jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One thing that would be important, and I'll admit I didn't register for an account to see if this is possible, but I don't believe anyone will buy a home sight unseen or without and inspection. Is there a facility to book a viewing or book an inspection?
A lot of people are making him out to be too optimistic about his predictions. I agree to an extent, but no one seems to mention that the vast majority are remarkably accurate and only obvious in retrospect, hindsight bias can colour the many right ones as being trivial but I found many astonishingly clairvoyant.
Org-Mode is another reason I've heard for switching.
Yes, but that's what a lingua franca means: that secondary language you have to know if you want to read stuff that hasn't been translated in your language yet or speak with people that aren't speaking your language.
There's also beancount and abandon, both use similar/the same data format.
Everything PulseAudio does should have been implemented as part of ALSA though, not as another layer that only exposes a fraction of the libalsa functionality.
This is one of the best articles that I ever about freelancing . Thanks for sharing!
Small correction, 85% of America's millionaires consider themselves to be self-made millionaires. As this comment section has shown, smart and wealthy people have plenty of delusion to that point.

The mobility charts don't lie, if you take all of the kids born to households in the bottom 40% of income -- fewer than 10% of those kids will ever earn top quintile salaries. Keep in mind how low of a bar that really is, in 2010, the cutoff line for upper 20% of single-earner incomes was at $42,000.
So Legolas surfing down the stairs on a dwarf shield while shooting 5 orcs wasn't so far from the truth after all?
I think the fear is less "f*ck the police" here, and more "an unknown entity is breaking into my house", which is a pretty justifiable response. If he knew it was the police, I don't think the first reaction would be to shoot them.
"So if you start with a quadcopter running on batteries that’s 10 times as efficient as a full-scale helicopter running on gas"

This I have never heard of. In a ratio of energy efficiency against carrying capacity I was under the impression that a normal helicopter massively outperformed a small quadcopter.

My impression with doing lifts with lots of small drones was that you get around this by constantly cycling the swarm.

Also, this still doesn't get around the problem of downwash. Either you shift a massive cross section of air for your force and get very little downwash, but then you end up with something much bigger than a car, or you focus it and get lots. You cannot get around the fact that to suspend a mass you have to move something equivalent downward.

edit - I get what you are saying with the turkeys. However, in a vehicle carrying four people, you have replaced the turkey bodies with a giant blob that has much less lifting potential, especially at low speed, than lots of turkey bodies. You have to dump a lot of useful surface area. Also I note that turkeys do not hover much.
Because the first page load is what matters most.
Google also did this when they had the Google Toolbar remote exploit vulnerability reported and the guy asked about the reward, a good read on its own:

http://blog.detectify.com/post/82370846588/how-we-got-read-a...
I'm signed up for https://www.coursera.org/course/introtoelectronics

Starts in late March.
It’s so nice to have a functional hacker news mac app
that may be true, but is it worth the time of the community to critique code that offers them nothing in return?

one might argue that the decision as to whether code is worth reviewing is up to the individual, and i would agree. but i would also argue that it's the responsibility of the author to decide whether or not the submission of that code in a public forum will generate more light or more heat, and filter such submissions accordingly.
ok fixed the slides thanks for reporting that :)
What I've experienced so far is that companies seem to care more if it gets press and a fancy name while every other CVE is ignored.

It's not a great trend but if that's what it takes to improve global security...
I'm a diction nut, leaving that would have driven me to madness. I broke down and changed it, thanks!
Him being right in the end is exactly why I wish he wouldn't look as a typical conspiracy theorist in the first place.
Why do you feel that this is "screwing up C++"?! I think you need to motivate that a lot better, especially given that this author provided logical reasons for his issues with the design of std::future. :(
The new, dominant and universal front end/back end/desktop app all round programming language. JavaScript :(
You know, I faced something similar when I felt I have finally found "success". It was a difficult time to get motivated not only because of the lack of any more challenges, but also because I felt I had lost a worthwhile goal to pursue.

In any case, it seems that you're financially successful, love what you do, and right now may be looking for the new challenge.

I would definitely recommend you take some time to think about what are new challenges you'd like to tackle. Brainstorm and don't let reason hold you back from making big and daring goals. Then review your resources and see what you need to work on to start on another path.

Hope this helps. Obviously a lot of other great recommendations in this thread, so I definitely recommend you start writing down your thoughts and how you're thinking through things. It'll help you keep track of your progress.
Sure, happy to work on it. Last day rate was $1200/day
> Now, if someone would take the GUI designer of Lazarus and pair it with, say, the Go language (which, although it's not obvious, has a lot of Pascal-family DNA in it, and badly lacks a good GUI story), that might be an interesting proposition...

