jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
thanks! it means a lot to me. :)

i made this a couple of months ago as an experiment on someone's suggestion and ended up getting REALLY far. only current caveats are that some hacks are used (of course).. and CoffeeScript 1.0 is not supported. I have been busy and I don't know what kind of updates that will take right now. I have been meaning to get around to it of course, but for the mean time I put the demo up there. The source is of course open, it's written in JavaScript. Have a look in App.js. It's a recursive AST walker. If you do manage to patch it you can send me a pull request on github. The code is relatively clean and easy to read. It should also serve well as a learning tool to see what the symbols of CoffeeScript are.

Danke for the mention!

-jsilv
I don't see why a secular moral philosophy is necessarily any more lacking in a premise than a religious one. Unless we're defining "areligious" to mean "without a premise," in which case I suppose it is tautological.
Arrange it so your commute is by public transport. I get through a few books a month without really trying; having a routine where you read a bit every day is how you do large amounts of reading.
At the end of the day you have to punish a human. And following your suggestion would punish a lot of uninvolved humans.
> However it's a bit tricky to actually ship anything with it as most countries don't allow it to enter their ports, let alone their water

I'm curious, why is that? The US, and other nations, routinely sail nuclear powered ships into ports all around the world.
Executives looted Boeing by cutting costs on everything, pumping short term profits, pocketing massive bonuses. Zero skin in the game for them, massive cost to their employees, shareholders, and the American public.
> Desktop Nvidia simply converts them to 32-bit floats up front so the performance is kept but memory is wasted

Pascal has native FP16 operations and can execute 2 FP16's at once ( https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/pascal-tuning-guide/index.html#... )

BUT, and this is where things get fucked up, Nvidia then neutered that in the GeForce lineup because market segmentation. In fact, it's slower than FP32 operations: "GTX 1080’s FP16 instruction rate is 1/128th its FP32 instruction rate" https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-...
Especially compression. The compression provided by RAD Tools is nothing short of otherworldly -- it can provide compression ratios comparable to XZ, but with decompression speeds more along the lines of what you'd expect from gzip (or even better).

I hope that Epic does something interesting with what RAD has built here. Taking it more proprietary (e.g, halting new licensing) would be a huge blow for the industry.
I have been really frustrated with C1 not integrating with youneedabudget and Plaid-backed tools for quite a while now and intend to close my C1 credit account as a result. i know it's "as simple" as logging in to C1 and finding the transaction download tool but golly what a waste of effort.

https://support.youneedabudget.com/t/p8h6814/a-real-capitalo...
> Notifications for transactions stopped working.

I get an email for every debit transaction on my account. I've had to update my inbox filters a couple time because they change the email they send it from, but it's been pretty reliable ever since I set it up maybe three or four years ago.
Message to Mods: please, fix mistake my typo mistake in title: "alterantive" > "alternative".
Just opened up an account. App feels modern as heck. Awesome app, loving it. Keep up the work.
There are open source analytics you can host.

Free hosting needs to gain something from other sources. Google gets your data. I'd be wary towards other free alternatives, if those exist (eg Yandex Metrica)
I worked a couple of years in a company called BlackRock. There's a group there called PAG (Portfolio Analytics Group), made up of mostly fresh college graduates. In the beginning, the head of the program would feed us the Kool-Aid about how the long 16 hour days would be so worth it after a year or 2. Sure, we'd be half-awake when we came in at 6 AM, and half-dead when we got to leave at 10 PM.

The kicker was he told us while it'd be tempting to just go home and sleep after we left, we should instead head straight to the GYM and workout for 30 mins, then go to the bar for a few hours because it would keep our "sanity". Hah.. sure, you know what else would keep you sane? QUITTING and working elsewhere.
>Didn't even need to be a VC to get access to VC level gains buying GOOG.

That's a great point. Anyone who shits on a VC for not investing in Google ought to be asked how much Google stock they bought in 2004.

4000% gains is better than most VC get on even the best exits and that opportunity was open to EVERYONE.
I personally know several people who quit and left behind seven figure payouts who did so because they were stressed out and hated the environment in which they found themselves. Every single one of them has, at one time or another, noted that this was a stupid mistake and they should have just ground through to at least the next big vesting cliff. Without exception.

They're all doing OK now, and all of them had done OK before that, but I think that for every person who claims no regrets, there's someone like the people I know who did it for similar reasons but have decided that it was, all in all, a dumb thing to do.

Maybe when this author is past the "Last week I left my cushy job at Amazon" (first line of the essay) phase, he or she may also conclude this was silly. People have a way of re-evaluating things.
What language/s are you starting out in (if you don't mind answering)?
3D printing, when it was at the crest of its hype wave, was posited as a replacement for shopping. That you'd just buy a design and print your shoes and shirts at home. It was going to change consumer behavior completely - or so we were told.

