jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I ever would have been able to become a dev had the first startup I worked at not bucked the rules and let me work there with no employment contract or cash compensation while I learned (in the end I did get equity).
Most of what I wrote centered around lack of social interaction, but your comments don’t touch on that at all. You got fixated on the very minor point about my alarm clock.

The comments have the tone of someone telling a person with depression to stop being so sad.

This has nothing to do with my alarm clock and I have no idea why you’re so stuck on it. If I set my alarm clock earlier, I do what? Stare at a wall for an hour I could be sleeping? Come on. The entire point I was making was the pandemic took my thing to do before work, my moment of Zen.

Kids would be great. Kids would give me something to do, something to live for. I don’t have kids, we can’t have kids, it’s a sore spot, thanks for bringing it up.

> My wife is happy to pop in her headphones if I ask her to while I'm working.

I’m not married to your wife. Different people have different relationships. My wife is going to want to use the entertainment center in her time off, and it wouldn’t be fair for me to put limits on her time off.

It’s also fine and dandy that you’re able to ignore your life duties at home, but not all of us have that luxury; not all of our minds work that way. It’s simply not a thing I can shut off. I am at home, my brain is in at home mode, which is consciously aware of all the responsibilities of being at home at all times.

My life has two states right now, trying to work in a place I find lonely, isolating and highly distracting, followed by hours of being alone after my wife leaves for work a little before 3pm. It’s not great, I do not like it, no matter how much you tell me I should and it’s my fault I don’t.

I love my wife very much, more than I had any idea I was capable of loving another person, but I go literal months where she is the only human interaction I have outside checkout clerks. I am losing my goddamn mind.

We got a dog early into the pandemic. She’s beautiful and the one saving grace of the entire thing. She’s not a great conversationalist though. And before you bring up walking the dog as something I could do before standup, my dog literally gets irritated if I wake her up before 10 AM. She’s a Shiba Inu, you can accurately read the irritation level from the amount of side-eye she’s giving you.

Here is her Instagram, my wife runs it https://www.instagram.com/yubabaandcompany/
“content marketing”

OP. Yeah, I guess I can see that now. Honestly, I did a search for Salvator Tuesday after a friend mentioned it, saw this link, thought the examples shown were interesting and the question intriguing. It’s one I’ve asked about music, literature and other topics many times.

Agree, his analysis is very limited. The better not to scare off any potential customers, I suppose. If anyone knows of a more academically sound paper or exhibition on these lines, I’d click that.
I don't see the cognitive load you are talking about.

It's just windows. You put roughly where you want them when you need them to have what you want visible. They stack. If one is out of your sight and you need it, you use the list or expose to find it and move it where it will be useful. It's like manipulating documents in the physical world except it's always easy to find a window in your stack of windows. It's a very natural flow.

Tiling is the solution imposing an unnatural cognitive burden on the user. With tiling you need to constantly think about exactly what you want to see, where you want your windows and you constantly need to fiddle with the arrangements and spend time preemptively positioning your windows. It gets very annoying to me as soon as I want more than one full screen window.
tiko.energy is hiring Haskell developers for roles in Zurich (Switzerland) and Milan (Italy). https://tinyurl.com/3v45m4kd (this goes to LinkedIn).

We probably would not consider someone as far away as Philadelphia on a permanent basis however, as we expect to operate at least a hybrid model in the future.
Swaggerhub does most of this
> It seems that they hadn't encountered async programming before and really struggled to get their head around it.

Seems totally normal. And most likely, after a few weeks this person would get the concept.
I think you're right. So many models excluded these extremes as they were too unpredictable in their effects and really, should they happen, it's game over. But so frequently real world observations have been "more extreme, and faster than expected".

Well. We had a good run. Time to pack up the board.
Desktop search predates OSX with Beagle (unfortunately now defunct)
As someone who has suffered from pernicious anaemia, I heavily recommend against this diet. Vitamin B12 is extremely important and is not necessarily well absorbed through supplements (if you went to a doctor for B12 deficiency, you would be given either supplements or injections well beyond the 100% RDA amount). Eat food with it in instead, or even better, consult with a doctor or other relevant medical person before taking such risks with your health.
I'm also a huge fan of PyCharm. Has made all Python devving tons more fun (Django + AppEngine is what I do). Can't recommend it enough, and I've tried PyDev & Komodo wanting to like them.
Yes, exactly. I think it makes sense to use standard modules if possible, but use private APIs for functionality that is not in the standard Python.
I disagree. I like having it there. I periodically look through new submissions and have to manually open 10-15 tabs just to flag. A nice time saver for those of us who curate a bit from time to time. As jcr said, you can always unflag when you make a mistake.
I think it's a overflow issue. The print preview flows the text in some box on a page, and if you have lots of wide characters it gets cut off because they didn't anticipate the max y-height 150 words can consume.

