jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Inflation is theft. Prove me wrong.

Money is a claim on people's time and we haven't invented cryogenic chambers and demanded that the unemployed enter those cryogenic chambers during their time of unemployment to prevent them from aging, ahem, I mean stealing the value of your money.

As it stands right now, labor cannot be stored. Your money must age at the rate people age if nobody is hiring the unemployed for investments. What I personally find particularly amusing is that there are so many branches of economics (I could Marxism as one) that postulate that money is just a medium of exchange and thus can't be harmful.

Yet internet forums are filled with angry savers that want to use their money for anything other than a medium of exchange.

> Right now I'm looking at Turkey - I honestly can't tell whether Erdoğan is just a trickster, or actually fucking retarded. Likely both.

If he introduces a debt brake then lowering interest rate for government bonds is the right strategy. The interest that you don't have to pay can be used to pay down the principal and reduce debt faster than paying interest could ever achieve. The problem is that he isn't doing a debt brake at all.
how much is "more than typical"? Sounds interesting!
Not yet, though it's something I suggested some time ago: http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=4888.
Let's see if we can get that for the next version.
But I think you also have to take into account the context of the comment. A glib comment would seem out of place in a more "HN-centric" post about VC or Scala or something, but when a fun story about, say, brewing coffee makes the front page I think the comment standards should naturally loosen up.
Stable indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises#19th_ce...
the thing is about every week there is a paper published with groundbreaking claims, with this question in particular being very popular, trying to unify neuroscience and deep learning in some way, in search for computational foundations of AI. Mostly this is driven by success of DL in certain industrial applications.

Unfortunately most of these papers are heavy on theory but light on empirical evidence. If we follow the path of natural sciences, theory has to agree with evidence. Otherwise it's just another theory unconstrained by reality, or worse, pseudo-science.
> Would never spend $2+ for a drink that costs about $0.09 to manufacture.

Sadly, adhering to this rule would prevent buying coffee and beer -- two things I'm looking forward to as the world re-opens :)
She lost her job and probably a lot of time fighting this court case. I don't think breaking it down per ride is a good way to look at it.
Let's assume Google was in the wrong here - for the sake of argument.

How would it been possible for Google to do this without just taking the API definitions.

Could they have just use compiler errors?
Or, an incomplete and inconsistent solution will be implemented that doesn't actually solve the real problems...

My money would be on "status quo wins" but I'd happily place a side-bet on a "solution" that causes more problems than it solves
Back in 2000 I went to the Edinburgh film festival. There was buzz about a film called “Battle Royale”. None of us had any clue what to expect. But one of things I remember to this day about the experience was they served the audience Red Bull and Vodka — and the Red Bull was in these commemorative cans. Brilliant marketing, all the way back then.

Everyone was ordering Red Bull and Vodka all week. There were lots of tales about people having heart attacks from that combo (not that week, but from around that time). I wonder how true those stories were — or if they were mostly urban legends spread by the company themselves to seem more powerful, and appeal to young thrill seekers.
Yep...

They can complain all they want about how diamonds have no resale value, but if the place you bought it from initially was an auction, then logic follows that you should be able to sell it for the exact same price at another auction.

In other words, buy jewelry from auctions and you will get exactly what you pay for.

I bought a wedding ring set for my partner for around $600 off ebay and then I had it appraised. It would have retailed for around $4,000 according to the appraiser. That's a massive amount of wasted money if I had bought it brand new!
The meds were originally indicated as a temporary measure to help a person escape a mental state, not as a permanent fixture... prescribing and indications have changed, but there is still very much such a thing as a mental state treated by ssri drugs which is “cured”.
No difference to the situation before: LG never really bothered with updates or even security updates. That is also the main reason the G4 was my last LG phone... And I hope it was the reason they stopped making phones.
I designed (but did not build, alas) a yacht in architecture class. Researching and designing the interior cabin was incredibly fun and challenging... I bet Hank had a blast designing this thing.

Ideas for the empty space currently being used as overflow storage:

* Water and/or fuel tanks (more necessary on a boat than on a bus)

* Shower

* Brig

* Pantry

* Rifle stowage

* Server room

(I went on to be a naval architect for a short while but never had a real project as fun as the catamaran design.)
Related articles on Medium (from the guy who offered this):

Part 1:
https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/fee8f3ee97a0

Part 2:
https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/ae059ddffd2e

Leo's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Journeyman/167865816737032
It's a nice touch that the number of upvotes (09:10 Standard European Time)is also '666'
And copyright infringed.
The solution from the book mentioned in the article (one of the must-read books for devs IMO) is to have tests for your functionalities. Those kind of tests will help a lot when refactoring.
If you want to ship closed source code based on other people's hard work, then you should pay. In this case by getting a Qt commercial license.
Canada, but it's the same in the States. Unemployment is for people who have lost a job. I would not have qualified.

