jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As I replied to another comment, I'm not active on any anarchist servers, but I know many anarchists in real life. The notion I've gotten from them is that they support absolute free speech. Maybe they're an exception. Maybe it's an Eastern European thing. I don't know. I don't support absolute free speech myself. I just took issue with the statement that it's obvious that some speech needs to be censored, because I know some very educated intelligent people who disagree with it.
> The failure of Twitter is to not provide the necessary affordances in its design, its functionality, its business model, its values, its policies, its mission and its vision that allows a userbase of over a billion people to self-govern itself in a way that helps prevent what happened yesterday.

Assuming that line of thinking, where'e the root cause, and when should it have been identified?

I've been on twitter since literally day two (I'm user 1018 or something like that). It was a farce back in the day: people talking about cats is my clearest memory. Ev posted on the Odeo blog and I checked it out. I remember the fail whale days.

At that point, it was a struggling start up with a start up tech stack.

At what point specifically did Twitter jump the shark and should have reinvented itself? It's an honest question and not rhetorical. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback its entire existence and call for self governance for a corporate product. It's harder to point to where and when and how that should have happened.

If we can have _that_ discussion, we can inform future twitters, which I agree is a very worthwhile cause. Otherwise, your comments sound eloquent, but ultimately are devoid of any utility.

Edit: Also, just now noticed your username... the analogy was not intentional in that regard. :-P
Nintendo absolutely would allow it. There are many CoD games on Nintendo consoles.
Once you get used to the honeycomb pattern, there is no turning back from Typewise: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.icoaching.w...

It has a free version, too, but the beta users were upgraded to the paid version earlier. Not opensource but doesn't even have access to the net.
Entry - Level Jobs at Roamingdesk.com
But actually, why not target both? There are thousands of warheads from what I understand. It doesn’t seem like they need to be choosey.
I think almost every state has laws protecting breastfeeding in public. Otherwise the issue in the US focuses overwhelmingly on parents wanting to prevent children from seeing nudity.

How "public" can saunas get? There are also saunas/hottubs/showers at gyms everywhere. The only restriction is they are single-sex. Mainly for women keeping the guys out. Or at least that was uniformly the requirement until recent politics with transgenders.
1) What is so different about startups and programming in India?

2) What makes you think the rest of us (non-Indian) folks wouldn't be interested in these topics?

note: I am not being a smart-ass here. I am genuinely curious. Personally, I think it would interesting to hear about how this stuff actually works over there. You know, a real perspective other than "they're stealing our jobs" or Outsourced.
Seth Godin: "Quit what you'll never be #1 at."

is isomorphic to

PG: "You shouldn't worry about prestige." http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

because if you quit what you'll never be #1 at, you'll almost always be left with something that seems not-serious, a toy, like you're shirking responsibility.

That's ok. You just haven't made it prestigious yet.
With Adwords and a WordPress theme, you can test your idea with a $200 dry-run. If it still looks promising, you can pay $5,000~10,000 to get your first version online. Tim Ferris and Rob Walling can show you the way, google for them.
But how many of them are tech companies? You don't need a hacker culture to drill oil or make breakfast cereal.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914842
Hello Fred :) Interesting that we both commented this actually, and the bottom line is, it is no longer 90s.

This is not bad per se. But in 90s you could say, it's no longer 80s with the cool times of BBS, but now there is security that is the new underground.

Now everything is still progressing in many ways, and even faster, but there is like the feeling there is no longer an "underground scene". I hope I'm wrong and that people in their 20s are experimenting what we experimented again.
I call bullshit. The cost is not "very high", it's astronomically high.

My advisor also worked on creating antimatter traps at government labs, but none of the projects had any kind of defense related purposes.

There are only a handful of interesting research questions about antimatter that exist at reasonable scales. Most of those are either fundamental physics or medical in nature.

EDIT: Looks like there has been some Air Force funding for positron traps for defense purposes. Never underestimate the insanity of some generals. I think my physics comments still stand, though.
Biggest improvement I found came from replacing the ISP provided modem/router with my own modem and router. Both improvements in overall speed and latency in gaming. I'm guessing they have less remote access control over third-party modems, and the quality of name brand is generally better. I use a Netgear cable modem and Ubiquiti router gear.
In a pinch, you can always pull from a coworker's local repository.
You can just pull from someone's local copy, a git checkout is just like a remote (bare) repository that happens to have a tree.
F# is a lot like OCaml. But OCaml still struggles with multiprocessing, while F# can run on the .NET infrastructure which has this solved.
I appreciate the feedback. Are there any other resources you would recommend for novices looking into the field? Thank you.
How are these examples not political? Yes, the entities in question might not do them for political reasons (as in for or because some kind of affiliation) but the issues are absolutely political.
The killing feature was not .Net for me, but the free and fully featured IDE. I hated to type out every public declaration twice in the Delphi 5 IDE I got from school.

