jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Json-rpc it's what you get anyway most of the time since very few have a clue of what rest is. Not that is a bad design by itself, many of them are concise and workable without being rest.

What I am concerned mostly is the added overhead of fitting everything under a single standard. Sometime you need state aware api, sometime you need data retrieval api, sometime you need to expose a remote interface to constraint manipulating objects with server side rules.

Why it all has to be a standard escapes me. You mostly get absurdly convoluted operation when you try to fit one model under another.
Yes, until you actually want to download your data and pay 85 USD for downloading it once.
There are countless cases of police (especially in the US) executing entirely compliant and peaceful people.
Fast charging degrades the battery faster, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
Personalization.

One big thing is that they are closed ecosystems and you can't really modify or work on your car. In some cases, it seems that they make it intentionally difficult to fix it modify the vehicle, like Tesla.

I think options are another big thing that falls under this. They do have a bunch of options, but there aren't any stripes down versions. I get that the margins are low so they have to offer higher end, more expensive vehicles. I just want a simple work truck...

Oh, and physical buttons/switches for vehicle controls.
I assume this means that Amazon can ignore the Elastic and Mongo licenses when building compatible implementations?
And to complete their viewpoint, it is the legislature’s job to patch “exploits” by rewriting the code (laws).
Fun fact, Syncytin-1 is the syncytin used by primates, other branches of mammals have other forms of syncytins, meaning that the event of being infected by a retrovirus that gives mammals proteins necessary for the placenta happened several times in history following the original event and replaced the original syncytin.

(Not sure those proteins are also called syncytins in other mammals but I'm not a biologist so I'm using the limited vocabulary I have)
Now that Trump doesn't serve any value to Twitter or Facebook the bans come. Before they justified his behavior because he brought them viewers. It may be cynical but too convenient to play the morality card now.
Ken's site is great. I don't like his photographs and I often disagree with his opinions on gear, but he's very consistent and knowledgable. I always check to see if he has a review before I buy a new lens or body, especially if it's film.
Could you please share any sources? I know they're not used as much now but haven't seen any evidence that they are specifically to blame for deaths.

The majority conclusion I've seen in Europe about why earlier death rates were so high in some places was that the hospitals were overloaded and therefore didn't have enough capacity (staff, equipment, etc) and therefore some died due to there not being enough ventilators.

This isn't my field of expertise so I'm very open to finding out that my impression is wrong, but my gut feeling is that your comment is not accurate.
> My eyes don't react well to IPS, for some reason

In what way? If it's just discomfort using it for long periods of time, there's a 95% chance, you need to turn on the lights in your room or turn down your monitor brightness.

> Can you please recommend a VA panel that is good for text sharpness, too?

Some subpixel arrangements might require you to change the font smoothing (Windows ClearType), but any monitor with high pixel density will do, really. I'm not an expert on specific models so I won't recommend one.
I guess allowing protestors to put their feet on Pelosi's desk is a worse crime than an ethic genocide [1].

[1] https://time.com/5880118/myanmar-rohingya-genocide-facebook-...
I’ve tried _everything_, 5 different docks, refresh rates, different displays using different interfaces.

The problem is the vram using full power.

The only solution I’ve found under OSX is using an eGPU. I have both the Core X and the Core X Chroma, and the Chroma works fantastically both as a fully fledged docking station and keeping the output wattage / fans at bay. I’m almost exclusively using my 16” stationary with an external display.

Another solution, albeit expensive, is buying the 16” MBP with the 5600m graphics. That card uses HBM2 memory which uses around a 4th-5th of the wattage of the GDDR6 memory of the 5500m. Around 4w instead of 19w.
"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete."

At some point Facebook is going to have to take a stand on which one it is. Indefinitely or for the next two weeks.
I cannot believe it took them this long to realize the immense amount of harm Trump has been causing via social media. But I guess "better late than never" applies here.
Unilateral power moves... on moderating their own platform?
People often forget that, in addition to being brilliant, Einstein also had some of the best training available. He was a student to some very big names.
"...it's a problem of approach and mentality in staffing and HR"

This seems to go deeper than that - in economics class, they teach that labor is always an easily variable input, that can be changed more or less instantly. Especially after reading about the effect of all "A" people in a company, it seems to me that economics is still stuck in the thought of labor as factory workers or the like - not modern thought workers. You can see how this thinking could influence company hiring practices.

