jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're 100% right. If prices fall faster than wages, it means that gradually people have more real income and you'd expect that their consumption would increase, not decrease. While in specific circumstances some purchases might be postponed temporarily due to falling prices, it's extremely dubious that the end result would be less consumption in the economy.
It really does, but the anti-Javascript crowd here is very vocal and would likely inspire some sort of Digg-like exodus if the UI were ever brought into the 21st century.
- 凸 convex

- 凹 concave

- 凸凹 bumpy

- 串 skewer, 心 heart、患 ill/disease

- 王 king, 玉 ball, 宝 treasure. The King's balls are his treasure

- 男 man, 女 woman, 嬲 ridicule/tease

- 敬 respect, 馬 horse, 驚 surprise (it's surprising to respect a horse)
Quite often, "getting stuff done" and documenting your code is two separate steps. The example I made up above was not something I pulled out of the air. I've been doing a lot of different little jobs for a client, and one of those was to create a program that could automatically publish a finished video based on a raw video input (adding an intro and outro sequence, fading in and out, etc.). To do that, I used ffmpeg.

ffmpeg had recently dropped support for an old filter system and began using a new, not-fully-fleshed-out system. The filter creation process was pretty well documented, and there were a few well-documented filters. There was a filter or two that I needed which was documented poorly but had a couple usage examples, just enough to get me going. I was very grateful for these! Then there were a few filters I needed that weren't there. I had to write them, which involved some level of trial-and-error to get working correctly.

My line of work is not video filters. The work I typically do for clients does not involve video processing. If I quote a client an amount for a job, the more time I spend on a one-off job, the more money I'm subtracting from my hourly, and the longer until I move onto the next job. Quite literally, I can get more stuff done, or I can document something that I'll never use again.
Really? I think it makes you look less smug. It doesn't make you effectively taller the way Segway does, and sitting is a more casual position.

I think the people in this video look smug, for various reasons unrelated to the U3-X itself.
I guess for the major part of the time they were more like a guild. Building temples requires very special skills; they say they aim at 1000 year duration, even though those temples are made of woods, instead of stones. It requires many years of apprenticeship, and probably becoming a member of their family was the only way to master the profession, thus there weren't much competitors. On the other hand, temples had always been built and reconstructed.
Wow, welcome to CSS demos of 6 years ago. http://persistent.info/files/20040508.magnifier/

This is the power of CSS3: doing the same things we've always done.
the most consequential aspect of being an evolved system is our obsessive attachment to survival in spite of the tremendous suffering we endure.
I didn't check the project, but in general I wouldn't say that code consisting of one long and clever pipe is such a good idea.
You should consider investing some time to go through a good shell tutorial, maybe even read a book on shells. You will find many more pearls like 'cd -', which is really one of the most basic and well known ones.
HN works fine on my iPhone 3G, much better than those vile mobile sites which somehow disable zooming.

edit:
Another example, on reddit I have to use m.reddit.com to make it light weight enough to be tolerable whereas HN works faster and more cleanly without losing the capacity to vote and comment.
Too bad we all don't have a spare New York Times reporter to get a company to do what they should have done in the first place.
Here's my quick'n'dirty port of these bindings to Racket: https://gist.github.com/718858
(without demo, yet)
Working for a paycheck.
Go to Mars - cheaper, easier and probably far more rewarding.

So say you do really want to do it - even with say $100 billion will that really buy you enough land, infrastructure and pay everyone you need to have a fully functioning independent country until it becomes self supporting? I don't think you could set up a self supporting first world equivalent country for $100 billion even if you did have some decent land available (and there is none spare at the moment).

What about the government and legal system - is it going to be a full democracy? If not then expect to be pretty unpopular in the international community and if it is then why bother - who says the public will support your policies in your new country? If it isn't then expect some expensive, not particularly loyal and fairly heavy handed security forces who will probably instigate a coup d'etat within six months of the country being founded.

All the billionaires you mention have got there by being very smart - setting up their own country would be about the stupidest thing you could do.
Again, that'd be short-lived. Literally.
Reducing viral load in the throat would make it less contagious though? In that case, wouldn't it be suitable to use for patients that are likely infected but don't need hospital treatment to reduce chances they'll infect others while quarantined?
There's a lot in medicine that goes into publication that has results not even borderline as meaningful as this. I would be careful to label this as "it doesn't really tell us anything". Especially since another study in China reached a similar conclusion.
Can you please give a bit more detail? what I don't quite understand is why it would be a problem to do so in reverse bit order?

I'm assuming you are saying it's not about word boundaries? that was just my guess, but is it correct that bit order does matter?
I found this "Some centers and even national guidelines, such as those in Italy, have recommended treatment with lopinavir-ritonavir for patients with COVID-19 infection."

