jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Good stuff. I'm with you Zach. Except I'm 40, so I feel slightly different forms of terror than you do. And I don't have the beautiful, intelligent girlfriend. Or a motorcycle.

To all of the people who say that the best thing to do is get a good job, buy a nice house, and to put the max into a 401k that the company will match:

When I was a young boy
They said you're only gettin' older
But how was I to know then
That they'd be cryin' on my shoulder
Put your money in a big house
Get yourself a pretty wife
She'll collect your life insurance
When she connects you with a knife [1]

Fuck you. It’s not what I want. Mediocrity is worse than failure.

Yeah, absolutely. I've tolerated mediocrity for too much of my life, due to a misguided faith in the old saws "patience is a virtue" and "good things come to those who wait", etc.

So now I'm on the cusp of "old", and have a startup that I have a lot of confidence in (but, then again, entrepreneurs almost have to have an irrational level of confidence and optimism!), but the terror of basically having to acknowledge "this is probably my last 'at bat'".

If this doesn't succeed, by the time we fail, I think I'll be too old and too tired to bother trying again. That means I write off all hope of living the life I really want to live. At that point, I doubt I'll see much point in living, so I kinda expect that if it happens, I'll load my car up with booze, and head to Vegas to drink myself to death, ala Nick Cage's character in Leaving Las Vegas.

Can we make it while living modest lifestyles? I think yes. It will be hard, but fuck… it’s going to be hard anyway.

I think so, but, speaking as an "older guy", I'll just say this: be aggressive as fuck about pursuing your dreams. And if you're going to sacrifice a bit and do some element of the "entre-monk" thing, it's probably more tolerable in your 20's than in your 30's, or (worse) your 40's. I'm not saying you have to do the entre-monk thing, mind you. But I am saying that you probably can't afford to coast, and do too much playing around being patient.

I am starting to truly understand why the people that seem to make the best entrepreneurs are empirically unstable. You can’t go into this shit with a sane disposition.

Agreed.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUkqBRC1zUA
think it might be because fill may not return a value, prob just need to call sieve.fill on a separate line after you declare it.
In other news, Coinbase filed for an IPO. Of course you can get your money. It's near-instant with at least the popular exchanges.
> All your old people are dead or immune.

Well, there are 8 siblings on my dad's side and six on my mom's, so not really.

> That's not possible. Somebody with the virus had to to have visited in order for it to have spread.

Yup. The physical therapist.

> Did all the other grandmas in the nursing home survive as well?

I think when I asked maybe six people died.
> These people were trying (fruitlessly) to stage a violent subversion of democracy and openly threatened the highest elected officials in the nation.

You're giving them too much credit. They got in. Then what? It was like a carnival, walking off with furniture, posing for pictures, smiling while sitting in important chairs. Lots of screaming, a few broken windows.

In a country where you can buy guns in supermarkets, they didn't fire a single shot. They could have set fire to the place, taken people hostage. It could have been so much worse.

Most of those people probably couldn't subvert or overturn anything more than a paper bag.
I have Signal as my smile.amazon.com recipient. It's not a lot but it averages to a reasonable monthly membership app cost. Note: your purchases have to be done through the smile.amazon subdomain to be eligible (for mobile apps: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=15576745011)
> you can't do real software engineering

This is completely, 100%, absolutely wrong.

Of course you can. There's packages, with excellent software engineering structure, that are designed to include documentation and tests.

R has so much good software engineering, that clever people with no software engineering background can easily make their own packages!

And come on, the R language is a masterpiece. It's not cobbled together like JavaScript or bash. It's got impeccable functional programming language pedigree, you can even look at the AST directly of a function directly inside code.

I'm not sure how you came to any of your conclusions, other than not bothering to understand the language to start. It's a beautiful language with a messy, user contributed set of stats code.
Encryped chat might mean E2E-encrypted yes, but even then why not add those four extra letters "E2E-" and make it obvious?

Besides, here is what I replied to:

> As a reminder, Telegram groups are not encrypted at all[...]

(emphasis mine)

This is very possible to misunderstand for someone who isn't aware and the result might easily be that they stay in their abusive relationship with WhatsApp because of such FUD.

As can probably be seen from my comment history I'm no stranger to criticizing Telegram but we should stick to the facts.

Facts matter.
The only concern I have with bridges is that I am not so sure how this affects my biggest promise - user privacy. But I am experimenting with the bridges on personal server and depending on how it goes I might have it as a separate product/offering - away from Communick.
Something that makes sense to the next developer without too much effort (assuming that it works).
Best way to know where every bit of code is: put it all in one source file.

