jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been fired. A "great learning experience" is not how I would put it, but I did learn some stuff.

* if the company doesn't have a good reason to fire you, like you just don't get along with people, they often give you a sweet departure package you wouldn't get if you just quit. I guess to prevent a lawsuit.

* you can collect unemployment, which you can't do if you quit.

* few people hiring really care if you got fired. nobody even asked me what happened. I had competing job offers in days.

* this happens all the time, even moreso in the upper ranks of management. in fact, it seems the higher up you are, the better deal it is to get fired. often times when a C level exec gets fired, they get a severence package which allows them to not work for a year or so.

* the person who is probably going to be most bummed is your mom.

The main lesson I learned though, is that it's another one of the long standing bullshit lines about things that will destroy your life that simply aren't true. It's in the same league as smoking pot, dropping out of college, and not paying your taxes on time. Nothing very dramatic happens, and it's pretty easy to recover. It's disappointing, in a way. It's a better story if you're on the brink of disaster and come back. In reality it's just a temporary setback, and you probably end up with a better job at the next place.
It's a trivial Greasemonkey script to suppress all the chrome on a search result page. If you really care that much, you or anyone else could whip one up and share it with the world.

I suspect very few people would use it, because I suspect that many people use a search engine because of the branding. It makes them feel comfortable and safe; they know that this search engine has given them good results in the past, and this makes them believe that this search engine will give them better results in the future.

In other words, this problem exists between keyboard and chair. It's not a technological problem: the technology exists right now to do exactly what you suggest. It's a psychological problem: people naturally trend toward the familiar, and that makes the familiar even more familiar.
We have to draw the line somewhere; if not here, they'll push the line further, and further. The TSA has no motive to do a cost-benefit analysis: the force pushing them forward is risk, no matter how small, but the only force pushing back against them is how much budget they can get out of the American taxpayer. The saliency of terrorism fears overpowers analytic reason in too many people.

A quick search indicates there are over 87,000 flights daily in the US alone; that puts the number at over a quarter billion flights without a successful terrorist incident in the absence of these scanners.
As a warning, TM removed the opt+tab and opt+shift+tab keyboard shortcuts in this point release (they're now cmd+[ and cmd+]). I was able to get one of them working via keyboard preferences, but the other was inserting literal tab characters. After a few minutes of trying to hunt that down I downgraded. Nothing in the release notes was something I'd personally had a problem with.
Is 20mb overhead really that bad these days? I'm on a 5 year old computer and currently have more than a gigabyte of free memory.
Somewhat OT, but I'm wondering why you felt the need to mention that the guy who was refused was white along with "non-threatening" and "well dressed". I appreciate your posting this and would like to thank you for it, but it made me feel really uneasy when I came to that part.
It's not bad as far as fiction goes. It's straight awesome compared to just about all other fanfic. It's main problem is that it's front loaded with all of the authors non-fiction blog posts on transhumanism. The story is stalled repeatedly by the Rand-like "John Galt" speeches by the Potter character especially.
Since Drew's hitting up $35k a plate fundraisers, I can only assume they figured out the economics at scale.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/20/after-a-full-afternoon-at-f...
I think it's more interesting than anything that an IE release is that fast. I'm glad he included it and I don't think it's unfair at all.
I don't think it's a subtle point at all - Big-O is not inherently anything to do with worst case time complexity of algorithms, it is a general relationship between functions.
For a company that boasts so much about 'eating their own dog food,' it seems like a lot of things like that get overlooked on most of their new products. I used to call them out all the time on being hypocrites about a lot of the Webmaster / SEO rules they preached and didn't follow on their own domains (ie. canonical URLs, 301 redirects, sloppy URLs, etc.)
Solution: RSS! I'm a google reader user, and when I find things like this, I toss them in there. If it's not interesting enough going forward, I can always unsubscribe. Of course, if the author is using twitter/facebook/whateverelse to hype posts, you can use those to similar effect, too.
reddit.com is down, but luckily http://radioreddit.com is not.
For those who were wondering here’s the US recidivism rates as of 2018.

