jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's relatively affordable if you are employed in a company (even though some things like dental care etc you'd have to pay for it yourself if you are doing more than two checkups per year afaik or basic filling) but if you're self employed, you'd have to pay the 14% all by yourself which is a lot!
I'm surprised that you find Vim unintuitive elsewhere and talk about "just" creating a project in VS.

VS projects in the IDE are one of the most convoluted development ways I've ever seen.

Students won't learn anything except developing Stockholm Syndrom for a bloated proprietary environment.

If it must be Windows, I'd rather teach cl.exe and Makefiles or adapted .vsproj files with msbuild.
This is what OCaml does: you can annotate function calls with [@tailcall] to result in compiler diagnostics if the call in fact isn't in tail call position.
Well, in theory that would be the case. In practice as long as you invest printed central bank money carefully you can actually make a nice return. However I don't see why any country would have an obligation to invest into foreign infrastructure. It would be more politically acceptable to solve domestic problems first.
Most of the usage complaints seem to be when using fetchmail to send off to another smtp server, not for just downloading mail.

There are also complaints about it being insecure and of low code quality, but those seem to rarely be the main complaint.
I also feel that Svelte has taken the best of many worlds.

Most front-end Javascript frameworks rely on either declarative widgets or some contrived implementation of HTML / CSS with a build step to get the developer's code to render in the browser.

Svelte's approach to sticking extremely close to traditional HTML / CSS & JS, and then compiling everything together, in my opinion, makes it much more approachable and maintainable.
You're going to find good people in any group but they'll likely be the same people who would have learned it on their own without the course work because they're self starters and motivated.

That said, after attending a dozen or more of these hiring events I must admit that the quality is abysmally low. Two of my previous employers decided to hire our entry-level engineers from these "bootcamps" and 6 months later all of them had been fired for poor performance, even after weeks of mentorship and coaching. In my experience the amount of handholding was far greater than the work they could do on their own. I can recall helping people with basic command line navigation, simple git commands, and even things like running rspec. Trivial tasks that should form the foundation of your work as a software engineer required almost constant support.

My personal take is that these schools are great in that they encourage people to pursue engineering but I fear that just like other trade schools (e.g. ITT), it's offer a promise of a big paying job without adequately preparing people for the career ahead.
Landing on the moon was a historic achievement, but this work with reusable rockets is on the same scale. In order to colonize space and no longer be bound to just the Earth, we will need transportation that costs less than a billion dollars per person. Apollo showed us that the stars are in our grasp, SpaceX wool provide the means of actually grasping them.
There's a lot of focus here on Bink, but Oodle has a fascinating history as well. From world-class compression ratios/decompression speeds to being implemented in hardware by Sony in all PS5s. RAD have a great history of getting exactly the right people that are interested in their fields and are great at what they do.

I echo the sentiments of many when saying I am surprised no one had scooped them up earlier (although I doubt it wasn't for lack of offers).
Probably, so is Tesla's. Tesla's so-called "Full self driving" is still a level 2 system. It still needs constant driver attention for when it screws up.

"Unfortunately, we see that some automakers use the term 'self-driving' in an inaccurate way, giving consumers and the general public a false impression of the capabilities of driver assist (not fully autonomous) technology," - Waymo, which just stopped using the term "self-driving".
Don’t be so tribal. You’re othering a broad swath of people, most of whom are quite reasonable. Hyperbole and lack of communication and empathy are what got us into this mess in the first place. This shit comes from both sides and it has to stop.
Shopify has joined the virtue signaling game.
I've used both server side rendering and server side includes. A static site generator beats both. Just have a listener that will re-generate the site live when you write new content, then just ssh/ftp the generated content to the server when you are done, or if you are fancy you can use version control and push to a repo with a CI toolchain that will regenerate and ssh/ftp it for you.
They even refund international ATM fees which is awesome. If you're an investor, their margin rates are usurious, though.
If he's discussing Matt Braynard's data, that data doesn't have strong indications of dead people voting being an issue.

It does present a compelling argument that really needs to be addressed sooner than later, however. The margins of the questionable statistics presented are well beyond the margin of victory.
Try out Novo

[1] https://banknovo.com
It is possible the incoming Biden administration will use anti-trust against big tech and could implement laws to strip out the ability to do bulk data collection.
Not all of them did: https://twitter.com/keith_rosson/status/1346993989057093634

But DC has rather strict laws about firearms, so it was rational to rely on a swarming approach and then try to exploit the gains from that tactic. While the attempt to take over the capitol failed insofar as Congress reconvened to finish the process of counting electoral college votes, and many of the participants have been or are about to be arrested, the far right has scored an outstanding propaganda victory (complete with photogenic martyrs) at little real cost. I would say 2021 has got off to a spectacular start for them.
A satellite alone is just a dumb amplifier. If you want to share bandwidth and access, you'll need a lot of ground equipments to operate the access-layer (e.g. relying on DVB-RCS).

