jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, Time Warner Cable is a terrible network. So I think his point still stands. It might not seem like a big deal but IMO, the difference between occasional High speed internet and Actual High speed internet is huge. I am literally willing to pay several hundred a month extra to have an apartment connected to FIOS on top of what FIOS actually costs.
helpful, thanks.
My guess is that some of the best cryptographers and mathematicians you've never heard of will be in the audience for that presentation.
I don't want to send my resume as a Word document because I wrote it in LaTeX, and it looks correct as a PDF. I don't understand why you wouldn't do me the courtesy of accepting the PDF.

This seems like a good cultural filter to me (on both sides).
I'd like a recommended book reading list.

It would also be good to separate advice from news. Lots of popular submissions are industry gossip, but others are useful tips.
The elephant in the room is that in addition to the obvious upside these platforms are ripe for money laundering.
Cached copy, if forum is unresponsive: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
Email me too, please. Username at google's mail service.
> The two agencies will be unifying their standards and systems of manned space programs, according to Komarov. “This is very important to future missions and stations.”

Yay, NASA will finally join the metric system.
People can play that game:

Interviewee: It is completely safe to drink urine

Interviewer: I have some urine here, would you like to drink some?

It is clear the interviewer is there to make a spectacle, not to meaningfully inform the public of the facts.

Edit: Or...

Interviewee: It is completely safe to smoke cigarettes

Interviewer: I have a pack here, would you like to smoke one?

Interviewee: Sure

PROOF THAT CIGARETTES ARE SAFE!!!!
Speaking of writing on controversial topics: here’s an entry to connection between rationality and polyamory mentioned but not discussed in this post https://putanumonit.com/2019/10/16/polyamory-is-rational/
It’s not particularly damning, either. He seems to outline characteristics of a solid SSS design which, in my experience, are exhibited by popular implementations these days.
>You might find more luck with the term “intersex” or in more historical sources, hermaphroditism.

Not exactly. Intersex only refers to hermaphroditism in humans, mainly for political reasons. In all other species, its still called hermaphroditism.
> I guess it doesn’t allow comments unless you mention it from your site?

That is the principle yes. However with or without webmention, you can build a public commenting system on your website. All it takes is form-processing on a server-side endpoint (to receive comments and filter out spam) and retrieving/formatting comments either on the server site (querying the endpoint whether per-request for dynamic sites, or as part of your build pipeline for static sites).

Webmention is a technology that enables websites to federate using semantic HTML. Comments are an order of magnitude simpler and never ever required any JavaScript or third party service. I never understood why people use Disqus, and i certainly will never enable JavaScript to comment on a website.
> where the wealthy could buy their way out of taxation

This is literally the opposite. If you buy (a property), you'll have the taxes based on what you bought. You can't buy your way to a lower tax rate.
On HN one is in minority, but not alone, when seeing centrally planned economies as a moral evil and an invitation for inefficiency. Americans in ‘71 stopped pinning $35=1oz AU (https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/). For this reason, central bank money, with planned (not natural) supply, are not good.

Are there any easy way for a merchant to accept gold payment nowadays, and have it registered in their bookkeeping - like a debit account but for gold, not $? Alternatively, a debit card where I deposit gold to my bank, and it is sold when I withdraw cash with the card from the ATM?
So from $62890 to $92610 in 18 years.

That is only a 4% increase per year.

I am surprised it is so little. I recently looked up some old receipts I paid in restaurants and cafes from 11 years ago. And then looked up the same items in the same cafes and restaurants now. The prices roughly doubled. So these increased by about 6% per year.

If developer salaries increased slower than inflation, why is it still so hard to find good freelance developers? Could the explanation be that the market has been flooded with people who call themselfes developers but hardly grasp what is going on under the hood? And just glue external code together until it kinda works?
> iMessage is absolutely in the list of possible alternatives for Apple customers

I'm an Apple customer, and iMessage isn't in the list of alternatives I can propose to my contacts. Because most of them aren't Apple customers. So I can't use it.
Any recommendation for mac?
Reading about their clock and my subsequent research into how one would "communicate" through design that a particular site (say, nuclear waste dump) was harmful and not something to be messed with or explored was the original impetus for this thought experiment.

It's fun to dream!
It's frightening, at the current rate Tesla will soon be worth more than every auto manufacturer in the world put together.

Tesla market cap as of January 07, 2021 is $696.81B. It's well over 700B today.

Market Cap as of Jan 7, 2021

Toyota is $214.45B.

General Motors is $59.63B.

Ford Motor is $35.17B.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is $36.13B.

VW is 89.23B.

Porsche is 21B.

Audi is 83B.

Nissan is 20B.

