jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An ophthalmologist did a great job of describing me the whys and hows of this a few years ago.

Your eyes focus through muscles which make tiny adjustments to the lens of your eye. These muscles are just like any muscle that gets over or under-used. The underused ones get weak while the over-used get tight and can't relax.

If you think about what we did until about 100 years ago, we where scanning the horizon, or making tools, throwing things, etc. etc. This meant lots of changes to the muscles. The muscles relaxed to allow us to see far away things, and tightened when we needed to focus on things near our face.

Now, we spend most of our time looking near distance, and very little time on medium to far distance. So the muscles are constantly engaged which leads to tightness which leads to a constant reshaping of the lens. Because we are not used to relaxing the right muscles and tightening others, we end up with myopia.

I started working on this myself years ago, and I definitely notice a difference if I am working too much and not getting outside enough. So as ascuttlefish mentions, get outdoors.

But when you are outdoors, there are a few tricks I rely on. #1, I assume you live in a city. Don't walk around looking at the ground. Try to pick out far away things. How far can you see. Try and work your eyes in ways you don't currently.

I spend some time trying to read a sign as far away as possible.

Driving isn't good for your eyes, as you probably don't realize how much time you spend focused on the back of the car in front of you. This is not long distance. But I wouldn't work on your eyesight while driving, let's just keep everybody safe.

I find cycling (and particularly mountain biking) to be really good as you are constantly adapting to looking up the trail as far as possible, and taking quick glances at what is right in front of you. Very challenging for your eyes, particularly if you are just starting out (lots of people only look right in front of them, and they can't go as fast). The same can be done with trail running.

Make a game of it if you can. I'd like to say that I step away from my computer every 5 hours or so for about an hour, though there are definitely times that I'm unable to do that.
This article (https://apnews.com/article/israel-misinformation-coronavirus...) provides some evidence for what is said in that comment
There's always stuff like ecommerce selling gear for said sport. Or similar. Online bookie for said sport etc.
Let's say you churn something out in python and it works the way you like but you need it to complete faster.

You move it to C/C++ (after not being able to speed up the python code using FFI or something else).

Do you go C or C++?

Even if I'm writing C++, I find myself using a restricted subset that is mostly C.
Are you saying you don't know what the word "bare" means? Is that the confusion?

Googling for the definition I find "Bare: without addition; basic and simple."

And yes, I can. A tiramisu repository is a fictional repository that is not at all mentioned the very helpful help section of git init. While completely fabricated, the tiramisu repository is one of the best tasting repositories git can produce.
I have to push back on this subtle anti-humanism. No other animal species would even hesitate to make use of any and all advantages. That’s called evolution.

Humans, at the very least, try to stop and think before doing things.
Hiring and managing a team is extremely hard, and can get very stressful. The care and nurturing of organizations, while keeping them productive and resilient to constantly changing environments, is probably the hardest job.
Are lockout/tagout controls not used in these systems? Industry has (mostly) solved this problem long ago.
You can layer over easy onboarding on top of a federated protocol..
Where I live(Germany), the business who only need 2 developers already have them. All the job ads are only from big/medium companies and it's not worth working for the medium sized ones as you have all the downside of the big corps with none of the perks.
Our investors own a recruiting firm, so I am intimate with that industry. Number one take away I see is that companies are desperate for developers and the job reqs are often a wish list and not set in stone. My brother just finished the Iron Yard 3 month Front-End program, he has become a pretty good javascript dev in that time and I think he will do well. Waiting for the holiday lull to pass to see how the market will treat his new talents. I should add that he did well because he busted his ass, some of his class mates I wouldn't hire at minimum wage.
It is worse than simple ignorance: He understand the abuses perfectly well, he just doesn't give a shit.

Let that be a lesson to all of us: politicians lie, trusting them is foolish.
Cargo cult twittering?
Dunno about Chrome but I don't have the copy and paste problem in Chromium 9.0.584.0 (66224) Ubuntu 10.10. Since Chrome is released from the same base, either it should already be there or would be there in the future releases.
It's exciting stuff! I'm psyched to be one of next year's mentors.
No. Their job is to educate kids.