Sarcasm aside, I've worked with codebases like that- thousand-line java methods and classes and the like. The problem is that there's nothing that really forces modularity on a codebase. There isn't even any consensus, objective way to modularise code. Otherwise, a machine could do it and we wouldn't have this kind of problem. But, a machine cannot, and so we do.
It's funny, because my choice of pricing with my current support costs, and the fact that nearly all my advertising is fixed-cost 'brand building' vs. per-customer cost referrals or click ads, actually makes the smaller domains /much/ more profitable than the larger domains, which yes, probably means I've mispriced something. But the smaller domains do have a much larger 'margin for error' - if I sell a block of them to spammers, or to people expecting a full-time sysadmin, they can get expensive fast.
If it takes a little longer to learn, then it's totally worth some initial confusion.

I'd hope that if it takes longer to learn because of initial confusion, that it's worth it because it's better than something that took less time to learn or that didn't have initial confusion. I'm not so sure I'd want to bear the cost of initial confusion just for the "benefit" of it taking longer to learn.
" Grocery shopping is hard? Responding to emails is hard?!? Going to the bank is hard?!?!?"

For someone with ADHD, it can be. The author mentions in her contact information that she does have ADHD so your situation probably doesn't compare with her's.
Well, used to be true, but now those systems are converging. -- Full disclosure, I work for a company working on exactly that problem called Treasure Data.
Atmel Corporation mentions us in their blog. again, just scroll down a bit.

http://blog.atmel.com/2015/03/27/12-smart-crowdfunding-campa...
845MW is a typical coal power plant unit size for a large plant. A plant can contain multiple units; the biggest coal fired plant is in Taiwan, with 10 units totaling about 5GW. Most big power plant units today are in the 500MW - 1GW size. Smaller, and you need too many with a lot of duplicate equipment; bigger, and the turbines become too massive.

It took the US about 10 years after the Clean Air Act to clean up air pollution in major industrial cities. London once had air quality problems comparable to Beijing. Pittsburgh and Cleveland were almost as bad. China has the advantage that the technology is known and most of their cars already have good emission controls. The current situation in China coal plants seems to be that most of them have electrostatic precipitators to remove the big particles, but not bag houses (giant buildings full of filters) to remove the small particles. Then there's NOx and SO2 removal. The pollution control facilities for a big coal plant are bigger than the power production facilities.

Here's an overview from Power Magazine on the subject.[1]

[1] http://www.powermag.com/chinas-war-on-air-pollution/?printmo...
*She :) I can understand why Ben Horowitz tries to default to using female pronouns.
So it was the firewall itself acting as a MITM?

That puts the blame strictly on the Chinese government. And specifically the military that controls the firewall.

Sounds to me like an act of aggression by a state army against a non-combatant on foreign soil. What if a helicopter with a red star on it flew into California in the middle of the night and set fire to Github's offices? What's the difference?
How do you guys handle the constant shifting of analytic schema that happens when handling a fast iterating application?
We didn't split polygons, and you are correct that this doesn't provide an absolutely perfect solution either. However, it does in practice eliminate the flickery polygons, because the polygon ordering is far more stable than it is with bucketing.

And you can actually see a difference between Crash 1 and Crash 2+ if you pay close enough attention. For Crash 2, Stephen White cloned the PS1's renderer in software for the SGI so that it was pixel-for-pixel accurate. He did this in like two days, thereby earning himself a place in my top-5-programmers-I've-ever-worked-with list.

If you look closely during Crash 1 while you're moving Crash, you can see sometimes see what Andy not-so-affectionately called "crispies". These are pixel-size flickery bits caused by the subtle difference between the SGI's renderer and the PS1's hardware renderer. Just the difference in the way the two implementations rounded fractional coordinates showed up in the game.
I needed to disable uBlock to get it working.
The main reason I would think it's a good choice is because if you decide to get a CA certificate later, you just drop it in and you're done; no additional configuration required.

If you don't have a CA certificate, you're probably not advertising your https:// URLs anyway, so unless search engines are aggressively looking/prioritizing for https transport, it wouldn't seem to hurt anything to run a self-signed certificate there.
Published recipes are arguably an old form of programs :)
There was an unversioned spec posted for months that looked usable, then suddenly they announced a complete rewrite as "RC2". Calling it a relase candidate was misleading, though - almost everything got changed again for "RC3".
The Economist stylized this as “tweets are appraised as speech, but punished as writing.”
Artistic layout... The formatting?
"Whatever limitations you plan for, plan for how to bypass them too. This will happen."

The world is not straightforward, allow an admin to fix/change anything and when they get tired of making some change then code that new path in the system. Working with or writing systems that do not allow admin overriding is painful.
Why are you assuming US citizenship? My SaaS, and sucking billions out of the US economy, doesn't require it.

I couldn't pull off 0% taxes without using corporate entities that are untaxed, all countries (at least try to) tax all income produced within their jurisdictions.
Wrote a post about mine - https://blog.peasley.me/post/serving-sites-the-lazy-way_2020...

