jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was allowed and occasionally worked from home before pandemic. I have an excellent technical setup and separate room for my home office.

But now, almost one year later, I want to go back to the office.

I certainly felt less stressed and more happy when I could enjoy the change in environment and having some in-person social interactions.

Working from home makes me loose the feeling that I'm part of something and the job I liked a lot becomes just "a job".

This is probably not universal, since each company is different, with different traditions. Maybe some people are relieved that they won't have to step into the office ever again. :)
> we don't build actual dense housing like we did before WWII

Because that's not what is profitable for new construction. Builders will build what they can make the most money on. It's not a bad thing -- it's still an increase in housing and every new home sold or rented opens up an older home somewhere for a (probably) less wealthy person, and so on down the line.
No, creating new dollars is just updating a database at the fed, basically.

There are no companies that generate dollars. That would be counterfeiting.
Sometimes good items get no discussion, so the mods are not too aggressive about preventing dups. If there were dups that are getting attention they will usually put a pointer. I used to do it a lot, but the mods are on it now, so I usually don't bother. But old habits die hard.
Yeah, unfortunately the discussion was around getting people to program so they had something to show others. Not getting your application out there to as many people as possible. Sounds like a kneejerk defense of your chosen platform than honest contribution to me.

Not that you've proven this new point either.
At $99 per student for impact.js just to learn on, I think the only thing undoubted is that you're desperately grasping for straws.

Paid software compared to Python's ecosystem that provides something better for free. Along with more varied libraries, and a better language too. Maybe as a teacher you could buy just one copy and pop the hood and show them that source code on how this is built.. oh wait, it's not open source.
Also the slight snag that impact.js doesn't have support for Android. Which happens to be the largest mobile platform in the world. For only $99.99! You may as well have sent me Xamarin to compare with Kivy and tell me how C# was the way to go.

Use what you want to teach with. But using these harebrained reasons concocted as to why you'd want to push something like JS over a PL of Python's caliber make no sense at all.
He gave a TED talk a few years back.[0] He's certainly an interesting, very alert guy, and he's a great motivator: he seems to be particularly good at exciting his audience and getting them curious about the subject matter. He taught 8th grade science class -- it must've been quite an experience being one of his students.

[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything
Just add HTML and a web framework at that time and all his concerns just fade into the background. Teaches marketable skills too.
That's present in uBlock too, despite some fairly unintuitive UI - the big green power icon isn't a full disable for the extension, it disables it for the current site only.
The customer I am on, still uses IE 8!
I tend to think the whole "Google copying Bing" thing is terrible for Google's image. Bing is not a major player in the search field. Why is Google acting like Bing's the one to beat?

And if they do insist on copying Bing, at least they can copy the right stuff (brilliant UI elements like much improved image search, with endless scrolling).
Sorry, but I wouldn't have lasted very long in this field if "fear of sounding priggish" had a major impact on my behavior, so let me give this to you straight:

In response to SJCL, a library implemented by bona fide cryptographers that at least attempts to capture some of the pitfalls of doing crypto code, you, because of the fact that the library doesn't offer the obsolete Blowfish cipher, recommended:

* A Blowfish library that implements only the terribly insecure ECB block cipher mode, which you wouldn't know unless you looked at the code since it doesn't call it "ECB"

* A library that claims to implement CBC mode but in fact implements ECB mode, and, as an added bonus, implements RSA as nothing but a wrapper around bignum math.

* A library that implements CBC mode --- though without control over IVs --- but only for AES; Blowfish is stuck in ECB mode. Recall your reason for citing the library was "access to things like Blowfish".

I'm sorry, but you just gave really bad advice. Give better advice and I promise I'll be less of a twat. I am, for the record, not a crypto expert. Colin Percival is our resident crypto expert. All I know is what I know. In this case, that includes: don't do what 'hackermom just said to do.
But Apple gives you that level of customization once you select a general size and tier of computer type based on your needs and price - and they don't have to segment a single model as though they were all totally separate models to meet the needs of multiple audiences, cause it's pretty obvious the distinctions between all their models. No one model of 15" MacBook Pro but rather fifty different configurations of a 15" MBP with 2-8GB RAM, half a dozen HDD capacities, a couple of SSD options, a few more video cards....."oh the 8gb ram+SSD option is great for you, Pro User!" vs "As a casual home user, you should get this Super Basic Model!" where they're both basically the same except one's got more ram, a slightly better processor, and an SSD.

The really odd thing is that all these manufacturers like Dell let you further customize the laptop you're looking at once you actually manage to find one you want. But they don't make it easy to figure out what exactly you're getting in the very beginning, and the process to get started has never been less convoluted as far as I can remember.

