jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If no one explains that something is off-topic, how are we supposed to propagate that information, and the culture of what is on-topic to new users of this site?

That's an honest question, by the way. Since there is no barrier to entry to joining this site, there's nothing preventing masses of people arriving and crowding out the good content, which is of interest to far fewer people than politics are.

I'm more than happy to sacrifice otherwise useless karma in order to call stuff out, as the karma points serve no other purpose.
We do this at my current company. The tiebreaker stuff is slightly different, and every candidate that gets a vote of confidence actually ends up chatting briefly with our CEO as the very last bit, which is more of a cultural fit thing than anything else. I agree that it's good to have a potential counterpoint to odd personal interactions.

Interviews are clearly stressful situations for a majority of candidates, even if their technical chops are without question. This ends up manifesting in ways that can come off as personality defects / lack of fit. I can think of a few times where the person I went in with came out with a specific point in spacetime that was wrinkled for them - a comment they thought was off, something about their behavior - and more than half of the time I've noticed comments the candidate made, or compensating factors, that reasonably explained these wrinkles. A lot of the time, I'm trying to balance the things I care about asking with paying attention to my co-interviewer so I can provide objectiveness down the line.

So far, it's worked out well. No lemons yet.
You're right. Add there the fact that ISS serves also as a ground for international cooperation. There is therefore both an economical reason and a political one involved.
Probably not in her list of "favorite firing" stories.
From your first sentence, you missed the point completely. She's not a maker because she doesn't consider herself a maker. You're trying to project your own ideas of what a maker is onto her, and it makes her uncomfortable:

>* I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity, rather than to express a facet of your own identity
Depends on what you do and also where you are. I'm in a European office, and due to the fact I deal mainly with US-based folks, I usually start my day at 12pm and end at 6-8pm depending on workload.
Interstellar migration could be not unlike booting an embedded device via a slow serial link. First send the slow robotic "boot loader," then use it to download the colonists to the new star system and boot up a civilization.

Matter is everywhere. Information is what it's all about, and information travels at 'c'.
Virtually everything about your experience at Google will depend on your manager.
You realize this has real and tangible value to lots of folks, right?

Despite spending the vast majority of my life on the Internet, every single day I am disappointed by how judgmental and incapable of empathy folks are who say things to other people online.

Jesus, put yourself in someone else's shoes just this once. I wouldn't use this service, and I don't know anyone who would, but to say that Invisible Boyfriend is a net loss to humanity requires a level of hubris that, even today, is stunning to find on the Internet.

This is a life/death thing to some LGBT folks, who if outed face physical harm from their own families and friends. Helping someone like that stay in the closet until they can get to safety is a service Invisible Boyfriend adds to this world. Who the fuck are you to say that's not a value-add?
Amusingly, the UK is trying to backstep out of this sort of system (though a less generous one) that has bred a "workless class" who find it pays better to not work rather than start working and both pay taxes and lose "valuable" recreation time smoking and watching Jeremy Kyle.
Who says what? CBS says the TSA's favorite poll was a real poll. The commenter says both are Internet polls, and is wrong.

Or do you mean, "who says Internet polls aren't real polls?" Answer: in addition to "everybody", also "common sense", since Internet polls are self-selected.
To end prosperity, guarantee everyone in Canada $20,000 a year.
I have a room available in Berkeley starting in January. Berkeley is the new Silicon Valley, at least for people that don't go to networking events every week.
What's better? DoubleTwist? WinAmp?
I'm using Shellfish for Safari which does a nice job of hiding these widgets. Unfortunately it doesn't block them completely so they're still in the background slowing down page loads even if you can't see them.

http://open-bits.com/shellfish/
"When it came to programming, I was the 'go-to' guy in the office. I didn't know how to write loops."
many years ago, i've lived on non-hacker hippie communes. there's actually several outside of austin in texas. it makes sense given all the cheap ranch land in rural texas.

ideally, you have a "main house" with the kitchen and where everybody meets up. then you have little cottages all over the ranch with bunk beds where everybody sleeps and works. when people need to buy stuff, they drive into town.

for hackers that just need a roof over their head and a few meals so they don't starve, it's not a bad idea.
> https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net

Reading the summary and the first paragraphs, I've just processed a bunch of words that I understand by themselves, but bear no meaning to me when placed together. I guess the target audience is a bunch of very power users who would probably not need explanations anyway.
Sorry for the misunderstanding - We do handle the translation of resolutions to create the same layout for everyone. In addition, you can actually pinch zoom into remote windows if necessary.
Marijuana can cause feelings of anxiety because it increases your heart rate and the sensitivity to the feeling of your heat beating, which many people's brains interpret as anxiety.