The Times was a bit imprecise in how they used the kid's words to explain the bug (about par for their technical reporting, unfortunately). The way they write it, it sounds a lot like <textarea maxlength=1000></textarea>, but if you think more about the explanation of the wide characters and the "print preview" it can't be that.

Overflow issues are actually not trivial to fix, as opposed to the claims some people are making here about "just count the words". Without allowing an excessive amount of space or allowing for more flexibility in the way it lays it out (flowing across multiple pages, etc.), it can be hard to estimate how much space to give for something as vague as a 150-word limit. If the Common App instead specified a 1000-character limit, the programmer/designer could take the widest character like "W" and determine the max y-height for 1000 W's.
>If keywords are allowable in identifiers

Big "if" (why shouldn't it disallow them?), and completely resolved by modifying your naming scheme in those situations: EndOfFile is unambiguous, as is end_of_file, ifSuccess, etc.
TechCrunch and the British Telegraph both used the same $300M number.

But I was clear in the post that my research lead me to believe that the number originally came from the founders.

We'll never know for sure until they sell, but the achievement is impressive from everything I saw.
Congrats on Launching guys!

Should come by the Cloudkick/Rackspace offices again sometime, would love to catch up.
Thanks for the feedback, I will pass this on to our graphics guru.
Overly wordy Java coders would still be overly wordy Pythonistas, except the Python culture enforces the "Python is not Java" mentality so they would be corrected on almost every turn, plus the code tutorials and examples from which they learn would be shorter. As a result they would become less verboten very quickly.
Does the coupon code work? http://xkcd.com/837/
about time they added a gui for managing NAT port forwarding, you used to have to use some arcane looking command line to get this which drove me to fusion, but i'll have to check this out again.
1. It's not, actually, it's a big part of Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.

2. MS has this horrible problem of not actually using their own products. No big apps came out of MS using WPF/XAML, why would anyone else use it?
what is the real book?
I missed the source on this and thought it said Reuters, but partway through I had to look back up because the bias was over there top. Only then did I realize it was Reason which explained the clearly one sided writing I had just read. For example there is no evidence presented that shows he remained calm, yet it was clearly stated that he did multiple times. While I have no reason to doubt it, I have no reason to trust it either.
I can't help thinking that this story is a fantastic example of the free market at work. Two college kids use their insight to spot a market need that the "big guys" missed, and create a wonderful, useful product that becomes a smash hit.

Of course, when I say "the free market", I'm talking about the one where good ideas can be shared and copied freely --- not the one populated by sheet music landlords, whose laws were flouted every step of the way for great public benefit.
Kids don't get sick but they can still transmit the virus to the adults that care for them.
Personally don't think so. They'd convert those spaces into residential spaces just like what happened to malls.

Possible bonus (or not) is people can live and work in the same buildings just like in some other parts of the world :)
At the risk of stating the obvious: you can always set up an alt Google account without a phone number or credit card...

Any purchases can be paid for with gift cards.
SJIS is still pretty actively used, and Han unification is the most likely culprit. In hindsight it really does feel like a mistake.
Conversions ... Something that is always very difficult to get at the first stages of development. I really want to buy or write some kind of SaaS service like https://audext.com/
It is not a published paper, but it appears you did not pay much attention besides 'skimming' through (perhaps not even that).

The tl:dr; is that certain non cryptographic hash functions provide certain guarantees in different applications such as signatures, expected runtimes on hashmaps, distributed sampling and so on, it also shows some fast solutions with good guarantees and explains the mathematics behind said guarantees.

The professor mentions in the document that the document exists because modern textbooks do not go into detail on hashing.

The content in the document is sufficient for 1 or 2 lectures on introduction to hashing. We spent 1 lecture during a graduate course in Advanced Algorithms and Data-structures.
Hopefully the popover stuff is fixed. I was trying it out last week, it wasn't working right.
there are estimates, but almost all of them are flawed and biased because the bitcoin crowd is making them. For example many consider the energy consumed by banks branches to light up the offices or by the air conditioning systems, as if bitcoins were mined in dark caverns self refrigerated.

Or they compare the total amount of energy consumed, but when making their calculations they "forget" to take into account that the total amount of money in circulation is around 80 trillion dollars (some sources say more, some less, I settled on the CIA estimates that are usually very precise ) directly employing million of workers (5 million only in Europe+USA), while bitcoin market cap is only 600 billion (rounded up by me) and employees zero workers.

Money is used everyday by billions in countless transactions (~1 billion transactions a day only counting CC), bitcoins owners are only 5 million and make only 300k transactions per day.

