jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You’re right but some people in really dark places may benefit from a bit of positive delusion. It is when reality is starting to become obscured by it that it becomes a serious problem. I remember being depressed years ago and it’s not that I was irrational but I didn’t see any sense at all and this kind of thing could help in such circumstances. Luckily I got over that and I’m not seeking this type of fluff.
Now Im in a good place, married, kids, a lot more reasons to go on but if I think about it, mainly things haven’t changed in the sense that it is still all kind of pointless, it just depends what spin been put on them.

So I think there’s a benefit in having people saying positive stuff even if it’s just meaningless words
Population of China: 1400 million

Population of Australia: 25 million

China has 56 times the population of Australia.

Those 16 days times 56 make 896 days, which is far more than 365 days (a year).
They create ghost profiles for those contacts, just in case that user ever signs up. That’s fucking garbage and they should be ashamed of doing that, let alone immediately removed from the App Store.
I was comparing the issue of taxing companies on revenue instead of profits, like individuals are taxed on income instead of profits.

The current way is done to prevent double taxation.
Yeah, could be! I grew up close to the polish/slovak/czech border. I bet some of those words got mixed together.
Wow! This looks like a cool tool that I can use to show off my YAML engineering expertise further with!

On a more unironic note, this definitely looks cool, and YAML (despite its criticism) is a really cool language
I recommend learning the basics. It's great being able to navigate around a file with the keyboard in ways other than arrow keys to move a line at a time. Stuff like hitting "%" to move between matching parenthesis, { and } to move between paragraphs, etc. And if you do any kind of development, the automatic indentation (and < and > to indent and outdent ranges) are hugely useful. All of these are also things you can use in IDEs like VS Code with their vim modes.

The stuff in this article is pretty neat but (even after using vim for about 20 years) most of it doesn't click for me as easily. Eg I don't use marks; I wouldn't think ahead to leave a mark or remember afterward which letter I used for it. Kudos to people who can gain productivity by using this stuff, but I'd need something other than an explanation of what the commands do to be effective with it. I do at least try to use the quickfix stuff; that's a pretty big productivity boost over manually going to the right file and line to fix an error spotted by my compiler.
I know it's not the point of the story, but if you need gear repaired, try Rainy Pass Repair. They fixed a beloved but irreplaceable (discontinued, manufacturer went bankrupt) pack for me. Similarly, I sent a pair of boots to Dave Page, Cobbler for resoling and am thrilled by the repair.

Not affiliated with either, but I am a happy customer.
I tried this once, and failed. By the time a major seam of a well-made backpack fails, they are all, about to fail. My backpack was 5Y old and was in the "wearout" phase of life, where everything fails at once. Replacing an important zipper completely (seams had failed, not zipper itself) only gave my pack another 6 months of life. Yes, a shoe repair shop is the right place to go, but $90/yr is an expensive backpack indeed!

I currently have a Yellow Columbia half-track and the quality is unreal, I've used it every day for 6Y, with laptop+clothes+gear, no damage yet!
At the moment, Flirpy - a library for controlling thermal imaging cameras: https://github.com/LJMUAstroecology/flirpy

Works with most of FLIR's camera cores (eg Lepton, Boson and Tau).

I'm also working on a system for detecting animals in aerial images in real time (on drones). I've spent a lot of time trying to automate as much of the hardware setup as possible using a mixture of Ansible and Docker. Currently private pending publication, but the whole platform will be open source (including ML pipeline, camera gimbal models, PCBs etc).
Was this ever seriously debated? As far as I know the only question ever was the size of the effect, not whether there was any effect at all.
That's how I learned; on a good ol'fashion gentoo box.

learned so much about os stuff and kernel drivers, etc...

It was like diving in the deep end of a pool though.
55% of Americans polled now think he’s doing a good job handling the epidemic.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-03-20/app...

That’s a pretty telling example of how far we’ve come from statesmen like Obama.
Did the media make up the "Deep State Department" bit? How do you spin that?
Y'all are overthinking it- true lat long "coordinates" would be meaningless to this computer. What was fed into the computer (ahead of time) was a series of firing instructions (per target for 3 targets), calculated to take into account the launch site of each missile. (Core memory values persist long term, even through power outages, hence the need to manually erase values before maintenance.)

So even two missiles/warheads launched from different sites at the same target would have different guidance instructions.

You'd need to do some major reverse engineering and geodetic calculations even after decoding targeting punchcards to figure out what the actual targets were.