I may be a geek, but that doesn't mean I have half an hour to dig through ten thousand useless configurations when all I want to start with is a very, very, very basic laptop and just customize it a bit. I very much like the way Apple makes it so braindead easy (and a lot cleaner). All I went was "I want a mid-size display", "I want a half decent spec" and ended up with a mid-2009 midrange 15" MBP with my own SSD installed. Perfect. The whole purchase took less time than looking for the right "audience" I fit into to get the best models+prices on other sites.
They are way over-discussed on technical blogs, hero worship or demonization alike.
A mistake to say I don't have guts. If I thought he was a fraud I'd say that. My other activities, I'll just cite the Alan Turing campaign as one, are indications of my willingness to speak my mind.
My perspective on Seaside may be a little different, because I still remember Avi trying out many of the same ideas in Ruby, and moving to Smalltalk (at least initially) because its continuations didn't leak memory like MRI's did. I also know from personal discussions that the Smallthought guys are very pragmatic about their tools: when Squeak/Seaside were the right tool, they used it, but when Ruby, Java, Javascript, or another language/framework made more sense, they weren't dogmatic about using it.

I'm not trying to downplay the importance of Smalltalk to DabbleDB, but it was just one piece of the puzzle. The same "use the right tool for the problem" attitude seems to be increasingly pervading Twitter these days, which I think has helped as much as anything else in their improved stability and scale over the last year or so.
I would add widgets and turn-by-turn navigation.
Live wallpapers are rather... unproductive toys, don't know if i would've counted them.
CalDAV calendar support maybe.
I don't know anything about genes and "verbal ability" studies. But the cold hard fact is that IQ is highly genetically heritable and is very strongly correlated to schooling and professional outcomes.

Look, we can strip babies away from their parents en masse and force them into "optimal upbringing" experiments, as perhaps you are suggesting. Or, we can celebrate diversity and acknowledge that different groups of people are going to fit into society in different ways, and it's nobody's fault.
USA government will crack down on anonymous money schemes [0], especially 'conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business'[1].

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/e-gold/ [0]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Egold [1]
Can we also consider the possibility that Bitcoins are precisely what they claim to be - A decentralized crypto currency?

I think the real story become more clear as the Vendor Infrastructure continues to grow.
It has very little to do with monetary policy. Instead it's the threat of Congress not raising the debt ceiling.
Bitcoin is a fascinating model of how to run a distributed, internet based boiler room. Unregulated + ultra thin market + appeals to inexperienced investors == pump and dump dream.

http://www.bitcoincharts.com/charts/bcLRUSD#permalinkbox

April 7th: 0.60 BTC/LRUSD

April 22nd: 1.37 BTC/LRUSD

Goooood luck getting out on the right side of this trade...
I just tried this automated solution. The result has much more quality than the download-and-upload method.
This is exactly what I do when writing complex code, and is about the only reason that I can think of to comment out code like this. The other time that I might do it is when I'm trying a couple of implementations to see which one is better.

But leaving commented out code in there is just asking for trouble. What happens when someone comments it back in 6 months later?
Any bills by Congressmen should be viewed this way. It's not like one side is not corrupt.
It is true that it's one of several potential alternative explanations, though, and laypeople or some subset of them seem to have a lot of trouble understanding why we focus on dark matter in preference to the alternatives.

Some of the alternatives are crazy, of course, and laypeople are also apt to ask, "Why can't you just..." and then express some suggestion that either makes no sense, or is known to be maximally implausible.

Some of the confusion around dark matter is sincere, but there does seem to be a bit of a fringe community who think that physicists just like it, and are ignoring viable alternatives, which is laughable: if anyone could come up with a convincing alternative we'd be all over it. There is simply no downside.
It sounds like the intention is actually much better than net neutrality - it claims to be trying to encourage a more competitive market. Proper competition would make net neutrality irrelevant, and would actually serve people better. For example, speeds would go up as providers actually compete for customers instead of having local monopolies.
I was a heavy user of car2go from Sep-Dec last year (~$500/month) due to commitments that largely required me in two places at once. I have used the service for about two years now, though, and excluding that period of four months have an average monthly spend in the neighbourhood of $150.

In general, I have been overwhelmingly happy with the service. I live in Vancouver and there is always a car within a few blocks. Parking is really well coordinated too. You can park basically anywhere except the downtown core. Within downtown there is a great abundance of dedicated spots which mean you aren't left walking very much.

car2go meets a good inflection point between cost and convenience. Using a taxi would increase the cost substantially and only marginally increase convenience. Owning a car would keep the cost about the same and substantially reduce the convenience.

There is only one true issue I have with car2go and it is with the computers in the car: they are slow, crash easily (and take forever to restart), and the network signal is sometimes touchy. This has sometimes added an extra 10-15 minutes to my rentals.