Not sure what to make of this. Can this to some extent explain the huge differences in death rate between Italy and Germany?

Source: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85499
Hydroxychloroquine is significantly less hepatoxic than chloroquine.
Not safe from what?
I like my Kindle a lot - I just got one - but the screen is really too slow to be anything other than maddening for any sort of remotely dynamic application.

It'll be really interesting to see what happens... I like the screen a lot more than LCD for reading, but I also would like to have a more generic device. I also suspect that not being able to hop online every 10 minutes is a good thing in the Kindle though, in terms of sitting down and really reading.
"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize." -Richard Feynman
Because it's a server library
When will linking to articles about software piracy and the tools become an issue?

Right before talking about linking to articles about software and tools that enable piracy becomes an issue.
Love this article, but am I the only one wondering why this fellow is interviewing so much if he's already been hired in a number of situations? Are the companies he's working for going bust, laying him off, firing him, or he's quitting? I'd think that if interviewing is his fear, he should do less of it and find a great employer and stay there?

It sounds like contracting might be what the OP wants to do more than employment if he's so good at selling that and not interviewing, but also not keeping those jobs long enough.

Or maybe I misread it? Sounded like he was hired a number of times for jobs, but went back to interviewing not long after anyways.
I would like to add that while I disagree with the comment you're replying to (reminds me of "why disagree with spying if you have nothing to hide" ...), I understand that nothing forces a particular company to allow anonymous content on their website and that's fine by me.

But there is a world between refusing anon, and suddenly and posteriorly displaying the real name of people on top of content they thought was anonymous. I don't claim to be particularly smart but if their popup was unclear for me, I can't imagine how it is for people who are less tech literate.
>He exposed a small amount of wrongdoing with his leaking. [...] These leaks damaged relationships with foreign governments and jeopardized the lives of people

Abu Ghraib also damaged international relations and placed American lives at increased risk from terrorism. Plus, you know, it involved physically torturing people, not chatting online with Julian Assange.

Yet it is only Manning's crime that's judged worthy of deterrence (by a 3.5 times larger punishment). That's because his real fault is that of exposing the inner workings of a style of policy making that can only function effectively as long as the public is kept ignorant. Only this kind of a crime can "undermine the entire system", as the prosecutor very frankly put it.

Abu Ghraib may have embarrassed America, but the real no-no is exposing its government.
I'll bet you any amount that you care to wager that the salaries for NBA/NFL/MLB players don't drop by anything close to 90% at any point in the next 10 years.
I really love the idea of doing stuff in the browser, but the question is whether the future is going to be all web apps since the app takes a while to load, especially if it's big with lots of functionality.
Nice touch to get the curb in frame for a picture of a curb market.
That works, but it misses the point. The point is to penalize sites that employ paywalls by taking your pageviews elsewhere.
Simple, and silly. Implicit conversion of string to number is asking for problems.
Poking around the source code I see the time on the cache is after this comment so I feel the issue is more likely cache configuration wasn't prepared for frontpage of HN. Anecdotally, I'm not experiencing any performance issues anymore.
If you use hosted Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, etc) then you don't need to deal with any of that, which is nice. You get the flexibility of Kubernetes without needing to care about any of the underlying infra
Sure!

[1] shows the Excess Mortality across Countries in 2020, very convenient to compare.

In particular:

Canada: 6%

USA: 12.9%

South Korea, interestingly: -2.9%

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countr...

Also - [2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210310/dq210...
Nix combined with a tmpfs root fixes this. You have no choice but to opt-in to state, or you lose it.

https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
They did save the whales so, so 1 for 2 on the big items.
So 13 years after the publication of this article... how many people in here can say that they "followed the advice" and successfully managed to accrue "1000 true fans"?
Are there any projects using OEM LIDAR module with pi?
A locomotive is a lot like an autonomous horse, comparing a rider to a passenger.
Interesting, didn't know about that! Do you know of some canonical way of expressing negative offsets in spirit of ISO 8601? I don't seem to see those mentioned in the article...
That's pretty much how a newborn moms feels in the first 6 months.
I share your view. I’m surprised at the level of liberty already being asked to be given up with respect to forcing businesses to close especially, kind of shocking to see people wanting even more measures and how quickly all this can happen.
Up to 15,000€ as far as I understand.
>You could have attempted to starve 20 poor people with your income at any time

We starve people on this planet all the time with more than enough available resources.

