jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the "feels" is your main problem. Looking at the code samples here, there's not much you could cut out in more high-level languages. In a direct comparison with e.g. MacRuby, F-Script or Objective-J, not much is gained (mostly the header files and some manual memory management). Objective-C usually looks a bit messier than it actually is. Lisp programmers don't notice parens, Objective-C programmers don't notice anything but the messages (unless they have to).

Generic GUI code always seems a bit messy. Yes, for simple apps your usual JQuery functions are small enough, but that gets messy quick enough -- it's like handling X11 events in a switch loop, easy enough when you have to react to a couple of simple events, but once you got enough going on.

Cocoa is mostly made for bigger applications. There might be some slightly easier way for mobile apps, but the gain would be minute and is really offset by having one paradigm for GUIs that stretches device classes.
I think more than simply rewarding professors for being "nice," it's rewarding those who recognize that people often have lives outside of school (as Mr Yanai did).

A university education is supposed to be challenging, but shouldn't be impossible due to life circumstances. A university education should also be just that, an education, and not a grueling path taken just for the sake of being difficult.
I'll second this, but I don't think it's a question of e-mail, more an issue of 'I'll deal with it later' coupled with indifference and inconsideration.

I interviewed at one company that said they'd be making a decision by the end of the week (it was Monday), and would let me know either way. The following Tuesday I sent an e-mail asking if they'd made their decision. A week later, I got an e-mail saying they'd 'gone in a different direction'.

Another company I interviewed with, which involved going to their tiny office miles from anywhere in the rain, talked to me for an hour about not really a whole lot, then said they'd let me know by the end of the week. I didn't care, since I didn't want to work with them, but I was very surprised when I got an e-mail a month and a bit later saying they weren't interested.

There are always exceptions though. After I left my second-to-last job, I decided to take a month off. My last day was October 31st, and I relaxed, cleaned the house, and played video games for most of November. When I woke up on the morning of December 1st, I had an e-mail on my phone from LinkedIn about a friend request from the founder of a server hosting company we'd worked with. I e-mailed him back and asked if he was hiring. Met him at 4 PM, and got the 'welcome aboard!' e-mail at 6:15.

It really comes down to culture. Some people have the attitude of 'I'll do it later', even for things that will only take a few minutes, and some people are go-getters who are eager to get things done and off their plates, and make some progress in the meantime.

My favourite though was when, in September 2008, I signed up to be put on a waiting list for a job at the 911 dispatch for the area (since they had just filled up their quota the week before). 18 months later, I got a phone call asking me to call them back as soon as possible (the tone in the person's voice implied 'today or early tomorrow') so we could schedule a time. The call went to voicemail, and I got something to laugh at when I got out of the movie.
Y'know, I file Schedule C (ie, self-employed), and also pay the 15.3% rate of SS up to ~$106k (ie the employer's share in addition to the employees) - and like owners of S corps, that employer's contribution is deductible when calculating the taxable income, so that I'm not paying taxes twice on the same money.

Why, exactly, should someone who owns or part-owns an S Corporation - the essence of which is that it is a pass-through entity and thus has greatly simplified filing requirements compared to, say, a C corporation - be able to designate part of the money they receive as income, to be taxed at one rate, and part as profit, to be taxed at a different one? Does setting up an S corporation magically make you more enterprising or worthy than individuals who file schedule C?

I mean, I'd love to be able to say that in a good year I just 'earned' the same amount as I did the previous year, but that the same activity also yielded a 'profit' which should be taxed differently...even though this 'profit' found its way into my bank account, rather than being reinvested in tax-deductible stuff like new plant or equipment or suchlike.
I had a WHS, and the only complaint I have about it is that redundancy is accomplished via duplication. Depending on how much data you have, that can greatly increase your total cost of ownership. To achieve 10TB of redundant storage on WHS, you need 10x2TB disks. To accomplish that with unraid you need 6x2TB.