On another note;
Maybe the real shortage we have is of people "who are fundamentally smart, able and willing to learn, are problem solvers and have reasoning skills"? I don't think so personally, but it's possible.
A small adage: the poor of yesterday are not necessarily the poor of today. Immigrants arriving in the US are usually at the bottom of the ladder. As long as the US receives immigrants, it will have a somewhat bottom-heavy income distribution (more than otherwise).

Also note that while it may be tempting to "soak the rich", they are the most mobile segment of society. Arguably too, they are the most productive private users of capital. (I'd make a distinction here between real private capitalists and bankers/financialists etc)

Finally, technology allows individuals today to be vastly more productive than their potential peers. The differences are much more stark in a high division of labor society. Whereas, if you are a great hunter your productivity could be maybe 2-3 times better than average, a guru programmer can be a few orders of magnitude above the otherwise average skilled professional.
I'm not sure why you would bring NASA into this conversation.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w18729
Sorry but no, under this guise any esoteric, homeopathic BS can gain ground. Effects of meditation, too, will have to either be objectively measurable. If they were not, it can be dismissed.
Related from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220094

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3408934

(Links for the curious. Reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Given how modern OSes still insist in using C derived languages at their bottom layer, instead of the Pascal and Modulas from the 90's.

How those RPC alternatives keep re-inventing the validation schemas, performance optimization and code generation tooling of SOAP, CORBA and DCOM.

Sandboxing is mostly a mobile OS thing, with devs clamouring against it on their desktops.

Many give up on open source, make use of SaaS, or switch to commercial because people leech their work and they need to pay bills.

Linux desktop is 1% of world market and keeps being plagued with audio, 3D drivers and lack of hardware acceleration for video decoding in browsers.

I kind of disagree.
My guess would be that that figure was wireframed by a draftsman using drafting methods, and then a commercial artist traced it to produce the final figure. Draftsmen had methods ranging from mechanical drafting arms to measuring techniques that allowed them to produce very precise figures, and much of computer graphics, perhaps even to this day, emulates the style developed by technical artists such as draftsmen and technical illustrators.

Not too long after 1944 these kinds of figures could be produced automatically by pen plotters and photosetters, but I don't believe anything of this type was available yet in the '40s. However, as early as the '40s photosetters and other photographic techniques may have been used in reproducing these figures more easily than having an engraver produce them in metal. I don't think this was widespread though, it wasn't until the '60s that photographic reproduction became common (leading to the term "camera ready" still used by many journals today for the final draft).
Isn't this virus transmitted via droplets, not aerosols?
It's for writing tests that look like bash scripts. I wonder if `shellcheck` can still save the day on them.
iOS link appears to be broken fyi
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Only, that's not what he said.

You say, "religion was the only available mental framework"

He says, "philosophical roots of Christianity back into Greek thought" ... and ... "philosophical roots of your modern worldview back into Christian thought."
http://archive.is/vm7SE
Native iOS is relatively simple toolwise, esp. with Swift and SwiftUI, yet at the same time very deep and powerful.
IMO this is no small part of why C still has its reputation for speed. Think how you'd write this in C. Maybe

/*
Recursively removes doublets from input. A doublet is a pair of adjacent chars,
identical or differing only in capitalization (eg. "aa" or "aA"). The result is
written to output, which must be at least input_length bytes long.
Returns the number of bytes in the result.
*/
size_t remove_doublets(char * output, const char * input, size_t input_length);

and the body is a dozen lines of pointer pushing and tolower. Do you faff around with malloc? unicode case conversions? hashmaps??? Of course not, that would be too hard, so you just write the stupid C code. For all its faults, the C idiom really does push you towards the simple, stupid answer to code like this.
This was a strange one: when I worked for a FinTech company that shall remain nameless, I had a work laptop but I had to RDP to a remote machine. I had full Admin access to the remote work machine (that had access to everything, even being in the same datacenter and subnet as the production servers), meanwhile, for "security reasons", I couldn't even change the wallpaper on the laptop.
> It is also tied in to humility, and an inability to translate to others what the benefit of that attention to detail and quality will yield.

Yes. Definitely this. At some point I burned out and stopped trying seriously. I just get angry and annoyed when I am being resisted on this and started giving up almost at the spot.

