jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe they found a rounding error in the location calculations only after the site was half-finished.

Late errrors in projects are always costly.
Don't see why not, depends I guess if your unemployed and need to get employment/ make money quick or if you have time to really get into what your doing and learn programming.
It's like, quotes from the future about the coming past... My head hurts.

(You meant December 2009.)
36 years, count 5 years to become proficient, it remains something like 25 years to enjoy your new expertise.

On the other hand, if it's for starting a company, perhaps that your skills would be better used elsewhere than in learning a full new world, and so taking a developer with you may be the best.
I have a small ecommerce site that has an ~1% conversion rate. If I'm reading your post correctly you have about a 1% user conversion rate, so I would say you're average based on my dataset of 1 other site ;).

You really don't know what your conversions are yet though. I'd say wait another week if you want to get an idea of your actual conversion rate, possibly much longer if you have a long sales cycle. My site tends to have a very short time-to-buy, so it's much easier to get an idea for these numbers.
Elon Musk is a ZOG agent who bilked his investors. Don't trust him.
It actually requires 700 KB/s or 5.6 Mb/s but that should still be affordable in most of Europe.
That's fair enough. I should really have said they're both, combined. And it is the combination that is the key to their success.
It's right there on the top: "It is evident from the title that this is a philosophical discussion". In case you aren't interested in philosophy, I don't see why bother reading the article and commenting on it -- unless perhaps you want to say something against doing any philosophy in the first place.

But if you are interested in philosophy, then you should know that the philosopher often starts by wondering about something that most sane people take for granted. Case in point, some people do wonder why the word "wheel" describes wheels. There are tons of papers and books about philosophy of language.

Others ask why wheels exist, what is a wheel, or whether do they really exist at all. You can only be sure that the existence of wheels is an "empirical fact" after you have examined these questions. After all, "empirical fact" is a philosophical term.

Incidentally, "6 sheep + 7 sheep = 13 sheep" is not an empirical fact.
Thank you - I've learned something. I honestly hadn't believed that someone in HN could fail to appreciate what's really going on here, but you've convinced me that some people just don't find it impressive. Having built air-bazookas of various sizes as an exercise in hands-on science at kids' roadshows and exhibits, they (the kids) are always impressed by the targeting, impact, effect, and sheer unexpectedness of the vortex effect. Maybe I've become overly infused with enthusiasm for these sorts of things by the naive excitement that children get from this sort of thing. Maybe it's just so much better doing yourself for real, rather than just watching it on a video. I know a lot of experiments and demonstrations that are truly impressive and awe-inspiring in real-life, but cause very little reaction when viewed on video. The video experience immediately removes you from the personal experience.

To better help me understand your mindset I looked at your profile. There wasn't any information about you, just the two links. I was interested to see that the first was about a web monitoring service, and even more interested to see the result of visiting the second:

There has been an error processing your request.
SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
(using password: YES)
Trace:

... <snip> ...

I would've sent that to you personally rather than posting it here, but, as I say, your profile has no contact details.
Just thought you'd like to know.
From the article (which I suspect you didn't read):

>CSP power plants create the steam needed to turn the turbine by using sunlight to heat molten salt. The molten salt can also be stored in thermal storage tanks overnight where it can continue to generate steam and electricity, 24 hours a day if desired, a significant advantage over photovoltaic systems that stop producing energy with the sunset.
Nice comparison. I believe every language has a purpose.

Ruby is a good choice for front end. We use them to build front-ends (https://github.com/megamsys/nilavu).

Go is a good choice for system programming, its native binary interests everybody.

Nodejs is good choice for realtime programming.

Scala is concise and good when you need heavy duty API and such and allows to build a robust code (https://github.com/megamsys/megam_gateway)
Nobody can guarantee that, but it's open source so you can always do it yourself. I would be more worried about Evernote, Dropbox, Google Calender and other proprietary solutions, because if they decide to close the service, there's not much you can do about it.
How did each of those work out for the slaves?
That's a fully general argument against any anti-discrimination law.

Compare: "Do I not have the right to live in a country I am proud of, a country without n****s, k***s or g***s?"

No, you don't have the right to make yourself proud in an arbitrary way. You can just put the label "proud" on anything you want that you can't get, so this is already an accepted limitation. There's nothing special about "a product."
>they'd be 100% convinced the election was fair is if had Trump won.

Maybe some would. But I'll tell you, if the democrats wanted it to look like they were running a fair election despite their vitriolic hatred of Trump, they could have done quite a few things differently. For one, the measures they put in place to reduce the spread of the coronavirus were an absolutely unprecedented obstruction of the ability of observers to watch the process. An election observer should be able to see everything every election worker does as closely as the election worker sees it. If they wanted the other party to believe the results, they would have found some other way.

>This whole election fraud this is a Trump invention.

