jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nice, last time I unsubscribed it was a long call of “are you sureeeeee???”

I’ll probably still use privacy.com to be safe. But good to hear they addressed that. I’ve been thinking of subscribing again for a few months.
hi, made this throwaway (or maybe one to keep?) to agree with you.

i'm not happy or pleased that my therapist calls me resilient. she uses the word as something positive but i'd rather not be "resilient" at all. the experience and effects of trauma are something i could do 1000% without. and i'm sure most people who have survived such an ordeal can attest to that fact.
The only reason we have a "corporate tax" is because it sounds nice to voters who have no clue what's actually going on. And the average journalist is just as clueless but easily twice as malicious. If you "cut taxes on corporations" you are a bad guy. If you raise them, you are Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor. This is literally the level of analysis that democracies operate at. Meanwhile, tax attorneys are getting rich off of helping megacorps evade taxes that the average business has to pay.

For the benefit of other readers: the corporate tax is pointless because in the long run, all corporate profits go to capital gains. So you can just raise the capital gains tax and get rid of the corporate tax. This is why the personal income tax is higher than the capital gains tax, because corporate profit has already been taxed while corporate expenses have not. Just equalize the capital gains tax and income tax and get rid of the corporate tax and you basically have the same revenue and way less bullshit.
I was going to say that the concept is loosely modeled on hackathons, but as noted separately, it appears to pre-date them by 10 years or so.
Things had to change after the Great Depression though, the Roosevelt government had to actually make amends with and negotiate with labor unions, since the alternative was widespread economically-induced unrest which might possibly lead to communist or fascist uprisings. I think the parent comment was talking about that particular era, and commenting on how Reagan dismantled that whole deal.
This is a nonstarter for precisely the reasons you state.

With the stroke of a pen, you would eliminate a huge industry (tax attorneys, tax consultants, etc)

You can bet they will not go down without a fierce fight

This makes total sense. Except it cannot happen.

Same as term limits. Incredible idea. Never going to happen.
So, what individual thinks they have more leverage than Amazon?

Amazon has a 1.6 trillion $ market cap.
This can probably go in this list of these websites which look like win 98 mostly https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops
I might find this more interesting when and if they connect this to brands and products I would buy. Linking this solely to major brands owned by mega-corporations is a significant turn-off.

I want to be able to modify it to buy the things I want, not just from the limited set it confines me to.
The specific performance aspect is, essentially, immaterial. The idea, in over-simple terms, is say you have Foo<T> but for say T=X there is a faster specialized way to implement Foo<X>, well you can do this in the type system of Ocaml via GADTs and still write generic type-safe code for Foo<T> and the compiler does the right thing when when it happens that T=X.(+)

So you get to have your cake and eat it too.

(+) without brittle, verbose, horrific re-factoring required to do similar things in simpler type systems.
You have probably never worn women's jeans. They have ridiculously small pockets, barely big enough to squeeze my S5 into.
Eh, I figured the money was worth it since she wanted to do HDMI to a pretty decent projector. Plus, her last laptop lasted her 5 years and I figured a Surface Pro would too.
Natural state of affairs?

The G7 between them have been deflationary exactly twice in the last 100 or so years that we've been keeping good records on this. That's twice, for less than a decade each, in 700 country-years of economic experience.

That includes time on the gold standard, time on fiat currency, pre-euro, post-euro, WWI, WWII and the cold war. Early industrial to post industrial, pre-computing and high frequency trading. Only a couple times through all those crazy situations was deflation a thing.

So an extremely rare and divergent situation is the 'natural' state of affairs? Are we talking in the eating nuts and berries sense of natural here, or what?
We use both Phabricator and Github together -- it was super easy to set up. I think Phabricator has a CI tool on their roadmap. They also have an API, but it's a bit of a clusterfuck, which may help explain the dearth of integrations.
> “ But generally you don't need that.”

I think this is wrong. This is what ML researchers tend to think when they are ignorant of why DevOps best practices exist and what other teams need in order to provide underlying infrastructure support. You’re only thinking of “what you need” from the point of view of the developer experience of the ML engineer, which frankly is usually the least important part by a wide margin.
Yep, I remember when this happened. Viagra seemed to be the main driver "little blue pill."
> CPython could do both; allocations are usually not byte-perfect

Though it's probably not the case for strings, it should be noted that for most objects allocations are byte-perfect, because the average Python object is a bunch of pointers and and a refcount: two gc pointers, a refcount, a weakref pointer, a class pointer and a dict pointer, for a total of 48 bytes (as of 3.9, ignoring all the pointees).