That said, their customer service is consistently great and very forgiving. Every time the takes-forever-to-end-a-rental scenario has happened, car2go offered to refund the entire trip and throw in free minutes as a bonus. If I was in a rush, they said I could go do what I needed to do and come end the rental later in the day.

All in all, it has been a positive experience with car2go and I will continue to be an active member. My only wish is that I could get some savings out of my usage, maybe with a frequent-driver program :)
IRC channel here:
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Well, now it's known that a placebo works, and the mind being mysterious still, a placebo is only a known unknown.

But if you give a sugar pill to a person who had never heard of the placebo effect, and tell him/her that the pill is only sugar with no effect whatsoever, perhaps we might find that the placebo effect does not manifest.
Try to add only one book. That way it works for me.
> No it is not like that.

Oh, yes it is. I see comments on the internet like, "bike friendly? But what about kids??" as if kids explode if they get too close to a bike, all the damn time.

Somewhere in the commenter's mind, they're aware that there are bike friendly places where people have kids, like the Netherlands, and it works just fine. But they don't want to admit it, so they pretend they don't know. If you point it out to them, they'll find whatever the most obvious surface differences are between that place and where they live and insist this makes it impossible to draw any lessons.

I have a kid and we live car-free in Munich. We use walking, biking (including an electric cargo bike), buses, and trains. Works great. I don't dispute that sometimes it would be nice to have a car for the convenience, for things like going to Ikea or ski trips, but overall it's worth it for us to avoid the hassle and expense of car ownership.

On the other hand, I accept that when we move back to the states, unless we're in NYC we'll probably need a car. Oh well.
Groningen is particular interesting because their were (probably) the first city in the world that gave priority to bicycles and public transport. On 19 sept 1977 the Verkeercirculatieplan [0] came into effect that prevented cars from passing through the city center. Cars had to circle around the old center. This revolutionary plan was envisioned by a couple of young politicians of the Social Democratic party, in particular Jacques Wallage, who took power in 1972 [1] to form the first Dutch left wing B&w [2].

[0] https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkeerscirculatieplan_Groni...

[1] http://benohofman.nl/verhalen/bestuurscrisis

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_van_burgemeester_en_...
Does this also involve case sensitivity?

I've encountered errors with nodejs imports where getting filename casing wrong didn't matter on OSX (dev environment) but caused errors in ci/prod (Linux). Never gave it much thought after fixing, but this reminded me
That makes sense for forward response, when you are optimizing for bandwidth or phase matching, or tuning for frequency response. Smith Chart is pointless for S21, though polar isn’t, though the VNA well let you do the former.

When I’m working on antennas, I’ll have both Smith Chart and log return loss plots stacked on top one another.

Say you want 15 dB return loss at some frequency, well there are two impedances points for that. One with the impedance locus outside Z0, and another with the locus encompassing Z0. The latter has broader bandwidth, but that intuition is lost without a Smith or polar plot.
I was going to type a more detailed response, but the people below have done an excellent job already. The body has to be balanced, distractions at a minimum, the mind open and curious and the problem "not too easy and not too hard". I like to think of it as "chasing the white rabbit". One thing that can help is to write a detailed plan of what your coding session is going to achieve, with some stretch goals. If you do it right you will enter a cycle of achieving small goals leading to refactoring and bigger goals and then you.... look up and the whole team has gone to get Tacos without you again.
I wonder what Apple thinks once they will see their IP exfiltrated like this
Here is for example an attack recovering a 384 bit ECDSA key [1] by knowing the five least significant bits of the nonce (obtained by a side channel attack) for 4000 signatures. Now hashes and signatures are obviously very different things but I would not bet on the fact that a bias in the salt does not matter.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/346.pdf
Read the JAMA article here, rather than the dumbed-down summary: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756187?gu...

There are lots of interesting details. Notably, the increases are mostly in the male population.
Isn't it your duty as a parent and citizen to push back against that nonsense?

I'd LOVE for your kid's 0 test score to go viral on social media and get kilobucks of revenue from the 15 minutes of fame to pay for college.
The entire point of encrypted data is you don't know what's in there. What they're claiming is they've worked around this problem, but they haven't, because they're subtly incorporating outside information: specifically that they know what the data looks like already. From a true third-party looking at encrypted data, you would have no idea.

What does your statement about feature engineering have to do with encrypted data? Maybe I can clarify with an example: You can't transform a waveform into more usable features with a fourier transform if the waveform is encrypted.
BorgBackup is great.

One limitation that isn't mentioned often is that when doing anything with your borg repo, RAM use increases with the number of files you have backed up. In my case I had 15 million files, and mounting the repo took quite a bit of time (minutes) and used 11GB of RAM.