Also consider that bitcoins are designed to burn energy to exist, money works even if suddenly communications shut down or on a desert island in the middle of the ocean with no internet connection, you don't need to keep a copy of a public ledger of all the transactions and can be reused many times and recycled.
As far as I can tell, it's not published anywhere?
The intention of every chiropractor is to conduct chiropractic treatments in exchange for money, not to willfully make harm.

The problem is that there is no expectation for a chiropractic treatment to be effective in solving any problem, since chiropractic is not evidence based. However there is evidence to show that there are significant risks of injury to undergoing chiropractic treatments.
It could be described as about the bus factor, couldn't it?
If an organization has a product, and that product is not retired, it should be sustainable by a team.

Lone points of breakage such as a single visionary or the mythic 10x-er are not optimal for the product if the unit taking care of the product is a team or several teams.
They're supposed to require authentication. E.g. with docker commonly mutual TLS auth.
The lottery winners don't receive any counseling and planning as part of their winning package.

But, point taken - lottery winners are terrible at managing their newfound wealth.
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Interestingly I just came across this - http://torrentfreak.com/google-asked-remove-345-million-pira...
I've had this happen to me a couple times, seems like when I'm doing something on my phone and answer a call, the sound from the app on my phone plays over that call, annoying. Then when I end the call, I no longer get voice on calls until I reboot.

So, basically, don't answer then phone when in an app until an update cures it.

Just about what I expect as far as phones these days, people just suck at making software.
The real issue here is that GSM, MMS, etc are archaic and hard to code for. The industry's fight against VOIP seems to be the real issue here. Instead of all this complexity, why not just treat phones as data devices and voice is just another IP protocol that runs on them? I imagine the "shoddy workmanship" has a lot to do with carrier specific settings and vendor specific stuff that is difficult to code for properly. A modern telecom is a shitshow of legacy junk that should be thrown out.

Granted, this is kinda happening with some carriers and google voice, but the move to LTE-only with VOIP needs to happen sooner than later. The carriers seem to be fighting this because they, then, can't sell "minutes" and other old fashioned concepts. They would become a dumb internet pipe and they fear what that means from a profit perspective.
#4 is because of a defective health-care system. No amount of patent reform can fix that.
>> Now I use an email mailing list, and 100% of the people who want to see 100% of the things I send.

I totally agree that you should have a direct channel (email) to your internet friends.

I think what Twitter can offer is to let new people discover you. Email lists don't grow that way on their own (people won't really forward your email to their friends, but they retweet your tweets and so their friends find you).
I'll be honest, I've used a laptop as a primary computing device my whole life - and I have no idea what a "sane touchpad" would even be. They really are so frequently bad that I can't imagine what a good one would be like. I mostly use PCs (often with Linux), but used a mac for work for while - and I can't really say I saw the appeal in that touchpad either. Besides issues that come from low-quality pads + linux drivers (ghost mouse movements as I type, stupid imprecision from weird acceleration setting) - I don't like the way that most touch pads feel cold and metallic, and how they always attract dust you can feel as you use.

My solution has always been to just keep a wireless mouse with rechargable AA's in my backpack. If I'm using my laptop on a couch at home, I have a wooden lap desk with ample mouse space to accommodate it.

Additionally, the thinkpad I have now has both an eraser mouse and touch screen + stylus (as well as a trackpad), so if I do have to leave my mouse at home, I at least have options. I like the eraser mouse because I don't have to move my fingers away from the keyboard - and even if it feels it takes slightly longer to move - it's more pleasant tactile experience for me.
Interesting. Reminded me of a piece in the FT I read recently around Direct Indexing. https://on.ft.com/3rDhUd5

Would love to try it. Have signed up on waitlist.
They are not being transparent about your experience being manipulated for the purposes of generating engagement either. Most non-technical people don't immediately associate "contains ads" with "will use all kinds of nasty tricks to make you spend more time looking at said ads".

You have something there that applies to all of social media (and just because others do it doesn't make it ok). Algorithms are black boxes. Even if you make 100% sure I read a disclaimer explaining that the timeline is curated and algorithmic, I still will never know what I'm getting and what I'm missing.

The lack of control and transparency is abhorrent to a certain type of person, and you and I are probably those kind of people. But there's a vast world out there that simply. doesn't. care. Even after we explain why they ought to care.

Compare and contrast to walled gardens like iOS. There's a certain type of HNer who talks about iOS the way we're talking about Twitter. And yet... Many, many people are happy with an opaque system deciding which apps they can install, which apps appear on the front page of the app store, &c.

It can be very frustrating, but there it is. People like Twitter, and no amount of explaining why they shouldn't like it will change their minds.
After I quit Twitter a few months ago, I set up a private instance of Nitter[0], and use Huginn[1] to forward posts from it to an instance of Pleroma[2].

