jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are you referring to this bit: "[...] push policymakers toward excessively expensive measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The real solution is to lift the world’s poorest out of poverty and protect them with simple infrastructure. [...]"?

I think there is a point to be made. I'm no climate change denier. But with mitigating the effects of climate change, we are trading an up-front cost today against a benefit in the future. Both the up-front cost and the future benefit must be fairly estimated, as much as we can.

Claims like "We must cut carbon emissions to 0 or South Vietnam will be eradicated" justify a very different level, or at least destination of spending than saying "South Vietnam will need [international help] to build extensive anti-flood infrastructure". Potentially at least, I don't know the numbers.
What kind of established company can’t afford that? For engineers, it represents less then 1% (often less then even .5%) of the fully loaded cost of an FTE.
I've found our minivan does most of that stuff just fine. For the times I need to haul more, we have a 4x8' utility trailer.
"Most people have a lifetime of birthdays, vacations, holidays, and everyday moments stored across numerous devices. And, they don’t know how many gigabytes of storage they need to back all of them up."

Моst people in the US and Canada have highly asymmetrical Internet connections, so uploading gigabytes of accumulated media is hardly an enticing proposition. I wonder if that's an important factor of why the cloud providers are so willing to offer "unlimited" storage. If it was Eastern Europe, on the other hand, they'd probably be swamped with data in days, if not hours.
That's not what the proposal is suggesting, and not really part of most UBI proposals.
TFA asserts that MMT lacks a model, and instead is a collection of ideological policies with a facade of science. If true, that puts it outside the above definition of economic theory as well.
I come to HN for the articles, but I stay for the customer support.
It most definitely is not.

http://socket.io/docs/#sending-and-getting-data-(acknowledge...

Could be used to serve a similar purpose to this lib.
It was not exactly like Zoom. Zoom was/is the smoothest experience for participants, especially participants who are not in video conferences regularly.

Before Zoom, it was always 10-15 minutes at the start of each meeting getting people online, able to see and hear, resolving questions, calling them out of band on the phone to walk them through getting started. Most of that didn't happen with Zoom.

I hate online video conferences, but Zoom is the least bad experience of the ones I've used.
Really like the story-telling style of the article. Was wondering where could I find a compilation of similar "programming tales"? Apart from http://www.folklore.org/ of course.
Not really, as the article is covering a project near 20 years old.

Who gives a shit when it was written?
Out of curiosity, what tool did you use to sketch the various architectures for your post?
It seems many people on HN prefer rocky revolutions over stable progressive improvements and reform.
Traders don't want to hire job hoppers because it's a negative signal about their abilities and ethics.

You're wrong. I can make the same argument against people with long tenures. Some people, when they realize that they've been passed over for a promotion or that they're not being groomed for the role they want in the future, bounce (external promotion). That's the honest thing to do. Others stick around, play politics, work the system, slack, and wait for others to fail so they can capitalize on the chaos and move up the ranks. In other words, one could make the argument that the able, confident, ethical, honest people job hop and the political actors stick around and climb the ladder.

I don't actually believe that most people with long tenures are unethical. I'd put the correlation right around zero, to be honest about the whole thing. I think that there are patterns that cause good people to have long tenures and bad people to have short ones, and also patterns that cause good people to have short tenures and bad people to have long ones.

First, if this guy is really so great, why has he flamed out of 3 firms in 5 years?

Maybe he's technically excellent but bad at playing the politics. Perhaps he's an overperformer, like McNulty on The Wire. Maybe he's just unlucky. Maybe he didn't flame out, but each move was a major promotion that he wouldn't have been able to get internally.

Second, do I really want a guy who's bounced from firm-to-firm glomming up ideas and IP? Won't he do the same thing to me?

The problem isn't "job hoppers". It's attrition. When people leave, it's disruptive (and the internal disruption to your own processes is so much more of a threat than IP leakage, unless someone's actually stealing code and then it goes to the courts, that the latter is a rounding error). You can control attrition by treating people well and making sure that ambitious people have appropriate opportunities get promoted on time. It has little to do with the people you hire, and much more to do with how you manage them.

The anti-"job hopper" sentiment isn't really about IP. It's about being mean-spirited, and the IP justification is just made to back-fill an already-formed prejudice.
I like the idea of a free database and the implementation.

I had used www.codecheck.info before, it's a similar database with a community. It started as a university project, though the community content is now owned by a company.
I switched from the 6 to 6 plus. Reading is great. I'm 5'11" with hands average of that height. I think the only reason this has climbed so high on hacker news is because it has Apple's name on it. More choice is better. As people are consuming more content on their phones, like this website, bigger screens are helpful. Consider PDFs.
Valid concerns, and I share your sentiment about the inexcusable behavior of large-scale food manufacturers, but wouldn't it be better to focus on getting some real traction before wasting mental energy on what might happen; or investing in potentially unnecessary and costly legal counsel?

