jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah agreed, but I think that tiny difference leads to a noticeably different outcome. The Signal-to-Noise ratio here is more than Reddit, particularly Reddit's popular subreddits. As a result I find myself changing my mind while reading comments here a lot more than I would on Reddit.

Also I think dang (and whoever else) is a good mod, which makes a lot of difference.

There's also a recency bias, I've been on Reddit for 8 years and HN for ~3. Maybe my disillusionment has yet to come.
Thank you! I try to understand further:

So there is two columns not connected to each other, so doesn't seem it is a circuit. But wait a minute, water conducts... So:

The left one is negatively charged, and it gives electrons to H20 which receives them and reacts by being converted to H2 gas and 2hydroxide.

The right column is positively charged and the 2hydroxide travels (diffuses?) through water as it is negatively charged, and statistically is more likely to go right because positive column attracts it? (I mean the electrical energy travels as waves but the actual molecules also, just slower?)

When 2hydroxide reaches the right end, it breaks into 1) electrons that the column receives happily 2) H20 3) O2 gas.

Something like that, perhaps. Interesting but frustrating to not get it fully.

No need to answer if don't feel like it!
I disagree, an expert isn’t a master. Compare applicants and graduates of these elite conservatory’s and there is real improvement, but most people off the street would have trouble distinguishing the before and after simply by ear.
Because it is for those who own Bitcoin
> But "my adventures in East Palo Alto" just isn't as exciting on a law school application

You're wrong on that one. Talking about volunteering every weekend in East Palo Alto will get you a lot further on a law school application than your essay on a week in Africa. Admissions staff aren't stupid. Strong commitment to local activism is valued much more than paying large sums of money to travel halfway around the world on a glorified vacatiion.
He said he believes the credentials were stolen in breaches that have yet to be publicly reported.

This really bugs me. It seems like many companies are either completely unaware that a breach has occurred, or know about it and are taking their time notifying customers (for PR or other purposes). Either way, customers are not getting this information in a timely manner, and that needs to change.
Build the new photo sharing app. Sell it to FB. Become angel investor. Invest in startups that are changing the world. Start the next one with capital you have.
Much of those 28% are locked into using fossil fuel. Electric cars are about enabling switching to renewable sources of energy down the line, not right now. It’s about large scale infrastructure change, it’s about the difference between changing millions of small things or only a few large things. It’s about where renewable energy will likely come from in the future.
Why does the whole idea of appearing "professional"
have such a bad attitude among certain developers?

Professionals get paid, so professional projects need to make money somehow.

If someone plans to make money, and I can't see how they plan to make money, and they offer me something for free, I gotta wonder if they're going to start charging me, discontinue or pivot the project.
Well lets be real shall we, the Accord Hybrid plug in starts at 40k. It is priced within the reach of far many more households than the Tesla or Mercedes are. Then to top it off, I doubt the tax payers are ponying up 7500 dollars towards its purchase, so its a double win.
As someone who creates production code in assembly, C, C#, and Java (among others), but who doesn't have that much experience with C++:

C++ certainly seems like a fragmented language from the outside. Lots of features added over the years to address problems with safety and provide additional "zero overhead" abstractions. The style and idioms of code written in this language seems to have changed pretty significantly over its lifespan. So breaking backwards compatibility to throw out old standards and force programmers to utilize new ones seems to make sense. However, it raises a few questions.

1) Who decides which parts of the language to throw out and which to keep? How do they decide this? Would the goal be to keep the multi-paradigm concepts, or re-focus the language? Which of the "zero overhead" abstractions should be kept?

2) Has this already been tried before in essence? There are certainly a number of languages out there that seem to strive to be "a better C/C++". What benefit is there to attempting to create a C++ 2.0 instead of using one of them?

3) Do the benefits of breaking backwards compatibility really outweigh the loss of all of the accumulated libraries and all the software of the past 30+ years? Even with ideal management of the new language, would it be enough to bring people to a new version?

4) Do you continue adding to this new version as you did with the previous one... surely that would eventually lead to the same fragmentation seen in the current version.

5) What happens to C++ 1.0 in this case? Do you continue to support and expand it? For how long? I suppose one could look at what happened with Python, but I'm not so sure it's that comparable.
That article is https://www.bbc.com/news/56643677.

(The comment was posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26726981 before we merged the threads.)
I'm almost 60. I'm not a jock. I bike everywhere.

Try again.
Cycling safety is definitely something to think about.

However, I also feel that one should think about the safety of other road users when choosing one's transport method.