Unfortunately, they bend over backwards to please kids who complain to their parents about how crappy their school is.
Yes, I have too. It's already been changed in my local build, just holding off on pushing a raft of updates until something else has gone live.
Next TMSC foundry is x1.7 transistors from current process (the 'obsolete' process of the foundries intel is currently building in the USA). Samsung will probably follow, if not done already.
EUV core tools of state of the art foundries are ASML (Netherland with bits from Germany). One of this tool was 100 millions last time I did check the price. Hence 1 billion is too small to be relevant in the foundry business, for large scale mass production.
I think you are stuck on hollywood from 30 years ago. It's cool to be a geek now lose the persecution complex.
Elon Musk says improving the speed of communication is the killer app. Typing with "meat sticks" is inefficient compared to the speed of thought.

Eventually using it to backup and data mine memories will likely happen, as in Black Mirror.

Using it to filter, annotate, and block parts of reality is also likely. Again, Black Mirror touches on this.

Some have posited the idea of gamifying reality, for all sorts of purposes.

I've often thought realtime logic-checking would be useful. Fact-checking would be more subject to biases in the software and data, but could also be useful.

Eventually the idea is probably that neural prosthetics will be developed that act as entire new brain subsystems.
> Like, you can't just tape a metal coat hanger to an iPhone and start getting text messages through it.

You could if we didn't encrypt connections.

On that note, does anyone know how to upgrade libssl across my entire nervous system?
> I think the non server Linux community needs a reference device.

The question is, who is going to make this reference device? Intel? AMD? ARM?
It's saying that because it's using getopt to parse any initial option arguments. That diagnostic message is the standard default message printed by the getopt function whenever encountering an invalid option flag. It means all utilities using getopt will, unless you disable the default behavior, display the same initial diagnostic. It's idiomatic for utilities to then print a short usage message of its own.

Judging by the usage message you printed, you were almost certainly using a BSD implementation, probably on macOS, which in turn is probably sync'd from FreeBSD. `find -name something` will fail early in main. See https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/b422540/usr.bin/... When processing the 'n' in '-name' getopt() will return '?', which will end up calling usage().

The GNU implementation of find is completely different, though I'm not sure it does what you expect:

$ find -name something

That prints nothing and returns a successful exit code. But if you remove the "something" operand you get what I presume you were originally expecting as an error message:

$ find -name
find: missing argument to `-name'

But try deciphering the option processing of GNU find to understand why it behaves that way: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/find/ft... Hint, see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/find/ut...

Not rocket science, but as a programmer and maintainer which approach do you think makes more sense? Is trying to do the supposedly intuitive thing worth it, especially considering find's already arcane and irregular syntax? As an experienced command-line user I'd just be thankful that the option flags (as opposed to the filter directives) are parsed regularly.
Sure, but I assumed he was referring to the biggest computational bottleneck. All of those others are just tooling problems or data quality problems. For DNNs the hours-to-weeks-long training times make it hard to iterate manually or do any kind of rational optimization of architecture and hyper parameters.
I’m primed by poorly trained cognitive chemistry to ignore that I know that and try to make lemonade
How many two page resumes do you get? I'm in college, and I've never seen one of my peers take a two page resume to the career fairs.
You want to bundle the entire configuration, because DNS doesn't provide any consistency guarantee between records.
I love this approach. Lately, when I go in to meet with people about what products they want or what they need to make their job easier, I just ask them exactly that. "What do you need to make your job easier?" "What pisses you off?" etc.

