jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a great grandson of Norwegian immigrants - (They were some of the first Norwegians to Ballard Seattle (where the king and queen of norway still? visit) - My great grandfather owned the first bakery there.

The sense of humor is my cup of tea: puns.

Dead-pan-really-good-puns. My Norwegian and Swedish friends are as punny as me.

Do you like puns?

Give me a topic for a pun-off

(as you can see from my last name "stave" '*staava*' (I don't know how to phonetically spell it - but based on stave churches...)

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I used to think I was indecisive... but now I'm just not sure.
Languages and the meanings of words change over time. It's not a conspiracy.
The western world just wants to find an excuse to blame the Chinese, so that they can fulfill their wet dreams of invading China, and starting world war 3 with them.

They were even demanding reparations too! If the Chinese didn’t have ICBM nukes to defend themselves, then you can bet that the western nations would’ve mounted a multi-country alliance to attack China by now.

Read up Jack London’s The Unparalled Invasion from 1910. The Grand Master Plan is all laid out right there for you. It’s disgusting. You’ll want to throw up after you read it. But yet, this is how the white people of the western world sees China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unparalleled_Invasion
I’m attempting to find a charitable way to engage with those tweets, since on first read they seem a) deliberately false about the content of SSC, b) invoke a sneering tone common amongst folks who subscribe to certain segments of “woke” progressivism (especially in tech), and c) attribute maximum malice of forethought by the targeted party to all of it.

The arguments are also just bad. “Why don’t these free speech people take into account existing power structures?” But this is of course exactly what they are doing when they advocate for absolute free speech. How else do you account and adjust for the different levels of cultural power different groups, companies, whatever have in society?
I think it is fair to say that the author under the pseudonym of Scott Alexander didn't mean to provide an avenue for which his identity could be in a major, nationwide, widely-read source of news, when he republished an article under his real name in a relatively niche audience book that would unlikely have the same amount of circulation as the New York Times.
> https://support.google.com/groups/thread/61391913

"This question is locked and replying has been disabled."

Gee, lovely.
There's a huge tension in the society caused by the wealth shift from individuals to corporations. As a rank-and-file millennial, in most of the cases you are priced out of property ownership, are expected to do your shitty job until death, and you starting a family would be directly directly against your employer's interests.

The woke movement and is artificially splintering people based on identities. It is redirecting the tension between people and corporations into tension between artificially created identity groups. So far they are very successful at it. Plenty of people are so busy trying to ruin someone else's life, they completely don't notice the decline of their own long-term perspectives.
Your requirements are from the perspective of people who view/use the code. I'd argue there are many benefits for the coder by releasing code including getting feedback from the community on aspects that could be improved or changed. This learning aspect is important as well
1. JRuby's definitely built for concurrency, though I suspect you're kind of leaning towards Node with this comment. It's certainly true that Ruby doesn't comprehensively do reactor-pattern stuff as well as Node, but threading on JRuby works wonderfully well.

2. I definitely agree about Rails and the asset pipeline. It feels awkward and kludgey and particularly in relation to JS I'd like to see code organization and tooling stepped up; many of the apps we're writing today are heavily Javascript, and it's a lot of work to maintain a large JS app on top of a Rails app right now. That's not to say that it's prohibitive, but Rails built a name for itself by making the drudgery less painful, and this is an open pain point.

3. Agreed, though JRuby is again a trailblazer here; boot-up time sucks (I'm working on that over Christmas break!), but 9k and the Truffle+Graal projects are huge leaps forward, and once JIT kicks in, JRuby's long-term performance is really excellent. MRI continues to make strong advances here, as well; the discussions around MRI 3.0 have hinted at some really good stuff coming down the pipe.

4. Can you elaborate on what specifically you mean? Ruby as a whole is absolutely stronger for the "new projects" (RBX, JRuby, Topaz); while issues like this can become divisive, I'll argue that RBX has been a net positive to the Ruby community, both because of RubySpec (a different perspective is valuable, even if it doesn't become the official spec) and because a new approach to a problem generally ends up leaking improvements all over the ecosystem.
This might be the nice thing to do, but anything that points back to him being the source of the complaint may not be best for him in the long run.
FB without WhatsApp or Instagram (see the GGGGP)

But thinking about it more, my earlier post wasn't relevant to this thread since the message I replied to was just expanding upon the idea of Facebook printing money and it should be okay to include Instagram and WhatsApp revenues there.
It should be pointed out that it's impossible to "reverse a SHA1 into plaintext". The reason being that, since SHA1 produces a fixed size output and takes a variable (unbounded) input, there are an infinite number of input values for every unique output value. You may find a string that happens to come to the same SHA1, but there's no way to know whether or not it's actually what went into the SHA1 algorithm in the first place.
And it wasn't in our past light cone 30 years earlier (earth-time).
You don't want to be a manager, but you want to move up from Senior Developer? Directors and CTOs generally are (largely) managers. A big part of their job is sales (selling product vision to the engineering team, selling engineering realities to executives, selling jobs to prospective hires, etc). Do you want that role?