The problem now is unbalanced distribution that will take some amount of time to sort out no matter how much money is thrown at it. The US eats out a huge number of their meals. That has pretty much collapsed in the past week and now something like 30-40% of the food distribution market has been upset. The people in the restaurant food distribution market want to sell their food, the problem is without guidance from anybody it will take some time for this to occur.

Thinking that making more money fixes all problems is a definition of insanity.
It only requires unsafe if the compiler can’t figure out that removing them is okay. Often bounds checks are not emitted, even in safe code.
Might I suggest some WebGL demos? You should be able to compile Klein with emscripten fairly easily.
Yes, yes I can. Pacman does background downloads, Spotify does music streaming, Telegram does voice chat. Firefox does the rest. Mind you, that's the amount of memory when I'm doing it all at once. You won't be listening to music, using the browser, downloading updates and streaming at the same time.

Game streaming and live streaming are done in hardware by the GPU through accelerated encode. System memory is only really used for sending it to the network.
The rate of these things will likely accelerate now that the world is far more interconnected. We’ve had a few scares already - SARS, MERS, Ebola 2014. This is the first one that really went global, but probably won’t be the last for another hundred years.
I can understand that, but I don't that it takes a lot of attention to keep from missing highway exits that are far apart.

It does still happen sometimes, though.
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4630
On today’s machines you’ll run out of computing power (and money) long before you reached the scale of the human brain.
Can Amazon Go stores take EBT cards (aka food stamps)? I imagine not… even if they could process the payments, how would they enforce the restrictions on what food stamp recipients are allowed to buy?
I have a server-side CMS written entirely in bash. It was originally kind of a joke, but it's been working well on a relatively high-traffic site for over 5 years now so I guess the joke is now on me. I named it SCMS, which was originally "stupid CMS", but maybe now I can retcon it to "shell CMS".

I'm still too embarrassed to release it, though.
I suspect they'd be more easily explained by collisions and enemy action than by aliens.
I’d second Jekyll because it’s easy to get hosted on GitHub pages with a custom domain, or just a .io default. A no-brainer for low maintenance pages with easy Markdown updates in my opinion. Also nice to know it will be supported by that group since it powers so many pages.

The markdown authoring experience is also one that I really love, personally, which is an added bonus.
The same thing happened when commercial airplanes started, only the rich could afford tickets at the beginning, later they became affordable, so it's possible something similar well happen with automated stores.
This.

I work in a product role at a mid-size enterprise. I'm happy to involve anyone and everybody in high-level product discussions. But in order to do that you actually need some kind of insight into the business you're actually working for.

How will the customers buy the product? Is this kind of signup suitable for our demographic? How will component Y delivered by ASP vendor X in the value chain be impacted if we do Z? How much money will we (roughly) make for each customer? What will be the total profit potential given N percent of our target customers sign up? Is this initiative significant or insignificant for our business? Is it regulatory compliance or a major new business?

The developer response is (unfortunately) very often a major discussion along the lines of "this should be a lambda function", "no, this should run in our k8 cluster" or "we should migrate the app we just built last year to some fancy new technology I just read about on Hacker News, then we can build this in no time".

Sorry, but that's acting like a craftsman. Acting like a craftsman gets you treated like a craftsman. Management (or I) don't care about serverless or Azure or AWS. And when you don't understand basic business priorities I won't trust the "agile developer" using a three hours fixing a pixel alignment issue on a non-standard Android Phone on the least visited "compliance only" webpage.

I vividly remind a session where one of our SVPs talked about the main business problems and plans for almost one hour in an all-department meeting. One front-end developer raised his hand and excused the slow rate of change of change at a certain (and important) application with "it was built with jquery and no one has touched it since 2014".

The exceptions are (we are not Google) rare and very valuable - which is why they often are promoted. In my experience business intelligence, backend developers and database people are most "business aligned" or "business focused". Front-end developers at the other end.
Yeah that’s a good point. Almost everyone watches TV. But people like say Jimmy Kimmel watched TV so closely that they came to understand its underlying mechanisms.

What makes people laugh? What entertains them and makes them less lonely? Who are the important people in the business? You could watch TV for years and never ask yourself those questions.

After all there’s no real school for TV. Many people on TV now studied it by simply paying closer attention. There are LA insiders for sure who can watch their parents, but there are also people like Letterman who was from a small town in Indiana.

As another example, a lot of UFC fighters also grew up watching the nascent sport in the 90’s. They learned how it worked simply by paying more attention, practicing, and being more obsessive about it than the millions of other fans. There’s no school for it since it was a rapidly developing martial art. YouTube has apparently permanently changed the state of practice in Jiu-Jitsu.
I've left mostly because of numbness FB leaves me w/ -- my mind is literally numb from all the hate articles/etc propagated and I see the same crap over and over.