The project is not talking about the Telemetry Tracking and Control (TT&C) of the satellite. TerreStar-1 is a GEO satellite and you'll need to make regular manoeuvrings to keep the footprint stable too. Operating a satellite is costly and require a 24/7 staff... I don't really think that the project is realistic with such level of funding.
> Everything that you just mentioned is a limitation on what a person can do to another person. They are fulfilled by people doing less, not more

Simply not true.

Property rights require someone to enforce them; police don't work for free.

Jury's require jurors who very often don't want to be there.

Speedy trials require judges and jurors to work efficiently, and again, not free.

Protection from unreasonable search and seizure requires someone to enforce it.

The right to confront your accuser requires the accuser to testify.

> The "right to use the Internet" is absurd.

I never implied otherwise. I was objecting to your conclusion that rights shouldn't require other people when the facts are, many of your existing rights do.
Uh, you mean like China?
Couldn't agree with you more on the healthcare costs. The difference between being W2 employed with company provided healthcare for a family and being self employed with self purchased healthcare for a family is absurdly huge.

America punishes those who don't work W2 through the healthcare costs and it's just plain horrible.
Yes, it's a fantastic story, but why is it specific to hackers or entrepreneurs as opposed to the general populace?

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> His worst crime was getting a consentual blow job from a woman in her 20s. I never got why that mattered given the shit the others were up to...

That was character evidence in a sexual harassment lawsuit from a different woman (Paula Jones) who claims that he tried to pressure her into non-consensual sex.

Clinton was sanctioned for perjury due to lying about that relationship in court, appealed the ruling, then later dropped the appeal and surrendered his law license voluntarily.

So there were elements of perjury and non-consensual sex here and your summary is incomplete.
Not just contributed. SELinux is primarily authored by the NSA.
I am OLD - I had FB when it was a private, university-only, and people were giving out their dorm buildings and rooms.

My FB was becoming a ghost town 5 years ago, so I stopped using it, then deleted my "real" profile. I maintain a shell account now for Marketplace, Groups, and Messenger. I have the "light" apps on my phone with all requested permissions denied.

Marketplace SUCKS from a usability perspective, but it's become equally as active than CL in my area.

Groups are a goldmine of information - my neighborhood has one that is active, I have an active one for my model vehicle, and there are B/S/T groups that are nice, as well. Groups have effectively killed the old Forums/Bulletin Boards.

Messenger is required if you want to buy/sell, etc. I don't use it for anything useful.
I continue to use IRC with friends I've known for 20+ years. Some of my IRC groups have migrated to Discord or Slack, but IRC is still on in the background.

You've touched on a fundamental point that G+ was trying to get across with "circles." I'm a member of probably 20 different groups across various messaging platforms. These are tight little communities with a lot of trust. It isn't that we all agree politically or anything, but we trust each other to be kind, consistent, and not too spammy. Anyway, I think small groups in WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, IRC, etc.. are the present and future of good social interactions.
> DDG is as good as Google in certain topics, especially programming-related topics. But otherwise, not so good.

Interesting, my experience is exactly the opposite (as I mentioned in another comment here). In general searches, DDG and Google return about equally good results, with 10% of the time DDG doing better and 10% of the time Google doing better. With programming-related searches, Google is pretty much guaranteed to return better results for me. Doing the Advent of Code 2020 was the first time in months that I had to consistently do `!g` re-searches, because DDG results were significantly worse.
What I mean to say is that a launderer would not have bothered leaving bad reviews for his own fake books. The people who did this bought the books by mistake.

Not sure why this idea gets downvoted. The simpler explanation is usually right.
You're missing that Zope application-development-through-the-browser could (and did) allow you to do just about anything with a Turing-complete template language, and if that was too unwieldy, Python script objects (which executed in a sandbox to prevent direct access to the filesystem, etc.).

Nothing forced you to a saner development model except for wanting to include 3rd-party libraries and being able to distribute and version your code.

Remember, this was when servers were definitely pets and scaling a web app meant scaling up to a bigger server, not scaling out to more servers. It wasn't immediately obvious (especially to brand new developers) that having all the code for even a simple CRUD web app, which you only ever expected to have a single deployment to a single server, live as pickles inside an object database that had a transactional history of edits, was inherently a bad idea.

A lot of interesting stuff was created that way, and integration with the facilities that were missing such as version control led directly to capabilities like versioning content in cvs and svn (since code was just another kind of content).

Eventually, Zope's so-called "Z-shaped learning curve" hindered adoption and other Python-based web-app platforms surpassed it in popularity.
This is an exceptionally crisp explanation.

