jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm supposing that you meant "includes actual malware". Here's a definition:

Malware, for a given user and computer, is installed software that, in the absence of constraints (such as imperfect information, limited time and ability), would not be installed.

This defines malware as a space rather than a binary, but I'm fine with that.
...or they notice that the thing is red and radiates heat and decide not to touch it because it looks scary
In the free market people will mine bitcoin if it's profitable. That is, if bitcoin is valuable enough and if energy is cheap enough and if the overall network hash rate is low enough.

Any changes to network hash power, bitcoin prices and energy cost may cause miners to scale down operations and lower overall network hash. Then at a certain network hash rate it will become profitable again.
It would depend on if the average offspring was sterile. We have evidence that at least some weren't, but we don't know in general.
I ran into that this year. After declining all of the mid return attempts to get me to upgrade to the paid service, when I got to the very end it told me that since I had purchased health insurance on the government marketplace for part of the year that I'd have to pay extra for that form. I went with Credit Karma instead. Turns out that my taxes weren't affected at all by my health insurance situation. Between the cost of the Deluxe version and now being required to pay for state filing, they wanted $67. I know they think these "free" offerings are a way to dissuade Congress from having the IRS offer tax filing directly but these games aren't helping their cause any.

Credit Karma was free for filing both state and federal though they did make two attempts to get me to install Cash App, both of which I declined.
This is clever of them, but pretty messed up.
Because I am fairly pro market but read enough mainstream economics to know that government paper retaining value more than private assets is much more of a distortion than said paper gradually losing value towards its intrinsic value of nothing.

The thing is, stable money that predictably loses value is a great thing to have for the economy as it allows people to negotiate contracts and conduct business in a predictable manner. Medium of account, medium of exchange etc. Money being a store of value is an unfortunate consequence of it being a medium of exchange that often has to be mitigated. Fiat should never be widely used for saving. Money is just an IOU. When everyone's savings are IOUs, on average everybody indirectly owes everybody else their savings. Instead, savings should be tied to real stuff such as businesses, inventory, production capacity etc. not just all be pure promises. When too many people hoard pure promises and all believe that it's true wealth, bad things happens.

Hard currencies while not good for conducting business since they are too unstable might be better as stores of value as they fluctuate and have negative returns when they should so tend to not crowd out other asset markets as much as government stabilized currencies do when inflation is not high enough. Just make sure the government does not try to stabilize hard currencies. That caused the great depression.
They were by definition a different human race, but saying that brings in modern day politics.
> What does Neo-liberalism mean to you?

"Free" markets will solve everything. Muh private sector. Change is inevitable, so get with the program grandpa.

That's my takeaway.
I think ljm agrees with you...?
lemme check MySoulQL real quick... `SELECT * FROM ...`
It is only equivalent if the market has infinite liquidity. At 300B, you have execution issue to convert them to cash.
If your profit margin on a software product is only 30% you have absolutely no business being in business.
The other guy's point is that even though it's true that everything is transitory it's not an argument against enjoying it, i.e. attaching value to it.
The mechanisms of the free market should take care of it. Offering WFH is now something a bank (or any other company that is suitable for WFH) can offer as a bargaining chip. It's yet another factor (next to salary, vacation times, prestige, etc.) on which companies can compete for talent.
I can't be extremely skeptical of the story, the way it is written, almost like reading a US version of Pravada.

BUT, as in the case of Scott Alexander from SlateStarCodex, people/personalities are just discardable pieces of stepping stones for media and journalists to seek attention and play politics. Maybe newsweek is wrong, but doesn't mean the other media portraying Amazon workers are right either.
> If you receive a Bloomberg message from someone, it's something actionable.

That's some real blue sky thinking.
AFAIK you can't, and there's no indication that will change. You may be able to virtualize a whole macOS install, though that's pretty difficult even on Apple hardware (source: I tried several times, and didn't get it to work well)
This seems like a form of hazing. How sharp and attentive to details that person is after that day?

It seems more like "I worked like that, so you too should work like that"
> express worry about the millionaires who own the houses

You don't become a millionaire just because the paper value estimate of your house becomes larger.

A low-income person who scraped by to buy a modest home in a cheap area doesn't become any less low-income just because suddenly the demographics change and rich people move in. Forcing them out of their home where they have built their life just so one more rich newcomer can get in, is not fair. For example, East Palo Alto.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262367
This won’t fly...
> 3%?! Wtf America? That's double what the rest of the world is paying. I've seen 1% for some industries in the UK.

Does your credit card give you 1-3% in cash-back? Because mine does.

That cashback is why the merchants are paying 3%.
Now i'm just waiting for the dragon ball oriented scientist to finish their discovery about grant-wishing-cell-resuscitation ..
I think if you are a good worker you will end up managing other people. Whether that be devs, engineers or researchers.