The punchcards used to select the target during launch are simply instructions to execute "target stored in memory 2" or something similar. The minutemen would not have had the ability to change the set of targeting options programmed in the missile, only select one of the pre-programmed options.
I'm nearing 500 hours on StS and I still have so much to learn. Approaching it as a deckbuilder can definitely be a noob-trap - anyone who has played MTG or similar is very tempted to build into archetypes instead of understanding that you have to deal with the problems at hand with the solutions you are given, because you can't force the game to give you what you want. Taking a "will be good later" pick is nearly always a problem, often because it reduces your chances of reaching "later".

Funnily enough a really thin deck can also be a problem. If you have 15 cards and Nemesis adds 5 burns, you're in trouble without a way to handle that. Instead of thin or fat, the best way to think of it IMO is consistency (draw and exhaust help this).

I really like how each Act tests different strengths and exposes different weaknesses. A20 is tough but rewarding.
One thing to keep in mind, if your trade in has significant value, is that your trade in amount reduces the tax you pay on the new price. For example, if you buy a $25000 car, and have a trade in value of $10000, you only pay tax on $15000.
I don't care about his opinions or takes, I care about the harm he inflicts by reinforcing the beliefs that undermine junior developers' confidence.
Sure: People who don't believe in evolution can taint those around them especially the young, which could cause those to not pursue scientific careers, setting back further progress in those fields and pushing forward the next discoveries in fields like cancer, life-lengthening, and other diseases. These "potential setbacks of breakthroughs" hurts society's quality of life.
Its about an educated and critical thinking public. A public that approaches everything with a critical eye is less susceptible to political pandering and more accepting of good science and evidence/data based laws. The average person doesn't know how to interpret a bar graph and has no clue what a good source of data looks like. Agreeing on a specific point, such as evolution, is just a symptom of the larger problem.
Is it open source and open protocol?

If so, that's what we need. Email was once a bunch of proprietary systems - MCIMail, CompuServ, AOL, etc. It was inconvenient that they didn't interoperate. All those proprietary systems were wiped out by an open one.
That's not a syn flood though. A syn flood is purely syns. So there is no need for the attacker to encode information if they are just doing a syn flood.
If you don't want to manage ZooKeeper manually to bootstrap Mesos cluster, you need another Mesos cluster haha.
The US has been grappling with these issues for a long time, so it's normal to discuss it there.

In Germany, I get more of the feeling of, "oh, we don't have those kinds of problems here". It's basically denialism, like when the Dutch defend Zwarte Piet. Not that you don't see that in the US for some people too, but it seems to be more widespread in many European countries, where the very fact that it hasn't been as widely discussed before leads people to believe that it must not exist.
Taxes are fair under Prop 13. What's fair about making people pay more tax just because the market value of their house has increased? They will pay taxes on those gains (over a certain limit) when they sell.
These guys must be commission based
Considering there are 338 seats in total, that's still 72 people who abstained.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. I wouldn't call this a failure by any means. Failure would be to stop pivoting/adjusting.
For sure, past growth will of course be looked at to gauge future prospects. Our growth has historically been driven largely by branding initiatives on our end, but our user retention is also really high. So all along we've tended to have spurts of growth around successful campaigns, followed by consolidation periods where it levels out. But I've never targeted maximum growth at any cost, but rather sustainable growth while maintaining a healthy profit margin, so it tends to come in bursts as profitable marketing opportunities present themselves. I think we have enough of a track record of those that a strong possibility of future growth is a reasonable assumption, but of course that would be a tougher case to argue than a company that has consistently grown X% per month for years.

Regardless, at this point I'm not looking to sell right away, just beginning to consider the possibility of selling at all. And one of the early steps in that process would be finding representation for the shopping and deal process, hence looking into M&A firms.

There are actually a number of potential strategic acquirers that we have or have had relationships with, so we would certainly consider those, but regardless I'd want someone representing our interests and shopping us around too. I've been approached by a number of such firms over the years, but don't really have strong criteria for narrowing down who we might want to work with if I did decide to pursue a sale, so that's what I'm trying to work out now.
There are huge barriers to entry in ISP market, but very few for social platforms (assuming you are referencing censorship on Twitter, Facebook, etc). The argument to “go build your own ISP if you don’t like it” isn’t really viable.
I guess I wouldn’t stress too much about it.

It gets better.
> The F-35, by comparison, was a platform vehicle, with the base suited to adapting to a variety of capabilities and missions. That means more voices demanding priority of features, more expensive engineering to get a variety of polygon pegs into the same round hole, and many first-of-its-kind features for a variety of ancillary tasks.

> No real surprise that it didn't work out.

For a humorous presentation of this, watch the movie Pentagon Wars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
This blog post is just an ad for Gold Fig.