Just sit there and let the info flow :)

I work with a guy who is the exact opposite and i'm constantly glaring at him to get him to stop talking!
My father was a chemical engineer at Scott Paper and later moved up the ladder to management in the there manufacturing facilities. I was fairly young when the whole buy from Kimberly-Clark went down, but I never heard such foul talk about another person from my mother and my father than I did about Al Dunlap. My mother would curse him ever night at dinner and my dad would detail every asshole thing the bastard did. I'm fairly certain he was the first person I ever hated as a child. The name still makes me feel queasy, ugh what an terrible human being.
Gizmodo proudly paid $10,000 for something. Whether what they did was unethical or illegal depends on whether the prototype was stolen, whether Gizmodo knew it was stolen, and whether Gizmodo was paying to possess the property, or just to view it and shepherd it back to its rightful owner.

Yes, some of those interpretations may be strained but we often want the press to stretch the rules to get secrets out.
You're surprised that you can ask for someone's work history in an interview setting?
U-turns are a distant dream in parts of SF. Let's talk about left turns first. http://akkartik.name/blog/2008-12-14-20-38-32-soc
Steve Jobs will not disappoint. Video calls with the new iPhone has potential to be a real game changer.
Not at all. There are lots of Apple patents without his name.

A good friend of mine retired (an Apple Fellow at the end of his career in graphics) with a good bunch of patents with his name on them (along with many others in various groupings). I don't think Jobs was on most of them.
Let's give Cabel Sasser of Panic Software credit for that joke: http://twitter.com/cabel/status/15436511209
It's definitely not Hong Kong and not a charter city -- whatever they mean by "their own something something", it definitely doesn't imply any comparable levels of autonomy.

So yes, it's basically a SEZ, I suppose. It could as well work if the main problem was the tax burden -- which, unfortunately, it's not. Taxes didn't kill e.g. Magnitsky or make e.g. Chichvarkin lose his business and flee the country.
I think twitter would fit with google because they can leap any privacy concerns. After the buzz fiasco and the reaction to the facebook privacy changes a public social network like twitter might be more valuable than it seems.
They're about both. Probably more people are concerned about people satisfying their sexual fetish looking at them through these scans, or even worse, their 10 year old daughter.
This makes you a non player in valuation game. By having a revenue you cannot over project and hence cannot get a valuation to provide a worthy exit to ycombinator.
They aren't QUITE free. ARIN charges yearly fee of $1,250 for a /40 of IPv6 space. Of course, that's theoretically 309 SEPTILLION addresses (2^88), as much as organization will currently need. $1,250 for up to a /20 of IPv4s, which is a paltry 4,096 addresses.
"I totally agree - let them think for themselves and let them read and research what they want. Forcing them to do so on the other hand helps no one."

I have to disagree here. Certainly, you can make the "at least they're reading something!"-type of argument. That is, when you let them read Twilight or something of similarly less literary value than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, well, "at least they're reading something!" I think this is doing a disservice to "the kids", though.

I mean, it's a tough argument. It sucks that we can't just make kids be seriously interested in literature, science, and mathematics. It's quite possibly (probably?) an indictment of our teachers that 95% (totally made up statistic) of kids who read Huck Finn just don't get it. I mean, I know I didn't when I was 14 and had to read it.

"As a product of it's day, I understand the context in which the language is being used but that didn't make it any less demeaning..."

I can't imagine what it was like to be a black kid being forced to read Huck Finn in school. I'm sure most teachers have some cursory 5-minute CYA lecture about how Twain was using vernacular to best illustrate his point about what things really were like in America in the 19th century, but I imagine as a black kid the language was still shocking. As a white kid the language is shocking, but obviously not in the same way. Re: your "as a product of it's day" comment, though, you're completely missing the point! "Nigger" wasn't used extensively in Huck Finn because Twain thought it was the best descriptor or what his readers would be most familiar with, he used it because he was decrying the mindset that makes that word acceptable altogether! Probably the biggest point made in the book was that even Huckleberry Finn, a poor, uneducated, half-illiterate southerner could realize that Jim is no less a human being than he or anyone else, and that his entire worldview has been wrong. Twain was saying "if even the lowly Huckleberry Finn can recognize this, why can't the rest of 19th-century America?"