What stuck with me was that everything required that I already had a job. Maybe it was the economy at the time, but nobody wanted to hire someone without work experience. When I discovered that even unemployment required I have work experience, it felt like I was living in Catch-22.

For that reason, I support the government acting as an employer of last resort. Everyone should be guaranteed a job if they're willing to work.
CSS supports media queries.
I read it, though not closely, and am still unclear what is the "real class war". The educated-but-alienated professional elite against the oligarchs? I'm just guessing.

Also, he kind of loses it in the final paragraphs, which weakened my impression of the rest.
Can you elaborate on why it's funny? javascript (on it's own) has changed a lot in 20 years and it was originally designed in what, one week due to external time constraints? i think the criticisms are valid if $Your_favorite_language had ~4 days only for language design. From my recollection, there were no frameworks, no tooling, no linters, no jquery. it was a basically a primative language for browsers that had no compiler and didn't do anything useful (back in the 90's). About as exciting as VBA 1.0.
True, but the catholic church did not base their worldview purely on a literal reading of the bible. This was the case for protestants ("sola scriptura"), but the catholic church often favored allegorical readings and did not consider the bible the only authority on truth.

> if somebody wants to make a contrived argument that Moby Dick was really about a shark rather than a whale then there's nothing I can do to convince them otherwise, but the text seems quite clear.

Some have even gone so far as to claim that the stuff in the book didn't actually happen but the book can be read as an allegory of something or other!

As the people you are arguing against are 16th century clergy, you can't really convince them of anything - they are long dead. The best one can do is try to understand how they were thinking.
Me too, I was expecting some kind of Malcolm Gladwell style realization based on some quirky thing Ron Popeil did in his infomercials!
"She went on and on about firing 51% of the people every year"

Wait, what? Slow down a sec and elaborate more about this please
From looking at the origins, it seems to me that pretty much the same objection could be leveled at your use of the word "one" as a pronoun instead of a number.
Coffeescript is clearly in the same vein as Ruby: designed by experienced programmers for experienced programmers. The list of caveats and gotchas for both languages is a mile long, and the grammar of both is ambiguous. I love both languages dearly for letting me be a trixy wizard but would never reccomend either to a beginner.
Panel interviews are usually a bad idea since they intimidate many candidates.
Please note that nitrogen in the air is also biologically useful, given nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Legumes and other plants live in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixers.
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I didn't find this surprising enough to be a "gotcha", but I've been living with closures for a while.

I tend to use goroutines with actual functions, where I'm explicitly passing in all the variables (state) that the goroutine will need.
We were on Hacker News a few months back. Since then, developers have been using the UI to set up automated data movement from their databases to Mailchimp, Marketo, Salesforce, and more.

But we also heard that they wanted it more like their normal development workflow. So we now make it even easier to sync data to cloud-based tools via declarative data models and integrations. With this, you manage data sync just like you would any other part of your stack and Grouparoo takes care of getting the right data to the places you want.

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A tax authority accepts your tax return. It does not approve it. That only happens if they audit your tax return for correctness...which is what happened here. The Italian tax authorities audited the returns and determined that the delivery services had made mistakes on them in the way they mischaracterized employees as contractors.

2) False. The delivery companies told drivers to register as self-employed, which was incorrect legal advice at the time it was given, under the laws governing contractor/employee classification (for tax purposes) of the U.S. and the E.U.

3) Absolutely false. The delivery companies misrepresented the tax classification of their employees and failed to pay the appropriate taxes on them. Full stop.

4) You brought this up. You keep claiming that filing a tax return automatically means its correct, which it does not. It merely means that you filed a tax return. The tax authority will audit returns randomly selected (or in cases like these, deliberately selected) for correctness and assess back taxes, penalties if appropriate.
no, they're just very few of them currently in the database.
Grouparoo is awesome
Same here! I'm a programmer who dabbles in graphics so having a procedural workflow feels very natural to me and I love the direction geometry nodes is heading. Exciting times ahead!

Agreed, the support is a little bare currently but from what I understand the hard work has already been done and we should see lots more coming down the pipeline soon.
Chromium is actually a far more open project than most people imagine.