The downside is that unraid will only protected you against a single disk failure, whereas WHS might protect you against multiple disk failures - depending on which disks go.
So he's basically asking for you two to set up a pricing cartel? Check first whether that's even legal in your country. I'd also ignore the mail, and if you're feeling particularly evil, do exactly what he asks you not to do :)
To be fair, he doesn't so much say it's impossible as say it's a bad idea.
Looks like a flop.
Perhaps, but I suspect the main issue would remain: the same people would always have the same badges, just because that's how they worked or that's what their job entailed.
> February 11, 2009

Not that threading is perfect. But really, if you're doing anything intensive, you should be switching to background job + polling, anyway. You don't want to starve your mongrels/unicorn workers!

This isn't to say that your background job wouldn't have concurrency... but it doesn't need the whole Rails environment.

Ruby threading has changed a lot since 2009. Still not perfect, but Rubinius is supposed to be removing the GIL...
I am really starting to believe that Google does not have any designers working for them. What is with the search engine like feel for a website that has to do with fashion?

I understand if you are just selling regular goods online, but for something that speaks to peoples eyes should there not be some decent aesthetics involved.
You should look up the case of Torvalds vs Tanenbaum.
Its very easy to "dilute" a meaning by calling everyone a hacker. Yes strictly speaking you are right, there are Economists hacker, Financial hacker, Life Hacker, Music hacker and so on and so forth.

In the world of the internets the most commonly associated meaning (rightly or wrongly) of the word Hacker is for computer nerds.

In that sense "Hacker News" has nothing to do with hacking, Startup News is more apt description of this community.
As of January 1st, 2011, the estate tax kicks in at $1,000,000. (The law on the books actually kicks in at $10,000, but there's a temporary credit in place.) The actual rate and exemption has varied widely from year to year. This year there's no estate tax, but in 2009 there was a $3.5MM exemption.

Much of the money you have on hand when you die has already been taxed in one form or another. (If it hasn't, your death should trigger the much lower capital gains tax - that's how it works in Canada, for example.) If you've been working hard to ensure your wife and children don't want for anything in life, why in hell should the government take half of what you've earned and already paid taxes on?

I don't understand your bit about compound interest. The people in this community who are affected by the estate tax don't get there through compound interest, they get there through entrepreneurship and job creation. If you want to propose that the estate tax only affects passive income, I'd certainly be in favor.
I alternate between a Razer 15 and a MacBook Pro that I plug into a 3 display setup and this is one of the things that is very aggravating / comically short-sighted about macOS with multiple displays.

While I largely prefer using macOS, the way that Windows 10 handles desktops is much better in my opinion. I can't understand why macOS does not let you display your menu bar on all displays if you don't have "separate spaces" enabled. It seems so strange to me that throughout the entire development process no one thought it was kind of ridiculous that the user would not be able to access the menu bar of an application from the same screen the application is on.

That said, I basically cross my fingers now every time I win+tab in Windows 10 because about 10-15% of the time the entire UI locks and I just have to wait 1-2 minutes before I can use my machine again.

So yea, "sucking in ways that are tolerable"!
Is this referring to anything in particular, like POSIX random()? Or does it mean all non-CS PRNGs?

If it's POSIX random() what is the proposed alternative?
Gonna need more than a 90+ minute rant with zero technical detail here…
The title assumes that this wealth was created by the bottom 90% and not by the top 1%.

I’d argue a better formulation is “the bottom 90% failed to force the top 1% to hand over $50T to them.”

The majority of people in any society just do not create wealth, just as the majority of people in society do not create beautiful art or useful science.

The idea that wealth created by some is owed to everyone in the country is a morally bankrupt relic of nationalism. And thankfully the structure of the global digital economy is finally starting to reflect that fact. This is just the beginning.
I don't know which industry you worked in, but outages in the telecom industry was strictly forbidden and came with severe financial penalties even 10 years ago. And those companies managed to adhere to really strict uptime SLAs even then.

