jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I as a man am not expected to become a carer. I am not expected to be a nurse. I am not expected to show emotion. I am expected to fight, talk through grunting and like sports.

Guess what, I wasn't "expected" to become a programmer either. I was outcast and bullied in school for being a geek and a boffin. I still did it, though, because I don't give a toss what you or anyone else says I should do. I don't fight, nor do I like sports.

As for girls being taught to be nice etc., are you suggesting we teach them to be not nice? Or maybe you think they are all naturally unpleasant but they've been taught to have a nice façade? Personally I think girls who are nice are nice because they are nice. But that's just me.

Who says caring for orphans or injured animals is naff? You? Certainly not me. I honestly don't know a single person who thinks that.

You vastly overestimate the importance of nurture in all of this. Think about it: even if we assume boys and girls are treated differently, why is it that some boys grow up to be programmers while others grow up to wipe shit off toilets? They had exactly the same education. Exactly the same opportunities. Why would did one choose to earn a pittance wiping shit over earning loads sitting at a desk?
I disagree that this is justification of failure. If anything, it’s the opposite.

We failed in our goal. We also learned and developed things of real value while pursuing that goal.

This is salvaging what can be salvaged to make headway in an adjacent goal. That said...

> Your definition of success changes as time goes on as you get further into a project that's groundbreaking.

Sometimes the goal is, itself, a failure. It was born of not fully understanding the problem at hand. When the goal is stupid, but that is only discoverable by pursing that goal (ie “intent”), then redefining success is the right thing to do.
Non-AMP link: https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/02/google-cloud-lost-5-6b-in-...
> I don't think that having gotten lucky and bought a home somewhere when it was cheap should entitle you to enjoy living there forever when others are willing to pay more for the same home.

What should buying a home mean if not that? Sure, if someone else is willing to pay a lot more, they're welcome to bid on it, but it's still up to you if you want to give that up and stay put where you have roots, friends, family, kids in school, etc.
Healthcare is super expensive in the US though. If the system was more efficient, like European systems, it could work.
It looks like race categories are unhelpful anyway. Ethnicity is helpful, and religion is the most important part of it. Just look at the ethnic conflicts between same-race ethnies like Muslim semites vs Jewish semites or Protestant whites vs Catholic whites (Irish, Latinos)...
> Calling it "decompilation" is misleading. That term implies that you can get your compiled binary and turn it back into C++. No automated tool exists that allows you to do that

The article shows snippets of decompiled C++ code. No, nobody is claiming that it is the "original" code. But it is C++ code derived from the compiled binary. Decompilation.

> Instead what we actually do is 'disassembly'.

Additionally what we do is disassembly.
Well, if any cryptocurrency is to gain really wide adoption, this is the way to go: integrate it into something a large number of people already use. And judging by what WeChat does, a chat client is an excellent choice - after all, money sending is a way of communicating something (an abstract form of "value" in this case).

I only wish it were done differently - maybe we'll get answers to these questions:

- Why not airdrop everyone a 100 pieces of whatever coin (or even just 1, assuming the coin can be subdivided into tiny bits)? I'm asking because I believe the value of this kind of coin usage will come from its daily users, not from exchanges, but that's a long game. Even if today it's worth 0, if the UX is good enough and it proves to be secure, people will start assigning value to it.

- Why pick a cryptocurrency almost noone has heard of? For example, related to the above question, why not buy or mine a million Doge and gift every account a 1 doge (presented as 1 thousand mili-doge)? People will start assigning (more) value to it sooner or later if it's easy to use. Feel free to substitute almost whatever instead of Doges (maybe something with PoS and give the users the warm fuzzies with apparent increase in value).
If they were truly selling their median office lease for pennies on the dollar, for a 90% discount, that would have made for a fascinating story as well. I haven't seen anything to indicate that was the case, by all accounts they did seem to generally be near break-even on at least a large number of their leases. But then they spent a ton of money on faster growth via setting up new space ahead of demand, marketing and acquisition spending, and bigger discounts/perks for big flagship deals.

But at the end of the day they still had many thousands of happy small businesses paying them basically market rate prices for office space. I worked out of a wework space for 6 months in 2015, it was actually not the cheapest option we found but the convenience/amenities were worth it for us and we were happy customers.
The Brewster ranch is for sale right now, $320M gets you over 400,000 acres, so it seems the current owner would beat Gates out. I certainly agree that it is probably owned by a company currently.

Edit: to clarify it's owned by Kentucky billionaire Brad Kelley, so he probably 'wins'?
Are there Costco-like outlets in Japan? Places that sell in bulk at a lower cost?

Just signed up for a trial. Really looking forward to it. A couple of things:
1. The sign up process is SO EASY. Fantastic - wish other sites would make it so simple. Choose your level of service, pay, done. Fast and quick.