I remember that I hated the startup time of Visual Studio though. In Delphi 5, I typed invalid syntax to create a temporary bookmark: When I pressed F5 to compile the project, I immediately jumped to it.
This was entirely impossible for C# programs.
For you definitely no. But for employer they would rather have new excited person working for a bowl of rice than old and tired "just doing my work".
Email Zend.
Yes, sorry, my previous respond didn’t answer your question.

I agree, you’d think if they were producing masks in the US they would make that clear.
I don't know when that idea got started, but it seems like my grandparents' generation (The Greatest Generation) enjoyed the greatest benefits of it, then my parents' generation benefited but also inherited their parents' wealth. As a GenX person, I watched my cohort struggle well more than their boomer parents' cohort.

The American dream was effectively denied to my generation and it's only gotten worse for subsequent generations.
I work remotely. I'm pretty sure that no company has as cool an office as mine. My office looks out onto a private garden. The office is a new wooden building, climate controlled, reasonably spacious, with my own paintings on the walls, and a desk with two large monitors. When I want to chat with my colleagues, I turn to IRC or fire up a video conference on a dedicated extra screen (the 80 Mbps line to the office is more than enough for a high-quality video conference worldwide).
While the Quattro has gone up in value, so has every other classic car worth buying, especially rare homologation specials. So it's not necessarily the market rediscovering the Quattro (which has never been 'lost') but QE money chasing hard collectibles.
> Another is that you should never ever have any webpage configured to load any resources from a server hosted within China IP address space as it is vulnerable to this sort of attack by the Chinese government.

Yep. Baidu are a NASDAQ listed company, while they may not be the malicious actor here, they still have a responsibility to ensure their networks are not used to attack others - which they don't seem to be taking seriously.

Until Baidu take steps to ensure their networks are not used to attack others, we should drop their packets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9295617
States rights, separation of justice, executive, and legislative branch, equal senators per state, congress numbers by population, no central bank, right to bear arms, jury of your peers...

These are all decentralization of power. The Roman empire had an emperor.
Now they need to say the same about those plate recognition systems. Different technology, same effect.
Sure, the Apple watch is fairly likely to be a ridiculous geegaw.

It's also going to do a lot more than the mechanical watches you are comparing it to.

If you just want to tell time, there is a wide market of solar watches:

http://www.casio-intl.com/asia-mea/en/wat/standard/solar_pow...

http://www.seiko-cleanenergy.com/watches/solar/

The Seiko tech runs for 6 months with no charging (left in total darkness).
I think the floodgates will open once there is a http2 module for nginx. We are still on spdy/3 because of this.

Details: http://nginx.com/blog/how-nginx-plans-to-support-http2/

I think it would be amazing for the CDNs, especially Amazon, to support HTTP2. But I've heard mostly silence from Amazon -- Cloudfront doesn't even support SPDY, which I though would have been useful already at this point.
Early drafts had the machines using human brains as CPUs, but the idea was killed by suits who thought it'd be too hard to understand. It would have made the whole premise of the movie make much more sense.
Not sure we can draw conclusions from a screenshot of the numbers, especially in this early phase and for one benchmark, but it's extremely encouraging to see Microsoft's willingness to go head-to-head with its competitors, both in terms of feature range and raw performance. This is one of the many bricks that will help foster a vibrant and lively web programming ecosystem. Good on them and good on us.
For that matter, does it run well on a modern x64 processor? I'm confused by people who do optimization at this level, but don't distinguish between the different generations of processors. Core i7 is a marketing term corresponding to Intel's positioning of the CPU within the market, but says little about the performance characteristics of the processor.

He mentions later that he's using a "Core i7 970", which is from the Westmere generation that came out in 2010. The decompression speed on the more modern Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, or Broadwell chips could be anywhere from the same to 8x better depending on how amenable the algorithm is SIMD improvements.

Without testing it's hard to know, but my guess would be that since it was not consciously designed to take advantage of the newer processor features, it probably will be at the low end of this, and could be beaten handily by an approach that targets only new instruction sets.
i don't disagree, i'm just pointing out that the space between $0 revenue and a few hundred bucks doesn't have a better solution.

everyone has to start somewhere.
aren't they better served by a tablet?
Any thoughts on FastSpring http://fastspring.com ?
This is a great set of videos. Can you post transcripts & slides? I simply don't have time to watch more than 15 minutes of video.
I was more talking about bcrypt being consensus with that post. Salting slows down cracking attempts by a factor of N where N is the length of the hash; md5 and sha1 are so fast that you shouldn't be banking on salting to protect you in 2010. Also, you should assume that if an attacker has your database (with salts), they also have your code, which tells them exactly how the salt was applied. In that case, salting doesn't slow you down at all.
Ever since i got a Mac i've noticed i've been buying a number "small" apps ($5 - $40, including now this humble bundle. In my previous win-centric life I would avoid paying for software at all cost (as ironic as that is).