It doesn't answer the question except in the last sentence "Gold Fig can help with the basics, and beyond! Talk to us about getting an assessment of the next steps to take"

Flagged
You'll get asked to migrate your login and data over to the "new" system. I did it earlier and it didn't take long at all.
Did not expect the page to start running the benchmark, let alone before the page finished loading.
Does anyone know what their motivation of buying it ? I'm pretty sure they could write this in a weekend in python.
You don't always need a jQuery object in the loop, and providing one encourages people to do slow things. For example, if you want to see if a check box is checked, `this.checked` is 100 times faster [http://jsperf.com/bens-test] than `$(this).is(":checked")`. (Sorry about the lame name, I was hanging out with Ben Alman after the jQuery Conference, it was late, and I was tired).

If you do need a jQuery object, you can use James Padolsey's trick by keeping your own single-item jQuery object outside the `.each()` and update/reuse it inside.
I'm pretty sure that's true. I'm going to try find some time this evening to animate the points out of the database from my phone to prove it to myself. I'm guessing the animation will show random segments of trails that anonymous iPhone users have travelled around my neighborhoods, but nothing I'll recognize as a trip I've made. (I'll blog about it at bigiain.com if I find anything interesting)
Interesting that they say most of those lost jobs will be outside Japan.
Since it is phonetic, it will differ from country to country since different languages map differently to phonemes.
Tricorder?
Obligatory link to the famous HN Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

When thinking about the viability of a business, developers commonly make the mistake of assuming that nobody would pay for something that's possible for them to code up themselves.

Sure, many of us write code all day and love it. But most people have other responsibilities, value their time highly, and (correctly) prefer to pay reasonable amounts of money so they can spend their time doing more important or profitable things.
> The reality for us every-day workers is that either the minimum wage is increased or we'll have to make up for it in taxes that support programs to compensate for the lack of a liveable wage.

Exactly. Too low a minimum wage actually becomes a subsidy to employers.
What questions to ask at the Internet Governance Forum 2019 where the ICANN board is present?
What questions shall we ask at the IGF?
I think he and I suppose many OS developers are sick of the constant calls to rewrite their OS in the new wonder language. Rust has had the hype train jacked (check all the threads on HN with 'just rewrite it in Rust').

He has had much the same criteria for years. Do the work to prove it. I've often thought it would be interesting to map out the OpenBSD userland and figure out exactly what the work would be.
The porter obviously just copied Zig's elevator-pitch from the website instead of describing Zig in his own words. The latter would be more helpful to the community.
Yeah, I'm half sure it was an elaborate prank on somebody's part.
The point is to get to choose the experience you want, and if you want the simplicity of having an Android box connected to your dumb Tv, that’s a-ok. If you want to go kore custom and just have a raspi with plex on it, that’s great, too.

The problem with smart TVs is that they force tracking and ads upon you, with little to no options of opting out.
This got 30+ points, flagged, dead, and revived in a matter of minutes. God, this whole ordeal is in fact ideologically charged, I guess he maybe onto something!
It’s the wrong decision but no private company should be in a position to make it. The power that we have granted to centralized extralegal entities is obscene and we’re going to pay for it in blood if we don’t walk this back quickly by breaking up these orgs and building technologies that decentralize that power.
Lag make the whole concept dead on arrival.

I think there were few dozens of failed "consoles" like that. Gakai, InLive, Shadow, Gainstream... all failed because of latency.

There is no trick around c.
Jekyll uses Ruby, not node. I don’t know what all the others use, there are so many.

Sure, generating HTML via another language is not new, but SSG pushed back against the notion of using dynamic CMS systems (which were de rigueur in the early 2000’s) in favour of static pages hosted on serverless systems and like GitHub pages and S3, with content (mostly markdown) held in version control systems instead of a database.
"Today on the internet: Angry man rants"
Good point actually, but this serious bug is still not fixed after 6 months.

They have plenty of time and money to fix this issue quickly before it gets out of hand.
It's really quite unbelievable. I was expecting the article to at least be about how the author actually helped someone learn to code. Even then, the title and presentation would seem smug and self-serving to me, but I could overlook that for the feel-good story. However, what's actually written is far worse: this post is being written without the author having approached the man or knowing anything about him at all aside from a superficial judgement of "drive". Then there's the straight-from-a-reality-show choice of $100 versus books and a laptop; but it's okay, because this choice will be offered "without disrespecting him".

I'm all for philanthropy, and it's always great that someone's willing to put their time and money into helping others, but this really comes across as more of an art performance than genuine help. Isn't it basic courtesy to talk to someone before writing a blog post about how you're going to reform their sorry life with your programming teaching skill?
I unfortunately got tired of those damn dialogs one day and ended up with a G+ profile. Their methods are getting more and more like dark patterns (just colorful ones).

