jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's an institution against WASPs, based on your very argument:

If you're a male-WASP, you don't need X because you are clearly capable of getting it via another method. So pick someone you can (supposedly) help more: the people with "institutions against them".

I've encountered this EXACT behavior in employers and have been skipped over for jobs several times. When I asked if there was a reason they picked someone significantly less qualified (they said I was the best qualified), they stated explicitly that I should be able to get a better job somewhere else, so they picked someone they felt needed the job more, and would be capable enough.

But if that's the case, why in God's name was I applying there in the first place?
Was just me expressing my distaste for Amis in general and London Fields in particular. He is highly regarded in the UK, but I cannot fathom why (I'm a Brit).

I think London Fields and Time's Arrow employ a lot of clever but bad prose (bad in that the prose does not flow). And specifically for London Fields I felt it quite misogynistic. Currently wading through The Information to see if there's something else that grabs me, giving him the benefit of the doubt.

So far I think Amis is massively over-rated. Not enjoyable.
Two good reasons:

1. Why waste resources in maintaining something you don't intend to continue to support.

2. Given the litigious nature of the US, Apple probably doesn't want to deal with a codebase that could include all kinds of potential legal issues that are now suddenly Apples problem.
In my mind until you can answer 'Yes" to the question of "Have they signed?", then they haven't said yes.
There are very large demographic differences on the lines of age.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-20...

Could I be more diplomatic? Sure.

We have a large number of older people that have no idea how to use the Internet, something my generation, the Internet natives, sometimes take for granted.
Maybe Trump can swear in at Mar-a-Lago as government/president in exile.
A good example for your point would be McCarthyism. The idea of a more ideal free speech society we had in the past is probably naive, and that's likely true in the US and elsewhere.

I doubt that this is a technical issue. Sure, the internet, social media and filter bubbles will have an influence. But there are so many political forces at play, so many angles under which the situation could be explained.

> How many previous presidents would be inciting this sort of thing? How is that the result of less free speech?

That's an old debate in history - are specific events caused by specific people, or are the political currents so strong that no matter who would've been in a specific position, history would have likely taken the same course?

But here it is for certain that this specific coup hinges on the absolute leader figure Trump is for his followers. And it follows what he says all the time.
> The entire social media and entertainment edifice is built on the objective of telling you what you want to hear.

I agree. See my comment here[1]. I simply don't see how that is the result or evidence of too little free speech. The opposite seems true. The problem isn't that people can't say what they believe. It is that people have the freedom to knowingly lie in order to corrupt the beliefs of others.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662297
I think the double standards are despicable.
I’m not sure what would even happen if the GOP voted to condemn their own president. To whom would frustrated GOP voters petition then? Would they fracture into a third party?
Is it avoidable though? Social media might be accelerating the development of echo chambers, but the underlying reason why it works is because people seem to enjoy tribalism. I'm not sure that connecting people globally could end up in any other way. Most people are not capable of being part of a large community of like minded people and still keep objectiveness and perspective. This is something I've been thinking about a lot, and it seems rather hopeless. I'd love to have my mind changed.
DConf is everyone's chance to throw tomatoes at me!
>Musk is more interested in saving the human race

You know, I watch his talks (because I'm interested in the work his company's do) and listen to the investor's quarterly conference calls (because I own a small stake in TSLA) and I don't understand where the hero worship comes from.

To me, Musk comes off as another shrewd business man, almost crossing over into the slick/shady end of the spectrum sometimes.
From the reddit AMA:

We had been meticulous in our care to not violate the gag in any way shape or form. We didn't want to jeopardize the case, and obviously didn't want to run into any legal trouble.

I read this as him saying he didn't want any issues raised that might distract from his lawsuit. That doesn't necessarily mean that the approach I proposed wouldn't be legal. A law that compels a person to lie is a bit more absurd than one that compels a person not to talk about something. It's pretty common to hear "I can neither confirm nor deny..." from government officials who work with secret stuff. I think chances are pretty good that would work for civilians under gag orders as well.
I've been waiting a long time for the successor to the N900. It's sad it'll never happen, and that there's nothing similar on the horizon (especially with Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo floundering).
I wonder if the date is hard coded or it pulls from an api somewhere? It'd be nice to put up a web page clearly showing the End Of Support date.
Hey everyone, I have a semi-related question (since it's briefly mentioned in the article): is it possible to make a decent salary exclusively by doing freelance work through vWorker (rentacoder) and the likes?
Either way, those users will not understand the security of the service they are using. At least with the long version, they'll be aware of their lack of understaning.
> Seems like another very important difference is that the Android cache only keeps track of your last timestamp at a given tower.