LSD doesn't have this physiological effect though. It's more accurate to say that LSD will amplify whatever you're already feeling or thinking. If you take acid and feel anxious, it can spiral out of control and feel much more intense. On the flip side, if you're feeling peaceful then it will be a calm, happy journey with no feelings of anxiety whatsoever.
Maybe people who spend most of their working lives alone, staring at screens, are picking dark mode because it's comfortable, not cool. There is no one around to impress. It's ok if you don't get it, but that doesn't mean it's just a fad.

It's cool to be comfortable, and now easier. OLED screens invert the default behavior of a screen from light to dark. It'd be absurd to fight the comfort that this can provide.
It's not more wealth that would generate more projects. It's finishing a previous project that would generate more projects. You don't even get to finish the project without a great programmer so you don't get to start new projects. New projects can depend on older projects.

Generating that wealth serves as proof the project completed, which justifies moving on. It's not merely being handed that wealth by a VC that completes the project because then you didn't generate anything. All you did was transfer wealth between two parties. Having wealth isn't enough to generate new wealth in tech. You also need skill.

What having more wealth would do is help pay for more great programmers but it's neither the driving nor the limiting force. The limiting force is having great programmers. They are the ones who generate new wealth.

So what you said possibly supports the argument that it's not about wages. If there were unlimited great programmers, we might indeed hit a limit on VC wealth. We could be nowhere that limit because there aren't enough great programmers.

My comment above was confusing in that it makes someone think a limit in VC wealth is what makes it prohibitive to hire great programmers. That's not what I meant to say. I meant to say that if you are limited in having great programmers, then the total amount of wealth you can generate is also limited. The US, and any country, would be better off having more great programmers.

The limit you hit is in having great programmers. Lack of great programmers limits growth. Lack of growth limits wealth.

I wish PG revised his essay to make this point.
Austinite (not the mineral) here.

Tweaking Griddy's business model would be viable:

wholesale prices + X% with a cap of no more than +Y% increase in pricing per month. This way, there is price stability for the customer and no insane, surprise bills.

In truth, public utilities should just operate this way to begin with rather than turning inelastic demand necessities into a casino.
As as already been pointed out it's not correct. Your EV, although positive, is +$0.50 cents, not +$1.

Another nitpick: in Poker you'd more see the $1 as the price to participate, and $3 as the gain (because in Poker what you put in the pot is considered "not yours" anymore).

So the math is ($3 * 0.5 -$1), which also gives 50 cents and which, arguably, is more logical (but really it's a minor nitpick).

As the problem is presented in the article you wouldn't see it that way but then Poker is mentioned so...
Really? One of the things I read while checking into the salad timing was about Americans also drinking cool liquids before and during a meal, which was not really advisable for good digestion.
You'll have to work with a reseller. It's a bit of a pain, but it's not too bad. I've used Dell and CDW in the past.

The minimum volume license buy is 5 licenses. Any good reseller will sell you 1 copy of LTSC and 4 of the cheapest SKU in the catalog (usually $5-10 / ea) to get your volume license contract started. After that you can purchase piecemeal for 2 years before you need to fulfill the minimum purchase again. The licenses themselves are perpetual.

I don't like it, but it's not too hard to do either. The trick is finding a reseller who will leave you alone after the purchase (no sales calls, etc).
When the First Amendment was ratified, speech in a public square was the commonplace way of getting a message out to the world.

No it wasn't. If you wanted wide distribution of getting a message out to the world (or even wider than your literal public square), you needed it to be published & distributed. That means you had convince a publisher (i.e. a private corporation) to print your pamphlet or have the means to buy your own press. You also had to physically get it into people's hands. The Internet reduces these costs so that making your thoughts available to anyone is easier today than it ever was.

Even if it was, that still doesn't show any implied intention (it certainly is not explicit) of some right for one's speech to be heard. Enforcing such a right would be impossible and probably contradictory to some other freedoms granted in the bill of rights.
And to start with, how is the fact that people in the western end of a timezone get an average of 19 minutes less sleep?

This was linked by another commenter, and I think it's pretty strong evidence: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676...
The last place I knew of was in the fonts management, but they removed that one. Are there some left?
Are there any SELinux + Android experts there? Do you know if there is a way to alter the policy to undo this change with root privileges without disabling SELinux enforcement entirely? It fundamentally seems like it should be possible; I just don't know how. It would get around the issue very nicely if someone can figure out how, since I imagine many people with Termux also have root.
I’ve been using safari + Wipr and I haven’t noticed any big difference.
Very cool stuff. However, I didn't find any links to the Github Code. Is this release as well part of their GPT-2 strategy?
Perhaps that is why y'all have 200k LOC of javascript :)
I worked in an industry which was tightly squeezed by government regulation. Every business I know which was run honestly and reputably had to close.

