jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I'm forced to pay 5.5% fee [..]
> Plus conversion fee from USD to EUR [...]
> a simple thing as receiving money from different country

Moving money between currencies has never been easier, or cheaper. I would humbly suggest you're doing it wrong.
What do government contracts have to do with wanting to try to tackle a problem where millions of people of this country can’t be trusted to personally vet what they read/watch online?

Don’t get me wrong it’s not about taking the right action because what’s right is subjective.

I’m simply saying it’s not surprising that they seem to be wanting to at least TRY something to help the problem.
That clutter was artfully arranged by Japanese craftsmen. It's a mix of fine handmade rice paper, and paper-thin sheets of perfectly white marble. Possibly also sheets of tanned fetal unicorn skin.
Great idea.

rvm is not a QA tool, by the way; it's a way to manage multiple versions of Ruby.
Yes we already know HTTPS is secure.

I am sick of the articles saying enabling HTTPS is not going to impact performance "much".

Even without pulling out jmeter, apache bench, or load runner I can tell you just hitting F5 on a HTTPS page makes it take longer. It's the responsiveness. I don't really care if it takes 10% more CPU. CPU cycles are getting cheaper and cheaper. I do care a lot that it takes 50ms more.

Yes I know you can tweak things so that the HTTPS connection stays open and doesn't have to handshake everytime. But really, is there anyway to get that handshake down to something acceptable?
I don't see much hope for the end of perpetual "temporary" copyright extension (in the US), just due to the realities of the legislative process. I also wonder if the fair use exemptions have the unintended side effect of making it seem like we don't need a public domain.
I do boxing training as a way of keeping fit (some sparring but no 'serious' boxing i.e. competition.) I'm a southpaw, and I stand like a right hander. If I can catch my opponent with a left, it's beautiful. It's a real ace in the hole.
I completely lost any possible sympathy for her when she posted this to Facebook, a day or so after the story broke:

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Hi Folks!

Well, here I am with egg on my face! I did apologise to Monica via email, but aparently it wasnt enough for her. To all of you, thank you for your interest in Cooks Source and Again, to Monica, I am sorry -- my bad!
You did find a way to get your "pound of flesh..." we used to have 110 "friends," we now have 1,870... wow!

Best to all, Judith
One feature that I noticed reading the product page was that it works on mobile.
Baking SVGs into PNGs for attaching to e-mails. We used D3 to generate SVG charts for displaying analytics data in-browser and then use Phantom to generate PNG versions. Works well.
That wasn't complexity, it was repetition or verbosity. It's tedious to manage rather than complex.

In making it DRY you have introduced a dependency for all of the usages of that snippet of code, and made it harder to have individual uses deviate if they need to.

Of course that might be exactly what you want! It's just good to be aware that code reuse is adding complexity by way of adding a new system to manage.

A little function, no big deal. But if you find yourself writing models and extending classes just to save yourself a couple of repetitions you may have jumped off the deep end!
Yes, this is truly a great resource for Korean. There are some interesting bugs (like english text example search matches substrings rather than words; e.g. searching "tile" results in "The Ptile value is outside the range of valid values". There were worse cases a few months ago that seem to be resolved), but overall it is an invaluable tool for Korean learners.
> The argument against lockdowns was based on it being comparable to a cold/flu season.

No:

CDC 2007: https://cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/community_mitigat... p. 25:

“... the effectiveness of pandemic mitigation strategies will erode rapidly as the cumulative illness rate prior to implementation climbs above 1 percent of the population....”

WHO 2006: http://upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2... argues against lockdowns.

The argument against lockdown as ineffective above 1% spread is based on models, see the references. Whether these are good models or not, that's what CDC policy guidance was.

Western lockdowns with many essential workers spreading the virus, especially nosocomially, are even less justifiable. Wrecking the economy, including health care sector employment and facilities, while leaving people worse off on all other health fronts (deferred checkups and treatments), plus the psychological toll culminating in elevated suicides, is not worth hard-to-measure reduction in spread. Lockdowns actually focus spread into shared housing, notably nursing homes. They also select adversely in the face of mutated variants.

Lockdown policy guidance was not based on cold vs. flu or severity of either. I have no idea why you thought this.
Anectodally; I have been a one man army CTO for a period. I could not have managed my Windows servers without Solarwinds. It was an excellent product which did everything I could ever want.
You could just reuse the code from opentaxsolver and run it through emscripten. Here's an old version I made a few years ago: https://github.com/jfim/1040.js
Stack Overflow Trends seems to be pointing in the same direction: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=react-native%...
He literally said it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_iFi1qH8Cg
Sure you can, go for it. But I doubt that many people have the time nor the skills required to actually come to some justified conclusion. The scary part is that many of them think they do. Often the very ones who tell you "read the science" or "just go read some papers" are the ones who dramatically underestimate the amount of effort and nuance it takes to synthesize the results of numerous researchers into a coherent meta-analysis. You can try, sure, and personally I enjoy it, but unless you're already an expert researcher in the field, you should be very skeptical that any conclusions you make are actually valid.