VR, again, was posited as the end of "reality" itself, that we'd be living so much in our virtual worlds that the boundaries between the real and the virtual will cease.

While these might still happen, it's safe to say that their current applications are much narrower than the original scope
They’re expecting greatness from everyone around them. That would drive me crazy as well. My mental health is too important to be idealistic anymore.
Just as a counterbalance, my experience is the exact opposite. No client yet succeeded at making me work more than 20 hours a week (and even that I agreed to after heavy negotiation).
I‘d be willing to pay for a better debugger.

But if the debugger doesn’t come with source code that I can inspect and modify, that’s a big negative that will have to compete with whatever advantages the debugger has. (It’s not just a hypothetical use case. I’ve grepped through the source code of GDB and LLDB on several occasions to figure out why they weren’t working properly.)

And if the debugger is SaaS, meaning it will almost certainly disappear in a few years, after I’ve gotten used to it… it would have to be some super magic unicorn stuff for me to consider touching it, even if it were free.

Pernosco is both closed-source and SaaS. Pass.
Well yeah, that's why it's presented as an anecdote. :)
> * Organise a Skype/Teams/whatever call in a few hours time and feel guilty about it, as it feels rude to just ring someone as they could be occupied or busy.

Why is it more rude to call someone on teams where they can just decline the call than to swivel in your chair and start talking to them?

If anything, I think etiquette has improved in our situation. No more in person interruptions or people just hovering at the edge of your vision to get attention. No more loudly conversing colleagues in the open plan office.

Instead we have lines dropped in chat or more carefully crafted emails for longer questions.
Yeah no doubt - I used to commute to Hayward from SF and it nearly killed me, even though the office perks were still nice (though that was a 5-day/week office job). Post GFC, it was manageable with the decreased Bay Area traffic but as the economy heated up, my 45min 8am commute turned into a 1.5hr 7am commute.

My current org was 90% remote to begin with, there was just a "main office" with a few dozen employees working out of their casually, and regular department gatherings in the space when a number of people had to be in SF. So going full remote was easier for our org than others, but I wouldn't mind a few days back in an office.
Well yes, but if you dig down to what the authors of the study said:

"1 in 3 professionals currently working from home would look for a new job if required to return to the office."

They're not saying 34% of workers are going to quit instead of returning to the office, just that they will consider it.

https://www.roberthalf.com/blog/management-tips/returning-to...
Java bungled the presentation layer

I have always said this one. Even worse than the desktop UI libraries are the plethora of web toolkits that universally get it wrong. I have always wondered why Java web was always so dysfunctional. I am very happy that browser based UI's came along and finally created a true alternative to the web frameworks. The funny part is one you stop developing UI's in Java the rest of the offerings are not that bad. I like using Java for rest services and middleware. There is so much available for it that it takes almost no time to set up whole sub systems. Java gets a lot better when you stop trying to develop UI's with Java.
Wow, they use "algorithms", cool...

I would have thought that given the public mood about banks and bankers, they'd have tried to shy away from any link between them and gambling.
Are you using VGA? My crappy XP work computer remembers my resolution and calibration when plugging the monitor in through DVI.

To be honest, the bluetooth thing is actually amazing--I tend to lose or break the little dongles when moving around. Now the mouse is just a mouse, not a mouse+stuff.
I think its just referring to being in the Zone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Professions_a...
It's a good read. One of the points I repeatedly make is that technology should support people, not the other way around. In other words, you start with how people work and you build technological solutions to the problems they face.

Now, Chinese and European wheelbarrows are very different. I would usually choose the European one if I am working by myself because the Chinese one looks like it is a pain to load, but one wonders if the differences are caused by fitting into different workflows The same goes for a lot of IT tools.

The difficulty of course is always "how much needs to be invented here?" That's a big question.
Surrender your welfare programs (social security, public schools, the postal office, health insurance, the war machine, NASA, etc) and I'll be on board with completely open immigration. Barring that, you're just another corporate shill looking to profit from the ignorance of the masses.
> Reductions in corporate taxes would be beneficial to smaller shops for sure, but simplification might be the best thing for everyone.

Indeed. Watch Amazon lobbying for a tax that you don't have to pay, but you have to pay for proving that you don't have to pay it.
As someone who has had their past > 1/2 decade of work thrown out, (across multiple companies and projects!), due to low cost sensitivity on the company's part, or just poor planning, I at least halfway admire your question, if not totally admire it.

One recommendation, based on an exceedingly small sample size, would be to search for a non-profit with an outdated tech stack. Seek as many indicators as possible to suggest "lack of push."