The organizational pyramid is just that. Not every senior dev moves up (or should move up if happiness is a priority). You shouldn't look to your peers to tell you what's next for your career. How do you want to spend your time at work compared to how you're spending it now? Do you want harder technical problems? More product design work? Something else? You've already expressed that you don't want to manage folks, which closes off a lot of paths.
Yep, definitely my favorite professor. Too bad to see him go, but it sounds like Google's a great fit for what he wants to do.
If you could transfer yourself in an instant, you can even go back in time---with some relativistic trickery.
Once you merged your YouTube account with your Google account the separate entity of the YouTube account ceased to exist. For everybody that realizes this it is a security risk to leave the YouTube password enabled since all of those users will never think to change or security going forward.
Yeah, that was a wonderful statement which TLDR; to "nuh-uh!" rather than any actual addressing of the issues.
Sure. You can exchange email with users of other services, you can chat via Jabber, and you can call/text anyone with a cell phone.
What a stroke of luck for me! Just today I was studying line drawing techniques on a grid for a prototype related to offline mapping using polygons. It's yet another reminder how topics and links that don't seem relevant to my interests at first (games in this case) often turn out to be relevant to other areas of my interest.
Very good writing. A few comments:

"as a product you’re betting that your API design is robust enough that groups can remotely work at their own pace or velocity. The core question is why would you want to constrain yourself in this way? "

I am not certain which constraints are implied here - to me an API that facilitates such a work is simple and understandable which to me are admirable qualities.

Perhaps the challenge then is to split the architecture into small enough testable units which communicate through the simple APIs? Once again, this sounds great.

But in practice simplicity, understandability and good architecture are reachable by experience or trial and error so I suppose it would require either a situation were a known pattern is reapplied to new business requirements or one where there is ample time for designing and prototyping with these qualities as explicit design constraints.

"how to balance resources on each side of the API."

I suppose the best situation would be then an API that supports a directed graph of rensponsibilities. Like a plug in system, for instance?

"...however you find you can divide the work across geography at a point in time, it simply isn’t sustainable. "

So I suppose to make remote working work software architecture and team management need to be linked on a very intimate level? This would be nice in any situation, I think
Can you show your byte scanning code in both Java and C?
When someone stores your data forever, they're not limited by the search and indexing technology available today.
Kinda depends on what mood I'm in, and/or what I'm working on. I'm a heavy-metal / hard-rock guy primarily, but when I need to focus I find that metal/rock is too disruptive because I get too into the song. So a lot of times when I'm coding I go for some kind of electronic music: Trance, House, Techno, some kind of Euro-pop, or maybe go old-skool and listen to some 80's era new wave or Hi-NRG or whatever. I usually prefer music without vocals, but sometimes I can tolerate vocals.

And then sometimes I just go for pop music, whether it is 70's, 80's, or contemporary or whatever. Belinda Carlisle one time, Lady Gaga the next. shrug

An example or two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViN2bRGrBx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAtV2q6mLJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13oJajXx0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXfkEJvSll8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJBcr1LDg4
The real cost to Nvidia is $87bn. Value is denominated in dollars, not nvidia stock.
Very cool - I'll be following this.
The engineers who did that probably don't make the decision on things like this.

When have Apple been open about anything recently?
Location: Greece

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Looking for: Full time or part time

Technologies: Javascript, Angular, php(yii2), ionic, python, java, mySQL(always open to learning more!)

Resume/CV:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinos-tsourgiannis-a19603...

Email: tsourgianniskonstantinos@gmail.com

About: Full stack for almost 1 year. Even though I've been primarily a Java person in the past, I'm very much looking to try out different technologies while working in different parts of the stack! Interested in junior positions and intern positions, as long as they offer me to show my tech knowledge and growth).

I'm super responsive. Fluent in English, Greek and Swedish
Let's say "trivially shard most of their traffic" and I can agree.

Product managers are constantly coming with cool ideas that are hard to shard.
I don't understand other cultures... Why pirate Windows when you can have Ubuntu for free?
End-users, sure, but developers is another story completely. I'm sure there will be Linux libraries to access the FPGA directly, within a few weeks/days :P
You could set this up with unison(http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) if you want to go the self-host route.
The life cycle of farm animals is very short (from few weeks to couple of years), much shorter than the "enlightening" process would take. We just need to stop to produce "replacement" animals for the eaten ones. Simple as that.
Here are screenshots and a comparison with some other tab stacking evolutions (amazon.com's): http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2010/11/23/4824/tab-st...
This may be orthogonal to your point, but understand that only the willing actually serve in combat roles.

