jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> He seems to have only complaints, not solutions.

That might be because giving a diagnosis can be made to be perceived as somewhat objective, while suggesting a solution would get into politics really quick and thus risk reflexive dismissal of even the diagnosis itself.
> The tests are written first

That surely implies a specification which, in my experience, is a rare thing in these Agile days.

> the QA engineer

In the last 10 years of contract and perm jobs, only once have the QA people actually written tests (and that was largely translation of an existing manual suite to a node-based automatic runner.) It's pretty much always been "these are the things the devs/product manager/pm wants to test for these changes, please test those and approve".
If you want your jaw to drop in regards to facebook disingenuousness regarding truth telling and the media, listen to the recent Lawfare podcast here:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-tech-ceos-head-h...

Go to 41:18 in and listen to the story regarding Facebook and NYU's AdObserver project.

Facebook has no credibility.
Kotlin/Native is also being redone after being proven that not following the same memory model as the JVM was a bad decision.
FINALLY!

Thank you for this!

Edit: If any @Amazon Kindle devs read this, can you please reskin your technical texts to adopt this?
My progression:

1) Looks ridiculous.

2) Impressive hammer demo.

3) Embarrassing glass demo, but impressive nonetheless.

4) 500+ mile range, tows 14,000 lbs, adjustable ground clearance to 16", yanks an F-150 uphill in a tug-of-war... Wow!

5) Cool ATV, tailgate ramp, and retractable bed cover.

6) After watching video at Tesla website... it actually doesn't look that bad.

7) A few more minutes go by... I like the way it looks.

8) I want one.
I'd love a nimble truck personally. I drive a sporty car but need a utility vehicle so often that buying something I like to drive becomes a regret.
Rural owners? You mean people with a ton of cheap land to put a solar farm onto?
Everyone says China is stable but they’ve had two bloody revolutions in the last century-and-a-bit.

Whoever the next Chinese government is, they probably won’t look kindly upon those who collaborated with the CCP.
They would if it were as bulletproof as it looks.

Edit: Ah. I didn't allow all of the scripts at first, so didn't see the text about "exterior shell made for ultimate durability and passenger protection". They ought to use actual "bulletproof" windows, however. So I wonder if this is aimed at wealthy preppers.

Also, the nose should be depleted uranium, with the batteries just behind and shielded, to facilitate punching through other vehicles in the way.
Is "Latest" sorting in the twitter UI not this?
PDF is optimized for printing paged media. When I read (instead of skim) physics and math papers I still prefer to print them out. Pagination support is still very primitive in the web stack, at least when I last tried https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/. EPUBs are good until you have equation blocks, floats, etc., then they are pretty far TeX/LaTeX-level typesetting.
I can't see why I'd buy an ugly truck like this instead of an F150. Talk about ugly and expensive
The likes of Modula-2 (1978), Ada (1983), Modula-2+(1985), Modula-3 (1986), Oberon (1986).

The problem is that they were tied to OS that weren't successful in the mainstream, whereas some American startups using the original BSD code and AT&T licenses, got very successful and brought UNIX into the enterprise.

C came along of course.
You HN bio says

> Now I hang out and enjoy technology, advise startups and some other stuff (including working at Netflix as the Site Reliability Lead)

Which gives me the impression you work part time (or at least reduced hours) at Netflix. If that's the case, it may not be a good work/life comparison to other experiences you've had.
Glad you found something you are passionate about. It is an amazing feeling isn't it?

I ran in to something similar with web development (PHP, apache, mysql, and perl) and felt overwhelmed immediately. But, found that it was so much fun I stuck with it and just started small. "Ok, how do you get the data to sort this way?" "What is this md5 thing?" "How do I manage cookies and wtf are they?" etc. etc. etc.

Starting small, reading other peoples' work, take your time, don't get frustrated for more than 5 seconds, and find some online communities that share your interest.

Good luck and don't ever say "I can't" again ;)
I pictured something like "Eve's Escorts"
I do agree with you in principle—but it's not pragmatic, and you can't expect users to go out of their way to first look at ads, and then decide whether or not to block them. It's much more work on their part than either allowing, or blocking, everything (consider web-surfing like a flow state in programming, where having to decide whether to block an ad is an interruption that breaks flow. It's a tiny mental speed-bump that, when occurring often enough, greatly reduces overall mental velocity.)

And besides it being more work, it's also annoying, like you said; choosing to block everything removes the "annoyance factor" altogether. If you have a blanket-policy ad-blocker on, you never see the really, really bad ads that animate and have sound and make you hunt through your opened-in-the-background tabs to murder them. People don't like to be annoyed, and anything they can use to prevent themselves from getting annoyed in the first place will automatically be liked, even at the expense of the ability to find information in the future.