2. Email newsletter signup? Didn't notice one. Would be a great way to keep people who pay for gift subscriptions in the loop.

3. Provide a custom email for people who have bought a gift subscription. At the moment, it's just the link. If you provided a page or sample email that was like 'Hey, I've bought you a subscription to Candy Japan!!!! Here's what happens... etc etc' - I think it would make the impact of the gift greater.
Contemporary zoning laws really are the worst.
I hear this critique a lot and I used to believe it more but now I think it's just too facile. It's true that VCs have a lot of room for improvement in essentially doing fraud detection. They do a disservice to their LPs and probably to society at large as a result of this. In fact, that's probably where the misaligned incentive emerges -- VCs have a strong incentive to play the greater fool game and ostensibly were doing that with WeWork before they got their hands caught in the cookie jar.

Having said that, the idea that the solution is fundamental analysis, investing without emotions, or what have you -- that all strikes me as a bit naive and without much evidence. The market is a Keynesian beauty contest first which serves the needs of humans, hence the existence of Veblen goods et al. It also strikes me as a bit naive that there's anything wrong with "charismatic" and "well-connected individuals" being in positions of leadership. Recruiting is the most highly leveraged thing early stage company leaders can do and is the flip side of fundraising -- so it only makes sense to have firm's leader excel at that.

I think we can critique Neumann and Holmes for being unethical fraudsters who deliberately misled their stakeholders without making a categorical error about corporate executives. I won't say that they're the exception and not the rule, but I will say they're not really the goal to aspire to.
Do Intel Atom chipsets support an AMT / ME processor? ARK has no mention of AMT: http://ark.intel.com/products/82116/Intel-Atom-Processor-Z37...

http://www.pymnts.com/in-depth/2014/intel-adds-encryption-to... says, "The protocol, code-named Baker Beach, “adds an extra layer of software to protect the payment process .. software resides and runs on the Intel chipset for enhanced security .. tablets with the Intel Atom processor code-named Bay Trail-T and future Intel Atom processors,” will also work ...Intel’s position is that it’s approach is more secure because it is using a security co-processor that appears to the OS as a separate external device"

That description implies a separate chip is added for use cases where Atom processors need OOB management/security.
Other example is Taiwan. Everybody wears a mask there since the first cases. We don't know for sure it's the reason why they have so few cases but there are good reasons to believe so. I had friends there and thought I was smart telling them it was useless to wear a mask without symptoms (which was actually WHO recommendations)... Maybe WHO recommendations took into account the fact that masks weren't in sufficient quantities. For this strategy to work, you need enough mask for everybody, otherwise people would start hoarding masks. Maybe this will be the strategy post-confinement.
> Breathing is deeper and calmer and more powerful.

Diaphragm breathing is also part of the training for classical flute players to breathe. It is how babies breathe naturally.
I’ve heard the opposite.

Locking down only works as long as people lock down. Once the lockdown ends, the virus re-emerges. The repeated lockdowns continue until a vaccine is created.

Taking less serious measures - only locking down the elderly - creates heard immunity, albeit with a higher death rate.

The absolute lockdown we are doing now means the crisis will go on longer.

The short term pain solution would be accepting the higher fatality rate for heard immunity.

For the sake of my elderly parents, I’m glad we’re starting with a lockdown.
A friend and his girlfriend in California went for a jog together and were fined $400 for being within 6 feet of each other. I wish this level of discipline were more widespread.
Which country are you in and where are you trying to call?

I've seen some issues with calls between France and the U.S.
Wikipedia puts bubonic plague at 30-90% if untreated and 10% with treatment [1] and septicemic plague at 100% [2] when untreated. You really don't want a Yersinia pestis infection. I think that's a fair comparison as at this point we don't have a treatment for COVID-19. It's not clear to what extent hydroxychloroquin kills SARS-COV-2 vs. modulating the immune system and preventing cytokine storm. I do understand your point, and I could have been more clear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/diseases/plagu...
This is not the first time such a law has been proposed. In 1997, a House of Representatives committee approved a ban on domestic encryption without backdoors for .gov access. Here's an excerpt from the SAFE Act, as it was called back then:

`Whoever, after January 31, 2000, sells in interstate or foreign commerce any encryption product that does not include features or functions permitting duly authorized persons immediate access to plaintext or immediate decryption capabilities shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined under this title, or both...

After January 31, 2000, it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture for distribution, distribute, or import encryption products intended for sale or use in the United States, unless that product [...] permits immediate decryption of the encrypted data, including communications, upon the receipt of decryption information by an authorized party in possession of a facially valid order [and] allows the decryption of encrypted data, including communications, without the knowledge or cooperation of the person being investigated... http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/T?&report=hr108p4&dbna...