Smells like success...

„- An estimated 68% of released prisoners were arrested within 3 years, 79% within 6 years, and 83% within
9 years.

- Almost half (47%) of prisoners who did not have an arrest within 3 years of release were arrested during years 4 through 9.

- More than three-quarters (77%) of released drug ofenders were arrested for a non-drug crime within 9 years.

„- Forty-four percent of released prisoners were arrested during the frst year following release, while 24% were arrested during year-9.

- Eighty-two percent of prisoners arrested during the 9-year period were arrested within the frst 3 years.

Source: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/18upr9yfup0514.pdf

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"How does a flip flop work and why does it have setup & hold time?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRuPVIjEcs

Excellent video.
Do you have a light theme? All the screenshots - and the website itself - are in dark themes.

I can't use dark themes comfortably because of vision limitations.
1. The tagesschau did not post on HN.

2. The tagesschau did not claim this so-called "study" was settled knowledge. It's not. Not even close.
Maybe you’re right but I don’t see why this addresses the reply to (at least when I loaded it) the first comment on the post which claims the same thing and is disagreed with by the author.
"I deeply, deeply regret to inform you that this is the rap video of the woman who was just arrested as part of an alleged husband-wife scheme that laundered some $3.6 billion in crypto."

https://twitter.com/kevincollier/status/1491107221857796097
10,000 people on a website looks like an easy number to reach, and one that bots or a group of loosely organized trolls (4chan) could easily game.

Maybe 50,000 should be the requirement?
I travel with a Sprint Touch Pro 2 (GSM/CDMA hybrid) and with Sprint's international unlimited data plan for $40/mo I have 3G in over 100 countries. Perfect when there is no wifi around!
I love this quote, and I plan on reusing it.

The only thing I would add is that instead of "the magnificent" it probably should read "the magnificent and the fool", since the fool also regrets nothing.

Not that it makes the quote any less cool, just rounds it out a little better for reuse.
I liked making the bombs blow up ridiculously huge for the Gorillas game.
Same.. my dad had a big book on BASIC programming and we just got our first computer. I've been hooked ever since.
The government actually doesn't have a monopoly on violence/force: self-defense and citizen's arrest are counterexamples.
You are referring to two different memories.

The "Memory effect" [0] is a problem with nickel-cadmium batteries that results in lost capacity when they have been partially discharged and recharged. You won't see that in modern cell phone batteries; as far as I know they all use lithium ion batteries.

On the other hand, the Apple batteries have circuitry that gives charge information. Supposedly, a complete charge cycle refines its estimates. I couldn't find a mention of this in the online iPhone user manual [1], so I'm not sure how true this is.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect

[1] http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iphone_user_guide.pdf
1977: I learned BASIC from typing in programs in "What To Do After You Hit Return" and experimenting by changing things. On a Processor Technology SOL.

My dad also had a BYTE-8 (I see that's not even in wikipedia, I think it was an IMSAI clone) and had to manually enter the machine code for the paper-tape loader via a set of paddle switches, one byte at a time (one switch per bit, plus a switch for "set"). Then he had to pull the paper tape through the reader at just the right speed, or he had to start over. Good times!
Write some stuff on your whiteboard then stare at it and then write some more. Even business people will understand whiteboarding as 'work.' If you really want to impress them write some random stuff on post-its, stick them on the whiteboard and mention 'six sigma' every once and awhile.
OK, but by this definition of "willful deception" all social media companies and related engineering jobs can be lumped into a "repugnant" category?

I think that is reductive of engineers opinions for one, and over-stating the behavior of these companies. How are people being deceived? Are they being lied to in the privacy agreements? That would be obviously deceptive and I can agree they should be transparent, but it's very public that data is part of the revenue generation for these places nowadays.

