jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But if they don't take good care of that "paltry" revenue stream, there will be a greater cost on lost device sales.
recordval.fieldname would have the same syntax as function composition func1.func2

Since you should know the type of the first argument to '.', it is possible to disambiguate, but it would be a pretty significant corner case in the grammar.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Color me ignorant... What is the difference between Watson, Cortona, Siri and Now? What does Watson have that those services don't?
I don't get this article.

> Obviously billionaires like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg are part of the 1%. But who else is? According to Credit Suisse, another 47m people

There are 7 billion people in this world. 1% of that is 70 million, not 47 million.

Never trust journalists writing about statistics (or anyone who hasn't studied statistics, they probably have no idea what they're talking about) (on second thought, don't trust people who have studied statistics either; they now enough to manipulate you).
Wow. 111,800 people is a huge number. That's a whole city looking for work, and over $1 billion saved (in the long run) for each $10000 of employee salary.

> The question I have to ask is why isn't Rometty one of the 110k. IBM has seen 11 straight quarters of declining revenue and it's hemorrhaging customers, according to both my source and Cringely.

Yep.

So what should IBM do here? For one, IBM needs a complete makeover. Why should I pick SoftLayer over AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc? They need a new image, something that will draw customers and something other than being the canonical story of corporate bloat and mismanagement.
I left IBM in 2012 because I saw that the division I was working for was never going to be competitive. It is surprising that it took almost 3 years for what was obvious at the bottom to reach the top and be implemented.
FWIW, if you're looking all over the place for an internship, maybe don't rule them out[1]. Often companies lay off employees who aren't useful to them, but are still looking for employees who will be useful. In particular, someone who's good at programming[2] and junior[3] might be the kind of person they still want to hire.

[1] Then again, the fact you're commenting on HN probably means you're a strong candidate who'll find an internship with ease. So follow your dreams. ;)

[2] Again, just assuming this based on the fact you're an HN reader. You might be horrified to see what proportion of people in a BigCorp company can't do even basic reasoning.

[3] Pay an intern pennies to do pounds worth of work! Yay!
Hazard of being raised Canadian :). Sorry.
I’m surprised I didn’t see pfsense. Are you using the vpn and firewall built into synology?
TypeScript (as you might expect from a lang built for dealing with JS Objects), has really great tooling for this kind of type narrowing these days (including on string template matching now) and I miss it so much now that I’m writing Go.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Can you please not create accounts to do that with? We're trying for something different here.

Also, could you please not create accounts for every few comments you post? We tend to ban those also. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=community%20identity%20by:dang...
If he is disturbed by this, image what he'd think of Tesla branding their level 2 autonomous driving system Autopilot.
Yes, exactly.

Interestingly: McDonald's has their own internal surveillance apparatus that functions much like their own Pinkerton's.
Can you please stop? I know these tit-for-tat exchanges are hard to pull away from but they're exceptionally tedious, and not what HN is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I definitely understand the core concept of owning a "physical" company along with its assets, yet at this point where the actual real value of the stock is close to zero, then skyrocketing it up is no less speculative than trading bitcoins with an imaginary value.
Please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26279550
agreed, the recent HN feature of Cockpit piqued my interest and I prayed DO had a tutorial for debian. of course, they did
Me too! I get mine via hnrss.org.
The problem with not doing this is you're just leaving the hole open, and when vendors haven't bothered to respond before the deadline there's very little chance that they will do anything at all if it passes and there's no consequence. If details of the vulnerability are published, the vendor will have to patch it or openly admit they don't care about a significant risk to their business (note that the risk was there all along.)

Sorry, but this is on the vendors. Saying Google shouldn't release details is like saying the public shouldn't be informed of a dangerous flaw in a car model's brake system until the manufacturer has decided whether to launch a new model and what the marketing plan for it should be.
I'm intrigued, so maybe.
Shoebox :-P
That would be a nice addition to the list. Perhaps it can be turned on with selective access and only at points where it is really needed.
Well the point I was trying to make was that people become famous when they can be linked to something that a lot of people care about. We see this in the entertainment industry where it's easy to associate a blockbuster film with the stars or directors of the film.

This is not typically the case in the software industry where the Blockbuster software so to speak are produced by Companies and not lone programmers. That is to say the company is the face of the software.

I used Microsoft Word (maybe I should have used Office) because it's an example of a software application where the company that makes it is well known and I thought if it were possible for one person to create an application with as large an impact as Microsoft Office has had in the world then surely that person would be remembered.