It takes an enormous amount of domain knowledge to reasonably interpret the statistics of experiments, epidemiological studies, etc. We may think we can read them and come to our own conclusions, but I think it's usually our hubris that leads us to believe that those conclusions are justified and not just rolls of the dice.
> Historically, we have been able to intercept those communications, read them, and interrupt our adversaries from the bad things they are plotting.

I challenge this assertion. It has happened in some cases, but the claim that surveillance is an effective way to stop terrorism has failed to be backed up with many success stories.

> If our adversaries' communications are completely impossible to intercept, we have lost one of the most valuable tools in our ability to prevent them from doing bad things.

The most organized adversaries' communications are already impossible to intercept. They know they are under surveillance and are taking measures to counter that surveillance. The people that surveillance affects most are innocent people.

In a different perspective (and I'm going to speak in an American context because I'm American and the article is about the American president) there are some things that are worth the lives of Americans. Our nation was founded with a rebellion and many Americans died in that struggle. They died for freedom, to gain rights. American history is full of people dying to protect the rights of Americans.

And from another perspective, terrorism is a hugely overblown concern. More Americans die in car accidents every year than have died from terrorism in the entire history of the United States[1]. 33561 people died in car crashes in the US in 2012[w]: that's like the September 11 attacks happening almost once a month. The fact that we're spending $10.8 billion in a year on the NSA[3] to prevent a handful of deaths that it may not even prevent, and less than 10% of that ($815 million) on the NHTSA[4] shows that our priorities are not where they should be.

[1] http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_Traffic_Safety...
This is one of the reasons that Richard Stallman refused to use his RFID card at MIT. If a door was locked, he would just tailgate someone in. Eventually CSAIL just gave him a key to a back door.
The question said "AI" - not "self-aware consciousness"
My feel is that it's not ready for you yet, but Pine64 at least seems to have a sustainable thing going, with thousands of real units shipped. I've started dipping my toes in app development. Main problem for me so far is performance. Firefox crawls.
I think it's subjective, and maybe related to what you grew up with.

I moved to Chicago in the 1990s, lived there for about 10 years. The mass-transit was very good, but I wasn't happy living there.

Move to a smaller town with basically no useful public transit, but am vastly happier.
I guess they mean for interpreting Java, not in Java.
It appears this is called a modified Harvard architecture. I wasn't aware of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Harvard_architectur...
I gave some thought years ago about “leasing” a ubnt setup to wean people off renting modems from their isp. Couldn’t make the math work tho.

I have ubiquiti equipment and wired back haul too. But even among my tech nerd buddies it’s hard to convince people that its worth spending the time and money to run cable and multiple aps.

For their part isp provided equipment has improved dramatically. They must make a killing on the rental fees. Plus they have a vested interest in reducing WiFi service calls as well.
I had sinusitis that left me bedridden for a week once. You have my sympathies.
I was told years ago that count(1) was faster than count(*) and have been using that blindly and without questioning since (MSSQL user), although I can't remember last time I submitted code that did that. Often write it when examining something in the database though.
yes. HDCP has "infected" HDMI, eDP, USB-C and so on.

this can entirely be avoided with:

* TFP410a (RGBTTL to DVI/HDMI)

* SN75LVDS83b (RGBTTL to LVDS)

* SSD2828 (RGBTTL to MIPI)

* various other converter ICs

4k btw is MENTAL bandwidth. multiply 3840 by 2160, then by 4, then by 60: this gives the number of bytes per second required of the internal memory bus.

turns out to be 2 gigabytes per second, doesn't it?

now check the datasheets on what affordable FPGA boards can do, what memory ICs they have, and whether they can cope with that level of bandwidth.

you'll find that there aren't any.

i do find it ironic that "incremental steps" are recommended, "to get something running", but lack of knowledge of the difficulty surrounding DRM and in ramping up to high speed leads to "disbelief". ah well :)
>completely Covid free.

not any more
https://time.com/5939502/new-zealand-covid-19-lockdown/
I absolutely understand the desire for doing things the same way as the professionals or imposing artificial limitations to push oneself harder. That and keeping fit is why I lift weights.

Still, if keeping fit was the ultimate goal, everyone would be riding heavy old steel frames instead of chasing sub-1% efficiency gains ;-)

There is a huge element of gear geekery involved and to an extent also some cargo culting. I know, I've been there myself for a bit. Now I ride a 3-speed stepover bike with a basket on the front, because trying to always go faster was going to get me maimed in traffic at some point.
The vast majority of essential services (e.g. food, housing) are not publicly funded, so the analogy doesn't really work. Also, there are obvious reasons why government-funded news might have problems, if its essential service involves investigating the government.
I agree wildcards are better avoided but so are column orders in result extraction. They are a source of bugs and much review work when changes are made.