Which reminds me, I need to clean up and publish my Huginn agent for posting to Mastodon/Pleroma. :)

(Nitter supports RSS, so you could probably use a regular RSS reader instead of Huginn/Pleroma. But I also configured some other, non-RSS, content in my feed.)

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
[1] https://github.com/huginn/huginn
[2] https://pleroma.social/
I'm also sad that SEE's don't get the attention and love they deserve.
>Just use the darn government to solve the double spending problem.

Yes, we tried that, but they kept creating new coins out of thin air.
It's good to understand what "resolution" actually means when considering these types of problems. Suppose you have 2 dots close together. The ability of your camera to "see" (resolve) 2 dots as opposed to a single blob is a function of the sensor and the lens.

All the sensor resulution in the world is not going to let you resolve something if the lens has already blurred the image.

While sensors have become relatively cheap, optics have not. I think physics alone makes it impossible to have a camera phone lens that resolves anywhere near what these XX megapixel image sensors could theoritically resolve.
Well I assume that most folks on HN would be somewhat interested in seeing online services flourish, and this is a move to disadvantage them simply because retailers either refuse to, or are incapable of, updating their business models. And not only do the innovators suffer, but so to do the consumers who are forced to pay higher prices because they can't get access to the value produced by the innovation. It irks me because the retailers think they have some kind of right to exist.

Imagine you are living in a village where one guy gets paid for carrying water from the lake. Then one day, some other guy builds a pipe and a pump - the first guy is out of a job! So he goes to the village chief, who bans everyone from using the pipe to get their water so that the first guy could keep his job.

That's clearly insane to my mind - and was wondering if the HN community concurs or if they see the other side.
PHP was its own, independent effort. It doesn't really have anything to do with Perl. People migrated to it because it was easier to deploy (just put it on the web server), and probably easier to write for many people.
Investing is often dangerous. If you invest in a mining exploration company, you're investing in minerals which may or may not be in the ground, and a management which may or may not have the acumen to extract them.

People who think they have edge will invest, and so will some people who don't have a clue what they're doing. Some people will fit into both categories. I think that's true of investing generally.

you're unable to make an objective assessment of
the underlying value

I'm not contradicting you here, but developing this idea. I'm always interested to hear the justification that people give for investing in blue-chip technology stocks like Apple and Google. They rarely deliver a dividend and some companies have a stated policy of not doing so. What's an objective assessment for the value of a company that's too big to be acquired, and which has committed to not delivering a dividend?
WhatsApp is a near approximation of BBM on the iPhone (and other devices, I believe).

Their reliability isn't great, however.
Optimisation for stealth against bistatic and multistatic radar systems is a different problem from the monostatic case. The important thing is the split between the position of the transmitter and receiver. In the monostatic (transmitter and receiver in the same place) case, you need to optimise to reduce radar energy reflected back in the direction of the transmitter.

When the receiver and transmitter are split, this problem gets harder, because you need to optimise to reduce radar energy transmitted back in the direction that recievers are likely to be (or don't reflect any, but that's a different problem). This becomes even harder in multi-receiver systems, and even harder in multi-receiver-multi-transmitter systems. As computation power and communication bandwidth becomes cheaper, lower power, smaller and easier to hide, many of the assumptions used during the development of the current generation (and past generations) of stealth aircraft are becoming invalid.

Passive location systems, either secondary radars or systems using 'transmitters of opportunity' also reduce the effectiveness of anti-radiation weapons significantly.

The radar vs. stealth arms race continues.
This looks promising, but the site[1] is a ripoff of the LÖVE one[2].

1. http://www.getxc.org/ - http://www.getxc.org/css/xc.css

2. http://love2d.org/ - http://love2d.org/style/style.css

Look at the #menu style rules, for example.
They do it because they’re “not distracted at all”. Seriously. That’s what I’ve heard from people.
From the perspective of braking a motor, charging a battery is just a way to dissipate energy. A bad one at that, considering that there must be ample room for charge, and the charge rate must be limited.

Sports cars dissipate several hundred kilowatts in their friction brakes (for reference, the Porsche Taycan which can almost do with only regen braking can regen ~270kW). A hard-braking truck will exceed this significantly, but of course distributed over many more brake discs.

However, for the trailer scenario, I assume that if you go up a certain slope using N kilowatt of propulsion to maintain a stable speed, you'd need somewhere in the ballpack of N/2 killowatt of braking power when going down during the full duration (unlike hard braking, which is only for a few seconds).
Namecoin did this, and I think there are similar efforts on Ethereum, but it turns out that the tyranny of the installed base is a real thing.