Managing other people is hard work. I think of it as a privilege. After 25 years in IT I am now more interested in people than hardware/software. Some of my highlights have been seeing people get jobs which changed their lives.

So I would say invest in learning about management/leadership.
I don’t think it’s a matter of either assessment description or population percentage but rather a measure of confidence on questions where a persons may, outside of testing, otherwise defer to social reinforcement.
There's two main personality tests.

Big 5 is preferred by scientists. MBTI is preferred by people who are taking it to see which famous person (or fictional character) allegedly has the same personality.

The problem isn't just the test, it's the whole culture around MBTI. Yes, the test measures something, but you're not just getting a test, you're also getting a bunch of information on how to interpret the test.

You can always spot someone who takes MBTI seriously because they talk about introversion meaning they "lose energy by spending time with others and need to recharge by spending time alone".
Do they all have low-latency connections?
Some of those at the end seem to be IDN test TLDs[1], which,
if Wikipedia is to be believed, were created in October of
2007.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_Test_TLDs
I certainly didn't want to suggest that P/E is a reliable or sufficient indicator for good investments. It was just about this claim that everything is just gambling at this point.
Locked or not it's still trespass, which is illegal, in most places.
Uhh.. it doesn't? While it does give some specific values as 'a reasonable starting point' the article suggests tuning these to the specific environment.

"Each of these algorithms requires setting of an appropriate work factor. This should be tuned to make digest computation as difficult as possible while still performing responsively enough for the application. For concurrent user logins, you may need <0.5ms response times on whatever hardware is performing the validation. For something like single user disk or file encryption, a few seconds might be fine. As a result, the specific work factor values appropriate for your application are dependent on the hardware running your application and the use case of the application itself. Thomas Pornin gave some great guidance on determining these values in a post to stackexchange"

The stackexchange post (which is linked in the article) can be found at http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3959/recommended...
> I don't belive there's any other kind of unmoderated site.

Moderation of a public space after consensus has been reached long it's members is fine, moderation before dissenting opinions have had their opportunity to be voiced, discussed and their merits disproved through consensus is not. The former is democratic, the latter dystopian.
At least it helps if you don't block on empty fields then - I keep getting annoyed when sites demand I enter "state/province" for international shipping when my country doesn't have that concept.

Or demand that I enter 6-digit postal code when we only use 4. Or not being able to handle non-ASCII chars. And things like that - helping people is fine and useful, but blocking a user because you set up assumptions valid only for your locality is a huge annoyance.
Is this[1] not what you want? Modulo a better UI of course.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/bwWvk0I.png
SO heavily rewards:

- asking questions that on the spike of industry interest;

- answering those kind of questions good enough but very quick and then expanding the answer.

Example (please don't up-vote):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24003918/does-swift-have-...
Just to share a different point of view.

I have the c720 with arch installed. There are some problems, mainly the GPU lock https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83677#c102
The bug is fixed in the 3.19rc kernel.

My main problem was the very bad build quality of the laptop it self. I'm used to mechanical keyboards, I never got used to the c720 one.. The screen is also really bad. Given the price tag it's hard to complain though.

I finally put chromeOS back and gave the laptop to my SO. I got a used x220 in perfect condition for a bit more of the c720 asking price. I replaced the screen with a new IPS bought from ebay.
Best linux laptop I ever had.
How does Hasura compare to PostGraphile?
Small notes/link manager that will be a standalone page and, hopefully, a browser extension. Sometimes I find myself hoping I could have a list of the links/documents I’m working on at the moment on my New Tab page, so I’m making one. It’s mostly a reason to learn Elm.
You can do similar stuff using the visidata command line tool: https://www.visidata.org/

You can use python code for more advanced data manipulations and creating plugins.
the big food companies were briefing the government about just how fragile the food supply chain is

Article is specifically about the UK situation. Anyone know the status elsewhere? I’d guess it generally varies from somewhat better in low density countries to a lot worse in highly urbanized countries, but with exceptions where the supply has been diversified.
Those are arguments against "designed as a bioweapon" and "intentional release by government". They are not arguments against "created in a lab", "lab containment accident", or "intentional release by crazy employee".

We know for a fact, based on research published in Nature and in Journal of Virology, that the lab in Wuhan was modifying bat coronaviruses to replicate well in human cells. Some of these modified viruses were changed to use the ACE2 receptor found in humans, just as the pandemic virus uses.
I genuinely appreciate that you’re avoiding mentioning your company name in your news.yc contributions.

In this case, I am in the market for copper speaker wire but can’t find your company name in a quick read of your comment history or a google of toasterlovin.