I still have an account, and use messenger w/ wife when she's out and about... but for a social/news 'feed', I've moved over to reddit... the conversations/discussions are a LOT deeper and less assinine (and that's saying something considering some of the culture at reddit can be toxic itself). Plus I can drill down on topics via multi-reddits and such...depending on my mood.

There's also a bit more candor and shock factor on reddit cause of the supposed anonymity people tend to say what they really think even when it's appalling to most other people, so you definitely get a full-spectrum of discussion. It just feels more 'cerebral'.
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Yes, this is why I sayed in another thread here in HN that UNIX made the industry do a left turn.

Lisp Machines I only know through videos and old papers. But I do have experience with Smalltalk during my CS degree, before Java was a thing.

Smalltalk is by no means Lisp, but shares a few ideas.

If those systems had become mainstream, computing would probably be like Bret Victor discusses on his "Future of Programming" talk.

Instead we have developers still using systems as if UNIX had been released last year.
We have stickers for stores to put on their doors so you know if they're using Density. We don't want to be sneaky about this.
Trademark isn't about people making clones of your game. In this case Trademark is about people confusing the title of your game with another game because they use the same name.

Trademarking "Candy Crush Saga" makes sense because that's the full name of the game and is not a common word or phrase.

Trademarking "Candy" is absurd. This means any game that has the world candy in it is suddenly subject to litigation by King. Candy is a common word, and I could have a game called Unicorn Candy Attack and clearly that's not going to cause confusion with Candy Crush Saga.
Don't the OSX devtools have a GUI for doing this? Can't remember what its called, I don't have XCode installed these days, but I remember it being pretty nifty.

EDIT: its called the Network Link Conditioner and apparently you install it from within xcode now.

EDIT2: I have just learned that ipfw is gone in yosemite? How distressing. Did they replace it with something?
sandman for python
I'm a tad confused... To be authorised is great, but authentication must first happen surely? Authorisation says I can access x, but authentication says I am who I say I am!

Being authorized to use a particular account is still seperate from proving who I am. I have visions of going to the Pentagon and I say "Hi, President Obama here, give me access to all your intelligence data" and the analysts saying "Certainly sir! You have top authorisation, here is all the data". :-)

Actually, that would work better at a bank. "Hi, I'm Donald Trump, give me a million dollars from my loose change account, thanks!"
Episode 7 synopsis: In this episode, we have Rama Mamuaya, the Chief Executive of DailySocial.net, Indonesia's equivalent of TechCrunch and GigaOm combined to discuss the state of affairs in Indonesia five years later after Echelon 2009, where the technology scene exploded there. Our focus in this episode is to discuss the few growing areas of the technology scene in Indonesia: e-commerce, incubators/accelerators, venture capital, mobile, digital media and the interesting companies to watch in Indonesia. We also discuss the profile of a typical Indonesia user and emerging technology ecosystems beyond Jakarta in other parts of Indonesia (and Bali, sadly is not one of the interesting places).
This article is missing something more fundamental: why pay more for talent?

Sports has very lopsided rewards, just by the nature of competition. In the Olympics, the winners often beat the losers by amounts that nobody would pay extra for under normal circumstances. But since the winner gets most of glory, it's worth it to be that much better. Team sports also have a lot of situations where being slightly better means you score points and otherwise you don't. Games are set up to have binary payoffs to be more exciting.

On the other hand, someone working in a warehouse could have an amazing talent at moving boxes, but they're not going to get paid much more, because the increase in speed isn't worth that much more to the business. (That is, unless someone wants to set up a contest?)

If you want to know why businesses pay a lot for programmers, you have to start by looking at the rewards to the business. Startups have very high and difficult to predict payoffs, so people are willing to pay a lot for talent that they think might give them an edge. This will be true even if the edge isn't all that great objectively speaking.
>but does it make him an elite developer? Or is he more of an elite marketer/market analyst?

The part were he also CREATED those engines (instead of just predicting the arrival or relevant desktop systems capable of running them) makes him a developer, not a marketer/analyst.

It also seems you didn't fully realize what you quoted.

Being able to "develop graphics engines at just the right level of sophistication to just barely run well on the latest desktop computers that would be available when the engine was ready" means that he could program at the cutting edge of what's possible for the available desktop hardware everytime...

Not many people can do that, and do it consistently and well, and in a field as difficult as 3D games (most of us people on HN for comparison, Rails/JS guys etc, are glorified CRUD developers).
I appreciate the feedback. I can say off the top of my head from "eyeballing it," that it does roughly correlate to overall reservations to some degree, but to dive deeper will probably require a follow-up post :)