TI is great to work with on Type 1 chips. They're nowhere near the worst in the Type 3 category. (Looking at you, Qualcomm and Marvell.)

I totally agree that the DMCA notices issued don't make much sense, given this context. I just get irritated by OSHW folks acting like their business means something to TI. They are ants crying in the footprints of elephants.
Twitter tries to cancel the Library of Alexandra. We should discuss a bit about Twitter as well, I think.

In other comments I saw the resonable demand to express support for Elbakyan. Recall that we discuss about the biggest free library of research works.

I tried this here:
https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/enemies-of-...
is there a readme that has intro, summarizes current features, why we need another cgi lib and the future.
On the price; $4.5 per user, for a store with 100 customers it will be $450 per month? Am I correct? and for 1000 it is $3500 per month?
I don't know enough about macOS system internals to confidently speak about them, but my guess is that there's some kind of legacy cruft/holdover that's preventing a direct disk image replacement for updates. Wouldn't be surprised if this were fixed in the next major release or two, likely paired with dropping support for something.
> there are a lot of ways to measure outside of FBs analytics tools.

There is no way to validate their impression/click data that all the downstream metrics are reliant on. If you have a way, I'd love to know about it. The claim isn't that they make up conversions, the claim is that they overstate the ROI and cv% based on the denominator.
I really still like my iMac and Mac OS as a whole is still very good. However I also experience Windows 10 daily as my work laptop uses that OS. That work laptop also is fully managed by my employer with updates pushed to me weekly mostly to cover the latest security issue.

So I have biweekly updates at minimum to my work laptop; a nothing special i5 SSD based Dell; and these annoy me because I have to spend what feels like nearly five minutes between updates applied, boot, and more updates applied, before I can sign on.

and there is my Mac. I have a 2019 iMac, i9, SSD, and 40g memory. Twenty five to forty minutes complete with a timer on screen just to rub it in, which doesn't show up for some time into the process just to add some spice.

It is as long as the upgrade to Big Sur took or at least it feels that way. I am loathe to let my iMac update and while it claims it can do so overnight it always fails to do so.

Apple's patch process even on iPads and to an extent my iPhone are abysmal too. I really don't understand systems that are otherwise fast take so long to do an update.

PS: On a side note, Big Sur is the least stable OS from them I can recall in recent years. I have had hard freezes in some apps which they Mac three finger salute could not remedy and a few times I found myself signing back in as it just "rebooted"
"Twelve hundred" is no weirder than "Ten thousand."
I'd like to share my favourite timezone lookup tool: http://xkcd.com/now
Facebook is rated higher for a number of reasons:

1) High impact. Most team sizes are 5 people or less. Those 5 people are handling big systems like photos or memcache. You know you're doing important things.

2) Move fast. Example: Facebook Groups went from concept to release in 3 months. In other companies, it would take 3 months just to get through release engineering.

3) Hackathon! People here love to code, and the environment encourages you. A lot of managers have switched back to SWEs, reinforcing that it's not demeaning to stay technical.

4) Still growing. It's true, new hotness normally trumps old & established. However, where Google started doubling every 6-9 months; Facebook tries to maintain top quality at the occasional expense of slower growth. This is helping the company retain most of its original culture.
Facebook is pre-IPO, so people who go there are likely to make extra money when the IPO happens.
#2 is a fair point, but I think you have it reversed on #1 and #3. You are a cool company _because_ you're young, game changing and have an audience, not the other way around.

#4 is a property of most young companies regardless of their popularity.
May be it has to do with the fact that number of employees in google are many times more than that of Facebook, bringing down the compensation avg as well as the avg job satisfaction.
So is IndexedDB a beefier version of localStorage or does it serve a different purpose altogether?
Good call on auto-opening those objects-- I'll file that with the team. You can right-click in the console to turn on XHR logging.
they also have a free account, which is plenty for smaller uses.

but, i mean, the point of the competition is to integrate into their product. of course they're getting something out of it.
As a Tech-Savvy Westerner I accept that you guys won't stop blowing your cheap plastic horns and I understand that it's really annoying.
Imagine if you had a TV alternating the images at 60Hz, and a pair of glasses which flickered each side opaque/transparent at 30Hz...
Release notes don't mention: this updates Apple Mail, revises the messages DB, and disables Mail plugins such as Daylight, Letter Opener, and Widemail.
"Its not even PC vs Mac."

It IS like PC vs Mac. With Mac you have closed hardware and closed specs, only newer or older.

With PC you can build your own computer selecting or cherry-picking the components you want, and then install the version and flavour of OS fits better to your liking or needs, Windows server/desktop, lots of Linux distros, even BSDs, you name it, as long as it is x86 architecture.
This is so full of corporate bullcrap that it makes me shudder...
Game mechanics in crappy apps -> ???? -> PROFIT!
In South Africa, they are the culture of the game. Different countries, different cultures.
...and he said at the bottom of that line:

"No, seriously!?