Basically, single VPS with dokku managing multiple sites. Easy to add SSL and more websites whenever.
> since the actual added performance functionality you get in the porsche today is useless, dangerous, and illegal except on private tracks (and maybe 1% of owners will bring their cars to one of these, far more will drive their cars dangerously on public roads).

OT but I don't get why 400bhp cars with "race" suspensions are even road-legal. Why are cars not fitted with a speed limiter? Road accidents are a leading cause of death and injury, with 1,500,000 people killed annually (or a jumbo jet going down with 340 passengers every 2h). Yet we allow cars that dramatically increase risks and increase pollution (any car with over ~100bhp/ton really only uses the extra power by breaking the law). At the same time we spend billions in "manual" policing! Such inefficiency.
No command history, no tab completion. One assumes that "shell" is aspirational rather than descriptive. It's an interesting idea, but if you present what appears to be a shell interface to users expecting a shell interface, they're going to wander away pretty quickly after discovering it's merely facade. I wish you luck, but this isn't really ready for visitors yet.
Well I guess it's good that they're also going to be archiving Jason Scott's mean and abusive tweets. How archive.org doesn't reign in his behavior when he is such a publicly well known figure is beyond me.
It's not obvious we'd be worse off if we just made public schools be like private schools in this respect.

(That's a Jerry Weinberg use of the j-word, "just". It would be a lot of trouble to do.)
I'm intrigued but confused. You're saying if the Canadian govt. guaranteed everybody an annual income of 20K it's an example of "the government not protecting individual rights"?
Yeah, the NER call is not functioning as well as it can. We're aiming at improving that. Thanks for checking things out.
There are three ways of doing things around here: the right way, the wrong way, and the way that I do it.

Robert De Niro ~ Casino
I'm not convinced. I'd pay extra taxes for a limited time to see if this would work but I suspect it wouldn't.

My conclusion is based on one assumption: The source of financial problems is either bad money management or lack of enough earning capacity. Giving away free money fixes neither in the long term (this is another assumption.)

If their problem is bad money management, giving them more money and hoping that they'll fix their money management habits sounds like a very ineffective approach to fixing the problem.

If their problem is lack of earning capability, that needs to be addressed through education and job creation. Giving a single mother with 2-3 kids an extra $1500 per month might make her life a lot easier but it won't allow her to begin earning an extra $1500 on her own unless she uses the extra money to make very smart choices. Given the real world demands that she would be under, it seems that probability is not likely in her favor and again seems like an ineffectively approach to solving the problem.

The article really boiled down to: give people free money and they'll make wise decisions to help themselves. It didn't provide enough arguments to support that thesis and from just my understanding of human nature, I can't see this being an effective approach to solving the problem of poverty.
Facebook,your britches are looking a bit small these days. IPO dreams sure do lead to mediocre results.
I worked IT for the University of Chicago hospitals for a while in college, and was responsible for the systems at the dialysis center on 55th street. It was utterly heartbreaking to me; the stoicism of the patients (the vast, vast majority of whom were locals in the UofC parlance -- read, "black and poor"), the genuine hard work of the nurses and nurses aides; and just the overall sense of agony in the building. It was rough, and only made rougher because I could leave.
The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

- Jim Barksdale

http://startupquote.com/post/1632425581
"It's honestly weird to me this wasn't tried in the early days of performing blood transfusions."

It's weird to me it wasn't tried the day after the first successful blood transfusion. A child would think of it.

That's what's so stupefying...
Project Zero appears to be generating mostly negative PR for Google (and MS and Apple). From a wider public perception standpoint, it's almost lose-lose all around.
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Guru Meditation:

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Varnish cache server
A potentially shared ride. It spends a minute searching to see if someone is heading in the same direction as you and then you share the ride. As a passenger, you also only have 1 minute to get downstairs when the car arrives or you have to pay a $5 fee (which really annoys me sometimes as their estimates of time to arrival are sometimes grossly incorrect.
Interesting, it's able to infer that Mao is a name about half the time.

(I still consider it a mistranslation, as it's a name. I wouldn't expect John Smith to translate to another language with "Smith" being replaced bu the equivalent in the other language either).
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/throw...

Edit: thanks for downvoting a valid point. It's weird that HN doesn't see it for what it is.
I believe that many different groups including vegans, conservative Christians, extreme right-libertarian militia organisations and various anarchist/communist groups have carried out attacks that have been characterised as terrorist in the past - and therefore that they could plausibly carry out attacks again, implicating 'fellow travelers' as they did so. I'm not sure about Occupy I'm afraid, as it didn't really take off in the UK.

I also think that the general demographics of the people who make up the establishment are pretty important when you consider who ends up being imprisoned without trial.