One notable exception to the rule I think is Linus Torvalds. He still remains the face of linux although what linux is today is due to contributions from a large number of people.
I see that Rietveld is only a part of Mondrian or at least described as "not the full Mondrian tool". Googlers, what are the differences between the two. Wonder why the full Mondrian tool couldn't be released.
Apple has benefited far more than AT&T... look at the stock prices or revenues gained. I'm not saying they're benefitting specifically from exclusivity... they would make more with more carriers to be sure... but the notion that it's "bad for Apple" doesn't seem to float.
If you get what you say you want (i.e. reduced consumption) then your revenue decreases which will force you to find another source of revenue.

The cynic in me would say that there's no real end to the list of behaviors our government would like to engineer out of the population.

The benefit to them is two-fold; a possibly short-lived, but endlessly repeatable, source of income, and a populace ever more willing to accept government manipulation.
There are massive gaps between losing to COVID (which would’ve been 1-10% deaths depending on if they happened suddenly enough to overwhelm the healthcare system or not), versus what actually happened in any given nation (0.2% in Belgium to 0.00003% in Burundi, 0.155% in the USA), versus the best possible combination of decisions and actions in response to this virus (it being stopped in China before it ever spread outside Wuhan).

Same with climate change. Worst case is Venus, we’re heading for a few degrees Celsius change that persists for centuries, we could’ve prevented almost all of the problems we’re looking at now if we’d made the best choices even as late as the 60s and 70s.
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> All the energy and money of such could be better spent

What money? It costs nothing to talk about it. It's not like anyone is wasting millions of dollars into writing a nautilus article.

The issue is a budget assignment issue, SETI is currently considered low priority vs other subjects in NASA and other orgs budget. If you want a bigger budget for SETI, then people need to talk about it and a make a lot of noise,
and citizens need to vote for representative that will pledge support for that.
> Degradation of soil - or specifically - the ability of topsoil to retain enough nutrients to support agriculture - is not the primary problem we are facing today.

I agree. The biggest problem is our culture taking an overly simplistic reductionistic approach to create solutions (aka the silver bullet). There are a number of issues that all need to be addressed. That being said, Degradation of soil is a major issue that needs to be addressed; if it's not addressed, we will have compounding issues.

Note that 12 million hecacres of arable land is lost every year from desertification, caused by soil degradation.

http://www.un.org/en/events/desertificationday/background.sh...
The purpose is the getting of the thing, or the being at the place.

The point is that not everything you do needs to have a _higher_ purpose.
Portland is not generally gloomy.. The people love the carpet because it's Portland.. There are consortiums of folks who identify and highlight obscure oddities to make Portland stand out in some little way. It's hipster culture.
If you can reset your password with access to your gmail account, then Google can already do this, yes?
LCA is pretty awesome.

I went to linux.conf.au for five years in a row (from India).

Heard people like like Andrew Tanenbaum and Bruce Schneier, more importantly go to ask them questions (yes, that's the point).

Rusty, Tridge, Linus, Bdale, Keith Packard, Lennart, Garret, Val Henson, Rasmus ... if you work on the lower layers of the linux ecosystem, this is a pretty awesome place to head to.

The only downside was that I returned from the conference every year with a sensation of having wasted the entire year before not doing anything significant (of course, I worked on a lot of small things, but nothing which took a year to write).
If you don't want to share the code you'd take it off of your website, that's a high level explanation.
> No farmer willingly treats their land like that

People absolutely will exploit, consume, and even destroy resources they own if they think it will give them sufficient local advantage. Why would land be an exception?

> the average farmer knows more about soil science and biogeochemistry than Monbiot does

There are farmers whose scientific grasp seems sound and position has a lot in common with Monbiot.

Google "Wes Jackson", or just look elsewhere on this page where I've posted some links.
Think of it as just a big disk enclosure. You can either plug it into the back of an HP server or plonk it on the network by itself.

Google has some good pictures:
http://www.google.com/images?q=HP%20MSA%203000

HP's high-end 'ProLiant' kit have "Integrated Lights-out" that will allow you to do things like power cycle the device, drop on to the serial console, etc. All over a user friendly web interface.

I'm assuming this 'admin backdoor' it is for that.
Screenshots, remote desktop stuff, etc, is being built under the Portal system that’s used for flatpak. GNOME and KDE already support this, and it doesn’t depend on flatpak at all.
Recreation.gov was recently rebuilt and runs on Kubernetes. Details:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/seeking-happy-campers-governmen...
You're repeating exactly what he said :)
In Romania, we make a clear distinction between Supa, Ciorba and Bors.