Those that remain are exclusively run by people who are willing to break any rules and any laws as it suits them and are intelligent enough to do so when they can get away with it. I feel very jaded by this experience. Is this what people really mean when they talk about 'hustle'? Is it not possible for an honest person to run a business?

In another context you would call these people sociopaths. They are happy to screw employees - and the conditions are currently just right for them to do that.

Good people who have skills or personal interest in that industry now have to work for that kind of person. They have no realistic choice.

You alone can and must change - we can agree - but your three options are not true to life.
Wonderful, new weapons for the military. As if there weren't enough already.

Please don't tell me this is for 'humanitarian' purposes.
When you die of a heart-attack brought on by too much Red Bull and sleep deprivation, they can put on your tombstone: "Died coding, but at least the trees in GTA V looked really nice."
I had a similar idea a while ago[1], the main ideas being:

- to use Postgres JSON columns for storing documents (rather than the typical CMS approach of a complex EAV/table-per-field structure), and

- to use React components for rendering the public-facing content views, which could then also be used for inline editing or a live split preview/editor – like a markdown editor, but capable of turning arbitrary fields of input into arbitrary output

- embeddable content types/entities which know how to render themselves

- live collaborative editing

1. https://github.com/jsdf/cosmos
Another vote for Pinboard. Been using it for some months now and I love the minimalism. I've had one occasion to contact support and my issue was very promptly addressed. Highly recommended.

@idlewords: just make sure you're ready for the possible flood of new users. :)
It's a media issue. It's seemingly an important issue, but it isn't covered much. Admittedly, "media" is on the fringes of programming and business.

Besides, many programmers have a libertarian bent, and locking people up, often for questionable stuff, and treating them like dirt rankles. Not that many of them don't deserve to be worked to pay back societal debt. But don't abuse them and feed them junk.
I personally really like the idea of the duplicate detector. I didn't realize it was going on. I really don't want to see conversation split across threads; I'd rather have one conversation per link.

my 0.02 c
Things with interesting music, but without lyrics. Nine Inch Nails' "Ghosts I-IV" is a good start, as is the NIN ambient 'music' of the sound-track to the original Quake.

The Canadian indie label Constellation has a number of artists that make good coding music, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, and Do Make Say Think.

Other relevant artists include: Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Dirty Three, Explosions In The Sky, LCD Soundsystem, Monolake/Robert Henke, The Necks, Ratatat, The Flashbulb, The Samuel Jackson Five.

There's a few particularly good movie soundtracks I like, as well: Koyaanisqatsi, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, and Blade Runner.

Another good source of quiet, interesting, music is videogame soundtracks. I'm particularly fond of the soundtrack to Ōkami, and the OCRemix tributes to Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, and Doom: http://ocremix.org/albums/?&offset=0&sort=nameasc
That's about when you release a new model and reduce the price on the old design.
As a language learner I'd love the ability to capture and export (in some fashion) the pre-translated text, as text not an image, to import into SRS learning software. This especially applies to the Japanese/Mandarin support that I hope you guys are working on.
reddit.com/r/SideProject is a great place to look for such projects.
Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gkzZ7YK...
Probably downvoting because the whole (ir)responsible disclosure discussion has been had, for decades, with all arguments from all sides and repeating it here, again, would be just going through the motions.
Putty supports hmac-sha1, which is more than fine.
My understanding is that, in general, AEAD (such as GCM) > CTR >= CBC > [ a lot of modes ] > ECB

CBC requires unpredictable IVs. CTR works with an integer starting at 0, so long as you never repeat.

The author's motive for not eliminating CTR was stated as compatibility. If you ask me, just use chacha20-poly1305 if you can. If you can't, there are probably more important problems for you to deal with (i.e. upgrading your legacy systems).
Add tab support, how can you make me type out full commands?! :)
As I understand it, the threefold repetition rule does not mandate a draw, it just allows either player to claim a draw upon occurrence.
> This is a problem if you're trying to sell your code.

I think relatively few tech companies are trying to sell their code directly these days. Most are hoping to build a product and/or service and then charge customers for access to it.
Design is a choice? Radical thinking.
If a competitor takes interest in your space, and you're already profitable, they're as likely to acquire you as compete with you.