I deleted my G+ account and fortunately didn't lose my subscriptions.

Thanks to that I'll never comment on another youtube video again.
The math here is all wrong. It's vastly more expensive than this, if you want to provide it a la carte. All cable subscribers are currently subsidizing live sports, whether they want to or not. It's a dinosaur that should die. Sports salaries should be 1/10th of what they currently are.
Sure, but now it's not going to get full time dedication, maybe half that if you're lucky. So it's more like four weeks. And maybe they don't even have that much free time, so it's even longer.
That's what NBA League Pass offered last year. You pick a couple of teams and you get their games. I happily paid for it and will do so again this season.

The NFL has driven me crazy with not adopting a similar model. I can't get DTV at my home (condo), I don't care about the local teams, and paying for the whole league wasn't available on my local provider. They had a PS3 streaming option last season but I read it didn't work reliably so I didn't bother. Like you, I'd happily pay to follow a few teams teams + Red Zone. Luckily, as someone above posted, there's a great deal for $99 this season to purchase Madden and get Sunday Ticket included. I jumped all over that!
It's pretty crazy that Android has a less restricted development model, yet only first party applications seem to have anything approaching design parity with the bulk of third party iOS applications.
I feel like most engineers rarely have to try too hard to get a decent job, but I wonder if it's because of stories like this. I've been on the interview circuit a handful of times so far in my life, and aside from the first time when I was mostly clueless ("So where do you want to be in 5 years?"; "Man, I never think that far ahead."), I feel like interviews have become a very routine process of answering a similar subset of questions over and over again. Am I being hired because they've made a true evaluation of my technical skills, or was I just serendipitously lucky to have heard the answer to how those 5 pirates are going to split those 100 gold pieces?
Why are spam and phishing phone calls still an unsolved problem ? You can't get a phone line or SIM in India without ID. shouldn't this be possible to verify and block at the telecom level ?

Is there something to do with common carrier laws that prevent blocking ?
> if you respond "that didn't happen and it couldn't have happened because science" you'll either be ignored, they'll be offended and block you, or they'll start cursing at you

Have you considered that the problem might be you, and "Someone is wrong on the internet" repliers are super tedious?
> A professional Union needs funds to do its work.

Absolutely true.

> Over time the benefits members get more than pay for the union dues.

That strikes me as an opinion that could use some supporting facts. It might be the case, but union fees are the same order of magnitude as many workers' savings rate. If the prospective member saved those fees over a lifetime, would they be better off?

> If there's a strike at least in Europe the union will also use the dues to cover the salary for the days striking.

That means that union members are buying insurance against there being a strike declared. Would they be better off to pay smaller dues and bear the risk themselves? If all possible strikes are union-wide, it seems like this insurance can only be a losing gamble for members, all the while creating a fat piggybank for union leaders to raid/drain.
When did you last use it? Javascript hook support wasn't there early on. The state of the art is the "PETAL StacK" [1] which uses client-side JS for interactions that don't require a roundtrip

[1] https://thinkingelixir.com/petal-stack-in-elixir/
Yep! Most do not require any custom drivers.
Does anyone here have a recommendation on an actually good book about cybersecurity policy? My sense is that all existing books are trash.
I had a tiny amount of followers and quit. There's a very quiet voice in the back of my head that wonders what I would have done with something like 20k. You're the real deal.
Thanks, that clears up some misconceptions I had.
Only apps that do this sort of tracking have to ask. Otherwise there is no need. Does that make sense?
This, it’s like the designers tested it only outdoors.

Who would’ve thought it’s necessary to be able to grab the remote when it’s dark and know what orientation it is in.
I keep eyeballing the railroad track but that feels like HO and not O guage.

The track spacing doesn’t look right for O, also in 1961 im not sure two rail O gauge would be common... O usually has a third rail.

Could also be OO gauge, but that is rare in the US.
They are similar since they correlate similarly with lots of real world aspects. E.G. most simple is they are both very actively represented on Reddit and second one being top 2 highest average IQs. They also share very many similar interests.
I've had plenty of experience in dealing with people who don't respond to criticism well. I was one of those people myself.

Mostly, the people who had a hard time responding to constructive feedback were young. They might have listened to what I had to say, but not really heard me.

After 5-7 attempts on my part, I considered them a lost cause. And they'd have to learn on their own. I was probably giving them too much respect.

I'd say, let this colleague be. If you still have to provide PRs, then just provide it on Approve/Not approve basis. If your manager requests that you more specific, then provide your honest feedback and kick it up to the manager to decide whether to approve or not approve.

But if you manager is unwilling to deal with this problem, maybe explore your options
Do you have a link where Jung said his theories are wrong?