I'm not saying it's moral, or ideal, or anything like that—I'm just saying that webmasters will have to deal with (and work around) the fact that people like ad-blockers, for the same reason that people like eating fruit: it's a purely parasitic relationship where you take what you want, and the "victim," seemingly static in relation to you, can't do anything about it.
Looks really good! It's a crowded space, especially at your price point. Clicky offers a lot for free.

I plan on checking it out sometime soon - good luck.
couldn't agree more; especially at a time where education is getting increasingly 'pointless'to kids who sometimes think (often correctly) they can get a more educative experience online.
I can see arguments both ways. Having the wiki separate means that the repo doesn't get polluted with unrelated commits (especially important for SVN which doesn't have branches), and it makes setup at least somewhat easier, since an extra push-capable user doesn't need to be added.
See quotes? See Declaration of Independence. For anyone who hasn't read the full document in a while, a close read probably the best way you could spend the next 10 minutes of your life.

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

(maxharris2: just in case clarification is necessary, let the record show that my rhetorical "counterpoint" should be read as a literal "hell yeah!")
I think we have an answer to our question here.
Make threads more readable in elinks. Currently no thread depth is shown in elinks, making it hard to follow discussions.
I would love to see a comparison of apples to apples, where someone duplicates the same functionality & features using both technologies.
Well quiet simple, it has something to do with how the cellphone market in the US is much younger then Europe's. Back in the mid-to-late 90's Nokia made the best cellphones out there. They were clearly superior and pretty much everybody was buying Nokia phones. At least pretty much everybody in Europe was, because at that time having a cellphone in the US was still considered somewhat unusual. Thous Europe got into into the habit of using and trusting Nokia phones, while the US did not. When Apple, Google and RIM joined the market, Nokia phone were really nothing extraordinary anymore and without a large user-base trusting your brand, there's just no reason to buy one. Edit: RIM has the opposite problem, btw.
If HTML5/Canvas is slugish Flash is a corpse.
Not that surprised, they own a minority share of the market and infrastructure, in their case its too their advantage that they be able to use other's networks uninhibited (roaming, long distance fiber, etc).
Not really a surprise - is it? I bet [small-percentage]% of Americans produce [very-large-percentage]% of tech tweets too. Same with sewing tweets. Same with porn tweets.

Being very active in politics is either a career choice or a hobby. And very active in this case means talking about it. It's like knowing about celebrity gossip at this point because that's practically what it is for a lot of this stuff.
Makes absolutely no sense to submerge a force projection vessel that is meant to deploy air power and posture force.

If you want to stealthily attack with aircraft, attack with a stealth aircraft.
The linked tweet is nothing more or less than a direct dump of a police department's response to a FOIA request, along with the remark "it's stunning." Is your thesis that the police want to help drive down Tesla stock?
> Prolific political tweeters make up just 6% of all Twitter users but generate 20% of all tweets and 73% of tweets mentioning national politics.

I feel like this wording is disingenuous when the methods state:

> The analysis of Twitter users in this report is based on a nationally representative survey
conducted from Nov. 21 to Dec. 17, 2018, among a sample of 2,791 U.S. adults ages 18 years and
older who have a Twitter account and agreed to allow researchers to follow and report on that
account. This study examines only the subset of respondents (N=2,427)
As an aside wouldn't the way to maximize overdraft fees be to apply transactions in sorted highest debit to lowest, and only then start to apply deposits. It wouldn't be so dark if they just mention it as how they do the fee charging.
A much larger program called Bolsa Família has been in place for almost two decades here in Brazil. The findings were smaller but still positive: for every R$1 that went into the program, GDP grew by a calculated R$1,78 [1]

[1]: https://valor.globo.com/brasil/noticia/2013/10/15/ipea-cada-... (original article, in Portuguese and paywalled, can be read here: https://outline.com/SAALuA)
in your pipe dream.
Levy tariffs against countries that don't tax carbon at the same rate.
> Americans enjoy a higher general standard of living than most others in the developed world

I'd question that. Rich americans maybe. But the average american has to deal with long working hours, poor access to high quality food, extortionate costs for healthcare, cities where you can't walk anywhere, etc.

Homelessness is indeed a difficult issue. But what about the people working 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs. They'd benefit big time from mote government support.
The report itself would probably be better (rather than a Twitter comment about it), but also is lacking some context for people who did not originally hear about the event.
"Python's a great exploratory tool"

Is it great at that in ways Haskell isn't? If so, is that something we could capture and host within Haskell meaningfully?