Supa (Soup) is the un-soured base, Ciorba is sour (usually soured with lemon) and Bors (Borscht) is soured with an wheat bran based fermented liquid by the same name. :)
This is just an example of a common problem e.g. invoices, transcripts, purchase orders, etc.
Why was it LimeWire, and not KaZaA (which had supernodes), or AudioGalaxy (which used the browser as UI), or SoulSeek (which I used; and had an amazing community). Not to mention eDonkey/eMule/DCPP and a whole slew more, such as BitTorrent. Or how about Usenet?
or... limit concurrency. I'm not sure if people were making concurrent reservations, but normal people don't need, say, 4 campsites on the same block of days at 4 different campsites. if this wasn't being abused, it probably will be at some point.
Just use a delay pedal, and the machine automatically legitimizes it for you. It's magic!
Misrepresentation. The comment was clearly talking about this company with it's toxic history and the worker abuse problems by it and within its sector.
Well, I would not state that "those people" are immoral or stupid. Even academics or highly moral people fell for these scams. The big problem is that "those people" are blind to the signs of the scam, which seem obvious to people who know the matter - in this case the blockchain and the crypto-world.
In case of OneCoin, people were told they could earn some money by simply buying some fancy, technical crypto-thinghy. It's just the human nature to react positively to possible contracts or actions which likely return something positive for them.

This is the same issue for all other "scams", i. e. like some insurance-salespersons, which obviously sell overpriced or needless contracts, just to earn more money with their victims. Or car mechanics who tell the car owner the suspension arm needs to be replaced even if it's in perfect condition.
It's always the same: some greedy, immoral people exploiting the inexperience or missing knowledge or other people.
Was looking for this comment! I was at Kohl's with my wife and I saw the sticker price and was ready to leave, and she said, "oh, that's not the price you'll pay, everything has a discount." I don't like that game and I've not gone back.
http://code.google.com/edu/ajax/index.html
Thanks for the promo codes. Just a heads up, 66TJLLYRY9W3 and LRKMYJXKKTKF have already been redeemed. I haven't checked the first three.
Reminds me of Action Item Man for those who have not seen it: http://professionalsuperhero.com/
It scales by using the system that Bitcoin was supposed to replace?

Again, that’s not an argument for Bitcoin, just so we’re clear. This is an argument for visa instead.
Housing is not included in CPI, only "rents". If home prices go up 10% this year, but interest rates drop such that the carrying cost is the same, the effect on CPI is net 0% inflation.

Obviously the purchase price matters, because the higher prices are, the more money you need to even get in the door with homeownership.
So you pay $40k+ for bitcoin just so you can frame some numbers and letters and say you paid $40k+ for those numbers and letters?

Gold's value comes from the fact that it doesn't dull or dim over time, and has many uses in the electronics and jewelry industries. If you have the resources to get gold and own it, that is a clear sign of status and value.

Can't say the same with crypto for any counts. All of crypto's value comes from speculation. Over the last 10 years, I've seen the same tired drum beat, that 'crypto is valuable because of decentralization, supply regulation, and censorship resistance' but these are so vapid and completely different from reality and what people actually need. There is no convenience, no government backing, and no trust. So the only people using these fake tokens are disreputables and hedge funds/speculators looking to exploit and get fun returns.
Musk or Roubini?
> Writing this piece, I found myself thinking about Ibram X. Kendi’s book “How to Be an Antiracist.” Kendi’s central argument is that it is policy outcomes, not personal intent, that matter. “Racist policies are defined as any policy that leads to racial inequity,” he told me when I interviewed him in 2019. “And so, for me, racial language in the policy doesn’t matter, intent of the policymaker doesn’t matter, even the consciousness of the policymaker, that it’s going lead to inequity, doesn’t matter. It’s all about the fundamental outcome.”

I’m pulling this out next time my neighbors cite “traffic” when opposing any development.
I use Emacs Org mode to organize my notes (and character sheet) for my main D&D campaign. I have an automatic export to HTML set up in after-save-hook, which then gets synced to my web server via Syncthing, so my notes are readable by the other players and the DM within moments of me saving the file. It's great.
Tyres are the only part of the vehicle intended to contact another surface, the road, while the vehicle is in use.

Any idiot can see, and has a reasonable expectation, that tyres will need replacing at regular interval.

It's less obvious to the average driver that, say, the cabin air filter will need replacing from time to time. A mechanic or vehicle enthusiast should be expected to know this and replace it.

It's a whole lot less obvious your car's "computer memory" will wear out.

They're not even in the same ball park.

The average driver probably doesn't know about flash memory wear-levelling, and shouldn't have to.
The interesting thing is that the following sentence is said years after it was decided to eliminate vfp.

"It's my hope that in five to 10 years, programming languages simply will have queries as a concept"
I don’t think the comparison is fair with regard to scaling.
Imagine this situation: you’d like to have 2 instances of your application running on two different machines, and you’d like to rollout updates with no downtime. It’s trivial with MySQL/Postgres, but it’s tricky with sqlite.