If I had to choose (which usually isn't necessary) I'd say wildcards are the lesser evil.
Do they pay those salaries in Europe?

Because European salaries are usually 1/3 of the US rate.
You cannot deny that scientific consensus holds certain weight, though.
Only today on HN, TCE has been implicated as the likely cause in a large recent jump in the rate of Parkinson's:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740336

The possibility of day-after-day exposure of Googlers to elevated levels of TCE does indeed warrant a big red flag.
Good point, I guess that’s a good argument to use taxes for supporting healthcare.
He/she is being downvoted for demanding an answer, as if they're entitled to one but all the physicists out there are just too dumb to figure it out or refuse to give them what they are owed.

Perhaps that is not how this person actually feels. If so, a little humility and empathy in their communication would go a long way to rectify that.
I recommend “Disrupted” by Dan Lyons - about his time at Hubspot, about the unicorn phenomenon and the cultish culture of tech startups.
It's not relevant to this particular HN page.
Not quite perfect. Page links to "Don't be dumb with typography" which talks about using smart quotes instead of dumb quotes - then in the quote block further down the page uses dumb quotes :-(
> It wasn't pleasant experience but I survived.

In that age bracket the main fear isn't outright dying, but "Long COVID", all kinds of problems affecting you for the rest of your life, or manifesting only later. Fatigue, lung problems etc.
Godot doesn't directly offer console support anyway

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/platform/conso...

Realistically this means if porting to console is a priority you should go with one of the dominate engines, Unreal or Unity.
If you haven't checked out App Engine in a while, you really should. Especially check out the App Engine "Flexible" editions, which make it really easy to run on App Engine withOUT getting locked in.

I run a NodeJS GraphQL server in App Engine Flexible, and it is basically just like running it in a Docker container. It's also pretty trivial to run in Google Cloud Run if I so desired, there is even a tool to assist: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/app-engine-cloud-run-...
The easiest answer I can give is, if you're interested in developing a paper for WOOT, you can shoot me some mail and I can give you a sense of how close it is to the target WOOT has.

The WOOT Program Committee selects papers; I'm just one of them. But I should be able to give pretty good feedback.
Hey, OP's point on the topic:

I like GNU Emacs, and I run GNU Emacs most of the time.

I _do_ know how to use vi/vim and I'm quite pragmatic on the matter.

When I am doing server configurations, by the way, vi/vim start up way, way more quickly than GNU Emacs.

This is good, but as I use emacs most of the time, I end up in mixing keyboard shortcuts.

Thus, on my system, $EDITOR is /usr/bin/mg and /usr/bin/vi (vi, not vim) is a symlink to /usr/bin/mg.

So I get emacs keybindings and a fast-starting editor.

If i __do__ need syntax highlighting or anything, i run vim (not a symmlink) or the full GNU Emacs.

Put simply.
Nice, definitely something that is a pain for mirroring in SQL Server, though if you have a good runbook its just time consuming and boring.
What, no discussion? I frankly was more impressed by the description of the proposed Atlantropa project than I was of the Desertec (though both are ambitious!). That would be a dam stretching ~13 km and between 300 and 900 meters in height. That seems like an very impressive (and difficult) civil engineering project. The Three Gorges dam is 2.3 km long and about 200 meters in height, so Atlantropa would be significantly larger than the Three Gorges.
Indeed, you can tell more about the poster than about the demographic they would like to be referring to. "Does not follow" arguments are often like that. Still full of data, just not on the subject as much as on the speaker.
I think the important point is not that it just outweighs what can be achieved by modularisation, but that it is fundamentally more difficult to achieve using modularisation. Had that not been the case, you would expect companies that emulated the psychological value _and_ used the modularisation path to make more money than Apple would.
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/123_Fake_Street
This is exactly how I feel. It's no longer an efficient use of my time.
at what point do I see the deductio? I have entered the promo code, checked out and hesitant now to enter my credit details.
I don't disagree at all! Tripping over rare findings are, in of themselves, rare events -- so much so that healthy skepticism is definitely warranted.
Instead of playing wack-a-mole like this, it may be time to start employing Bayesian "spam filters". (e.g. A Plan for Spam)
Which is now simplified to a single function, "merge", which combines two elements into 1.

https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1269
It would be useful to look at the median in addition to the average here. I suspect that because there are specific highly compensated professionals in the US that regularly work 60 or 70 hour weeks (Lawyers, doctors), the average may be distorted upwards.
Prozac has among the lowest side effect profiles for anti-depressants and is dirt cheap since it's long out of patent. That's why it's often the first thing tried despite not having the highest rate of effectiveness, as far as I understand it.
I mean the game of controlling 3rd-party devices that we don’t really own via side channels is always gonna be a cat-and-mouse of ever more elaborate hacks.