To my knowledge, they're not divulging any info that isn't already public - not to mention it could take a long time for this to ever reach a critical mass in which a manufacturer would care to go on the offensive towards them.

Probably would be best to keep grinding, build traction - and then pursue legal counsel; when you've got some revenue to pay for such things or even capital investment if that is a road the founders wish to pursue.

Actively working to keep everything open source & decentralized is a great insurance against those types of adversaries anyway.
>But it isn’t arguments or votes or opinion that herald the acceptance of a scientific explanation: it’s the evidence. Follow it wherever it leads.

But you cannot actually do that. You cannot be an expert in every field and actually follow the evidence to make up your own conclusion (which btw does not guarantee that your interpretation of the evidence is correct).

As an aspiring physicist I feel helpless every time I'm at the doctor's office. I cannot just "follow the evidence". Heck I cannot "follow the evidence" on anything in physics unrelated to my field.

This is more generally an economics problem about information asymmetry and it will become more prominent as professions become increasingly sophisticated and specialized. I don't think better access to information makes up for it, either, because there is just as much misinformation.

The solution seems to me to build ever more complex social institutions with complex trust relationships which I know makes some cryptofans cringe.
>>>Or, better yet, taxes the massive, useless dragon-hoards of the 0.1%.

You do realize that "net worth" != cash/liquidity, right? Even if the billionaires were all sitting on piles of literal money that you could confiscate, it would be a mere band-aid on the Federal government's budget[1], let alone the state and local budgets. So what's the plan past the next few years those few trillions buys you, when you won't be able to dump the wealthy upside down and shake all of the change out of their pockets a second time?

[1]https://checkyourfact.com/2019/02/15/fact-check-wealth-billi...
I read OP's comment as "if this bug happened to a non-enterprise (regular) user and their drive". A regular user has a lower chance of hitting 4 years of non-continuous operation before discarding the drive due to obsolescence. On a 50% duty cycle (12h/day every day) it would take 6.5 years. That's close to how long many people would hang on to their drives. But even a regular user might have a NAS and that accelerates the process.
Both sentiments are pointed in the same direction - more freedom.

Also, Blizzard, South Park, NBA are part of popular culture in the west. Cooperation with China is endangering that culture, so you see backlash.

Standards related to RISC-V are not part of popular culture and there is no danger of Chinese censorship. There is however danger of USA protectionism.

And yes - I can see Americans using microchip intellectual property against Europeans. EU is right there on the list of trade foes with China and Russia according to USA president.
Humans have specialized enough over time AND powers have become very entrenched. This agency you're talking about to improve the current system has reduced/disappeared over time because of that IMO.

For example, Try as I might, I would suck at say building roads - just not strong enough. I will get done over 4x the time what an expert will need. I think this analogy applies to residence as well: I just don't feel I have the power to change a whole country or community. There is also a huge amount of force required to reverse a flywheel compared to adding to the current direction. Given a choice, people find the flywheel that's turning in their direction.

I also would like to work on what my specialization is and build up on it rather than trying to learn to lay roads. It is clearly better to do that in a place supportive of the same rather than trying to change my 3rd world country to adopt it, build it etc. Some probably have that skill to build from ground up in a hostile place - it is a rare skill.

You can also try and extend your argument to the millions of refugees / immigrants that flow away from poor spots and see if it holds: Why don't they stay and make their place better? Because more often than not, they just want to make a living and don't believe they can effect measurable change.

And believe me, this doesn't come as easy as you think. A ton of legal / ably employed / tax paying immigrants with completely clear records live 10s of years in the USA for example without any permanence or citizenship. IOW I wish it was as simple as you make it sound to up and leave :)
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Just seven years ago Crucial sold tens of thousands of their "M4" SSDs with a firmware bug that made them fail after 5184 hours: https://www.anandtech.com/show/5424/crucial-provides-a-firmw...

Do they still not test these things with artificially incremented counters?
Worth noting that "do no evil" was officially removed from their mission statement or whatever several years ago.
What was your expectation when joining a network known for pretty selfies? Science graphs?
> they removed all the legacy code they haven't understood.

This is exactly why rewrites or huge refactors typically fail. The new programmer sees code and doesn't understand why the code is there and thinks the last programmer was an idiot and deletes said code. Unknown to the new programmer is that code handles some weird edge case.

A rewrite should spend 80% of the time understanding the old code and 20% writing the new. But, that's no fun for most programmers who just want to code in the latest shiny so the new code ends up broken.
vote with your butt!

they can't make you put your butt in a seat!
Which is nice in this case, but it still doesn't tell me what's interesting about this hiring.
I personally really like the chatting with coworkers and I find it helps refresh me between tasks at work. It's hard to replicate "water-cooler" or "coffee-maker" talk remotely, but I imagine a lot of people don't feel the same way.

