-of-service attacks, then SE could rate-limit the sites that are causing the attacks; Tor is not efficient for that kind of attack anyway. There is no sound argument that blocking Tor entirely would further the interests of SE users.

A site looking to grow its influence would be more concerned with attracting new users than repelling them. This is the act of a monopolist in secular decline.
The new hipster shit of overcomplexity is putting every code snippet into a micro service, or just skip microservice and deploy everything as AWS lambda functions. Hype-driven development is a tradition.
It's not hilarious at all. It is a crucial sign that the consumer tech industry is allowing itself to behave in a way that is malignant, because the company inarguably at the top of it -- which has, for clarity, always been arrogant, indignant, entitled, and pushy -- is now engaging in a kind of tech troll conduct, the absence of which people used to sincerely use to differentiate it from e.g. Uber and Google.

This is a sign of insecurity in what is arguably a bear market and it bodes poorly for a lot of us, I think.
This is the reality in government, academia, and most businesses in which software does not make money.

Here's the exact discussion which you'd have if they called up A Consulting Firm Which Did Lots of Academic Work:

"By the way, our common application program has a truncation issue."

"Ah, yes, I see that."

"What would it cost to get it fixed?"

"Ten thousand dollars." +

"Ten thousand dollars for something which doesn't get graded by US News and World Report or make us look more prestigious than Yale!?! Screw it, we'll put a note in the handbook."

+ I am open to commentary that this is too high, but disagree. Getting stuff to fit algorithmically is pretty tricky: BCC doesn't get it right 100% of the time (my heuristics are up to 99.X% and doing it "properly" would take weeks), and the amount of work it took me to get from 90 to 99.X% would be in the neighborhood of $10k if charged out at intermediate engineer consulting rates).
When you're Google's size the normal rules don't always apply, but I would say that generally any "non-core" investments should at least have some strategic purpose.

McDonald's for example, owns or leases huge amounts of real-estate, which they sublease to their franchisees. One reason for this is to maintain control over the franchisees. A franchise owner can't decide to close up and open a Burger King instead, because McDonald's would cancel his lease on the property.

I'm not sure how owning real-estate relates to what Google does. They are not a retailer so the physical location of their offices is not critical. Even if a particular opportunity is a "good deal" it's still a distraction from their core business. Even if management and maintenance is subbed out, somebody in Google has to keep an eye on things to some degree.
Whoa, whoa, calm down. I was talking about immigrants who come to do graduate work in the US.
Only if you already have decided that this is the conclusion you want to reach. Which is totally fair as a kind of religious meditation over the biblical texts, but it not likely to convince anybody not yet convinced. For example Jesus states that he hands Peter the keys to heaven, which following this logic then turns Peter into God. And in the Lords Prayer, Jesus instructs his followers to forgive sins, which according to your logic turns them all into God.
> in some cases HTTP requests can be quite large

Sure. I might have slightly overgeneralized some things to illustrate the point.

> equivalent on Linux

TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT is something similar on Linux
I'm currently working at a place that produces 30,000 euro machines. It's pretty handy to be in the same place as the other developers, so they don't have to ship everyone their own 30,000 euro machine to work with. And that's just the developers; if there's a problem with the motors or other bits and pieces, that's another department that needs to be called in to have a look. Not very convenient if everyone lives in different places.
I agree with your argument that C has some bad parts which are desperately in need to be made better, but IMHO it should just stop there. Question of course then is: where is the line where it ends being updating bad parts of C and beginning to become a layer on top of C :) History has taught us that's sadly in the eye of the beholder .
patio11 is very much American, and could easily move to the US if he wanted to.

Actually, now he can't because he's married to a foreign citizen, and the United States puts those people through all kinds of hassle and lengthly waits even if they are married to someone from the US.
No they're not. You have to higher a lawyer and spend some money, but my dad got one coming from Canada and he was a middle manager at best (at the time).
$10 million a month... A MONTH!
Yes, thank you. The questions are naive, but the answers do restore my faith in humanity.
Yes. It corrected something that was going to bother me aesthetically.
>they are unlikely to get much more at a real company

It depends on the school. For my friends going into software out of college, 90k was towards the bottom end (the top end was more like 200k).
Is there seriously going to be a ".google" TLD?

http://tld-list.com/tld/google

Or are some of the entries just proposals?
From an infographic point of view, it might be worthwhile to use different colors or sizes of icons, to indicate the relative size of the munitions dumped compared to the others. Of course, you'd use ranges (0-10, 11-20, etc) and probably a logarithmic scale (0-10, 11-100, 101-1000, etc) ...