As well as being open source, it also accepts outside contributions (android does not for example), developers talk in public mailing lists, and even leadership positions in the project can, and often are, taken by non-Google people.
There were laws, a constitutional amendment in fact, against alcohol. Civil disobedience did away with that. As seems to be the case with legalizing drugs, where mass incarcerations are doing away with those laws.
Can I ask what the business model is? I'm quite liking the browser, but not sure whether I'm being sold in order to use it for free.
Oh come on. It's easy to call someone a hypocrite -- everyone agrees its wrong, whatever their other moral principles might be. The failures of an individual don't really have much bearing on whether the individual's moral beliefs are right.

EDIT: changed "everyone agrees its wrong" to "everyone agrees hypocrisy is wrong"
Figs,

I wrote this article. I think it's more accurate to say "Building software on top of someone else's web api can be a really, really bad idea" -- if you don't do due diligence. I've written about the perils of building on top of consumer web platforms in the past, and personally think there's far more risk in building apps for, say, Facebook and Twitter, than incorporating into your own product a commercial API that you've vetted reasonably well.

Developers/entrepreneurs need to be pragmatic. New ventures that spend all their time and money trying to eliminate risk usually fail; the ones that succeed instead try to manage it. When working to get something to market to see if it will fly, it can be a huge mistake to invest in building low-level functionality from scratch. Most developers/entrepreneurs, for instance, aren't going to build their own video encoding engine. Sure you could use ffmpeg, but out of the box ffmpeg is hardly Zencoder. The time, cost and functionality advantages of Zencoder certainly outweigh whatever risk there is that Zencoder would go out of business in the near term.

In short, it's about cost and time-to-market. Reinventing the wheel usually increases both. So unless you have unlimited resources and already have a strong presence in a market, it's far better to bring a lot of this stuff in-house after you've validated that there's a market for your product and it's making some money.
i assume the obvious issue with this is browser support? and what about mobile platforms? and then having everyone agree on a standard method for the salt/hash? sounds nice in theory though.
Yeah, but they codeveloped them with Sony, so Sony presumably gets a really low price.
Using the states to perform the experiments is useful, and we've been doing that for hundreds of years, but it's besides the point of the article.

The whole point is to produce sets of people that are drawn from an identical distribution where the only difference is whether the law applies to them or not. That way any changes that result can be confidently attributed to the law itself.

Right now, when we see differences between California and Iowa, there are a million other factors that may be causing different outcomes than a single law.
But sites that provide an "I forgot my password" already have this vulnerability if they don't ask for any further information to recover your password. Many sites don't. If someone has access to your email, you're already just as screwed.

Sites that do ask for extra info (Mother's maiden name type of thing) are protected against this, but there are an awful lot of sites that never ask you for anything but an email address and a password when signing up.
Or the server uses greylisting as part of their spam prevention mechanisms.
I refuse to use Uber but I’ll take Lyft since it is impossible to get an actual taxi anymore.

My last ride I was talking to the driver about someone canceling a $50 fare and her getting it instead which lead to the discovery of her getting $22 of the $48 (minus tip) I was charged.

It amazes me people are still driving for them.
One way might just be to find a more cost-effective way to make that same salt, and put those farmers out of business.

A hack might be to use drones to run surveillance on those places.

The longer-term and stable solution is to have governments or community to care for those people so they are not homeless and vulnerable.
Was PSD designed to be a portable format? My understanding is that it was only meant to be used directly by Adobe Photoshop, much like the original DOC was meant to be used only by Microsoft Word. As such, it's a little unfair to call it out as a bad format because it was never meant to be reverse engineered and reimplemented.
Looks like a typical rant from a junior developer. More experienced developers realize why decades-old file formats are they way they are and when needing to work with them, adapt themselves to it.
Flight worthy firefighting helicopters for 300k? With at least the same number of hours left on all the major parts (engines, airframe, etc)?

Any links?
Meh. It's old and complicated.

I wrote a PSD dumper in 2013 so our artists could use Photoshop as a level editor. Interestingly, the Photoshop Javascript automation engine is so slow, that it was faster to parse the file in Python. Like a minutes-long export using Javascript in Photoshop took a second or so when dumping with Python for a file with 100 layers.
Ethics are important, without a doubt, just orthogonal to how much more poor people are struggling.

If it's any sign, look at the homeless camps in Silicon Valley. People (outside tech) were never so broke as now, it's almost a 1920's pattern, to a limited degree. Janitors live in their cars in our parking lot because they can't afford housing. I wish they were paid more. :((

Eventually, we may need redistribution of wealth, voluntary or not, because people need at least enough food and shelter, and some path to self-sufficiency, if possible. I don't advocate rash direct wealth transfer but at first voluntary subsidization/underwriting of bare, minimal essentials (food (organic, fair trade fruits/vegetables/etc.[0]), housing, transport, education) adjusted to income.