This is true of the iPhone cache as well. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467895
1. Congrats. It's amazing to hear and read a story like this; I'd love to read a post with even more details down the road!

2. Why is your name in green on HN?
It's not a false analogy at all. Muting the TV, changing the channel, or leaving the room when ads are on all deprive the advertiser their desired eyeballs to target. I believe that if TVs had been invented nowadays the mute functionality wouldn't be allowed during commercials because it would be seen as interfering with a profit model.

In many ways, Web ads are worse than TV ads because they often aren't switching between ads and content -- they are experienced at the same time. Most Webpages with ads aren't a commercial and then the content, it's the content with the commercials at the periphery of your vision. This means that without adblocking, the user cannot make the choice to read the content undistracted by commercials as they can with TV.

A closer analogy would be if TV shows came with commercials playing (sometimes with sound or popups) along all the borders of a TV show, and it was considered piracy to put a piece of cardboard over that ad-filled border. Muting is no different.
Is Seattle dysfunctional? I had the impression that it was pretty sane. No state income tax, etc.
Even worse, Mac apps are trending towars the "save as you go" model of Google Docs, which has the one advantage of you don't lose your work if an app crashes but if you started editing the wrong document, or make some changes and then change your mind and want to revert back to the last saved version you are tearing your hair out. The latter happens to me much more often.
In some countries family-related problems can be REALLY hard to deal with, because sons and daughters (maybe even more so daughters than sons) are socially expected to obey their parents in whatever way the parents deem appropriate.

The other option is to say no and then basically the whole family may overreact and stop all relations with you (husband, brothers and sisters, parents, uncles, even the most distant of cousins). Suddenly you don't have a family anymore.

The OP on the stackexchange site might be in such a situation. In that case, lying your way out of the situation might be the lesser evil (for now).

If she has the time and means to do so getting questionable visas (from US customs point of view) might cut it. I guess if you have visas for Iran, Yemen and Somalia on your passport it would not be too hard to get rejected at the borders.
I support the EFF, but this will not help our biggest (technical) problem: we no longer own our devices and need to make uncomfortable choices to get them back - i.e. to stop using proprietary operating systems and (black-box) hardware. RMS was never as unreasonable as he seemed, he only thought things through completely and arrived at the right conclusions.
Much less - these satellites are low, so you're not going to have line-of-sight for anything near half the orbital period. Not sure about the precise numbers, but I know Iridium was really challenged by the requirement for clients to roam between satellites on the order of once a minute. As they demonstrated, though, it's a solvable problem.
> This makes the false assumption that resources put into Python 3 somehow prevented "native browser support,"

Agreed, browser support was probably unrealistic.

However other points still stand.

Python 3 was a mistake. It at the wrong time (too late), and didn't bring enough. The talks, and the time, and drama around it weren't worth to get dict comprehension and unicode support.

A 10x speed improvement (heck, just a 2x) would have been. Better IO handling via something sane like lightweight threads (via an already existing framework like gevent or eventlet). Better packaging. Better default GUI library. Refresh the standard library with something like requests, ipython...

Python had a golden opportunity and it squandered it. There were
Yes for the advice, network with founders/investors/smart people and product focus.
I too was amazed when I first tried out Django to find out that there was no way to change my model, migrate and test. I guess that's one of the things they don't teach you upon experiencing ORM for the first time.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458090
"A MSFT share was worth about $35 dollars when Ballmer took over; it's worth about $35 now".

Actually, $35 from 2000 would be much more than $35 now. The stock value declined while he was CEO.
Stock price is his comparison. His point, is that, Balmer let apple and facebook overtake Microsoft when the market was equally fertile for any company to explode. But what did the aftermath look like for Microsoft? Positive enough to adjust for inflation -- an equal stock price.
Why they chose that example I can only speculate, perhaps it was the first name they recognised and just used as an example because they were familiar with it?

I just really didn't like the assertion that this was supposed to be some sort of advert, rather than an arbitrary pick. It certainly isn't an affiliate link or anything.
I was thinking more about examples of how people have changed their tech life. I appreciate your comment as I realised when thinking about the question I realised you can not separate tech and the internet in this modern world. So I get where you are coming from.
True, it would break binary compatibility.
This is exactly why the grandparent post doesn’t make sense. Market rates matter.
I guess that's up to you. Both work, although it's probably best if you follow along and implement the raytracer and the rasterizer as you go.
I use this keyboard on my phone. It's wonderful not having to deal with autocorrect anymore.
So you make the type lattice user extendable? Or different layers hardcoded?