If you're really motivated, you might incorporate age as well.

Well done. I hope this raises awareness. Thanks for posting this!
Will the users ability to print be limited by the demand for advertising? In other words, can I print 1,000 photos as an individual? If you can only fill 100 of those ad slots, do I pay for the rest out of pocket?
9. Is there something about the geology of spots where companies like to drill that causes higher methane levels?

10. Were the wells sampled chosen for proximity to drill sites? Did the sampling methodology allow for the possibility that methane levels can spike without a nearby well?

11. Was there any relationship between levels and the length of time the well has been operating? Depth of well?

I'd add that the SA headline isn't exactly a dispassionate summary of the article.
>Medical research, for instance, is full of correlative research that never amounted to a hill of beans.

Yes like smoking being linked with cancer. I'm glad we listened to the corporate funded libertarians on that one and didn't fall prey to the wishy washy lefty propaganda and emotive narratives about evil tobacco companies wanting to make money from killing people. What a ridiculous, politically motivated caricature that was.

I'd like to point out that the Heartland Institute and Cato still deny the link between passive smoking and cancer, so it's not like that kind of lobbying is all in the distant dark past. The very same people writing lies about tobacco are writing propaganda about fracking. They also think climate change is a giant marxist conspiracy.
There's also a rebuttal to the debunking pdf:

https://1trickpony.cachefly.net/gas/pdf/Affirming_Gasland_Se...
Why there is VAT on every pledge? Using Patreon is not buying (that is what I believe, that is how similar services work in my country, they don't add extra tax).
Fascinating story. As a child of the 80s, I remember the self-esteem movement. My parents always made fun of the idea that you should love yourself even if you haven't done anything particularly great. Glad to see that it's falling out of favor.
I guess it boils down to respect - for both sides, young and old. Thanks for the compiler error ;)
It seems good.
Smart phone screen is small and switch between app is painful. How do you solve this problem?
After clicking on a link, a new window will be opened? or a model windows will be opened?
Wow what trash suggestions that woman is getting. "Just report him."

What the fuck SE community? Just ruin the lives of more than one family living in the states just because this girl is too chicken to just say no - from thousands of miles away no less.
The issue isn't that refusal would shame her, it's that refusal would shame her family, and her husband and his family. They then have to save face somehow. That's when the problems start.
This seems a quite sane and simple answer.
Or, rather than lying to the border agent (which I believe is a crime in the US, isn't it?), she could simply tell the truth: that she's visiting her husband and that she'll most likely be coerced to overstay her visa.

That should get her entry denied too.
The same is true for gore, porn, or other types of undesirable content, yet hardly anyone wishes to post on platforms that make no effort to control those.
This gives absolutely no context as I have no idea what these funny names are :)
Also many sorts of discourse are normative but toxic. You could say that "fake news" is harmful not because it is "fake" but because it is "news".

For instance this subject got nonstop coverage on CNN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

until Donald Trump came along and was better for ratings. Look at the subjects that constantly get flagged on Hacker News, such as:

women just can't get ahead

it's so awful that young people this day don't believe in free speech

In both of these cases you can point to very real cases where a women was the victim of outrageous misbehavior or where a speaker came to a campus and was treated really rudely.

The problem isn't with the facts of a particular incident but rather with the emotions that these topics evoke: in either case we all have our frustrations about the barriers we encounter in life and the ways we feel unheard and unsafe.

Conversations like that rapidly deteriorate into people talking about their own personal pain and suffering but with the identifying information (usually) deleted so anything valuable is gone, you might feel compelled to get involved but any of the power that comes out of groundedness is gone when people are talking in generalities, about principles, either from the "liberal" viewpoint of "this situation is fundamentally unfair" or the "conservative" viewpoint that the moral accounting has to be done accurately down to three decimal places.
Beautiful. Kudos to the FBI and the US Government for nailing these criminals.
This article shows that Javascript is truly the common man's functional programming language. Despite its ugliness, it got lambdas/anonymous functions right.
Reference counting is not deterministic. Whenever a refcount is lowered to 0, you don't know how many subsequent references exist further up the chain that will also be lowered to 0. Lowering a refcount to 0 can result in an arbitrary amount of code to be executed depending on the references.