Honda 49B.
well, checking the source can be complicated, if it's a web page that had disappeared before being archived or a book/publication.
I did a sort of PoS proof of concept for spam mitigation. The idea was a small refundable fee would be defined at an inbox-level on a distributed ledger. If a recipient flagged content as offensive or spam, the gas fee required to transmit the message was retained, otherwise, it was returned, such that legitimate mail was free to send and spam was expensive.

While the fees were outstanding prior to receipt (or rejected by the recipient), they could participate in interest-earning liquidity pools to fund global efforts, like planting trees.
A negative leap-second will be crazy interesting given how the first few leap seconds in computing caused a little havoc.
It is not irrelevant if the price is based on anything else besides raw speculation. Gold and silver have always had utility outside of trading.
I wonder if a square of the same area is too constraining for the axiom of choice?

Perhaps they should try making it into two identical circles or a square of twice the area instead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
I got lucky and started working for a brand new private school last year. Coding is part of the core curriculum and afternoons are devoted to project-based learning. I get to work on a very small team trying to build an effective school from the ground up. I get to work on electronics, write code, and learn about education with the end goal of helping kids thrive in school and beyond.

If I weren't working for the school, I would want to work for a company whose core competency makes the world a better place in some way. I felt fulfilled working for a test prep company because I could help people take the next step in their education. I've also worked for a consumer-facing electronics company and felt very little motivation to go above and beyond because ultimately I was helping sell crap to people who didn't need it.
The fact that you have a car and a smartphone puts you somewhere around the richest 5% of people in the world. I don't think most 1st worlders like yourself -- especially those with the time and means to visit Hacker News -- have much of a clue about the poverty that exists in the world.
Related Note: Referring to this method as poor man's method while using a pack of pasta while pasta is as hard to get as TP. Pun intended?
last week the entire world began shutting down.

sounds like you might be distracting yourself from the anxiety you might be feeling.

maybe try meditation?
Unless it’s on the website in the cart, I don’t expect Joe Random consumer to be paying attention to the likely impact on Amazon distribution from the pandemic. If they want to curtail it, put it on the site in the checkout flow. Anything less, and my take is they’d rather take the order.

That they’re offering $3 for “no rush” now and just pushing sone items out to a promise date 30 days away tells me they want the order if you want to give it to them.
The author missed that we are actually seeing significant movement towards modularization in video games -- PC gaming is/has been growing at the expense of consoles the last few years.
Google recently revealed that going back over the data they kept about past hires demonstrated that an individual's GPA was completely independent of the quality of their future contributions to the company.

Why should Oracle be any different?
The truth of the matter is that, for most of us, when faced with a problem we work with what we know. If you ensure breadth of knowledge, you can get better at each aspect, but if you only know a few fundamental ideas, that means that you have to be capable of looking at a problem and rediscovering the right data structure to handle it with. Essentially, you have to be as smart as the guys who came up with it in the first place and more. Better to know the data structures and how they work.

Recognition is easier than rediscovery.
Except that in my experience, software development is mostly about learning things just-in-time. Most projects pose new challenges, or you want to use new technologies, and so on.

Imagine you hired some Cobol developers some decades ago, and therefore you would still be stuck using Cobol on your projects.
I just trying to understand the positions here. So, Military communications should be public?
I have passed a bunch of job interviews in the past - but I feel the exact same away and hire this way these days. I really do not see the point of brainteasers or white board coding questions if you have a budget where you can just pay out a contract like this.

Also, I believe there was an article posted here a few weeks back that indicated Google's brainteasers did not lead to quality candidates - I know I am cherry picking something that supports my beliefs but it was here nonetheless.

Also, I have interviewed a lot of people with 4.0 BS/MS in 5 years that turned out to be horrible employees. They were awesome with the brain teaser questions but sucked when they actually had to build something.

I guess I do not see how you can lose if you take the contract-to-hire approach ..
Are we even sure it's a bad thing that these "foreign activists" are intimidated by Manning's disclosures?

Considering the things our government does, it is pleasing to discover that people helping the government are being intimidated.
I can make random things up, too.
Micros and Aloha are definitely the biggest two, and it makes the most sense to start there. But you also have to keep in mind that they both have multiple product lines (plus legacy systems), each with different capabilities and SDKs.

The worst part is dealing across vendors though. The APIs are incredibly inconsistent between them, and some are frankly, crippled.
I'm flying cross country in December and fully intend to opt out of the naked scanner, even if it means the 'enhanced patdown'.

I liken it to Ali choosing jail over Vietnam, and other instances when people protested government coercion by intentionally choosing the worse alternative to what the govt wanted them to do.

Hopefully the national outrage gets the policy changed before then, but I'm preparing to sack up and do it nonetheless.
The system isn't broken. It just wasn't written with individuals in mind. The system works wonderfully if you're a CPA or large financial institution.