Let's be honest, understanding subtext and being thoughtfully analytic aren't exactly most teenagers strong suits. So it's easy as a young reader of Huck Finn to chalk it up as just racist garbage with some redeeming attributes. I would encourage you as an older, and presumably more thoughtful, person to re-read it and reconsider your position. Twain is one of America's greatest writers, and while if you've read Huck Finn you've probably read his "greatest"(1) work, there's still a lot else out there worth reading.

(1) - I think it was Hemingway who called Huck Finn "American's Homeric Epic", or something to that effect.
"From my observations it's usually that the Dutch have a small group of friends (usually knowing each other since being little or high school) and they don't really feel the need to either make new ones or let anyone else in."

Yeah this is spot on. It makes it hard to make friends even when moving cities. You still hang out with the old crowd even if they're a couple of hours away, because finding a new group is just so hard.

(Belgian migrated to the Netherlands here, who does this himself - it's easier to make local friends in the expat crowd that it is with the locals. Still I associate mostly with my old friend from high school).
UDP (and datagrams in general) are not the only alternative to TCP-over-TCP. My sshuttle VPN uses TCP but avoids the TCP-over-TCP problem. https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
Which is exactly why intercooler.js uses plain HTML attributes, rather than javascript:

http://intercoolerjs.org/
> A proposal to add a menu bar that’s
always visible should be vetoed reflexively, because the handheld screen is too small.

Practical wisdom from 12 years ago. I have been annoyed by every website that uses a horizontal bar. It takes up at least 1/5 of my phone's screen!
Yeah most of my friends are content with a laptop with Spotify and a cheap pair of headphones. Definitely a different mentality.
It is true that below some income level many schools will expect no parental contribution, but the $125k / year level announced by Stanford is particularly high. Filling out the calculator at the education department(1) it appears that the FASFA expected family contribution for that income level would be somewhere around $20k (+/- depending on things like assets and family size).

Harvard, for example, makes that guarantee only as to students whose parents' income is up to $65,000 a year (2)

1 https://fafsa.ed.gov/FAFSA/app/f4cForm

2 https://college.harvard.edu/node/426

Edit: In light of dollaaron's correction below, this is much less significant than I thought at first glance. This part "Scholarship or grant funds will be provided to cover these costs in lieu of a parental contribution" is still above and beyond what many schools do, but is similar to Princeton and Harvard, as he points out.
And when you order things direct from China, they usually come through Alaska.
Ok, so how can we fix this?

Perhaps we could disable retransmission on either the upper or lower layer?
> That was the intention from the beginning.

It's so inspiring hearing about people who had unbelievable expectations from the very beginning. I always hear about the opposite – younger Zuckerberg expecting someone bigger like Microsoft/Google/etc to build the "real Facebook" [1], Larry and Sergey thinking they'd never make it to be as big as Shawn Fanning [2], etc.

Those are all extremely interesting, but I'm much more interested in what goes on with people who call it from the beginning. I'd love it if you wrote a book. Do you have a blog?

[1] https://youtu.be/MGsalg2f9js?t=13m24s

[2] http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/startup-school-2010/ron-conwa...
That's exactly what it shows. The question becomes what if the object moves - how long does it take to notice the new location of the gravity.
>Github: basically re-invented your sysadmin putting up a CVS server, over the internet; Stripe: basically re-invented what a bank used to do, over the internet.

Those don't even sound snarky, in my opinion. Those both seem like valuable services.
Maybe written a bit to early, so here are some hints:

1) No run command in GUI to access a Folder: Use "Go to folder"
(But still no globbing, you have to use the terminal if you want auto-completion.)

2) No "Cut" in Finder: Use "Cut" (from main menu, shortcut, or context menu – it even has undo)

3) Maximize doesn't work: It's not maximize, but zoom.
Apple changed this behavior with System 7 (in 1992, if I remember this correctly), when 9 inch monitors became obsolete. The widget switches a window's size to minimum size to cover the entire content and back again.