Think of how that would have affected Linux (Android uses dm-crypt for FDE), open source, Github, etc.

That 1997 bill is remarkably similar to what the FBI and its law enforcement allies, including the district attorney quoted in the linked article, want today. And remember that bill was not theoretical. It was approved and sent to the House floor for a vote -- and was defeated only because of a hastily-assembled alliance of tech firms and privacy groups.

I disclosed in a 2012 article for CNET, before I left to found http://recent.io/, that FBI general counsel's office has drafted related legislation mandating backdoors even before the current flap over Android and iOS FDE.

"If you create a service, product, or app that allows a user to communicate, you get the privilege of adding that extra coding," an industry representative who has reviewed the FBI's draft legislation told CNET.
http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-we-need-wiretap-ready-web-sites...

HN readers may want to pay attention...
Looks like they got an American Millenial to design their quiz: http://i.imgur.com/j4b73bz.png
They might be using jquery because it abstracts away the quirks of different browsers (I seem to remember that old versions of firefox and IE had different APIs for making XHR requests).
* > How would you teach her how to make a dynamic HTML5 JavaScript app? *

How would you teach, not your mum but, a first year computer science student how to make a dynamic HTML5-Javascript app?

Sure, they (probably) understand what a file is much better than your mum, but still: Canvas, "this", libraries, dependencies, etc etc..

I was having trouble explaining stuff to my father as well but I realised that I don't have to give him a pretty picture of how a computer works when all he wants is to be able to reply to emails, print attachments and create documents. Forget the file system and the desktop and the folders and this and that, all he wanted was simple step guides to perform these very specific tasks.

In the end, the teaching process is the same, no matter how (non) beginner someone is: There is always something they probably don't know and you don't have to teach them the whole universe before they learn how to do something. You don't have to know what electricity is in order turn the lights on..
yep, baby steps is a good strategy in general, so I am familiar with the process. With baby steps I really came a very long way, in my App development.
"Computer generated art tends to lack expressive individuality"

That's a pretty massive blanket statement to apply to a whole field of art.

"I think, is why it feels less valid than human-made art."

You realize there's still a human making the art, right? It's not like a computer rendered piece is of the computer's will. A painting isn't of the paint's will.

Some people paint, some people sculpt, some people make electrons do a whole bunch of math really fast. You can't always let means overrule intention.
Execution in Java does not have a concept of "current object". 'this' is passed in a magic way, but it does not exist in a magic way. It's like any other variable, and can be collected as soon as it's not needed. Which can be extremely early, because optimizations can reduce the 'need' for a variable to only its side effects.

Go pick apart aggressively optimized and inlined code and I bet you can find situations where 'this' never even exists.
Moral of the story? Never talk to the police. But have fun cashing in on that lawsuit, wheeeewie!
"Inverse"? If Team Red shoots at Team Green, it's "warfare", and if Team Green shoots at Team Red it's still warfare.

Don't let these people frame "class warfare" as "poor taking from the rich"; you've seen for yourself how it's quite often working the other way around.
I see it with pretty much any divisive opinion. People who don't share the opinion in the original low score comment don't pay it any attention and don't vote, but those who do share that opinion upvote it in a sort of comradery display. Then the comment gets higher up on the page, and the people who disagree now see it as a sentiment that people are actually discussing, and downvote it. In places like HN where the pro-Apple camp far outnumbers the anti-Apple camp, that leads to the comment being downvoted into oblivion.

Additionally, on HN you have the added strange behavior of the downvote button needing to be unlocked. Since the current prevailing attitude is very Apple-fanboy-ish the people that choose to stay around long enough to actually get the downvote tend to be those who agree with the pro-Apple sentiment, and those who dislike Apple (or any popular thing) tend to leave or aren't active enough to get their downvote button.
That's dumb.

What can I say, it's still morning.
I've run into some (but def. not all) current and former MS folks who carry this ironic shoulder-chip. One such indignantly complained about a major open-source project's janky Windows support something like "well, that's just because they choose not to support the platform!"

I found this really interesting, as after a bit of conversation, the speaker was clearly unaware of how MS' technical and business models around Windows have impeded open source work. A for-pay operating system with a profit-center development toolchain presents a very large barrier to Unix-centric OSS projects. Not to mention the numerous technical impedance mismatches between the $unix and Windows worlds. (And these days we have tools like libuv to help with that, but still.)
It's written in a much different voice from most of Apple's stuff.
It's worse than that - sometimes "trashing them" (i.e., writing a dryly-worded blog post simply stating events that transpired with no hint of anger) is the only thing that helps.
Thats because Oracle deserves no credit. The illumos project was created as a derivative of opensolaris which was created by Sun. The lineage is actually sort of mind boggling. If we want to be pedantic, we could complain about nobody is giving credit to BSD.
>> Dev costs are relatively small compared to operating costs.
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> Uhh, not in my experience.