That's not the case for `__slots__` though: they drop the instance dict and the weakref pointer, but then each field will add a pointer to the total (then again that's space which won't be allocated as part of the instance dict).
Yes, this is usually leveraging the LKA feature. Depending on the manufacturer/car the LKA generally has a torque limit (to allow the driver to override the system by hand, and prevent wrist injuries from steering input) and an angle limit.

Most cars (none, that I am aware of) do not allow the steering motor to be actuated over the OBD port, the CAN bus containing the steering/LKA sits behind a diagnostic gateway that doesn't pass steering messages. You need to tap into this CAN bus, which in the Comma product is accomplished by the connector at the rearview mirror (usually used for the stock lane-keeping assist camera).
And yet, Red Star OS does not open-source any upstream contributions. I'm sure there were some modifications made that were not disclosed in compliance with applicable licenses.
Dozens of redundant meme comments aclrss the btc threads aren't helpful.
On this image (mentioned above), every single window is lit. That seems staged to me.

https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/blob/main/Backgr...
Surely that doesn't qualify as an answer being a read only test. Also, it looks like there is not much interaction between users in their core domain.
Fair enough. I hadn’t heard that.
Oh yeah, it’s a great feature. People like it a lot more than we thought they would, and we already had high hopes for it! Still more improvements to make there, though.
I use group texts every day so that would be a deal breaker.
Fundamentally, there isn't a huge difference between microservices and monotlic apps if both systems do the same thing. However, a lot of the issues of general complexity are more apparent in one approach or the other.

For example, breaking changes are breaking changes in either system. It's not an issue of architecture style, it's a matter of business needs changing, and thus protocols change. A change in protocol breaks the existing protocol.

We understand this intuitively when you are talking about a de-facto protocol like HTTP, but we seem to think our own programs are somehow different. They aren't.

Architecture is about taking the essential complexity of a problem and creating components and protocols to solve a problem in a way that makes the most sense for the team trying to solve it. Monolithic apps or microservices then should be a question more of what your team is going to execute well as much as it is a question of which structure more elegantly solves the problem at hand.
I don't why such articles come-up mixing personal religious belief and fancy Movies. If I'm not wrong the author of this article is from India and Hindu ? As someone who follow Hinduism I don't like to see such articles.
This is fascinating, but I have literally no idea what 99% of that math is. Where would I begin studying to be able to understand what is being described in those formulae?
So why the oddly worded shut down message on their website? Why not announce the acquisition?
What more do you need to know than the following: "We have decided to pursue other opportunities and will be shutting down our service on January 31, 2011. Thanks for supporting us and for all you've done."
Or the other way to look at it is that Mozilla has refused to build Firefox so that it will be compatible with MPEG-LA's licensing. Millions of users care about Web video; how many care about downstream modified versions of Firefox?
> Development takes significant ramp-up time; if you spend 10 hours a day on it, you get much more than 5 times as much done than if you spend 2 hours a day.

So true. Having one hour for coding is next to worthless. Perhaps the fabled 'zone' for programmers is merely a long enough stretch of uninterrupted time to immerse oneself.

Joel Spolsky used to write a lot on this topic, one of his key recommendations were private offices with a door that closes for developers. Lately I have seen little to indicate that the industry (startups or established companies) are moving in that direction. What are your experiences? Do you know many companies implementing this? Would you? Given that avoiding disturbances is so critical to developer productivity it seems like a no-brainer, I just don't seem to see it in the field.

EDIT: Here's one of Joels pieces on the topic (great read):

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper...

He actually answers my question by saying that no VCs would allow a company to squander their money on something so lavish. Wonder if people here agree with that assessment today.
Gmail as of January, 2010. No additional hardware, 1% CPU overhead:

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...

"If you stop reading now you only need to remember one thing: SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more."
I don't know the answer to this question, but if I were an investor I'd be looking to create a business that showed a lot of long term promise.... Then I'd want to sell that promise. So acquisition or a big stock sale (IPO).

Think of an incubator as a tree nursery. They handle the high risk portion of getting the seeds to grow into a sapling, and determine if it will bear fruit. But fundamentally they don't want to be a fruit producer, and they aren't interested in running an orchard. They are selling the promise of fruit for years to come to someone else.
Bodybuilders have known this for a long, long time.
Then we are in complete agreement, sorry!
Foxconn is an international company that operates in many countries outside of China. Suggesting they are too simple to realize the business climate is different outside of China seems insulting and infantilizing. Their operating income is ~$180 billion USD a year. They are aware that business conditions are different in different countries.
Did you mean:

values: DataValue

?