A fully VC-funded SV unicorn is gonna demand a pretty high price tag. There's a lot of mouths to feed and liquidation preferences to payout. OTOH, $10 million is a pretty attractive payout for a single person, or even a handful.
Stop it! It doesn't help me at all obsercoming my urge to make up some bad joke about how Docker was or wasn't involved in that migration project!
I really don’t think this is the right approach. Plenty of motorcycles have speakers built in, and they’re blasting Creedence all the time. They should be allowed to.
Oh, that explains a lot! Even though I am not a gun enthusiast, I have heard of their name, they are quite famous.
Their bankruptcy several years ago kept them alive but didn’t really solve their problems. They’re little more than a brand (not an entirely positive one) and manufacturing capacity. Their revenue is offset by their expenses.
I think about this sometimes. I think it's related to my interest in the philosophy of mathematics. From the SEP article [1]:

> Bernays observed that when a mathematician is at work she "naively" treats the objects she is dealing with in a platonistic way. Every working mathematician, he says, is a platonist (Bernays 1935).

I think that's why. There's a tendency to think of mathematical objects platonically. And given that it would be very odd if platonic, mathematical objects interacted causally with our universe, well, it's a short hop, skip, and a jump over to that meaning they're things a God made. And here I mean "God" in a root-of-all-things sense, not a Judeo-Christian or similar sense.

Also, I don't think you deserve the downvotes you're getting. There may be a tone of condescension, and there may not be. But there's a totally charitable way of interpreting that question -- you noting a trend that you perceive -- and that's how I took it.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
>The gender-wage gap will continue to increase as employees return to the office.
Stopped reading there.
I know everyone is looking for a loophole to prosecute these officers

But let’s not rush to make listening to music on the job illegal. That wasn’t the intent of copyright laws that prohibit public performance.
Know how to manage your stress levels.

Know when to leave a bad situation. And make sure you don't work too hard. If you work too hard you can be perceived as showing off, and make others feel insecure. I'd even argue it's better to work too little than to try to constantly upstage people. If you're trying to upstage your boss or your coworkers they'll try to get rid of you. If you're not doing all that much, assuming you're not a complete jerk they'll first try to help you get back on track, and if not you can probably hang out a bit longer while they work through the process of finding a replacement.

But seriously if you're a jerk, you'll be fired and they might not even care to find a replacement.
This reminds of of a 2019 paper on "moral crumple zones"[1] which talks about how the human component of automated systems are increasingly there to act as the focus for moral failures. Did your giant automated system do something bad? Blame the one human who was assigned to somehow stop that from happening, no matter how impossible that might be.

[1] https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/260
I consider myself to be curmudgeonly about a lot of change, but honestly Coke in a plastic bottle already tastes different than Coke in an aluminum can already tastes different than Coke out of a normal soda machine already tastes different than Coke out of a Freestyle machine. I can't imagine adding one more to the packaging pile is going to shake anybody's world, maybe in the future if they phase out plastic entirely.
"Between 5:34 a.m. and 11:29 a.m., according to a later computer analysis by Rolls-Royce, the Aiviq’s “wire tensile strength overload” alarm went off 38 times. It was set to trigger at 300 tons. The alarm, a piercing ring, would not stop until Newill acknowledged it on the computer screen. New to Alaska and new to a ship that was new to the world, Newill later claimed that the alarm never went off. Coast Guard investigators concluded that he mistook the tension alarm for another alarm that was known to be acting up."

Dialog box on screen saying which alarm might have been an idea perhaps. Software was obviously logging all the events.
It usually covers any person in your immediate household too. So your spouse and kids are required to abide by the same restrictions.
It sounds like you need a ceiling fan. I have an ADU with a half loft and 26' ceiling over the other half. One decent fan really moves the air.
You have the ability to organize protests against lobbying, if you are genuinely interested.

As you noted by your statues example, protests can be quite effective.
At Northeastern we use this guide as the canonical “textbook” for the graduate distributed systems course.
Their blog entry for 2020-11-30 states in part:

> This will mark the 18th consecutive year that OTS has provided updated tax programs.

Given this implies the first version was 18 years ago, the choice of using C might not, at that time, have seemed as odd as it does now in 2021.
I don't think they sell the non-purifier ones anymore. Google searching led me to a page with a mix of purifier and non-purifier fans [0], but the links either bring me to the "air-treatment" section or break completely.

[0] https://www.dyson.com/fans-and-heaters
why shouldn't they cover their butts when people will look to extort? I'd much prefer a situation where companies take responsibility and customers show grace and courtesy, but that's not the world I live in...
Have offshored some dev in India, in the past. We depend on Github. VPNs aside, idiotic IT policy by India nudges us towards South America. Same goes (I think) for China in blocking Google Apps.
There's only a passing mention of end-to-end encryption. I'm concerned that email content encryption would break basically all anti-spam technologies... Here's some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275970