Granted all go through basic training and then reserve training periodically after they finish their service, but that's because in a time of real existential danger, everyone fights.
OK fair enough. Most public clouds don't use VMWare for cost reasons. It would be cheaper than some of the other commercial systems alluded to but still a significant cost compared with other virtualisation platforms. Its also using a proprietary format so you can't mix and match (whereas we are using RAW ISO files). Finally, you'll need VMWare qualified staff instead of regular sys admins. That's another incremental cost that isn't insignificant.

Best wishes,

Patrick
Abstraction. It's its own transport, but needs SSH to establish the session.
And AWS is the only service that supports both, and any finegrained solution in between, by triggering programmatically actionable alarms.

You just have to set it up, and if you cannot be bothered, AWS isn't the service for you. If you don't want to do your own cooking, fine, but don't whine about the grocery store not providing you with your own personal chef.

oafitupa is just whining for the sake of whining.
We lug around 100,000 retro virus sequences inside us; all told, genetic parasites related to viruses account for more than 40 percent of all human DNA. Our body works hard to silence its viral stowaways by tying up those stretches of DNA in tight stacks of proteins, but sometimes they slip out. Now and then endogenous retroviruses switch on and start manufacturing proteins. They assemble themselves like Lego blocks into bulbous retroviral particles, which ooze from the cells producing them.

Sounds like technical debt. Anyone up for a refactoring code sprint?
That actually seems expensive for a device without a screen or input devices.

I wish that Chromecast and Apple TV supported an open standard for streaming rather than everyone using their own proprietary standards.
"Auto industry introduces automatic transmission, admits manual transmissions were too complex." - probably actual Register headline from 1939.
I would say that the realtime viewport (eevee) is now best in class. The rest is heavily dependent on opinion, familiarity and preferred workflow.
You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.
Yeah, they are compensating with heating elements. This will of course use some of the capacity. Telsa is doing heating elements as well. Heating during overnight charging should be easier if you are on grid power. Charging batteries when they are cold can harm them. Discharging them when they are cold equates to more internal resistance, so you could lose up to 15% range without heating elements. No idea how much power the heating elements draw. I would bet that Tesla's battery acquisition Maxwell [1] could make some improvements in this area.

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/teslas-maxwell-acquisition...
> The real message is how emotional and immature the leadership is to a perceived slight.

I don't agree with this. It seems less of an emotional response than a business one: the changes from iOS will have a large, material impact on Facebook's business, and it will get even worse if other gatekeepers follow suit (not likely, as Google's model is pretty close to Facebook's).

I think the real takeaway is how much money is riding on surveillance capitalism, and how these business models take a real hit when you just explain clearly to the user what's going on and give them a choice.
Look up blender donut on YouTube. Amazingly well done.
It is similar in Poland.
Here most colleagues can start between 6-9am and finish between 14-17. This is inclusive of a formal 30 minute lunch break and 10 minute breaks every 1 hour. (In practice most people just take 1 hour lunch instead). I enjoy this because I have much more time outside of the office to enjoy my life.
But they'll gladly take ~$12 Bn/year to have Google as Safari default search provider.
"Women also prefer powerful men"

Are you sure that's what it is? From what I've heard time and time again it's confidence which is the most attractive quality in a personality, a clear sense of who they are and what they want. You can be confident without being violent.
You usually don't need that though, that's the point. If you're building an entire service around page crawling, sure. If you're doing a one-off task, don't bother.
menstruation envy
Downvoting being equated to violence is idiotic. People downvote comments that they think are detracting from the conversation. They don't want to hurt you, they just think your contribution is irrelevant and a waste of everyone's time. They are trying to spare other readers the suffering of your comment leading them down the garden path.
The community is small but open; agree on the docs.
Does anybody have first hand experience with Equidate or EquityZen? Been thinking about this for the past few days and would be interested to hear any personal stories.
https://imgur.com/a/S6XryYW screenshot of browser toolbox with the print preview DOM visible + site with @media print background color change. Note that you need to expand "More settings" in the print preview and enable "Print backgrounds" for that specific test to work.
I'm still working on that issue myself, but here's some stuff to look at for reference:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-as-a-newly-started...

http://www.quora.com/Do-members-of-an-advisory-board-usually...

http://www.quora.com/What-is-common-compensation-for-sitting...

http://www.quora.com/In-lieu-of-cash-what-is-a-good-amount-o...

http://www.quora.com/Stock-options-or-shares-Whats-the-prefe...

http://www.quora.com/What-are-compensation-systems-for-start...

http://www.quora.com/Startup-Advisors-Board-Members

http://www.quora.com/Advisory-Boards

http://www.quora.com/Board-of-Advisors

http://www.quora.com/Startup-Compensation/How-should-our-ear...
The other day I signed up for Disqus. They offered the option to link your account to Twitter. However, they only supported asking for "read and update" permission, so that they can tweet your comments. I have no interest in doing so, so I dropped them an email asking for the option of connecting to Twitter with read permission only, not update permission. They responded back that I could just use Disqus's preferences to say I don't want comments tweeted, completely missing the point.
It would be worse than starting over.