Uh, garbage collector aside, Go has less features as a language than even Delphi 1, let alone Free Pascal which runs circles around it.
I didn't put the 15$/hr min wage in my comment to deride it, I think it should be even higher in metro areas. But it is no secret that 30-40% of operating costs of a restaurant are employee wages. It is definitely a factor on the price charged to customers.

Restaurants (unless you are some michelin star joint) also don't really have the freedom to charge "whatever the customer is willing". Between rent, wages, and local competition, you can pretty much guarantee that there will be an average 10% profit margin in whatever area you are at.

IMO, the biggest culprit here is the astronomical rent prices charged to these places sucking out all of the extra capital gained by these 17$ salads
The DC ties represent <1.7% of current load. About the size of a single large generating station. ERCOT, by policy (to avoid certain federal regulations), keeps it that way. I guess you're technically right that they can import power, but that is far from the design intent of the system. (Which is stark contrast to the eastern and western interconections, and their internal multistate ISO's.)
It’s weird because the NYT ran an article about how little we procured ahead of time, compared to the EU. And now they’re the ones fumbling it
As I said, what's wrong is that organizing files in this way is that it necessitates something like a package manager to keep track of which files are associated with which applications. This is not a "nice" way to organize things, it's a needlessly complicated one as evidenced by the operating systems, both current and historical, that don't do that and don't need a package manager.

> Windows, for comparison, is hell, since applications install files pretty much where they want, and that's why Windows, in the long term, gets more polluted than Linux (worst offender - leftover DLL, which impact the system).

Applications rarely install files (other than configuration files) outside of their own 'Program Files' directory. What you are saying was true until about XP, IIRC, but generally isn't today.

In my opinion RiscOS, NeXT, the original MacOS and current MacOS have the right idea with their single-object applications. It prevents reuse, yes, but the majority of "shared" libraries are used by exactly one application anyway, and the continued interest in container technology are evidence of all the problems caused by trying to share everything anyway.
Interesting - although there have been 20+ submissions about UiPath:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

the current thread is the only one with any comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
OCCAM implemented CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) that Go took a lot of lessons from.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...)
Did you read Pinker, Chomsky or both ? :)
If my previous experience in the field is any guide, this should be a rewarding experience for you.

> Is there any reason not to go do this?

It is likely to be a high-stress job.
Also, the turn-over in the industry tends to be very high.

And someday your grandmother will hear something about high frequency trading on Oprah and decide that your work is evil.

> It seems perfect - why don't more hackers take this path?

Not many are invited. Traders accept only the very best.
I guess for most cases it is too special, but I have an old Java app that doesn't even need a database, so I thought that might run well without too much effort.
I don't see the connection between cheaters and non-payers.

I've seen cheaters on an xbox live game that costs the monthly live fee + a $70 game + a $300 system.

These kids mostly just want to troll.
A man of finance measures his success on a single metric - wealth accumulated. A techie founder on the other hand has many takeaways - social respect, geek goodness, making the future instead of guessing it, money in some cases.

I think if economic wealth is used as a measure instead of monetary wealth, pg would be spot on. What say?
I don't follow. Say a startup comes along and I think the entire idea, space, and sector is doomed to failure. The whole market is a no-go. I can't get rich off the ones I decide will be failures, and it's possible for an entire sector to fail together in a correlated way. Say, Gmail crushes all web-based email startups, or iPhone crushes all startups based on the available 2007-era mobile platforms.

At least in financial derivatives trading, there is a somewhat zero-sum aspect to who is winning and losing money. Every dismal derivatives trade should have some winners on the other side.
Mathematicians still are split into formalists, realists, intuitionists and logicists, debating around the nature of mathematical truth; i. e. does mathematical truth pre-exists (and is just "discovered") or is it a human invention? Good luck sorting this one out!
It really depends right? Some users are looking for an experience, some users are looking for a service, and most users are somewhere in the middle. But depending on your product, your users may expect different things.

For example, if you have a site for coders, having a technical but not completely clean site would be okay as long as it functions (service works as advertised). Of course these same users would probably appreciate good site design more later down the road. On the other hand, if you're making a site like amazon for the typical internet user, an organized site with clear call to actions may be best (good user experience). But later if you change stuff it might freak users out if you're not careful.

Not sure if my input really helps explain anything other than that each site is probably different (I know, I know, I'm a genius...) but I guess what I'm saying is think about how the users are using the site and why, or even better, go out and meet them to ask them.
Even just only taxing it once it is sellable stock would be a huge improvement. Getting stuck with a taxbill for something you can't actually sell is ridiculous.
Thank you for saying this.

For a complete beginner the book is total nonsense and worse than overwhelming. The only plausible outcome is frustration and a higher likelihood the person will give up learning.