If the former, how do you get code reuse?

What do you mean by expanded lattice? I thought the type lattice was fixed. What would something general look like ?

Thanks for humoring my naive question(s).
It's so strange to me that people who seem to get the basic concept of digital cash often fail to mention Ethereum 2.0 in these discussions.

Consider researching it. It has a lot of technical prowess behind it as well as momentum and doesn't suffer from the problems of Bitcoin.

Personally I do see Bitcoin continuing in use in the future as a type of digital gold.
This just isn’t true: I’m in SoCal, and you can get a very good bottle of wine at Trader Joe’s for $8 (TJ store label), but there’s no guarantee that buying another bottle with the same label tastes as good.
"What allows us to map a research funding and investment methodology is a collection of mathematical properties that we have known heuristically since at least the 1700s and explicitly since around 1900 (with the results of Johan Jensen and Louis Bachelier)."

Beautifully put yet so counter-intuitive.
Thank you for the condescending reply.

Actually, I'm trying to get more information here. Its not clear how this would work, or what sort of person would care about some whitepaper.

I guess part of the problem is that the post is very vague about what the product is, who the target customer is, or why they would care about a whitepaper. If you make a consumer product/SaaS, what could they be offered that they care about to make this work?
Fossil SCM is written by D. Richard Hipp. The same great guy behind SQLite.
Are there good examples of sites that use virtue rather than vice to be sticky / viral? There's something depressing about it being a successful strategy.
My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same laws as the rest of us.

This seems to me to target the wrong people. Most of the screeners are just doing their jobs. They are not the ones who decided to use these machines or implement the groping policy.
1000 hours is about 6 months.

Assuming that "meaningful" return means profitable, some companies will be able to get a return in < 1000 hours. Some it might > 1000 hours. It's going to depend on the market, your customers, the problem you're trying to solve, and your work ethic.
Man, I thought ruby koans and hacketyhack were amazing interactive tools. This is amazing and a lot of fun too.
Grammar nitpick: All of the uses of "1000-hours" in the article are incorrectly hyphenated. You should write "a 1000-hour project" but not "1000-hours of work."
No.:)

Of course, I was just making a general observation based on my experience, not trying to proclaim some pseudo, social science law.
Which war are you talking about, and who really started it?
Indeed it was a typo. The README has been updated.
I joined a company with a Vue app just before the Vue 3 release. I don’t think anyone believes it was a soft launch. Then the tooling like nuxt did the same with a v3 release countdown timer which only then released it was in beta with no support in their ecosystem. You could pay 10k for a consultancy though. I only wanted webpack v5 to be able to use federated modules to give us more migration options. The whole experience reminds me of Angular.js to Angular so I was quick to jump ship and spend the migration effort for v3 in moving to react. We spoke to a contributor too that basically told us we should wait for v3 because currently it’s not really built for SPA. Vue 2 was a web application framework and I could see the benefits for php/python/ruby frameworks with losing JSX and being more understandable for fullstack engineers in smaller teams who might not know React. They have now made a direct competition with React though and badly implemented a lot of apis (simple things like grepability and codemods are lacking). They struggled with this release for a year and now they are still behind where React is focusing on server components, concurrent rendering and the tools we need for WASM to be implemented in the most performant ways now ie11 is officially leaving support this year. Some have said it here too that the whole ecosystem felt beta and now the largely community based ecosystem is either leading to vue3-* packages which just make an upgrade to Vue 3 a full on migration.
Almost nothing special, actually - although the average developer in FAANG/etc. in my experience is considerably better than an average developer outside, that is in part because "the outside" is much larger.

I think the best analogy here is sports... there's a sharp pay cut when you go from playing in an NFL team, to not playing in an NFL team. NFL teams have N slots and they want the best players. That means that the N-th best football player modulo measurement noise is going to be paid much more than the N+1-th.

FAANG/etc. job count is not fixed and measurement noise is probably much higher (i.e. we can't actually determine which developers are best with that much confidence, and so I think a lot of developers could make it into a FAANG and do fine work there), but the same principle applies.
There was actually a fairly high profile boomerang in the news last year - and at Amazon, no less - Sukumar Rathnam went from engineering manager at Amazon to CTO at Uber to VP of e-commerce services at Amazon, all in the span of less than two years.
The whole point is that there are characters in use in certain languages that have accepted mechanisms for encoding in some non-Unicode character encoding system used for that language, but not in Unicode.
Only if cached. Otherwise you had (or have) TCP+TLS overhead, which I doubt is faster than the already established connection.
> Privacy (in a consumer and marketing sense) is a major market advantage. I think that Apple has determined that keeping data away from 3rd parties is a good way to capitalize on that market edge vs. giving up the edge and engaging in the same consumer exploitation as their competitors.