(Santa Clara county General Assistance (GA) for singles is ~$150 USD/month and food stamps (CalFresh) is about the same... Seriously not enough to survive on but also not enough for people to hurt themselves with either.)

0: to avoid workers being sprayed with horrible chemicals and such. (Btw, in California, CRLA are cool folks.)
I've stopped taking seriously any news about a healthy lifestyle, because it's ridiculous - one day you read that something is good for you, just to read the next day that it's actually bad for you. I'll trust my common sense and do what makes me feel good.
This is a "why would you want to do that" type of answer that Apple apologists often give to people when they ask for options that Apple simply does not offer.

Did you consider that I might be playing a single-player game and there's nobody to be at a "severe disadvantage" to? Maybe I want the trackpad to work with an OS that doesn't have multi-touch drivers...

There are plenty of valid reasons for which I personally prefer a physical right-click button on the trackpad that's built into my laptop.
This man knows about programming languages way more than most of us. Listen to him. I bet it isn't the first time he has this discussion. See: Algol, Ada and others.
Vim is on pretty much everything, it starts up quickly, for rapid text editing it's pretty difficult to beat.

Emacs once it's up and running (in emacs server mode at least) is reasonably speedy but much more resource hungry and is an entire operating system.

To put it into perspective, I used org-mode for 6 months and loved it for that alone, but vim just works better for me as a text editor, YMMV.
@Prateekdayal It seems I cannot reply 3 levels deep. But if thats the intent all powers to you.
http://dromaeo.com/?dom|jslib|cssquery
what about your HN experience has made you feel that the community here would not welcome india-related discussions?

i would love to hear about the issues, projects, and things in general that startup founders, hackers, techies, and tinkerers around the world have to deal with.

why slice by region?

as i see it you're segmenting across the wrong vertical. look at the stackexchange model: are they spinning off "stack exchange: china"/"stack exchange: india"? -no, its stack exchange: physics, stack exchange: math, etc. they're differentiating based on general subject matter. is that model something that could be replicated in the context of "all things hacker"? sure (hardware, software, gadgets, networking, cracking, blackhat/whitehat, security, etc). would it succeed? who knows.
Wow. I’m not sure how to put this without it coming off as a personal attack, but I really have to say it. Please be assured that I have no personal grudge against you; it’s not like I know you or anything.

Numerous tablets were made before the iPad. They were all completely unusable. They were all “designed” by people with your mindset.

If someone asked you to design the first sofa, you’d suggest bolting three kitchen chairs together and letting the client choose what type of bolt to use. The resulting “design” would be inevitably awful, because it isn’t designed at all – rather than examining the phase space of possible solutions, it examines what you happen to have lying around on the workbench.

Having no sense of design isn’t a great personal failing. I’m not much of a designer myself. Everyone’s bad at something – most things, in fact. Not realizing you don’t have it can be a problem, though.
You don't think generalizing about 'the one who work for body shoppers and maintain a big pile of spaghetti code' had anything to do with it?

Personally I was more offended by the unfalsifiable definition of the mysterious 'real hackers in India'.
This. You want a currency with no meaningful regulation or protection? You take the bad with the good.
You are downvoted for obvious reasons but nevertheless absolutely right!
No it will still catch it if you access the 42nd byte with a read, but not if you write to any other byte first. Thats just a limitation of page faults and the information provided by userfaultfd.
There was no such proposition in 2020, at least.
Why would you expect Linux to work well on a laptop designed for Windows? Do you also expect that MacOS will work on it?
Not to mention that the Linux unzip utility doesn't have a way to handle Shift-JIS filenames, or really any filename encodings besides UTF-8. You have to use an entirely different program like unzip-jp just for those files, in order to not be left with dozens of unintelligible folder names.

There's a reason the underground community calls it "shit-jizz."
"But the state’s policies discouraged the development of energy storage projects that could smooth imbalances in supply and demand as more intermittent wind and solar sources join the grid; the deregulated market has made it challenging for battery projects, which are the most responsive and flexible to install."

You don't need fossil fuel plants sitting idle. You need to increase energy storage capacity which according to the article state policy makes difficult to pursue. So yeah Texas is just propping up fossil fuel profits at the expense of renewables with its plan.
There are pretty good ways to detect photo editing, using things like measuring levels of JPEG artifacts across the image. Or if you save pictures raw I’ve never seen anyone try to fake a camera raw file.
A physically peak and coordinated human possibly, but it probably comes down to what traits you're actually comparing. Man's advantage is our ability to make tools and be creative. Without proper training and mental prep the average human isn't that fast, can't climb well, won't swim more than 500 feet. If you put the average human today in the middle of the Amazon with nothing, I don't really know if that works out great for most people.