This is in large part due to 1) getting lazier (not wanting to deal with finding alternative methods of procurement) 2) apps that cost less generally have most of the proceeds go to ppl actively involved in making the product 3) the sub $40 price range seems entirely reasonable for quality software 4) mac apps generally just look/feel so polished, and in small part 4) having more disposable income than in college/pre-college.

Couple of my recent faves have been Cinch and TotalFinder -- I can't wait to get a chance to play around w my new humble games! Many thanks to the humble team and the devs!
If you use Vim, snipMate is an awesome plugin to give you snippets.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540
"On what hardware platform does Oracle runs the best?"

...

"Extaclty right, on a 35mm projector..."

hahaha
Maybe... 'prefer'. I'm more confident that a really conservative Makefile will build my code correctly.

My issue with -MD was not that it didn't provide precise (and correct!) dependencies; my issue was that the build system's most mysterious breakages are when modules (and dependencies) are changed. In that case, there are three situations:

1. Your .d files are out-of-date, and thus your build is broken;

2. You have to have a policy of "updating the .d files"; or,

3. Your makefile has to be .d savvy.

The last option is the one I see most often taken, but with rare success.

> it makes correctness guarantees that Make cannot (e.g., .o file replacement is atomic).

I wish Make wasn't so entrenched.
Lawyers are a counterexample. There are more law graduates than jobs. But starting salaries haven't gone down.

David Graeber made this observation, and suggested some sort of class tribalism.

Btw, to use cleaning as a specific example, taxation of domestic services is broken in almost every (western?) country and skews how people spend their time and money. Most professionals would happily trade an hour of work for an hour of cleaning services, however, by the time you put income tax (and VAT in my case) on top, your hours need to be about 2.5x times as valuable as your counterparty.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26725915
You should wear an N100 when you wear your gloves. Asbestos fibres can easily bypass an N95.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/asbes...
> compared to the cost of loosing the customers

Given everything else FB has done to hose its users, I don't think this is the last straw.
From my current perspective Actel was ok for its time. I worked with APA150 FPGAs in the past and for that ancient time it was ok. I heard, Microchip has cool SoC with RISC-V nowadays. I just don’t have time to play with them after work.
So now we know who is really responsible for the whole MySQL utf8mb4 fiasco -- these 2 guys sitting in a diner, conjuring up a brilliant scheme to cover 4 billions characters, which turned out to exceed the actual requirement by more than 2000x.

September 1992: 2 guys scribbling on a placemat.

January 1998: RFC 2279 defines UTF-8 to be between 1 to 6 bytes.

March 2001: A bunch of CJK characters were added to Unicode Data 3.1.0, pushing the total to 94,140, exceeding the 16-bit limit of 3 bytes UTF-8.

March 2002: MySQL added support for UTF-8, initially setting the limit to 6 bytes (https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/55e0a9c)

September 2002: MySQL decided to reduce the limit to 3 bytes, probably for storage efficiency reason (https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/43a506c, https://adamhooper.medium.com/in-mysql-never-use-utf8-use-ut...)

November 2003: RFC 3629 defines UTF-8 to be between 1 to 4 bytes.

Arguably, if the placemat was smaller and the guys stopped at 4 bytes after running out of space, perhaps MySQL would have done the right thing? Ah, who am I kidding. The same commit would likely still happen.

EDIT: Just notice this in the footnotes, and the plot thickens...

> The 4, 5, and 6 byte sequences are only there for
political reasons. I would prefer to delete these.

So UTF-8 was indeed intended to be utf8mb3!
+1 from Maven. And Maven was launched in 2004, 17 (!) years ago. It's almost old enough to vote.

A lot of ecosystems put on some solid horse blinders in order to avoid Java at all costs (Javascript/Node/NPM being another example). They've avoided good ideas from Java for more than a decade.
Good idea, I’ll just pop on my SMS machine issued to all concerned citizens and crank out half a billion messages.
Is that not by definition a self reproducing virus ?
It's closer to owning a car factory making disposable cars and getting a new one when it gets dirty. At some point your supplier shuts down and you cannot make a specific part anymore, which prevents you from building another car. You are now stuck with the dirty car.
Yep, I forgot this step.
> If our ancestors had this attitude, we might not have rage-builders being used daily by a third of living humans.

I agree. But we've got them now, so what will we do about it?

> I don't believe all problems are unsolvable, but I've seen many systems fail because they do not take human nature into account.

Me too. Let's say we did this and it didn't work - would this leave us in a worse state than before (excluding the development time involved)?

> I realize your proposal's intent is to help people realize they have this problem. I don't think it would do so very well.

You may be right! But how would we find out for sure?