Would you mind sharing it? ;)
And if you know Go it's [0] even easier. It all depends on just how general purpose you need it to be.

If you ask me; people should build more simple languages, and learning how be considered an essential part of becoming a programmer. It's not rocket surgery.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/gfoo
with external drive connected and mounted, it won't boot if that somehow disappears

Couple ideas, for what little they may be worth. Grub might be installed on the wrong drive. Or, if you’re getting past grub, look up systemd’s nofail option for /etc/fstab.
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We are releasing an emergency update which will make Airpush ads OPT-IN by the users. Users will be prompted upon install if they want to support the developer by allowing 1 ad/day in their tray.

With this change, as a user would you find Airpush as an acceptable monetization option for the developer? This makes it purely a user's choice.

Please note we have already offered a "Permissions API" which many developers are using to create their own opt-in and opt-out procedures, but we are now taking the additional step of FORCING it in our SDK.

Comments are much appreciated.
Wow, I've read the first three chapters, and this is so good. And I have always despised the Harry Potter books. Next time someone tells me that art would no longer be produced unless copyright guaranteed a way to monetize it, I'm going to point them at this masterpiece.
This renders the word "community" meaningless. The essence of a community is that people know and care about each other. People in big cities are, for the most part, just a collection.
Whatever happened to the stealth genre?

Thief: The Dark Project, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Rainbow Six, and Metal Gear Solid all came out in 1998 and it looked like the genre was really taking off...

I haven't followed video games so closely the last few years, but it seems like light stealth elements have been taken up in a few games and there's been sequels to those franchises, but it never became a really dominant genre.

Any thoughts as to why? I'd think with all the new processing power and AI improvements, that you could make a pretty excellent stealth game to appeal to both hardcore gamers and more casual players.
I want to agree with you, "Hypermedia Controls" seems a bit odd to me, but I don't think it's such a new concept when it comes to REST.

This is from Roy Fielding's blog: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

... all application state transitions must be driven by client selection of server-provided choices that are present in the received representations or implied by the user’s manipulation of those representations.The transitions may be determined (or limited by) the client’s knowledge of media types and resource communication mechanisms, both of which may be improved on-the-fly (e.g., code-on-demand). [Failure here implies that out-of-band information is driving interaction instead of hypertext.]

He's explicate in that a REST system must return options for further action. Links. This is the default behavior of the web, request a page get a page full of links. Martin Fowler is just describing a system that uses a hypermedia implementation other than html.

The benefit to this is that you don't need out-of-band information to interact with a new server you run into.
For anyone wanting to work in the software/startup/tech scene,Bangalore is the best.The weather is always on the cooler side,its smaller in size compared to other metropolitan cities and traffic situation has much improved over time.If an analogy helps,Bangalore is kind of like San Francisco.

Mumbai is different in that unless you can find housing close to the center of the city(hugely expensive) where it "is easy to meet other people - clubs and events and such" ,you'll have to commute.Mumbai is NY + LA put together with all the excesses and advantages of both cities.

Delhi is nice but the weather tends to be extreme.As a newcomer,unless you have people to help out,it may not be that easy to start off there.Though its a great starting point to travel from for all of north India and worth a visit.

Have no idea about Chennai.
> but I prefer evidence collected from modern people to justify those conclusions.

No you don't. You want to reconfirm your bias.
(I assume by "Evidence" you mean something that lives up to scientific standards. If it doesn't, I have no idea what you are talking about).

> It doesn't say anything about happiness, fulfillment, etc.

Science almost never has anything to say about these (or anything else which is this subjective).

> I seem to recall some crackpot theory that low-calorie diets (ie., borderline starvation) increase your lifespan.

But that is very well supported by science (on mice and fruit flies; not on humans YET). If you were interested in evidence, you wouldn't call it "crackpot", especially not considering ...

> does it sound like fun? How miserable are we willing to make ourselves for a few extra years in a nursing home?

By this standard, you should be doing booze and drugs all day. I've heard they're really fun (and they cut off those long years of old age!)

I really can't understand people whose thought process can emit things like:

> That's probably a false dichotomy, but you get the point.

"I can't find an example that supports my point. So I'm making one up that is probably wrong. That's totally legit, and we should continue the discussion assuming my made-up example is fact"
I can't believe I have to say this, but this isn't a spoof, nor is it a silly idea.

No, you obviously don't have to say that. It's the fact that they have a fancy website for a 20$ product that can be replaced by 3$ worth of stationery with little to no feature loss that is amusing.