How does your assertion that Trump said election fraud first mean my statements of fact rely on his word for their validity? Can you answer the actual question I asked? (You can't)

>He knew he was going to lose

According to the official tallies, he lost by a combined total of 42,976 votes across three states (if AZ, GA, and WI went Trump, it would have resulted in a 269-269 tie). How could anyone have known he was going to lose, unless they were part of a coordinated effort to fix the election against him?
It does not need the loop. It might be easier to understand by looking at something like this. [0] That printf allows for this kind of Turing complete control flow is well known [1].

[0] https://github.com/HexHive/printbf

[1] http://nebelwelt.net/publications/files/15SEC.pdf
So, totally different from people in Portland barricading a Federal building, then trying to set it ablaze with people inside?

Did this crowd of "insurrectionists" actually threaten anyone? There are reports someone set a couple of pipe bombs, but not in the building, and the FBI is investigating it and has offered a $50K reward, but inside the building, it was kooks and protesters who were pretty quickly rounded up and arrested. I don't condone what they did at all, but comparing it to burning down buildings like in Portland and Atlanta... the mind boggles at this moral equivalency. True mob violence did not occur on January 6, and thank God for that.
> I suspect that you've got your arrow of causality backwards.

I think there are two arrows of causality here actually, and they form a cycle. A word is offensive, therefore it's taboo. The word is taboo, therefore it's offensive. Why is "shit" vulgar, but "feces" not? Language is weird like that.
Is that what one would find in those color e-ink HiSense phones?
> free market relies on the person with the need/want to decide which is which.

That's your fatal misunderstanding. There isn't a choice.
The company I've founded is very much about providing better detection capabilities, but I'd say this is an oversimplification.

First of all, detection is methodologically bankrupt. We have almost no one out there saying how detection should be done with consensus - only in the last 5 years have we even started to improve here.

In my opinion, detection of attackers, which is what the industry focuses on today, is a huge waste of time and resources - it's the last step in the process that I would recommend.

I would personally say that detection should be staged as:

1. System inventory (can you attribute an IP or Hostname to a device identitiy, a user, etc)

2. Policy enforcement (can you detect when policies change, or are violated?)

3. Unexpected behaviors - go to the people building systems - ask them what's expected, what isn't, and build rules for that, or even better, have them build and maintain the rules under your guidance.

4. Attacker behaviors - finally, spend some time building rules for attacker behaviors.

Most organizations skip straight to 4, and then you have a team of defenders who have no idea how the network they're supposed to detect is supposed to actually work. This is throwing away the greatest advantage defenders have - that they know where the attack will take place, and they know all of the stakeholders for those environments.

Here's the chief of the NSA Tailored Access Operations saying this at USENIX four years ago.

https://youtu.be/bDJb8WOJYdA?t=83

"If you really want to protect your network you really have to know your network"

None of this is as simple as "detection" - it means working with the policy teams, with your infrastructure teams, with your product teams, to better understand your environment.
Please do not baselessly accuse me of being "disingenuous," I'm trying to help you. If you won't use GoboLinux or ask packagers to make AppImages for the apps you want then I don't know what to say, those are solutions to your problem. If you're saying you want all other distributions to be like GoboLinux, I doubt that would happen because that comes with its own set of other problems. Edit: You can do some pretty interesting things here with Nix/Guix too although that still requires a package manager. The reason I said AppImages is because that's currently the best method that doesn't require any package manager at all.
a couple more alternatives:

https://mega.io/

https://tox.chat/

Mega has a chat, phone and video calls

Tox is actually quite decentralized (I think you cannot be more decentralized than p2p), but has many inconveniences of not being cloud based

EDIT: readability
That article is really weak as are most articles on opensource.com (some kind of content marketing site of Red Hat). I recount the following points as someone who has worked with Linux for many years and is using it on the Desktop as well as on servers at work but (or thus) has not lost his sense for reality:

- the point of "automation" applies to all Unix-like systems. You probably could do the same with Powershell and pdftk for Windows.

- Code connections: I don't even know what this is about.

- Existing code: same same, but I guess there's indeed more open source / free software for Linux/Unix systems than Windows.

- Direct access to peripherals: You might have access to /dev/video0 but that doesn't relieve you from the intricacies in working with that device. Take a look at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.9/media/uapi/v4l/capture.... to see if that's such a nice API. Also take a look at this to see if the API on macOS is so much worse: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/camer...

- Abstraction layers: the "conveniences" in Qt and Java obviously are not very Linux-specific. "Whole stacks" like Pipewire are work in progress while the multiverse of Jack, Pulseaudio and Alsa makes every programmer wonder what's the proper framework to use.