Also, I noticed while contemplating this response, that indeed.com appeared to auto-complete "laid back" for me as I was typing it. :-)
uber + Tesla + driverless = an environment friendly transportation system as convenient as if you have a private car and driver and as cheap as public bus.
Not too big to fail in the US banking sense, where it would tumble a house of cards with global repercussions. However, I think it would do a lot of damage to the Bitcoin economy: other exchanges, Silk Road, Bitcoin gambling sites, various Bitcoin startups, those with serious money tied up in BTC.

It's entirely possible that they're fulfilling some of the orders out of their wallet, but at a max of 0.6%, if they're never going the other way (fulfilling BTC orders with fiat), that'd get exhausted pretty quickly.
I recall reading similar things about HSBC too.

edit: found it[1].

[1]: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-t...
What would you propose instead? Isn't it obvious that alcohol can cause certain fatal diseases in proportion to consumption?
I think companies can sponsor community projects just the way Apache was sponsored.

Apache provided value to its corporate sponsors. Free software that you run on your system, like your phone, doesn't put money in the pockets of any corporations, except possibly the cell carriers who have not been at all ashamed of their cosy relationship with the NSA.
My current quest is to take something from the business domain I work in and implement the bizarre math stuff (which I don't get all of) in a backend in F# with a frontend in Javascript (I'm fluent in neither).

I've tried it before (with different technologies), and although it didn't make me an expert in either field, I've found it neatly ties most things together.

Oh, and it's usually fun, especially if you put somewhat bizarre obstacles in your way (remember, it's a learning experience, not production code). It could be something elaborate like http://www.xpteam.com/jeff/writings/objectcalisthenics.rtf or just a concious decision to implement a part of the design in a part of the system where it isn't most obviously at home.
Also many of these bugs are somewhat transient, and it is better to not support a buggy platform, or insist on manual patching until it is fixed, rather than build complex tests and workarounds in.
> they could track the drone back to your recovery site, and either wait for you to show up, or set up a camera to get you collecting the drone on tape.

In reality, you wouldn't recover the drone. Just drop the payload somewhere over the flight path and crash the drone.

A camouflaged package would be almost impossible to find in a forest or the desert. Add in a spread spectrum beacon and your mule can come pick up the package day/weeks/months later.

They had entire meth labs in the state forest and they couldn't be found because there were only two contact times: when they set it up and when they collected the product.
No news here. They keep high hopes that if they pull this off, they can save their huge investment in Bitcoin, but a legit marketplace does not equate to an evergrowing price.
yes, i understand your point, but again, that's literally a rounding error compared to other, much larger rent-seeking behaviors.
Likely everything they are doing is legal and done according to the agreements they have with their preferred investors. Common shareholders are last in line.
> This is almost a natural law of wealth.

The article is about how the post-1975 period differs from the pre-1975 period. So it's demonstrably not a natural law. Natural laws don't change over time.
From limited experience: podman and the associated toolset (buildah, skopeo) show a lot of promise. That said, they are evolving and may currently require administrative care and attention when used in production.

If your environment would benefit from smaller, isolated containerization tools then my two cents would be that it's worth keeping an eye on these as they mature, and perhaps perform early evaluation (bearing in mind that you may not be able to migrate completely, yet).

The good:

- Separation of concerns; individual binaries and tools that do not all have to be deployed in production

- A straightforward migration path to build containers from existing Dockerfiles (via "buildah bud")

- Progressing-and-planned support for a range of important container technology, including rootless and multi-architecture builds
I think Dyson benefits from the same effect as Apple/Tesla/Beats/etc. Their products are good but their triumph is upselling. Dyson cordless vacuums are like $800+, was your previous one that expensive?
I'm generally for social welfare programs, however the idea of "welfare queens (and kings)" is NOT fiction. I come from Belgium which has this problem quite notoriously. It is quite common for people to be abusing the social programs to stay unemployed and make more income than blue-collar workers.

Like you allude to, I think we need to look more deeply to address this issue - why are people satisfied doing nothing and simply using handouts to survive? If they worked, shouldn't they become more prosperous? Why don't they have goals and aspirations? If someone is depressed, let's get them help. If the education system has failed them, let's fix that. It's easy to conflate the symptoms with the root causes, however the symptoms should not be ignored because they are the most visible feedback to most regular people, and that affects their perception of the system.
Personally, I find that this [0] doesn't break many sites at all, but messes with cookies to an appreciable extent. Combine this to an extensive use of that [1] and clearing your cache and cookies every day, and I think you're in decent shape while some heavy and heavily lobbied government body inches towards doing something about it.

[0] uBlock Origin

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[1] Firefox Multi-Account Containers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
1 parent > 0 parent

Adopt if you want to help someone in need.

Surrogacy is an ethical landmine that most people don’t think deeply about in terms of consequences.
If you are interested in coming along to future events, join the group on meetup.com. We tend to post the details on there earlier.
Braid, Portal, and World of Goo, three games that are going to feature in any conversation about shorter games, combine for a price of at most $60.