Hypothetically: if the idea went to a vote (to try such an experiment here on HN), would you vote for or against, and why?
Do you have any preference towards a Ledger, Trezor or other?
this single post would be grounds for nationalization/breakup/conversion to utility status for me. i wouldn't believe this if there weren't so many of you saying the same thing here. it's unthinkable for me to send any kind of confidential information via whatsapp.
Wow, thank you so much! That's a great post, very helpful :-)
Elon is a clown; sued for libel and by the SEC; Elon has admitted the company was weeks away from bankruptcy during Model 3 development; my Tesla was a lemon, Tesla makes almost all of its profits from regulatory credits; 500K production was only achieved by creating a second factory (not part of the original 500K projection); the Gigafactory is only 30% done and Tesla has abandoned it in favor of expansion with third party battery manufacturers.

So, in all, pretty accurate.
Mono-repo is not that unusual. Most of google is 1 repo.
If you can get cheap electricity you can probably mine anything GPU based.
a lock-in is a lock-in, even if with free software, it incurs certain costs on you, even if it provides convenience.
The example often used is something like the Reader monad, which is basically used like dependency injection. Run your code in an isolated environment to test, and connect it to the real application just by swapping the environment (effects/monad).

A more interesting example could be monads as used in Haxl, which give an alternative monad in which to run database queries, which can perform complicated batching of requests behind the scenes with no change of business logic code.
Neither do I. I don't tunnel 0/0 through VPN; only some BitTorrent traffic. This is civil court work; not criminal court. That the NSA (and EU counterparts) can figure out what I use BitTorrent for, that I take for granted. They're [in this use-case] not my adversary.
I still get anxious sometimes, and the thing that helped most, back when I had to stop going to university because of anxiety, was therapy.

And what I got out of therapy was techniques to kind of step back when I feel anxious, and to realize that the problems I have cannot be solved now, when I am lying in bed at 3am. That every step towards a goal is progress, and that I wont die and lose everything because of one day where things don't go how I hoped. Anxiety makes all problems immediate and life destroying. Most problems aren't.

But, that recognition isn't always there for me. What made it mostly there for me was therapy.
"back then Google was still admired by the tech people"
"Losing our support"

why do you generalize 'tech people' as 'we' ?

I'm in tech and I've been for 30+ years. I still admire Google.

Sure some tech people don't like Google anymore or even never have.

But I wouldn't generalize my case nor should you generalize yours.

And it's not all or nothing: I want to believe most tech people are mature and educated enough to not treat Google as a single block, hate everything they do or love everything they do. There are nuances and shades of gray in life, as we all learn when we grow up.

In the end, what matters is the silent majority not the chatty loud ones that have a personal grudge against some big corporation.

That "Google is evil" is highly overrated and over hyped. I always question the agenda of people promoting this.
Oh ok thanks. I tried two spaces indentation but it shows in monospace font without wrapping (probably meant to be used for code)
I just had black pull out an epic victory over white in truly random fashion: http://imgur.com/9CTukc5

I'm also curious how rare a victory is here, and if it can be modeled with math.
I run a cache in front of mine. It is usually available, but can be slow.
is there any reason to use md5? (apart from backward compatibility etc.)
I really enjoyed the Honor Harrington series by David Webber. I've also read most of the Safehold series, also by Webber, which has been excellent so far.

Currently half way through the Lost Fleet Series, which is pretty good too.

Quite different from the 3 series above, the Rho Agenda was very good.
I have been thinking for a while about how it's kind of silly to have a phone. How often do I make phone calls or receive them? Not very often. Also I generally never need it on the go, mostly make calls at home or work. There is something that keeps me from switching to an iPad or some other tablet to just use to make calls and for regular surfing. Is it just nostalgia? Who knows.
I'm getting a 404 at your link as well, though it looks like someone archived it before it went dead.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210228143057/https://www.inc.c...
I think setting wages by supply and demand is a mistake. We should have a spectrum of how hard a job is and how much training it requires and base the minimum on that. Now with corona there are even more people looking for work. A disease shouldn't benefit anyone.
Good optimization, thanks for the pointer!
>It has recently been renamed and represented by Jordan Peterson.

You've been downvoted because the OCEAN/Big Five model is not Myers Briggs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
It doesn’t work like that.

You certainly paid a tax when you bought your home. I don’t know how it’s called or how much is it in your area, but you have to add that to the cost of what you bought, or deduce it from what you will sell (assuming the home value stays the same).

Then you also have to deduce all the real estate yearly taxes. And then all the costs associated with the real estate property itself (the ones you wouldn’t have to pay as a renter). Then you’ll have to deduce the real estate agency fees.

Then and only then you can start making some comparisons between buying and renting.
Because “rights” aren’t real, but power is. Rights are whatever you can take by force or negotiation from the strongmen who want to run your life.