A lot of solutions don’t take into consideration “day 2” operations: mostly around no downtime upgrades.
fail to gratify intellectual curiosity

At stake here are the 2 functions that HN serves: 1. a front page for the HN readership, and 2. an electronic town-hall.

Consider that the town-hall service to the community is how HN got where it did today.

It's one thing to rein in repetitious bunkum, it's quite another for the Chair to say, "bah, I find this so boring" if you allow me caricaturizing license.
Non-blogspam link: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/arctic-fibre-proje...
> Maybe he takes issue with the fact that I acknowledge that it's a difficult fight, not an easy one, but whatever.

Let me repeat this for the third time: the only thing I object to about your original post is the use of the cliche "it's not practical!" argument.

Saying "it's difficult" is one thing, because the obvious next question is "what makes it difficult?" Saying "it's not practical" is a lazy way to shut a conversation down and by implication accuse whoever is advocating the "impractical" point of view of having a poor grasp of reality.
Vim is actualy pretty easy to use, the learning process is not hard at all you could just go through the vim tutorial that comes with and you will in good shape in no time.
To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics](https://github.com/atom/metrics) for details.

More data going to Google without opting in first? Bummer.
In my humble opinion, it's much more important to have a stellar product designer (decide how the thing works, then how it looks) than it is to have a stellar programmer.

The slight problem is that programmers generally have an easier time making a shitty-but-workable UI than designers have putting together shitty-but-workable code.

Thankfully that has been changing lately. I've talked to plenty of Rails developers who come from a design background and are teaching themselves how to program. Hell, that's how I originally met Jason Fried. He had taught himself to program and wanted some assistance.

So if I was putting my money on any startups (and I'm not!), I would much rather pick the ones with strong design talent than with strong programming talent -- unless the key element to what they were doing was uniquely technical.
Exactly, I've tried a bunch and ended up with one written in a language I know absolutely nothing about.

Find it incredibly strange when people say ”static site generator written in X” as though it means anything to the end user.

And truly if compilation speed is actually of any importance to you as a blogger perhaps you are too big to be a "blogger".

There's no major static site generator out there that doesn't have enough customisation for well over 99% of users.
I think the curve is defined by the rules of the game, and the machine learned some details of it that humans hadn't figured out yet.
interesting solution but for now just turning it off seems to be much preferred. We’ve noticed our kids engage their imaginations and are much better behaved the less time they spend online.
To me the key line in the whole essay was:

It’s difficult to get into a good flow while coding if you know you have a meeting coming up in an hour or two

One meeting in the day is enough to ruin a whole day for coding. All you can do for the rest of that day is putter. Projects do need a certain amount of puttering, but when they need it is not the day of the meeting.
I don't think that this new and it arguably predates democracy. Being able to keep the attention of the masses influencing policy has generally been called 'leadership' - even if they are frankly idiots who lead them straight off cliffs. It is another one of those annoyingly conflated words like 'empathy' assuming that understanding people and caring about them are the same - leadership has connotations of actually being effective and getting others to follow.
>but video podcasts are discoverable

No they're not. Does the average person know what you're even talking about here? Because I don't know and a service that's unknown is not discoverable.
Except let's not forget the DAO hack, where everything was forked because too many rich people lost their money.
The main worry creators have is that the FTC is the final decider whether your content is for kids or not. They say that things such as animated characters and flashy graphics can put your video in the "for kids" category regardless what you indicate the video as.
Why are they even pulling this MITM trick in the first place ?

Can't GoGo just "blacklist" streaming sites at a DNS level and deal with the problem before a connection is even made to a high-bandwith destination ?
Low property taxes :-) for the house I currently live in the UK that would be around $10k per annum its actualy about 1/10 of that.
> they are hard to test.

I don't get this. Do you write test for every private methods in your class? That's totally unnecessary.
I suspect they mean "e-mail address", but that's a pretty hideous oversight as copy editing goes.
> If it were provided to everyone without regard to their other sources of income it would differ from other approaches like welfare

The trouble with that is that the math becomes impossible.

If everyone gets equal benefit, then there are only two possibilities:

1. It's so small as to be worthless. Your annual basic income check of $6.28 won't be able to buy combo #3 at the drive thru, let alone combo #1.

2. The tax bill is so huge it strangles the economy. There are 300 billion people in the United States, for them to each get even $1000/year, that's $3 trillion. And what's $1000? Most basic income stooges talk more about 5 figure numbers... so we'd need $30 trillion/year.

Where does that come from? It needs to be up front, since people will lose jobs first, and only decades later will 100% automation actually produce immeasurable wealth.