Otherwise the decoder is incorrect and, I'm not 100% sure but, is likely to throw a runtime error.
Ben - What are some practical examples of use cases you see here over the long term?
This emergency does not seem short term. Pandemics generally aren't. There are already talks of new strains and corresponding vaccines in winter.

Canada is burning billions because it has decided to prioritize COVID protection above everything else in life. It was clear from the beginning that lockdowns were a bad idea because they weren’t feasible in the long term. Alas, this is the path most of the world's government chose. We'll be paying the price for years to come...
In Sweden taxes are fully automated. Has been for years.

What makes it possible is a comprehensive national ID system. Which has advantages and disadvantages.
Every year I internally gripe about the UI improvements I'd prefer, but fully recognize it is better than TurboTax, and is approachable to people with a wide range of computer literacy.
Yes, the fee is usually fixed cost plus percentage, which makes small transactions very expensive.

The small transaction problem is vastly worse with Bitcoin, though. The catch is that the transaction fee is paid by the buyer, so that $1.05 scone costs the consumer $8.05.

$1.05 goes to the consumer
$8 transaction fee goes to the miner
Some fraction (eventually most) of that $8 transaction fee goes to the energy company supplying the miners with electricity.

Now your $1.05 scone transaction includes the cost of charging a Tesla battery 3 times over, because that's how much energy went into the transaction on the blockchain.
Ah that's wonderful! So glad to hear that. You don't need us then :)
Upvoted you for your username :)
How does your logic apply to the superrich ownership class?

Are they actually any more talented than the people they rule over?

Why is questioning their wealth taboo, but undermining my modest career prospects virtuous?
A flippant or cynical answer might be that you'll still want to know and follow "agile" anyway, if only because 1) it matters from an employment perspective, and 2) so many organizations are just now adopting it.

But you're asking about learning, and from my perspective anyone who is willing to ask incisive questions has the wherewithal to continuously improve and ultimately succeed in his/her field.

Fads and fashion...
Anyone know of some libraries that would allow a Mac-based attempt at this off the top of their heads?
That's an overstatement. We need to take into account that (a) sometimes there isn't a non-paywalled version of a good story, and (b) most of these paywalls have easy workarounds. The paywalls suck, but banning paywalled links would make HN worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777971

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647853
Rocket is slow because of its design, not because it is insufficiently asynchronous.
I haven't used Spotify in over a year so I don't know about this. What in Wrapped 2020 was so different from previous years that made it creepy for you?
Makes you wonder if THIS is what's behind all the pushes for diversity
I liked https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091211104107A...
Yeah, I don't really need that. I like to learn to do new things, and my passion is coding and tinkering with projects and learning new tech, so I have no problem finding my way down new avenues of doing things. It's the petty stuff that I hate.

I did work somewhere during the dot-com years and we had an entire meeting about double spacing. Whether we press enter TWICE after an if-statement bracket, or once. I hated every second of it.
hope page url: www.getfbstuff.com
I think GP means all things die.

You, me, companies, whatever else you enjoy, including but not limited to the sun.
I love it. A simple, elegant solution to a seemingly complex and frustrating issue.
> I'm now horrified I ever did it, and even more horrified that I cognitive dissonanced my way into thinking it was not just OK but perhaps even noble

Your whole comment is great, but this line especially stuck out to me. It's amazing how much effort people people in this line of marketing are spending trying to read (and then manipulate) other people's minds, without taking a moment to examine what's going on inside their own.

Based on the tone of bartkappenburg's comments though, I'd be afraid that the reading material you've suggested might come off as how-to guides!
There have been multiple submissions. I guess this one wins because it's the original source and was posted first. But since corporate press releases leave much to be desired (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), I've pilfered the title from https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-lays-off-250-employees... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24121166.

Please note that this thread has multiple pages of comments. You can get to the later pages via the More link at the bottom, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336&p=3
"Headspace" is presumably legal? And it's not a defined medical or scientific concept.
As others mentioned, size is the main concern here, which is also why JSONCrush could be useful. But I'd definitely use POSTs first if possible.
It should be noted the fumes are from the cast in place pipe liner (cipp) which is a Fiberglas style sock that is pulled through the existing pipe and then filled with compressed steam.

This has quite a few voc’s that really give your stomach a churn if you are in close proximity.
"clinical depression" vs. the run of the
mill use of "depression"

This is exactly what I am interested in. If it is a qualitative difference or a quantitative.

If qualitative, it would be like a broken leg.

If quantitative it would be like high blood pressure.