It's probably not possible to make a true statement out of context about which costs less. This depends quite heavily on what you're doing.
> I think you're assuming that art requires a market for buying and selling.

I think that if "art" is a job that keeps you from starving, it requires a market for buying and selling.
And so the answer is to hamstring what all apps can do in the aim of safety?

...there's a commonly misattributed quote I have in mind that describes this situation.
In my personal opinion when I'm reading code and trying to follow execution flow, OOP's "Everything happens elsewhere" approach is really annoying. In a Java codebase for example I would need to find all implementing classes, then search for that one method being called in each separate file. This means opening multiple files and searching for a few lines of code in each file, just to see what happens.

Written in a pattern-matching style there is a nicer correspondence between code-locality and execution-locality - which matches my mental model much more nicely, rather than OOP's colocation of different behaviors on the same entity
Why is it called a particle accelerator when it's possible for the particle to go both ways: forwards and backwards?

Don't they measure the difference in the direction of the particle as determined by its virtual cloud? more energy emitted from the cloud = forward and vice-versa.

Loved the explanation and accompanying illustrations.
On top of that, essential oil purity is probably not exactly well regulated. Depending what chemicals are used to do the extraction, there can be nasty stuff left over not to mention adulterants or other random stuff.
I'd add SaaS dependencies as well, whether it be slowness or downtime
It’s completely beautiful to me. Just the information you need and no bs.
Even if so you're still spending say 50% of the original time investment every year or so just maintaining it. Unfortunately your options seem to be "set up once then never touch it again" or "update everything regularly and be at the mercy of everything changing and breaking at random times".
I run my own mail server with only Spamassassin for filtering, and I get little spam to my inbox in spite of my e-mail address being posted in plaintext across the internet. It has sufficed to 1) simply activate distributed filtering within Spamassassin, and 2) set a slightly more stringent standard than the default for regarding a message as ham, since any legitimately sent message will easily meet that higher standard. I also fed my entire e-mail archive to sa-learn, and what spam I occasionally get I also feed to sa-learn.

In ten years of running this mail server, I have only had one persistent spammer I couldn’t manage to get filtered with these settings, but then I just created a custom rule.
You could probably cite similar figures about Netflix and Blockbuster when the former approached them.
They don't have to consult stockholders in order to make business decisions. They just have to be honest with them.
Assuming a message is 200 bytes or so, searching millions of messages is trivially doable on your phone (200 MB full text index). Billions is pushing it a bit, but you can work around on the app level (e.g. only index the last month in high traffic groups).
From my perspective, the odds are fairly high that in a large group of people, two of them happen to have the same Smile account balance.
>the former is a pretextual cover for the latter

Setting aside completely how I feel because it absolutely does not matter, the question should be, was it the latter or wasn't it?

> but you probably wouldn't be able to prove this in a court of law.

Exactly. And for this to be the standard for how we certify the truth is at the heart of American absurdism. It's how we let politicians, big banks, Wall Street, et al get away with being full of shit. And I am not exaggerating. The partisan impeachment vote, Wells Fargo's fake bank account, and the financial crisis are all examples of absurdism.

Here is Matt Gaetz after the raid. Do you know why they applaud? Because he gave them the well formed arguments they need to get away with betraying their country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmyACLmZ7s

None of this is an exaggeration.
There was no paper ballot recount in Georgia. They recounted the images of the ballots, so if the videos of them getting run through 7 times are true, we wouldn't know. If they released the images, which GA said they would do, we could see the same serial numbers repeated. They've refused to.
care to elaborate?

I've been developing with it for a couple of years and am quite happy with performance. Of course its going to be sluggish if you're targeting ie6 or something since the DOM the framework creates is HUGE.

Would be nice if they ditched support for ie6 which would probably help a lot with DOM bloat.
I have a somewhat unique situation which I think stops me from using this.

I access my servers from a shared (Windows) computer. I trust the other users enough not to install keyloggers, but not enough to put the private keys on the computer.

From some experimentation with putty, I can't find a reasonable workflow that lets me save the server configs, but prompts for the private key every time I log in, so I can load them (from a USB key for eg).

The best thing I've come up with is using long random, machine generated passwords with a password manager.

Any better ideas?
Hmm, which things are for rooted phones? Mine's unrooted and I have everything he mentioned except FM listener (I don't know what it is).
"OpenStack"

Be specific.

Do you mean <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack> product or a true "open-stack" consisting of open-source software ie: language + database + web server + OS?
If you mean Chip ACT, they don’t have that money yet. All other announcements are tax breaks which they haven’t got any either; not until they started building the fabs they’ve announced