I like doing exploratory work in Haskell, but if there's something I'm missing I'd like to capture that too where it's appropriate.
Nice demo dude! And indeed it's really fast. Well done and thanks for sharing. Will try this out.
If Microsoft kills ActiveX in the new browser, it will force everyone to stop depending on ActiveX. You would be very surprised how many websites outside of the U.S. still depend on ActiveX, and these are critical websites like banking and government. Hence, killing ActiveX support is important to me.
We'll all take the red pill someday, but I swallowed the blue one already.
I found the article enlightening, reminding me of the continued complacency and abject indifference in favor of convenience and other affordances of mindless empty rewards (yay, startups!) much like the Radiohead 1997 song, Fitter Happier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Computer

I missed the whole Ai Weiwei media storm due to disinterest and made up assumptions about yet another dissenter getting hammered down by the State; like duh? What else is new over "there"? Well on the internets, where is there or here?
The article actually made me pause playing FTL to Google Ai WeiWei and watch the streamed Netflix documentary: http://aiweiweineversorry.com/
Wow, here was someone who could have kept his mouth shut and kept kowtowing to rake in the bucks, but instead choose a new "career path" out of politics and got a fat tax bill for the trouble. Gutsy move or sending a message?
Let's hope the next generation gives damn.
If you haven't got it yet, I'd recommend the 7-in-7 book on languages

Yep, I have it, I just haven't gone through it yet. My problem is I'm so busy doing all the actual day to day "stuff" of working my dayjob AND trying to build our startup product, AND do marketing, sales, etc. for the startup, that there's very little time left for experimenting and tinkering with new stuff and outside interests.

Hope you're healed up from your adventures btw.

Working on it. Thanks!
I certainly agree that Tolkein, along with quite a lot of other fantasy, has the concept of "good" and "evil" peoples, which is rather simplistic. That said, I have a hard time seeing "all orcs/trolls are evil" as an analogue for real-world racism, especially since not all humans/dwarves/hobbits/elves are good. You could perhaps make a case for such stories encouraging such simplistic thinking and classification elsewhere, though. It's certainly not subtle by any means.

To your other point, though: in various parts of the stories, there are good and evil humans, good and evil hobbits, good and evil dwarves, good and evil Ainur (Wizards), and good and evil elves. Also look at Gollum's backstory, and look at the rather gray morality of various self-serving folks towards the end of The Hobbit. As for "dark and ugly", there are plenty of evils throughout Tolkein that contradict one or both of those: Saruman, Denethor, Grima, Lotho, Smaug, Gollum, the Balrog, to some extent the Wood Elves, the Nazgul.

By comparison, if you want to see what racism in fantasy looks like, look at Tolkein's contemporary, Lewis, and his Calormene, or Lovecraft's...well, everything.
Interesting. Yes, I came a similar route - no CS background. I read ESR's TAOUT [0], which assumes quite a high level of Unix knowledge - I'd love a book at that level!

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/index.html
I'll bit and plug my own, cuz it's killer. Musicgeeks: One song + a dancing GIF every weekday. Great music discovery if you're into that sort of thing:)

http://www.musicgeeks.co

Edit: formatting
Live streaming of people trying it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTDztHFa0_Q , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoutN_Ezs8w
This is so ugly i don't even know where to begin. I think it's worse or on par with the pontiac aztek
Thanks, I got second hand cringe from the video so I had to cut it off. I just wanted to see the bed gate open.
It was a joke making fun of the fact that the windows broke during the demo.
The new Honda e is going to do this.
$100 preorder seems.... quite low? I wonder how many serious buyers are reserving one.
I don't think I would trust a Tesla to the rigors one exposes trucks on farms, acreage properties, etc entail. Rural areas are a mix of some newer but also a lot of older trucks.

Gas is one expense. California and some other western states (WA) are doing what they can to ramp up licensing fees on older vehicles to make them less affordable.
See people getting a ride in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTDztHFa0_Q
It looks like the attempt of a “futuristic” vehicle in an early 90’s low polygon video game.

Reading these responses makes me think I’m out of the loop on some joke. Seriously. I had no doubt when I came to the discussion that all the comments would be about how ugly it is.

Maybe this is one of those white/gold vs. black/blue dress things. Or the “yanni” thing.

I’m blown away by any of the comments that find the design appealing.
On six it takes you back to 4 floors with 2 elevators and the challenge is 40 people in under 60 elevator moves.

The first 5 are easy to "brute force" but six is making me think a bit more.
> For 99$ this is something that doesn't even require you to be some hedge fund brat to use. Not sure what the current cab prices are these days, but i remember paying about i think 80$ for a cab from JFK to central Manhattan. You can get it a bit cheaper if you book a car service instead of grabbing a cab from the airport but it's still not sums that would break anyone's pocket.