People need to please stop recommending JS The Good Parts to beginners. Please stop.

Beginners need an intro to the language and often an intro to programming concepts. What are they supposed to do with chapters on closure and currying?

When you think about recommending it again to a beginner, please stop and think about what a beginner knows, and what makes sense for them to learn as a next step.
Currently, the number of sublists created is equal to the number of cores on the system.

While it'd be fairly trivial to extend the code to make it easy for an admin to define the number of sublists, I don't have any reason to believe that'd be a useful knob to export.
Why bother? Count the down votes in this thread and then note the number of thoughtful rebuttals. (But for the record, imo Haskell is a glorious language.)
3.5.10 was the pinnacle of desktop experience. But plasma is now close to that
Dots | New York, NY | 2 eng positions: Backend Engineering Manager, Mobile Engineering (Unity) Manager | https://www.dots.co/jobs/

Mobile Gaming Studio in New York City

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At Dots, we are broad. Our games are beautifully executed from a graphic design, game design, and technological perspective. Our aim is to create experiences that do the little things extremely well. This results in a minimalist experience that has all the things you need and love, but none of the things you don’t. At Dots this approach is present in all verticals, and engineering is no exception. This is particularly true of any backend engineering.

Backend Eng Manager:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/dots/jobs/2043491

The Backend Services team is responsible for all aspects of backend engineering - Game and Data Services designs and implementation, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps and operations for a globally deployed platform handling 100’s of millions events for day. In addition to leading the team, this person will help articulate and then deliver a strong vision for globally scalable data / ML driven gaming backend.

The role requires a mix of technical leadership, hands-on services development and operational strategy. In addition, the candidate ought to have a leadership track record - communicating with, inspiring, mentoring, aligning engineers with varying levels of experience as well as ability to effectively grow the team. Finally, you should be an expert on modern Server side software development methodologies, tools and operational processes.

If you find joy in fast-paced fun environments, building challenging globally scalable architectures and data / ML driven systems, setting up processes that make teams run like a well oiled machine and helping individual developers to grow their career we would love to talk to you.

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Mobile Eng Manager:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/dots/jobs/2044096

The role requires a mix of hands-on mobile application, game development and delivery experience along with comprehensive technical knowledge of global-scale mobile games architecture and related services. The best candidates will have exceptional leadership qualities enabling them to communicate with, inspire, mentor, and align a diverse team of engineers with varying levels of experience and take great interest in modern software development methodologies, tools and processes.

If you find joy in fast-paced environments, solving engineering challenges on a global scale, building powerful game architectures to take on industry leading competitors, setting up processes that make teams run like a well oiled machine and helping individual developers to grow their career we would love to talk to you.
Wow! You’d have to pay me Netflix money to do that job!
How many of those experts were epidemiologists or virologists? Iirc there was 1 microbiologist there but mostly people from math and physics departments.
20% or so were still PhD students...
My 2 cents on low inflation:

- Inflation gets 'exported' along with production to countries with lower manufacturing costs (because globalization). So no inflation but no working class either, resulting in income inequality - a problem of its own.

- Depending on jurisdiction, inflation should include or adjust the weight of house prices (Eurozone), education costs, medical costs. These are goods that cannot be outsourced, hence they reflect higher inflation.

- Shrinkflation - https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/24369/inflation/shrinkfla...
That's your personal restriction on MFABT but Facebook MFABT is most definitely "bias towards speed". It has no "don't break other people's things" in it. And they behave like that. Correctly, in my opinion. Even if I've been at the receiving end having to implement against their Marketing API (which once released a 2-week deprecation notice).
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: 7+ years of Ruby, Rails and JavaScript. 2+ years of React. Happy to dive into Elixir, Go, or Clojure for a new project.

Résumé/CV: https://coderelax.com

Email: filipe@coderelax.com

Just had a contract terminated. Happy to settle into the right permanent role that allows me to work remotely and also expand my current development toolset.
Really? Hundreds of them? Writing and signing a letter together, based on years of research?

But the cool heads in charge who studied classics are right of course.
This doesn't even sound like a lockdown: it sounds like the same shelter-in-place that many of us have been under for a week+.
Not dozens, think millions/billions of combinations for dynamic content. You cannot pre-render all the possibilities.
Yeah, what the hell? Maybe the guy got Taiwan confused with Thailand?
Good software engineers in the United States absolutely can say that. Remote work typically pays less than work in high CoL areas but it still pays well. Additionally there are a lot of jobs out there. Personally I know that if I quit tomorrow I could easily have a job in less than a month.