It might take less resource today though to achieve the same, I agree with that.
Is there a, like, credible source for any this? Even watching at 3x there is very little content in this per minute.
Damnit AUR, it really has got everything.

*Mumbles ubuntu-based user"
Update: After a week of doing nothing - they finally noticed their thing is blocked and sprang into action.

Apparently, they expanded their pool of available IPs they pull data from and now they seem to be endless (so some of the scraping domains actually work now).

I'm investigating what I can do about it. I'd appreciate any advice!
These trackpad issues were fixed a long time ago.
This is about how I initially felt with black. I didn't like some of the things it did, but I was happy to have a standardized opinionated formatter so I went with it. Was definitely the right decision.
> From my perspective, everything went right here.

Holy smokes. Did we watch the same video?

> Is this not what we should expect from a beta?

Is it OK for a beta software product to nearly kill another person that has no agreement with the company putting the product on the road?

People have the right to do whatever they want with their own stuff, fine. But putting others at risk comes with huge responsibility, and must be weighed against the desire to do what you want. In this case the balance clearly falls IMO to Tesla being selfish and negligent by employing their drivers to be the safety backstop in a clearly buggy system.
On top of all these probabilities I think you also have to add the probability of high technology. Humans existed for 100k years before we started doing things like harnessing steam and electricity and we have no evidence early humans were insufficiently intelligent. There is a whole chain of mental and cultural developments that may very well not be common.
PNG has a lot of eucalyptus trees, and some species drop their branches with zero warning, which originated as a mechanism for surviving droughts. I don't know enough to tell whether that's what's going on in the estimate.
As another driver or cyclist on the road, I don't receive those emails nor did I agree to any terms, yet I am still being put at risk in this "beta." Lucky me, I guess? Where are regulators?
I thought the whole point of the rotation was to make it hard to track credit card purchases across stores etc. Just rotating the CVV is a nice security feature but definitely not that.
if you've managed to make it thru an entire meeting without crashing or freezing system w/ 100% cpu on linux you're doing better than me.
> If we waste the doctor's time on the 99.9%, then they lose their primary function of being the expert during the unexpected.

I don't agree that this is a waste of time. The reason why we go to the doctor when we have unusual pains and aches is because we are not qualified to decide whether it's a minor annoyance or a symptom of a life-altering problem. We're seeking out an expert to help make that determination.

If two people could walk in with the same described symptoms, but one just ate something that disagreed with them, and the other has stomach cancer, then doctors must do at least a basic diagnostic exam on the spot, and not turn the patient away for days or weeks to see if the problem goes away on its own. This isn't a "waste" of time at all.

I just saw a PA a couple weeks ago about a knee injury. The end result was that she did tell me to take ibuprofen for a few weeks and then report in how it feels. But, before that, she spent a good 20 minutes asking about the history of the injury, and then felt around to see if there was anything noticeably wrong. And after that she gave me an idea of what the next steps would be if it doesn't get better on its own. The entire experience gave me confidence that she was attentive to what I had to say, knew what she was talking about, and had a plan in case things don't get better.

If she had merely listened to me for 5 minutes, and then told me to take ibuprofen for a few weeks and call back if it's not better, and that was it, I would not have felt good about that encounter, and would have gotten a second opinion from another doctor.

Of course, this also raises the question of whether or not doctors who put in that bare-minimum, insufficient amount of effort (as described in the article) actually are common. I really hope they aren't! But maybe they are, I dunno. The author is a medical professional (albeit on the mental health side), so I would expect he'd have a better idea of how common that is than I do.
I found this interesting as though not a musician I studied percussion for several years and used to enjoy swing dancing.

a bit more here:

https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/chapter/swing-rh...
Well anyway older devices are indeed forced into obsolescence, at least OS-wise.
Taxi-Jeeps (intercity and inter-suburban) accounts for a lot of these fatalities. For them, 1) The more the passengers per trip the more the money and 2) The more the trips per day, the more the money. A deadly combination of reckless driving with overloaded vehicles.
Have you tried Query.jl or DataFramesMeta.jl?
Every single reason given for why the pay is what it is is just a veneer for the reality that the buyer and seller couldn’t (or think they couldn’t) get a better deal elsewhere.