If you mean that reference counting, on average, tends to result in fewer amounts of random/unpredictable pauses than most GCs, then I agree.
I can relate. Lots of Benchtime and then suddendly you have to travel across the continent to do work you're not interested in. That's consulting in a big company..

To be fair, the first year I was part of a great team with an excellent boss that mentored me and taught me a lot about business, sales and managing people.
Then he left and so did I. also never regretted that decision.
The suggestion is insane. If it wasnt for the Euro our german exports would have never brought us our wealth that we currently have.

And by the way... judging by our german deficits right now... we wouldnt be allowed to join the eurozone right now, so we are not that much better either.

The eurozone is not only a currency it is mainly an investment in peace. Whatever happens economically is not gonna change that. The promise of a peaceful europe after centuries of nonsense wars is more than enough benefit to work on keeping the eurozone strong.
Wow, this seems to be the end of DabbleDB. It must have been a hard decision to put up such a message for a service they have poured heart and soul into for so long. I guess Trendly wound up the winner of their products though. I wonder if Avi Bryant will make a case for parts of Twitter running on Smalltalk. ;)

If interested, here is a post from Avi Bryant, one of the founders.

http://www.avibryant.com/
My dad worked at SRI for nearly 30 years, and I think in many ways for him it was a dream job. The variety and freedom to immerse yourself in a totally different topic every six months to a year was something he really loved. But, I also know working there was quite stressful because there was not much job security. He had to always keep an eye on the hopper to ensure that once he finished his current contract that there would be another project for him to work on or there was a good chance he would lose his job.
This definitely is a bit over-generalized, but I think it makes some good points. One of the things I admire most about a few of the smartest people I have met is their ability to explain things in a very simple way. Furthermore, they are able to break down problems into very simple solutions. I definitely have troubles with doing this. Many of my solutions are complex. With quite a lot of effort, I am able to simplify the solution bit by bit, but when I talk to one of these people, their solutions blow me away. I always walk away saying to myself, "Why didn't I think of that? It's so simple!". I hope it's practice, and if I get enough, I'll someday be able to do what they do.
The first guy who is willing to spend an invite to me gets a free hug! email in my profile :)
I just saw the "search" link in the footer to google site search, so that works. a rel search box in the main nav would be better though.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com
Very good article, clears up a lot of questions, doubts, and misconceptions.

It seems to me that the problems with the Shuttle program always came down to money. The Nixon Administration denied Nasa the necessary budget to build the larger reusable vehicle they originally envisioned, while simultaneously scrapping the Saturn manned program.

As a space nut since basically I was 5 or 6 years old, when America was in its heyday of Gemini and Apollo programs (I was 10 when Apollo 11 astronauts kicked up lunar dust), space exploration was a given to me and all of my friends.

It was assumed that we would just keep on building and growing our space program until we got to something that resembled Clarke/Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Perhaps we wouldn't make it by 2001, but some time not too far beyond then. Maybe 2011. Maybe 2015.

It therefore makes me sad that we've been in this hiatus since about 1974, really 40 years of treading water rather than building much on the accomplishments of the past. Why not a permanent station on the moon? Why not a nuclear propulsion system that could get to Mars in 6 weeks? What have we done instead with our money, that is so much more worthwhile? Why was Nasa denied the $4 billion it needed to continue the Constellation program, while literally hundreds of billions were allocated for bank bailouts, automotive bailouts, etc.? Where are our priorities?

I know these are controversial questions and there are probably some good answers out there, but I go back to the lost dreams, the sacrifices made by the Columbia and Challenger astronauts and others, and I wonder if we haven't traded big dreams for little ones and lost sight along the way of what we're all about.
Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds
Me too. I am every day more appalled by the lack of security of browsers. That being said, logically, if you also have javascript disabled, I presume click-to-play should be secure.