I think that we understand each other, but you've added some interesting points and examples that I hadn't thought of.
I have a huge ego and like more money. Is HackerOne the best way to feed both?
It’s also interesting that the context of this bug has changed over the years. I’d be surprised to learn if we had gigantic single-page api reference docs 17 years ago
Persperation needs to be perspiration - don't sweat, it's in your blog post not the book.

If you want the book reading for errors, I would be happy to do so.
But then you'd expect to see the same thing for other groups subject to such immigration policy, but you don't [1]:

> The data showed 27 percent of non-Hispanic white Americans have bachelor’s degrees and 8 percent hold master’s degrees, according to the 2015 census. The survey also revealed that 4 percent of Nigerians in the U.S. have doctorates, compared to 1 percent of white Americans. And Nigerian-Americans’ education achievements top those of any other U.S. immigrant group. Asians come closest, with 12 percent holding master’s degrees and 3 percent having doctorates.

This article and it's viewpoint on the culture matches what my friends who are either Nigerian or have lived in Nigeria tell me. I believe it's also one of the main reasons that Jews have been able to do so well financially as a minority despite a long history of oppression -- education helps free you from being a victim to the dominate modes of sidelining a given group (I am Jewish and this certainly has been a big factor in both my family's values and others that I know, and has allowed my own family to escape poverty in Russia).

[1] https://www.ozy.com/around-the-world/why-nigerian-americans-...
The directness of terrorism causes us to overweight the risk.

The dam flooding isn't random, its an unfrequent event that will occur so it is something we should prepare for.
Real Wages, which accounts for inflation, have barely budged.

If real wages have barely budged, it means precisely that it is exactly as affordable to buy a basket of goods as it used to be. You can't argue both that all costs have outpaced wages, and that the real wage hasn't budged, because this is just logically contradictory.

It seems like both parents work to pay for child costs that exist because both parents work.

Yes, it is often the case that the income of one parent is just about enough to cover the cost of child care necessary to enable this work. This is usually justified by positing that this is necessary for the career growth of the second parent. This makes perfect sense, but my point is that people used to expect less in the past, and one of the things that they didn't expect was good career growth of both parents.
I just looked it up. Employees cannot.
Does it run hotter than in other browsers? It seems likely that it's Zoom's problem.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246116
But it wasn’t just ordinary citizens who fought slavery. It was Members of Parliament and the aristocracy. It was Prime Ministers and military leaders. The Royal Navy lost 5000 men fighting slavers. Their West Africa Squadron captured over a thousand slaver ships and freed hundreds of thousands of slaves. They spent a significant portion of Britain’s national income fighting slavery every year for 6 decades. No country in modern history has spent as much on a purely moral venture that was against its national self interest.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2601305?seq=1
And when some group which fits your definition of "bad guys" finds the same flaws and uses that to attack "good guys"?
Nice, how long does it take to get an mvp? Any resources you recommend?
How do you manage to test your engine? I have an interest and working on emulation and for me it is to just run the existing firmware etc and improve.

Do you create complex scenes or demos to test your engines to the limit? Don't you actually have to create a game to test your engine? For this do you port an existing open source game to your engine?
I think it has the potential to, but so far, there hasn't really much of it, or have I been missing it? Obviously progress is slow, but I think there's also a lot of fluff being thrown around, so we won't really know for some time.

I haven't noticed any extra amount of cooperation though between countries, more so than the usual.
Just focus on shipping your product. Most products never get any traction and one of the reasons is lack of focus (defending your brand before it's established is hard work). Register your company name as a trademark, if possible.
The content seems good but I'm not a fan of the way the sections are laid out on the introduction page. The courses should at the very least have hyperlinks for each of the learning objectives.
I think it’s interesting to see the way these systems evolve. I lived in Singapore at the time of SARS and the speed of response was impressive to see. What is clear now almost 20 years later is the permanence of the knowledge and the improvement of what I thought was an already impressive system.
It's actually not economics. What if I set up on a sidewalk in SF (you pick which one) with a heavy-duty sewing machine and offer to fix people's backpacks for a dollar or two? That question should get you closer to what is actually going on.
Wow! I'm on a very similar boat. A few years back, I was able to coax myself that I do not need to go after most of the TLDs. I'm not one of those who trade in domains but I realize I might have spent around $10,000 on domains since I booked my first domain in 2001.

Like other "entrepreneurs", ;-), I also had the tendency to book domains when an idea comes to mind. If nothing else, I usually start writing about the topic and keep it there. I also tend to realize that I might not be pursuing it, and then abandon them.

Of course, the side-effect of this is also that I have sold quite a few domains. A quick calculation on the back of a napkin puts the income to about $25,000+. Two of the most notable ones I remember being a HTML5.(TLD), and a hackathon.(TLD). I remember giving them the grandfathered GSuite, and Twitter handles to the buyers.

Right now, I pretty much own all of the known TLDs for my family name. ;-)