But this ties to other areas of life like proper diet which I am struggling a lot with (almost always very tired as a result). At least I got some workout routine going but when eating the wrong food that almost makes no difference.

> I think the tide is turning though

I think the same and lately I started worrying that even if I am feeling it I still can't monetize the trend.

> I would consider the web a 'dead' zone for anything related to that

Hindsight is 20/20. I wish I never started in the web area. I started making tentative steps in other directions but I am not willing to take a pay cut or blow all of my free time. I do that every now and then, mind you, but I burn out quickly and will need a few other months before I feel up to it again.

Let's not turn this into a therapy session though. I am vulnerable and weak lately -- all my energy goes to self-improvement -- and I very easily start complaining.

---

Thanks for mentioning those other fields. I'd very much like to try my hand there and leave web work forever but I am hitting 41 soon and people in these areas are (a) risk-averse and don't want to hire a person without prior experience there, and (b) I am not 25 anymore and they might be worried about... not sure what. Age-ism does exist in hiring though, I've witnessed it.

I guess what I am trying to say is: I got smart about my career pretty late in life. Was focused on a ton of other things for the last two decades and that of course was my mistake -- I am not blaming anyone.

I suppose in the end it's about networking and some luck. But I do no networking (plus Corona) and my luck surface area is pretty small.
Samples at the site were dated to around 3400 BC, which is 400 years earlier than the earliest samples from Stonehenge. Ive not seen the papers, but given standard techniques I expect there should be at least a couple of centuries gap between the error ranges.
> This is what happens when you prefer an incremental culture over a culture of innovation

It might be useful to read this

The words innovation and invention overlap semantically but are really quite distinct.

Invention can refer to a type of musical composition, a falsehood, a discovery, or any product of the imagination. The sense of invention most likely to be confused with innovation is “a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment,” usually something which has not previously been in existence.

Innovation, for its part, can refer to something new or to a change made to an existing product, idea, or field. One might say that the first telephone was an invention, the first cellular telephone either an invention or an innovation, and the first smartphone an innovation.

> There’s no way they could possibly innovate at this point with all the baggage of x86.

Let's talk about it again in a few years.
I haven’t had as much trouble with those as they mostly do what it says on the tin. strcpy(), sprintf(), etc. all have slightly different semantics and even their “n” versions will do funky things if you don’t very carefully account for null termination. I find it way harder to use those because I have to keep remembering which of them does what regarding \0 at the end. And I guess now we have strlcpy() which is supposed to fix those issues but isn’t available on all platforms I use.
Yep... The news doesn't report on good things... That's pretty standard. It isn't just a left wing thing.

I'm glad it's improving (though I'd like a source for those statistics), but the media not reporting on a good thing isn't an example of some huge conspiracy. It's just the media. Bad things get clicks.
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Two things worked for me.

1. Switch Jobs

2. Ask for at least $10K more money each time.

1:
Companies are aren't going to just give you money. They don't have much incentive to do that. Most people take their 3% cost of living increase (plus bonus and a few % if you are lucky).

Most of my contemporaries agree. You have to switch jobs.

2:
If you don't ask for it, you aren't going to get it. HR depts have more flexibility on hiring than raises. So coming in, make sure you get the salary/bonus/vacation/etc you want right off the bat.
Firms in Silicon Valley focus on eliminating whole industries; when they succeed at that, they capture basically all the value that the incumbents in that industry had.

I'm genuinely curious:

What whole industries have been eliminated? Also what value do you refer to? Are you saying that all profit that used to go to industry X now goes to a silicon valley company?
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So this is fun to look at, but considering how datacenters are supposed to be secure, isn't this counterproductive to them?
>and still got a death penalty.

The death penalty alone is better than execution of you and your kids, or better than torture and execution, etc..
This is absolutely fantastic. I've been following the Google datacenter efficiency project for a while, and an opensource competitor will only make things better for the world. I can't wait for the day when more large companies either embrace this concept for their own datacenters or outsource to datacenters built on these technologies.
He literally called violent insurrectionist "special" people and said he loved them!
I have to disagree that they're the same. You're right in saying that "user's seem happy" is not the only metric, but it's quite a stretch to go from "Facebook doesn't optimize for holistic well-being" to "Facebook is as addictive & harmful as Big Tobacco". It's certainly something I believe reasonable people can disagree on and I don't think it's appropriate to shame people for working at Facebook.