I agree, this seems like the simplest and most straight-forward explanation to me.
They don't want the consequences of overeating. But yes, I do believe they choose to eat the amounts they do.
I thought Lemkin coined the word with the Armenian genocide in mind. In 1943, the scale of the Holocaust was unknown among the public, and even Western intelligence to some extend. Lemkin was in the US by then, so the information available to him about the scale of Nazi atrocities in Eastern Europe would be largely unavailable to him.
Oh. Yeah, ofc, my fault. I missed that.
The duct tape even does not look ugly when you work as it is hidden behind the lid.
So how many here is coding an app that does this now?
What if you work in the night and then sleep 9 to 5pm? Then you would be working at your time, and only sleeping at company time.
Averaging the right things in the right way is important too--such as averages within clusters.
+1. There is literally zero negative impact on anyone's life by a hundred new js frameworks coming out every day. Ignore them. Use the ones you know and enjoy. If a new one seems to be gaining mainstream traction, spend an hour to check it out. Don't waste a second of brain activity or get annoyed with new frameworks - there is no reason.
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders at Swipe, thank you so much for the comment! That's a really interesting idea. Our scope with this is very narrow now and we wouldn't want to promise something like that at the moment. But it's something we haven't thought about before, it sounds really useful.
Chain of custody implies you have some impartial authority who was actually there at the time to authenticate the recording. But then you would already have an impartial eyewitness. That doesn't work the other 99% of the time when the two parties to the case each tell a different story and one of them is offering evidence they have in their possession. The chain of custody then contains someone partial to the case and untrustworthy.

> Yes, if a state actor wants to create evidence to frame you, and they didn't care about cost or returns, they could do so. But they could always do so. The fact is most of us are never going to get framed by a nation state.

This is a major problem for elections. Nation states absolutely will doctor video of adversarial political candidates and for other propaganda purposes.

> The notion that you're either secure against all possible attacks or nothing is absurd.

But that's how signatures work. You're trusting every device in the world to sign the output of its camera. If the attacker can compromise any device, they can produce signed forgeries.
> Additionally contract work allows you to change up the projects you work more easily.

How often do you change jobs as a contractor? What range of rates would you recommend targeting?

> I'd recommend to look for a contract role where you help with the maintenance of some old boring tech project.

Would you go through a recruiter to find something like this? How would you frame this to a recruiter that this is the type of job you want? You can't really just say, "I want an easy software job". Or can you? But you especially couldn't say that to the company.
Because China is trying to promote more trading -- which it benefits from. And she does need the products or connections of Boeing/Intel.

If China breaks her compeletely from all major US manufacturers, it's equivalent to a declaration of the end of post-2001 world economy and can bring ripples across the world. China is not prepared for that, yet.
I should have clarified my response above somewhat: an encrypted message is not necessarily verifiable as to sender, it is only if it's signed. Which encrypted email frequently is. How it's verifiable itself affects the security of the message -- an externally visible signature hash is stronger metadata than even the usual headers on email. Though that wasn't the thrust of your comment.

The thing about spam is its volume, and the cost (time, compute resources) required to defeat it.

Rejecting message at connect time (simply based on IP) or during SMTP negotiation imposes the lowest costs. DNSBL lookups are sufficiently expensive that they're typically deferred until _other_ checks are made -- running a half-dozen or dozen IP lookups takes time, though if you can manage that in parallel with other messages you're OK. Content-based checks are even more expensive, depending on how you run them.

And if your email's encrypted, you can't run them at all.

Signatures can be checked, but that costs some time (I get 0.006s for a 'gpg --verify' vs. 0.001 for 'cat' on a file consisting of "Hello, world.") -- and you need the signature present to be able to verify it. Searching and retrieving sigs can take several seconds or more.

If only a small quantity of email is encrypted, it's likely a good signal of non-spam mail, and the costs of processing it are low. If encryption becomes common, and spammers make use of it, that could change.

Though the upside to encryption is that it increases spammer's costs as well. They've got to find and use the right key for each recipient. Where this is worthwhile it might happen, though it likely often won't.

While I've generally defended SMTP in the past, I'm starting to think it's time to really explore alternatives. Open alternatives, not the "here's my proprietary solution to the email / messaging problem" crud that's been popping up every six months for the past fifteen years.