OK, I think MongoDB makes sense with most web applications...."
It's very different when you're at the game - the vuvuzelas near you are distinguishable and you can hear people singing.

Obviously that's not ideal for watching it on tv - the vuvuzelas tend to drown everything else out when it's all recorded - but I'm not sure what the ideal solution is, because there's no way that anyone here in South Africa would accept a ban.
Sorry yeah I get that, but in what way?
> solve small problems for which Python/Ruby would have traditionally been used, good file system, stream and networking APIs, but concurrency as a first class citizen, garbage collected, fast startup time

I think for the most part, you won't be missing a lot in Haskell. If you are looking for what you say above, Go should satisfy your needs greatly. Haskell is amazing for functional programming needs - fast prototyping and great at doing mathematical calculations. It helps you think in another way, but I certainly wouldn't use it for building something like an API or networking.
While aew porn sites to be legally required to verify user's age? Presumably so access to porn will be prohibited for the young. Why is such a ban a good thing?
Who benefits from such a ban? Why is keeping sexual knowledge hidden, secret, and dirty a good way to build a healthy society? Why do som many people worry about other people's sex lives?

Is there research which studies user's response to porn and sexuality as a function of age where social pressures can be factored out and kids grow up in a state of nature without their preconceived notions about what is "normal"?
Has anyone used Scratch style blocks for real physical blocks?

They fit together like puzzle pieces. Kind of a neat visual that could translate to physical medium.
Waymo! 4-7 hours of meetings per day, but only 0-30 minutes of work. Hobby with headphones.
Total deaths pM Belgium: 1,999

Total deaths pM Sweden: 1,399

Similar country size, but BE has had full lockdown, curfew, police fining.
For a business this is basically free. You could honestly even think of it as a net-positive for some teams. Think of all of the times you were in a group meeting and somebody has to repeat themselves because someone else was typing, living next door to construction, ambulance drove by, etc. $300 / year for a team of 5 more than pays up for itself if you think of it in terms of hourly salary. For a $120k/year salaried engineer, effectively paid $60 / hour, you only need to save them 1 hour per year for this purchase to be financially worth it for the business. Not to mention the less tangible benefits like "being less distracted/stressed during meetings".
Wow, great article! Super interesting :)
FFmpeg is the whole package including ffmpeg as a standalone program and its libraries.

From https://www.ffmpeg.org/about.html

"FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created."

After that:

"It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. As well as ffmpeg, ffplay and ffprobe which can be used by end users for transcoding and playing"
Rust also lets you do that trivially, by saying "hey here is where the folder is".
Where does he host his email? It doesn't say.

Also, his website is very slow, probably because he's not using a CDN. A noble goal, but it has an impact on credibility. The slow website makes me feel like he doesn't care about user experience, which makes me assume that is true for his whole setup, and turns me off from even considering it.
AirPods also drop quality when the mic is in use!
I really hope this isn't true. I can't begin to imagine the horrors we'd have to accept as part of reality as a consequence.
COLD email 20 of them and offer to pay THEM to use your
product if they are willing to offer some feedback.

If anybody responds, tell them that the offer is
oversubscribed and that it is no longer available.

I wonder what is wrong with saying just "Hi, I would like to get feedback about project X.". Would that way have the same affect?

I'm asking that just becasue I try to follow an old proverb (not sure if translation to English is correct): if you have a smallest doubt about whether to lie or not, don't lie.

(no, I'm not good with the above rule, but at least helped me while dating and now in marriage)
Anyone else try to log into John's HN account just to make sure he didn't make a very bad mistake (by posting the actual sheet he uses)?
Wikipedia said it sold 200k units and payed for its development, so it's not the terrible failure people seem to tout it as either :)

I wonder how much DNF will have to sell to pay back its development costs?
Moved from Amazon to Softlayer because we could get a mix of virtual and dedicated infrastructure at a good price. Amazon wasn't cutting it for the low-latency part of our system. SL hasn't been perfect, but pretty good -- maybe slightly better than Amazon for reliability.
Thanks ... much appreciated!
HN gives me the news that I care about. Lots of tech, some science, and only a tiny, tiny bit of world events. This mix means that only really good science articles make it through, and only really really good worldnews articles make it through.

I usually wake up every morning and check HN to make sure that the world isn't ending. If North Korea launches a nuke at South Korea, despite it not being technology news, I'd bet that it makes it to the top of HN within a few minutes.

Recently I also started using an RSS reader that I wrote a while ago (I wrote it, then pretty much forgot about it): http://newsyndicated.com/a/reader it aggregates my favorite feeds (including HN, which is how i found this thread to begin with), and also allows me to submit directly to HN.