jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why is person-to-person knowledge being replaced with company-to-person?

I recall in the 90’s and 00’s being able to google anything and find an answer on a forum or Yahoo Answers. Now all that is last and all google queries return spam sites with bad answers and tons of ads.
I was surprised how accurate they were in describing the high-net-worth families in Central America in a recent article:

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/04/03/the-influe...

Not even local media would have been able to describe it like The Economist did.
Well, that's where CNBC learned it!
Not attacking you, but that line of defense would play a lot better if they didn't allow any discussion of the FSF board or Stallman at all. They have, however, allowed other strong opinions on the site before.

It just feels.. eh.
> There is no matrix math with neurons

Are we talking about the brain or neural nets biological plausible neural nets?
This just means (at least) one of three things:

- you're making this up, and have no conception of what you'd do

- you won't be able to hire people from places where the cost of living is high, as your global rate will be lower than competitive salaries there

- you won't survive, as your competitors who do location-based salaries will be able to offer your customers more value for the same price, or same value for less price

You pick :)
I find your response somewhat strange. I'm saying that context matters, and your response is that... context matters?

It would appear that I'm being misread to defend a specific instrument. I'm saying that there's more value to an instrument than simply a 1:n listening test. That goes for ANY instrument.

Regarding people spending money on things they can't fully use (or sometimes appreciate), of course. That happens with everything.
I've contracted in places where cmd is blocked, but Powershell is not. The mind boggles.

(For those cursed to work in Windows enterprise land, most of what is being talked about here is that Powershell is essentially .Net, e.g. '$DateTime = New-Object System.DateTime -ArgumentList 2015, 10, 10')

https://mcpmag.com/articles/2015/11/04/net-members-in-powers...
If you have been to India this seems like a surprisingly low percentage.
This reminds me of the days before "Downloads" folders were provided by OSes for use by browsers, and one would need to select a destination for every file at download time. I think macOS got it right with the "stack" widget (truncated listing of the Downloads folder sorted by date).
What will happen, unless your product is unique, in high demand, and has a large moat, is your customers will purchase from a competitor selling goods at a cheaper price. See what happened to US textile and manufacturing industry.
It's not ironic. That's human nature. All atrocities, no matter how benign, follow the same formula.
Actually the largest MapReduce cluster at Nokia runs Disco. Feel free to contact me at ville.h.tuulos at nokia dot com if you want to give it a try.
Think about that for a minute. They made a really good operating system which I would use if I could. However not many could afford it. Usually its... buy 2x computers, or one Apple. Thus only the few "elites" have it (or those willing to sacrifice to get it)
Or maybe more relatable to westerners: Germany also has a lower fertility rate than Japan. Nobody's writing these articles about why Germans won't have kids.

I'd be more interested in articles exploring how we can create an economy and society that doesn't rely on neverending expansion (and ever-increasing energy usage), seeing as this is the trend in all western countries, and the immigration band-aid will only be possible for so long.
Agreed.

I work out every morning Mon-Fri then I'm at my desk a good 45-60min before everyone else arrives.

I'm more productive during my "silent endorphin" rushes than any other time of day.

As soon as I hear the first person arrive, I toss my noise-cancelling headphones on, crank some white noise, set my IM status to "Busy" and then go for as long as I can before someone interrupts me. (usually ~30-60min).
You say "almost comically stupid," I say more like "almost wanting this result."

The whole thread has been a debate, the two sides seemingly "this shouldn't happen!" vs "this guy could have trivially avoided this result!"

Both are correct. Quite frankly I think he wanted to fight this fight.
I wrote the article; thanks for this info. Since your sister has posted this publicly on her Twitter account, I'll happily add her name to our article if I can get in touch with her/BD to confirm. [Edited to add that we'll contact her before doing so.]
Since web services are the reason d'etre of smartphones, there are inherently few switching costs for jumping between leading smartphone platforms and therefore none of the lock-in that lead to Windows' dominance.
I don't think this is the right conclusion to jump to. Browsers have a mountain of issues in their own right.
These are actual Nike-made shoes, how would genericization ever apply to them? This has nothing to do with your examples.
Well, it does have a command set, and is basically device independent.

Most recently that device independence was used to basically put Atari 8 bit computers online.

One can use old software and the BASIC language to write programs that can interact via the internet.

https://fujinet.online/

And a BASIC programming example:

https://youtu.be/OGcoXPkPjs8
I don't know because I thought your comment was insightful. But since this is one of the worst threads I have read since I joined HN, in terms of FUD and signal-to-noise ratio, it is not impossible that someone who misunderstood the situation downvoted you.

The fact that comments like "Man you guys are dumb." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482925) wasn't voted down is indicative of the health of this thread.
Assuming such beings work on the same physics we do, they need massive amounts of energy to run a galactic civilization; and they have the same sources available that we do: Stars; and for extra credit black holes.