That's actually something I'd love to see. A good way to replicate water-cooler talk remotely. I don't see a good way to do it initially, but I'm interested in the idea.
What do you think Google Analytics does?
> Is being a doctor hard?

I have a friend who is a surgeon who says he hardly uses anything he learned in medical school and that he could teach a carpenter to do his job. (I think he is exaggerating a bit, but it's a funny anecdote).
I have relatives in red states who ask me how I can live somewhere as dangerous as NYC. Meanwhile, they're living in a metro area with triple the homicide rate of NYC.
Oh, you're right. But when you have to cycle to get to work whether you want to or not, its easier to get that exercise in.

I'm not a leisure cyclist. I don't dress up in spandex and ride an expensive bike. In fact, I have difficulty containing my derision for leisure cyclists. I know that the equipment they use has utility, but it also signals: I don't have to ride a bike. I have an expensive SUV at home, and I didn't lose my drivers license to a DUI.
I'm one of the founders of Wefunder. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the new regulations or equity crowdfunding in general!
Apparently the judge sent them back to further deliberate the claim that she was fired for this lawsuit.
My question is why would they even mention "hacker?"
My wife, whose dad is a coal miner and works harder in one day than I've had to my entire career, cannot figure out why I'm able to work from home whenever I want, and why my boss isn't firing me because I often sleep in and don't get online or make it into the office until maybe an hour after my "normal" hours.

Or how I can "just take off" whenever I need to go to the doctor, or for one of my sons' doctor's appointments or events at school.

I've never known what it was like to not have this flexibility. I expect this flexibility, and will not work for an employer that will not give me this flexibility.

And these expectations only increase as I get further into my career or change jobs. I'm even considering taking a contracting position making 80% less and working 80% less, so I can spend 20% doing my own (productive) thing. What other profession allows this?

So yes, I definitely think I personally take this for granted, and feel in a way I'm spoiled, or at the very least desensitized to the fact that a large majority have it way more difficult than I do. I do try to keep this in mind, though, but it is hard in the day-to-day grind.

So thanks for the reality check.
This is amazing! What is being used for geocoding IP addresses? It's one of the more accurate returns I have come across in quite some time.

Also, how live is this data? If the data is live enough, this could be immensely useful for small-craft off-shore fishing.

All around, superb work!
That was my thought as well. Or, perhaps with added filters on the projector or IR camera, using slightly different wavelengths of light from the different sources.

Or, perhaps assuming a future more capable projector(?), interactively refrain from drawing dots in already-covered areas.
Hi, I made a quick mockup of HN's frontpage using semantic markup and CSS. There are some issues as my CSS skills are not the greatest, but I think it's a very good start.

https://gist.github.com/719217
Considering Facebook news feed having a strong presence in the latest version of Skype, one might assume this is a 2-way partnership and yes we will see Skype inside Facebook.

Don't think anyone has done this (embedding or integrating Skype video chat) before? Technically it has not been possible, I believe?

Might be one more step towards Skype headless client / SDK, which has been talked about for years, but never materialised.
Exposure of corruption within our allies. I found things like Afghanistan’s vice president being caught (and released) in the UAE carrying $52 million in cash to be quite interesting. Also the part about Saudi donors are still the driving force in financing terrorism.
I think it's to calculate where the cameras are in the room. If you know where the four corners of the board are in each view you can figure out the position of each camera, and then the two views can be merged properly.
What was the lag situation after an OS reimaging or reinstall?

Take a snapshot of a fresh OS install, with all necessary applications installed, running on the old hardware. Compare that with a snapshot of the old OS (before reinstallation), running on the new hardware. Generally, unless the hardware is really old, reinstalling Windows will get you a snappier system back.

If you're using an old HDD, consider swapping for a SSD.

If a little more performance is needed, consider overclocking the CPU by 15-20% if that's possible (a cpu cooler is much cheaper than a new machine).

Additionally, you should disable all graphic "special effects", Aero and other crap that comes with Windows.
I have lots of different mail accounts, some backed up, some not. Anything important in an email I save on Evernote. Anything sensitive in an email I save locally, or encrypt with either Password Gorilla (which I really need to migrate from) or PGP Desktop.
My university in Germany offers all students all somewhat current versions of Windows for free (including Windows 7 Professional), you can download it as often as you want and generate a ton of keys. It would actually be more useful for me if they offered Office but they don’t. You can get Office for less than 100€, though.
I know this is ad hominem, but Robert McDowell is one of many corporate lobbyists appointed by Bush to undermine a federal agency.
I don't understand why people need all this. Setting up the boilerplate for a web app manually doesn't take any time at all and only needs to be done once so what is there to automate? Am I the only one still doing it the old school way? Please enlighten me.
You should care about your DNA! It isn't just a blueprint, but a computational device that stores an insane amount of state information. In fact, the internal state of your cells as an aggregate (genome/proteome, concentration/expression levels, modifications, etc) hold far more state info than mere synapses.