For a buyer, that means a lower price. For the seller, that means a higher price.

Not a single other factor matters.
Saw some surprising / not-surprising statistics on Nielsen television ratings of the U.S. Senate impeachment hearings.

- CNN/MSNBC viewership ratings were constant throughout the proceedings.

- FOX viewership ratings were high for opinion commentary before, during breaks, and after, but dropped to nominal any time house impeachment managers presented evidence.

Fox viewership quite literally tuned out the opposing viewpoint, while MSNBC/CNN viewership did not.

If “contemporary society” is learning self-government on the job as we transition to a relatively post-toil socio-economy, how can mistakes be mostly constructive so it’s safe to learn?

> “It only remains for men to create a good organization for the state... and to arrange it in such a way that their self-seeking energies are opposed to one another, each thereby neutralising or eliminating the destructive effects of the rest... As hard as it may sound, the problem of setting up a state can be solved even by a nation of devils (so long as they possess understanding).” — Kant, Political Writings : https://books.google.com/books?id=v7v3CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT79&lpg=P...

‘Possessing understanding’ cannot be parenthetical.
DDG respects privacy, or at least claims to. Google has nothing but contempt for it, and thrives on spying on you.
The USDA prohibits eggs from being called safe or nutritious because of their cholesterol and saturated fat content.

Video and transcript expanding on this available at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-says-eggs-arent-healthy....
I think what you're neglecting here is that narratives are just subjective viewpoints. There's no one true narrative.

And my point with choosing a THAT narrative was to put the headline into a positive light: More money towards kids games than military tech! Hooray!

Apart from that, there's of course a very logical argument too. Which is that a digital economy like Roblox is a novelty. That means it's difficult to evaluate and often it's evaluated by its potential.

The economics for robots on the other hand are drastically different. They'll have to be researched, developed, built, and maintained. Whereas for any software: You write it once and copy it for "free" to as many customers as you want.

Anyways, anyone is free to pick and chose their narrative according to their liking.
That's more than the value of Take-Two, and nearly the value of EA.

Take-Two's Q revenue is nearly 4x Roblox.
Down the wikipedia rabbithole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire .
I'm using the standard scaled 1920x1080 resolution on both of my screens. I don't see the 3008x1692 option on my 27-inch LG 4K, but I do see the option on 16-inch Wacom Cintiq. It's a little bit too small on my 16-inch, though.
different God, same religion.
My thought exactly.
If they can’t make enough money on their own with that many users then how can they be valued so high.
I'm more bothered by the seo text. It keeps repeating the same thing, similar to some autogenerated spammy website.

cmd + f `huge .* lens` -> 7 results
USB 3 ports are color coded blue, why not mandate color coding for the cables/connectors?
The crazier comparison is to other gaming companies. $30G is more than the market cap of Take Two (think GTA V). It's about Ubisoft + Capcom + Square Enix + Sega combined.

And presumably the people who just invested half a billion at $30G expect it to go significantly up from that after the company goes public.
Favorite quote... from the TC article link too

"So is Mt. Gox the new version of Friendster, the early social networking leader that buckled just before Facebook surged ahead?

Bitcoin’s next generation of founders is cleaner, more pedigreed and suited to Wall Street’s and Capitol Hill’s tastes. They are no less libertarian or wolf-like.

Unlike the Bitcoin’s first generation of entrepreneurs, they are not outsiders. They are the establishment. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has taken a company public. His company, along with Coinbase and Bitpay, are backed by the Valley’s most prominent venture firms including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund. Barry Silbert, a high-profile Bitcoin angel investor who built SecondMarket into a formidable marketplace for shares in privately-held and pre-IPO companies, is preparing his own Bitcoin exchange for launch. Even Mt. Gox’s original creator Jed McCaleb, who sold the site to Karpeles and Gay-Bouchery years ago, is starting what appears to be a new exchange.