Paper-prototyping is a wonderful, effective, liberating technique. UXPin seems a little silly, simple as that.
Apalon.com are great. They've done a bit of work for me, and their prices are fair, and they're decent to work with.
I've always liked the phrase, "99% of success is just showing up", although to be honest 0% of success happens when you don't. Self-confidence is a hard thing to gain but really worthwhile trying all you can.
The corollary to this is corrupting your VM on a crash. For whatever inane reason, my Mac reboots itself every few days. I grew tired of corrupting my VM and having to rollback to a snapshot, losing whatever I had in there since the last snapshot. So, I gave up on that and just develop on the Mac natively.
I don't even consider EC2 a hosting provider. I think you have to do a bit of work to get around the various problems (slow, instances could disappear, etc.) However, once those issues are dealt with, EC2 works well (see Heroku.)
Apple did sue Microsoft over Windows interface.

I wonder how Bill Gates feels nowadays for saving Apple, when Steve Jobs got back. Without MS moral support - promising future releases of Mac Office, and a ton of money - Apple would've probably went bust than.
Yes, I agree.

I wouldn't be surprised if they acquired Tweetdeck with the view to staff up a London office and close out Ubermedia, and in the process mothballed Tweetdeck itself.
I don't have any special knowledge of google or facebook. (I worked at Yahoo for a while as a sysadmin, but that was some time ago) I have maintained web applications from the hardware up, and I have run co-location and VPS businesses.

But hosting hardware (or virtual servers) that other people run stuff on is a fundamentally different thing than running an application soup to nuts.

Like I was saying, if you own the app, there are all sorts of nice failover things you can do that makes the failure of one physical bit of hardware (or even a whole data center) not as big of a deal. This means you can put less effort into keeping your servers and datacenters up, and just keep more spare capacity around instead.

If you are renting hardware (or virtual hardware) for someone else to run an application on, transparently dealing with hardware failure becomes /much/ more difficult. I mean, especially with virtual hardware it's not entirely impossible to move people off a failed server, but all the methods I know of for doing so are extremely expensive, either in terms of infrastructure, licences, or complexity. (and usually all three)

I mean, at yahoo, at one point I fucked up and took out a data center. Now, I was on pager, sleep deprived and generally not performing well, but with a few commands, I was able to redirect all traffic across the country to another data center. Sure, my mistake cost the company quite a lot in terms of additional latency, but it was better than being down, right? It would be nearly impossible to do the same with a co-location or VPS company.
Dude....this is brilliant on SOOOO many levels. Thank you for this.

I have been trying to wrap my head around this, but with everything else I had to do never got a chance to really figure it out.

This comment is a major +1 from me.

Thanks again.
I need a shower after reading this.
Space begins at 62 miles up - that's 327,680 feet.

While these balloons do go up high enough that it might look like they're in space (black sky and all) - at 110,000', they're simply not.
This is very similar to rebill offers.

The sale is the most important part of the process. Once made, the seller makes it as difficult as possible to leave. LIke Kaplan, some people don't even know they're a customer, until they've acquired a lot of debt.
I ran into similar problems when I first got beta 7 on Vista. I ranted about it on and on to my friends (among other things it trashed all my bookmarks). And then the whole thing crashed. And when I restarted FF, it prompted me to reinstall beta 7 again, and everything was fine (happily using it now).

So I think your problem is with a buggy install/upgrade, rather than the beta itself. Not sure how you can trigger a reinstall (dunno, do dumb things till it crashes), but yeah.
Yes, though only on a single app -- a reasonably high-traffic content site. In this case, PyPy is roughly 10% faster (measured by comparing total view rendering time) but consumes about 2-3x as much RAM.

Edit: I should clarify: this site doesn't use a DB engine but instead is pulling and rending content from an XML DB over a REST API. See Alex's note below about DB performance for why this is an important point.
Is there a meaningful distinction between a server that doesn't serve requests, and a server that is down?
For me, and I think i just worked this one out, Agile can only work in a collaborative, open, high trust environment.

If you have that, pretty much anything you do will be agile. If you don't there is bugger all you can do to get to agile without fixing it.

Personality conflicts, leaders who shut down discussions, developers who just want to do what they are told and collect a pay check, this and more will screw you up.

So go for slow development, constant learning, some humility, and a company that won't fire you for looking like you are just "thinking about it"
> If you can't hire someone at your expected price then maybe you should raise it. Maybe the market price has gone higher than what you perceive it to be. That CEO could find his 30 "10x" engineers in a heartbeat if he offered 300-500k. Its not your god given right to be able to hire x number of employees for the price you hired your previous employees at.

It's a zero-sum game. If company X hires all 30 of the best engineers currently looking for a job, company Y cannot. Company Y can offer more in an attempt to lure them, but then Company X will be SOL.

We're talking about macro issues here. We want as many companies as possible to succeed.
That works for some, but not others. I have gone weeks and once even months with not doing a thing (intentionally). Distancing myself from it has always worked out well for me.