You can get to LGA via public transit for $2.50 (subway+bus). For JFK there's an extra $5.00 for the airtrain.

Technologists are the new "hedge fund brats". I agree it's not a huge price-tag given how awesome it sounds compared to the similarly-priced alternatives, but let's be careful when we talk about what might "break anyone's pocket."
I just set up ssh, on a non-default port, long passphrase.

One of the worst things is if machine won't boot (happened once due to hard drive failing). Otherwise it uses a few dynamic dns sites so I can know its IP ( + a few links to the show me the IP links in her browser toolbar, just in case).

If there is a problem and need to help her with the desktop, there is x11vnc.
A bad dog is the fault of a bad owner. You should try watching Cesar Millan sometime.
I'm in. Also from out of town. How about using an event management tool I'm working on (with a few other folks) to see who else interested?

http://twegather.com/events/541
This kind of journalism leads to this kind of legislation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436131
- I love clean REST APIs so I can clearly see the value in your service over others (e.g. using S3 directly). But the benefits probably aren't immediately obvious to most potential customers. Maybe consider a side-by-side comparison of steps involved.

- Do you encrypt the data before storing it to S3 or store as-is? I need to think about it more but assuming you store as-is, I think I prefer that over Tarsnap's approach. You may want to consider a comparison between this service as well. (As a side note, I would be using Tarsnap right now but I'm in Canada)

- What is the need for charging for Request Processing? I guess that would prevent storing many small files, but it complicates the pricing model. It will be easier to communicate your offering if all costs are included in the data transfer and storage prices.
Scala's traits come nowhere near the functionalities offered by dependency injection frameworks such as Guice. When Scala encounters the need for DI, it's very likely that it will roll out a framework that will look a lot like Guice.

Your point regarding the rope is well taken, the difference being that with Java, the rope lies in the frameworks, while in Scala, it lies both in the frameworks (take a look at Lift) and in the language.
Previous article with a lot of points (and few comments) unfairly killed.
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with magtape, or a 747 filled with CD-ROMs.”
By "public adjudication" I meant that government courts -- or at least a government function of licensing and assigning adjudicators -- would continue to exist to adjudicate disputes, even though enforcement would be private.

(Many libertarians also see the government courts as last-gasp fallbacks and prefer private adjudication, but most that I've seen discuss the issue recognize the possibility of impasse in getting parties to agree on a private adjudicator, and see that some government involvement here may be essential.)
> How?

Imagine the legislators didn't escape - that a majority of them were killed. Trump and his people use this as an excuse to illegally "send the vote back to the states." Kelli Ward suggested this while the mob was in the capitol. We were not far from that scenario.
> signal

Amongst many, many other factors, it's a nonprofit foundation, not a commercial company.

Long term, it has backing from people (like the original founders of Whatsapp) who want to see an open solution flourish. Plus people can donate.

Also, both the client and server are open source.
At this point, why bother? The damage was done years ago and these groups have already largely jumped ship to their own self-hosted platforms.

Doing this now makes me think their leadership are all cowards, at best. It reveals that leadership knew this step should have been done a long time ago, but failed to act due to fear. Had they left it alone, at least we could have all bought into this BS notion that it was due to fairness and a belief in free speech.

I say, cowards, at best, because what would be worse, is that this is entirely motivated by finances. That none of this is done for a concern of the well-being of our state, but because it is good advertising.

I'm sure next time will be different, right guys?
They definitely didn't need that disclaimer.

And it's a lot more complicated than who you voted for out of two choices.
The videos don't show what you think they do. Capital Police leadership planned poorly and their leadership is at fault. They had to fall back to more secure chokepoints because they were outnumbered and overwhelmed. The cops didn't let anyone in. They killed someone and one of them was killed in the fighting. Please don't stir up trouble with fake conjecture over a 30 second clip that doesn't show what really happened. It is what caused a lot of these problems. You are making it worse.
Half of the US has been told to not follow the news.

Hacker News is a news site so I imagine little to no one on the Trump train is here.
> You say this after the president of the United States has incited a seditious, violet mob to attack the Capitol because he's a sore loser.

By this logic pro-BLM democrats (including some high level pro-BLM politicians) incited numerous violent mobs over the course of 2020 to attack Seattle and Portland and usurp rule-of-law. But when it happened then the protests were "fiery but mostly peaceful" because "collateral damage is okay if it is done in the name of grappling with racism". Now that the other side has gathered to protest what they see as injustices, it's "a coup" and "terrorism" because of the bad actors who postponed congress for a few hours despite the fact that the vast majority of the people at the protest were peacefully protesting.
To people who think Tether manipulates Bitcoin price: How do you explain Bitcoin doing so well on Coinbase when Tether is NOT ACCEPTED on Coinbase???