EDIT: I think Linux is a great platform for programming internet services in a modern Unix (containers, userspace networking, epoll, sendfile, AIO, async_tx, ...) way but that's not in the article.
And conversely that many people are willing to give up quality of life, perhaps indefinitely, to decrease risk. To state the obvious, there’s an inherent tension in the fact that some of the things that make life pleasurable increase the chances of cutting that life short. People reach different conclusions about how to strike the balance, and I don’t think there’s one right answer.
No, you're thinking of /r/conservative, which literally has "flaired users only" posts, and insta-bans people who express even mild criticism of conservative talking points.

"Do not violate the Mission Statement. (We provide a place on Reddit for conservatives, both fiscal and social, to read and discuss political and cultural issues from a distinctly conservative point of view.)"
He is "ordinary folk writing clickbaity titles". People here just pay too much attention.
I think the solution is to have typed exception modelled as polymorphic variants. Something similar to Swift.
All I'm saying is that it's a trivial oversimplification to say you can learn to miss every time.
Fucking hell. Do we have to dig up General Groves and Oppenheimer to find people with sufficient organizing skills to get the COVID-19 Jobs done?

What the hell's gone wrong with the US? (If this were the early/mid 1940s then the AXIS powers would have won!)
> I've been told that not all PS2-USB converters work.

True converters do. Those that don't work are just connector adapters relying on the mainboard to recognize that a PS/2 device is connected although on a USB port. To be sure you get a working adapter, never buy single port ones as they often contain just connection wires. All converters I tried with dual PS2 port, to be used with mouse and keyboard together, contained a real protocol converter and worked flawlessly on all PCs. An image search for "ps/2 usb" returns may examples of the two converters types.
Religion is an aspect of the human condition. The question of whether any particular religious belief can be thought of as "true" needs to be unpacked in a careful way.

As soon as someone claims that a thing "exists" in a way that can't be demonstrated, I can choose to be polite but ignore the claim. That's trivial.

What's more complicated is the entire idea of substance dualism, and how human consciousness can apprehend an idea that has nothing tangible to back it up.

These questions matter, and are worth unpacking, regardless of how you happen to feel about religion.

Does that make sense?
I don't diagree with you on some of the Dyson products being gimmicky with a premium price tag, and the air purifier does look suspect to me. However, the Dyson v11 cordless vacuum I just bought is phenomenal.

It has far better suction and cleaning effectiveness than anything I've ever used - which is partly why I bought the v11. Our mains powered central vacuum just wasn't cutting it, and was bothersome to use.
Absolutely phenomenal gains. I wonder if this is how the UE5 demo was achieved.
Given that there are stadia games that do not run on linux I would not be too hopeful.
10X programmers are what they are simply because they've already seen a similar problem before. The longer you're at the game, the more exposure you've had the bigger the chance that you'll be 10X as good at something as somebody else.

Personally I don't think the 10X moniker is very useful. Imagine we'd be calling the marathon runners of the world 10X people. They may be a bit better at task 'X' (running a marathon) but they may suck at a variety of other tasks.

In the end it's all the 0.5 to 9.5 programmers that get the bulk of all the work done, and yet, everybody wants to hire only the 10X guys/girls and the not-yet-10X guys/girls are left to feel miserable because they're somehow inadequate.

If you want to go to the opera: practice, practice, practice. And then you too will be a '10X programmer' at some point in your life, the real question is whether or not you'll still enjoy it as much as when you did when everything was new and you were learning all the time.

One thing that I have noticed that makes a huge difference in your abilities: try to not be a single-technology programmer. If you branch out into at least two or three other sub-fields of programming (languages, theory) then you'll become a much better programmer in a hurry.
agreed, hope you post it here if you do. :)
Exercise and living a sedentary life are not mutually exclusive. Pretty much everybody on HN has to remain still for most of the day -- however much exercise they do.
Two additional updates from their CEO:

https://twitter.com/nejc_kodric/status/552091195795845120

https://twitter.com/nejc_kodric/status/552090819659071488
That wouldn't work, popular browsers like Chrome pin the SSL certificate for Google domains (see for instance https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html), so the homepage would just show an error message (IIRC when the certificate is pinned there's no button to ignore the error).

The most probable explanation is that it's a "transparent" proxy which MITMs everything, and the original poster used youtube as an example.
This design is so ugly it makes me question my investment in Tesla.

What are they thinking...?
I absolutely disagree with Hanlon's Razor; malicious intent often hides behind the appearance of incompetance.
Wikipedia sais it does:

"P. oleracea is one of very few plants able to utilize both CAM and C4 photosynthesis pathways, for a long time believed to be incompatible with each other despite biochemical similarities. P. oleracea will switch from C4 to CAM pathways during times of drought and there is transcription regulation and physiological evidence for C4-CAM hybrid photosynthesis during mild drought."
Unless you have a framework sitting over the lot, defining that some set of (service, interface, version) tuples collectively makes up an 'application'.