Your first reference notes that "over half of the deaths in car crashes were to road users other than the drivers themselves". Looking at Fig 1., fatal cycling accidents that didn't involve cars were almost all (~92%) fatal to the cyclist rather than to other road users.

EDIT: And then there's the contribution to air pollution-related deaths to think about as well, see e.g. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nearly-9-500... (2015), and I guess more broadly the contribution to climate-change related fatalities. I appreciate these are difficult to measure.
This has nothing to do with tracking to target ads. Facebook doesn't need Apple to execute that, people share data with FB voluntarily.

This is about measuring the impact of advertising while following a standard published by Apple itself and covering the usecase of big marketplaces with sub stores in it.
So the article is about being unable to access third-party cookies due to browser privacy updates.

1. If you are using Http-only cookies, these are clearly unrelated.
2. If you are sharing an authentication token with the browser, cookie or not, it can be read by any scripts on the same origin.

So...what exactly are you trying to say?
Not sure what others feel, but the video feels particularly lifeless to me. Combined with the effects mentioned by the grandparent post. Mentioned it seemed ok for a while.

I don't allow my kid to use youtube at all so it is preaching to the choir here, pinch of salt, etc.
Had to rephrase the title due to character limits.
I think everyone agrees that a common build system is a necessary step if any of this is going to work.

Thinking about how much or how little would be required beyond a common build system in order to get a working package management system is still a valid thing to do.
You literally described giving established people a better deal than ones who are less established.

> If you buy a house now, it too will be worth more if you wait 30 years.

It might be. Or I might have bought it in Redding or Vicksburg and pay tax on the market value, same as my neighbors who buy today. Prop 13 only kicks in meaningfully for people who basically won the lottery, in proportion to their gains.

To do that, it distorts the market, adding friction to what is already a market with unhealthily-high friction.
It will never hold up on the track. The battery can only handle the max load for a short amount of time, before the computer limits the engine and make the car more of a sunday driver. That's not a problem for every day driving, it just isn't comparable to other supercars on the track. It however means that for normal usage, it means you have the efficiency of an EV and the "burst" ability of a supercar.
I became a freelancer shortly after graduating college. Though sites like Elance/Odesk/Freelancer.com(GetAFreelancer back then) provided me a platform to start with, it didn't take long before the cutthroat prices made it unsustainable.

The answer, which has been mentioned already by other commenters, is network. You need a great network and a great reputation. The real question is how do you build a great network? And how do you build a great reputation? As an introvert geek with only a drop of marketing prowess in my DNA, I struggled about the same questions.

One way I built my network is through Open Source Communities. Joomla! was just forked out of Mambo back then and there was an opportunity to participate in the then small community. So I joined the community, made friends with the right people, and I made a living out of building Joomla! Extensions. I also participated in other OS communities like Django, Kohana, and many others. The more I participated, the more my connection and reputation grows. The flow of projects from the connections I got from those communities allowed me to survive, and also thrive, which enabled be to build my own web development company (https://www.wizmedia.net).

I think that marketplace sites like oDesk/Elance/99designs/TaskRabbit etc are horrible place to be in for creative people particularly programmers and designers. I've been looking for alternative places to go to but didn't find any that is fair for both Clients and Freelancers. So it became an idea for my Startup that I'm building right now. That is Creatizens - http://www.creatizens.com. It's still under development, but you can read more about it here https://angel.co/creatizens. The idea is based on the fact that the most profitable freelancers get their projects from their professional network - mostly from colleagues who has overflow projects, or ex-coworker whose company needs contractors. I don't want to talk too much about it since I'm bordering on spammy so I leave it at that.

Cheers!
Unfortunately not. This is just what I've heard from students of history not actual experts. It seems like a subject that could do with more analysis --although this would require lots of inference with regard to older revolutions I think
While the annoyances are real, they are just that: annoyances. If you change language every time a syntactic feature (or lack thereof) irks you, you're never going to get anything done.
x11vnc allows you to see the desktop the user is seeing. I think vnc by default creates its own sessions.

So for example, my mom would say "I am not sure where to find the pictures". I would move the folder to her Desktop from ssh, hoping the would see it. But if not I ssh in, then launch x11vnc then connect to it with a vncclient and then move around her desktop to see what the problem might be.

She would see the mouse move and buttons getting clicked.