I think if people just expect to have a free service and give nothing up in return that isnt really a reasonable expectation anymore, so I don't find it deceptive or repugnant. Maybe there is an alternative where social media platforms don't rely on personal data and advertisements and I'd be all for that, but it doesn't exist now.
Sometimes there is no good faith intent; "write an argument explaning why a Nigerian prince would use a random person from the Internet for a money transfer".
His CPU reviews in particular have at times been virtually unparalleled in the industry. I don't think name recognition is an issue. It's just painful to see that suffer for run of the mill industry news reporting.
Google locked me out of Lynx nearly a year ago. I'm surprised it took this long to affect other people.
What does "nm" mean, really?

It's only barely useful to compare generations within one company's fab model.

What's a better measure to use? transistors / m^2 ?

Or at least to label properly as "7 AMD-nm" to avoid false comparison to "Intel-nm"?
I can't comment on "easy" (I never used it), but the largest company, Addison Lee, had an app in 2010, five years before Uber launched in London.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240104764/iPhone-app-bo...
Exactly, this type of question is to appraise the student's critical thinking and how well they can defend an action. Not an assessment of morality. It reminds me of Religious Education GCSE exams where they give a statement such as (from my GCSE):

"Women should be allowed in front-line roles in the army. State your opinion and explain why."

They weren't looking for a "right" answer but were assessing critical thinking and the ability to defend your belief.
If I understand brianlarsen correctly, the point is that if you downvote 10,000 heresies, one will be correct[1]. The others will just be cranks. And the one heresy that will be correct... well, this is HN, not the Royal Society. If the correct heretic is depending on not being downvoted on HN to get the word of the newly-discovered truth out, that's probably not an optimal publication strategy.

[1] All numbers made up on the spot.
Even if you could, you would run into 1099 issues (US specific) pretty quickly.

I often see Uber/Lyft drivers monitoring multiple apps for example.
There must be a reference temperature sensor near the "cold junction", where the NiCr-Ni thermocouple wires are terminated.

Remark: The external temperature probe is always called "hot", the reference junction always "cold", even if you measure liquid nitrogen with your sensor...

If the "cold junction" is just the banana-plugs, then it's obviously not too easy to get a reading of the temperature there. Better devices will use these rectangular thermocouple-sockets (a rectangular block with two small, dissimilar, slots) and have proper NiCr-Ni cabling inside, just up to the termination point on the PCB, right adjacent to the voltage amplifier/sensor for the reference temperature.
Well, dealing with the UI feels like work. :-)
There are some bugs with "enable sleeping" turned on. Occasionally an object that is sleeping seems to fail to have external forces act upon it. For example, you can end up with a sleeping object sitting on top of another object, and when the object falls out from under it, the sleeping object stays stuck in midair. I can reliably make this happen by toggling "enable sleeping" on and off (example: load up "wrecking ball", stop the wrecking ball before it hits the pile, turn on "enable sleeping", wait for all the blocks in the pile to go to sleep, then turn "enable sleeping" back off and you now have a stack of immovable blocks which the wrecking ball bounces off of, and which will hover if you remove the bricks below them), but I saw the bug occur even when I wasn't flipping this setting back and forth.
One interesting thing is that progress very much happens by fits and starts, as it waits for the "lucky mutation" that will enable evolution to continue.

For example,

0	Bedaaa Ceeici	6.07
1	Bocodo Bidobo	105.93
3	Aibebe Docoeo	107.74
7	Diaebe Eocoeu	107.88
10	Ciaabe Eocoeo	107.95
25	Diaebe Facodu	108.19
28	Biaebe Eocoeo	108.20
30	Biaeae Eacoeo	108.47
35	Beaebi Fucieo	109.88
36	Biaebi Eucici	203.60
42	Biaibi Fuceci	204.65
45	Aiaibi Fuceeo	206.30
47	Aiaibi Fucici	206.60
48	Aeaebe Eoceeo	412.96
56	Beaebe Euceeo	414.05
59	Beaebi Fubiei	415.76
73	Beaebi Focieu	519.01
75	Beaebi Eocido	519.39
96	Baaebi Gidido	521.00
99	Baaebe Focedo	627.14

There are pretty massive jumps at generation 36, 48, 73 and 99.