The next game will probably be mitming these devices by flashing a new CA store.

There is no general solution to running an openly adversarial app/device in your network.
If you want to simplify things, don't employ "useless us of cat". Pass the file as a command arg or re-direct input. And sort has options, so the third/fourth commands can be

sort -u -t, sales.csv

However, those fail with quoted commas.

Also, head -3 is non-POSIX obsolete syntax.

Edit: I don't know why I didn't see other UUOC references initially.
Isn't it? Atleast thinking of it from the perspective of someone who spends a large part of their day "working" in jobs that might not be something they really like to do.

As a society, I think people are already conditioned to help out their "family" by their labors, but the education I was talking about should be geared towards thinking of every one has part of an extended "family" where some parts of the family need to be subsidized and that it is natural to do so :-).
You don't need a Ring, you can set up your own IP cams and there is plenty of software out there. While I don't think it is necessary for everyone I've caught tons of stuff on video, including neighbors snooping in my back yard, cops walking around the property, neighborhood cats using the yard as a toilet, the county inspector doing a tax inspection, and more than one person walking up to the camera, seeing it, and then turning around. This was in an average neighborhood in northern California so YMMV if you live in a different area.
Sure, but one shouldn't feel obligated to provide value. Providing intellectual stimulation when unasked for immediately marks one (to the lay person) as the proverbial know-it-all. Their body language will speak magnitudes; just watch the direction of their feet. Anything more than 30 degrees away from your direction will indicate they are not interested in the service you think you may be providing.

You must gain confidence. Have confidence in yourself, and you will find others will do the difficult conversational parts for you. The quickest way to gain confidence is to learn to lift compound weights and to increase the weight over the years.
Yes, and in theory could be rigged to serve as a very simple ventilator.
It's explained in the second paragraph in the article.
Or perhaps Brave was supposed to be one of those items?

Clearly, the article needed editorial proof reading in a few spots.
Maybe stupid question, but doesn't most (western) countries have the equivalent of Ordnance Survey Maps, i.e. government produced decent quality public map set?
A working compiler from Wasm to native using LLVM: https://innative.dev/
Making sure everyone has broadband and a strong WiFi signal In the room they are using for videoconferencing. One person dropping audio and glitching can dramatically reduce the quality of a meeting.
> My point is that this is no underlying weakness in the global economy.

Unfortunately, this is not at all true. There is a tremendous amount of debt in the system and we are on the precipice of a credit crisis that could wipe out a significant chunk of the global economy.
Downside of what may be a societal long term shift to work from home is even LESS privacy. I find that ironic, but not surprising.
We assume you at least have temporary immunity so testing everybody with symptoms will make their anxiety less and a lot of more people could be mobile and working.
I battle with the same problem with my students. I love teaching Python, and I think it is a fantastic teaching language. JavaScript, although harder to learn, is much more exciting for the students to play with, and libraries are always just a link away.

My main reason for not switching completely over to teaching JS, is the nightmare that is debugging simple syntax errors.
Life isn't all about game, sometimes its about matrix multiplication and NumPy and SciPy do this exceptionally well.
I don't think I've heard of any unpaid internships at any decent technology companies.
Well what's the need for that kind of information? It'll just confuse the users and Dear Leader Jobs would never expose his flock to any bad apps anyway.
Yup - blank page. That's all I needed to know.
Stanford is probably not a great example. It's exactly because the campus is and has always been so big that it's setup wide and grand.
How about a pc based on an SGI chassis.
Being able to discriminate against residents is the reason colleges can have the high density walkable neighborhoods they do.

Much of the value proposition in moving to spaced out neighborhoods requiring cars is that you filter out people who can’t afford cars or driving longer distances.
Enterprise "security product" culture is just terrible. These things are sold by slick salesmen and do more harm than good
I really thought Apple would start from scratch and not involve another car company.
What are their concerns? Income, opportunity?
If you take control of your finances in other ways, this system just isn't necessary. Set up automatic bill pay, set up recurring deposits into savings and investment accounts, use credit cards with the best rewards to pay for things (set to be fully paid off automatically every month), and then spend within your means so you don't live paycheck to paycheck. I suppose that last one is the thing that envelope budgeting/mental accounting is attempting to solve, but the problem is that it isn't actually solving the root cause. Spending smarter or at least not spending frivolously can free you from managing 25 different spending categories every day/week/month.
Yeah. It just made me think how nice “software memorial services” could be for people to express gratitude for these endeavors.
Or use one of the many apps that give you all sorts of window controls (including a nice maximize shortcut) like SizeUp (no connection, but happy user).

EDIT: Grammar
There's another dimension which is "scope" and is also often negotiable.