This way, you get most-every benefit of SOA whilst being able to reason about an application as a whole.

That's the approach we're taking with our microservices framework, wym: http://wym.io/
I really like the second point, I am going to try it, thank you.
> I think there's something ego gratifying for the INTJ male about being this loud-mouth contrarian who tells everyone they're wrong. Especially if its against some popular wisdom and if the argument is unusually pedantic and trivial.

Hahaha, what about INTPs?
Yeah, the whole project was something of a disaster. Eventually things stabilized a bit but every few weeks etcd or fleetd would throw a curveball and I'd lose a day of time chasing down the problem.
The UI is so low-quality I can barely stand it. It looks like someone just took the Git man page and said "let's make a button for every switch! That's our UI!" and plopped it down in the window. There was obviously no design or usability testing involved anywhere in the process. It practically requires familiarity with the CLI client before you can figure out how to do anything at all.

It frequently shows active buttons and menu items that don't actually do anything when pushed. So they can't do one of the most basic GUI operations correctly-- dim stuff that's not relevant.

Simple mistakes like the process for undoing the latest commit being to click the commit before it, then selecting "rewind to here" (or something; this is from memory.) Because God forbid you just let the user click the latest commit and choose "undo", they might discover that without having to Google it!

But what really prevents me from using it is how goddamned slow it is. Right-click a file, choose "Revert", and maybe the file will actually be reverted in 10-15 seconds. If you're lucky.
Thanks for your comment, it's really interesting and helpful to hear from someone who's actually seen this play out in real life. I suspect it's not you, but me who's sounding naive here.

I do believe, though, that there's something about stable, market-oriented democracies that makes violent conflict unlikely, and there's quite some empirical evidence for that, too. See Steven Pinker and so on. The history of Yugoslavia may therefore not generalize to today's Europe.

Also, attitudes of people do matter, and they certainly do in a democracy. Many of the young men who went to fight in WW1 truly believed they were taking part in some great, noble, adventure of historic proportions. This world view just does not exist anymore, it seems about as close to my life as, say, the Spanish inquisition, and I'd wager that's true for most people in Europe today.
There are situations the fifth amendment protects against other than forced confessions.

Here's a hypothetical example: you are accused of murdering your ex-lover. You witnessed the crime and know that the real killer is the chief of police. While disclosing those details could potentially implicate him, they will certainly prove that you know details of the crime, which implicates you. You don't think anyone will believe you, and the other evidence against you is weak (you didn't do it, after all), so you don't want to say anything until you're acquitted.
I always figured it was like the shoe removal or rumors about disallowing laptops on carry-on... the authorities had intelligence that these things would be used as part of an attack.
I am not certain that it isn't a crime, which is why I asked "what law is being broken?". It's not an unreasonable question. People have made some assumptions that this reprehensible behaviour is obviously illegal, based on their knowledge of laws in their country. But it might not be illegal in Ireland.

Clarity about law is important. It allows people to campaign for changes to the law.

Here's an old article about Ireland where someone planted hidden cameras in toilet cubicles for the purposes of sexual gratification. He was not successfully prosecuted under the Irish law. I don't know if there's been any newer law implemented to cover this.

https://www.thejournal.ie/hidden-cameras-legal-loophole-1696...

> Either way, I think calling the police in such cases is exactly the right thing to do

We don't know that they didn't call the police.
I do this already for so many sites these days. And it's fairly simple. I wouldn't mind an extension that automated this for me.
Similar situation (though not Cancer, in my case a life a potentially life altering spinal condition and a separate unrelated but equality serious stomach condition) and similar response, I suddenly started going for jobs I wouldn't have dared before and both getting them and doing them well.

I also bought a motorbike and will be upgrading that to a faster one next year, both medical conditions are under control and the medication works but now I'm determined to live my life on my terms for as long as I can rather than just drift.

I also ramped up the exercise and I'm now lighter and fitter than I was in my late 20's (I'm approach 40) - I think sometimes you have two choices, cave or say "fuck you" to the universe and carry on, I'm glad you picked the latter but I understand why someone would pick the former.
EL GOOG!
What sort of resources are there? I wasn't aware of any.
The legal situation is rosier than you think. What you demand is already the case: content you create is copyrighted by you and can't be relicensed by anyone else without your permission. All without any agreements at all!

Now, it would be tyrannical not to give you any way to transfer rights to your creative output. So some publishers do allow you to agree to a Terms And Conditions waiving certain of these rights, or transferring them to said publishers. It goes without saying that no one would ever compel you to agree to such conditions, but some publishers might not agree to publish your work without such an agreement.
> why 14,000 sheep needed to be transported

why not? if i sell my sheep and need to deliver them to the buyer, then i'll need a form of transport.