It's a little off-topic but honestly the idea that Facebook is somehow the the cause of all these modern problems is pretty tenuous to me. Most Facebook users don't go crazy & belligerent from use, the effects are not at all like the consistent & universal harm of nicotine and cigarette smoke. It suggests to me that Facebook might exacerbate existing problems, but it is not the straightforwardly harmful product that people claim it is.
Treason trumps public disorder. Obviously.

No, now the Republican party is up there with the Communist party or Anarchists, as a danger to America and democracy. Republican mobs paraded racist Confederate flags through federal buildings in a violent attempt to overthrow an election.

Thank god for brave Americans who stood up to harrassment and threw out baseless, evidence-free lawsuits trying to overthrow state electors. Hell, even the head of the Republican party has been recorded trying to strong-arm state election officials and fake the reporting of votes.

Give it up. The Republican party is clearly more corrupt and anti-American than any other organization you can name.
Sill on the open federated XMPP network, like always.
As a very long term iOS user, when I saw this headline my first reaction was why is keyboard privacy even a thing i've never even bothered changing the keyboard of iOS and would certainly be prompted for any suspicious activity like mic or camera and would instantly reject it if i ever installed one. But this is very complicated on Android. I once maintained an Android phone for my Dad and the permissions prompt on that are so overwhelming that it's very easy to get people into 'accepting all' and I feel like this is the idea behind the design by Google. One shouldn't be worried about a keyboard spying about you and should be as easy as flip of a switch in settings from not allowing it but it's a lot more complicated than that on Android.
Gee, you kinda forgot about the 80% "I totally understand why you do it noble warrior" part in your summary.
Very true. There are huge language barriers that makes this unlikely. You don't get a 5 cent army of people highly proficient in another language and presenting manipulative talking points. There are those people, but they would still have difficulties reaching large audiences.
i just feel that saying "i'm changing the world" is a bit of an arrogant thing to say about yourself. but i was wrong about what he did for a living.
This is frustrating!!!!
I saw the heatmaps link when I was looking at the screenshots:

http://www.openwebanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/d...
At Skritter, we spent a lot of effort trying to sell to schools. In the process, individual sales picked up on their own to the point where we realized we were wasting our time on the schools.

It's not that it can't be done. If you can directly make or save the school money, you can do it. But don't just try to help it teach better. Very few will pay for that.
That makes it all the more tragic. They hold so much potential to be a great technology company with such programming talent, but the executives constantly shy away from it, apparently searching for profits in less technical avenues. #2 in search? Better quit. #1 in bookmarking! Pull the plug. Yahoo even had the most visitors in the world at one time. And the millions of eyeballs are treated to vanilla news and email for a decade plus.
The dataset comes from google books in various languages.

Be sure to visualize your own queries at:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

I've got the info from this article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26937/
One thing I found useful as a self-taught programmer was getting outside of the dominant programming paradigms. Though I'd like to disassociate myself with the over-the-top PG fanboyism that sometimes goes on here, I must admit that his lisp books were a great help in breaking out of the imperative and OO worlds, and were a major influence on me at an early stage.

Even better, PG has now made On Lisp available for free: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html.
What was it that you didn't like about it?
I think there would be indirect job growth from such small ventures. Think of all the people that make your life happen everyday , so that you go to work - The local gas station, the local grocer, your fav coffee house etc
By letting such startups mushroom, you are also creating the seedlings for growth on the wider economy.
> Sometimes I feel like we could get a lot more done for free software with a tiny bit of pragmatism

This is wrong and disastrous. We need mostly pragmatism, may be a tiny bit of free-spirit and idealism.
Doesn’t non-fast imply non-cheap?
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I had a pretty good and productive time so far with a baby that frequently needs attention and is noisy. Output including programming is _above silent/regular office environment. Trying to reasons why this is the case, maybe ADHD plays a role.
Google tried this twice with Google Contributor, Brave already exists. Outside of the privacy/hand-wringing about tech bubble, people don't actually want this.

Maybe you could drive a wedge around bandwidth, particularly on mobile where people pay for data, but despite all the articles written about this, most people are clearly not concerned enough about this to do anything.
It's used everywhere; it is a pervasive aspect of the language. Every single variable has ownership and/or borrowing properties.