U.S.-based regulators, who have been surprisingly favorable toward Bitcoin over the last year, are bound to ask more questions in the coming weeks. We may see companies operating without money transmitter licenses facing more scrutiny. That’s a good thing.

“In the short term, it has an impact on trust and on the counter parties,” said Micky Malka of Ribbit Capital, which is backing Coinbase and BTCJam. ”[But] you are seeing the system maturing – where the rookies and the players that were never transparent or had issues with the regulators are being taken out of the system.”

Now that some rot has been cut out of Bitcoin’s core, it’s time for the second wave of founders to step up.""

Link to article above: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/25/mt-gox-demise/
> I suspect that people would be split between

(e) blame the local politicians for destroying their internet.

Especially with the crowd that uses Instagram or Facebook, data protection laws are not something they consider, they want their little bubbles to continue working. Politicians risk alienating the young (who will most likely start sending their data to some Chinese company instead) and the mid-aged-to-elderly, low-educated, which is their main election pool.
They are at 15 P/E. 2 times lower than Apple, MSFT. Not to mention Tesla
Maybe it should remain a quantum book as well ;]
Yes, the article acknowledges that but also makes the point that it's not interesting from a human perspective.

"None of these techniques help with the very early Earth. During the time known as the Hadean (yes, because it was like Hades), Earth’s collisions with other large planetesimals in our young solar system—including a Mars-sized one whose impact with Earth likely created the Moon—would have melted and vaporized most rock at the surface. Because no rocks on Earth have survived from so long ago, scientists have estimated early Earth conditions based on observations of the Moon and on astronomical models. Following the collision that spawned the Moon, the planet was estimated to have been around 2,300 Kelvin (3,680°F)."

"Even after collisions stopped, and the planet had tens of millions of years to cool, surface temperatures were likely more than 400° Fahrenheit. Zircon crystals from Australia, only about 150 million years younger than the Earth itself, hint that our planet may have cooled faster than scientists previously thought. Still, in its infancy, Earth would have experienced temperatures far higher than we humans could possibly survive."

"But suppose we exclude the violent and scorching years when Earth first formed. When else has Earth’s surface sweltered?"
Not even that, you would use the carry out of an N-bit adder as the (N+1)-th bit.
> A "reputation archive" company that keeps vouched copies of potentially harmful dirt on "the powerful", available on demand.

These companies do exist; I tried to google but came up empty, but I've heard that there are companies that keep collections of dirt on people like politicians, that can be released at strategic times (e.g. before elections). It's likely the various 'secret' services around the world have similar caches, like this rumour that the Kremlin had 'kompromat' on Trump (camera footage of prostitutes pissing on him or something), threatening to release it if he didn't do as they told him. I mean nothing came of that, as far as we know, so it might've just been propaganda, but it sounds plausible enough - both that Trump would be doing that, and that the KGB or whatever it is these days would have cameras in dignitaries' hotel rooms.
Neither you nor OP are wrong.
It's possible, and common, to have practical tools that suck hard.

It's also true that the more people use a tool (and for longer time), the more ways it will be found to suck (and Lisp has been around for quite a while (and used by quite a few people too (probably used by less people than Java) and (indeed) it managed to spawn quite a few heated reactions (to it's salient characteristics)))
I married a hacker. We met on a dial-up BBS way back in the nineteen hundreds. She is awesome.
It'd be interesting to see where the advertisers ended up in all of this. I'd imagine they got some SEO out of it but it doesn't strike me that "tabmarks" has gone very far since the million dollar homepage launched. I wonder what the average ROI was, and if the million dollar homepage served as an effective launchpad for anyone or anything.