By the way, this is at 50% mutation probability and 25% mutation amount. It got stuck way earlier with large less frequent mutations (as one would expect, if the probability of a beneficial mutation occurring is the limiting factor).
Why can't these kind of advocacy websites bring themselves to talk about the downsides of their proposed plans?

Nothing is perfect, and pretending that your proposal is simply flawless makes you look like a fool. Having the honesty to talk about weaknesses and drawbacks is what any sensible research should do (and not just so that they can hand-wave them away).

If you can't deign to admit you and your ideas are not perfect, your campaign website makes you look narrow-minded and foolish.
Sounds great - just make a list of what government spending is unnecessary, and compare with similar lists created by 10 random people from your city/state/nation.

Everyone has a different idea of which spending is unnecessary and what taxes are unneeded.
Every redistribution of the tax burden has winners and losers. With the FairTax, it's not poor people who consume very little because they get a bigger subsidy than before. It's not those people who make far more money in a year than they can possibly spend (especially once you cut the now tax-free real estate[1] and lavish consumption on foreign holidays out of the picture). It's the average working person.

[1]I've yet to see a sane argument for why you'd want to give property speculation a massive tax advantage over buying and selling consumer goods
> Then I hope they don't intend on supporting any 32-bit platform.

this type of thinking is so negative... why would you ever make not supporting/doing something to be a project's goal?

the servo devs might make speed of development or maintainability a goal, and that might lead to the decision not to support 32-bit (it's not clear to me why it would create that much overhead on either front, but then i don't know rust).

sorry if that's tangential, but reasoning/explanations of the form, "here's the goal: let's not accomplish __," is broken, and i just needed to vent.
What about torque/throttle response?

I really like the idea of a car that seats a good sized family comfortably but can drag race with an M5. I've driven and loved some very high performance cars, the Tesla is incomparable because of that ridiculous immediacy. Not having to compromise on practicality to get it puts it in a class of its own, IMO.
Right? This is the one I switched to after getting fed up with FormMail. It was self-hosted and runs on PHP instead of CGI, whohoo! Pratically magic for 2001. http://regretless.com/scripts/scripts.php#dodosmail
If it is a gif, how does it make the initial frame (on load of image) equal to the frame for the current time?
You seem a little harsh on Emacs, but I'm with you in general. (To be fair, Emacs is an enormous pain to get into, has a bunch of legacy cruft, has odd terminology that is difficult to learn, and has a terrible default config. To be fair, Emacs is also leagues ahead of its competitors [referring to Light Table, Brackets, Sublime, and this] in terms of plugins and maturity).

I really just want something with Emacs' principles that doesn't have as much cruft and runs on the web. Light Table seems to be the best bet so far, but this looks interesting as well.
Twitter has a useful feature: unfollow. Just follow what you want to read, and curate the content this way.

The other issue, getting more followers, is all about posting something worth following.
In their podcast today, the Grayzone reporters noted that this helpful warning created a Streisand effect that pushed their traffic higher than ever. It's a good thing that Twitter are just making up all this shit as they go along. If they conformed to a set of rules, they would have to keep putting this seal of approval on Grayzone's best tweets.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/25/as-leaks-expose-uk-op-to-...
About Decentralized Systems. What are some those that you know about that are being used and can be considered a mature and proven decentralized system? (However you want to defineature and proven)

Is the collection of governments around the world an example of a decentralized system?
I've started to wonder if "bubbles" are a good thing. Others beliefs shouldn't be foisted on me at any given moment of my day, and if I don't care to hear them there isn't anything wrong with that.