If people understood their best interests and elected officials acted on behalf of those best interests we would have a simpler tax code. The opacity of law benefits only those who can understand it. Clarity of tax code is simply not in the interest of those who pay for laws to be drafted.
I agree. I think any politician could reasonably trot out a counter to the "he took out our line of defense" with a "I stopped your kids from being x-rayed or groped by getting rid of something that would have been ineffective in stopping this attack".
For reference: when the hype first peaked, in mid august, there were 135k sold versions.

He generated about $5M in less than three months.
The Rockefeller family is unusual in that the money is locked in a trust, but when it expires there are over 150 family members who will split the money.

The Walton is just now reaching it's 3rd generation, so isn't that old.

If this part really bothers you, you can have a sales tax plus estate tax, but no income tax.

BTW, you are asking me a bunch of questions on the details, when none of this is my idea. I'm just parroting what the proponents of the "Fair tax" say.
You're probably a perceiver in the MBTI scale.

http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas...
What I do:
I add anything associated with a date to Google Calendar.

For to-do's on my main project I use Google Tasks.

For ongoing, less important to-dos or ideas I keep a draft email and just add to the list. I reopen it and keep it minimized when I'm working from that list.

For short-tem stuff that I want to knock out I keep it in my inbox so I can knock them out quickly when I have time or I'm motivated to get a few things done.

Urgent/quick stuff I try to take care of the first time I look at it.

I send myself a quick email for everything so I don't forget, then sort it into the appropriate place above when I get a chance.

I generally stay ~close to inbox zero. This system works for me because I like everything in once place and accessible from anywhere. Additionally, all of my 5+ email accounts feed into my Gmail inbox. I don't use Gmail tabs or anything like that, I just spam/unsubscribe from most things.
The "meat" of it is really that (Y F) = (F (Y F)). In other words Y applied to a function F expands to F applied the original expression, so it builds up nested calls of F.

I can't do it justice, but it's definitely much more interesting and even beautiful than "meh". I guess there are always "practical" vs "academic" arguments to be made but I find stuff like the lambda calculus, Y, Church numerals, all really cool.
Ok, ok. I won't make anymore jokes about the GIL.
That comes out to about £11.50.

In 2016 I was on £16.82, I had to share a house with four other adult housemates and had no prospect of owning a property within a 10 mile radius, it's only gotten worse since. God knows how any unskilled people doing these jobs are supposed to live with any dignity.
If you have the room for them I'd say go for it, we had chickens when I was a kid and let them roam around the garden during the day.

A piece of advice people seem to not know or not think about - rats will actively attack chickens. When making somewhere for them to sleep at night make sure you take rats in to account. They will dig under pen walls and get in to the hutch if given half a chance.
> are you going to be on call for this

When does a call at 3am involve an architectural decision or change? It should never come that far.
I'm not arguing that people don't treat people differently based on the color of their skin, it's obvious that they do. I'm arguing that that differential treatment cannot be more significant than the vast array of other socioeconomic factors that contribute to privilege, and defining privilege as being primarily about skin color is racist.
Removal of TPB was a positive too. Can't imagine how much loss of revenue these pirate sites have caused over the years.
I agree with this 100%. The more a matter of life and death a particular field of medicine is, the more I understand people who work there to be "cold" and "uncaring". Not because they are assholes, the exact opposite. I think people in these fields have to sacrifice a great deal of their humanity to be able to do their job and save lives.

What we don't see are the undoubtedly countless cases where their pour every last drop of their will to save a person, and it just fails and the patient dies. Through no fault of the doctor. Imagine having to carry that burden. To always question whether the person who was put in your care died because you could've done better.

In fact, I think this is an unimaginable burden to carry. I certainly wouldn't be able to do it. I'd break long before that. For this reason alone, these people will always have my very highest regard.
Yes.
A 'system language' with pure functions would be, well, unusual.
I can see mine if I sit quietly. I am quite myopic and have a lot of floaters, so maybe that's why?

But even in the dark, even if I can't consciously feel it, I can somehow still sense it.
So in what way is cancer not an example of group selection? Cancer cells reproduce more quickly, so in a sense they are fitter. However, on a large scale, the scale of complete groups (group = human being), they perform poorly because they kill the group. In other words, if the universe consisted of one giant human being then the cancer cells would definitely win. However, because of the group structure and the selection for complete groups, this doesn't happen.

I agree that within a group, group selection doesn't matter (duh). However, if you look at the aggregate of groups, after some time the groups with the group benefiting genes still exist while the other groups have died out. The groups that still exist will spawn new groups, etc, the standard evolution tale.