This isn’t going to be true in every area but it is absolutely true in the Bay Area currently.
Airports make a lot of sense to me. Movie theatres kind of do. Supermarkets don’t. If I squint hard enough I can see it working (I’ve been to the Go store a couple times and it is indeed a great if weird experience), but food like vegetables seems harder to do this with than prepackaged sandwiches and sodas. How do you handle things that are priced by weight? For example potatoes, or steak. Make the customer print a label with a QR code the cameras can read? That sounds like a terrible experience, and the “solve” is more packaging and trash - something Amazon already causes a lot of.
The key here is that it's "badware as defined by Apple and Google" though. Who watches the watchers??

If you're not advocating self reliance and self governance for people, you're not thinking long term. It's historically proven bad advice to willingly give all control to central powers.

> ...locked down systems are a somewhat effective way of keeping badware off of devices for the masses.

Developers are not the masses. The masses aren't installing the necessary tools and compiling their own programs and they never will. I'd settle for signing a written agreement with Apple and waiting a week for approval when I buy my phone so that I can actually control my own device.

I'm not arguing for letting me put my apps on everyones iPhones, just mine.
"He writes the license plate down, calls 911, and notifies police. It's not rocket science."

Yes, but obviously the drunk driver may cause an accident before he is apprehended. A policeman has the power to prevent that.
Yes, I remember being particularly disappointed when Google's Project Ara [1] to create a modular mobile phone was shelved. It seemed like a fantastic idea, and I truly thought that Alphabet/Google had the cash/clout - and will - to deliver.

Still, I haven't lost my optimism just yet. As you say, good luck to Framework with the laptop project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
> AWS, Google, and Microsoft are all going vertical by designing and manufacturing their own chips

What are the GCP and Azure equivalents of AWS Nitro?
That looks a lot like my first laptop, the Sharp Actius MM10. I'd get one of these on that basis alone.

The Ars article says the body is aluminium, but if I recall correctly, the Actius was a mag alloy of some kind (which I'd prefer). Either way, I'm curious.
GPU support will probably come from implementing virgil3d in Metal.
I recently switched from Disqus to Utterances, which uses a Github repo's issues as the source of comments:

https://utteranc.es/

I used a Python export and conversion script that I found at https://pawamoy.github.io/posts/migrate-disqus-comments-to-u... , and made a couple updates to it (and then commented on that post with my changes).

Pretty happy with it so far.

Here's a couple of my posts that show Utterances in action, one that has a lot of the migrated comments, and one with mostly new comments:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...
Wow this sounds like an almost perfect laptop for me
Yep, Visual Object had nothing to do with Clipper experience.
One thing to watch out for, I think, is people who want to do this massive refactor (an oxymoron as another comment notes) and also have a work history consisting entirely of short employments. These people never get to experience the actual result of their refactoring.
Switzerland does have quite a few poor people, the difference being that someone on the poverty limit in Switzerland still happens to look quite alright from the outside.

The problem is that one cannot just look at income, rather what someone has to pay for as well, and in Switzerland you pay for everything.

I think that many Swiss can relate to this, when I lived there we used to joke that only breathing is free.
Would you clarifying your question a bit?

My comment was pointing out that those NIST curves like P-256 and P-224 can't have a trapdoor-- meaning a hidden secret key that allows the NSA and only the NSA to compromise the use-- in the curve themselves.

Some application of the curve could have its own trapdoor, as dualECdrbg did.
"Potential fallout"???

Like the potential fallout of known broken "encryption" in a security vendors products being hidden from their customers for 18 months?

The ethics of publicly disclosing way quicker than that, despite what the vendor wants to label "responsible disclosure", seems pretty straightforward to me...

I hope that 18 months of conference calls was extremely lucrative for the researcher here, because I'd feel like a jerk sitting on that one for a year and a half while the vendor was no doubt selling more and more of their broken and insecure crap to unsuspecting customers...
I'm not "suggesting". It's the current reality. Numerous articles over the past years demonstrated it. (This was already linked here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick )
Jonathan Blow. His ability to retain focus and clarity for hours (as demonstrated on streams, while doing high-quality coding) seems out of reach for an average dev like me. Clearly an outlier.
Indeed. I got downvoted for the above, but Thatcher-Reaganomics involved crushing the unions - exactly the opposite of what Smith would have argued for.
No it is not! You do not need and should not use email for password recovery. Ok, let's say you do that, what happens when you have 2FA? Both factors of authentication will be thwarted if your email is compromised? That is ridiculous! There are practical and simple solutions (such as recovery tokens, push notifications,etc...). Look, I don't you realize how often people's email gets compromised and how many intermediaries read and log email bodies. There are efficient ways. I mean ffs, do you need a valid email to sign up for email providers?? How do they handle resets? There arr many ways. The only thing worse than email is "secret" questions.