Also, cf. movie theater prices.
Comments so far have been focused on a reductive analysis of the piece that reduces the work to its base components. Reducing Jeff Koons' One Ball Total Equilibrium to a tank of salt water and a basketball https://whitney.org/Education/EducationBlog/OnViewOneBallTot... . Marco Evaristti's Helena to a goldfish in a blender http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/helena-by-marco-evaris... . Or (more classically) Duchamp's fountain into a urinal. As modern art is meant to be bizarre, this reductio ad absurdum feels true but it isn't accurate in capturing the spirit and nature of these pieces.

We have been trained to see most works on canvas as art first, layers of pigments second. Through education, the skill used to create them has become evident to all of us - thereby sanctifying them from these criticisms. Yet all art was subject to such criticism at one time or another. Some even going so far to call Munch's paintings "An abortion, a failure like those Zola described so well D'Oeuvre. Here is no longer a question of nature, only a bizarre madness, delirious moods, feverish hallucinations" and "Are those meant to be hands or are they blobs of fish mousse smeared in lobster sauce?"

Sounds familiar?

Art goes beyond the technicalities of the creation of the work itself. Art is a form of communication. An attempt to have a conversation with a society. Or an expression of the artist’s uniqueness. It can be that and so much more. The point of art does not have to be linear technical accomplishment, it can be the exploration of the bizarre and the strangeness of our world. The fish in a blender were put there as an invitation to kill a being. The point of the piece was the question, will a human being push the button? In a world where cruelty exists at a push of a button that is a valid and fascinating social experiment.

This work is original and creative in the sense that it packs what wreaks our world into havoc into one device and puts it on the pedestal. Our world is increasingly governed by blips of code. Bad blips of code have caused billions of dollars in damage. In that laptop lies the power of immense destruction, contained in a cheap plastic container. What does it say about us when we look at it and the world we have wrought? Those are the questions that pop into my mind when I look at the work. That’s what I feel the artist is trying to communicate.

We will at some point recognize the audacity of this piece as art as well. But we haven’t matured to that point yet. We still look at it as “blobs of fish mousse smeared in lobster sauce”

Art is an ever-evolving conversation. All we have to do to appreciate it is… listen more closely and relax the preconceptions that cloud our mind. Let them all fall away to hear what the artist might have to say.

It is far more interesting to look at art this way than the common, reductive lens.
> I suggest rebuilding your frame of reference.

Thanks, but I'm perfectly happy with my opinions and will not be discarding them at the behest of some HN user.
> have begun driving up renting costs

The two bedroom I rented near the 19th St BART in Oakland was $1,700 in 2009 and is now on the market for over $4,000 a month.
It'd be awesome to get the old batteries adapted to be used in off-grid homes, where they could be of great use.
Interesting, I didn't know about `[1] == true`, `[0] == false` family of equalities.

Edit: it seems more general, `42 == [42]` etc. holds.

Edit: more fun

([0])==false // true
!([0])==false // true
So far as has been observed, life does require liquid water. Some life can cease activity when dry and then restart when water resumes, but no life has been found that can live in an entirely dry environment. If this proves to be a requirement for life, that does validate the notion of a habitable zone.
There has been a noted increase of posts containing "lol" and other indicators of decline.

Edit: If you think posts with lol are a good thing please say why.
But they are patentable (or at least elements of them can be). Konami successfully sued[1] the makers of In The Groove, a Dance Dance Revolution clone. I know parts of Mario Kart are patented[2], so I wouldn't be too surprised if parts of Super Mario 64 are patented as well, given that it pioneered the 3D platformer genre.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Corp._v._Roxor_Games_Inc.

[2] http://www.google.com/patents/US7278913#v=onepage&q&f=false
Or the non-fixed glass was fixated on a flat surface that might have absorbed much of the energy or the tester is the fastest baseball pitcher in history.
Hitchcock's Rope was famously based on them. A technical tour-de-force because it all takes place in their apartment and was edited to look like a single continuous shot. Also a strikingly un-American movie for the 1940s.
What do you laugh at now?
Ubuntu works just fine on the 2015 Thinkpad Carbon X1. We use them as our company laptops, and we're on Ubuntu.
Ah I see. Yes I put a powershell bug/missing feature request on connect and looked through some other tickets. I don't envy whose reading that.

I think Ms is doomed to get people complaining about unrelated junk any time they open a platform up.
There are multiple stages to the Great Filter. We have done everything but the last one: galactic colonization.
i thought push notifications worked with IM+ on iOS? i am not very familiar with either though, so i'm probably wrong.
Is this an American thing? Because I've never had my bank, my provider, my health care etc sell any of my data (at least as far as I know).
Yes, I was also missing his name. The hacks he pulled off for side-scrolling in Commander Keen on PC, '3D' of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, and of course his inverse square root implementation: http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9. He definitely deserves to be in this list.