Bandwidth is not a problem because, we have have something like 50Mpbs connections, latency is usually the issue as the signal has to go half way around the world.
oh, but I agree. I'm not advocating government spending. I'm only saying that in principle, ANY government is corrupt and the most wealth is accumulated by being close to the power (either by lobbying, favoritism, coercion or plain corruption). Government (both as a concept and as a specific entity in each country) is the source of most of the inequalities, not the cure.
Transgender does not mean having a sex change operation. Statistics say that somewhere between 66 and 90 percent of transgender people do not get sex change operations[1][2], and 40% have any no medical treatments at all (hormonal, surgical... anything) related to transitioning their gender[1].

[1] http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/reports/re...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/nyregion/23gender.html
In my experience, knowing the ins and outs of a language (any language) doesn't make someone a good employee.

It's more important that they understand concepts. I'd rather hire someone who's weak at a language but understands that code is read many times, even though it's only written once.
If it's only been a few months, certainly it's great to seek advice, but possibly your expectation of instant success was just too optimistic? Things take time..
What, googling and stopping a fun conversation when your riffing with your friends is more fun?
Not sure what the downvotes were for. What I asked were honest questions about the road that was described. I think that are many similarities and differences between a road and the internet with regard to whether they should be tax funded.
Disagreeing is how we learn, yeah? Almost as if relating different points of view is a good way to expand one's horizons. Thanks for being cool about it!

I'm not unfamiliar with Clojure or Lisps in general; personally, I can't think as well in that mode and it doesn't map well to what I do (either in terms of work or personal projects), but I get it. They're nice, for a certain kind of thinking that I don't find myself needing that often.

I didn't mean to imply that there aren't tools where I'm more effective, because they're better tools, to be sure, (by my lights, Ruby is a better tool than Python and carving bits into a spinning disk with my teeth is a superior option to Go) but I find that after a certain point within an environment I've put together in my head a sufficient playbook where missing certain things here or there doesn't diminish my enjoyment of the process of building something. Libraries, quirks...meh. I went back to PHP a few weeks ago after not touching it for years and it all came back in fifteen minutes or so. Maybe I'm just wired for it? I dunno.
Good idea, sounds like a messy setup though, but that might have to do, since I will use virtual machines for this they will most likely have to be accessible from the net, both of them. But your idea is interesting. Thanks!
The "initial split" (aka Equity) frequently change. Lots, and lots of stories in the valley about early founders getting screwed through dilution. So much so, that I've become surprised when it doesn't happen at a successful company.

In fact, I seem to recall there was a movie about this very topic recently...
What is the default mapping for Super?
Sounds like they're trying to recreate the web.

On a tiny platform, limited to the ebook market, mac only.

How is that in anyway pushing towards mainstream?
This article continues my dislike for "argument through top ten lists".

The problem with long lists of X is they can include some things where the argument is clear cut and no one disagrees, then once they get you nodding yes, they can then include other things where the situation is more debatable.

Wired carriers and newspaper printing are indeed two industries which technology at least promises to leave by the wayside. Arguably they've been disrupted or are being disrupted and, whether they will or not, we could at least imagine them shrinking to nothing at all in some number of years.

Home building, on the other hand, is merely in cyclical downturn. It hasn't been meaningfully disrupted on the same sense of the word. It's had a rough downturn but people will keep needing housing. Manufactured homes tend to be one the low end, so, indeed, they've been hit hardest. But still, homes as they are built now involve a huge rat-bag of inefficient, wasted and manual labor. The possibility of manufacturing a better house in very-cost-efficient fashion certainly is a tremendous opportunity for some organization (probably fairly large scale, however). I don't know what combination of automation and design would work but unlike newspapers or wired-networks, there is a big opportunity here.
I thought Joel stopped blogging?
That's quite an edge case though, you must admit. In most cases immigrant entrepreneurs would come to and stay in America if the laws allowed.
Given that employees only stay for a couple years on average anyway these days, you're far more likely to lose either a male or female employee to a job switch than to lose a female employee to maternity leave. It's a highly overestimated risk. Not to mention extremely unfair to women who don't have kids.
Yes it was. It's safe to assume the "bad guys" have this stuff already, now the public gets to catch up.
Pseudorandom parameter selection of NIST P-curves, including secp256r1 has created much controversy within the cypherpunk community in the early 2000s. the theory is that the NSA discovered a class of secret curves with an unknown special weakness, and then bruteforced the random seed that would generate the weak curve. [0] On the other hand, secp256k1's parameters were not generated by random seeds. [1]

I think the important fact is not whether secp256r1 has a backdoor, but the decision of selecting secp256k1 by Satoshi Nakamoto for the use in Bitcoin. At the time, secp256k1 was the only widely-implemented non-P curve in various crypto libraries, and almost nobody used it at the time. It seems the entire decision of using secp256k1 was made to avoid secp256r1. This is another piece of evidence that Satoshi Nakamoto must have beee active in the 1990-2000 cypherpunk community, so that he was well-aware of those discussions. This should shed some light on his possible identity.