4) Menu bar used as system tray: For a Mac user it's perfectly the other way round (Windows system tray is only exposing a limited view on the widgets – How do you work with this?).

5) Alt + Tab doesnt switch windows of same app: Use F9

6) Activity monitor sucks compared to Windows Task Manager: It's probably a matter of taste (having more items in a view or just a few of them with nice graphics). Does Task Manager have something like "Sample Process"?

7) Multi monitor is a joke: Not really, in fact full screen mode is the joke ;-)

8) No Windows "Aero Snap" equivalent: beware!
IMHO this doesn't work well with the Mac's user experience. (But this is a personal view and a few third party add-ons are proving that there are at least some, who feel different about this.)
Yeah, I realize you can accomplish the same result in almost any language, but not nearly as easily. It's the syntactic sugar that impressed me, and the fact that's it's such an integral part of the language.
Remember, cable is merely the carrier. I assert that $0 of what I pay my cable company should go to pay for programming (other than Pay-Per-View), considering that programming already has advertising. If I want to pay for Premium content (like HBO, Sports), then Cable could mediate that. But that's not the relationship we have today, at all.
Remember: the tiger doesn't need to climb a tree well. It only needs to be better at it than I am. I am confident that a hungry tiger in hot pursuit will be better at it than I am, no matter how terrified I am (which will be quite a lot). And no, we're not going to settle it by experiment.
I'm slightly confused. Let me see if I got this right:

Ink (nee filepicker.io) is a developer tools company that is trying to make a framework for talking between iOS apps.

Yet they build 4 applications for the itunes app store, afaik seem pretty reasonably full featured.

What's the strategy here? I would have assumed that they would be trying to get as many partner apps as possible.
I just ate at Kronenburger for the first time. I JUST moved here from Chicago. We were a party of four, all got burgers and a bunch of starters. Total cost: $60. This would have easily been upwards of 80-100 at Kuma's in Chicago.

It really depends on where you go. I've found that overall, dining out is much cheaper here. I just got lunch the other day at St. Francis Fountain. With drinks, the total cost was about $20. Something similar, like going to say the White Palace or 11 City Diner downtown in Chicago would have easily cost double that.

Maybe this guy has never lived anywhere but here in SF, but dining out here seems much cheaper.

EDIT: The burger at Kronenburger was awesome too.
Wait.. I thought it was some kind of set of sources of something (actual source code?). Granted, I'm not that versed in html/javascript, so I guess I'm missing the lingo.
Yes, but the caveat to the caveat is that Windows 10 will both be free and is intentionally being made to run on very dated hardware. As far as has been released that I can see, 10 will run on anything that will run Vista (which was released eight years ago and ran on Pentium IIIs and Celerons.) While this won't necessarily make the army of XP machines that still live out there go away, Microsoft is pushing really hard to get everyone up to date on the OS.

Source: I attended the Microsoft Spartan preview event last week.
> but today they might let the protest get a bit wild if they want to allow the protesters a bit of leeway, and then those untrained, poorly equipped policemen will be screwed.

I'd say most often than not, when a government lets a protest get wild it's because they want to justify the harsh repression that's coming or at least that when the time comes for decision, they won't side with the protestors.

Or they're just in over their head but in that case, they don't let it get wild, they just loose control.
Not everyone has them, they're called the "Blynclight." They just sit outside your door and light up with the same color as your status in Microsoft Lync (red = busy, yellow = away, green = available). If you're in a Lync meeting, or on the phone, or have set "do not disturb," your light will be red.
Problem is we are NOT like Medium. We have a completely different mission and we're not trying to solve/innovate publishing. THAT's what's so frustrating!!

The problem we're trying to solve is Social Responsibility. Without getting to much into what Social Responsibility is, we want to show companies of all sizes like Coca Cola, Starbucks all the way down to small organizations that there is a different way to do/report social responsibility.

But like I said in my original post, trying to convince organizations is like pulling teeth.

How do we know whether or not to give up our vision and just focus on publishing?
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