Putting a dyson sphere around a star changes its energy output, shifting it far into the infrared. Putting a matrioshka brain around a star is even more dramatic a change--but it still has the same gravitational effect on other stars. But no, unfortunately that doesn't explain the effects of "dark matter."
EM radiation can have any wavelength. Color is the visible spectrum in which our retinal cones and rods respond when EM is shone upon them (actually, they cease responding, but that's another matter). We have 3 kinds of cone cell receptors sensitive to different parts of the visible spectrum. Color is the perception generated further down in our brain from the combination of these incoming signals. Screens were designed to be visible, that's why it makes sense to have 3 colors of LEDs. Light wave frequencies do not add up, i.e. you can't add 2 green beams to create an ultraviolet.
I'm pretty sure voting isn't 100% anonymous in the UK - it isn't public but don't the ballot papers have a unique serial number on them?

As for collecting the cash prize - we could make people select if they want it anonymously or not (like the lottery).
That's true that you don't see it but does happen. I did it.
If you have a burning desire to start a company, that desire never goes away. Because og green card issues I could only make the jump after 7 years...
Studying in Norway - at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I <3 Gløshaugen.
I don't think the App Store matters here. Thanks to the DMCA, the NYT can have any site taken down (at least temporarily).
I've been pleasantly shocked at how helpful the people in #emacs have been. Thank you!
... but I suspect it to be largely true. I'd be hard pressed for finding a nicer, gui-ish-er editor that supports Haskell, C/C++ (with templates'n'stuff), Python/Cython, Java, Lisp/Scheme, shell and whatnot equally well.

Ok, it's just font highlighting and indentation help, while a good Java IDE does much more (i.e. completion, refactoring), but still it's nice to have one editor that works reasonably well with everything you decide to throw at it. (And yes, editing Cython code without Cython- or at least Python-mode feels like you're missing a finger).
Accurate in some ways, an overreaction in others. What did we do while waiting in bank lines before we had cellphones? At best, we brought a dead-trees book. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not inherently better.

Checking your email while playing with your kids or cuddling with your wife is one thing. Skimming the news on the bus or in a grocery checkout line is something else entirely.
I say this as someone who has been working with MS technology for over a decade; once you get past the narrow confines of the sexy demo, VS is not all that friendly to the new user. This characteristic has always been one of my main gripes with VS. (Incidently, I often daydream about a parallel universe where instead of creating VS they decided to invest the same resources into emacs or vim.)

Office is a much better example in my experience, particularly Excel.
Those are not counterexamples. Any new user who could fire up those programs and do something useful could also fire up emacs and do something useful. Emacs does have menus at the top, you know.
When I was working in biometrics 10 years ago, nobody thought fingerprints were a good userid OR a password. It was always presented as a part of multi-factor authentication, to be used in conjunction with passcards and/or passwords.

"Something you have, something you know, something you are".
Love this app. Recently, it became less and less usable, with deal breaker bugs like mails not sending reliably or at all.

So I'm going to donate, because this app is fantastic and I really want it to keep existing.
> I suppose as soon as something becomes too complex, keeping track of all interactions is just too complicated and rerendering the entire world efficiently looks like an easier problem to deal with.

In fact, it can actually be less work, since you're coalescing changes into a single update() call rather than sprinkling them across observer callbacks. Also, if your update function starts running too slowly, you can always make it more precise by keeping track of which states have changed internally to the view. For example, if setting the background color takes a long time for whatever reason, you can do something like this:

def View.update():
if self.lightWasTurnedOn != model.lightTurnedOn:
if model.lightTurnedOn:
self.backgroundColor = red
else:
self.backgroundColor = ibmGray
self.lightWasTurnedOn = model.lightTurnedOn

Now backgroundColor will only be set if lightTurnedOn actually changed since the last update.
I think the problem is that the conversation is "we'll pay you X of which one factor is where you live" when it should be "we'll pay you X if you work for us, do you accept?". The reasons for people offering a salary amount is irrelevant, it's about if the offer is acceptable to an employee. If I move somewhere, I get paid the same, and if it's cheaper I get more spending money, if it's more expensive, I have to swallow the costs.

If the contract says "we can renegotiate if you relocate", that's not a contract I'd sign, but it's up to the company and employee to decide if that's an acceptable clause in the contract.

A contract which says "we'll pay you less if you move somewhere cheaper" must also say "we'll pay you more if you move somewhere more expensive" but then suddenly my employment incentivises my location. I wouldn't move from Warsaw to Bangladesh but it might make economic sense to move to Zurich. If it's in the contract that the employer must honour the movement, then they have unexpected cost recalculations to do. If it's not, and you're just hoping for a "good faith" agreement, again that's not a contract I'd sign, but others might.
I've always been suspicious of for-profit schools. I put my own kids in "traditional" independent schools that you have to pay for, but they're run like charities where there's basically no money for someone to pull out.