Consider this extreme case:

We have several groups. At every time step the group has a chance of being annihilated. An individual in a group can either have gene A or gene B. If an individual of a group has gene A then the chance that the group as a whole is annihilated is decreased. If it has gene B then this chance stays the same. Each individual in the group has a chance of reproducing. Once the group is above a certain size, it splits into two groups.

Now I'm sure you agree that gene A will be selected for relative to gene B, even though gene A gives no benefit to the individual relative to the other individuals in its group.

In the aggregate of groups, a gene with a huge benefit to the group and a slight disadvantage to the individual can, in the aggregate of groups, outperform a gene with a slight benefit to the individual but no benefit to the group. Sure, the conditions have to be just right for this to happen, but it does happen (e.g. cancer cells). So you can't say just because "group selection is impossible" that group selection doesn't happen in populations of animals. You need to analyze the particular situation to determine this.

It is possible, in principle, that rituals are another example of this.
Who cares how smart your enemy is? You don't need to be intelligent to be dangerous.

You do need to be intelligent to kill many many people. Dumb terrorists can't increase the death rate because they can't kill very many people, so it doesn't make sense to worry about them or spend much money dealing with them. Their effects are like traffic accidents or accidental bathtub drownings: sad, but not worth reshaping our society over.
http://thestartuptoolkit.com/
Speaking for the U.S. context only: once you have a security clearance, which will become necessary at some point for defence work, it becomes difficult to move out to non-classified work. On one hand, the pool of people with clearances is smaller than the general labor pool, so you can have a higher salary & benefits, therefore it's more attractive to stay at that kind of work. On the other hand, prospective employers outside defence likely do not have clearances and so cannot learn anything about what you did - this makes it difficult to leverage your experience when seeking to move to a new job.

I don't work in defence. That is just what I've heard from people who do as one of the reasons why it's hard to "rotate in, rotate out."
But as many have said Microsoft is not targeting Kin at the type of person who would visit HN. It's targeted at the teen market that bought sidekicks in droves and I'm sorry but if you look back at the sidekick it's UI was pretty horrid too (and it's technology was far inferior to boot)
I actually think it isn't too overblown to hold up a college degree as something that, like homeownership, has been touted as the American dream and become a status item to be worshipped and sacrificed to. Our country's capitalistic nature seems to end up exploding every cultural norm that becomes too widely subscribed to. Have you seen how much weddings cost?

For one thing, I think there are a lot of bubble-like indicators out there. Just this week Forbes has a story on a charter school, Think College Now, which takes the universal attendance expectation to a new level. This is an elementary school, an elementary school, filled with college-is-for-everyone cheerleading like signs asking "Am I making college-bound choices today?"

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0607/education-tcn-teamwor...

Yes, it's gotten to a point where we've invented the college-prep public elementary school. I admit I'm partisan (I'm one of probably very few non-college-graduate Jeopardy! champions), yet isn't this substantial evidence that the attitude toward college education has become unglued from rationality?
Same difference. When you take away money that older people are living on, you force them to look for work. Which, in this economy, will tend to make them unemployed.

I suppose great-grandma can always move in with her grandkids. Of course, the grandkids are also 25% likely to be unemployed.

Naturally, there is a subset of people for whom Social Security is a needless luxury because they are living off of private investments. The proper way to target these people for additional funds is to nudge up the marginal tax rate on those private investments. This is difficult to accomplish, of course, because people with lots of money can afford to buy votes.
Exactly. Familial legacy is a pretty lousy use of fortunes that are better thought of as power rather than wealth (quantity has a quality of its own). To squander that kind of power on mere inheritance is at best myopic.
This is actually an interesting point. A compromised user table could conceivably be used for all sorts of nefarious purposes. If the attackers "having access" to the information in that table includes the ability to modify that table, then it is pretty much open season on Slack. For example, an attacker could replace a target user's password-hash with a hash that the attacker knows the plaintext of. Depending on the implementation of the random salt, the attacker may have to replace the salt as well. Then, the attacker logs in as the user, downloads the desired chat history, logs out, and sets the password hash to the original. Not enough information was really given in the blog post, but by the sounds of it, some teams experienced more targeted attacks.
Exactly this. If they used ten rounds, it's dire, and just saying "bcrypt" doesn't say much unless you also specify the number of rounds.
You're right, everything should be done by engineering ninja rockstars, and process is just what unawesome people use to keep their jobs.
This also puts Australia on the blacklist for hosting a VPN service, if they were not already, I assume.
And only focusing on the "vast majority" is a GREAT security solution. There is some significant, non-zero number of people who use Slack and do not own a smart device. I am one of them. (reasons for choosing not to own a smart device are many and I will not go into them here)

I'm not trying to rake them over the coals, just point out this is a very real blind-spot and they should promptly update the notice with instructions for people who don't have smart-phones.