Restic also has the same issue.
It's always a bit funny and sad when statements like these happen. Most people seem to have _no_ idea how much money Engineers/Product Managers can make at certain companies.
When faced with the nearly limitless resources of a government agency, most people put in a similar situation have no choice but surrender or face bankruptcy.

It's only unusual because when having a disagreement with the government, 99.99% of us can't afford to fight the government based on principle.
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.

Not condoning the behavior of the US at all.
Yup, none of my high school or college classes required a calculator (graphing or otherwise) and they were prohibited on calculus quizzes and tests.

I had a graphing calculator to check my calculus homework. (This was pre smartphone)
I feel like I just don't understand the claim that the developing world should be allowed to have higher emissions.

If we could go back in time and the US had the option at the time of using today's technology, and they chose not to, we would condemn them.
Posturing. Tsk, tsk.

Regimes do bad things. They just don’t usually do it in the open like this case or North Korea (foreign airport).

Unless it’s a small banana republic that bends at the will of international pressure, not much will happen.

Right after they do something material about this I’m certain they will do something about the things China does.

Maybe they’ll do something about Venezuela too, right?
Yes that's right, the versions to retain was configurable, and the whole versioning mechanism was really useful and a great miss from today's OSes. The VMS file and directory syntax otoh was a real pain, Unix definitely wins there.
It's an episode of Doctor Who!
It wouldn't be stealing. It would be trademark infringement. You would have to adjust your replicator to remove any trace of brand identity from your copy.

Trademark infringement is a variety of fraud, not a property crime. Your action did not deprive Hermes of its ability to keep or sell its bag, but it did damage its ability to sell the bag for 10 times production cost by diluting and confusing the brand.
Or better yet for himself. Make a generic solution to discoverability, rather than fix one bad implementation or another.
Sounds to me like you haven't read much of his correspondence. Are you seriously suggesting a ban on criticising one particular person?
If you find it so noticeable, maybe it's because this is a problem for you specifically. Just sayin'.
The accent is really usually more of a Dutch accent than it is an American one, though I guess that's closer to the American one than to the British one [1]. I'm not sure if it's been researched, but what would seem to be the obvious reason is that we just hear a lot more spoken American English than British English, on TV, on the radio, and online.

[1] If you don't mind TikTok, this is an interesting comparison: https://www.tiktok.com/@rogierbakcomedy/video/69224330661409...
I believe at this point most of the people on news.ycombinator are well aware of the "work at startup" bait. If you are that good to help a startup to grow from 0 to millions, you typically get $150K at Google (for example). For the 4-5 years it typically gets for the very few successful startups to cash out, you will be earning $750K for sure + benefits + sanity + normal life.

If you are that good and you are not one of the founders, you have to be very careful in your decision to join a startup. For every success story (it gets multiplied x 1,000,000 by the press), there are thousands of dramas and flops noone hears about.
It seems many people seriously misunderstand the purpose of passwords, and think of it as some sort of self-expression or customization.
I wasn't there, but the images I've seen don't seem to demonstrate much violence and very little intimidation on the part of the insurrectionists. I see a lot images of people wandering around inside the building taking selfies and acting like tourists (albiet often poorly-behaved ones going places they shouldn't). In hindsight the evacuation was probably overkill but I acknowledge it was probably the best reaction to a clear and present danger.

Like I say, it would be difficult to file under terrorism. You're welcome to try.
"Really good at mining." This might be good point to compare with BTC. Where huge amounts of electricity is spend on doing essentially useless calculations, outside keeping the system safe and running.

Good at mining would have meant spending good part of our economic output to mine gold and then just storing it somewhere or moving it around...
Could/has SciHub been replicated with a database of magnet links to torrents of papers, or similar?

Or does it have features that rely on centralisation at this point? Can this be remedied so that SciHub can be operational in a truly decentralized, Bitcoin-like manner, where governments can't interfere short of blocking entire networking protocols?

This is not really my area of expertise, but I'd like to understand the situation.

I did use SciHub myself this week to read a study that I needed -- not for an academic research problem or business operation, but to simply understand a health condition I personally suffer from.
Yes!

When I see US jurisprudence getting tied up in knots about whether given rules 'are jurisdictional' or 'are merely mandatory' I can really see the benefit of the decision the HoL took in Anisminic. And it does permanently prevent flagrant abuse of judicial power by lower court judges. But the legal fiction of parliamentary sovereignty does feel a little more fictional when you read that case.

(Of course, they were careful to make clear that Parliament was, in fact, still sovereign, and given a sufficiently expressed will, etc. etc. But in practice...)
I always wondered about that. If a closed source app keeps my data in their silo, but I own the hardware their software runs on, I can't do anything with GDPR? Aren't they the controller if they run the software?