Moreover, communication seems less hostile and more nuanced when we aren't forced to discuss everything with everyone at once. That is why more focused communities like this one seem to be more enjoyable to use.
Sure, but I use Twitter to relax and enjoy specific types of content. It doesn't need to be your source of knowledge.
I did. I wouldn't unblock.

> not everyone who tweets agressively is toxic.

This doesn't matter.

It's about controlling what kind of energy you let into your life.

Negative energy needs to go.
I'm not sure that's quite true. High tech marketing and profits may be conflicting with environment considerations, but those are not technical issues.

I would argue that after many years of customisable/repairable desktop PCs and servers, it is clear that a more modular and standardised design is a good thing in most ways. It tends to be gamers who are the big upgrade-in-place fans and will look at things like new CPUs or graphics cards or even motherboards, but the modularity and standardisation are also good for simple things like adding more storage or RAM, or replacing a failed PSU or drive in an otherwise working system.

Even if you never use the flexibility yourself, an old PC can potentially have the storage devices wiped or replaced for security and then be passed on to another user. That might be a recycled home PC going to a less developed country where someone otherwise wouldn't be able to afford one. It might be a business clearing out some old pro-level equipment that finds its way to a homelab enthusiast. Either way, it's saving someone money and making more use of the equipment for longer.

Modern laptops and phones have fought against this modularity and flexibility, and that's not a good thing. There have been all kinds of arguments made about achieving smaller and lighter devices that people carry with them, or needing carefully engineered airflows to keep high performance components cool in limited space, or achieving better fluid resistance in case of accidents. Sometimes those arguments do have some merit. But let's not kid ourselves that all the sealed cases and ever-changing connectors (or lack of connectors) and active steps to prevent systems working with "unofficial" replacement parts aren't heavily in the interests of the manufacturers and doing real harm to both customers and the environment.
Off topic: what are you using to build your blog? It's very minimal and clean.
Right, but that's the essence of the trolly problem, isn't it? Whether you can take one life to save multiple lives.
I used to work in the business of supplying satellite links like this in Europe and the Middle East, so not the same as the USA. It is a good alternative if you have no practical alternative such as a landline but I would only call it a basic alternative to ADSL.

The biggest problem is latency and there are two factors that impact latency:
1) Distance (the satellite is really far away)
2) Contention (it is often a TDMA system so your packets have to wait for the next available time slot, in a busy network this can cause problems)

Bandwidth isn't the primary concern, it is usually quality and latency. They are tightly related but latency is something that always limits you because it makes VoIP, VNC and gaming difficult.
> by convincing drivers to pick up passengers during their commutes to and from work to pay their gas, maintenance, and then some

Which is yet another case of capitalism replacing what was a common courtesy with a business transaction. I have very conflicting feelings about this.
If you're going to master an original work in a digital format, and it's going to be a terabyte of anything, why MP3 and not FLAC?

Figure at a bitrate of 128 kbps, and a sample rate of 44.1 Khz, an MP3 1 million bytes in size usually clocks in at close to 1 minute of playback. With those statistics in mind, a ballpark figure of 2 years of noise is a reasonable estimate, and that's pretty close to the 711.5 days they cite.

FLAC compression, by comparison, is closer to 10MB per minute, so maybe you'd only get 71 days in the same space, or require 10TB of storage. You could probably fit the lossless version on roughly 400 blu-rays, and opposed to some 233 DVDs?

Even cooler though, is what seems to be some java source for the original noise?

http://www.jliat.com/HNW/

http://www.jliat.com/HNW/HNW.java

Who needs a compressed static copy, when you have the original source?

EDIT: There's also a lossless version in 16 bit WAV audio...

http://www.jliat.com/HNW510/
If maternity leave really is a large cost, then the reason not to pay them less is because we all have a stake in the healthy propagation of the species. Women bare the children, but that doesn't mean they ought to bare the entire burden of it.
To everyone saying "my credit card pays me 2% to use it", no, your credit card charges the merchant 2.3%+ to use it, that gets bundled into the price, and they give you 2% of that as a kickback.