With for-profit, you have the problems alluded to in the article. If something is up with your kid, eg they need more attention, it's in the school's interest to puff you out so they don't have to arrange that. If your kid is doing well, they could do less well than their potential, which might again require more attention.

Ordinary independent schools still have some of these pressures, esp wrt to booting out failing kids, but they don't have an expectation of leaving resources for profits.

What you're really buying with tuition fees is other parents. Other people who are also signalling, by burning a year's rent, that they value education and will make sure their kids are focused on doing things like reading and numbers.
Doing social media pump and dump schemes is fun and sometimes profitable.
> " also got the impression that teachers tend to live in their own little world and tend to have very little experience outside of the educational system"

How on earth did you come to that conclusion?! Maybe your experiences have shifted it that way, but my teachers, my friends that are teachers, and my kids teachers certainly do not give that impression at all.

> "Why is it not the norm to go into a job for, say 20 years, and after years of experience start teaching? Why would it be a good idea to have a teacher straight of college teaching kids just a couple of years younger?"

Because they know the subject matter? I'm not really sure what you are getting at, so jobs should only be for those that know how to do something already - or only if you need to teach it?

Not sure there are jobs that would help a primary school teacher - they cover all the subjects - so multiple jobs over 20 years to satisfy that?
How about a history teacher - should they be an archaeologist first? Or a Biology teacher, probably get that stem cell research in before teaching about the plant reproductive lifecycle.

It's seems to be hard enough to attract people that actually want to be paid peanuts to teach the next generation how to do things.
The value of a T-Shirt is pretty low and manual labor can only produce a few T-shirts per hour. That forces T-Shirt production to go to low cost labor countries. If you could somehow train those workers to produce 10x as many T-Shirts they would also get paid 10x as much.

There simply isn't enough value to pay them more. Software is the opposite. Each worker produces a lot of value so companies can afford to pay them more.

A few decades ago western countries were worried that Japan would take over the electronics market because they could produce much cheaper there. In reality Japan went up the value chain and Japanese products are just as expensive as in any other western nation.
It depends on your history with the customer, the amount of money, and your risk tolerance. I always ask for a deposit unless the amount of money is completely trivial.
I don't need to know a comment's score, just the score's magnitude provides a lot of utility. In the same way that a grayed-out comment signifies a poor reply, find a way to show me whether a comment is neutral, slightly positive, very positive, or stupendously positive.
I'm always amazed at how people try to work the laws. This guy tried something I have always wondered about, he sends an email that says "if you respond to this you agree to be bound by the following contract..." Which he has actually litigated! Which is what makes it interesting from an HN perspective. Not to mention the clear way Eric explains what it takes to engage someone in a contract.
You're right about the herd mentality, but that's the whole point: measuring the herd mentality has a value. No one is asking you to put 100% of your judgment in the point count, and you'd be a fool to do so, much as you'd be a fool to believe everything you see on TV.

Showing points does not kill HNers brains. We've already lost if it does.
What about a request for comments feature?

I.e. I see a 2-party thread. I can't decide who's right. I flag it RFQ to attract the attention of other contributors.

Essentially "hey, there's a good argument going on here" pile on (not with votes, but with criticism / argument)
Regarding your second bullet - do you have an alter ego to test anti-HN sentiments as well? Not really in good taste, I know, but it would be interesting as a social experiment.

I notice that a lot of posters prefix their comments with a "damn-the-downvotes" remark, which shows that a lot of disussion is skewed toward karma-preservation. Both up and downvoting are fraught and maybe you really need both or neither one.
> That said I do worry that the Generics argument seems to be slowly approaching a religious war that will distract people from the other enjoyable aspects of Go

Because generics are important.We're not talking about crazy C++ templates here but a more rigid feature that would still make Go language more expressive.

Or why expose this interface {} feature and allow people to use it in a statically typed language?

People who chose Go obviously want type checking (along with CSP that makes go so awesome), or they would be using something else.
I've always thought of myself as a stack person - if there's an issue that can be fixed now, get it done. Having something languish in a queue means that by the time you get round to looking at it you may not have all the information you require available / it'll take a lot of time to refamiliarise yourself (most of the time you'll have had to do at least some investigation when the issue first came in in order to determine the impact / priority of the task anyway; if queued all that work needs to be repeated months later). Also, if there's something in a queue which has been there for a year it's probably not that important. If the same thing keeps recurring and you're a stack person, that thing will automatically be jumping to the top of the stack each time - so you can resolve it, then remove any duplicates further down the stack as you hit them.