I understand that we all view our brains as a record of our cognisant experiences. However, there is far more at play at the molecular level than non-biologists usually consider. Brains are not magical "higher level" abstract devices. They work in concert with the existing computational machinery of the cell and the genome.

If you don't buy that argument, at least be mindful that if you don't take adequate care, you will increase your probability of getting a cancer that your immune system cannot fight. Your cells are critical. Your gut flora is critical. You are an ecosystem, not an individual. Your mind is only the deterministic imprinting that the physical world makes on you as you make your way through life.

(I'm a computational biochemist and soon to be systems biology student.)
On macOS, with no native tiling WM, I’ve been enjoying using VSCode in full screen as essentially just that while coding/debugging/etc.

Typically split into 3 vertical panes: nav, editors, terminals. I mostly just use one big editor pane, but sometimes further split one way or the other depending on what I’m doing. Same for terminal sessions, though more frequently using some kind of watcher in a lower split.

Anyhow, it works pretty nice.
I'm not a freelancer but do have the ADHD ("inattentive type") diagnosis.

Personally I thrive in multitasking situations. My mind is always wondering, so situations that have many productive "wander targets" help me from going off and doing irrelevant stuff.
Why do you assume there must be a threshold?

If you had two identical groups of a million people each and one group received 0.5 liters of wine per person, would you really be shocked that the group that got the wine had a single extra death?
I nearly snorted my coffee through my nose at this:

"Simulated annealing's strength is that it
avoids getting caught at local maxima ..."

It's true that SA generally has better local-maximum avoiding properties than simplistic hill-climbing, but I've generally found that shotgun stochastic ballistic hill-climbing works at least as well.

But all these things work the same way:

* Do something random and see how good it is;

* Jiggle it at random and see if it's better;

* Consider changing.
When I'm sad or depressed, I feel "stuck". All my side projects, all my fun hobbies, everything I normally get excited about goes on hold. Heck, I can't even function properly at my job. The feeling grips me and causes a dull headache. I feel alone and I can't shake it. Normally, I can be alone and pursue all my fun passion projects. Or be able to learn. Or perform my job like a man on drugs.

When sad, though. I'm a zombie. Nothing inspires creativity, nothing makes me excited. When I feel like that, I'm definitely not in my comfort zone. If you want help with your research, PM me and I'll be happy to share my experience with you.
I used baseimage-docker for a while but wasn't satisfied with the image size (around 300mb with nodejs installed), so I switched to debian as the base and removed stuff I didn't need such as syslog and openssh. That alone brought it down to 140mb.

However seeing as other people have managed to distribute their applications in images as small as 7mb (e.g. progrium/logspout), I decided to create one based on busybox with s6 as the process supervisor, with help from this article [1]. I'm now pretty happy with my 33mb nodejs environment :)

[1]: http://blog.tutum.co/2014/12/02/docker-and-s6-my-new-favorit...
Why not? There's not that much of a difference between translating C to assembler or a high level language like Java/C#/Go. The main challenge is to make the code readable.
But basically someone just has to sit down and do it right.
This happened to me as well, but for different sites. In the end I just had to whitelist 2 domains and I haven't run ino a problem since.
>Lisp is definitely not designed for high performance

Maybe although looking at benchmarksgame Clojure doesn't do to bad. Roughly 2-3 times slower than C, C++, On a par with c#, go, ocaml, scala and maybe Java much faster than Python, PHP, Ruby and Erlang.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
That has been edited (maybe corrected) since I posted
Given how common sentiments like this are (I certainly share them enthusiastically), I'm kindof surprised there hasn't been more support for projects that attempt to address this somewhat by taking OS X compatibility beyond OS X:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/203272607/gnustep-project
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/
http://www.darlinghq.org/
One of the most common symptomatic treatmeants that doesn't get at the root cause of the problem is prescribing meds for high blood pressure.
When have boycotts ever worked?
The quoted statement is false. You could have everything public, or everything shared with friends only, and it wouldn't matter with respect to advertisers.

Yes, facebook benefits if you share more on facebook. Similarly, every other website on the planet benefits more if you use it more.

A common idea is that facebook makes decisions based upon making money from advertising. Here, the accusation is that facebook is pushing people to be more public because of advertising money. First, facebook doesn't make decisions based upon short term monetary gain. Second, this is explicitly false, as I've already outlined.
And subject to which constraints? Singapore is an unusual country.

One might also ask: Is the phenomenon being described here a necessary component of Singapore's success (however defined) or an ancillary one? And, even if it was necessary once, does it continue to be so?