If they fork the block chains, my understanding is that your old bitcoins will work alright in either network. People that stick to the old network won't accept any money from the new one, but nothing keeps them from spending their money in the new one. Thus the adopters of the new economy would be subsidizing the members of the old one.

[Edit] And now my own semi-rebuttal: sure enough, the people who move to the new economy can similarly spend their old credit in the old one. But considering that the original Bitcoin currency is deflationary in nature, they have less incentive to do so, at least immediately.
Me too. for a couple of months now already..
Bought the powerpack, which I don't use.. :-)
This sounds like a million-fps rotating mirror camera in reverse.
Here is one I recorded years ago:

http://bf84.com/s/coffee.mp3

Only two minutes, though. :-[

I used to be kind of into recording "spaces." My favorite was a movie theater lobby, very tall and echo-y.
I was using it in a tounge-in-cheek way, but it didn't really come through in the title. I couldn't tell you what the difference is between "pivoting" and "starting over" either.

Except that if "starting over" discourages you, try "pivoting" instead!
I thought the latest news was that their R&D budget has absolutely exploded?
I think it works from the other side too. Many Japanese employees have come to expect a system of lifetime employment and do not tend to jump ship as easily or often as say, American employees. Even if this means lower compensation, the stability is considered to be a better factor.

Except for some of the earliest employees who are literally invested into the company, will Tesla really have "lifers"? Even amongst these, I think most of them will act in a much more mercenary way (both in terms of compensation, as well as career ambitions) than their analogues at Toyota or Honda.

On the opposite side, I don't think many of the non-Japanese employees and executives at a Toyota or Honda expect their gig to be lifetime employment either.
According to Planet Money, dropping the corporate income tax to 0% is one of the most popular policies among economists.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-...

> Three: Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people.
Yeah, but lead pipe replacements are only one of numerous improvements that are required to water infrastructure. Additionally, mainly lead lines are lateral lines, which in many municipalities fall under the home owners responsibility to replace and maintain, just like in sewage.

> Replacing lead-lines is the only way to keep water 100% lead-free on its way from supply to tap.

Sure, but treating the pipes brings lead consumption down to 'acceptable' levels. Acceptable in this case means that it can be filtered through a household carbon-based filter. I've never read your 90% figure anywhere, generally the figure that's cited is:

> The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) has reduced the maximum allowable lead content -- that is, content that is considered "lead-free" -- to be a weighted average of 0.25 percent calculated across the wetted surfaces of pipes, pipe fittings, plumbing fittings, and fixtures and 0.2 percent for solder and flux.

This is not a zero-sum game, so while the EPA and Congress acknowledge that lead is dangerous, there are other components which compound this problem. Hence the search for mitigation. This is common throughout any infrastructure problem, not just water.

I'm glad your town raised the funds to do that, but it's certainly not the norm and probably shouldn't be considered an expectation as you'd immediately price out most of America doing that.
No. This is drastically missing the point of what The Economist (or almost any media org) is. It isn't trying to be an average from 20000000 other publications, or what an average of readers think, or what had good engagement stats (though obviously the latter is a good target for the application of analytical software). It's not a neutral voice, or some down-the-middle average of what readers liked. It's an entity with its own political goals.
The problem is that a letter that makes an excellent point might not make it with the required berevity and clarity.

A letter to the editor might read:

> I saw on your article about the size of foodstuffs that food items are not getting smaller - actually people are just getting bigger. Very interesting article, quite funny and relevant as I've been collecting food items since I was a child and can confirm that this isn't always true. I've got a few exapmles where it holds, but I also have a kit kat from when I was 18 (born 1979) that used to be 500g and now they are 250g as standard. I'm a big fan and this is the first time I have spotted a huge glaring error! Please explain that one!

Clearly that would need to be reframed. I'm not particularly good, but I can see why a newspaper might want to shorten it:

> In last week's article The Economist argued that foodstuffs were not getting smaller, however I own a standard kit-kat from the 1997 that is double the size of ones available in shops today. Thoughts?

The above is probably an improvement from a readers perspective, conveys the points of the original message, and they aren't usually attributed to a specific, identifiable person anyway (usually something like John from London) so I don't think there is any huge scandal here.
Doesn’t that just further incentivize using corporations as tax avoidance vehicles?