Queues are generally better for project work, Stacks are generally better for support.

Regarding the time taken to prioritise and log work, XKCD's nailed it again: http://xkcd.com/1445/
Rather, I don't like to copy-paste and slightly modify simple loops over and over again. Abstraction is a basic tool of programming; where has it gone?
This is Mencius Moldbug just before he created neoreaction.
>"Instrumental in all this work was a system that we set up very early
in the project that tracked interaction between users and the system in
a fine grained manner using a large number of counters."

I know you might still have some degree of an NDA pinch preventing you
from giving too many details, but if possible, can you give some more
info on how you went about setting up the tracking instrumentation?

As always, a fun read. Thanks!
"The left design though is objectively inferior"

In my programmer mind both sides of this argument are nothing more than 'I prefer this one' and 'I prefer that one'.

Is it possible to back up any design arguments empirically? Why do I never see anybody do it?
In Smalltalk, if you really need to find this, there is the Finder in which you can provide examples of input and output and it will suggest messages that implement the desired functionality.

Also, the message does not need to be called "join," especially since it's use in the culture is ambiguous and confusing.
Agree. They are near the top of their S-curve and all the typical patterns are playing out.
The best part of Zoom for deaf people is the automatic captioning.

There is one big downside of using generic video chat for signing - it’s usually optimized for clear audio, not clear video. When the connection gets weak, Zoom will drop frames but try to preserve audio. For the deaf, dropping audio is of course not a problem but dropping frames means they miss a key word in the sentence.
Super interesting - like the clean aesthetic of the website.

I realize this questions is super early but it is an important one given the current debacle with Robinhood.

How do you plan on funding the product as you go to market and undwind VC positions? Is this a subscription model, is this going to be something that is funded through selling data on the backend to keep costs low for the trader, portion of trades, MER?
Smaller, easy to use machines everywhere are OK with that.
He has the same username on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/user/thomas-wiesner-3/
I like this a lot. I sort of agree with other posters about the animations, though it looks really good so perhaps some middle ground is possible here. Timer is stressful, but that's fine IMHO - it's a different vibe to Wordle (which let's be honest is waaay too easy) and allows you to compete on a more granular level.

I don't so much mind the multiple solutions - if you get the 'wrong' one, that's a new datapoint and you need to guess again, hangman style - but I don't like that it counts as a wrong guess in your stats.

But yeah, I'll play this again for sure.
Is this style of marketing legal in US? In the country I am in it is quite likely to be illegal due to being deceptive. In my country being technical correct doesn't help if misleading.

(If these companies signed up for the service then or course it would be legal to claim that.)
But they are prioritizing it! With what? Encouragement and Prioritization. It will be a huge succees /s
Agreed, I am sure that the drive for axiomisation of geometry drove a lot of this interest.

All I really mean is that actually using these tools for an artistic, constructive purpose gives me a feel for why these problems might of been of interest. Of course, without knowing much about the history of mathematics this far back, I cannot be sure.
In the midst of the tech stock market lunacy I genuinely can't tell if the timing is lucky or not. Do you think they will rush it to catch the wave or wait for the next one?
Thanks so much guys! I will definitely take y’all’s advice!!
This is not thinking big enough. I fully expect Apple to add propietary client-side ad targeting into Safari, use that to power their own web display ads network, and not grant competitors any access to it. All of this will be justified by claiming it'll improve privacy, security and battery consumption, of course.
Is there a high level overview, for programmers, of how chip design software works? Something I eventually want to investigate is building some of those pieces of software but I have no idea where to get started learning about that ecosystem. From a software perspective I have a good understanding of how source gets turned into machine code, which gets packaged into shared object code, which then gets linked into a binary. How do those steps work for HDLs? What standards are involved? How do you test that each of those steps works?
Author: I'm glad you wrote, I hope you are finding helpful ideas here. I'll be brief:

- Besides all the great ideas already here, consider religion. It can bring great calm.
- If you have some talent in your job, just know that 'imposter syndrome' is real. Study it, you might get by.
- If you have no talent in your job, start looking for something different. It's not worth staying in this case.

Wishing you good luck.
I originally succumbed to YouTube premium because of the bundled music. I remembered thinking at the time this bundling put Spotify at a disadvantage. When for unrelated reasons I started degoogling sure enough I went straight to Spotify.

Can someone explain where the boundary here is for antitrust?
That was exactly the point
Cinder is supposed to come apart (we'll see what they launch), so you can stick the cooking surfaces in the dishwasher.

Nomiku should not really get dirty (it only comes into contact with water).

Pantelligent doesn't make it clear if the handle will be immersible, but it isn't that much hassle to clean a pan without soaking the handle.