I would be very interested if there is any research out there on this topic.
I use borg with both rsync.net and borgbase.com. Both are great.
I'm also one of those people you're referring to with '100 tabs open' (well, technically, I currently have 83 tabs spread across 5 browser windows). It can be kind of stressful sometimes, but my fear of not being able to find what I was looking for should I need a page again always seems worse.

Of course, I know there are native methods and browser extensions to mitigate the possibility of losing things, but old habits die hard.
Re:oh-4-fucks-sake

The website notes that what they have are "NOT for human consumption". Is it safe or is it different than what one would use for recreational purposes?
* http://www.geekwire.com/2014/teachers-protest-gates-foundati...

* http://techrights.org/2014/08/11/rich-at-public-expence/

* https://www.popularresistance.org/protesters-want-gates-foun...

* http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/gates-foundat...

* http://www.thenation.com/article/181342/how-gates-foundation...

This is only a small part of a bigger story.
come bacckkk SMeyer, I have 3 desks to myself now in my row. :P -BCWade
>regret a purchase

I find the usage of that phrase really interesting, because calling a contribution to a kickstarter a 'purchase' is exactly why people may feel entitled to a chargeback when the project goes casters-up and ceases contact with their customers. In their eyes, they purchased a certain product; the fact that it's not currently finished doesn't matter- they paid for it and expect to eventually get what they paid for.

Thought about this way (which is exactly how I believe the vast majority of people think), it is exactly like any other fraudulent purchase where the seller fails produce after payment.
/me throws one blogpost in the making in the trashcan for fear of being labeled a plagiarist and checks the room for webcams.
All I saw was the course #. 11/785.
It’s abusing the definition of monopoly. There isn’t a single super-dominant games company choking out competition. In fact, companies steal each others’ lunch all the time; Fortnite surpassed PUBG, Cities Skylines from a small Finnish dev surpassed EA’s SimCity, and Stardew Valley was created by a single developer who surpassed Harvest Moon before him.

Monopoly doesn’t just mean “this company is bigger than I’d like.”
Is this the version that gets Apple M1 support? I know it’s on their roadmap and I thought it was 2.92, but I don’t see anything in the release notes. Might not be big enough to mention.
GNU poke is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.
>Even if you cheat, is reading 15 short, bad books better or worse than reading 0?

If it's done as a chore to hit a certain number, or in a performative spirit to show others how much one has read, I think that person would get more value spending those hours doing something in which they have an authentic interest.

Also, it's not an all-or-nothing prospect. A better question might be, "Is it better to read 15 short, bad books or 3 longer, more challenging books that one may not even fully understand on the first reading?"
I think you're right when it comes to finding new and original ideas by reading less popular texts. This helps you get an alternative perspective than the mainstream. I do feel it depends on whether you're reading to address something personal, or reading for advancing the subject as a whole. If I'm struggling with habits, then Atomic Habits is a good book to read, even if everyone else is reading it. It's not the only one, but a good recommendation saves me time.

I remember one person in the HN comments a while ago say that they would rather than see a list of all the books someone recommends, they want to see the list of books they don't recommend. You can make a better assessment of whether this person has value to add by showing their exclusions in their line of thinking.
+1, thank god we've finally come to acknowledge and accept that Gimp has never been and will never be a professional alternative to Gimp for many users.
Ick. 30% Apple tax vs. you are the product. We need a happy medium. We need better regulation.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=27
And when do they ban smart-phones from being used in public because they can take "hidden" pictures or some bullshit?
Thanks. I figure this is as good a reason for me to step out on my own.
That's interesting. At what quantity do they stop laughing?
Why the name Word Lens? I had to come back to this thread to remember the name after talking to my brother about it.

I think "Babylon App" would be a perfect name for this app. Just my 2 cents.
Well, i might roll out the HTML versions of these themes for people who don't necessarily need WordPress and would rather build their own back end.
First thing to do is realize that for many (most?) older programmers, this is the norm. Being self-taught in the days before Programming as a major or Comp-Sci for that matter isn't a new thing for the profession. That said, best thing to do is to continue the methods/procedures that got you to where you are. Learn more, read more. There are always other languages to learn and certainly more books to read. There are many lists of 'Best Computer Books for Language Foo' out there as well as 'Best Computer Books in General'--- find them and start at the top, bottom, middle, where ever you want. I tend to divide reading into what I think of as the classics and the practical; the classics are programming texts that apply to all languages, the practical are those that apply to a particular language. When it comes to reading in general, remember Sturgeon's Law--- '90% of everything is crap' this is particularly true for the 'practical' category, so spend time reading in the bookstore before plunking down cash...
Gerblagh, you're entirely right, my mistake.

Must be the finals-studying. I think my brain is going mushy.