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[0] DJB's paper how to manipulate curve standards [2] is DJB's attempt of creating the strongest argument for this claim. But even in his analysis, overall it's not too plausible, there's little evidence that such a class of secret curves exists and it required huge computation (2^80), it's on the edge of what was possible, but the pseudorandom parameter selection is certainly technically unfavorable as he demonstrated.

[1] https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/rigid.html

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/571.pdf
It's being tested on children who can't really consent- for obvious, practical reasons. The people who are really deciding this are the children's parents.
I have also found it works pretty well (works 80% to 90% of the time), at fetching videos from random websites that self host a video
The case was raised by an individual plaintiff, but in general vegans have a variety of different reasons not to want to encourage farming of animals.

Some of those include discomfort with eating animals and their byproducts, as you mention -- for others, it's based on a desire to encourage more sustainable environmentally-friendly food options.

For some subset of the spectrum mentioned, cross-contamination is an important issue - and for the rest, it may be acceptable under some circumstances, but there's no downside to removal of contamination, so they'd likely support it given the choice.
I have already read about it in other 5g presentations, and I still don’t get why should 5g bring more “virtual presence”. Wouldn’t a fiber optic connection be always faster since it has one less medium to pass? Also, reliability, if I’d need a surgical operation, or to make an important business conference, I would prefer it to be made on a fixed line connection, than over the air. Why do they always insist on this thing about 5g?
I think both Excel and Libre Office have their place. Excel has the power and refinement for professional users such as accounting, actuarial, and the commenter's data analysis.

Libre Office is for home use: tax prep, budgeting, graphing science projects. That's what I use it for, and it's perfect and free. That might be unfair to all the hard work that's been put into it, but if you don't push its limits, it works great.

So I guess I am arguing it's the wrong tool for data heavy jobs.
I pity those born on 29/02/00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
> that is sufficiently severe or pervasive

This is non-trivial standard to meet, especially if all your evidence is "they called me a boomer".
Are those wages sustainable?
well it's sold in the butcher/fresh fish section of the store, so I'm pretty sure it's prepared on site using whatever is used to supply their normal tuna. at least I hope.
I can't help but feel like Lua is one of those languages that is fantastic, but gets basically ignored for most things outside of a particular niche (game scripting). Perhaps that is why it is still such a fantastic language...
I do think great thinkers in previous eras had probably profound ideas about "nature".[1] But for buildings, it's probably a good trick + hundreds of human lives dedicated at implementing the process.

[1] Even the average person had a different interaction with the world than we do, most things were first hand diy, and often very critical to your life, and thus induce focused brain perception. We're a lot more passive at many levels, even though we're "educated", I'd bet it has a smaller effect on critical part of your brain.
Airpush has developed a DSP over the last few months, likely in anticipation of this happening.
Perhaps it depends if it was farm raised
That quote by Bjarne Stroustrup:
"I--and my colleagues--needed a language that could express program organization as could be done in Simula...but also write efficient low-level code, as could be done in C."

in Masterminds of Programming, p.2 (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup) O'Reilly Media, Inc. (2009)

A truly great read...
Simply making an art degree affordable would be a good start. The problem with art/design/fashion/music degrees is that tuition tends to be higher than more "boring" degrees.

What makes it even worse is that the market is already too large. Creative people tend to keep working until they die, so you don't see the same levels of attrition that you do in other fields, you simply end up competing with people that have refined their skills over 20-50 years. After one finishes paying 120k+ for tuition alone, that person will have about a 50-60% chance of finding employment, and that includes employment that's not even remotely related to the field. If you do find a creative gig, the average income is around 28-32K.
This is amazing! When I first saw Luma, I thought it was technology too early for common person/user. But integrating it with Instagram's existing user base, everyone can start reaping the benefits. Good job guys!
How could Tencent selectively make the shares that Naspers owns worthless?
I guess the closing parens irk me the most e.g.

assert outputs.get("foo.bar.baz", "default") == pytest.approx(
time_recorder.time_taken, abs=0.0001
)

I get why it's done that, but I just don't think it helps humans read.
Part of the twisted beauty of PEP-008's narrow lines is that you're forced to extract (named) variables, or avoid overly indented code by extracting methods or applying higher level abstractions.

In the last few years I find devs are happier to format and push to "sort that problem out", leaving the readability benefit of that thought process lost.

TL;DR writing readable code isn't just about getting the spaces and brackets right...